Cookie Policy
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit our website. They allow us to recognize your device, remember your preferences, and analyze how you use our site. Most web browsers allow cookies by default, but you can configure your browser settings to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being set.
2. Essential (Strictly Necessary) Cookies
These cookies are essential for basic website functionality, security, and compliance. They enable core features such as page navigation, form submission, and access to secure areas. These cookies do not require consent and are always active. They typically expire when you close your browser or after a session.
Examples include session identifiers, security tokens, and preferences related to site navigation.
3. Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, how long users spend on each page, and how they navigate through the site. This information helps us improve website design, content, and user experience. Analytics cookies are non-identifying and do not collect personal information directly.
These cookies typically persist for 12-24 months and require your consent to be activated.
4. Preference Cookies
These cookies remember your choices and settings, such as language preferences, display settings, and customization options. They enable us to provide a more personalized browsing experience on repeat visits. Preference cookies typically persist for 12 months and require your consent.
5. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies help us track your interests and deliver relevant content and promotional offers. These cookies may be shared with advertising partners to show you targeted advertisements across the web. Marketing cookies typically persist for 12-24 months and require your explicit consent.
6. Third-Party Cookies
Our website may contain cookies from third-party service providers (such as analytics platforms, payment processors, or advertising networks). These third parties collect information about your browsing behavior for their own purposes, subject to their privacy policies. We do not have direct control over third-party cookies.
7. Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either session cookies (expire when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (remain on your device for a specified period, ranging from days to years). You can delete persistent cookies manually through your browser settings at any time.
8. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can control which cookies are stored on your device through our Cookie Preferences modal. When you first visit our site, we present you with the option to Accept All, Decline, or Customize your cookie choices. You can change your preferences at any time by accessing the Cookie Preferences dialog again.
9. Browser Controls
Most web browsers provide controls to allow, refuse, or delete cookies. Instructions for managing cookies in popular browsers are typically available through your browser's help menu or settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may limit website functionality or prevent you from using certain features of our site.
10. Impacts of Refusing Cookies
Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for website functionality. Refusing analytics and marketing cookies will not affect basic site functionality but may limit personalization and prevent us from understanding how to improve your experience. Some website features may not work as intended if non-essential cookies are refused.
11. Data Retention and Security
Cookie data is retained for the duration specified by each cookie type. Data is stored securely and is not shared with third parties except where necessary for website operation and improvement. We implement security measures to protect cookie data from unauthorized access or alteration.
12. Cookie Updates
We may add new cookies or modify existing cookies as our website evolves and our analytics and marketing needs change. We will update this Cookie Policy to reflect any significant changes. Continued use of our website following changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.
13. Legal Basis for Cookie Use
Our use of cookies is based on your informed consent (for non-essential cookies), the necessity to provide website functionality (for essential cookies), and our legitimate interests in analyzing website traffic and marketing our products (for analytics and marketing cookies). We comply with the requirements of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) in Japan.
14. Contact Information
For questions or concerns about our cookie practices, please contact us at: Verdantmapleforest, Yanagisawa 311-7, Noda Yanagisawa, Chiba 278-0006, Japan. Phone: +81 4-7199-2226. We will respond to inquiries within 30 days.