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Hoops Kyoto Kyoto · Editorial desk

Cookie Policy

This policy explains what cookies and similar storage technologies are used on this website, what they do, and how visitors can control them. It applies to naturalsleeproutines.site, the editorial blog covering amateur basketball JP coverage, regional sports leagues and the wider grassroots scene.

What this page covers

A short map of the sections below, so you can jump straight to the part you came for. Everything here is written in plain language and applies to this site only.

Questions that this page does not answer are usually covered by the privacy policy, which deals with personal data more broadly.

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What is set
Session handling, basic security, and any preference storage used to remember display settings. Nothing else runs on this site.
What is measured
Aggregate traffic such as page views and referral sources, where analytics are in use. Individual visitors are not identified.
What you control
Browser settings decide which categories are allowed. Blocking the strictly necessary ones changes how the site loads.
Who to ask
The editorial desk handles cookie and data questions. Contact details sit on the contact page.

No advertising or tracking cookies are set for marketing purposes on this site, and no data collected here is shared with advertising networks.

Editorial reading is the whole point of the site. Cookie handling exists only to keep pages loading securely and to count visits in aggregate.

Teenage players running a passing drill during school basketball training in a Japanese gym
Site storage works quietly in the background, much like the routines that keep a local training session running.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file placed on a visitor's device by a website. Cookies allow a site to remember information between page requests, such as a preference or a session state. Without them, every click would arrive as if you had never been here before.

Similar technologies, including local storage, serve comparable purposes and are treated the same way in this policy. Local storage keeps small pieces of information in the browser rather than sending them back with every request, but the practical effect for a visitor is nearly identical.

Cookies are not programs. They cannot run on your device, read other files, or collect information from elsewhere on your computer. They carry the value the site itself wrote, and nothing more. Clearing them removes that value, and the site simply starts fresh on your next visit.

Session cookies

Last only while the browser is open. They keep a request connected to the visit that started it, then disappear.

Stored preferences

Remember display choices between visits so the reading view does not reset every time you return to the site.

Street basketball half court in a Japanese residential neighbourhood in the late afternoon

Cookies we use

The site uses strictly necessary cookies required for it to function, including session handling and basic security. These cannot be switched off through the site itself, because the site will not operate correctly without them.

Any preference storage used to remember display settings also falls into this category. It does not identify you, and it is not shared with anyone outside the technical operation of the site.

  • Session handling — keeps a request tied to the visit that started it, then expires.
  • Basic security — helps the server tell a genuine visitor apart from a repeated automated request.
  • Display preferences — remembers how you prefer to read the page between visits.

Analytics

Where analytics are used, they are configured to measure aggregate traffic such as page views and referral sources. That tells the editorial desk which league reviews and fixture pages readers actually open, which is useful when planning coverage of regional sports leagues and community sports fixtures.

Analytics data is not used to identify individual visitors or to build advertising profiles. Visitors who prefer not to be counted can block analytics cookies in their browser without losing access to any content, including amateur sports updates and archive pages.

Blocking them changes nothing about what you can read. Every article stays open, and no part of the site is gated behind measurement.

Advertising

This site does not carry advertising, and no advertising or tracking cookies are set for marketing purposes. No data collected here is shared with advertising networks. Pages load without ad scripts, which is also why the site stays quick on a phone at courtside or in a school hall.

Any future change to that position would be reflected in this policy and in the privacy policy before it took effect. Until a change is published here, nothing on the site should be read as permitting marketing measurement.

Community sports hall filling with local spectators before a regional league match in Japan
League nights stay reader-funded in spirit: no ad slots, no sponsored panels, no third-party banners.

Third-party services

Some technical services, such as hosting or content delivery, may set cookies as part of normal operation. These are limited to what is needed to serve the site securely, and they are the same kind of storage used by any site that delivers pages from more than one machine.

The operator does not control the internal cookie behaviour of those providers, and their own policies apply to their processing. If you want to know exactly what a hosting or delivery provider stores, its published policy is the right place to look, alongside the stored cookies listed in your own browser.

Nothing in that arrangement changes what this site publishes: league reviews, fixture information, and background articles on local grassroots basketball and school basketball training.

Players leaving a neighbourhood outdoor court in Japan after a local amateur game at dusk

Managing cookies

Cookies can be viewed, blocked or deleted through browser settings. Most browsers allow cookies to be blocked by category, and some allow site-specific rules, so you can allow this site while refusing storage elsewhere.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how the site loads or whether a form can be submitted. If a page behaves oddly after you change a setting, reopening the browser with the setting relaxed will usually restore normal loading.

  1. 1 Open your browser's settings and find the privacy or site data section.
  2. 2 Review the stored entries for this site and remove the ones you no longer want kept.
  3. 3 Reload the page to confirm that what you want blocked is actually blocked.

Consent

Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, it is requested before those cookies are set. Declining consent does not restrict access to editorial content.

Consent can be withdrawn at any time by changing browser settings or by clearing stored cookies for this site. Withdrawal takes effect on your next page load rather than mid-session.

What consent does and does not change

Unaffected by your choice

Reading league reviews, fixture information, or any article in the archive. Access to the whole published site stays the same either way.

Affected by your choice

Whether optional measurement runs while you browse, and whether display preferences carry over between visits on this device.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated if the cookies used on the site change. The version published on this page is the current one, and it replaces any earlier wording published here.

Visitors who need to know exactly what is set should review this page and their browser's stored cookies together. The two lists, read side by side, give the clearest picture of what is actually running on your device.

Editorial coverage changes too. When regional sports leagues publish revised schedules or a local sports history piece is added, nothing about cookie handling changes along with it.

Small district sports centre in Japan beside a fenced training court in the early morning

Contact

Questions about cookies or about data handling in general should be sent to the editorial desk. Contact details and the message form are on the contact page, and the privacy policy covers personal data more broadly.

Hoops Kyoto Kyoto 456 Karasuma-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8005, Japan [email protected] +81 75 251 6390 Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM JST
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Common questions

Does blocking cookies stop me reading the site?

No. All published articles stay reachable. What changes is how reliably the site remembers a session, so a page may reset a setting you had chosen a moment earlier.

Is any of this used to build a profile of me?

No. Measurement, where it runs, is aggregate — page views and referral sources. It is not used to identify individual visitors, and no data is shared with advertising networks.

Where do I ask about data handling in general?

Write to the editorial desk using the details on this page, or send a message through the contact page. The privacy policy covers personal data more broadly than this document does.

How often is this page reviewed?

Whenever the storage used on the site changes. If nothing is added or removed, the wording here stays as published, and the browser's own stored list remains the most current record on your device.

Related reading on the editorial side: amateur league reviews, regional fixtures and schedules, and local sports history.