“TELECONS” (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) complies with personal information protection regulations under relevant laws that information and communication service providers must observe, including the Communications Secret Protection Act, Telecommunications Business Act, and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, and establishes a privacy policy based on relevant laws to do our best to protect user rights.
The Company’s privacy policy may be changed according to relevant laws and guidelines, and in case of revision, notice will be given through the website seven days in advance. The Company’s privacy policy contains the following information.

1. Items of Personal Information Collected

The Company collects the following personal information for membership registration, consultation, service application, and provision, etc.
– Name, email, address, contact information, mobile phone number, ID, password. The following information may also be generated and collected during service usage or business processing.
– Service usage records, access logs, cookies, access IP information, visit date and time, browser type and OS, search terms, payment records, service suspension records, consultation records

2. Purpose of Personal Information Collection and Use

The Company uses collected personal information for the following purposes:

a. Contract fulfillment for service provision and fee settlement according to the service provision
Content provision, product delivery, or billing, financial transaction identity verification, and financial services, purchase and fee payment, and fee collection

b. Member management
Identity verification for membership service usage, personal identification, prevention of fraudulent use by problematic members and unauthorized use prevention, membership intention confirmation, membership and registration frequency limitation, confirmation of legal guardian consent when collecting personal information of children under 14, subsequent legal guardian identity verification, record preservation for dispute mediation, complaint handling and other civil affairs processing, notification delivery

c. Marketing and advertising utilization
New service (product) development and specialization, service provision and advertising placement according to demographic characteristics, access frequency analysis, statistics on member service usage, and delivery of promotional information such as events

3. Personal Information Retention/Usage Period

Users’ personal information is, in principle, destroyed immediately once the purpose of personal information collection and use is achieved.
However, the following information is preserved for the periods specified below for the reasons stated:

a. Information retention reasons according to the company’s internal policy

– Records of fraudulent use
Retention reason: Prevention of fraudulent use
Retention period: 1 year

b. Information retention reasons according to relevant laws
When it is necessary to preserve information according to the provisions of relevant laws, such as the Commercial Act and the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, the Company retains member information for the specified period determined by applicable laws. In this case, the Company uses the retained information only for retention, and the retention periods are as follows:

– Records related to contracts or subscription withdrawals
Retention reason: Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce
Retention period: 5 years
– Records related to the payment and supply of goods
Retention reason: Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce
Retention period: 5 years
– Records related to consumer complaints or dispute resolution
Retention reason: Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce
Retention period: 3 years
– Records related to identity verification
Retention reason: Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection
Retention period: 6 months
– Records related to visits
Retention reason: Communications Secret Protection Act
Retention period: 3 months