Privacy policy

With regard to our handling of personal information and other incidental information on the official website of Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark, we at the Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark Promotion Council have formulated the following privacy policy. Abiding by the policy, we will strive to create web content that you can use without worry.

Collection of personal information

The Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark Promotion Council’s only channel of personal information collection via the official website of Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark is the users’ own registration of such information of their own will, in principle. If we are to collect users’ personal information, we will clearly show the purposes of the collection, and collect such information only within the limit of necessity to fulfill those purposes.

Use and provision of personal information

We use collected personal information only within the limit of the purposes of the collection. We will neither use such information beyond the limit of the purposes of the collection, nor disclose or provide such information to third persons unless the user concerned agrees, or unless the official website manager recognizes such action as particularly necessary. However, if laws or ordinances require us to disclose information, we may disclose such information within the minimum limit of necessity.

Management of personal information

The official website manager strictly manages collected personal information, and implements appropriate measures to prevent the leakage, unauthorized use, or falsification of such information.

Access logs

The official website of Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark stores information about website users in the form of access logs. Access logs contain website users’ domain names, IP addresses, browser types, access dates, etc., but do not contain any information that helps identify individual website users. Information contained in access logs is used after being processed statistically, only to manage the official website and analyze website use. We will neither use such information beyond the limit of the purposes, nor disclose or provide such information to third persons unless the official website manager recognizes it as particularly necessary.
However, if laws or ordinances require us to disclose information, we may disclose such information within the minimum limit of necessity.

Revision of the privacy policy

The privacy policy concerning the official website of Mine-Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau Geopark may be revised in accordance with the revision of law or ordinances, or the revision of the official website administration policy.
If revised, the revised privacy policy will be disclosed on the official website.