Privacy policy

1. What we mean by personal information

In this policy, “personal information” means information about a living individual that can identify them — a name, address, telephone number or email address, for example — as defined by Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information.

2. Why we use it

We use personal information provided to us through enquiries, orders, publishing proposals and press requests for the following purposes only:

• to answer enquiries and stay in contact about them;
• to process, send and invoice orders for books;
• to consider publishing proposals and reply to them;
• to tell you about our publications and activities, where you have agreed to this.

3. Sharing with third parties

We do not provide personal information to third parties without your consent, except where the law requires it. Where we entrust work to a carrier, printer or similar supplier, we limit the information to what the task needs and supervise the supplier appropriately.

4. Keeping it safe

We hold only the personal information we actually need, and take appropriate measures to prevent its loss, leakage or damage.

5. Access, correction and deletion

On request from the individual concerned, we will disclose, correct, add to, delete or stop using the personal information we hold. Please contact us at the address below; we will confirm your identity and act in accordance with the law.

6. Contact

Questions about this policy or about how we handle personal information should be addressed to us using the details below.

7. Access logs

We keep access logs in order to understand how this website is used, to improve it, and to detect unauthorised access.

• IP address, browser name and version, operating system, device type, screen size
• Pages viewed, referring page (referrer), and device settings such as language and time zone
• Time of access and technical information received by the server

The logs are used only for statistical analysis and for responding to faults or unauthorised access, and are kept for one year from collection. They are not used to track any individual.

8. Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy as the law or our work changes. Any revision will be published on this page.