Joowon ranks the protection of personal information as top priority value among several managerial components.
Joowon Industrial Co., Ltd. ("Joowon” or “Company”) strictly complies with all domestic laws and regulations, including the Personal Information Protection Act, in all stages from service planning to termination. Furthermore, Joowon provides services in compliance with international standards, including the OECD Privacy Guidelines.
1. What Privacy Policy Means for Our Users
Joowon has made efforts to describe the current status of processing personal information within Joowon as detailed and easy as possible, while creating this Privacy Policy based on the Personal information protection Act.
This is because Joowon has adopted the “Plain Language Privacy Policy,” as its principle in writing Privacy Policy with concise and easy-to-understand terms.
This is because Joowon has adopted the “Plain Language Privacy Policy,” as its principle in writing Privacy Policy with concise and easy-to-understand terms.
2. Personal Information Collected
Users may access the majority of Joowon services such as information searches and viewing news articles without any need to subscribe as members.
Also, Joowon collects the minimum amount of personal information needed for him/her to use such services.
Also, Joowon collects the minimum amount of personal information needed for him/her to use such services.
3. Use of Collected Personal Information
Personal information is used only to manage members of Joowon and all other related services (including mobile web), develop, provide, and improve services, and establish a safe Internet environment.
- Personal information is used for member management, such as confirming members’ intention to subscribe, confirming the age, proceeding with obtaining consent from legal representatives, verifying the identity of users and their legal representatives, identifying users, and confirming their intention to unsubscribe.
- In addition to the purpose of providing existing services (including advertisements) such as contents, personal information is used to discover new service elements and improve existing services such as demographic analysis, analysis of visits to services and usage records, building user-to-user relationships based on personal information and interests, and providing tailor-made services based on acquaintances and interests.
- Personal information is used to protect users and operate services by means such as preventing and imposing sanctions against acts that interfere with the smooth operation of services, including measures restricting the use by members who breach the statutes and Joowon Terms of Service, preventing account theft and fraudulent transactions, sending out notices regarding a revision to the terms and conditions, preserving records for dispute mediation, and handling civil complaints.
- Personal information is used for personal authentication, purchases and payments for charges, and deliveries of products and services for the provision of paid services.
- Personal information is used for marketing and promotion purposes such as providing event information, opportunities for participation, and advertising information.
- Personal information is used for service usage records and access frequency analysis, statistics on service use, service analysis, and providing tailor-made services and advertising according to statistics.
- Personal information is used to establish a service environment that users feel safe to use in terms of security, privacy, and safety.
4. Actions Taken to Protect Personal Information
Joowon makes every effort to securely manage users' personal information and protects personal information beyond the degree required by the Personal Information protection Act.
5. Chief Privacy Officer & Responsible Personnel
Joowon has designated the following persons as the Chief Privacy Officer and Personal Information Manager to remain responsible for responding to user inquiries regarding personal information and resolving any related complaints.
▶ Chief Privacy Officer
Name : Do Hoon Yoon
Position : CEO
Phone : 031-726-1585
Email : info@joowon.co.kr
▶ Personal Information Manager
Name : Ji Min Yoo
Position : Assistant Manager
Phone : 031-726-1585
Email : jmyoo@joowon.co.kr
6. Obligation to Notify Prior to Amendment
Users will be notified of any addition, deletion, and/or modification in this Privacy Policy through ‘Notice’ at least 7 days prior to the scheduled amendment.
However, if an important modification is made to the rights of users, such as the modification to the collected items of personal information and the purposes of their use, the notification will be sent at least 30 days prior to any such modification, and if necessary, Joowon may obtain users’ consent again.
Notification date : May 1, 2021
Effective date : May 2, 2021
