Privacy Policy

[HYAAH] Personal Information Treatment Policies

[HYAAH] (hereinafter referred to as “Company”) very seriously takes into consideration protection of customers’ personal information, and complies with the Act Relating to Promotion of Information Communications Network and Personal Information Protection. The Company hereby notifies customers for what uses and in what ways we use the personal information provided by customers and what measures we take to protect the personal information. When the personal information treatment policies are amended, the Company will notify customers thereof through the website notifications (or individual notifications).

■ Items of Personal Information to be Collected and Collection Methods

The Company collects the following personal information for purposes of providing membership services, including membership subscriptions, consultations, prevention of wrongful uses:

■ Purpose of Collection and Use of Personal Information

The Company uses the collected personal information for the following purposes:

To verify identifications for uses of membership services, to identify individuals, to prevent wrongful uses of bad members or unauthorized uses, to verify intents for subscriptions, to verify ages, to verify the consent of a legal representative for collecting personal information of children of not more than fourteen (14) years old, to handle civil complaints including handling grievances, to convey notifications

To convey information for advertisements including events, to figure out contact frequencies, to obtain statistics on service uses by members

■ Retention and Use Period for Personal Information

In principle, after the purposes of collecting and using personal information have been fulfilled, the Company shall without delay destroy relevant information; provided, however, that the Company shall retain personal information for a certain period of time where it is required to do so for purposes of confirming transactions related management and rights under the provisions of relevant laws including the Commercial Code and the Act Relating to Consumer Protection in Electronic Commercial Transactions as follows:

■ Destruction Procedures and Methods for Personal Information

The Company in principle shall without delay destroy relevant information after the purposes of collecting or using personal information have been fulfilled. The destruction procedures and methods shall be as follows:

The information entered by users for use of the services is moved to a separate database after the purposes have been fulfilled (a separate document in the case of a sheet), and destroyed after the information has been saved for a certain period of time according to the information protection reasons under the internal policies or other relevant laws (for your reference, see the retention and use period for personal information). The personal information separately moved to a database is not used for purposes other than the purpose of being preserved unless it is so required by laws.

■ Provisions of Personal Information to Third Parties

The Company uses the personal information of users within the scope that users have consented to the “Purpose of Collecting and Using Personal Information,” but does not use the personal information of users in excess of the scope without prior consent of users or in principle does not disclose the personal information of users to the outside; provided, however, that exceptions are made in the following cases:

■ Delegation of Handling Personal Information

In the event that the Company handles the personal information of users by delegation to ensure smooth handling of duties, it must give users a prior notice of the persons delegated to handle the personal information (hereinafter referred to as “Delegatees”) and the content of duties delegated to handle the personal information. Currently, the Company’s delegatees to handle personal information and the content of duties shall be as follows:

■ Rights of Users and Legal Representatives and the Exercise Methods

■ Matters on Operation of Cookies

The Company operates cookies, etc. that frequently save and find out information of users (persons who get access). Cookies are very small text files sent to your browser by the server used to operate the website, which are saved to your computer hard disk. The Company uses cookies for the following purposes.

Performig target marketing activities and providing customized services by analyzing the access frequencies or visit hours, etc. of members and nonmembers who intend to use cookies, etc., figuring out users’ preferences and interested fields and following traces, figuring out various event participations and the number of visits, etc.

You have the option to install cookies. Therefore, by selecting an option in your web browser, you may allow all cookies, pass confirmations whenever cookies are saved, or otherwise refuse the savings of all cookies.

By selecting options in your web browser, you may allow all cookies, pass through confirmations whenever cookies are saved, or otherwise refuse the savings of all cookies.