Cookie Policy

Ryugaku Journal Inc. (“Ryugaku Journal”) use cookies to enhance the user experience of our website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a feature that allows your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) to remember information about your visits to a website. Each time you visit a website, the cookie recognizes your device and stores information about the visit and the visitor on the website.

Purpose of using cookies

We use the following cookies to maintain and improve the quality of our website and to remember and understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve your experience on our website.

●Strictly Necessary cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies are essential for online services to function and cannot be disabled. They are necessary for an effective and secure connection to our online services.
In addition, essential cookies are automatically installed on your device when you access our website.

●Performance cookies
Analytical cookies collect information in order to analyze and aggregate information about how you use our website (most visited pages, time of visit, etc.). The information collected helps us determine which parts of our website are of interest to you, and helps us improve the quality of our website based on the results of our analysis.

●Targeting cookies
Targeting cookies are used to deliver advertising content that is relevant to you. They may also be used to measure the effectiveness of Ryugaku Journals' advertising campaigns on third party websites.

You can disable or delete cookies at any time by changing the settings on your browser. However, we recommend that you keep them enabled, as this may result in certain features of our website not being available or functioning properly.

We use the services of marketing companies to manage and optimize our Internet operations and communications, and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our website. For this purpose, we use web beacons and cookies provided by marketing companies on our website to collect access data and perform integrated website analysis. In such cases, when it is necessary to obtain "cookie information" that can be used to identify individuals by matching it with other information in the analysis and analysis of information, we obtain such information only after obtaining your consent.

The information collected is managed in accordance with the privacy policies of the following marketing companies

Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Google Privacy Policy
If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics, please download and install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on for Google Analytics JavaScript and turn on the Google Analytics DNT (Do Not Track) feature of Google Analytics.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

Distribution of advertisements by ad-serving companies using cookies

We have partnered with a number of ad-serving companies to place our advertisements on various sites on the Internet.

The ad-serving companies use cookies, access data, our identifiers, and customer demographic information to deliver advertisements that match the interests and preferences of our customers. However, we do not provide any information that can identify you to outside companies. In addition, if you have set your browser to accept cookies, an ad-serving company may acquire cookie information such as your browsing history when you visit our website, and our advertisements may be delivered to you in the ad space of the ad-serving company. The cookie information obtained by the ad-serving company will be handled in accordance with the privacy policy of the ad-serving company.

You may stop the use of cookies and access data by the ad-serving provider by accessing the opt-out page of the ad-serving provider and disabling (opting out) the use of cookies and access data by the ad-serving provider. If you do so, you may not receive advertisements that match your interests and preferences, or you may receive the same advertisements repeatedly.

If you wish to disable (opt-out), please access the opt-out page below and follow the instructions on each operator's site.

Google ※Please log in at the transition destination site to set up your account.
Twitter ※Please log in at the transition destination site to set up your account.
Facebook ※Please log in at the transition destination site to set up your account.
Instagram ※Please log in at the transition destination site to set up your account.
LINE Corporation（in Japanese only）
Yahoo Japan Corporation（in Japanese only）
For more information on how we use the personal information we collect, please see our Privacy Policy.