Privacy Statement

  1. Introduction
    1.1 BuyJapon.com respects our valuable customers and his/her personal information used at www.buyjapon.com. Information BuyJapon.com gathers from its customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at BuyJapon.com.
    1.2 By visiting BuyJapon.com, you hereby accept this Privacy Statement and expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed herein. If you object to this Privacy Statement, please do not provide any information to BuyJapon.com.
  2. Personal Information About Customers BuyJapon.com Gathers
    2.1 Information you provide: BuyJapon.com receives any information you enter in the BuyJapon.com Web site or give us in any other ways, including your personal details you enter when creating a customer account as well as product pages you are visiting and e-mail subscriptions you are making.
    2.2 Automatic Information: BuyJapon.com receives certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, as many web sites do, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your access us, such as your IP address, your web browser type, operating system and so on.
    2.3 Information from Other Sources: BuyJapon.com might receive your personal information from other sources and add it to our account information.
  3. Usage of personal information
    3.1 BuyJapon.com uses the information that you provide for such purposes as communicating with you, responding to your requests, completing your orders, improving your shopping experiences, improving our store.
    3.2 BuyJapon.com uses cookies for a number of purposes, for instance, to enable us to simplify the logging on process for registered users, help ensure the security and authenticity of registered users, and to enable traffic monitoring.
    3.3 BuyJapon.com uses information from other sources such as delivering track information, which includes for example updated delivery and address information to correct our records. BuyJapon.com uses settlement information from credit card companies to complete orders. BuyJapon.com uses page-view information from some merchants that we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services.
    3.4 Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. BuyJapon.com never sell, share and/or provide personal information you provided us with any other parties, however, BuyJapon.com shares customer information only in the events as described below:
    1. Agents
      BuyJapon.com may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
    2. Public Institutions
      BuyJapon.com might release personal information when we believe it is appropriate to cooperate with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties such as police, prosecutor, court and so forth, to enforce laws and third party rights, such as investigations and trials.
  4. About Cookies
    4.1 Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that BuyJapon.com transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide certain features for you, such as automatic login, product recommendations etc.
  5. About Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
    5.1 BuyJapon.com works to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. However, we do not guarantee "perfect security" which would not be guaranteed by any other ecommerce merchants.
    5.2 BuyJapon.com cannot ensure that all of your communications with our Web site and other personal identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Statement. For instance, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Web site.