• 1.Gwangju Food Expo's Commitment to Personal Information Protection
  Gwangju Food Expo values your personal information and complies with the "Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection." Through our privacy policy,we inform you about how the personal information you provide is utilized and the measures taken to protect it. We will notify you through website announcements (or individual notifications) in case of any revisions to our privacy policy.
• 2.Items of Personal Information Collected
  For membership registration, consultations, and service applications, we collect the following personal information:
  -Collection items: Name, login ID, password, home phone number, home address, mobile phone number, email, company phone number, service usage records, access logs, access IP information, payment records.
  -Method of collecting personal information: Website (membership registration, order form creation, payment information).
• 3.Purposes of Collecting and Using Personal Information
  We utilize collected personal information for the following purposes:
  - Fulfillment of service contracts, settlement of service fees, provision of content, purchase and payment processing, dispatch of goods or invoices.
  - Member management: Verification of identity, personal identification, delivery of notifications, utilization in marketing and advertising, tracking of access frequency or statistics related to member service usage.
• 4.Retention and Use Period of Personal Information
  After achieving the purposes of personal information collection and use, we promptly destroy the information without exception.
• 5.Procedure and Method of Personal Information Destruction
  After achieving the purposes of collection and use, personal information is promptly destroyed. The process and method of destruction are as follows:
  - Destruction process: Information provided for membership registration is transferred to a separate database (or stored in a separate file cabinet for paper documents) and maintained for a certain period in compliance with internal policies and relevant laws before being destroyed.
  - Destruction method: Personal information stored in electronic formats is deleted using technical methods that prevent record reproduction.
• 6.Provision of Personal Information
  We generally do not provide users' personal information to external parties. However, exceptions may apply in the following cases:
  - When users have given prior consent.
  - When required by law or investigative agencies according to legal procedures and methods for investigative purposes.
• 7.Outsourcing of Collected Personal Information
  We do not outsource customers' information to external entities without customer consent. If such a need arises in the future, we will notify customers of the outsourcing recipient and the outsourcing tasks and obtain prior consent.
• 8.Rights of Users and Legal Representatives, and Methods of Exercise
  Users and legal representatives may request to view or modify their personal information or request withdrawal of membership at any time. For inquiries regarding the modification of personal information (or member information modification, etc.) and withdrawal of membership (withdrawal of consent), you can click on "Withdraw Membership" after going through the identification process or contact the personal information management officer in writing, by phone, or by email for prompt action.
• 9.Handling of Complaints Regarding Personal Information
  Gwangju Food Expo has designated relevant departments and a personal information management officer to protect customer personal information and handle complaints related to personal information.
• 10.Installation, Operation, and Rejection of Automatic Collection Devices for Personal Information
  We operate 'cookies' and similar technologies that store and retrieve your information on a regular basis. Cookies are very small text files sent by the server operating the Gwangju Food Expo website to your browser, where they are stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies for the following purposes:

[Purposes of Using Cookies:]

• - Analyzing the frequency of visits and times of both members and non-members.
• - Understanding user preferences and areas of interest, tracking behaviors, and identifying participation levels and visit frequencies in various events.
• - Targeted marketing and providing personalized services.
• You have the option to accept or refuse cookie installation. Therefore, you can set your web browser options to allow all cookies, request confirmation every time cookies are stored, or refuse all cookies

[Method for Refusing Cookie Settings:]

• For example, to refuse cookie settings, you can select options in your web browser to allow all cookies, request confirmation every time cookies are stored, or refuse all cookies.
• Example of Settings (for Internet Explorer): Tools at the top of your web browser > Internet Options > Privacy.
• However, refusing cookie installation may make it difficult to provide services.
• 11.Complaint Service Regarding Personal Information
• To protect customer personal information and handle complaints related to personal information, we have designated the following relevant department and personal information manager.