Site Policy

The website of the Japan Economic Research Institute (hereafter, "the Site") is intended to provide information about the Japan Economic Research Institute. Your use of this website indicates your agreement to abide by the terms below when using the Site.

Links

In general, users are free to link to the Site. However, the Japan Economic Research Institute accepts no responsibility for any third party sites that link to the Site or any of their content.
The following links are strictly prohibited:

  • links from sites that contain defamatory information or damage trust in the Japan Economic Research Institute or its products and services;
  • links from sites with content that is offensive to public order and morals;
  • links from sites that post illegal content, or are involved or potentially involved in illegal activities;
  • links that use frames or other techniques that make the source of the information unclear.

If you wish to use content from the Site in a magazine, book, advertisement or other publication, include it on a CD-ROM or other storage medium, or otherwise use the Site content by means other than a link, please contact the Japan Economic Research Institute beforehand. Likewise, please contact the Japan Economic Research Institute in advance if you have any other inquiries.

Disclaimer

The Japan Economic Research Institute in no way guarantees the text or other content on the Site. Further, the Japan Economic Research Institute shall accept no responsibility for any errors in the information on the Site.
In the event of a user suffering any damages resulting from the information or other content on the Site, the Japan Economic Research Institute shall accept no liability for such damage. Similarly, the Japan Economic Research Institute shall accept no liability for damage occurring to a third party resulting from use of the Site by any user.
Please note that the information on the Site is subject to change or removal without notice.

Copyright

The content, or any part thereof, that appears on the Site in text, graphic, video, or other format is protected by various laws including those relating to copyright, moral rights and neighboring rights, and copying or reproducing content for any purpose other than private use as stipulated in Article 30 of the copyright law is prohibited.
In addition, the design elements, information structures, and similar items on the Site are protected by various laws including the Unfair Competition Prevention Act and Trademark Act, and copying or imitating these is prohibited regardless of the method or format used. Any unauthorized use of the Site or any part thereof that goes beyond private use (including reproduction, copying, printing, distribution, broadcasting, public transmission, translation, sale, or lease) is not permitted.

Trademarks

The Japan Economic Research Institute names and product names that appear on the Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. The Site may omit the "™" and "®" symbols.

Information obtained from users of the Site

The Japan Economic Research Institute takes all reasonable precautions to ensure the privacy of users who visit the Site including adoption of SSL encrypted communications to safeguard against unauthorized access and to encrypt data.
The Japan Economic Research Institute has obtained an SSL Server Certificate issued by GlobalSign Inc. which is widely used to protect the safety of websites.

Cookies

The Japan Economic Research Institute uses cookies and collects access logs and other information for the purpose of improving the website services. Cookies facilitate browsing of the Site by users who are visiting for a second or subsequent time and do not infringe on the user's privacy or have any malicious effect on the user's computer.
Access logs, used for better information service based on analysis of accesses by the organization contracted by the Japan Economic Research Institute to undertake surveys and analysis, are managed and handled appropriately in the same manner as personal information.

Governing laws

Although the Site can be accessed from countries around the world with different laws, users who access the Site and the Japan Economic Research Institute must agree to be bound by the laws of Japan and the ordinances of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government when using the Site.

Other points to note

Please note that the content and links/URLs on the Site are subject to change or removal without notice; site policies are also subject to change without notice and, if these terms of use are modified, users are responsible for complying with the revised terms of use.

Points to note when using the Site

Recommended browsers

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Plug-ins

Some pages on the Site use the following plug-ins.

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    • For viewing documents

Scripts

The Site uses JavaScript to make it more convenient for users to use. If the Site is used with JavaScript disabled, pages may display incorrectly. It is strongly recommended that you have JavaScript enabled whenever possible when using the Site.

Accessibility

The Site aims to be an "attractive and accessible" website using the latest web publishing techniques and methods to permit viewing by as many people as possible, and seeks support for accessibility through practices such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), one of the organizations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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