Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Japan Importer uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit japanimporter.com.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process and protect personal data.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
They can be used for different purposes, including enabling essential website functions, remembering certain preferences and understanding how visitors use a website.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly, while others are optional and require your consent where applicable.
2. How Japan Importer Uses Cookies
Japan Importer uses cookies and similar technologies to:
- Operate essential website functions.
- Maintain the shopping cart and Checkout.
- Allow customers to log in and use their accounts.
- Maintain website security and prevent abuse.
- Remember cookie preferences.
- Understand how visitors find and use our website, where you have consented to analytics.
We do not require you to accept optional analytics cookies in order to browse the store or make a purchase.
3. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are required for the website and online store to function correctly.
These may include cookies used for:
- Shopping cart functionality.
- Checkout functionality.
- Customer login and account sessions.
- Security.
- Payment-related functionality.
- Remembering your cookie consent preferences.
Because these technologies are necessary to provide the website or services you request, they cannot generally be disabled through our cookie consent system.
You can configure your browser to block cookies, but blocking necessary cookies may prevent parts of Japan Importer from functioning correctly.
4. Analytics Cookies
Japan Importer may use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help us understand how visitors find and use our website.
Analytics may help us understand information such as:
- Which pages are visited.
- How visitors navigate through the website.
- How visitors reach Japan Importer.
- Which external sources or campaigns generate visits.
- General website usage and performance.
- Whether visitors complete relevant actions on the website.
This information helps us evaluate and improve Japan Importer and understand, for example, traffic originating from external marketplaces or other websites.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies and technologies will not be activated until you have provided your consent.
You can refuse analytics cookies without affecting your ability to browse Japan Importer, create an account, use the shopping cart or complete a purchase.
5. Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Japan Importer does not currently use advertising or behavioural marketing cookies.
We do not currently use technologies such as advertising pixels to build advertising profiles of visitors through our website.
If this changes in the future, this Cookie Policy and our cookie consent system will be updated as required before such technologies are used.
6. Third-Party Cookies and Services
Some functionality on Japan Importer may be provided by third-party services, such as payment providers or other services necessary to operate the store.
These providers may use cookies or similar technologies where necessary to provide their services, prevent fraud, maintain security or process payments.
The cookies and technologies used by third parties may be subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Where a third-party technology is not strictly necessary and requires consent under applicable law, it will only be activated after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
7. Google Analytics
Where enabled and where you have provided any consent required by law, Japan Importer may use Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google.
Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors interact with our website and how they reached Japan Importer.
We may use this information to evaluate website traffic and the effectiveness of links or campaigns from external sources.
Google Analytics will be configured together with our cookie consent system so that technologies requiring consent are not activated before the appropriate consent has been provided.
You can refuse or subsequently withdraw your consent to analytics through our cookie preference controls.
More information about how personal data associated with analytics is handled is available in our Privacy Policy.
8. Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit Japan Importer, you will be provided with information about our use of cookies and, where required, the opportunity to choose whether optional cookies may be used.
Our cookie consent system will allow you to:
Accept optional cookies
Allow the optional cookie categories presented to you.
Reject optional cookies
Continue using Japan Importer without optional cookies that require your consent.
Manage preferences
Choose which optional categories you wish to allow.
Necessary cookies will remain active where they are required for the website or a service you have requested to function.
Your decision will not affect your statutory consumer rights or your ability to purchase products from Japan Importer.
9. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.
A Cookie Settings or equivalent option will be made available on the website so that you can reopen your cookie preferences and modify your previous choice.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before it was withdrawn.
10. Browser Settings
Most web browsers also allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their settings.
Please note that disabling all cookies through your browser may also block necessary cookies and may prevent features such as the shopping cart, Checkout or customer account from working correctly.
Using the cookie preferences provided by Japan Importer allows you to control optional cookies without unnecessarily disabling essential store functionality.
11. Cookies Used on Japan Importer
The exact cookies and similar technologies used by Japan Importer may depend on the website functionality and services active at a particular time.
Our cookie consent system will identify and categorise the cookies and technologies detected on the website.
This information will include, where applicable:
- Cookie or technology name.
- Provider.
- Purpose.
- Category.
- Duration.
We periodically review this information to keep it consistent with the technologies actually used on Japan Importer.
12. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when necessary, including when we add, remove or change technologies used by the website or when applicable legal requirements change.
The latest version will be published on this page and the revision date will appear at the top.
Where required, we may ask you to provide consent again following significant changes.
13. Contact
If you have questions about our use of cookies or the processing of personal data, please contact:
Japan Importer
Email: info@japanimporter.com
For more information about how Japan Importer processes personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.