Legal notice
This policy explains what personal data this website collects, why it is collected, how long it is kept, and what rights visitors have over it. It covers the site at healthyenergyboostsi.site and the editorial contact process described on the contact page.
Grassroots Hoops Japan publishes reading material about amateur basketball JP and regional sports leagues across Japan, with comparison notes on British regional basketball and community sports fixtures in the UK. That editorial work is the whole of what this site does. There are no accounts to open, no profiles to keep, and no contribution system behind a login. The only moment a visitor deliberately hands over personal data is when they write to the editorial desk through the contact page — a fixture tip, a correction, a suggestion for a school basketball training piece, or a question about anything already published.
Everything else the site learns about a visit is technical and comes from the hosting layer: pages requested, times, browser type, and the network address the request arrived from. This policy separates those two streams because they are handled differently — the message you send is yours to withdraw, while the server log exists for the safe operation of the site itself.
This page was written to be read in full rather than skimmed. If you only need one answer, the sections below are labelled by the question they answer, and the closing contact route reaches the same desk that handles data requests.
Editorial desk
Grassroots Hoops Japan
3-15-8 Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM JST
+81 3 5223 2704
Data requests sent here are read by the same desk that handles amateur sports updates, league review corrections, and reader suggestions.
When you write to the desk, the message holds your name, your email address, and whatever you chose to write. Nothing else is required and nothing else is asked for. We do not attach notes to your message, and we do not keep a record of how many times you have written before.
Normal hosting operations record technical information such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested. These logs are produced by the infrastructure rather than by the editorial desk, and they exist so faults can be found and traffic patterns understood at the level of a whole site rather than an individual reader.
No payment details, no postal address, no date of birth, no photographs, and no records of which articles you have read. Reading the site never produces a profile of you, and no data about your reading is passed to an advertising network because no advertising network runs here.
Purpose and limits
Contact form data is used only to read, verify and respond to the message, including fixture tips, corrections and story suggestions. If you send a note about a mis-stated score in a grassroots sports review, the reply you get back is the end of the chain — your message is not added to a list, opened for a campaign, or reused to write anything else.
Server log data is used to keep the site running, diagnose faults and protect against abuse. When a page fails to load for readers in one region, the logs are how that gets noticed. When a request pattern looks like automated scraping, the logs are how it gets blocked. Data is not used for profiling, and it is not used to build marketing audiences.
Used for replies
Your message is read once, answered once, and kept only while the exchange is live.
Used for stability
Log data supports uptime, fault tracing, and blocking abusive request patterns.
Not used for marketing
Nothing collected here is turned into audience segments or shared with advertisers.
Two streams of data, two different rules — and neither one follows you across the web.
Different parts of the site rest on different grounds, and it helps to keep them apart.
Where consent is required for handling a contact message, it is given by the act of submitting the form. You decide what to send and you decide when to send it. Visitors may withdraw consent for future contact at any time by writing to the editorial desk and saying so plainly — no form to fill in, no reason required.
Where data is processed for the legitimate operation and security of the site, the basis is the operator's legitimate interest in maintaining a functioning website. This covers the log data that keeps pages loading and keeps abusive traffic out. It does not stretch to anything beyond operating and defending the site.
Withdrawal stops future contact. It does not undo a reply already sent, and it does not remove a published correction from an article, because the edited text no longer carries your details. Corrections are published as part of the record of local sports history and amateur league coverage, and they stay separate from the message that prompted them.
How long something is kept depends on what it is and why it was kept in the first place. Contact messages are kept only as long as needed to handle the tip, correction or question, and are then deleted. Where a correction has been published, the published article is retained but personal contact details are not stored alongside it. Server logs are retained for a limited period for security and diagnostic purposes and are then removed.
Kept briefly
Held while a reply is being prepared and closed out, then removed. A question about school basketball training in Japan does not leave a lasting record behind.
Kept as edited
A corrected league review or fixture listing stays online as part of the published archive. The correction text carries no name, email address or contact note from the reader who reported it.
Kept short-term
Browser and request records held for a limited window so faults can be traced and abuse blocked, then cleared as part of normal hosting housekeeping.
Personal data is not sold. What does happen is narrow, and it is worth naming plainly.
Data may be processed by the hosting and email providers who operate the infrastructure behind the site, and who handle data on the operator's instructions. They run the servers and move the mail; they do not decide what the editorial desk does with a message.
Data may also be disclosed where required by law. If a lawful request arrives, it is handled by the operator and limited to what the request actually covers.
No data is shared with advertising networks, and no advertising networks operate on this site. There are no banner slots, no sponsored placements, and no third-party tracking tags on the pages you read.
The site uses cookies and similar storage as described in the cookie policy. They are there to keep the site working normally — remembering a preference, keeping a page stable while it loads, and supporting basic security checks. Cookies are not used to build advertising profiles, and no tracking cookie follows you to other websites after you leave.
Visitors can control or delete cookies through their browser settings, and doing so does not prevent reading the site. Every article, fixture listing, and league review stays available with cookies turned off; the pages simply remember less about how you like to view them.
Read the cookie policyVisitors may request access to personal data held about them, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, or object to its processing. That covers the message you sent as well as anything still held from it. Requests can be sent to the editorial desk through the contact page.
A response will be provided within a reasonable period, and identity may need to be confirmed before a request is fulfilled. Confirmation is not a hurdle — it is there so that a request concerning your message is not answered to somebody else. If you ask for deletion, the message and its reply thread are removed; if you ask for access, you receive what is held and where it came from.
Children
This site publishes editorial content about amateur and school sport but is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect personal data from children. If a message appears to have been sent by a child, it will be deleted once identified, and no reply will be sent back to that address.
Coaches, parents, and school staff writing on behalf of a young player should send the note themselves and leave the young player out of the correspondence.
This policy may be updated to reflect changes in how the site operates or in legal requirements. The current version is the one published on this page. Material changes will be reflected in the text rather than announced elsewhere, so visitors who need the current terms should check this page.
The rest of the editorial rules behind this site are set out on the editorial standards page and the terms of service, which together describe how coverage of community sports fixtures and grassroots sports review work is researched, corrected, and kept separate from reader correspondence.
Write to the desk through the contact page and say that you are making a data request. State the email address you wrote from, so the message can be matched to anything already held. You will get back what is stored, where it came from, and how long it is set to stay.
Yes. Ask in a follow-up message and the original message, together with its reply thread, is removed. One thing to know in advance: if your note led to a published correction, the corrected article stays online, because it no longer contains your details and it now forms part of the published record.
No. There is no mailing list and no reader database beyond the messages themselves. Nothing sent to the desk is added to a contact list, and there is no way to opt into updates because none are sent.
The same desk handles both. Send the correction through the contact page with the article title and what should change. Corrections are checked against the original listing before any edit is published, and the contact details you sent are not stored next to the corrected text.
Questions about this policy, or requests concerning personal data, should go to the editorial desk through the contact page. The desk handles data requests directly and will confirm receipt. The same route reaches the people who handle amateur league reviews, regional match schedules, and notes on the UK sports news blog side of the coverage.
Grassroots Hoops Japan, 3-15-8 Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan. Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM JST.
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