Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy sets out the basis on which we, JAPAN AT UK LIMITED, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, www.japanlet.com (our website).
This Cookie Policy is effective from 5th April 2022.
“Essential” cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. “Non-essential” cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
1. About cookies
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Cookies can be classified as either “essential” or “non-essential”.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (“analytical” cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (“advertising” cookies).
Cookies can be classified as either “session” or “persistent”, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
Cookies can be classified as “first party” or “third party”.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
2. List of cookies used
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COOKIE
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DOMAIN
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TYPE
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DESCRIPTION
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DURATION
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OptanonConsent
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japanlet.com
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Necessary
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This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.
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364 days
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OptanonAlertBoxClosed
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japanlet.com
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Necessary
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This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
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364 days
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_gid
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japanlet.com
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Performance
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This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
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0 days
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_ga
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japanlet.com
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Analytics
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This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
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729 days
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_gat
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japanlet.com
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Analytics
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This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
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10 minutes
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3. Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
4. Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose.
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested.
For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of functional cookies, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our Privacy Notice, which is available here: https://www.japanlet.com/legal/privacy/.
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work.
Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google LLC collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google LLC handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here.
For information on how Google LLC uses data from cookies it uses, please see here.
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.
Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you.
For information about the cookies Google LLC uses in relation to the above, see the “Advertising” section on the Types of cookies used by Google LLC page in Google LLC’s cookie policy, which is available here.
For information about how Google LLC uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following page.
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: the purposes for which we use the third party cookies as described above.
5. How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. Upon accessing the website for the first time, a cookie banner will appear in which you can find out more about the cookies used on the website and opt out of their use. You can then confirm your options and these preferences will be saved for a year.
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
Some browsers, such as Google Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in “incognito” mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google LLC by visiting Google LLC’s ad settings page here and by switching the “Ads Personalisation” setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here.
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here.
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting https://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking “Your ad choices“, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the “Off” option.
6. Copyright
This Cookie Policy is based on the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”) and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“UK GDPR”).
The copyright in this Cookie Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.
7. Revision history
Published on 10th January 2022.
Updated on 5th April 2022.
5th April 2022
Updated the list of cookies used on our website.
20th January 2022
Updated the list of cookies used on our website.
10th January 2022
First published.
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