This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains the way of treatment of the information which is provided or collected in the websites on which this Policy is posted. In addition the Policy also explains the information which is provided or collected in the course of using the applications of the Company which exist in the websites or platforms of other company.
CWave Inc. and its affiliate ("CWave", the "Companies", "we", "our" or "us") are dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of our users ("users" or "you"). This Privacy Policy describes the way that we collect, store, use and manage the information, including personal information, which you provide or we collect in connection with our products, mobile applications, services and websites (together "services"). It could be amended by changing related laws and guidelines, and company policies.
We use personal information within the guideline: “1. How we collect your data”, “2. How we use the information we collect”. Also we must take your agreement if exceeded this range or amended your information.
Some terms used herein are defined in the last paragraph of the Privacy Policy. Please refer below for definitions. This Privacy Policy is governed by and incorporated by reference into the Terms available at Terms of Service, and should be interpreted consistent therewith.
You may be able to access third party services (including through links, advertisements, or other means), including social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, from our Applications. When doing so, please understand that those third parties have their own set of information practices. We strongly recommend that you read their privacy policies and terms and conditions of use to understand how they collect, use, and share information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content on the websites of third parties.
Index of Contents
1. Information to be collected and method of collection
2. Modification of Privacy Protection Policy
3. Information Practices Concerning Children
4. How We Use The Information We Collect
5. Your California Privacy Rights
6. Third Party Terms and Conditions
7. Security of Your Information
8. Sharing of Your Information
9. Users' Right to Access and Option
10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
11. Responsible department of Company
12. Definitions
1. Information to be Collected and Method of Collection
You consent to us collecting the following information, including both Personal Information and non-Personal Information:
The Company guides several additional matters to be disclosed as required by the information network laws and personal information protection laws in the Republic of Korea as follows:
For providing services, register, promotion events; we may collect information about you, your device, and your usage in certain circumstances, including:
(1) Information collected
The items collected by the Company are as follows:
• Examples of required information Title of service
Title of service
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Items to be collected(examples)
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Internet membership service
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∘ Name, email address, ID, telephone number, address, national information, encoded identification information (CI), identification information of overlapped membership (DI)
∘ For minors, information of legal representatives (name, birth date, CI and DI of legal representatives)
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Online payment service
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∘ Name, address, telephone number, and email address
∘ For payment with credit card: name of card company, number and expiration of card
∘ For small sum payment charged on the mobile phone: mobile phone number,
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payment approval number
∘ For payment by remittance: name of bank, account number and password of account
∘ For deposit without a bankbook: name of remitter, contact information
∘ Delivery information including delivery address, name and contact information of recipient
∘ Information of bid, purchase and sales
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Social network service
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∘ Name, email address, ID, telephone number, address, national information, address list (acquaintance)
∘ Information of place of taking pictures and date of creation of files
∘ Information of service use of members such as the type of contents watched or used by members, frequencies and period of activities of members
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In the course of using services, the information as described below may be created and collected:
∘ Information of devices (equipment/device identifier, operation system, hardware version, equipment set-up and telephone number)
∘ Log information (Log data, use time, search word input by users, internet protocol address, cookie and web beacon)
∘ Location information (Information of device location including specific geographical location detected through GPS, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi)
∘ Other created information
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• Examples of optional items
The user may reject the collection and use of optional items and, even in case of rejection, there is no limit on use of services.
Purpose of collection
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Items to be collected(examples)
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User analysis
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∘ The reason for membership, occupation, marriage status, wedding anniversary, interest category and SNS account information
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Provision of customized ad
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∘ Contents and result of marketing activities and event participation
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Delivery of urgent notice
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∘ Information provided by the users regarding execution, maintenance, execution, management of other agreements and event participation
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Marketing
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∘ Preference, advertisement environment, visited pages regarding service use of users
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The user may reject the collection and use of optional items and, even in case of rejection, there is no limit on use of services
2. Modification of Privacy Protection Policy
The Company has the right to amend or modify this Policy from time to time and, in such case, the Company will make a public notice of it through bulletin board of its website (or through individual notice such as written document, fax or e-mail) and obtain consent from the users if required by relevant laws.
