Privacy Policy (Protection of personal information)

We care about your privacy and do our best at protecting your personal information. When you use the services on this website you agree to the following conditions regarding your privacy. We collect, store and process personal information that you make available for us when accessing our website and services. Information is collected for example when you fill in forms or make a booking. Information is also gathered when you communicate with Ojika Island Tourism or share information with other members of the service.

What we collect from travellers

We may ask you to submit the following information about you and your travel companions:

• Name
• Gender
• Nationality
• Contact information including email address and phone number
• Date of birth
• Dietary requirements or allergies
• Medical condition

What we do with the information

When you make a booking, we use your personal information to complete and administer your
online booking. In case of homestay the following details will be forwarded to your service providers, i.e. Host Family:

• Name
• Gender
• Nationality
• Contact information including email address and phone number
• Date of birth
• Dietary requirements or allergies
• Medical condition

In addition, we may collect personal information for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping
• Confirm your accommodation booking
• Provide various services such as reservation of accommodation and restaurant
• Conduct questionnaire survey related to our products and services
• We may use the information to improve our products and services
• Recognition and verification of user identity to create a safe and trusted environment and to
detect and prevent fraud and other harmful activity

We do not share your information with third parties other than the Host Family as well as governmental or investigative authorities if we are required by law to do so.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses cookies, text files stored on your computer, to help the website analyze
how users use the site. We use Google Analytics with the add-on “_anonymizeIP()” so that the IP
addresses later transmitted to Google are shortened and modified in advance on the European
servers to prevent any direct references to particular persons. Google will use this information
for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for
website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to
the website operator. Your IP address, which has been transmitted by Google Analytics, will not
be associated with any other data held by Google. We use Google Analytics Advertising Features,
including Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting – which gives us insight
into behaviour information relating to visitor age, gender and interests on an anonymous and
aggregate level. This will help us to understand browsing behaviour to give you a better experience
whilst visiting our sites.

Contacting us
In case of questions regarding our privacy policy you may contact us at
yoyaku@ojikajima.jp Your opinion matters to us!