Busan Cultural Tourism Festival Organizing Committee (the “Committee”) values your personal information and complies with the
Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea. This Privacy Policy explains
how personal information is collected, used, retained, and protected on this website.
1. Purpose of Processing
The Committee processes personal information for the following purposes only, and does not use it for
any other purpose without obtaining separate consent.
- Handling inquiries and providing responses
- Receiving applications for festival programs, events, and volunteer participation
- Notifying winners of events and delivering prizes
- Compiling statistics for service improvement
2. Items Collected
| Category | Items |
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| Inquiries / Bulletin boards | Name, email address, contact number, content of inquiry |
| Program & volunteer applications | Name, date of birth, contact number, email address, address |
| Automatically generated | IP address, access logs, cookies, browser and device information |
3. Retention and Use Period
Personal information is destroyed without delay once the purpose of processing has been achieved.
Where retention is required by law, the information is kept for the period prescribed by that law.
- Records on consumer complaints or dispute settlement: 3 years (Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce)
- Website visit records: 3 months (Protection of Communications Secrets Act)
4. Provision to Third Parties
The Committee does not provide personal information to third parties, except where the data subject has
given prior consent or where required by law.
5. Rights of Data Subjects
You may at any time request access to, correction of, deletion of, or suspension of processing of your
personal information. Requests may be submitted in writing, by email, or by fax, and the Committee will act
on them without delay. You may also exercise these rights through a legal representative or an authorized agent.
6. Destruction Procedure
Personal information in electronic form is deleted using technical methods that make the records
unrecoverable. Information printed on paper is shredded or incinerated.
7. Security Measures
- Minimising the number of staff handling personal information and providing regular training
- Establishing and implementing an internal management plan
- Restricting access to personal information processing systems
- Encrypting information during storage and transmission
- Installing and updating security programs
8. Cookies
This website uses cookies to store and retrieve usage information in order to provide a customised service.
You may refuse cookies through your web browser settings (Tools → Internet Options → Privacy).
Refusing cookies may limit the use of some services.
9. Privacy Officer
| Privacy Officer | Head of General Affairs, Busan Cultural Tourism Festival Organizing Committee |
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| Contact | Tel. 051-713-5000 · Fax. 051-713-5009 |
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| Address | 2F, 28 Chungnyeol-daero 237beon-gil, Dongnae-gu, Busan 47813, Republic of Korea |
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10. Remedies for Infringement
If you need to report or seek counselling regarding an infringement of personal information, please contact
the following organisations.
- Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee — kopico.go.kr / 1833-6972
- Korea Internet & Security Agency, Privacy Report Centre — privacy.kisa.or.kr / 118
- Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Cybercrime Investigation Division — spo.go.kr / 1301
- National Police Agency, Cyber Bureau — ecrm.police.go.kr / 182
11. Changes to this Policy
Any addition, deletion, or amendment to this Privacy Policy will be announced on this website at least
seven days before it takes effect.
This website refuses unauthorized collection of email addresses posted on its pages by using automated
email-collecting programs or any other technical means. Violation of this policy is subject to criminal
punishment under the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and
Information Protection.
Article 50-2 (Prohibition of Unauthorized Collection of Email Addresses)
- No one shall collect email addresses by using an automatic email address collecting program or other
technical devices from a website where the operator or manager has explicitly refused such collection.
- No one shall sell or distribute email addresses collected in violation of paragraph (1).
- No one shall use, for the purpose of transmitting information, email addresses collected, sold, or
distributed in violation of paragraphs (1) and (2), while being aware of such violation.
Contact
Busan Cultural Tourism Festival Organizing Committee
2F, 28 Chungnyeol-daero 237beon-gil, Dongnae-gu, Busan 47813, Republic of Korea
Tel. 051-713-5000 · Fax. 051-713-5009
