Privacy policy
This page explains what Kyushu Plain collects, what it does not, and who else is involved when you read a page here.
Who runs this site
Kyushu Plain is an independent site published by an individual based in Japan. Questions, corrections and takedown requests can be sent to [email protected]. Corrections are welcome and are acted on.
What we collect directly
Nothing. There is no account, no login, no newsletter sign-up and no comment form on this site. We do not ask you for your name, your email address or any other personal information, and there is nowhere on the site to enter it.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages are read and roughly where readers come from. It sets cookies and processes data such as your approximate location (derived from your IP address), the pages you visit, the site or search that sent you, and general device and browser information. We use this in aggregate. We do not use it to identify individual readers, and we do not attempt to.
You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking cookies in your browser. The site works normally either way.
We also use Google Search Console, which reports the search queries that led to this site. Search Console shows aggregated data only and does not identify individual readers.
Hosting
This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes requests to the site and may log technical information such as IP addresses for security and performance purposes, under its own privacy terms.
Affiliate links
Some pages contain affiliate links to booking and travel companies. If you click one and make a booking, we may receive a commission. It costs you nothing extra.
Where a page contains affiliate links, it says so on the page. Clicking such a link takes you to the partner's own site, where their privacy policy and cookies apply, not ours. Those partners may set a cookie to attribute a booking to this site.
Articles are not written because a commission exists. Several pages contain no links at all, and where the honest answer is "you do not need to buy anything," that is what the page says.
Cookies
Cookies on this site come from Google Analytics, and from affiliate partners at the moment you click one of their links. We do not set advertising cookies of our own and we do not run display advertising. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
Children
This site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what data is held about you, to have it deleted, or to object to its processing. Because we hold no data that identifies you, such a request is usually best directed to Google, whose analytics data is the only place your visit is recorded in any form. If you want to raise it with us anyway, write to [email protected].
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it.