Nippon Budō Seishin-Kan

Our Services. We use any information you provide us solely to facilitate services you specifically request or shipment of products you purchase. We may also use this information to track shipments you have requested, and to follow-up to confirm delivery and/or your satisfaction with those products or services. Once a particular transaction is complete, we make no further use of this information. Unless you are a member of the Seishin-Kan, we do not use your purchase information to solicit additional purchases, or place you on any mailing lists -- even our own -- without your specific consent.

Future Services. We may use your information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, or to improve and enhance our site's content, layout, features, and services. All such use, however, will be strictly within the Seishin-Kan. We will not divulge any personal information about you to any third party assisting us with web design or web development without your prior expressed consent. We will restrict such information only to generalized statistical or demographic information about our customers, visitors, and/or members as a whole and not reveal individual information.

Marketing. We do not use your information to notify you of new products, features, or events, unless you specifically request or authorize us to do so, or unless you are a Seishin-Kan member -- in which case you gave us this authorization when applying for membership.

Purchasers. If you participate in a purchase or membership transaction, you will receive a third party's invoice, and you may receive follow-up or confirmation information from the Seishin-Kan. If you apply for membership, you will be assigned a membership number and/or User ID for use in all communication related to your membership. You will receive additional communication from us regarding all membership privileges, events, and opportunities, as well as notifications regarding expiration and/or renewal of your membership.

Postings to Message Boards, Etc.  All other Seishin-Kan members, as well as anyone who obtains access to a member's login information can view information you post in any of our guest books, message boards, discussion forums, or the online Learning Center -- including your name and your email address if you post them. For this reason, posting your name, e-mail address, or other personal information is strictly optional in all of the visitor and member messaging sections of our website. You do not have to post any personal information in order to use these services.  In fact, our message boards permit you to use avatars to protect your identity if you we.  We recommend that your exercise good judgment and caution in posting personal information in order to prevent unscrupulous visitors from misusing such information, and we especially recommend that all minors using our website use avatars and refrain from posting any information that might allow someone to locate them.

Investigations. We will disclose any information in our records about you to law enforcement, other government officials, or third parties only upon service of a legally binding warrant, subpoena, or other due process of law that requires us to do so. We will not disclose any such information unless legally required to do so, or unless you specifically direct or authorize us to do so.

Contractors and Third Party Service Providers. As previously explained, we use third-party vendors to assist us in providing certain services to members and purchasers. Only that information that is specifically required in order for them to provide services you have authorized, requested, or purchased will be divulged to any of these vendors. Usually these vendors will enter into an agreement that places restrictive provisions on their use and disclosure of all information they obtain through the relationship. We also use third party service providers to help with certain aspects of our operations that may require disclosure of your personal information to them. Most of these service providers, like billing services, the U.S. Postal Service, or transportation companies are prohibited from selling or disclosing your personally identifiable information to others.

The Corporate Family. We have no parent company, per se. We are affiliated with the Jikishin-Kai International (JKI), the Nippon Karate-dō Kai, the Dai Nippon Butoku-Kai, and the Kokusai Okinawa Kobujutsu Renmei, but we will share with them only that information about you that you authorize in writing.  Seishin-Kan members, for example, are usually also members of one or more of these associations for whom we act as their local or regional representative.

Discussion Forums and Message Boards. You are not permitted to use or sell any information about other visitors that you view on this web site. You are not to solicit from visitors to this site, either on this site or by private communication, nor are you permitted to sell information about other users and visitors.  Violation of this provision could not only result in your being banned from the site and/or having your membership canceled without refund, but also in legal action being taken against you by any aggrieved parties.

Spam. We and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not permitted to add any user to any mailing list (email or physical mail) without their expressed consent after adequate disclosure.

Personal Information.  We allow you to review and change the personal information you provide to us in connection with membership or any purchase you make. You have the ability to choose whether you wish to receive subsequent promotional communication from us. You agree to keep your information as current as possible and agree not to provide us with falsified or fraudulent information.

Data and Server Security. We make reasonable efforts and follow industry best practices to safeguard the confidentiality of each user's personal information. We use third party billing services to ensure that all credit card information you submit is encrypted through secure server software (SSL).  This information is never divulged to us by those third parties.  We also use only vendors whom we believe to be reliable.  When you conduct a transaction on our site, we request only the information needed to complete the transaction you are requesting through unencrypted means. Despite our best precautions, however, "absolute 100%" security does not exist on the Internet and cannot be guaranteed. Therefore you should not expect that your information will never be accidentally disclosed or wrongfully accessed by criminals.

Your Use of E-mail. We provide you with many opportunities to contact us via e-mail. Certain information in our online forms are also submitted to us by e-mail using a link that activates the e-mail software on your computer. If you use these services, your name and e-mail address will be submitted to us in the e-mail. We do not store in an easily-retrievable way the e-mail addresses of people who contact us or submit orders and membership applications. As a protection for you, this information is not stored on our web site, nor on the server that hosts our web site. Nevertheless, you should not assume that e-mails or forms sent through these features are totally inaccessible. Unencrypted e-mails can be intercepted by unscrupulous individuals who possess the necessary software, and certain government agencies do routinely scan e-mail for evidence of illegal activities.

Other Information. You may provide us and we may receive other personally identifiable information that is not contemplated in this Policy. For example, we may receive information from a vendor or another website user regarding you. As you would expect, we will treat that information under the same principles as this Policy, and make reasonable efforts to safeguard your privacy to the same extent as if you had submitted the information to us yourself.

Limits on Our Abilities. While it is our desire and intention to run our service perfectly to ensure your satisfaction, neither people nor technology are ever perfect. We may make inadvertent uses and disclosures of your information in ways not described in this Policy. For example, if our site is infected with a virus, your personal information could be displayed or e-mailed to others without our knowledge. As our website grows and as we develop new services for our members and visitors, we may also make uses of your information in ways we had not contemplated previously, nor described in this Policy statement. We will, however, always do our best to maintain your privacy and promptly correct any errors we make. Your sole remedy in case of our error is to have us try to fix the problem as soon as we possibly can and/or to remove your personal information from our site.

Password and Identity Control. Except as specifically permitted by this Section, you may not disclose your membership number, or any password or authenticating information to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control over your membership number or password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf by those in possession of this information. In addition, those in possession of your login information could use that information to illicitly access information about other users of this website.  Therefore, if your identifying information has been compromised in any way or for any reason, you should immediately contact us and request that it be changed.

Third Party Collection. Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information the Seishin-Kan itself collects from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties in the course of making transactions with us, different rules may apply to the use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to those third parties. Since we do not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies they establish. We strongly encourage you to ask questions of all such third parties before you disclose your personal information to them.

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