The “Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (hereinafter, KASL)” observes the “Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.” to protect personal information of its members. KASL also established policies for the treatment of personal information to provide members with information of the ways of using such information as well as measures necessary for the protection thereof.

This policy is effective January 1, 2015. (Privacy Policy 3.00)

• Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information
• Methods of Collection of Items of Personal Information
• Sharing and Provision of Personal Information
• Installation and Operation of Automatic System for Collection of Personal Information and Denial of the Use of Personal Information
• Access to, Modification, and Cancellation of Personal Information,
• Preservation and Disuse of Personal Information
• Commissioning of Treatment and Protection of Personal Information
• Technical and Administrative Measures to Protect Personal Information
• Consultation or Contact with the Person in charge of Personal Information Management

1. Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information

Purpose of the collection of personal information by KASL is to provide its members with the best customized services through the website of KASL. KASL also provides the visitors to its website with academic contents presented through conferences and seminars. The personal information collected through contacts with guests visited KASL’s website will enable KASL to provide its members with selective and useful customized services.
Except for following cases of the provision of additional information service to its members, improvement of services, addition of necessary functions, and provision of necessary minimized information (i.e. name, address, and telephone) to distributers of publications resulted from academic conferences and seminars, the personal information of members of KASL will never be collected, compiled, or analyzed for other purposes.
\ However, following purposes of performing statistical analyses thereof or to conduct marketing surveys, the collected anonymous personal information may be collected, compiled, and analyzed.
KASL does not disclose or distribute collected personal information of its members to third parties without permissions of respective members except following cases:

• 1) Cases of the request for such information from national or governmental institutions based on legal stipulations such as Telecommunications Business Act etc.;
• 2) Cases of the request for such information for investigations of criminal cases or from Information and Communication Ethics Committee;
• 3) Cases of the request for such information based on procedures specified by other legal stipulations;
• 4) Cases of the spontaneous disclose of personal information by each member;
• 5) Cases of the disclose of personal information complying with present policies for the treatment of personal information established by KA니

2. Methods of Collection of Items of Personal Information

The grade of membership of KASL is classified into Ordinary Member, Regular Member, and Honorary Member for which necessary personal information are required for applicants to attain respective membership.
Items of personal information required with an application for the membership of KASL are as follows: name, id., password, e-mail address, date of birth, sex, registration number of medical license, registration number of medical specialist, address to receive postal items, contact points, major, residential address, and careers etc. The items prone to infringement of basic human rights (such as race, ethnic background, thoughts, creed, place of birth, original domicile, political proclivity, and criminal records etc.) are not required.

KASL collects personal information of its members through its homepage.

3. Sharing and Provision of Personal Information

KASL does not open personal information of its members to other companies or institutions. However, in cases of following conditions based on the ground supported by sufficient evidences, the corresponding personal information of its members may be opened:
1) Cases of an explicit agreement of member(s) to open personal information to other parties;
2) Cases requiring legal measures against the infringement of legal rights of other people or violation of good social morals and customs. In cases corresponding to such conditions, the personal information of its members will not be disclosed to individuals except for the official or investigative authorities; the authorities will be provided with such information through predetermined procedure.
KASL may open personal information of its members to its business partners on agreement of its members to provide itsr members with better services. In this case, respective members will be informed of the identities of business partners, (reasons of) information required therefor, and how and until when the required information would be treated, kept, and protected before the collection and provision of such information. In cases of the disagreement of its members on disclosing personal information to other parties, the existing or additionally collected personal information of its members will not be disclosed to such business partners.

4. Installation and Operation of Automatic System for Collection of Personal Information and Denial of the Use of Personal Information

We will use “cookies” capable of storing and retrieving information of members occasionally to provide individual members with personalized and customized services. Cookies are small bundle of data sent from website servers to browsers of users; they are stored in the storage device installed in users’ computers.
Purposes of the Use of Cookies
- To provide users (members or guests) with personalized services including target marketing promotions etc. through identifying frequencies of access to website, duration or time of each visit, or number of visits etc.
② How to Deny the Set-up of Cookies
Users may deny installation of cookies on users’ computers. This can be accomplished through setting an option configured in users’ web browsers allowing installation of all cookies, asking permission of an installation of cookies, or denying installation of all cookies.
* Example of Setting Options for Cookies (Internet Explorer)
: Find the menu, “Tools>Internet Options>Personal Information”, located on top of web browser.
Note. In cases of denying installation of cookies, users may be unable to use services requiring information of users’ log-on.

