The End JBIC’s Dirty Financing website (the “Site”) aims to provide website visitors with informative content about human rights threats and climate impacts due to the projects the Japanese government and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation are funding.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use this website.
The Site is managed and operated by Fossil Free Japan (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). However, regarding the purpose and methods of processing personal data related to data protection on this website, Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) will act as the data controller.
Address: 1-21-9 Komone, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0037, Japan
Email address: info@foejapan.org
If you choose to use our Site, and agree to the opt-in statement, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for improving the quality of content published on this website, and to make it easier to follow and access content via other third party channels. We will not use or share your information with anyone, except as described in this Privacy Policy below.
For a better experience while reading content on this Site, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, country of residence, and email address, such as when you subscribe to our newsletter. The information that we collect may be used to contact you with information about and/or from our Site and our campaign partners, either by email or through third party advertising campaigns. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send. If you are under 16 years of age, consent must be sought from someone with parental authorization.
When you visit our Site, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
In order to improve our users’ experience, we may use Google Analytics and Google Ads features such as Remarketing, Google Campaign Manager, Google Display Network Impression Reporting and/or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.
Information collected by our cookies will not personally identify you. It does, however, identify your computer and connection to the Internet. We only collect general information about your computer settings, connection to the Internet (e.g. operating system and platform), IP address, browsing patterns, and interactions within our Site.
We may use Remarketing with Google Ads to advertise online. Third party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on various sites across the internet. They may also use cookies set by the Google Display Advertising Features to inform, optimise and determine which ads you see on our Site, including ads based on previous visits to our Site.
With regards to the Google Display Network Impression Reporting and the Campaign Manager integration, we and any third party vendors, including Google, may use cookies set by the Google Display Advertising Features to analyse and report on ads used within our Site including, but not limited to, impressions created by the ads and how these interact with other ad features and services.
With regards to Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, we may use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising and/or third party audience data (e.g. age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics to target and optimise our marketing campaigns, strategies and our Site content.
For more information about Google Marketing Services, please visit Google Marketing Platform
This Site utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Meta Inc. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Meta advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Meta advertisements for statistical and market research purposes, including to redeliver the same advertisement to the user. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data is saved and processed by Meta. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Meta is able to connect the data with your Meta account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Meta’s Data Use Policy at Meta Data Policy.
Meta Conversion Tracking also allows Meta and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Meta. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes. If you would like to revoke your permission, please visit Meta Ad Preferences.
This Site utilizes the Conversion tracking service of LinkedIn. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a LinkedIn advertisement. We are therefore able to record the efficacy of LinkedIn advertisements for statistical and market research purposes, including to retarget future advertising to the user. The collected data remains anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user.
For more information about LinkedIn Marketing Services, please visit LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.
This Site utilizes the conversion tracking service of TikTok. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a TikTok advertisement. We are therefore able to record the efficacy of TikTok advertisements for statistical and market research purposes, including to retarget future advertising to the user. The collected data remains anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user.
For more information about TikTok Marketing Services, please visit TikTok Privacy and Cookie Policy.
When you email us, chat with us or otherwise contact us via our Contact email or form, we collect your name, email address, company name, location, and your inquiry message. The data is stored and used to provide you with the requested support. Your data may be retained for analytic reporting purposes unless you submit a request to delete the data.
This Site also utilizes various third-parties Cookies (or browser cookies), a small file stored on your computer, to enable certain functions of the Site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.
The type of cookies and how they are used:
You may control or limit how we and our partners use cookies by changing your customized settings on your web browser. However, if you disable cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.
If you are interested to find out more about Cookies, visit All About Cookies.
We do not share your personal information outside of our organization for marketing or other business purposes except in certain circumstances, including:
Please note that once personal information is shared with another third party, the information received by the other party becomes subject to its privacy policies and practices.
We may also share aggregated information (such as usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to help them understand the usage patterns for our Sites or those of our partners. However, this sharing will not disclose any of your personal information.
In order to provide our services to you, we may disclose the information which we process to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Regardless of the location of our processing, we will impose adequate data protection safeguards and implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data is protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
In relation to our operations in Japan, we may, in the course of providing products and services, disclose personal information to overseas entities including by utilising overseas data servers to process information. Those overseas entities may be located in the United Kingdom and/or the EEA.
If you reside in the European Economic Area or Switzerland (collectively the "EU") and Japan, we rely on the following lawful grounds under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), respectively, to process (collect, store, and use) your personal data: (a) it is necessary for the performance of a contract; (b) our or a third party's legitimate business interest; or (c) your consent. Our partners determine the lawful grounds for the processing of personal data submitted through their use of our Services and we limit such processing to our partners' instructions.
Log data, as defined above, is retained using third party platforms including, but not limited to, Google Analytics, Meta, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Log data will not be collected if website visitors decline using the opt-out function. Log data will generally be retained for the maximum permissible time defined by the third party platforms which we are using, but in some cases may be retained indefinitely. This data will not contain information which can be used to personally identify individual website visitors.
User data is stored in the following locations:
To access some of our content, such as email newsletter and similar versions of this, you will be required to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, such as your email address and country location. This data will be used to send subscribers periodic communications about our content. Care will be taken to store this data securely. Personal data may be retained for as long as the subscriber has opted-in to receive this content. If you have requested to be unsubscribed from our Site email communications, generally your information will be deleted within five years of unsubscribing.
If we rely on your consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose, you can withdraw that consent at any time. This includes the right to ask us to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes or to be unsubscribed from our email list at any time.
You also have the following rights under Article 13 and Article 14 of the EU GDPR:
Website visitors have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your jurisdiction. Since the audience of our Site is international, we suggest you contact the relevant data protection authority in your jurisdiction for this purpose.
Our Site may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
We have used technical and organizational security measures designed to secure your personal information from manipulation, loss, destruction or from being accessed by unauthorized persons. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. The security measures are continually improved and adapted in accordance with the latest technology.
However, data provided that is unencrypted could potentially be viewed by third parties. The secure transmission of information via the Internet (e.g. by email) cannot be guaranteed. Sensitive data should therefore either not be transmitted at all or only via a secure connection (SSL).
Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. If you access pages and files and are then asked to enter personal data, please note that the transmission of such data via the Internet may not be secure and it may therefore be accessed and manipulated by unauthorized persons.
If a data leak or breach is suspected, all incidents need to be recorded and actioned with a preventative measure within 72 hours. The incident will be escalated internally within our Data Committee and action and remedy will be taken afterwards.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Please send an email to contact@fossilfreejapan.org if you wish to make a request in relation to your rights stated above or ask any questions or make suggestions about the content on this page.
