Privacy

Privacy Policy

Japan Chain Guide is published by SOMOSOMO. This policy explains what information the site collects and how it is used. Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact form or to contact@chainstorejapan.com.

Contact form submissions

When you send the contact form, we receive the contents of your message, the category you selected, and the page URL you mention. Your email address is optional for readers and required for business inquiries, and is used only to reply to you. Business senders may separately opt in to occasional information about advertising and partnership opportunities; that choice does not affect how an inquiry is handled.

We use submissions to correct and improve our guides, to answer questions, and to discuss listing, advertising and partnership inquiries. We do not sell personal information, and we do not add form senders to a marketing list. Form submissions are processed by our form-handling provider and delivered to our mailbox over encrypted connections. The form is protected against automated abuse by Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes technical information to confirm that a submission comes from a person.

Site analytics

This site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and page views. It is a privacy-focused measurement service that does not use cookies to track individual visitors. The site is hosted on Cloudflare; like any web host, Cloudflare processes connection information (such as IP addresses) to deliver pages and protect the service.

Advertising

This site uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this website and other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings; Google explains how it uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Cookies

Apart from the advertising cookies described above, this site does not set its own tracking cookies. Pages link to external services (such as book retailers and map services); those services have their own privacy policies.

Retention and your choices

We keep form submissions only as long as needed for the purpose they were sent. You can ask us to delete your submission or your email address at any time through the contact form or by email.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page. Effective date: November 11, 2026.