Handling of Personal Information on Yokohama City Website

The Yokohama City website handles the collection and use of personal information and its management based on the "Law Concerning the Protection of Personal Information" and the "Yokohama City Ordinance on the Protection of Personal Information" and the "Yokohama City Ordinance on the Protection of Personal Information" and "Yokohama City Ordinance on the Protection of Personal Information". In addition, the handling of personal information may be changed in response to laws and regulations or other changes. In that case, we will inform you on this site.

"Personal information" means information that can be "identify a specific individual" by name, date of birth, or other descriptions (Address, Phone number, title, etc.).
In addition, even if a specific individual is not known for each information, if a specific individual can be easily identified by combining this information or some publicly available information, etc., Such information also falls under "personal information".

When city collects personal information from thing except the person or is going to collect personal information about race, creed and social status, we examine the necessity appropriately (the regulations Article 3 Clause 1).

Personal information will be identified as much as possible, and will be retained within the necessary range (Article 61 of the Act). In principle, the purpose of use shall be clearly indicated to the individual (Article 62 of the Act).

We do not use or provide personal information inside the city for purposes other than the purpose of use, except in cases where it falls under statutory exceptions (Article 69).

We will take necessary measures to keep the collected personal information accurate and up-to-date, and to prevent leakage, loss, damage, and falsification. Personal information that is no longer needed will be promptly discarded and deleted (Article 66 of the Act).

Please refer to the following page.

This site acquires and stores the following information. It is managed by the Yokohama City Policy Management Bureau Public Relations Section.

This site records the viewer's information in the form of access logs. The access logs include the domain name and IP address of the viewer, the type of browser used, the date and time of access, but the access logs are used for website maintenance management and statistical analysis of usage, and is not used for any other purpose.

This site uses cookies to collect information for some content. Cookies are recorded on the viewer's computer when a visitor visits the site. The recorded information does not include any personally identifiable information, such as the viewer name or email address.
In addition, this site may analyze what kind of site the viewer is interested in, or may use them for effective information distribution on the web. If you feel reluctant to collect information using cookies, you can also set the refusal to accept cookies in your browser. However, please note that in that case, depending on the content, it may not function properly.
Accepting/rejecting cookies on this site can be selected at the discretion of the viewer by changing the browser settings. If a visitor refuses to accept cookies, the viewer may be subject to certain functional restrictions on certain pages.

On this site, banner ads and social networking service (SNS) buttons are installed for some content (pages). In some SNS, when browsing the content (page) on which the SNS button etc. are installed, information on the user ID and the site you are accessing to the SNS without pressing the button of the SNS. May be sent automatically. For more information, please refer to "Notes for SNS Users" (Personal Information Protection Committee HP) (outside site). For the privacy policy of services such as SNS used in Yokohama City, please check the website of each service.
In addition, some service providers may send their own cookies to use the service, but you can refuse to accept them in your browser settings. However, please note that in that case, depending on the content, it may not function properly.