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Welcome
to our website! This internet site (the "Site") is operated
and maintained by Yamaha Electronics Corporation, USA ("Yamaha").
This Privacy Policy describes Yamaha’s policies and procedures
for the collection of personally identifiable and other information
by this Site and our use and dissemination of such information.
Your personal privacy is important to Yamaha. If you do not feel
comfortable with Yamaha’s Privacy Policy as outlined below,
you should not use this Site since our services and the effective
operation of this Site assume the availability of information provided
by you.
This Site is for visitors located within the United States only;
it is not offered for use outside of the U.S. at this time.
While this Site is not directed at children, Yamaha is pleased
that children of all ages may be interested in Yamaha’s services
and products. However, Yamaha joins the industry in recognizing
that children may not be able to make informed choices about use
of the internet or about personal information requested online.
Yamaha asks parents to take an active role in monitoring their children’s
use of the internet in general and this Site. Parents should not
allow their children under 13 to submit personal information to
this Site without parental consent. This Site’s ordering capabilities
are available only to those 18 years of age and older.
From
time to time, Yamaha may revise this Privacy Policy and will post
these changes to this Site. You must review this Privacy Policy
at this Site periodically for an up-to-date understanding of Yamaha
policies and practices. To communicate with Yamaha about this Privacy
Policy, please contact:
Privacy Administrator
Yamaha Electronics Corporation, USA
6660 Orangethorpe Avenue
Buena Park, CA 90620
Email: yecprivacy@yamaha.com
INFORMATION
COLLECTED BY YAMAHA
Personally identifiable information about visitors to this Site
(that is, information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing
address, credit card or telephone number) is collected only when
submitted by you as a visitor. Such information may be collected
in connection with your visit to this Site if you request information,
products or services; register for individual accounts, subscriptions
or warranties; submit contact, request and suggestion information;
or register for any sweepstakes, contests, games, or surveys. We
may also obtain information about you from our affiliates and business
partners, based on information that has already been shared with
or made available to them.
Information that you provide in public forums, such as user groups
or chat rooms, and information that you submit to us as recommendations,
requests for information and feedback are not considered or treated
as personally identifiable or confidential information.
WHAT
IS DONE WITH PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY YAMAHA
We use the information you provide to deliver quality products and
services to you. For example, if you have ordered an item or requested
a newsletter or updates about our services or products, we will
use the information you provide to respond to that request or to
provide other information about Yamaha and its services.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information if we are
required to do so by law, or if in our good faith judgment, this
disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process,
to detect or prevent illegal, harmful or fraudulent use of this
Site or linked sites, to respond to any claims or to protect the
rights of Yamaha, its customers and the public. We may also share
your information with our partner agencies and service providers
who assist us in administering various site services and programs.
Sharing Personally Identifiable Information: Yamaha may share personally
identifiable information with other Yamaha companies or with some
of our business partners who wish to send information about their
products or services. However, you have the opportunity to instruct
us not to share personally identifiable information by following
the procedures outlined below. You may request that we withhold
personally identifiable information from our service providers who
work with us in processing your service or product requests, however
this will result in the cancellation of your order or request.
POLICY CONCERNING LINKS AND CO-BRANDED SITES
This Yamaha web site may allow you to link directly to sites operated
by our service providers or marketing partners. Some of these sites
may be "co-branded" with a Yamaha logo; even so, they
are not operated or maintained by Yamaha. These sites may ask you
for personally identifiable information.
Because these web sites are operated by business partners or third
parties, you should remember that Yamaha is not responsible for
the content or practices of such Web sites. These links are provided
for your convenience only and should be used with your discretion
and prudent judgment. Links from our Site to third party sites do
not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by Yamaha of
the content, policies, practices of such third party sites. Yamaha
is not responsible for any information these sites may obtain and
does not oversee their policies or practices in collecting personally
identifiable information.
The Privacy Policies of these other sites may differ from those
of Yamaha. Therefore, once you have left this Site via such a link,
you must review each site’s privacy policies separately. You
should make your own determination of the acceptability of each
linked site.
