Privacy
This Privacy Policy describes how
yamaipottery.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your
Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain
information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information
necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information
if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any
information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information
below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about
what Personal Information we collect and why.
Device information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of
web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or
products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
- Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for
you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you
access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with
our processor Shopify .
Order information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name,
billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit
card numbers, email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to
you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange
for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate
with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line
with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information
or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with
our processor Shopify
Customer
support information
- Examples of Personal Information collected
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose
Minors
We do not intentionally collect Personal
Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your
child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the
address below to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with
service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts
with you, as described above. For example:
- We use Shopify to power our online store. You can
read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply
with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search
warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to
otherwise protect our rights.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal
Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing
communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our
customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your
Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also
opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- We share information about your use of the Site,
your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with
our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information
directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use
of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to,
depending on your location).
For more information about how targeted
advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”)
educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
- FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of
these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal
at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide
our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing
payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on
new products, services, and offers.
Lawful basis
Pursuant to the General Data Protection
Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area
(“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the contract between you and the
Site;
- Compliance with our legal obligations;
- To protect your vital interests;
- To perform a task carried out in the public
interest;
- For our legitimate interests, which do not override
your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we
will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask
us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure,
please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have
the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making
(which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you
or otherwise significantly affects you.
We [DO/DO NOT] engage in
fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant
effect using customer data.
Our processor Shopify uses limited automated
decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise
significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated
decision-making include:
- Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with
repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of
hours.
- Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with
denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of
days.
Your rights
GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have
the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a
new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated,
or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us
through the contact information below.
Your Personal Information will be initially
processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage
and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more
information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR
Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.
CCPA
If you are a resident of California, you have
the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as
the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your
Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to
exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information
below
If you would like to designate an authorized
agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address
below.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information
that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a
number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising,
and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience
better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such
as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this
information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to
another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for
instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent
visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your
experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the
Functioning of the Store
Name |
Function |
_ab |
Used in
connection with access to admin. |
_secure_session_id |
Used in
connection with navigation through a storefront. |
cart |
Used in
connection with shopping cart. |
cart_sig |
Used in
connection with checkout. |
cart_ts |
Used in
connection with checkout. |
checkout_token |
Used in
connection with checkout. |
secret |
Used in
connection with checkout. |
secure_customer_sig |
Used in
connection with customer login. |
storefront_digest |
Used in
connection with customer login. |
_shopify_u |
Used to
facilitate updating customer account information. |
Reporting and Analytics
Name |
Function |
_tracking_consent |
Tracking
preferences. |
_landing_page |
Track
landing pages |
_orig_referrer |
Track
landing pages |
_s |
Shopify
analytics. |
_shopify_fs |
Shopify
analytics. |
_shopify_s |
Shopify
analytics. |
_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify
analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify
analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_y |
Shopify
analytics. |
_y |
Shopify
analytics. |
The length of time that a cookie remains on your
computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session”
cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies
last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are
persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they
are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various
ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively
impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully
accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser
controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more
information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or
filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites
as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking
cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties
such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain
uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in
the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no
consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals,
we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a
signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time
to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other
operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Contact
For more information about our privacy
practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint,
please contact us by e-mail at [email address] or by mail using the details
provided below:
Yamai
Pottery 1680 Tsumaki-Cho, Toki City, Gifu Prefecture 509-5301, Japan