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# Privacy Policy – akihabara-vintage-store
Last updated: June 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Emerald LLC, operating as akihabara-vintage-store (“we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, stores, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, communicate with us, or make a purchase through our online store (the “Site”).
By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
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## 1. Personal Information We Collect
“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be linked to an individual.
Depending on how you interact with the Site, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information.
### Device and Usage Information
Examples may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Time zone and approximate location
- Cookie and similar technology identifiers
- Pages and products viewed
- Search terms
- Referring websites
- Dates, times, and duration of visits
- Information about how you interact with the Site
We collect this information to operate the Site, maintain security, prevent fraud, understand Site usage, and improve our services.
This information may be collected automatically through cookies, log files, pixels, tags, software development kits, and similar technologies.
### Order and Transaction Information
Examples may include:
- Name
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Order details
- Payment status
- Transaction information
- Shipping and tracking information
- Customs and tax information
- Information required for identity verification or customs clearance
We use this information to:
- Process and fulfil orders
- Process or facilitate payments
- Arrange domestic and international shipping
- Complete customs documentation
- Provide order confirmations and tracking information
- Communicate with you about your order
- Handle returns, refunds, and customer support
- Detect and prevent fraud or unauthorized transactions
- Comply with tax, accounting, customs, and legal obligations
Payment information is generally processed by Shopify, payment processors, or other payment service providers. We do not normally receive or store your complete credit-card number.
### Account Information
If you create a customer account, we may collect information such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Password or account authentication information
- Saved addresses
- Order history
- Account preferences
We use this information to create and manage your account and provide account-related services.
### Customer Support and Communications
Examples may include:
- Emails and other correspondence
- Return or refund requests
- Photographs or videos submitted in connection with a product issue
- Order numbers
- Product serial numbers
- Information you provide when contacting us
We use this information to respond to inquiries, investigate problems, provide customer support, process returns, and protect against fraudulent claims.
### Marketing Information
When permitted by applicable law, and where you have provided consent when required, we may collect and use:
- Email marketing preferences
- Advertising preferences
- Responses to promotional communications
- Information about interactions with marketing emails or advertisements
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the message or by contacting us.
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## 2. How We Collect Personal Information
We may collect Personal Information:
- Directly from you, such as when you place an order, create an account, or contact us
- Automatically when you use the Site
- From Shopify and other companies that provide services to us
- From payment processors
- From shipping carriers and customs service providers
- From fraud-prevention and security providers
- From advertising or analytics providers, where permitted
- From publicly available sources where legally permitted
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## 3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use Personal Information to:
1. Provide and operate the Site.
2. Offer products for sale.
3. Process payments and fulfil orders.
4. Arrange shipping and customs clearance.
5. Send order confirmations, invoices, and tracking information.
6. Process returns, refunds, and customer service requests.
7. Create and manage customer accounts.
8. Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, and security incidents.
9. Comply with legal, tax, accounting, customs, and regulatory obligations.
10. Improve and personalize the Site and our services.
11. Perform analytics and measure Site performance.
12. Send marketing communications where permitted by law.
13. Display or measure advertising where permitted and, where required, with your consent.
14. Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
15. Protect our customers, our business, and the rights of others.
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## 4. How We Share Personal Information
We may share Personal Information with third parties that assist us in operating our business, including:
### Shopify
Our online store is hosted and powered by Shopify. Shopify processes Personal Information to provide its commerce platform, checkout, payment, security, fraud-prevention, analytics, and related services.
For information about Shopify’s privacy practices, please review Shopify’s Privacy Policy:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
### Payment Providers
We may share transaction and order information with payment processors, card networks, banks, PayPal, Shopify Payments, or other payment providers used at checkout.
### Shipping and Customs Providers
We may share the information necessary to deliver and clear your order with:
- DHL
- Shipping and logistics providers
- Customs authorities
- Customs brokers
- Tax and import-processing providers
- Return-shipping providers
This information may include your name, delivery address, telephone number, email address, order contents, purchase price, tax information, and identification or customs information where required.
### Professional and Business Service Providers
We may share information with companies that provide services such as:
- Website hosting and technical support
- Data storage
- Email delivery
- Customer support
- Accounting and tax services
- Legal services
- Fraud detection
- Cybersecurity
- Analytics
- Advertising and marketing
These providers may use Personal Information only as necessary to provide their services to us or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
### Legal and Safety Disclosures
We may disclose Personal Information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or lawful government requests
- Respond to customs, tax, law-enforcement, or regulatory authorities
- Enforce our agreements and policies
- Prevent or investigate fraud, illegal activity, security incidents, or misuse
- Protect our rights, property, customers, employees, or others
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
### Business Transfers
If our business is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction, Personal Information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
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## 5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers use cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure, and improve the Site.
