The National Disaster Management Agency collects information on users of its website (meaning a website under the domain of bousai.go.jp, including its subdomains; the same applies hereinafter unless otherwise specified; hereinafter referred to as this “website”) to the extent necessary to smoothly operate services provided on this website (provision of information, receipt of comments and opinions, and other services provided on this website). The collected information is handled appropriately within the scope of the purposes of use.

1. Your comments and opinions about this website are received through the “Your Comments and Opinions” form. In using the form, you will be asked to select the item applicable to your comments and opinions and fill in your name, message, and e-mail address.
2. This website asks you to answer voluntarily indicate whether you were able to obtain the information you sought on the browsed page. If you send your feedback about the browsed page, information regarding your feedback is collected. When doing so, you are asked not to include information that can identify a specific individual in your feedback.
3. This website automatically collects the domain names of referring websites (referrers), IP addresses, browsing data and other information relevant to this website.

1. Information collected in paragraph 1 of “2. Scope of information to be collected” is used for reference purposes to smoothly operate the services provided on this website. The “item applicable to your comments and opinions” and your “message” collected through the “Your Comments and Opinions” form, are used for reference purposes for future policy planning and other efforts towards improvement. Your “name” and “e-mail address” are used to send our replies. Incidentally, the above information will be forwarded to the relevant ministries or agencies depending on the topic.
2. The information collected in paragraph 2 of “2. Scope of information to be collected” is used for reference purposes to improve the content, design and other formats provided by this website. We may analyze it in combination with information collected through User Insight.
3. Information collected in paragraph 3 of “2. Scope of information to be collected” is used to provide and operate services on this website securely and smoothly.

Unless a request for disclosure is made based on any law or regulation, or in the event of unauthorized access, intimidation or any other illegal acts, or there is any other special reason, we do not use the collected information or provide it to any third party for any purpose other than the purposes of use outlined in Section 3. However, the total number of “Your Comments and Opinions” provided and other anonymized information may be publicized.

We take measures that are necessary to prevent leakage, loss, or breakage of the collected information and otherwise manage it appropriately. Moreover, in entrusting the operation of this website to an external service provider, we may also entrust the handling of the collected information. In that case, we take necessary measures to ensure that the trustee also prevents leakage, loss, or breakage of the collected information and otherwise manages it appropriately.

This policy applies only to this website. Each relevant ministry or agency handles information under its own responsibility.

The Site automatically collects and stores Internet domain names, IP addresses, information about access to the Site (i.e., the date and time you access the Site and the pages you visit) etc. Cookies (information transmitted from the server to the user's browser and stored on the user's computer in order for the server to identify users) may be used to the purposes to figure out the accurate number of accesses and to improve convenience of the browser display function. Collected user data is not personally identifiable. Users may change their browser's settings so as to disable cookies. Disabling cookies does not affect your browsing of this Site.

Social media buttons
In the case, if a user browses a website on which a button or any other icon of a social media platform is placed, the user’s ID and information on the accessed website along with other relevant information, may be sent from the website to the social media platform automatically, even if the button, etc.is not pressed by the user. For further details, please see the following “Points of Attention for Social Media Users” (Personal Information Protection Commission website). For privacy policies of social media and other services used on this website, please refer to the respective platforms and the service providers. Any revision to this policy will be announced on this website.