Privacy policy

Last updated: July 25, 2026

ヤマケン operates this store and website (including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services) to provide you with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). ヤマケン is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide our Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, purchase, or otherwise engage with the Services, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is any conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy governs with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described herein.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies, or can reasonably be associated with, you or another individual. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been anonymized so that it cannot identify a specific individual. Depending on how you use the Services and where you live, and subject to applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information (including inferences drawn from this personal information):

• Contact Information including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
• Financial Information including credit card, debit card, and other financial account numbers, payment information, financial account information, transaction details, payment methods, payment confirmations, and other payment-related details.
• Account Information including your username, password, security questions, and various preferences and settings.
• Transaction Information including the products you viewed, added to your cart, or added to a wish list, as well as the products you purchased, returned, exchanged, or canceled, and your past transaction history.
• Communications with Us including information contained in your communications with us, such as when contacting customer support.
• Device Information including information about your device, browser, and network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
• Usage Information including information about your interactions with the Services, such as how and when you access and navigate the Services.

Sources of Personal Information

We may collect personal information from the following sources.

• Directly from you including when you create an account, visit or use the Services, contact us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information.
• Automatically through the Services including from your device when you use our products or services or visit our website, and through cookies and similar technologies.
• From our service providers including when we engage them to perform certain technologies, or when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf.
• From our partners or other third parties

How We Use Your Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with us or which Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

• Providing, Customizing, and Improving the Services we use personal information to provide you with the Services, including to perform our contract with you, process your payments, fulfill your orders, remember your preferences and items you are interested in, send notifications related to your account, process purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, create, maintain, and manage your account, arrange for shipping, facilitate returns and exchanges, enable you to post reviews, and provide a shopping experience tailored to you, such as recommending products related to your purchase history. This may include using your personal information to better customize and improve the Services.
• Marketing and Advertising we use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or mail, and displaying online advertisements on our Services or other websites, including based on products or services previously purchased or added to your cart and other usage history.
• Security and Fraud Prevention we use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, and respond to potential fraud, illegal, dangerous, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and maintain the security of the Services. If you choose to create an account with us, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else.
• Communicating with You we use your personal information to provide customer support, respond to you promptly, provide effective service, and maintain our business relationship with you.
• Legal Reasons we use your personal information to comply with applicable law and respond to legitimate legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies. We also use it to participate in and investigate civil discovery proceedings, potential or actual litigation, and other legal disputes, as well as to investigate and enforce potential violations of our Terms of Service or policies.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

• Shopify, and vendors and other third parties who provide services to us (such as IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping).
• Sharing with business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and to deliver advertisements to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with third-party services based on your online activity across various merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners use your information in accordance with their own privacy policies. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to direct us not to share your information for targeted advertising or marketing purposes based on your activity across different merchants or websites. You can exercise this right to opt out of these uses here. If you have any information you have instructed, requested, or otherwise consented to us disclosing to a third party (such as when shipping products or using social media widgets or login integrations), we will disclose that information accordingly.
• We may share information with our affiliates or other companies within our corporate group.
• We may disclose personal information in connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with an applicable legal obligation (including in response to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce our applicable Terms of Service or policies, or to protect and defend the Services and our rights, and the rights of users or others.

Our Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services is transmitted to and shared with Shopify and may be shared with third parties located in countries other than your country of residence, for the purpose of providing and improving the Services for you. In addition, we use certain enhanced features of Shopify that incorporate data and information obtained through your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify, in order to protect, expand, and improve our business. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected in connection with your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. In such cases, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information and will respond to requests to exercise your rights in relation to the use of personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, please see the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may be able to exercise certain rights in relation to your personal information here: Shopify Privacy Portal link.

Third-Party Websites and Links

The Services may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review those sites' privacy and security policies and other terms of use. We do not guarantee, and are not responsible for, the privacy or security of such sites, or the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, such as third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation on its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children's Data

The Services are not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If your child has provided us with personal information and you are their parent or guardian, you may contact us using the contact details below to request that it be deleted. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined under applicable law) the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Data Security and Retention

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• Right to Access/Know you may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you.
• Right to Delete you may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Correct you may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Data Portability you may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
• Right to Opt Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information for Targeted Advertising depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information, or the processing of your personal information, for the purposes of "targeted advertising" as defined under applicable privacy laws. You can exercise this right to opt out of these uses here. Please note that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you live, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt out of the applicable device and browser for your visit. If we are able to associate the signal you send with a specific Shopify account, we will also apply the opt-out request to that account. To learn more about Global Privacy Control, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/We do not recognize any other "Do Not Track" signal that your web browser or device may send, other than Global Privacy Control.
• Managing Communication Preferences we may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving them at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your ongoing account or orders.

You may exercise these rights where they are indicated on the Services, or by contacting us using the contact information provided below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information, and your rights in relation to data processed by Shopify, please visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. Where permitted or required by applicable law, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request. In accordance with applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your requests within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have concerns about how we handle your personal information, please contact us using the contact information below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact information below, or lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Within the European Economic Area (EEA), you can find a list of the responsible data protection authorities here.

International Transfers

Please be aware that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country you live in.

If we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or, where applicable, an equivalent contract issued by the relevant authority in the United Kingdom, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been recognized as providing an adequate level of protection.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on this website, update the "Last updated" date, and provide notice as required by applicable law.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or would like to exercise any of your rights, please call us at , email us at info@yamakenmanaita.com, or write to us at 711-0906, Kurashiki 5-2-22 Kojima Shimonocho Kurashiki-shi, Okayama 711-0906 Japan, Japan . For purposes of applicable data protection law, we are the data controller of your personal information.