These technologies may be used for the following purposes:
### Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for functions such as:
- Shopping-cart operation
- Checkout
- Payment processing
- Customer login
- Security
- Fraud prevention
- Saving privacy preferences
The Site may not function correctly without these cookies.
### Functional Cookies
These cookies help remember choices such as language, region, login status, and other preferences.
### Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Site, which pages are viewed, and how the Site performs.
### Advertising Cookies
Where used and permitted by law, these cookies may help measure advertising, limit repeated advertisements, and show advertisements that may be more relevant to you.
Where required, non-essential cookies will be used only after you provide consent through our cookie banner or privacy settings.
You may manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner available on the Site and through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the operation or availability of some Site features.
The cookies used on the Site may change depending on Shopify features, installed applications, payment services, analytics tools, advertising services, and other technologies in use.
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## 6. Analytics and Advertising
We may use Shopify’s analytics services and, where configured, third-party services such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, or similar platforms.
These providers may collect information about your device, browsing activity, Site interactions, and purchases through cookies, pixels, or similar technologies.
We will use these services in accordance with applicable law. Where consent is legally required, relevant tracking technologies will not be activated until consent is provided.
You may be able to control or opt out of certain advertising and data-sharing activities through:
- The cookie or privacy controls provided on the Site
- Your browser settings
- Your device settings
- The privacy settings offered by the relevant advertising platform
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## 7. Legal Bases for Processing
If the laws applicable to you require us to identify a lawful basis for processing, we may process Personal Information on the following bases:
### Performance of a Contract
We process Personal Information to accept and fulfil your order, process payment, arrange delivery, provide customer support, and manage returns or refunds.
### Legal Obligations
We process Personal Information to comply with tax, accounting, customs, consumer-protection, sanctions, fraud-prevention, and other legal requirements.
### Legitimate Interests
We may process Personal Information for legitimate business interests, including:
- Operating and improving the Site
- Preventing fraud
- Protecting the security of our services
- Responding to customer inquiries
- Managing business records
- Establishing or defending legal claims
We use this basis only where our interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
### Consent
We rely on your consent where required, including for certain marketing communications, advertising cookies, and analytics technologies.
You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
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## 8. International Data Transfers
We are based in Japan and sell products internationally.
Your Personal Information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in Japan, Canada, the United States, and other countries where Shopify, shipping providers, payment providers, or our other service providers operate.
The privacy and data-protection laws of these countries may differ from those in your country.
Where required by applicable law, we and our service providers use recognized legal safeguards for international data transfers.
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## 9. Data Retention
We retain Personal Information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:
- Fulfil orders and provide customer support
- Maintain transaction and business records
- Comply with tax, accounting, customs, and legal obligations
- Prevent fraud
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Establish or defend legal claims
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and applicable legal requirements.
When Personal Information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, unless continued retention is permitted or required by law.
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## 10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Information.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account credentials and for notifying us if you believe your account or Personal Information has been compromised.
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## 11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to Personal Information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of Personal Information
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to certain processing
- Withdraw consent
- Request a portable copy of certain information
- Opt out of certain marketing
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing
- Lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority
These rights may be subject to legal exceptions. For example, we may retain certain information where required for tax, accounting, customs, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or other legal purposes.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us using the details below. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
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## 12. Automated Decision-Making
We do not independently use fully automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on customers.
Shopify, payment providers, and fraud-prevention providers may use automated tools to identify potentially fraudulent or high-risk transactions. This may result in an order being reviewed, delayed, declined, or cancelled.
Where required by applicable law, you may have rights regarding decisions made solely through automated processing.
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## 13. Children’s Privacy
The Site is not intended for children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information directly from children under 16.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.
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## 14. Third-Party Websites
The Site may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of third-party websites. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies before providing Personal Information.
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## 15. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers allow users to send a “Do Not Track” signal.
Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, the Site may not respond to all Do Not Track signals.
Where required by applicable law, we will recognize legally required browser-based opt-out preference signals.
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## 16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
- Our business practices
- Shopify or other services we use
- Legal or regulatory requirements
- Operational, technical, or security considerations
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
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## 17. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or to exercise your privacy rights, please contact:
akihabara-vintage-store
Operated by Emerald LLC
Email: akihabara.vintage.store@gmail.com
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection or privacy authority in your country or region.
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