Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-10-08
Kiyomizu-dera Today (https://kiyomizuderatoday.com, “the Site”) is run by Bag2Gate, a service of CofJC Inc. (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information we collect when you use the Site, how we use it, and the choices you have.
1. Who we are
CofJC Inc.
ASTEM 8F, 134 Chudoji Minami-machi, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8813, Japan
Contact: https://kiyomizuderatoday.com/contact
2. Information we collect
Information you send us
If you use our contact form, we receive your name, your email address and the content of your message. We use this only to reply to you.
Visit statistics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how many people visit the Site and which pages they view. It does not use cookies, does not track you across other websites, and does not collect personal information that identifies you.
Server and security logs
Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes technical information such as IP addresses to deliver the Site and protect it from abuse. Our contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a real person is sending the message.
3. Third-party content and links
YouTube videos
The live camera on the Site is embedded from YouTube using its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). The video player loads only when you tap it. The preview image is loaded from YouTube’s image server when you view the page. Once a video plays, YouTube (Google) may use cookies and collect information under its own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Bag2Gate
The Site links to Bag2Gate (https://bag2gate.com), a luggage storage and delivery service. Bag2Gate is our own service. Links to Bag2Gate include a short tag (for example “utm_source=kiyomizuderatoday”) so that we can count how many visitors come from this Site. The tag does not contain any information about you. Information you enter on the Bag2Gate website is handled under its own privacy policy.
Affiliate links
Some links on the Site may lead to partners such as tour and experience providers. If you book through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These partners may use cookies to record that you came from our Site. Their own privacy policies apply once you leave the Site.
Other links
The Site also links to other websites, such as the official Kiyomizu-dera website, Kyoto City Bus and the Japan Meteorological Agency. We are not responsible for how those websites handle your information.
4. How we use your information
We use the information above only to:
- reply to your messages
- understand how the Site is used and improve it
- keep the Site secure
We do not sell your personal information.
5. How long we keep it
We keep contact form messages for as long as needed to respond to you and handle any follow-up, and no longer than 2 years.
6. Your rights
You may ask us to show, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you also have rights under the GDPR, including the right to object to processing and to complain to your local data protection authority. To make a request, please use our contact form: https://kiyomizuderatoday.com/contact
7. About our crowd estimates and weather
Crowd levels on the Site are our own estimates based on the time, day, season, events and weather. They are not official figures from Kiyomizu-dera and not guarantees. Weather data is provided by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
8. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy: please use our contact form: https://kiyomizuderatoday.com/contact