Privacy policy

Last updated: March 21, 2026

NKC RIBBONS JP operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, in order to provide you with a curated shopping experience (the “Service”). NKC RIBBONS JP is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Service to you.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, make a purchase or other transaction through the Service, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is any conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will govern with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

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

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term “personal information,” we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be associated with you or another individual. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified so that it cannot reasonably identify you.

Depending on how you use the Service, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from such personal information:

  • Contact information, including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
  • Financial information, including credit card numbers, debit card numbers, financial account numbers, payment information, payment account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation, and other payment-related details.
  • Account information, including your username, password, security questions, and account preferences or settings.
  • Transaction information, including products you view, add to your cart, add to your wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, and your transaction history.
  • Communications with us, including information contained in your communications with us, for example when you contact customer support.
  • Device information, including information about your device, browser, network connection, IP address, and other unique identifiers.
  • Usage information, including information about your interactions with the Service, such as how and when you access or navigate the Service.

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 Service, contact us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information.
  • Automatically through the Service, 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 they collect or process your personal information on our behalf in order to provide certain technologies or services.
  • From our partners and other third parties.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with us and what services you use, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Providing, customizing, and improving the Service. We use your personal information to provide you with the Service. This includes performing our contract with you, processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, remembering your preferences and interests, sending account-related notifications, processing purchases, returns, exchanges, and other transactions, creating, maintaining, and managing your account, arranging shipping, facilitating returns and exchanges, enabling you to post reviews, and providing a personalized shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchase history. This may also include using your personal information to better customize and improve the Service.
  • Marketing and advertising. We may use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending you marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail, and showing you online advertisements on the Service or other websites based on products or services you have previously purchased, added to your cart, or otherwise interacted with.
  • Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, respond to, and protect against possible fraudulent, unauthorized, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and secure the Service. If you register an account through the Service, 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, deliver effective service, and maintain our business relationship with you.
  • Legal reasons. We may use your personal information to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal process including requests from law enforcement or government authorities, participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other legal disputes, and investigate or enforce possible 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 the following:

  • With Shopify, vendors, and other third parties that provide services on our behalf, such as IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping.
  • With business and marketing partners who provide marketing services and deliver advertisements to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with third-party services based on your online activity across different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners will 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 based on your online activity across different merchants and websites. You may exercise your right to opt out of these uses here.
  • When you direct, request, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as for product shipping or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
  • Within our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with applicable legal obligations including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests, to enforce applicable terms and policies, and to protect or defend the Service, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Relationship with Shopify

The Service is hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Service in order to provide and improve the Service for you. Information you submit to the Service will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify, as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than your country of residence, in order to provide and improve the Service for you.

In addition, to protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify.

In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information, including responding to your requests to exercise rights over the use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, please visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you may also be able to exercise certain rights regarding your personal information here: Shopify Privacy Portal.

Third-Party Websites and Links

The Service may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on those sites.

Information you provide in public or semi-public places, including on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Service and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. The 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 Service.

Children’s Data

The Service is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with personal information, you may contact us using the contact details below to request deletion of that information.

As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” personal information of individuals under 16 years of age, as those terms are defined under applicable law.

Security and Retention of Your Information

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 insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on a variety of factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide the Service, 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 with respect to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and where permitted by law, we may decline your request.

  • Right of access / right to know. You may have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to correction. You may have the right to request that we correct or update inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to data portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions, request that we transfer it to a third party.
  • 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 purposes considered “targeted advertising” under applicable privacy laws. You may exercise your right to opt out of these uses here. If you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are located, we will treat this as a request to opt out for the device and browser you used to visit the website. If we are able to associate the signal with a Shopify account, we will also apply the opt-out request to that account. To learn more about Global Privacy Control, visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. We do not recognize other “Do Not Track” signals that may be sent from your web browser or device.
  • Managing communication preferences. We may send you promotional emails, and you can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe option in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders.

If you reside in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), subject to exceptions and limitations under local law, you may have the following additional rights in addition to the rights described above:

  • Objection to processing and restriction of processing. You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information for certain purposes.
  • Withdrawal of consent. Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Service or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and about your rights, including rights relating 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 may require that the agent provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may also require you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request within the time period required by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we handle your personal information, please contact us using the details below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details below, or the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, a list of responsible data protection supervisory authorities is available here.

International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside your country of residence.

If we transfer your personal information outside the EEA or the United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent contracts issued by the competent authority in the United Kingdom, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to 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

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us by email at info@nkcribbons.jp. For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.