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This is a reference translation. If there is any discrepancy, the Japanese version prevails.

Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, who sees it, and how long we keep it. This policy forms part of the Tour Participation Agreement.

Who handles your data

Full Throttle LLC (合同会社フルスロットル), trading as SCRAMBLE KART TOKYO, at 2-39-8 Kiyokawa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0022, Japan, is the business responsible for the personal information described here.

For any question about your data, or to make a request under the section on your rights below, email info@scramblekart.com.

What we collect

ItemDescription
IdentityName, email address, and phone number
Booking detailsBooking details (date, departure time, course, number of drivers)
Driver detailsDate of birth and nationality of each driver
Licence documentsImages of your driving licence, International Driving Permit or official translation, passport, and the country that issued your licence
AccommodationThe name of the hotel or accommodation where you are staying (used to arrange logistics around your visit)
Payment recordsPayment records (your card details are held by our payment provider, Stripe, not by us)
Access logsAccess logs (IP address, browser, pages viewed)

We do not ask for information we do not need. In particular, we do not collect health information beyond what you volunteer about a condition that affects your ability to drive, and we do not hold your card number — that stays with the payment provider.

Why we collect it, and what we do with it

  • To take and manage your booking — confirm it, send you the booking link, contact you about changes, and let you reschedule or cancel.
  • To verify that you may lawfully drive in Japan — this is why we ask for your licence, permit or translation, and passport. We are legally required to check that anyone renting a road vehicle from us may drive it. We compare the name and photograph against your booking and check the permit type and validity dates.
  • To run the tour safely — the guide needs to know who is in the group and whether anyone has told us about a condition affecting their driving.
  • To take payment and issue refunds.
  • To deal with incidents after the tour — a traffic notice, an insurance claim, or damage to a kart. Records are needed to identify who was driving which vehicle.
  • To keep the site working and secure — access logs are used to diagnose faults and detect abuse.
  • To send you offers and news, only if you opt in — we do this only if you tick the optional marketing box when booking, and you can withdraw consent at any time.

We never use your licence, passport or other identity documents for advertising or marketing. If you tick the optional marketing box, we may email you offers and news using your contact details. Tour photos and videos may be used to promote the business as described in the Tour Participation Agreement — you can opt out at the briefing at no cost, and ask us afterwards to stop using an image of you.

Your licence and passport images

These are the most sensitive things you send us, so they are treated separately. They are used only to verify eligibility to drive, and are visible only to staff who carry out that check or who need them for an incident. They are never used for marketing, and the images themselves are never passed to booking platforms or any other third party — the sharing described in section 5 covers booking information only, never these images.

We delete them 180 days after your tour, unless an open incident, claim or legal obligation requires us to keep them longer.

Who else sees your data

  • Stripe, Inc. (for processing your payment)
  • Booking platforms (Viator, Klook, GetYourGuide and similar) — only if you booked through one, and only as far as needed to manage that booking, confirm your identity on the day, and deal with an accident or dispute
  • The police, an insurer, or a court, where we are required to provide information following an incident or a legal request.

We do not otherwise disclose your information to third parties without your consent.

Our systems are operated in Japan. Where a payment provider or booking platform processes data outside Japan, that transfer is governed by their own terms, which you accept when you use them.

Cookies

  • Session cookie — keeps you signed in to your booking while you use the site. Required.
  • Language cookie — remembers your chosen display language for one year. Not used for tracking.

This site does not use analytics or advertising cookies, and we do not send your browsing data to third-party tag providers ourselves. See below for one exception: an embedded Google Maps map. If this changes further, this section will be updated before the change goes live.

External services embedded in this site

  • Our access-information page embeds a Google Maps map. Opening that page sends a request directly to Google, which may set its own cookies or collect data under Google’s own privacy policy, independently of this site.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser. Blocking the session cookie will prevent the booking process from working.

How we protect it

Access to booking records and uploaded documents is restricted to staff who need it, and administrative access is logged. Your booking link is a long random value that cannot be guessed from your name or reservation code.

No system is perfectly secure. If a breach occurs that is likely to affect your rights, we will notify you and the Personal Information Protection Commission as required by law.

Your rights

You may ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it if it is wrong, to stop using it, or to delete it. Email info@scramblekart.com from the address you booked with, or include your reservation code, so we can identify you without asking for further documents.

We respond within a reasonable period. We may need to keep some information despite a deletion request where an open incident, an insurance claim, a tax obligation or a legal requirement means we cannot delete it yet — if so, we will tell you what we are keeping and why.

Visitors from the EU, the UK and other jurisdictions with their own data protection laws may make the same requests through the same channel; we handle them under this policy and under Japanese law, which is what governs this service.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The version number and date are at the foot of this page. If a change materially affects how we handle information we already hold about you, we will tell you by email.

This policy is governed by Japanese law. The Japanese text is the authoritative version.

In force from 17 September 2026. The Japanese text is the authoritative version; the English text is provided for convenience.