Privacy Policy

Data Handling

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Marketing

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Sender, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Affiliate Links/Promotions

We participate in the JR Pass affiliate advertising program, Google Adsense program, Travelpayouts, and Bookaway programs, which are designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to their products or services on our Website. The fact that we participate in this affiliate program means that JR Pass/Google/TravelPayouts/Bookaway compensates us for the inclusion of links that are clicked on and our reviews. We disclose this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Comments

We welcome comments on blog posts. All comments submitted to this website are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect or represent our views, policies, or positions. We reserve the right to use our own discretion when determining whether or not to remove offensive comments or images.