🔒 Privacy Policy

1. Purpose of Collecting and Using Personal Information

This blog collects and utilizes the minimum amount of information necessary to deliver stable services and foster a healthy community:

• Member Management: Account registration, login authentication, identification, and session management
• Content & Community Operations: Comment and guestbook submissions, prevention of spam, illicit promotions, and abusive activity
• Service Stability & Security: Preventing unauthorized access and mitigating security incidents
• Analytics & Advertising: Analyzing traffic statistics via Google Analytics and serving personalized ads through Google AdSense

2. Information We Collect and Method of Collection

The following information may be collected or automatically generated during service usage:

※ Connection IP addresses collected during comment/guestbook submissions are used strictly for malicious spam abuse prevention, community safety, and security audits.

3. Data Retention and Usage Period

In principle, personal data is promptly destroyed once the purpose of collection and use has been achieved.

• Member Account Data: Retained until account termination (unregistration), then promptly destroyed
• Comments and Guestbook Entries: Retained until directly removed by the author or upon account deletion

However, where data retention is required by applicable laws and regulations, records will be safely archived for the mandatory statutory period.

4. Use of Cookies

This blog utilizes cookies for the following operational and analytical purposes:

• Session & Authentication — Maintaining secure user login states
• View Count De-duplication — Short-term cookies (10-minute expiration) to prevent view count manipulation
• Google Analytics — Gathering visitor statistics and analyzing user interaction patterns
• Google AdSense — Delivering personalized advertisements based on user interests

You can configure your browser settings to accept or refuse cookies. However, disabling cookies may limit your ability to remain logged in or access certain personalized features.

5. Google Analytics

This blog uses Google Analytics to compile visitor statistics. Google Analytics uses cookies to gather data on how visitors interact with our website. This information helps us analyze site usage patterns and continuously improve our services.

For more details on how Google collects and processes data, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy.

6. Google AdSense

This blog may display advertisements through Google AdSense. Google AdSense uses cookies to deliver relevant ads based on users' interests.

If you prefer not to receive personalized ads, you can opt out via the official Google Ad Settings page.

7. User Rights and How to Exercise Them

Users may exercise the following rights regarding their personal data at any time:

• Access and modify personal profile information
• Directly edit or delete authored comments and guestbook submissions
• Request account termination and data deletion (processed promptly upon email inquiry to the Privacy Officer)

8. Privacy Officer & Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy on this website, please feel free to reach out via the email address below:

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to change in response to updates in relevant laws, policies, or security technologies. Any additions, deletions, or modifications will be announced on this blog at least 7 days prior to taking effect.