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Cookie Policy

Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

What types of cookies do we use?

Cookies may include:

  1. First-party cookies
    Cookies that JR Central places on your device when you visit our website or use mobile application.
  2. Third-party cookies
    Cookies that another party places on your device through our website or mobile application. It enables them to display personal advertisements to the user, with relevant information based on your interests.
  3. Session cookies
    Cookies that are stored on your device only during a user’s browsing session. Cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed.
  4. Permanent cookies
    Cookies that are stored on your device for a set period of time, or until explicitly removed, to allow stored information to be used in future browsing sessions.

Why do we use them?

We use cookies for the following reason to improve the user experience.

  1. Authentication
    In order to smoothly provide our services, we set cookies to identify the users and keep you logged in for the duration of a session (**especially for our services that needs an authentication). It will allow you to proceed through many pages of a website without having to log in repeatedly.
  2. Keeping session state
    We use cookies to keep the session state when you are visiting our website or mobile application.
  3. Analytics and performance improvement
    We use cookies to collect information about how users use our website or mobile application (for example, which pages users go to most often and if users experience any errors). These information collected in cookies do not contain any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve our website and mobile application.
  4. Information collected by Google Analytics
    This website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, to understand the site access status. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect access information. This access information is collected anonymously and is not personally identifiable.
    See the Google Analytics Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for details.
    - Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/)
    - Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US)
    If you want to disable Google Analytics information collection, you can do so with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on provided by Google LLC.
    - Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en)
  5. Advertisement
    We use cookies to deliver advertisement more relevant to you and your interests by collecting information about the browsing habits associated with your device; like the search history and browsing patterns in the website or mobile application.

Consent

By using our website or mobile application, it shall be deemed that you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.