Privacy Policy

1) Basic premise

We are collecting information from all users of the Statistics Dashboard (https://dashboard.e-stat.go.jp/en/) (hereinafter referred to as "the website") in areas necessary to the smooth operation of the services provided by the website. Information acquired will be handled appropriately within the scope of the purposes of use.

2) Scope of information acquisition

We are automatically collecting information pertaining to visits to this website, such as domain names, originating IP addresses and query information. Use of cookies (information stored on the user's computer) is limited to the purposes to improve convenience of the browser display function.

3) Purposes of use

The information acquired will be used as a reference for the smooth operation of the services provided by the website.

4) Limitations on use and provision

Except in cases of legal disclosure requests, cases of illegal access, threats and other unlawful acts or other special reasons, the information acquired will not be used by ourselves for any purposes other than those described in 3), nor will it be provided to any third party. However, statistical information regarding access to the website or information on users' attributes may be made public.

5) Measures to ensure security

We are taking the measures necessary to manage acquired information appropriately to prevent the leakage, loss or destruction of acquired information. The operation of the website may be contracted out, in which case the contractor will take necessary measures necessary to manage acquired information appropriately to prevent the leakage, loss or destruction of acquired information.

6) Scope of application

This Privacy Policy applies only to the website. As for websites of respective ministries or agencies, users' information is subject to their own privacy policies.