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Miho Asian Pears respects the
privacy of our website visitors. Please review the following
document that explains our policies with respect to the data we collect on
our website and online storefront.
Miho Asian Pears' Commitment to Privacy
This policy is designed to aid you in recognizing how we collect, use and
safeguard any personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.
This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies and
business practices as well as our customers' needs.
What Information Does Miho Asian Pears
Collect?
When you visit www.mihopears.com you may provide us with two types of
information: web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as
you and other people browse our web site, and personal information you
knowingly and voluntarily choose to disclose to Miho Asian Pears that
we collect on an individual basis. If you place an order from
www.mihopears.com, we require that you provide certain information on our
online order form(s). For orders, we request you provide contact
information (including your name, address, telephone number and email
address, and the name and shipping address of the recipient) and financial
information (including credit card number and expiration date). This
information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we
have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get
in touch with you.
How Does Miho Asian Pears Collect Web Site
Use Information?
Similar to other web sites, www.mihopears.com utilizes a standard
technology called cookies (see below) and web server logs to accumulate
information about traffic on our web site (such as the time spent at our
web site, the pages viewed, the date and time of visits, the web sites
visited just before and just after our web site, etc.). This information
is only collected on an aggregate basis and is NOT associated with you as
an individual.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a standard feature of web browser software that allows web
servers to recognize the computer used to access a web site. Cookies are
small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the
visitor's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a visitor
accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web
site by the same visitor or to use the information to streamline the
visitor's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a
visitor to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet.
How Does Miho Asian Pears Use Information Collected from Cookies?
We use tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information
about customers' browsing activities in order to constantly improve our
web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to
design and arrange our web pages in a user-friendly manner and to
continually improve our web site to better meet the needs of our current
and prospective customers.
Cookies also help us collect important business and technical statistics.
The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by
visitors to our web site as they move from one page to another. Web server
logs allow us to count how many people visit our web site and evaluate our
web site's visitor capacity and speed of response. Miho Asian Pears
does not use these technologies to capture your individual email address
or any personally identifying information about you.
Will I Get A Banner Ad or Other Targeted Advertisement Sent To Me?
Anytime you visit a website and have "cookies" enabled, you provide enough
information for the hosting company to allow other companies to send you
"banner ads" or other forms of advertisements. This is in spite of the
fact that the advertising companies will not be able to associate a
specific name of a viewer with a corresponding email address.
Miho Asian Pears does not participate in any revenue-sharing programs
with any banner advertising companies, so you will never receive a banner
ad as a result of a visit to www.mihopears.com.
Sharing Information with Other Companies
Miho Asian Pears may occasionally partner with another party to provide
specific services for us, such as providing credit card processing or
shipping services. We will only provide contact information necessary for
the third party to provide these services for us. These parties are not
allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose
of providing these services.
Except as stated above, Miho Asian Pears does not share or sell any
personal information that visitors voluntarily provide to us on our
website with any other company, nor do we share any aggregate data we
collect.
Notice of New Products and Changes
Once in a while we may notify you via email about important changes to our
web site, new products and services, or special offers that we believe you
will find valuable. You will only ever receive these notices if you have
elected to receive additional communications from us at the time you
purchase products or voluntarily register on our website. Furthermore, you
will always be given an opportunity to remove your email address from this
list at the end of each electronic communication. Finally, we will not
attempt to ever contact you via phone unless you have specifically given
us permission to do so.
How Does Miho Asian Pears Ensure the Security of Credit Card
Transactions?
Miho Asian Pears offers customers the ability to purchase some of our
products online (via credit card) through an online storefront that is
hosted directly by Miho Asian Pears. This storefront will be identified
by the www.mihopears.com URL. When you send confidential, personal, and/or
credit card information to us on our web site, we use a secure server
technology we have licensed that in turn uses 128 bit encryption to secure
and protect all information you input before it is sent to us. The
information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our web
site. The technology we are using is the same technology used today by
many of the prominent online retailers. Your browser software must,
however support this technology as well. All modern browsers contain full
support for the 128 bit encryption technology used on our website. To
ensure that the connection is encrypted at the time you are sending
personal information to us, please look for the "lock" icon in your
browser (usually at the bottom of your browser's window).
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you
that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the
information. For that reason, please do not send confidential information
such as Social Security or credit card account numbers to us through an
unsecured email.
What If Miho Asian Pears Is Legally Compelled
to Disclose Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other
words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the
protection of our legal rights or our customer's legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web
Site?
We do not monitor the content, information, or web practices of any of web
sites linked to or from our web site, and as such cannot be held
responsible for said content, information, or web practices.
What Information Does Miho Asian Pears
Retain?
In addition to retaining aggregate visitor information and personal
information you voluntarily have provided to us, if you choose to
correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content of
your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We
provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we
employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
Who Do I Contact If I Have Any Further Questions
Regarding Privacy and/or Security?
Click here to send your questions or comments directly to us.
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