Site Policy

Hokkaido Railway Company (“the Company”) operates its website (“the Site”) in accordance with the following terms of use. Before using the Site, carefully read and agree to them. By using the Site, you are assumed to have agreed to all of the terms below.

Copyrights

(C) Copyright 2007 JR Hokkaido – Hokkaido Railway Company.
The copyrights of the Site and all content published on the Site belong to the Company unless otherwise specifically provided.
Users may not reuse or duplicate the content of the Site in whole or in part, whether verbatim or modified, without the prior consent of the Company, with the exception of use explicitly permitted by the Copyright Act.

Disclaimer

The Company reserves the right to change the content of the Site without prior notice. The Company exercises due care in posting information on the Site; however, the Company does not guarantee that the information contained therein is complete and accurate.
The Company may temporarily suspend the provision of information through the Site without prior notice due to the need to conduct emergency maintenance of systems to install security updates, patches, or the like.

IP Addresses and Cookies

The Site stores the IP addresses of visitors and uses cookies (on all pages). You may disable cookies on your browser, but if you do, the Site may not display or function properly. The Company asks you to enable cookies on your browser to fully access the Site.

The Site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google, to investigate how people use the Site.
Google Analytics uses cookies to collect customer access logs. However, the collected data does not include any personally identifiable information.
The collected access logs are managed based on Google’s Privacy Policy.
For further details, see Google Analytics and Google’s Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics and Google’s Privacy Policy

The Company shall bear no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by the use of the services of Google Analytics.

Personal Information

The Company makes every effort to protect the personal information of its customers. The Site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to ensure the secure transmission of personal information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.
The personal information provided shall be used solely for the relevant purposes of use. The Company shall not disclose personal information to any parties other than the cooperating companies with which it has concluded a non-disclosure agreement.

Links

Links to the Site may be made without permission, but links from the following types of websites are prohibited.

  • Websites that are unlawful or offensive to public order or morals
    (Websites that are or may be slandering, defaming or infringing any rights of the Company or any third party)
  • Websites that aim to use their link to the Site for commercial purposes

If you set up a link to the Site, ensure that it is to the top page.

(https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/)
When linking to the Site, make sure to set the link so that the Site is displayed in a new window in order not to mislead users as to who is providing the information posted on the Site.
Please note that the Company generally does not accept requests to post links on the Site.

– If you have any questions, feel free to ask via the Contact Us page (in English only).