5. Access to, Modification, and Cancellation of Personal Information,

Members of KASL may access to or modify enrolled personal information whenever required. Access to or modifying of personal information can be accomplished at the page of following path: KASL > Members’ Information

6. Preservation and Disuse of Personal Information

As long as members of KASL are receiving services presented by KASL, the personal information of members will be preserved by KASL to provide members with continuing services. In cases of the members express intentions to withdraw from membership of KASL, the personal information of corresponding members registered with an attainment of each membership will be deleted.
The personal information of members registered and then deleted with the withdrawal from membership of KASL cannot be restored. Members are suggested to be aware of this procedure. On issuing request for the withdrawal from membership of KASL, the system administrator will be in charge of necessary process to complete the request of members. On completion of the withdrawal from membership of KASL, all personal information of members registered with joining with membership of KASL will be deleted completely.
However, the information uploaded to bulletins or comments of members left therein etc. will not be deleted. Members who want to delete such information shall delete such information spontaneously before requesting withdrawal from membership of KASL.
How to disuse unnecessary information
- Personal information stored in an electronic format will be removed by exploiting the technical method preventing restoration of removed records.

7. Commissioning of Treatment and Protection of Personal Information

KASL will not open personal information of its members to other companies or institutions.
However, in cases of following conditions based on the ground supported by sufficient evidences, the corresponding personal information of its members may be disclosed: 1) Cases of an explicit agreement of member(s) to open personal information to other parties; 2) Cases requiring legal measures against the infringement of legal rights of other people or violation of good social morals and customs. In cases corresponding to such conditions, the personal information of its members will not be disclosed to individuals except for official or investigative authorities; the authorities will be provided with such information through predetermined procedure.
KASL may open personal information of its members to its business partners on agreement of its members to provide its members with better services. In this case, respective members will be informed of the identities of business partners, (reasons of) information required therefor, and how and until when the required information would be treated, kept, and protected before the collection and provision of such information; in cases of the disagreement of its members on disclosing personal information to other parties, the existing or additionally collected personal information of its members will not be disclosed to such business partners.

Commissioned Company	Jobs Commissioned	Term of Preservation and Use of Personal Information
M2Community Co., Ltd.	Homepage Management, Provision of Necessary Service	Until Withdrawal from Membership or Termination of Contract of Commissioning

8. Technical and Administrative Measures to Protect Personal Information

KASL employs a strong firewall system together with an intrusion detection system to protect personal information of its members and to keep the system away from malignant intrusion of hazardous information. However, information of its members is controlled solely by IDs and Passwords set by each member. Thus, all members are suggested not to disclose respective IDs and Passwords of their own to other parties; also suggested is that members should log-out on completion of each session. These are particularly necessary when members of KASL are accessing to the website of KASL from public places such as libraries or internet cafes to protect personal information exposed to web browsers therein.
KASL limits the number of staffs in charge of treatment and protection of personal information of its members for whom the regular courses of education programs are provided and implemented for the staffs to comply with policies specified in this document. Irregularities, deviations, problems, or violations against or relevant to such policies detected or found will be corrected immediately. KASL will always be remaining opened to voices from its members to protect personal information of its members with its best efforts; members leaving comments or suggestions will be receiving answers thereof. Members, who see insufficiencies in services presented by KASL or have wishful suggestions for KASL, may contact with us freely. Send e-mails to kasl@kams.or.kr, the operator of KASL.

9. Consultation or Contact with the Person in charge of Personal Information Management

To protect personal information of customers and treat inconveniences of customers relevant to personal information, there is a person in charge of personal information management. Those who have questions associated with management of personal information, please feel free to contact with the person in charge of personal information management/treatment below.

Person in Charge of Personal Information Management/Treatment

Name: Yoon Jun Kim
Place: KASL
Telephone: +82-2-703-0051
Fax: +82-2-703-0071
E-mail: kasl@kams.or.kr

If you need to report or consult about any other privacy violation, please contact the following organizations :

• - Personal Conflicting Committee (www.1336.or.kr/1336)
• - Information Protection Mark Certification Committee (www.eprivacy.or.kr/02-580-0533~4)
• - The online crime investigation center of the Supreme Public Prosecutors ' Office (http://icic.sppo.go.kr/ 02-3480-3660)
• - National Police Agency Cyber Terror Response Center (www.ctrc.go.kr/ 02-392-0330)