Off Track Guide | offtrackguide.com
Last updated: Sept 13, 2026
Welcome to Off Track Guide. We share travel stories, destination guides and practical advice to help you explore Japan, including places beyond the usual tourist routes. This page explains the terms for using our website and how we handle personal information.
Terms of Use
Travel information and your decisions
Our content is provided for general information and trip planning. It reflects our research, opinions and experiences at the time of writing. Prices, opening hours, timetables, reservation requirements, accessibility, entry rules and local conditions can change. We aim to keep our guides useful, but cannot guarantee that every detail is complete, accurate or current.
Before making a booking or travelling, confirm important details directly with the relevant business, transport operator or official authority. Our content is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, immigration or other specialist advice.
Driving and outdoor activities
Driving routes, hikes and other activities described on this website may involve risks. Weather, road closures, snow, wildlife, terrain and your own experience can affect whether an activity is suitable. A route described in a guide is not a guarantee that it is open or safe when you visit.
You are responsible for assessing conditions and your abilities, obtaining any required licence or permit, arranging appropriate insurance and equipment, and following local laws, signs and official advice. Respect private property, local communities and restrictions on access or photography.
Bookings and external websites
Off Track Guide provides travel information and links to other websites. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not act as a travel agent, take bookings or provide the accommodation, transport, tours or products mentioned in our guides.
When you book or buy through another website, your agreement is with that provider. Check its prices, eligibility requirements, cancellation and refund policies, and other terms before paying. Questions about a booking, payment or refund should be directed to the provider. We do not control external websites or guarantee their services.
Affiliate links and sponsored content
Some links on this website may be affiliate links. This means we may earn a commission if you make a qualifying purchase or booking through them. The price and terms of your purchase are set by the provider; check the final total before booking.
We identify affiliate content with a disclosure in the relevant article or near the relevant links. If we receive payment, a complimentary stay, a product or another benefit connected with published content, we disclose that relationship in the content. Recommendations express our editorial opinions and do not guarantee that a service will suit every traveller.
Using our content
Unless otherwise credited, the articles, original photographs and other content on this website belong to Off Track Guide or its content creators. Other material remains the property of its respective owners.
You may read, bookmark and print our content for your own personal, noncommercial trip planning. You are welcome to share links to our pages. Please obtain permission before republishing articles, reusing photographs or using our original content commercially, except where applicable law allows that use. Attribution alone does not replace permission.
Comments and contributions
Where comments or other submissions are enabled, please keep them relevant and respectful. Do not submit spam, unlawful material, personal information about someone else without permission, or content that infringes another person’s rights. We may moderate or remove submissions that breach these rules.
You retain ownership of your contributions. By submitting content specifically for public posting, you give us a nonexclusive permission to display it on this website and make reasonable formatting or moderation edits. Private messages sent to us are not permission to publish them.
Availability and liability
We provide this website and its content on an “as available” basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access or that the website will always be free of errors or harmful components.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude implied warranties and are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of this website or reliance on its content, including lost bookings or additional travel expenses. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limits any mandatory consumer or privacy rights.
Applicable law and changes
These terms are governed by the laws of [British Columbia, Canada — confirm the operator’s location] and applicable federal Canadian law, subject to any mandatory protections that apply where you live.
We may revise these terms as the website changes. Updated terms will appear here with a revised date and apply prospectively. Where legally required, we will provide additional notice or obtain agreement to material changes.
Privacy Policy
Information you provide
If you contact us, we receive your email address, any name you provide, and the contents of your message and attachments. We use this information to respond, follow up on your request and maintain relevant correspondence. Please avoid sending passport details, payment card information or other sensitive information that we do not need.
We may use information about you for various purposes, including:
- To log and analyze our website’s traffic
- To understand the demographics, interests and needs of our readers
- To respond to your inquiries and comments
- To deliver you our newsletter
- To detect, investigate and prevent spam, abuse and illegal activities
We will never sell or distribute email addresses and/or other personally identifying information to third parties nor use it for unapproved commercial purposes.
Technical information and service providers
When you visit a website, technical information is processed to deliver pages and keep the service working. For this website, our hosting and security providers may process your IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, access times and error or security records. We use relevant records to operate the website, investigate faults and detect abuse.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files stored in your browser. Similar technologies may store preferences or identifiers on your device. Depending on the services enabled, these technologies can support website functions, remember privacy choices, measure visits or attribute affiliate referrals.
You can also use your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking some cookies may affect website features. Deleting cookies does not necessarily delete information already held by us or another provider. This policy does not itself obtain consent to optional tracking; we request consent separately where required.
Affiliate referrals and embedded content
When you follow an affiliate link, the destination website or affiliate network may receive referral information and use cookies or similar technologies to attribute a purchase. Its collection and use of your information are explained in its own privacy policy. We may receive commission reports about qualifying referrals.
How information is shared
We share information with service providers where necessary to operate the website and handle enquiries, for the purposes described above. Access should be limited to what is needed for those services. Where a provider processes information on our behalf, we use appropriate contractual or other safeguards to protect it.
We may also disclose information where required or permitted by law, including in response to a valid legal demand, or where reasonably necessary to address fraud, security incidents or threats to safety. We seek consent for other disclosures where required.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the information we hold, including limiting access to people who need it. No method of online transmission or storage is completely secure.
Children
This website is intended for a general travel audience and is not directed at children. Please contact us if you believe a child has provided personal information that we should not hold, so we can review and address the issue.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our practices change and revise the date at the top of the page. For material changes, we provide additional notice where required. If a new use of information requires consent, we obtain it before that use; an update to this page does not replace consent.