PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy explains how Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. ("SSC", "we", "our," or "us") process your personal information, including how we collect, use and process your personal information, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations. This Privacy Policy also describes your data protection rights, including a right to object to some of the processing. More information about your rights, and how to exercise them, is set out in the “Your Rights” section.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the websites and services controlled by SSC where this Privacy Policy is posted or referenced and through information collected via Seoul Viosys website “http://www.seoulviosys.com/en”(“Website”). This Privacy Policy does not pertain to other information that is collected offline or to information that is posted or provided by third parties.
(1) Personal information items to be collected
- Required Personal Information
Cookies will be generated and placed on your browser when you are visiting our Website. For more detailed information, please see our Cookie Policy placed on our Website. In addition, in the course of using services provided on our Website, the information as described in the following may be created and collected: Log information (IP address, log data, use time, search word input, internet protocol address, and web beacon). Other than cookies and the log information as described above, there is no personal information that will be required or collected from you in using our Website. You may access the majority of the Website without the need to sign up for membership. - Optional Personal Information
You may reject the collection and use of the following optional personal information when you engage in certain activities on our Website and, even in case of rejection, there is no limit on use of services.
Title of activities | Personal information to be collected |
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Business inquiry | We may collect your first and last name, your location (based on country), phone number, email address and/or company name if you choose to use our business inquiry section. |
(2) Method of collection
SSC collects your information through one or more of the following methods:
- Your voluntary submission of personal information for your use of the services provided under the Website.
- Communication via the webpage, email, fax, or phone, during communications made with customer support.
- Automatic collection of certain information during a user access to the PC web or mobile web/app.
We may process your information (depending on your interaction with us) for a variety of reasons that are permitted under data protection laws and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, which may include the below purposes. Note that the legal bases outlined below are required to be included under EU data protection laws. They do not apply to you if you do not reside in the EU.
SSC uses the collected personal information for the following purposes:
- To alert you to special offers, updated information and other new products or services from SSC, or other third parties, or to forward promotional materials to you. This may be done to meet and fulfill our legitimate business interests or with your consent;
- To ensure the Website is relevant to your needs. This may be done to meet and fulfill our legitimate business interest;
- To fulfill the terms of a promotion. This may be done to meet and fulfill our contractual obligations with you;
- To help us create and publish content most relevant to you. This may be done to meet and fulfill our legitimate business interests;
- To notify you about a material change to this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, if necessary. This may be done to meet and fulfill our contractual obligations under an existing agreement with you;
- To allow you access to limited-entry areas of the Website. This may be done to meet and fulfill our contractual obligations under an existing agreement with you; and/or
- To contact you in response to sign up forms such as Contact Us or other inquiry. This may be done to meet and fulfill our legitimate business interests or with your consent.
SSC agrees that it will obtain a consent from you, if SSC desires to use the information other than those expressly stated in this Privacy Policy.
Relying on our legitimate interests
We have carried out balancing tests for all the data processing we carry out on the basis of our legitimate interests, which we have described above. Our legitimate interests are in promoting our business, improving our website and services and responding to user queries. You can obtain information on any of our balancing tests by contacting us using the details set out later in this notice.
For carrying out services, SSC commissions external professional companies (subcontractors) to process personal information as follows. This commissioned works for processing personal information is carried out by each subcontractor and service only if necessary for providing that service.
In commissioning process of personal information, in order to secure safety of personal information , SSC supervises and ensures to expressly state in the agreement with subcontractors so that those subcontractors will safely process personal information by strictly complying with directions regarding personal information protection, keeping personal information secret, not disclosing it to a 3rd party and being liable for accidents and returning or destructing personal information upon termination of the commission or process.
Name of subcontractors | Description of commissioned works (services) |
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Emotion Global | maintain Website |
Except for the following case, SSC does not disclose or provide your personal information to a 3rd party:
Recipients of information | Purpose of use of recipient | Items to be provided | Period of retention and use of recipient |
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Emotion Global | maintain Website | Information used for homepage analysis and GA | Until the date when the purpose of use is achieved or period as required by the laws |
SSC does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to use the Website. The Site is not intended for, nor does SSC believe they are appealing to, children under the age of 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at the email address below.
F. International transfer of informationInformation we collect is stored in the Republic of Korea. If you are located outside of the Republic of Korea be aware that information you submit will be transferred to the Republic of Korea. If you reside in the EU, we will transfer your personal data to the Republic of Korea in accordance with the EU data protection law requirements by using model contractual clauses that have been approved by the European Commission or other appropriate means. You may ask us for a copy of these clauses. You understand that the Republic of Korea may not provide the same level of protections as the laws in your country.
G. Your Rights(1) Marketing Emails
From time to time, we communicate with users who subscribe to our Website via email. For example, we may use your email address to confirm your request, to send you information about changes to our services, and to send notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional. However, you have an absolute right to exercise an opt-out choice at any time if you do not want to receive marketing communication from us, such as emails or updates from us regarding new services and/or promotion events offered on the Website. For e-mails, the opt-out choice may be exercised by ticking or un-ticking the appropriate box if such checkbox is available at the points where personally identifiable information is collected or by contacting us. We will process your unsubscribe as soon as possible, but please be aware that in some circumstances you may receive a few more messages until the unsubscribe is processed. You also may opt-out of receiving such emails by clicking “UNSUBCSCRIBE” in such E-mails.
(2) Cookies and Tracking Tools
Please refer to our Cookie Policy to learn more about the controls you have over cookies and other online tracking tools.
(3) Do Not Track Policy
Our Do Not Track Policy is available in E. Cookies and other similar technologies.
