Privacy Policy

Last update: 03 23, 2023

Fukuoka City Government Tourism & Convention Department recognizes the importance of personal information protection and considers the related activities as our basic task. We believe that we bear the social responsibility to sincerely implement the protection of personal information. Therefore, we set up the policy on personal information protection as follows and keep all personnel involved in the management of this website informed of this policy.

1. We will obtain the personal information only when consent is given by and the purpose of the usage is specified to the principal, except for the case where violation of the right and interest of the principal or any third party may occur. The obtained information is used in a fair manner, only for the specified purpose and within a reasonable range of the original purpose.
2. The obtained personal information will never be provided to any third party without consent from the principal, except when an order is issued by law.
3. In the case where the obtained information is provided to a third party, we will choose a party who retains an adequate level of protection of personal information, conclude an agreement to require the party to maintain the agreed level of protection, instruct and supervise the party in order for the information to be handled properly.

Fukuoka City Government Tourism & Convention Department will swiftly respond to the request of disclosure, correction or suspension of use of the personal information we retain, within a reasonable range.

Fukuoka City Government Tourism & Convention Department will strictly control the personal information and take preventive measures for any possible danger including loss, corruption, leakage and illegal access. We will make a concrete rule for proper handling and utilization of personal information, and also post personnel in charge of managing personal information.

All personnel involved in the management of the website will observe the law, guidelines and other regulations concerning personal information protection and the privacy of communications.

Fukuoka City Government Tourism & Convention Department will continuously improve the personal information protection policy and the related internal regulations to achieve the effective implementation of the protection of personal information which is demanded by the society.

This Privacy Policy on handling of personal information applies to this website (https://gofukuokajp) only. For the privacy policies of other social media and services available within this website, please refer to the websites or other information of each relevant operator.

This site automatically collects the following information: the access log (pages, and dates and times viewed), traffic (data transfer volume), internet domain name, IP address, information on queries when visiting the site or for internal site searches, user agent (data identifying the viewing device, e.g. PC or smartphone), and browser used. The collected information is utilized to run this site and as statistical data applied to the running of the site, and the information may be shared by the city or the company to which the city outsources website maintenance within the scope of these objectives. In addition, we limit the use of cookies (information sent by the server to the user’s browser that accumulates on the user’s computer, allowing the server to identify the user) to those designed to make our website more user-friendly.

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We will respond to inquiries at the designated inquiry desk of Fukuoka City Government Tourism & Convention Department , within a reasonable range.