Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago Privacy Policy

Last Revised: November 20, 2024

1. Overview and Commitment to Privacy

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago (“JCCC”, “we”, “us”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. With that in mind, we provide this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used when you access our website at https://www.jccc-chi.org/en/ (English) and/or https://www.jccc-chi.org/ (Japanese) (collectively, the “Website”).

The following outlines the details of our online privacy statement and contains information to contact us, should you have any questions regarding the privacy of your personal information on our Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Updates to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 16

The Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at: https://www.jccc-chi.org/en/contact/

2. The Information You Provide to Us

At several points on our Website, you are afforded the opportunity to contact us via online form, e-mail, fax, or telephone to inquire further about our products and services. All such communications are strictly voluntary. Should you choose to contact us and in doing so communicate personal information, any information you provide will be held in the strictest of confidence (including the e-mail address and/or return telephone number that you provide.).

3. The Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

In addition, we automatically collect the following information when you visit our Website:

• Visit Details: Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Computer and Connection Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

This information helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Use of Cookies; Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies to collect information concerning your use of the Website. A cookie is a small text file that the Website can place on your computer’s hard drive in order, for example, to gather information concerning your use of the Website, to allow more streamlined use of the Website, and improve the functionality of the Website. The cookie transmits this information back to the Website’s computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

Some content or applications on the Website may be served by third-parties, including content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
For more information, please see our Cookie Policy available at: https://www.jccc-chi.org/policy/.

4. How We Use Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties. We use the information you provide about yourself only to communicate with you further about JCCC news, events and services, including membership in the JCCC, the Chicago Futabakai Japanese School, the JCCC Educational Exchange Program, and the JCCC Foundation.

In addition, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates; or
• to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.

We will not share your information with any other party for any purpose other than that detailed above except:

• to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; or
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the JCCC, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

We use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such e-mail addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

If you have consented (opted-in) to receive SMS (text) messages from us or have shared your phone number with us for the purpose of receiving SMS messages from us, we will not share your SMS consent or phone number information with any third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.

5. Do-Not-Track Signals

Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser.

6. Data Protection

We have implemented reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

7. Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Policy as we deem necessary. If there are changes or additions to this Policy, we will post those changes here, with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Website and this Policy to check for any changes.

8. How to Contact Us

Should you have questions or concerns about this Policy, to opt-in or opt-out of receiving any communications (including SMS messages) from us, or if we collect any information from you which you wish to retrieve, update, modify or have deleted please contact us at: https://www.jccc-chi.org/en/contact/