Koryu.com Privacy Policy

(updated 12/20/07)

Use of Information

Koryu Books has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Koryu.com.

We use your IP address only to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.

We use cookies only in our shopping cart as follows:

When you first click an [Add to Cart] button to make a purchase, our shopping cart sets a cookie to associate you with a particular shopping cart.
When you enter your shipping and billing information and click [Submit This Order] to complete your order, our shopping cart sets another cookie. This cookie contains the billing address (and the shipping address if a separate one is used) that you used. It does not contain any credit card information. This cookie is set to expire one year from the date it was created. If you return to the store from the same computer within this time, our shopping cart will detect and read the cookie and you will not have to re-enter the address information. If cookies are disabled in your browser, this "memory" feature will not be available to you.

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about site updates and new publications of Koryu Books. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see Choice/Opt-out section below.

This site contains links to other sites. Koryu.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We do not share information that we collect with anyone.

We have entered into partnerships with several online sites. Their privacy policies are listed here:

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their mailing address) and financial information (like their account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send books that are ordered and information about our company to our customers. Financial information that is collected is only used to bill the user for products and services.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our orders forms are on servers secured by SSL; our in-house computers are accessible to only authorized personnel.

We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

Koryu.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

Online Payments

Choice/Opt-Out

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

To unsubscribe from our announcements service, just fill in the e-mail address you used to join below and click the "Unsubscribe" button.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact

D. Skoss

Koryu Books

P.O. Box 86

Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922-0086

Via e-mail