Privacy Policy

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

We are committed to treat your personal information with appropriate standards of safety, security and confidentiality and we of course take appropriate steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized disclosure or access. However, it is simply not possible to 100% guarantee the security of any data transmitted over the internet or stored on a server. Therefore, while we will always strive to safeguard your privacy we can not be responsible for the disclosure, destruction or theft of your personal information.

We do not collect personal information without your knowledge, and we never share, sell, or rent any personal information without your permission, unless release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. 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 www.yuuki-cha.com 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, www.yuuki-cha.com 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, www.yuuki-cha.com 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 www.yuuki-cha.com website. They do not tell us any personal information, such as your e-mail address, against your will.

Shopping on www.yuuki-cha.com

Accounts at www.yuuki-cha.com are required for purchase of www.yuuki-cha.com 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) 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.

www.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 www.yuuki-cha.com as well as on our PayPal account.

If a violation of www.yuuki-cha.com's Terms and Conditions occurs by a Customer all privacy and confidentiality privileges stated in this Privacy Policy are forfeited in their entirety.