General Information

Welcome to our Web Site. This Web Site ("Site") is administered by CHOYA UMESHU CO., LTD ("CHOYA"). We are committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users who visit our Site. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") is intended to inform you of the ways in which this Site collects information for CHOYA, the uses for that information, and the ways in which we will try to protect any personal information you choose to provide us.

Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 1, 2008. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes in our Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. Please check the date of the Privacy Policy and review any changes.

Consent

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please exit our Site immediately if you do not accept this Privacy Policy, are not of a legal age for consuming alcoholic beverages in the country or other territory in which you are located, or are accessing our Sites in a country or other territory where use of our Site is not permitted.

Information Provided by You

We may collect information that the visitors to our Site voluntarily provide for us, including but not limited to name, date of birth, address, city, state, zip code, telephone numbers, cell phone numbers, gender, household income ranges, consumption habits, product usage, attitudes and preferences regarding our products and other personal information ("Personal Information"). Any Personal Information you send us will be used for the purpose indicated on the Site or as stated in this policy.

Use of Personal Information

This Personal Information will be held by CHOYA and may be used by CHOYA and its affiliated companies and their agents, partners, or licensees. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent, except to the extent required by law, or as set out below:

Agents and Service Providers

We sometimes contract with other companies and individuals to perform functions or services on our behalf. They may have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions, but are restricted from using the Personal Information for purposes other than providing services for us.

Business Transfers

In the event that our business is transferred to or merged with another company or entity, your Personal Information may be transferred to another company or entity that is part of the business transfer or merger.

Legal Matters

We may preserve and disclose any Personal Information and any information about your use of this Site if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) protect and defend the rights, property or safety of CHOYA, its affiliates, other users of this Site, or the public; (b) enforce the Site's Terms and Conditions; or (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties. We may also disclose information as we believe necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. The Personal Information we receive will be used in our marketing, promotion and advertising of the Company's. As a result of providing us with your contact information, we may contact you by sending you mailings or other communications (electronic or otherwise) regarding the Company's products, services, promotions, or upcoming events that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also ask you (or have a service provider ask on your behalf) to participate in a survey seeking information or opinions related to our category of products.

Cookies

Our Site uses cookies, which are small files that contain text-information and are placed in your web browser during your session. The Site may use cookies for the following purposes: (a) to carry data about your current session at the Site from one web page to the next, (b) to identify you to the Site and to deliver content to you based on the country you select at the age screener. We use cookies in order to help us make sure only authorized users use the site, and to collect anonymous information about visitors' use of the Site. Some pages of our Site may not function properly if the cookies are turned off. Please consult your web browser's Help documentation for more information about how to turn cookies on and off. In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service for all users, we employ software programs to do such things as monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to nonpublic information, detect computer viruses and other software that might damage our computers or the network, and monitor and tune the performance of our networks. In the course of such monitoring, these programs may detect such information as e-mail headers, addresses from network packets, and other information. Information from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining the security and performance of our networks and computer systems.

External Links

This Site may include links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not govern. Once you leave our servers (you can usually tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting (unless otherwise stated). That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

Information Storage and Security

This Site and all information that you submit through this Site is collected, stored, and processed in the United States. We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized or inappropriate access. However, regardless of the effectiveness of our security measures, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We ask that you do your part by, at a minimum, keeping any computer passwords you use to access the Internet or this Site strictly confidential.

Information

Please address questions, comments and requests regarding this Site to;
CHOYA UMESHU CO., LTD.
160-1 Komagatani Habikino Osaka 583-0841 Japan