Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 15th 2025
1. Introduction
Yoriyasu Corporation ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and disclose your personal data when you use our website (https://industrialdirect.jp/) (the "Site"), purchase our products, or otherwise interact with us.
We provide business-to-business (B2B) services and do not offer services directly to individual consumers for personal use. The personal data we process pertains to individuals acting in their capacity as representatives of their respective businesses.
This policy has been prepared in accordance with Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) to ensure a high standard of data protection for all our customers.
2. Who We Are (Data Controller)
The data controller responsible for your personal data is:
- Company Name: Yoriyasu Corporation
- Address: Ozawa Building 7F 701-2, Tsujido Kandai 1-3-39, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan
- Email: info@yoriyasu.co.jp
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at the email address above.
3. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username, and title.
- Contact Data: Includes company name, job role, billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data: Includes bank account and payment details.
- Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, and other technology on the devices you use to access our Site.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our Site and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
We do not knowingly collect any Special Category Data (e.g., information about your race, religion, health). Our Site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
- Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our Site (e.g., for quotation requests) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, or email. This includes data you provide when you place an order for our products, create an account on our Site, or subscribe to our newsletter.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment and browsing actions. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy in Section 10.
- Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers like Google.
5. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
| Purpose / Activity | Type of Data | Lawful Basis for Processing |
|---|---|---|
| To register you as a new customer and manage your account | (a) Identity (b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you/your business. |
| To process and deliver your order (including managing payments, fees, and providing quotations) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction |
(a) Performance of a contract with you/your business. (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., for tax purposes). |
| To manage our relationship with you (e.g., responding to inquiries, asking for reviews) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing & Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract. (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products). |
| To administer and protect our business and this Site (including security, troubleshooting, data analysis, and system maintenance) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of IT services, network security). (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation. |
| To send you marketing communications (e.g., newsletters) about our products and services | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing & Communications |
(a) Your consent. (b) Legitimate Interest ("soft opt-in" for existing customers on similar products). You can opt-out at any time. |
We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling.
6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes detailed in the table above:
- Service Providers: Third-party companies that provide services on our behalf, such as IT and system administration, payment processing, shipping and logistics, and marketing services. These providers are appointed as Data Processors and are only permitted to process your data in accordance with our instructions.
- Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Governmental Authorities: Tax authorities, regulators, and other authorities in Japan and other jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
7. International Transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of Japan, for example, if we use service providers based in other countries.
When we transfer your personal data out of Japan, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring appropriate safeguards are implemented, as required by the APPI.
8. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees and third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
9. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
For example, data related to customer purchases is typically retained for the period required by Japanese tax and company law after the transaction is complete. Account information is retained as long as the account is active.
10. Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners.
This Site uses the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our Site. Without them, you would not be able to use services like the shopping cart.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site. This helps us to improve the way our Site works. We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site, enabling us to personalize content for you.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our advertising more relevant to your interests.
11. Your Legal Rights
Under data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data. Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request the transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us. You will not usually have to pay a fee to exercise your rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.