Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is to provide information on gathering and handling the personal information of customers.
The means of gathering personal information by CONIA.CO.KR website, mobile app and others are managed by ACONICCO., LTD called as “We”, “Our Company” or “Company”. We are the base data administrator of this website and the registered office is at 4F, 10, Cheonho-daero 137-gil, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. When the company is gathering or handling the customer’s personal information, it is important for the customer to acknowledge the methods and reasons of the company to use the customer data by reading the personal information notification or fair treatment notification provided by the company on special occasions. This privacy policy supplements the other notifications and not to ignore such. The company can always post the revised conditions to revise this privacy policy. All revised articles shall be applied automatically after 30 days from the posted date. The company shall announce the major modifications and grounds of the modifications of this privacy policy via an email.

Gathering Purpose and Usage

This privacy policy describes how the company gathers, uses, releases and possesses, and protects the customer’s personal information. This privacy policy is applied to all displayed CONIA.CO.KR websites or mobile views. Registering an account and making transactions on CONIA.CO.KR websites or mobile views means that the customer has agreed to this privacy policy. ACONIC CO., LTD. is the administrator of the customer’s personal data and is responsible to gather, use, release, possess and protect the customer’s personal data in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
All minimum necessary information to use various services of CONIA.CO.KR is gathered as the requirement. All personal information of customers registered as a member of CONIA.CO.KR shall be promised to acquire consents from all CONIA.CO.KR member registered customers when the purpose and the usage of member’s personal information are modified.

Gathering and Cookie

The company shall gather, handle and possess customer’s personal information from all devices interacting with the company such as when the customer visits CONIA.CO.KR website or mobile view, or makes a transaction, or registers an account or participates in an event.
The company may gather personal information from the customer when the customer actually visits a store or participates in an event.
The company recognizes the customer data, purchase data and browsing actions as a part of the loyalty program of CONIA.CO.KR. This is to optimize and customize the customer’s experiences at CONIA.CO.KR.

The personal information gatherings by the company are:

• Personal information related to payments provided to the company by the customer via the website or mobile app registration or purchase.
• The contents of necessary detail information generated when the customer has contacted the customer service team to identify the customer.
• The contents generated by the mechanical learning algorithm of the company applied when the customer personalizes the interesting categories in details for manage, bid/discount automation, and other general service optimizations voluntarily.
• Other contents generated by the customer via intended purchases, marketing settings, survey completions, wish list, marketing participation, and other browsing activities.
• The IP address, cookie ID, IDFA & other device identifiers with geographical location information, IoT technology & page view statistics, site visit, recommended URL, advertisement data, browsing history, hashed email address and weblog information will be included.

In order to maximize the online shopping and customization functions of CONIA.CO.KR, the customer’s computer, tablet or cell phone has to allow cookie access for the company to use the specific personalized functions of this web site to offer the functions.

Cookie Operation and Usage

CONIA.CO.KR uses the cookie method for membership authentication. But such usage of a cookie is only used as a mean to authenticate that the user has the membership when the user logs in, and the file cookie is not used as a method to help the policy of CONIA.CO.KR to use personal information. In addition, it is configured to be deleted from the computer automatically on logout and the user must log out from the website after using the services when the user is logged in from a public place or a computer that can be accessed by other people. Most of the web browsers have cookie activations. If the user wishes to limit, block or delete CONIA.CO.KR or other website’s cookies, use a browser to do so. Please check how to change default cookie setting from help menu of the browser (or cell phone's manual) as each browser has different methods.

Purpose

The company uses the gathered personal information to offer & improve services, offer personalized experiences from the site, contacts for the account, offer customer services, personalized advertisements with marketing, detect, prevent, ease and investigate fraud or illegal activities. The company handles personal data for purchase, payment, customer support and performances to execute the customer’s contact information and transaction information treated contract. The company handles the personal data related to customer’s interactions (transaction, store visit, application program usage) with CONIA.CO.KR to personalize the customer’s experiences with CONIA.CO.KR. It is legal for the company to offer personalized experiences from the site and customized advertisement with marketing and the personal data are handled in such methods. We continuously store the customer’s personal information as long as it is necessary and has relations to the company’s works. Also, the deleted account’s personal information can be saved to comply with legal conditions, prevent fraud and solve disputes. If the personal information shall be saved for a certain period in accordance with legal requirements, the company save the data for the minimum required period. When determining the maximum period for saving the stored personal information, the legitimate interests to save data, the obligations of Personal Information Protection Act to minimize the data while storing the personal information, characteristics and sensitivity of the personal information and the potential risks by unauthorized usage or revealing the personal information are all considered.

