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Privacy Policy

1. Basic Premise
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is collecting information from everyone using the official Website (http://www.bunka.go.jp/ hereafter "the site") in areas necessary to the smooth operation of the services (i.e., information provision by the homepage and solicitation of opinions) provided by the site. The information collected will be appropriately handled within the scope of the purposes of use.

2. Scope of information collection
(1) This site automatically collects and stores information such as IP addresses. As well, by using a cookie this site automatically collects and stores information on accessing the site.
(2) For opinions, proposals and inquiries received by offical e-mail address on question and comments (voice@bunka.go.jp), senders voluntarily provide information such as name, address, telephone number, and so on. In addition, the sender's e-mail address is shown to the receiver.
(3) When this site solicits public comments and opinions for individual projects, we may ask users of the site to fill in their name, address, occupation, telephone number, and so on. In addition, the sender's e-mail address is shown to the receiver.

3. Purposes of use
(1) The information collected in 2(1) will be used as a reference for smooth operation of the services provided by the site.
(2) The comments collected in 2(2) will be used as a reference in future policymaking. For this purpose, depending on the comments and inquiries received, e-mails may be forwarded to the relevant department within the agency. For comments and inquiries outside the jurisdiction of the agency, e-mails may be forwarded to the relevant administrative agency. Sender name and e-mail address will be used for reply and confirmation.
(3) The comments collected in 2(3) will be used as a reference in future policymaking. In addition, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address may be used to reply to comments.

4. Limitations on use and provision
Except for cases of legal disclosure requests, cases of illegal access, threats and other unlawful acts, or other special reasons, the information collected by the Agency for Cultural Affairs will not be used 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 site or user attributes may be disclosed to the public.

5. Measures to ensure security
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is taking the necessary measures to appropriately manage collected information to prevent leakage, loss, or destruction of this information.

6. Scope of application
This privacy policy applies only to the site (http://www.bunka.go.jp/). Information handled at related government offices and agencies is managed under the responsibility of each organization.

7. Others
The Agency for Cultural Affairs may revise this privacy policy whenever necessary.
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