3. Information Practices Concerning Children
In principle, CWave does not collect any information from the children under 13 or equivalent minimum age as prescribed in the laws in relevant jurisdiction. The website, products and services of the Company are the ones to be provided to ordinary people, in principle. The website or application of the Company has function to do age limit so that children cannot use it and the Company does not intentionally collect any personal information from children through that function.
(Additional procedure for collecting personal information from children) However, if the Company collects any personal information from children under 13 or equivalent minimum age as prescribed in the laws in relevant jurisdiction for the services for unavoidable reason, the Company will go through the additional procedure of the followings for protecting that personal information of children:
◌ obtain consent from the parents or guardian of children so as to collect personal information of children or directly send the information of products and services of the Company
◌ give the parents or guardian of children a notice of Company's policy of privacy protection for children including the items, purpose and sharing of personal information collected
◌ grant to legal representatives of children a right to access to personal information of that children/correction or deletion of personal information/temporary suspension of treatment of personal information/ and request for withdrawal of their consent provided before
◌ limit the amount of personal information exceeding those necessary for participation in online activities
If you have additional questions about our Privacy Practices related to children under 13 years of age, please contact us at support@cwave.net.
4. How We Use the Information We Collect
4. How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use the information we collect in the following ways:
◌ To create your account, which allows you to play our games and communicate with other CWave Inc. users;
◌ To provide you with a customized or personalized experience;
◌ To provide you with technical support or to respond to your questions or comments;
◌ To identify and suggest connections with other CWave Inc. users or to send invitations on your behalf to your social networking friends or contacts in your address book;
◌ For legal purposes, for example to enforce our Terms or to prevent fraud or other illegal activities;
◌ To provide you with relevant and targeted or direct advertising from CWave Inc. or third parties;
◌ To send you e-mails with useful updates or promotions about our Applications and other products and services;
◌ To send you notifications (SMS, push, remote, or local) on your mobile device to provide you with useful information about our Applications and other products and services (to learn how you can manage the types of notifications you receive, follow the instructions under Section 6, “Your Choices”).
5. Your California Privacy Rights
In some circumstances, California residents would have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for the purpose of direct marketing. If you have any questions regarding our practices, please email us at support@cwave.net.
6. Third Party Terms and Conditions
The website, product or service of the Company may include the links to the ones of a 3rd party and the privacy protection policy of the site of 3rd party may be different. Thus, it is required for the users to check additionally that policy of a 3rd party site linked to the site of the Company.
7. Security of Your Information
The Company regards the security of personal information of uses as very important. The company constructs the following security measures to protect the users' personal information from any unauthorized access, release, use or modification.
l Technical Measures
◌ Users’ privacy are encrypted, information only changed and view through personal request.
◌ We allow you to send personal information over the network securely through encrypted communications.
◌ We are committed to prevent the personal information by hacking or computer viruses that leaks or damaged.
◌ We are in contrast to the situation and to regularly back up your personal data, using antivirus programs and taking steps to prevent the damage caused by computer viruses.
◌ CWave have several measures to strengthen security system; access control to system and rights management such as vulnerability assessment.
l Administrative Measures
◌ CWave has limited access to the personal information of users with minimal personnel, the corresponding to the minimum of personnel as follows:
A. Marketing and against users directly, events, customer support, game operations, who carried out the shipping business. (Including consignment, employees of contractor)
B. Personal Information Manager such as those who carried out the personal information management
C. Person who is inevitable handling of personal information and other business.
◌ CWave conducts regular training about privacy and the privacy obligations to the target handlers.
◌ Privacy department dedicated to the privacy policy and the problem by checking the internal compliance found, immediately trying to make it right.
◌ To your carelessness or a problem on the Internet, about the problems that occurred the leakage of personal information such as password, the company assumes no responsibility.
8. Sharing of Your Information
We will not share your information with others in principle. However, if the user agrees in advance, the following cases are the exception; With respect to your non-Personal Information (such as anonymous, aggregated statistical data), we may share such information with third parties for various purposes, including for the purpose of explaining our user demographics or improving the quality or delivery of our services and the marketing materials available through the Applications. Although we will not share your Personal Information with third parties for the purpose of enabling third parties to send marketing materials to you about their products or the products of others, we may use third party advertisers to deliver advertising within the mobile environment.
◌ Third Party Service Providers: We may use third party service providers, such as payment gateway companies, platform service companies, and analytics companies, to help us provide or improve the Applications we offer you. We may share your Personal Information with these third party service providers so that they may provide their services to us.
