Data Privacy Policy

Version of 8/2026. This notice supersedes any earlier version published at datingjapanesewomen.org.

This notice describes how the operator of datingjapanesewomen.org (“we”, “us”) processes personal data, and it is written to satisfy Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation as well as the equivalent duties under UK data protection law. We are the controller for the processing described below. Because datingjapanesewomen.org is an editorial comparison website with no registration, no user accounts and no transactions, the scope of that processing is deliberately narrow.

1. Categories of Data and Where They Come From

1.1 Data you provide

If you contact us at [email protected], we process the identifying and contact data in your message — typically a name and an email address — together with the content of the message itself and any attachments. You decide what to include; nothing in particular is required beyond an address we can answer.

1.2 Data generated by your visit

Our servers and analytics tooling record the IP address of the connecting device, the date and time of each request, the resource requested, the HTTP status returned, the referring URL, and the user-agent string, from which browser, operating system and device class are derived. Approximate location at city or region level may be inferred from the IP address; we do not process precise geolocation.

1.3 Data stored on your device

Cookies and comparable technologies (local storage, pixels) store identifiers and preference flags in your browser. Where those technologies are not strictly necessary for the site to function, they are set only after consent.

We do not process special categories of data under Article 9, we do not carry out automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not profile individual readers.

2. Purposes and Legal Bases

Responding to enquiries — Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in dealing with people who contact us, and where your message concerns a possible agreement, Article 6(1)(b).
Operating, securing and maintaining the website — Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in a site that stays available and is not abused.
Audience measurement and editorial planning — Article 6(1)(a) where cookies are involved, otherwise Article 6(1)(f) on aggregated data.
Attributing referrals to advertising partners — Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in being paid correctly for traffic we send, and Article 6(1)(a) where a partner’s own cookie is involved.
Complying with statutory duties and defending claims — Article 6(1)(c) and Article 6(1)(f).

Where we rely on legitimate interest, we have carried out the required balancing exercise. You may ask us for a summary of it, and you may object at any time as described in section 6.

3. Recipients and Processors

Personal data is disclosed to processors acting on our documented instructions under Article 28 contracts: our hosting and content delivery providers, our email provider, our analytics provider, and the affiliate and advertising networks through which partner links are tracked. Data is disclosed to third parties outside that arrangement only where disclosure is required by law or by a competent authority, where it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or in connection with a merger, acquisition or transfer of the business, in which case the recipient assumes the obligations in this notice.

Links to the companies we compare are ordinary outbound links. Once you follow one, the destination operator becomes the controller for whatever it collects, under its own notice, and we neither receive nor are able to influence that data.

4. Transfers to Third Countries

Some of our processors are established in, or operate infrastructure in, countries outside the EEA and the UK — principally the United States. Those transfers take place on the basis of an adequacy decision where one is in force, or otherwise under the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses together with the supplementary measures our assessment identified. A copy of the relevant clauses is available on request.

5. Retention

Correspondence: for the duration of the matter and up to 24 months afterwards, longer only where a claim is foreseeable.
Server and security logs: normally 30 days, extended where an incident is under investigation.
Analytics: identifiers are truncated or aggregated within 14 months, after which only non-identifying statistics remain.
Consent records: for as long as the consent is relied on, plus the period needed to evidence it.

6. Your Rights

You have the right of access (Article 15), to rectification (16), to erasure (17), to restriction of processing (18), to data portability (20) in respect of data you supplied under consent or contract, and to object (21) to processing based on legitimate interest — including an unconditional right to object to direct marketing, which we do not carry out. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of what was done beforehand.

Requests go to [email protected] and are answered within one month, extendable by two further months for complex requests, in which case we will tell you why. There is no fee unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. Where we cannot identify you from the data we hold — which, for an anonymous visitor, is the normal case — we will say so rather than ask you for more identifying data than we started with.

You may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.

7. Security

Appropriate technical and organisational measures under Article 32 are in place: transport encryption, hardened and patched server configurations, access control limited to the personnel who administer the site, and data minimisation as a matter of design. No measure makes transmission over the internet absolutely secure, and we make no representation that it does.

8. Children

The site is not directed at children and is intended for an audience of 18 and over. We do not knowingly process the data of a child; where we learn that we have, it is deleted without delay.

9. Amendments

We keep this notice under review and update it when our processing changes or the law does. The version in force is the one published here, identified by the date at the top. Material changes will be highlighted rather than made quietly.