Terms of Service

How to read these terms

These terms cover two things: using pecan-riverbend.com, and asking Pecan Riverbend to do one of the three pieces of work described on it, namely the Nut Tree Suitability Consultation, the Guided Nut Planting Session and the Riverside Country Plot Layout Plan. They are written for the people who actually write to us: owners of an orchard patch, a riverside plot or a weekend house with some spare ground. If a line is unclear, ask before you rely on it. The contract details for a booked service (cancellation, payment, responsibility for results) are in the Terms and Conditions, and the information the Specified Commercial Transactions Act asks us to show is in the notice.

1. Using the website

• You may read the pages, print them for your own use and send us enquiries for any lawful purpose.
• Please do not try to break into the site, overload it, scrape it in bulk or send us abusive or unlawful material.
• Give us accurate details about the plot: elevation, how cold it gets, how far the water is. Our advice stands on them, and wrong inputs give wrong shortlists.
• The site needs no account. Nothing you do here can create a binding order. A service is only booked once we have agreed the date and the quote in writing, by email.

2. What the services are, and what they are not

The consultation is an hour of talk with a written shortlist and a first-year care calendar. The planting session is about four hours on your land for up to six saplings, with aftercare notes for two years and a phone call after one month. The layout plan is a site visit of roughly three hours followed by a scaled drawing, annotated photos, a plant list and one round of revisions.

All three are advice and supervised work. They are not horticultural or engineering guarantees. Our timelines (grafted walnuts typically bear in years 4 to 7, grafted pecans in years 6 to 10) are ranges seen in ordinary practice, not promises for your plot. Nothing on the site is an offer of an investment, a harvest contract or an income. We do not describe nut trees as a way to earn money, and you should not read any page that way.

3. Prices and bookings

• Prices are in Japanese yen and include consumption tax: ¥4,400 for a consultation, ¥11,000 for a planting session and ¥16,500 for a layout plan.
• Saplings, stakes, guards and other materials for a planting session are not in the ¥11,000. We quote them separately in advance, so that you know the full amount before the day.
• Travel within 40 km of our Toyama office is included. Plots further away, which covers much of Nagano, get a travel figure in the quote before you agree to anything.
• A quote stays as agreed even if we change the published prices later. New prices apply only to new bookings.
• We may decline or pause a booking if the details are clearly wrong, if the ground cannot be reached safely, or if the work would need permission nobody has obtained. We will tell you why.

4. Weather, ground and rivers

Fieldwork depends on frost, rain, flood water and the state of the ground. When a river bank is soft or a track is under water we will propose another day instead of working in poor conditions. A date moved for these reasons is not a cancellation by either side and costs nothing extra.

Land near rivers in Japan is often covered by river management rules, and permission from the manager of the river may be needed before digging, planting or building. Applying for it is the landowner's job. We point out where it may be needed, but we cannot give you the permission or promise it will be granted.

5. Where we work

We are based in Toyama and our services are aimed at plots in Nagano and neighbouring areas. If your land is elsewhere in Japan, write to us and we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense for us to travel.

6. What belongs to whom

• The text, drawings, diagrams, photographs and the Pecan Riverbend name belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us. Please do not copy or sell them without written permission.
• The shortlist, planting sketch, plan and care notes prepared for you may be used freely on your own plot, and shown to any nursery, contractor or local office you choose.
• If you send us photographs or sketches of your land, we may use them only to deliver the work you asked for.
• Other organisations' names that appear on the site belong to them.

7. If the site is unavailable

We try to keep the pages online, but there may be short gaps for maintenance or because of the hosting service. A gap does not change a booking already agreed by email.

8. Changes

We may revise these terms when the services change. The date at the top shows the latest version, and a booking is governed by the version that applied when you agreed the quote.

9. Read next

Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Notice under the Specified Commercial Transactions Act.