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Privacy Policy

Tea, like hospitality, works best with trust. So here is a plain account of what reaches us when you read this guide, what never does, and what happens when you follow a link out to book an experience.

This policy covers kyoto-tea-ceremony.com only. It does not describe any other site you might visit from here, including GetYourGuide, where the tours and ceremonies we compare are actually booked.

What reaches us, and what does not

There is nothing to sign up for here. No account, no newsletter, no comment box, no form of any kind. You can read every comparison of tea houses, temples and machiya settings without telling us who you are.

The one way to reach us is email. If you write to hello@kyoto-tea-ceremony.com, perhaps to ask whether a ceremony suits a first-timer or to point out that a listing has changed, we see your email address and your message, and we use them for one purpose only: replying to you. We keep them to no one else and use them for nothing else.

How we learn what readers find useful

We use a privacy-friendly analytics tool to understand which pages about tea ceremonies and matcha experiences people actually read. It sets no cookies and stores nothing that identifies you. What it records are aggregate totals: which page was viewed, which site sent you here, which country and device type you came from. We never see an individual person in these numbers.

When you leave for GetYourGuide

Our job is to help you compare and choose; the booking itself happens elsewhere. When you click through to reserve a ceremony, or when an availability widget loads on one of our pages, you are dealing with GetYourGuide, and from that moment their privacy policy governs what they collect. We have no access to your booking details.

Some pages also show maps or route views so you can find a tea house in Kyoto. These are loaded from map providers, who receive your IP address the way any site you load content from does.

Choices you can make

Nothing here requires cookies or third-party content to work. If you block analytics scripts or map embeds in your browser, every page of the guide remains fully readable. You lose nothing but the extra content.

Questions, and changes

If anything on this page is unclear, or you want to ask about something connected to it, write to hello@kyoto-tea-ceremony.com. You can also find more about us on the About page, how we check the listings in How We Research, and how links to GetYourGuide work in our Affiliate Disclosure.

We will update this page whenever what the site collects changes. It was last reviewed in 2026.