Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Samurai Lord (samurai-lord.com), run by the Samurai Lord Editorial Team, handles information about the people who visit this site. It covers both the Japanese and the English pages.

Information You Give Us

When you write to us through our contact form, we ask for your name, your email address, a subject and your message. We use this information only to read and answer your message. We do not share it with anyone else without your consent, unless the law requires us to.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

This site uses Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service, to show ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.

Ads on this site may also come from other ad networks that work with Google, and these may set their own cookies. Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are shown a consent message from Google and can choose how their data is used for ads.

To learn more, see Google's pages Advertising and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Analytics (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics to understand how this site is used, for example which pages are read and how visitors find us. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this information. The data does not identify you personally.

You can block these cookies in your browser settings, or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Besides the advertising and analytics cookies described above, this site uses one cookie to remember whether you are reading in Japanese or in English.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking them does not stop you from reading this site.

Server Logs

Like most websites, our hosting server automatically records basic technical information about each visit, such as your IP address, your browser type and the time of access. We use it only to keep the site secure and running.

Links to Other Websites

Our articles link to other websites, such as museums, libraries and Wikimedia Commons. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for how they handle your information.

Disclaimer

We work hard to make our articles accurate, but we cannot guarantee that everything on this site is correct, complete or up to date. We are not liable for any loss or damage that results from using the information on this site.

Copyright

Copyright in the text, illustrations, maps and charts on this site belongs to Samurai Lord or to their original creators. Historical images are in the public domain or used under open licenses, as credited in each article. Please do not copy or republish our content without permission.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when needed. Any changes take effect when they are posted on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, please contact us through our contact form. The form is in Japanese, but please feel free to write in English.

Last updated: October 9, 2026
Run by: The Samurai Lord Editorial Team