Privacy Policy

Half Cent Hoop is a publication, not a platform: there are no accounts, no comments, and no newsletter sign-ups. Reading the site does not require giving us any personal information.

Our hosting infrastructure keeps standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) for security and performance. If you contact us by email, we receive the address and content you send and use them only to reply.

We may use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which articles are read. If third-party advertising is enabled on the site, the ad provider may set cookies or similar identifiers to measure or personalize ads; where required, you will be asked for consent before such cookies are set. Ad placements on the site are always labeled as advertising.

Affiliate links take you to external retailers. Once you leave this site, the retailer's own privacy policy applies.

Articles may embed content such as YouTube videos. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the originating site directly, and those services may collect data according to their own policies.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data — including under Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) and US state privacy laws. Since we hold almost no personal data, the practical scope is small, but requests are honored: contact us and we will respond.

If our practices change — for example, when an advertising provider is added — this page will be updated before or alongside the change.