The Korean Food Globalization site receives the most essential personal information to provide services when you first sign up as a member. The information received when registering as a member includes your name, phone number, and address. In addition to this, we request the provision of additional information in order to provide specific services. Additionally, you may be asked to provide personal information during surveys or events for collective statistical analysis or for the purpose of sending out prizes. Please be advised that even at this time, the information you entered will not be used for any purpose other than the provision of the relevant service or the purpose previously disclosed to the member.

The purpose of the Korean Food Globalization site collecting your personal information is to provide members with optimal customized services through the Korean Food Globalization site. At this time, it is possible to selectively provide more useful information to members based on the personal information provided by the member. The Korean Food Globalization site is carrying out promotional activities to provide a variety of information. At this time, we will be able to selectively deliver information that is more useful and valuable based on your personal information.

In principle, the Korean Food Globalization site does not disclose members’ personal information to other people or other companies or organizations. However, if the member consents to disclosure, or if a person violates the Korean Food Globalization site's service terms and conditions, or uses the Korean food globalization site's services to cause legal damage to others or commit an act that violates public morals, we may take legal action. An exception is made in cases where there are sufficient grounds to believe that personal information must be disclosed. Even in this case, it is not provided to individuals and can only be provided to investigative agencies in accordance with prescribed procedures. In order to provide better services to members, the Korean Food Globalization site may share members' personal information on websites (http://koreanfood.net, http://www.hansik.org) operated and managed by the Promotion Agency.

The Korean Food Globalization site entrusts personal information as follows, and stipulates the necessary matters to ensure that personal information is safely managed when entering into a consignment contract in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The company's personal information consignment processing agency and consignment details are as follows.

While you are a member of the Korean Food Globalization site and receive services provided by the Korean Food Globalization site, your personal information will continue to be retained by the Korean Food Globalization site and used to provide services. However, if a member of the Korean Food Globalization site deletes his or her ID or requests cancellation of membership in accordance with the procedures described in ‘Procedures and Methods of Destruction of Personal Information’ below, and if the purpose of providing the personal information notified to the member in advance has been achieved, Collected personal information is completely deleted from the hard disk in a non-recoverable manner and is processed so that it cannot be viewed or used for any purpose.

• You can view or correct your registered personal information at any time and request deletion of your ID.
• You can view and correct your personal information at the Korean Food Globalization site member information management, and your ID will be deleted automatically upon request to the service operator or upon withdrawal.
• If you have any complaints or opinions regarding personal information, please send your comments to the personal information manager by email (webmaster@hansik.org) or phone (02-6300-2052). We will take action immediately upon receipt and notify you of the processing results.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account password. The Korean Food Globalization site will never ask you for your password via email or any other means, so please do not reveal your password under any circumstances. When logged on, please pay special attention to prevent your personal information from being leaked to others around you.

• Your personal information is protected by a password. Only you can know your account password, and personal information can only be checked or changed by the person who knows your password. Therefore, you must not disclose your password to anyone. Also, it is advisable to log out and close the browser after finishing work. In particular, when sharing a computer with others or using it in a public place, such procedures are even more necessary to prevent personal information from becoming known to others.
• In order to prevent members' personal information from being leaked due to hacking, etc., we are currently using devices that block external intrusions to prevent external attacks and hacking, and we have installed an intrusion detection system to monitor intrusions 24 hours a day. To prevent damage to other members' personal information, we back up the system and data to prepare for any emergency.
• The Korean Food Globalization site emphasizes compliance with this policy by limiting the number of employees handling personal information to a minimum and providing regular training to employees in charge. Through an audit by the Audit Committee, the implementation of this policy and compliance by employees in charge are monitored. If a problem is discovered, corrective action is taken immediately.

• In order to provide personalized and customized services to each member, the Korean Food Globalization site uses 'cookies' to store and retrieve member information from time to time.
• A cookie is a small data package that the server used to run the information site sends to the user's browser and is stored on the member's computer's hard disk.
• You must allow cookies in order to use personalized services such as Korean Food Blog and My Page by logging in after accessing the Korean Food Globalization site.
• The Korean Food Globalization site uses cookies to find information about your ID in order to provide you with more suitable and useful services.
• By assigning a unique cookie to the browser of a user who accesses the Korean Food Globalization site, it is also used to identify user size, such as the frequency of use of the Korean Food Globalization site by members and non-members and the total number of users. Cookies are used to check the member's participation history in other events or surveys.
• By using cookies to understand your visitation and usage patterns on the Korean Food Globalization site, we can create and provide more useful and convenient services.
• You have choices about cookies. By selecting options in your browser, you can allow all cookies, confirm each time a cookie is saved, or refuse to save all cookies.
• However, if you refuse to store cookies, you will not be able to use all services on the Korean Food Globalization site that require login.

• Personal Information Protection Complaint Handling Department: Korean Food Promotion Agency Promotion and Publication Team
• Phone number: 02-6300-2052
• e-Mail : webmaster@hansik.org

• If there are any additions, deletions or modifications to the current personal information handling policy, we will notify you through 'Notice' on the homepage at least 7 days prior to the revision. However, if there are significant changes to user rights, such as collection and use of personal information or provision to third parties, we will notify you at least 30 days in advance.
• Announcement date: April 19, 2013
• Effective date: May 19, 2013