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Advertising Disclosure
Ishizue is committed to transparency regarding advertising relationships and how third-party services interact with this website. This page explains what these relationships are and how they may affect content. Last reviewed: June 2025.
Our commitment to transparency
Ishizue operates a website primarily intended to describe consulting services and facilitate initial contact. We believe visitors are entitled to know when any content or feature on the site involves a financial or compensatory relationship with a third party.
The disclosures below cover the nature of advertising relationships that may exist or arise in connection with this website, including affiliate programs, sponsored content, and third-party advertising networks.
1. Affiliate relationships
From time to time, this website may contain links to third-party products or services through affiliate programs. When such links appear:
- Clicking an affiliate link and making a purchase may result in Ishizue receiving a commission from the third-party company — at no additional cost to you.
- The existence of an affiliate relationship does not influence the editorial content or service recommendations made by Ishizue. Recommendations reflect our genuine assessment.
- Where affiliate links are present, this will be indicated in the relevant content.
- Ishizue cannot be responsible for third-party websites reached through affiliate links. Their policies, pricing, and content are independent of ours.
This disclosure is made in accordance with FTC guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, and with applicable Japanese consumer protection requirements.
2. Sponsored content
- Where any content on this website has been produced in partnership with or funded by a third party, it will be clearly labelled as sponsored or as a paid partnership.
- Sponsored content represents the views and information of the relevant partner. Ishizue does not endorse such content unless otherwise stated.
- Ishizue maintains editorial independence. Sponsored relationships do not affect advice or assessments given in connection with our core consulting services.
- We will only enter into brand partnerships for products or services that we consider relevant and appropriate for the audience of this website.
3. Third-party advertising
- This website may display advertising served by third-party networks, including Google. These networks may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior browsing activity.
- Behavioural targeting: ad networks may use information about your visits to this and other websites to show advertisements they believe may be relevant to you. This behaviour is subject to your cookie consent choices.
- Cookie usage for advertising purposes is documented in our Cookie Policy. Advertising cookies are only activated where you have given consent.
- Ad personalisation may involve data collected on this site being matched against user profiles held by advertising networks. Ishizue does not have access to or control over the data held by those networks.
4. Your rights and controls
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by adjusting your preferences on our Cookie Policy page.
- Google's own ad personalisation settings can be managed at Google's ad settings portal, independent of the choices you make here.
- Data collected for advertising purposes is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy, including your rights to access, rectification, and deletion.
- You may contact us through the Contact page to raise questions or concerns about advertising relationships on this website.
5. Updates to this disclosure
Ishizue will update this page when advertising relationships change in a meaningful way. The date at the top reflects the most recent review. If you have questions about any specific relationship or content on this site, please reach out through our contact form.