Privacy Policy
We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site. One goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient, and customized experience. For example, we use your personal information to:
- Help make the Site easier for you to use.
- Help you quickly find information and products.
- Help us create unique content relevant to you.
- Alert you to new products we offer.
- (a) Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of the site or ordering products, you must complete an online registration form. During registration, you will be prompted to provide to us certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, shipping and billing address, phone number, email address, and credit card number. In addition, we may also ask you for your country of residence and/or your organizations country of operation, so we can comply with applicable laws and regulations, and for your gender. These kinds of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill your orders, to communicate with you about your order from the site, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your order, your personal information may be used to contact you.
- (b) Cookies and Other Technology. Like many sites, our site employs cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or action tags) to speed your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your Site usage.
- Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on your computers hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use portions of the Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and purchase. THE SITE COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USERS HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USERS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Our cookies are not copy ware.
- Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on the Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on the Site, such as an ad banner, can function as a web beacon.
- We may use third-party advertising companies to help tailor site content to users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased and in what amount). Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information collected by us.
- (c) Log Files. As is true of most web sites, the Site server automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which you access the Site. We may also log your Internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the Internet.)
How we use your information:
- Personal identification
- Name, ID (E-mail), Password, Country, Mobile phone number, Date of birth
- Contact and notification for providing services and processing customer claims
- Name, ID (E-mail), Mobile phone number
- Product purchase and shipping
- Purchase information (Country, Name, ID (E-mail), Mobile phone number), Shipping information (Country, Name, ID (E-mail), mobile phone number, address), PayPal: Credit card information, Bank account information, Payment history and other similar information, payment password (consolidated)
- Notification for events and new services, marketing (including customized marketing), delivery of event gifts
- Name, ID (E-mail), Mobile Phone number, address, Date of Birth, Gender, Cookies, ADID, IDFA
- Account refund
- Information for the bank account to receive the refund (bank name, account number, account holder name)
- Prevention of fraudulent use, prevention of unauthorized use, preservation of record for dispute resolution, customer dispute resolution and other customer services, etc.
- Service usage history, IP address, cookies, date of visit, abnormal usage record, device information (OS version, unique device identifier), content of customer service
- Furthermore
- We use your information for administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders you place on your website), to improve our business and website, to fulfil our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to analyze your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations.
- We only use your information to third parties to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, and to fulfil any contracts we enter with you, and where required by law or to enforce our legal rights.
- We do not sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event).
2. How long we retain your information
For no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business).
- The information retained according to the Company’s internal policies is as follow
- To prevent loss due to abnormal membership termination: 5 days after membership termination request.
- To prevent unlawful or unfair economic gain such as receiving discount coupons or event benefits through repeated terminations and such other methods, and to prevent other unlawful or unauthorized acts such as identity theft: Name, ID (E-mail) and related information for 6 months after membership termination.
The information retained pursuant to the applicable laws is as follows.
- Protection of Communications Secrets Act
- (Purpose) Provided when requested by law enforcement authority with a warrant
- (Collected Items) Log information, IP, etc.
- (Duration of Retention) 3 months
- Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, Etc.
- (Purpose) Records pertaining to customer claims or dispute resolution
- (Collected Items) Customer identification information, dispute processing records, etc.
- (Duration of Retention) 3 years
- (Purpose) Records pertaining to fee payments and supply of goods, etc. / Records pertaining to contracts or offer revocation, etc.
- (Collected Items) Customer identification information, contract/ offer revocation records, etc.
- (Duration of Retention) 5 years
- Framework Act on National Taxes
- (Purpose) Calculation of period for excluding levy of national tax
- (Duration of Retention) 10 years
- (Purpose) Calculation of expiration date of the right to collect national tax, etc.
- (Collected Items) Tax base and tax amount reporting materials, etc.
- (Duration of Retention) 5 years
3. How we secure your information
- Using appropriate technical and organizational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets layer (SSL) technology, encrypting payments you make on or via our website using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, only granting access to your information where necessary and by only trusted individuals that have been trained and briefed on appropriate handling of personal information.
4. How we procedure and method of destruction of your personal information
Generally, personal information of User is destroyed without delay when the purpose of the personal information is fulfilled. However, the information of User who has no record of using the service for 1 year or longer is converted into inactive account pursuant to “personal information validity period policy” under the “Act on Promotional of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.”
- Destruction procedure
- Personal information of User is transferred to a separate database after the purpose has been fulfilled, retained for a certain period according to the internal policies and other grounds under the applicable laws (refer to the retention and usage period) and destroyed thereafter.
- Personal information transferred to the separate database is not used for any other purpose except needed under the applicable laws, and access by anyone other than the manager is strictly limited.
- You will be notified of the account conversion schedule through the registered email address at least thirty (30) days before the account is converted into inactive account, and if you do not want your want your account to be converted into inactive account, you can continue to use the services regularly by logging into your account following the instruction email.
- The information of the User whose account has been converted into inactive account is segregated and stored in a separate database and managed securely, and you may start using the services regularly at any time by logging in and going through simple reactivation procedure.
- Destruction method
- Personal information stored in the form of electronic file is deleted irrecoverably in a secure manner.
- Personal information printed on paper is destroyed by shredding.
This Policy shall be effective from August 20th, 2024 and subject to change without notification.