◌ Game Events: For some game related events, we may share information, including your profile and nicknames, with third parties.
◌ Sale or Merger: If CWave is involved in a major business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of its assets, we may transfer your Personal Information to the successor organization in such transition. If material changes to CWave’s privacy practices will occur as a result of the business transition, we will amend the Privacy Policy and the Personal Information you previously submitted will continue to be treated pursuant to the last version of the Privacy Policy you agreed to unless you continue to use the Applications, which usage shall constitute consent to the new practices.
◌ Legal Purposes: We may provide your Personal Information to third parties where we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law or to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities. We may also provide your Personal Information to third parties in order to protect the rights or property of a third party or CWave, including enforcing our Terms.
◌ Data transmission: Considering it engages in global businesses, the Company may provide the users' personal information to the companies located in other countries for the purpose as expressly stated in this Policy. For the places where the personal information is transmitted, retained or processed, the Company takes reasonable measures for protecting that personal information. (If used in the US, additional security measures may be available) In addition, when the personal information obtained from the European Union is used or disclosed, the Company may have to comply with safe harbor principle as required by the Commerce Department of USA, take other measures or obtain consent from users so far as those complies with the regulations of EU so as to use a standardized agreement provision approved by executing organizations of EU or securing proper safe measures.
9. Users' Right to Access and Option
CWave provides you with a variety of choices to control the use and sharing of your information, including your personal information. Furthermore, the users or their legal representatives, as main agents of the information, may exercise the following options regarding the collection, use and sharing of personal information by the Company:
◌ Notifications (SMS, Push, Remote, and Local). You can usually opt out of receiving notifications by following these steps: (1) Go to Menu; (2) Settings; (3) Push “off” under “Push Notifications”. When we receive an opt-out request from you, we may send you a message confirming our receipt of your opt-out request.
◌ Accessing Your Contacts. We offer you the ability to locate, invite, and play games with your contacts. To do so, CWave may need to access your address book or social networking friends lists. We will ask you for your opt in permission before we access and store your contacts.
◌ Cookies. You may be able to manually delete HTML cookies and set your browser to refuse HTML cookies by going into your browser’s settings. Note though that doing so may affect your experience with our Applications.
◌ User Profiles. You can change and update information in your user profile at any time. The information your previously provided may continue to be stored, however.
◌ Ads. Advertising associations offer methods (http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/) by which you may be able to opt out of receiving behavioral advertising.
◌ Personal Information. You may at any time indicate that you wish us to stop processing your Personal Information (if such Personal Information is necessary for you to have an account, you will no longer be able to use the Game and may no longer be able to use other aspects of the Service).
10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we amend this Privacy Policy, we will notify you and other users by Posting a revised version of the Privacy Policy. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will take effect upon Posting on the effective date which is Posted at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Applications after any such changes signifies your acceptance thereof.
11. Responsible department of Company
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or our information practices generally, you can e-mail us at support@cwave.net. We allow you to access and change or modify your information as previously provided. You may do so by accessing and modifying your information through the Applications. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making changes or modifications. Unfortunately, we cannot always ensure that such changes or modifications will be reflected in all iterations of your information as previously stored.
• Department responsible for privacy protection and customer service:
Address:
8F, Samjeung Building, 20, Teheran-ro 20-gil, Seoul, Republic of Korea (06235)
12. Definitions
“Applications”: Our communications tools, which may heretofore or hereafter be accessed by users through any medium or device now known or hereafter devised, including but not limited to communication tools such as websites, software, mobile games and applications. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new tools that alter or improve the current Applications shall be included in the definition of “Applications.”
“Including”: “Include,” “Includes,” “Including,” “include,” “includes,” and “including” herein mean including without limitation.
“Personal Information”: Any information concerning the personal and material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. This includes information like name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number, but also usage date in some cases. Usage data are data required to use our website, for instance information about start, end and extent of website use as well as login data.
“Post”: To upload, post, create, make available, send, share, communicate or transmit.
“Privacy Policy”: This policy available at Privacy Policy.
“Terms”: The terms and conditions, available at Terms of Service, and the Privacy Policy, available at Privacy Policy.
The latest update date: 2018.7.11
Effective Date: 2018.7.18
