What information do we collect?

In the course of a purchase or your request of information, we collect information from you. When you register on the site, place an order, respond to communications such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature information is collected from you. We may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information. Of course, you can also visit our site anonymously.

1. Personalize your shopping experience and to allow us to deliver the type of   content and product offerings in which you are most interested.

2. Serve you in the best way possible by responding to your customer service requests.

3. Process your transactions more quickly.

4. If you have decided to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please refer to the "How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?" section below. If you have decided not to receive e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails. Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and 'members-only' content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.

Visitor information Protection
When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit cardinformation you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above. A variety of security measures have been implemented to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks. It is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.


We do not disclose collected information to other parties

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include Yoshino Japanese Antiques. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property, or safety.

How to opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us
To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account" section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.


Changes to our policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on September 23, 2010.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Consent

Accessing our web site constitutes consent to our privacy policy.