This Site may also be linked to Web sites operated by companies
affiliated with Yamaha. You are advised to refer to the privacy
policies and practices of these sites before providing any personally
identifiable information.
NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
When visitors come to this Site, Yamaha collects non-personally
identifiable information or "aggregate" information concerning
how its visitors use this Site, including the pages viewed and links
used. Collecting such information involves the logging of IP addresses,
the visitor’s operating system, types of browser software and
internet service providers used by each visitor to this or linked
sites. Although such information generally is not personally identifiable,
it can be used to determine the IP address of the visitor’s
Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of her/his
point of connectivity to the internet. This information allows us
to analyze and improve the effectiveness of our services and those
of our affiliates and service providers.
USE OF "COOKIES" AND TRACKING
TECHNOLOGY
This Site and its service providers use current industry methods,
including "cookies" and tracking technology ("clear
gifs", "web beacons", "log files", etc.),
to enable Yamaha to make visits to this Site and communications
with our visitors more personalized and effective, and to analyze
the services we provide through this Site. For example, "cookies"
are tags sent to reside on the visitor’s computer, to enhance
a visitor’s experience at our site, to allow repeat visitors
to be served more quickly and efficiently, or to tell us where our
visitors go and how our visitors use our Site and related sites.
Yamaha does not use cookies to obtain personally identifiable information
about a user that was not previously provided.
Visitors may receive cookies from other third party sites that they
visit, including service provider sites. Yamaha cannot control the
content or use of these cookies or tracking technologies by third
party sites or service providers. Visitors should consult their
browser’s manual for instructions on how to refuse or disable
cookies. Refusing or disabling cookies may affect our ability to
complete requests you have made for products or services from this
Site. Yamaha may disclose non-personally identifiable information
to affiliates or advertisers regarding content viewing, traffic
levels or browser paths to their advertisements on this Site.
THE SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
Yamaha uses current technologies to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personally identifiable information. We follow industry-standard
methodologies, including the utilization of SSL (Secure Socket Layers)
where appropriate, to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration
of the data provided. However, data transmission or storage on the
internet can not be guaranteed to be 100% secure and Yamaha does
not make such a guarantee. You should take all precautions to safeguard
your passwords and any account information that you may have or
provide and to employ current virus-scanning or firewall software
and other security safeguards. You should also log out of your account
and close your browser window when you are done.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If you would like to correct or modify personally identifiable information
you have previously provided, such as your email address, phone
number or other contact information, please contact us at yecprivacy@yamaha.com,
or the address above. If you would like to request that your personally
identifiable information not be shared with third parties, please
notify us at yecprivacy@yamaha.com,
or the address above.
If you would like to delete or remove from our system the personally
identifiable information which you have previously provided, please
contact us at privacypolicy@yamaha.com. We will delete your personally
identifiable information from our database if we reasonably can.
However, there may be residual information that will remain within
our databases and logs that may or may not contain personally identifiable
information or that is very difficult to locate and remove. There
may be information that has been transmitted already to third parties
which is beyond our control. Your request for deletion of this information
may prevent or reduce our ability to service your earlier request
to this Site or to access this web site in the future. We will follow
the policy outlined here, but we are not responsible for any failure
or shortcoming in deleting or controlling the disclosure of information
you have made available through use of this Site or for the timing
of our actions after your request.
For each of your requests, you should receive an email response
from Yamaha, confirming receipt of the request. If you do not receive
such a response, you must assume that your request has not been
received by our servers or processed. Your request should be repeated
until receipt confirmation is received or, as an alternative, your
request should be sent by regular mail to the address indicated
above.
When you request modification to your data, you must provide us
with all relevant existing data (name, address, email address, etc),
along with the specific modifications, necessary to identify you
and make the changes you request.
INCORPORATION INTO TERMS OF SERVICE
If other terms and conditions apply to our relationship, based on
your purchase of goods or services from www.yamahashoponline.com
or for other transactions, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into
these terms by reference.
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