The Japan Shelf

Privacy Policy

This site is a set of static pages. It does not ask you for personal information and it has no accounts, no comments and no mailing list.

What this site collects

Nothing directly. There is no contact form, no sign-up, no comment section and no login. The site does not set its own cookies and does not run its own analytics or tracking scripts.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes standard server request data — IP address, browser type, requested page, timestamp — for the purpose of serving pages and protecting against abuse. This is handled by Cloudflare under its own privacy policy and is not accessible to me as individual visitor records.

Amazon affiliate links

This site takes part in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. When you click an affiliate link here, Amazon may set cookies or use similar technologies to record that the visit came from this site, so that any resulting purchase can be attributed for commission purposes.

That data is collected and held by Amazon, not by this site, and is governed by the Amazon Privacy Notice. I receive only aggregate reporting — how many clicks and orders occurred — and never your name, address, payment details or the identity of anyone who buys.

Referrals from Pinterest and other sites

If you arrive here from Pinterest, a search engine, or any other site, that platform may record the outbound click under its own policies. This site has no control over and no access to that data.

Your choices

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, including Amazon's affiliate cookies. Doing so will not affect how this site works or what you can read — it only means a purchase would not be attributed here.

Children

This site is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page. Continued use of the site after a change means the revised policy applies.