Privacy

Short version: we don't track you personally, we don't sell data, we don't use marketing cookies, we don't have ads.

What we don't collect

• Your name, email, or any identifier.
• Cookies that persist across visits.
• Tracking pixels, fingerprinting, "session replay", or anything like that.
• Anything from your social media accounts.

What we do collect

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count pageviews per page. This is anonymous, cookie-free, and aggregated. Cloudflare's privacy policy explicitly forbids using this data to track individuals.

Specifically, we see things like: "/kanji/ got 1,500 visits last week". We never see "user X visited these pages in this order".

Logs

Cloudflare (our CDN) automatically keeps short-term access logs for security purposes (DDoS prevention, abuse detection). These contain IP addresses and timestamps and are deleted within 7 days. We never look at them unless investigating an attack.

PDFs hosted on R2

When you download a PDF, Cloudflare R2 logs the request the same way as any HTTP server. Same short-term retention, same anonymous aggregation in analytics.

Embeds, third-party scripts

None on the public site. The only external script is Cloudflare's privacy-friendly analytics beacon. We don't embed YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, or anything else that would set third-party cookies.

Your rights

Because we don't have personal data tied to you, there's nothing to delete, export, or amend. If that ever changes — for example, if we add comments or accounts in Phase 2 — this page will be updated and a banner will explain the change.

Contact

Questions: hello@japaneseness.com. Last updated: 2026-05-11.