(4) If you are in the EU:
You may have certain rights with respect to the personal information you provided to us. To the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws, you may:
Data Subject Access Requests: You may ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and request us to provide a copy of this and to modify, update or delete such information. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. If you request further copies of this information from us, we may charge you a reasonable administrative cost where legally permissible. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and in this case we will always let you know.
Right to Object: This right enables you to object to us processing your personal data where we do so for one of the following four reasons: (i) our legitimate interests; (ii) to enable us to perform a task in the public interest or exercise official authority; (iii) to send you direct marketing materials; and (iv) for scientific, historical, research, or statistical purposes.
Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Normally, the information must meet one of the following criteria: (i) the data are no longer necessary for the purpose for which we originally collected and/or processed them; (ii) where previously given, you have withdrawn your consent to us processing your data, and there is no other valid reason for us to continue processing; (iii) the data has been processed unlawfully (i.e. in a manner which does not comply with the GDPR); (iv) it is necessary for the data to be erased in order for us to comply with our legal obligations as a data controller; or (v) if we process the data because we believe it necessary to do so for our legitimate interests, you object to the processing and we are unable to demonstrate overriding legitimate grounds for our continued processing.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. The circumstances in which you are entitled to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data are: (i) where you dispute the accuracy of the personal data that we are processing about you. In this case, our processing of your personal data will be restricted for the period during which the accuracy of the data is verified; (ii) where you object to our processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests. Here, you can request that the data be restricted while we verify our grounds for processing your personal data; (iii) where our processing of your data is unlawful, but you would prefer us to restrict our processing of it rather than erasing it; and (iv) where we have no further need to process your personal data but you require the data to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities, you may withdraw this consent at any time and we will cease to carry out the particular activity that you previously consented to unless we consider that there is an alternative reason to justify our continued processing of your data for this purpose in which case we will inform you of this condition.
Right to Rectification: You also have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you. If we have shared this personal data with third parties, we will notify them about the rectification unless this is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Where appropriate, we will also tell you which third parties we have disclosed the inaccurate or incomplete personal data to. Where we think that it is reasonable for us not to comply with your request, we will explain our reasons for this decision.
Right of Data Portability: Under certain circumstances, you can have your personal information transferred to another company or provided to you in a commonly used, structured and machine-readable format. If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact us at abc@seoulsemicon.com. Although we urge you to contact us to find a solution for every concern you may have, if you are an EU resident you always have the right to lodge a complaint with your competent data protection authority.
Right to automated individual decision-making, including profiling:You also have right to request to cease the automated treatment of personal information, including profiling, which has critical impact or cause legal effect on them.
Right of California residents
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit the CCPA Privacy Notice.
Please note that any information you include in a message you post to any review board, chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone with internet access. If you don’t want people to know your e-mail address, for example, don’t include it in any message you post publicly.
I. Third Party Web SitesThis statement applies solely to information collected on the Website. The Website may contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other web sites.
J. Changes to this Privacy PolicyWe reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. When we do, we will place an updated version on this page and also revise the “last update” date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy to show the date the Privacy Policy became effective.
K. SecurityNo data transmissions over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information that you transfer to SSC is done at your own risk. In order to prevent the loss, theft, leakage, alteration or damage of your personal information, SSC takes technical, managerial and physical measures for securing safety as follows:
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In principle, SSC destructs your personal information without delay when: the purpose of its collection and use has been achieved; the legal or management needs are satisfied; or your request: Provided that, if it is required to retain the information by relevant laws and regulations, SSC will retain member information for certain period as designated by relevant laws and regulations. The information to be retained as required by relevant laws and regulations are as follows:
- Log record of users such as internet/data detecting the place of user connection: 3 months(The Protection of Communications Secrets Act)
- Other data for checking communication facts: 12 months (The Protection of Communications Secrets Act)
In principle, SSC destructs the information immediately after the purposes of its collection and use have been achieved without delay: Provided that, if any information is to be retained as required by relevant laws and regulations, SSC retain it for the period as required by those laws and regulations before destruction and, in such event, the personal information which is stored and managed separately will never be used for other purposes. SSC destructs: hard copies of personal information by shredding with a pulverizer or incinerating it; and delete personal information stored in the form of electric file by using technological method making that information not restored.
N. Contacting SSCFor visitors from the EU, SSC is a controller of your personal data. It has an Seoul Viosys. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices and or to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at abc@seoulsemicon.com. All information you provide in any written communication will also be covered by this policy. The staff of SSC responsible for managing personal information is as follows:
- Name of staff responsible for managing personal information: JungWoo Lee
- Dept. : Head of Department / Information Technology Team
- Tel. : +82-70-4391-8440
- Contact : abc@seoulsemicon.com
You can apply for dispute resolution, damage relief, consultation, etc. to the Personal Information Infringement Reporting Center, Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee, etc.
- Privacy Infringement Report Center (operated by Korea Internet Security Agency)
- Jurisdiction: Report on personal information infringement, apply for consultation
- Homepage: privacy.kisa.or.kr
- Phone: 118
- Address: (138-950) Personal Information Infringement Report Center, Korea Internet & Security Agency, 135, Jung-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul - Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (operated by Korea Internet & Security Agency)
- Jurisdiction: Application for mediation of personal information disputes, collective dispute mediation (civil resolution)
- Homepage: www.kopico.go.kr
- Phone: 02-1833-6972
- Address: (03171) 4F, Government Building, 209 Sejong-daero, Jongno-gu, Seoul - Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Cyber Crime Investigation Division: 02-3480-3573 (www.spo.go.kr)
- National Police Agency Cyber Terror Response Center: 1566-0112 (www.netan.go.kr)
Last Updated: November 14, 2024