Possession and Discard

While a user receives the services of CONIA.CO.KR as a member, the personal information of the member shall be kept by CONIA.CO.KR to be used to provide services. However, when a member’s account is deleted or loses the membership by the terms and condition regulations and the personal information gathered have achieved its purpose, the personal information shall be completely deleted with the unrecoverable method from the hard disk drive for any kinds of inquiry or usage.

Release and Security

The company can release the customer’s personal information to the third party who handles the customer’s personal information for CONIA.CO.KR and the company. We do not release the customer’s personal information to third parties for marketing purpose. The company uses methods to not to lose, misuse, unauthorized access, release and modification to protect the personal information of customers. We only release the directly related personal information with a minimum amount to achieve the stated purpose. In order to do so, the company can release the customer’s personal information to the authorized third party service providers as below to help the company to offer similar services.

• A company offering payment services for easier purchase
• A company of order completion to help purchase management, packaging, and delivery
• The marketing and advertisement providing companies to personalize the customer’s experiences

The company does not release a customer’s personal information to third parties for marketing purpose.
When there is a legal ground, the company can release personal information of customers to government agencies and law enforcing agencies.
The company uses methods to not to lose, misuse, unauthorized access, release and modification to protect the personal information of customers. The company requires all third parties to respect the personal information of customers and handle in accordance with the law. We do not allow the third service providers to use the personal information of customers for the purpose of their own purpose and require the providers to handle personal information in accordance of assigned purposes and the company’s policy.

Protecting a Nonmember’s Personal Information

CONIA.CO.KR not only allows the membership customers but nonmembership customers to purchase products and service items. CONIA.CO.KR requests only the personal information necessary for payments and shipping to nonmembers. For the nonmember purchases, CONIA.CO.KR only uses the payment information and receiver’s information entered by the nonmembership customer for no other than the payment and product shipping.

Technology and Institutional Management

CONIA.CO.KR is communicating the information between the company’s home website with the customer’s computer via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryptions to protect customer’s information and receives certifications via Verysign. The company’s own cutting edge firewall is installed and operated to prevent illegal hackings, and access log analysis and live virus monitoring system is in operation. Hiding the actual operating web server IP to users to prevent illegal hackings and various cutting edge security system introductions are being tested for more secured customer information protection. Also, the system operation and security analysis with consulting via aaa system highly recognized SI business fields in Korea performing various system developments, consulting and maintenance are being performed and the company is doing its best to minimize the service downtime by 24-hour system monitory operated by specialized operation agents. CONIA (http://conia.co.kr/) limits the personal information handling staffs to a minimum and performs frequent training to the staffs to emphasize the compliance of this policy, and inspects the staffs for the execution and compliance of this policy via auditing committee to correct any found issues.

Viewing and Modification

A member of CONIA.CO.KR can always view and modify the personal information of the registered member and make a request to delete ID. Viewing and modifying the personal information of the member can be performed from ‘Sign up/Change’ on the CONIA.CO.KR.

The Thing Members Need to Know for the Protection of Personal Information

Please enter the accurate latest personal information of the member to prevent any accidents. The user is responsible for any accidents caused by the misinformation entered by the user and can lose the membership when false information was entered. A member has the right to protect the personal information along with the responsibility to not to invade the information of others. Please be careful not to leak your personal information and damage the personal information of others including posts.

Inquiry

If you have any questions regarding personal information protection policy, please contact the company with the below information. Please use the inquiry board at the bottom of the web site or contact the customer service center. It is important that the customer’s personal information in the company is accurate and latest information. Please notify any personal data changes of the customers related to us.