Wiseuser Introduction

Privacy Policy

 

All the personal information treated by Wise User are collected, possessed, and processed by complying with the relevant legal privacy protection rules including the privacy act.

 

WiseUser has the following policies to protect users’ individual information and rights and interests and handle their difficulties related to individual informatization according to the privacy act.

Especially, if we process individual information, we operate the separate ‘the privacy policy’ in the applicable web site in accordance with Clause 1, Article 30 of ‘the privacy policy’ and Clause 1, Article 31 of ‘the enforcement ordinance’ of the same law.

WiseUser will make public changes of the privacy policy by comparing the contents of before and after the changes to make principles of information check the implementation periods and changed contents easily.

 

 ♦ Purposes to collect personal information, their items, and the period of use

 WiseUser just collects, possesses, and processes minimum personal information (e-mail) which is necessary for providing the additional services including newsletters. This personal information (e-mail) is just used to send newsletters. If you ask us to reject to receive newsletters, we destroy the collected personal information.

 

♦ Provide personal information to the third party

WiseUser in principle process personal information of principals of information within the specified scope for the purpose of collecting and using it. We don’t process it or provide it for the third parties by exceeding the original purposes without their prior consent except the following cases.

• If we receive consent from principals of information

• If there are special rules in the laws

• If it is explicitly admitted to be required for urgent life, bodies, and profits in property of principals of information and or the third parties when they cannot express their opinions or we cannot receive prior consent because of addresses unknown

• If we provide personal information in the form that specific individuals cannot not be recognized as the cases which are necessary for making out statistics and academic studies

• If deliberation and votes are passed by the protection committee as the cases which the duties specified in the other laws cannot be carried out unless we use personal information for anything other than the purposes or provide them to the third parties

• If it is required to provide personal information to foreign intelligence agencies or international organizations for implementation of conventions and international agreements

• If it is required to carry out courts’ trials when it is necessary for investigating crimes and prosecuting and maintaining cases

• If it is necessary for executing the sentences, care and custody, and protective disposition

 

♦ Rights and obligation of principals of information and how to exercise them

Principals of information can exercise the following rights and legal representatives of children who are 14 years old can ask us to read, correct, and delete their personal information and suspension of the process.  

 

♦ Ask Wise User to read personal information

You can ask Wise User to read your personal information file possessed by it in accordance with Article 35 of ‘the privacy act’ (Reading of personal information). But, it can be limited under Clause 5, Article 35 of the law to demand reading personal information as follow

 

• If reading is prohibited or limited in accordance with the laws’

• If there are fears of harming other persons’ lives and bodies or damaging their assets or other profits

• If reading interrupts the following duties of public institutions

- Impose and collect taxes or receive tax refunds

- Each school according to ‘the elementary, middle school education act’ and ‘the higher education act’, lifelong education facilities according to ‘the lifelong education act’, and higher educational institutions installed according to other laws evaluate students’ performance or select new students

- Tests about academic ability, skills, and employment and examinations of qualifications

- Evaluate or judge calculation of compensation and benefits

- On-going audit or investigation according to other laws.

 

♦ Ask Wise User to correct and delete personal information

You can ask Wise User to read your personal information file possessed by it in accordance with Article 36 of ‘the privacy act’ (Correction and deletion of personal information). But, you cannot ask it to delete it if it is specified to be the subject of collection in other ordinances.

 

♦ Ask Wise User to suspend process of personal information

You can ask Wise User to suspend process of your personal information file possessed by it in accordance with Article 37 of ‘the privacy act’ (Suspension of the process of personal information). But, it can be rejected under Clause 2, Article 37 of the law to suspend process of personal information as follow

• If there are special rules in the law or it is inevitable to observe legal duties

• If there are fears of harming other persons’ lives and bodies or damaging their assets or other profits

• If the duties specified in the other laws cannot be carried out unless public institutions use personal information

• If principals of information don’t explicitly express their intention to cancel contracts as the cases that it is difficult to carry them out including not providing the services that we made contracts with them unless we process personal information

 

Destroy personal information

Wise User in principle destroys personal information that the purpose to process it is accomplished without delay. The procedure, deadline, and method to destroy it are as follow

 

• The procedure to destroy personal information

Personal information is destroyed immediately or after it is moved to a separate space and stored for a certain period of time according to internal policies or other relevant ordinances after the purposes are accomplished

 

• The deadline and method to destroy personal information

If the periods to possess personal information expire, the purposes for processing them are accomplished, or they get to be unnecessary including abolition of the applicable duties, they are immediately destroyed. A technical method which cannot reproduce records is used for information in the form of electronic files. Personal information printed in paper are destroyed by breaking into shatters with shredders or incineration

 

How to rectify violation of rights and interests

Persons that rights or interests about personal information are infringed can report the facts to the privacy protection center.

 

• Privacy protection center: (Without telephone exchange numbers) 118 (The extension number 2)

 

And the persons that rights or interests are infringed due to disposition or forbearance by directors of public institutions about request of principals of information about reading, correction, and deletion of personal information and suspension of their process can request for administrative trials according to the Administrative Appeals Act.

 

 

 

♦Person in charge of privacy protection

Person in charge: Team leader Kim, Man-gil, the consumer protection team, the broadcasting and communications consumer protection center

The person in charge: Assistant manager Lee, Minho, the consumer protection team.

Tel: 82-580-0755

 

 (Enactment date: Jan. 1st, 2012)

 

♦ View the previous privacy policy (Was applied from Jan. 1st, 2012 to Nov. 30th, 2013)