Introduction
Why Japanese Say (“we”, “us”, or “our”), available at https://whyjapanesesay.com, respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of everyone who visits our site. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.
Information We Collect
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact Forms
If you contact us through our Contact page, we collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and message, solely to respond to your inquiry.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. Cookies may also be used by embedded content and by third-party services described below.
Google AdSense and Advertising
We use, or plan to use, Google AdSense to display advertisements on this site. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. You can also learn more about how Google uses data when you use our site or its partners’ sites at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site, including which pages are viewed and how long visitors stay. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this information anonymously. You can learn more about how Google collects and processes data at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Third-Party Links
Our site may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those third-party sites, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies.
Children’s Privacy
Our site is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Your Rights
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except where we are required to keep it for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the “last updated” date below will reflect the most recent revision.
Last updated: July 2026
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our Contact page.