Privacy Notice

Thank you for visiting the Yuuki-Cha website: www.yuuki-cha.com (this ‘Website’). To better protect your privacy, we at Yuuki-Cha are providing this short notice explaining our information and data practices.

Yuuki-Cha believes that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. We are committed to treat your personal information with appropriate standards of safety, security and confidentiality.

We do not collect personal information without your knowledge, and we never share, sell, or rent any personal information without your permission, unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information. Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with Yuuki-Cha will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list without your express permission.

Interaction data collection (‘logs’)

For the mutual security of this site and its visitors, Yuuki-Cha records all interactions between Web User Agents and our Web server, including access time and date, IP address, as well as identification information sent by the Web Agent (e.g browser version and operating system). These records may be kept indefinitely.

Specific data will only be used for internal traffic or security analysis. Some anonymous statistical analysis of the access data may be performed by us, and shared with other partners in order to improve our service.

Cookies

In order to offer you the best service possible, Yuuki-Cha is using the “cookies” technology. “cookies” are small text files stored in your Web browser, recording some personal preferences such as your preferred language. Cookies are stored on your computer only, and are not kept by us.

Cookies only inform us of preferences you have stated through your interactions with the yuuki-cha.com site. They do not tell us any personal information, such as your e-mail address, against your will.

Shopping on yuuki-cha.com

Accounts at yuuki-cha.com are required for purchase of Yuuki-Cha products. We may ask for some personal information (name, address and phone number) during the registration process to facilitate shipment and billing. This information will be transmitted to the delivery company (Japan Post, etc.) for the purposes of delivery, but will not be shared with any other third party. As stated above, we will not share specific data with any third party, but may conduct some statistical analysis and share the anonymous results.

Yuuki-cha.com utilizes PayPal’s services for billing. This allows us to utilize their expertise in managing secure internet transactions, and allows us to avoid collecting any credit card information on yuuki-cha.com as well as on our PayPal account.