Privacy Policy - Global Japanese Words

Global Japanese Words is an educational website that introduces Japanese words, meanings, usage, cultural context, and learning examples for readers around the world.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, and how third-party services, including advertising and analytics services, may use cookies and similar technologies.

Last updated: May 17, 2026

1. Information We Collect

We may collect limited information when you visit this website, use our content, or contact us through a contact form.

Information you voluntarily submit, such as your name, email address, and message when using a contact form.
Technical information such as browser type, device type, pages visited, referral URLs, approximate location based on IP address, and access times.
Information collected through cookies, analytics tools, advertising technologies, spam protection tools, and security tools.

2. How We Use Information

We may use collected information for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and improve this website.
To respond to inquiries sent through the contact form.
To understand how visitors use our pages and improve user experience.
To protect the website from spam, abuse, unauthorized access, or technical problems.
To display advertisements and measure their performance, where applicable.

3. Cookies and Advertising

This website may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on your device that help websites function, remember preferences, analyze traffic, and display relevant advertisements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Users may also choose to disable cookies through their browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect some website features.

4. Analytics

This website may use analytics services to understand visitor behavior, page performance, and general traffic trends. These services may use cookies or similar technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information such as visited pages, device type, browser type, and approximate location.

5. Contact Form Information

If you contact us through a contact form, we may collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and message. We use this information only to respond to your inquiry and manage communication.

Please do not send sensitive personal information, confidential information, passwords, payment details, or private identification documents through the contact form.

6. AI-Assisted Content

Some content on Global Japanese Words may be created, drafted, organized, translated, or improved with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools. We aim to review and edit AI-assisted content before publication to improve accuracy, clarity, usefulness, and safety.

However, AI-assisted content may still contain errors, omissions, outdated information, unnatural phrasing, or incomplete cultural nuance. Readers should use the information on this website as educational reference material, not as professional, legal, medical, financial, or official translation advice.

7. External Links

This website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, accuracy, or policies of third-party websites. Please review the privacy policies of any external websites you visit.

8. Data Protection and Security

We take reasonable steps to protect information submitted through this website. However, no method of transmission or storage over the Internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for general educational use and is not directed specifically toward children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe that a child has provided personal information, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.