This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for the Karuizawa Mokuhanga School website, www.mokuhanga-school.jp
The Karuizawa Mokuhanga School is committed to providing you with a secure experience. The Karuizawa Mokuhanga School is bound by applicable privacy legislation, which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals.
Collection of your personal information
There are many aspects of the site which can be viewed without providing personal information, however, for access to some Karuizawa Mokuhanga School customer support features you are required to submit personally identifiable information. This may include but not limited to a unique username and password, or provide sensitive information in the recovery of your lost password. Your personal information is also collected on enrolment or application for residencies to facilitate further communication in regard to the activity you have enrolled in. If you use our online shop or subscribe to online courses you will also be required to submit your personal information to allow shipping and communication.
Payment details
At no time do we collect or hold your credit card details or other financial instituion details. Our payment plugins securely communicate your details directly with the payment company (Paypal, Square, Stripe) and your details are deleted after clicking the pay button.
Requesting to join our email list
Selecting this option in the inquiry form will include you in future emails designed to inform about upcoming learning opportunities and other developments at the Karuizawa Mokuhanga School. You can directly unsubsribe by pressing the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our newsletter emails. This action unsubscribes you from the email but does not remove your information. If you wish us to completely remove your information, please contact us by email.
Sharing of your personal information
For the purpose of posting and tracking orders, the address and contact details you have entered in our shop are shared with postal services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service.
Use of your personal information
For each visitor to reach the site, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the Site, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends, delivering personalized content to you while you are at this Site or troubleshooting errors.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will use for these new purposes only, data collected from the time of the policy change forward will adhere to our updated practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Karuizawa Mokuhanga School reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use the Site.
Accessing Your Personal Information
You have a right to access your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. The Karuizawa Mokuhanga School reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for, and providing access to, your information on a per request basis.
Cookies and Tracking
The Joomla CMS system uses cookies to facilitate your user experience while using the Karuizawa Mokuhanga School website, particularly if you are using the online shop or have logged in as an online student. These contain no personal identifiers and are deleted by your browser when closing, unless you have selected "remember me" to facilitate future use of the site. We have removed tracking code (Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel) to preserve your privacy, however links to Youtube videos on the site contain trackng, which we are unable to remove. There are no ads or tracking from third parties on our website.
Contacting us
The Karuizawa Mokuhanga School welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us by any of the following means during business hours Monday to Friday.
Call +81 080-4164-9865
Post: Attn: Privacy Policy,
Karuizawa Mokuhanga School,
〶 389-0111
Japan, Nagano Ken, Kitasaku-gun, Karuizawa-machi, Karuizawa Higashi 18-7
E-mail: