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Happyell Editorial Guidelines and Operating Policy

This website is operated as a news media platform.

Operator Information

Happyell (https://happyell.co.jp/) is a news media platform that provides the latest information on theme parks, exhibitions, and tourism events, as well as information on places to visit and events in the Kansai region. We publish numerous articles based on first-hand reporting conducted at press previews, announcement events, and other locations.
Operating company: Happyell Co., Ltd.
Address: 8-1-29 Isogamidori, Chuo Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Representative: Yasuhiro Motouchi, Representative Director
Editorial director: Yasuhiro Motouchi, Editor-in-Chief
Contact: info@happyell.jp (Editorial Department)

Editorial Guidelines

  • Respect for primary sources: We produce articles with an emphasis on official announcements, interviews with organizers, and on-site verification.
  • Accuracy and timeliness: While maintaining the speed required for breaking news, we verify information using multiple sources.
  • Independence: Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editorial Department and are not influenced by advertisers or interview subjects.
  • Transparency: PR, advertising, and sponsored articles are clearly labeled.
  • Public interest: We provide information that contributes to the development of tourism and culture and do not produce content solely for commercial purposes.

Authors and Editorial Responsibility

  • The author’s name is clearly stated in each article.
  • Editorial director: Yasuhiro Motouchi, Editor-in-Chief of Happyell
  • Writing and reporting: Happyell Editorial Department, including contributors and external writers
  • For inquiries or correction requests concerning an article, please contact us using the email address above or the inquiry form.

Correction and Update Policy

  • If we confirm that information is incorrect or incomplete, we will promptly correct it.
  • Significant corrections will be recorded in an update history at the end of the article.
  • The date and time of each update are reflected in the article text and in the dateModified property of the structured data.

Advertising and Affiliate Policy

  • Some articles may contain affiliate links.
  • The operating company may receive compensation when a purchase or other transaction is made. However, our editorial guidelines take priority in all evaluations and editorial decisions.
  • Advertising and sponsored articles are clearly labeled with terms such as “PR,” “Advertisement,” or “Sponsored Content.”

Quotations, Reproduction, and Use of Images

  • Quotations from other media are limited to the minimum necessary and are made within the scope permitted by copyright law.
  • The source name and a link are clearly provided for all quoted material.
  • Unauthorized reproduction or duplication of text, images, and videos from this website is prohibited. Please contact the Editorial Department in advance if you wish to reproduce any content.

Structured Data and Technical Measures

  • NewsArticle structured data (JSON-LD) is applied to each article, clearly identifying the publication date, update date, author, images, and publisher information.
  • Our latest articles are distributed through (/wp-sitemap.xml), while news articles are distributed through the news sitemaps (/sitemap-news.xml , /news-sitemap.xml).
  • We continuously work to manage robots.txt appropriately, improve mobile compatibility, and enhance Core Web Vitals.

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Saved Lists and Recently Viewed Events

To make it easier to compare events, this website may use the browser’s storage function (localStorage) to save events that you have bookmarked and events that you have recently viewed on your device. This information is not transmitted to our servers and is stored only within your browser. You can delete this information through your browser settings or by deleting the stored data.

Sharing with External Services and Adding Events to Calendars

This website may provide links that allow users to share event information through LINE or add events to Google Calendar and other calendar services. When these functions are used, information such as the URL of the shared page, event name, event date and time, and venue name may be transmitted to an external service through the user’s actions. Please refer to the privacy policy of each external service for details about how that service handles information.

This policy was revised on June 28, 2026.

Privacy Policy: Personal Data Collected by This Website and the Reasons for Collection

For security measures such as preventing unauthorized access, improving our services, and understanding website usage, this website may collect log information including IP addresses, browser information, access dates and times, and pages viewed. This information is not used for the purpose of identifying individuals.

This website uses advertising services provided by third parties. These advertising providers may use information about visits to this website and other websites, known as “Cookies,” to display advertisements for products and services that match users’ interests. Cookies do not include names, addresses, email addresses, or telephone numbers.

・To verify your identity
・To respond to inquiries
・To send requested materials, honoraria, prizes, and similar items
・To notify users of changes, suspension, discontinuation, or termination of the terms under which services are provided
・To provide after-sales support and loyalty programs related to publications that users have purchased or registered
・To conduct surveys
・To publish statistically processed personal information that has been anonymized so that individuals cannot be identified as survey results
・To improve existing services or develop new services
・To use users’ opinions and feedback as references for planning and other purposes
・To provide information about our services
・To achieve the purposes of use described above, we may entrust personal information provided to us to contractors or business partners.

Provision of Personal Information to Third Parties

We will not disclose or provide personal information supplied by users to third parties except in the following circumstances.

When the user has given consent
When the information has been processed into statistical data in a manner that prevents the identification of individual users
When urgently necessary to protect the life, physical safety, or property of a user
When disclosure is required under applicable laws or regulations

Management of Personal Information

We strictly manage personal information provided by users and take preventive measures against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, alteration, and leakage. In the unlikely event that such an incident occurs, we will promptly implement corrective measures.

Requests to Access, Correct, or Delete Personal Information

If you wish to access, correct, or delete personal information that you have provided to us, please contact us through the website on which you entered that information. Once we have confirmed that the person making the request is the individual concerned, we will disclose, correct, or delete the user’s personal information within a reasonable period.

Cookies and Web Beacons

“Cookies” are a function that stores user information in a browser, reducing the need to re-enter information and allowing content that is more suitable for the user to be displayed.

“Web beacons,” sometimes referred to as clear GIFs, are a technology used to measure visits to websites and individual pages.

We use these technologies to optimize the display of online advertisements, count the number of browsers viewing advertisements for each piece of content, eliminate the need to re-enter information, and measure website usage. Cookies can identify a user’s browser, but they cannot identify the individual user. Similarly, web beacons cannot identify individual users.

Some advertisements displayed on our websites use distribution servers operated by third-party companies. The relevant third-party companies and their privacy policies are listed below.

Advertisements Displayed on This Website

・Google AdSense
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=ja

For more information about this process and how to prevent such information from being used by advertising providers in connection with Google AdSense, please see this page.

・Taboola https://www.taboola.com/ja/policies/%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%90%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC

・Rakuten Affiliate https://privacy.rakuten.co.jp/

・ValueCommerce https://www.valuecommerce.co.jp/privacy_policy/

・A8.NET https://www.a8.net/appPrivacy.html

・UNITED Marketing Technologies, Inc. https://mt.united.jp/rule.html

About the Access Analytics Tools Used by This Website

This website uses Google Analytics, an access analytics tool provided by Google, through Google Tag Manager. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect traffic data. This traffic data is collected anonymously and does not identify individuals.

You can refuse this data collection by disabling Cookies. Please check the settings of your browser. For more information about these terms, please click here.

Links to This Website

You are free to link to this website without obtaining permission. You may link to any officially published page, including the home page and individual articles. However, the use of inline frames and direct linking to image files is prohibited.

Some images are published with permission from the rights holders under specified conditions and therefore may not be reproduced.
Television stations, television production companies, and magazine publishers that wish to use images may contact us. We may be able to provide images that are available for such use.

Disclaimer

We make every effort to provide information that is accurate as of the date an article is published or researched. However, this website cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage arising from the information provided or from linked websites.

Products available through links on this website are not sold by this website but by the respective linked stores. Please contact each store regarding purchasing procedures and other inquiries. This website cannot be held responsible for any problems arising from product purchases.

Copyright

We have not waived the copyright to information published on this website, “Theme Park Media Happyell.” Content from articles on this website may be quoted free of charge, provided that the source is clearly identified and a link to the URL of the original article is included.

However, the reproduction of an entire article is prohibited. The permitted scope of quotation may be changed without prior notice. The unauthorized use of this website’s RSS feed to reproduce or appropriate its content without modification is also prohibited.

When content from this website is quoted or used for AI training, please include “Theme Park Media Happyell” as the source or training source in the generated output.

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