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Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

This website is operated by The Sunfull Foundation. This website, including all information, is offered to you, the user, based on the terms stated herein.

1. Accuracy, Completeness, and Timeliness of Information

All material contained on this website is provided without any warranty of any kind. You use the content at your own discretion.

2. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

This website is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, and accuracy.

The Sunfull Foundation makes no warranty that the functionality of this website will be uninterrupted, continuous, or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or anything else that may be harmful or destructive.

3. Copyright

The content of this site is the copyrighted property of The Sunfull Foundation.

4. Changes to this website

The Sunfull Foundation reserves the right to change or remove (temporarily or permanently) this website or any part of it without notice and will not be liable for any such change.

5. Severability

If any of these Terms of Use should be determined to be invalid for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction then such Term of Use will be severed and the remaining Terms of Use will survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

6. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Republic of Korea. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use shall be submitted for exclusive resolution by the Seoul Central District Court as the court of first instance.

7. Governing Language

The English language version of these Terms of Use are controlling in all respects, notwithstanding any translation of these Terms of Use.

Privacy

1. Types of personal data we collect and use

The Sunfull Foundation does not directly collect nor save user information through this website beyond recording information required for compliance with the provisions of personal information protection under the relevant laws and regulations such as the Republic of Korea’s Protection of Communications Secrets Act, Personal Information Protection Act, Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. (e.g. IP addresses and dates & times of visits to the site).

If you contact us via email or a contact page, we will retain your name and email address.

2. How and for what purpose we use your personal data

We may use your data to:

  • verify your identity;
  • provide you with user support and improve our services based on your feedback;
  • administer the website including troubleshooting;
  • enforce and notify you of changes to our terms of service, conditions and policies; and
  • communicate with you.

In order to comply with our legal obligations and as necessary to perform tasks in the public interest or to protect the vital interests of our users and other people, we use your data to help us prevent and respond to abuse, fraud, illegal activity and other potentially harmful content relating to the website.

3. Who else will access your personal data and how we share your data

We will never provide your information to any third-parties without your express permission except for the circumstances below.

We may share your IP address with our comment hosting provider, LiveRe, in order to show you nominations that have already been submitted.

If you want to submit a nomination, this is done through the LiveRe comment hosting system, which requires you authenticate who you are by logging into LiveRe using a social networking account. LiveRe does not provide your social networking account information to the Sunfull Foundation.

We nor LiveRe place web browser cookies on your device other than session cookies once you have logged in to LiveRe. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser tab or leave our site.

4. How long do we keep your personal data

We retain your data for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the service so that we can fulfil our obligations and rights in relation to the data involved. However, there are occasions where we are likely to keep this data for longer in accordance with our legal obligations or where it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

5. Children

When we collect personal information for children under the age of 14, we collect the minimum personal information necessary to perform the service with the consent of the legal representative.

6. Destruction of personal data

We destroy the personal data without delay when the personal data becomes unnecessary, such as the retention period has expired or the purpose for which we have collected your personal data has been achieved.

If it is necessary to maintain the personal data in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, we will move the personal data to a separate database or store the same in a different storage location.

7. Your Rights

You may have the following rights under applicable laws:

  • the right to request free of charge (i) confirmation of whether we process your personal data and (ii) access to a copy of the personal data we process about you;
  • the right to request rectification or removal of your personal data or restriction of the processing of your personal data; and
  • the right to object to processing your personal data for the purposes of sending you electronic direct marketing messages.

Before we can respond to a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you may be required to verify your identity or your account details.

Please send an e-mail to if you would like to exercise any of your rights. We will respond to your request in line with applicable law and subject to proper verification.

8. Security of your personal data

We take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, for example, by encryption, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted via the website; any transmission is at your own risk.

We will, from time to time, include links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we do not accept any responsibility for any use of your personal data by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that such third parties will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as us. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

9. Changes to these Policies

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time. Your continued use of this website following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about these Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, you may contact our Personal Information Protection Officer, Director Chan-sung Lee by email at: .

Updated September 15, 2022