Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Who we are

Picked in Japan is a independently run publication about Japanese tea, food, and everyday goods, written from Japan.

What we collect

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and read our articles. This collects anonymised information such as the pages you visit, roughly where in the world you are, and which links you click. We do not collect your name, email address, or payment details through this site.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to tell returning visitors from new ones. You can block or delete these cookies in your browser settings at any time, and the site will keep working normally.

Affiliate links

When you click an affiliate link, the destination site may set its own cookies to track that you arrived from here. This is how the seller knows to credit us for a referral. Those cookies are governed by the destination site's own privacy policy, not this one. See our Affiliate Disclosure for how this works.

Third parties

This site is hosted on Shopify, which processes standard server logs. Analytics is provided by Google. We do not sell or share your data with anyone else.

Your choices

You can browse this site with cookies disabled, use a browser that blocks trackers, or install Google's opt-out add-on. None of this will limit what you can read here.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy or want data associated with your visits removed, please get in touch.