- Article 1
- Purpose
- Article 2
- Definition
- Article 3
- Effectiveness, Application and Revision
- Article 4
- Rules Other Than the Agreement
- Article 5
- Conclusion of the Agreement
- Article 6
- Protection and Use of Personal Information
- Article 7
- Provision of Information and Advertisement
- Article 8
- Obligations of Company
- Article 9
- Obligations of Users
- Article 10
- Provision of Services
- Article 11
- Change and Suspension
- Article 12
- Purchase of Paid Contents
- Article 13
- Payment
- Article 14
- Withdrawal of Subscription and Refund
- Article 15
- Termination and Suspension of Use
- Article 16
- Compensation for Damages
- Article 17
- Indemnity
- Article 18
- Jurisdiction and Governing Law
- Appendix
Article 1 Purpose
The Agreement on Using the Services (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) shall define the rights and obligations and basic provisions in relation to all the game services (hereinafter referred to as the “Services”) provided by ESTgames Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) and the users.
Article 2 Definition
1. Terminologies used in the Agreement shall be defined as follows:
① “User(s)” means the clients using all the game services provided by the Company.
②“Services” mean all the game services provided by the Company.
③ “Contents” mean all the contents produced in digital method in relation to all the games, network services, application, game items, etc provided by the Company.
④ “Device” means PC, mobile phone, smart phone, PDA, tablet PC, mobile game machine, console game machine, etc to download or install the Contents.
⑤ “Application” means all the programs to download or install at a device to use the Services provided by the Company.
2. Definition on the terminologies used in the Agreement shall refer to the applicable laws and regulations except the definition as set forth in Clause 1 hereinabove. Any matters not stipulated in the applicable laws and regulations shall follow common commercial practices prevailing at the time of executing the Agreement in Korea.
Article 3 Effectiveness, Application and Revision of the Agreement
1. The Agreement shall be specified on the web site of the Company or in the application to use the Services in consideration of the characteristics of the agreement on using the Services and be effective when the users fulfill the given procedures in accordance with Clause 2, Article 5 herein.
2. Users are ought to confirm whether or not the Agreement are revised by visiting the web site of the Company from time to time or checking the banner windows of the said web site.
3. The Company may revise the Agreement unless the revision violates applicable laws, regulations or commercial practices prevailing at the time in Korea when the revision is made.
4. Company may revise the Agreement whenever such revision is deemed necessary. In the event the Agreement are revised, Company shall announce such revision on the Company’s web site or on-line 7 days prior to the effective date, specifying the said date.
5. Users are entitled to refuse the revised Agreement. Users objecting such revision may suspend using the Services and terminate the agreement of using the Agreement. Users are regarded to have agreed upon the revised Agreement unless the Users refuse such revision explicitly, in spite that the Company made announcement or notice clearly when the revised Agreement were announced or notified that Users would be regarded to have agreed upon the revised Agreement unless the Users refuse the Agreement within specified time.
Article 4 Rules Other Than the Agreement
1. Any matters not specified herein may be defined by separate agreement or policy of the Company and such agreement or policy shall comply with the applicable laws or regulations enacted by Korean government or commercial practices prevailing at the time in Korea when the said agreement or policy is implemented.
Article 5 Conclusion of the Agreement
1. Users agree that by accessing and/or using our Services, Users are agreeing to these terms and our Privacy Policy. Therefore, agreement for using the Services shall be concluded by installing the application and/or accessing our services by the Users.
Article 6 Protection and Use of Personal Information
1. Company shall endeavor to protect personal information of the Users including the information registered by the Users in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations, and protection and use of the personal information shall comply with the applicable laws or regulations and Company policy concerned. However, personal information policy of the Company does not apply to the sites other than official web site of the Company.
2. Company may request the Users of the copy of their identification card or certificate if necessary to verify the identification of the Users, notifying the reasons (or use) to the Users. Company cannot use such identification card or certificate other than the purpose notified to the Users and when the purpose is achieved, such card or certificate should be destroyed without delay.
3. Company shall not provide others with personal information of the Users without consent of the Users except the request by the applicable state agencies according to the applicable laws or regulations.
4. Users may manage their personal information in good faith for Service usage and smooth provision of information, and shall make revisions when modifications occur. In no event Company shall be responsible for the personal information and other kind of information disclosed due to the faults of the Users.
Article 7 Provision of Information and Advertisement
1. Company may carry advertisement to maintain the Services and the Users agree upon the advertisements disclosed when the Users use the Services.
2. Company shall not be responsible for the loss or damage incurred to the Users participating in the advertisement of which subject is a third party, provided by the Company or those communicating or dealing.
3. Company may request the Users of additional personal information for the purpose of improving the Services and introducing the Services for the Users and the Users may accept or refuse supplying their additional personal information to the Company.
4. Company may send the advertisement as set forth in the aforementioned Clause 1 and the information of Clause 3 above to the Users through SMS (LMS), smart phone notice (Push notice) or e mail, making use of the personal information collected subject to the prior consent of the Users thereupon. Users may refuse receiving such advertisement or information, and if the User opt-out from receiving such advertisement or information, the Company shall not send to the User.
Article 8 Obligations of Company
1. Company shall not commit any behavior prohibited by the applicable laws or regulations and the Agreement and endeavor to provide stable Services continuously.
2. Company shall build security systems to protect personal information of the Users to use the Services safely and announce and comply with the policy of handling personal information.
3. Company is entitled to use personal information of the Users to provide Services but shall not provide a third party with such information without prior consent of the Users thereupon, except when relevant agencies of the government request to provide such information in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations such as but not limited to the Framework Act on Telecommunications.
4. Company shall process any opinions or complaints raised by the Users if such opinions or complaints are regarded to be reasonable. However, if such opinions or complaints cannot be processes immediately, Company shall notify the Users of the reasons and the time schedule to process.
Article 9 Obligations of the Users
1. Users shall comply with the provisions of the Agreement and applicable laws and regulations while the Users use the Services provided by the Company. Users should not commit any behavior to disturb the business of Company.
2. Users shall inform the Company of any bug or system error found while they use the Contents and network services for the Company to correct such bug or error.
3.Users shall be responsible for the devices which downloaded or installed the Contents and the devices should be kept and managed for others to be unable to use the Contents or network services without the consent of the Users.
4. Users should not use the Services provided by the Company for other purposes than what are specified in the Agreement or act any of the following:
① When Users provide the Company of their personal information for client inquiry or winning a prize, Users provide the information not under real name or use other’s information or provide false entry.
② Illegal use of ID and passwords of other Users, or purchase of paid contents by other’s credit card, wired/wireless phones or bank account without consent of the owner,
③ Dealing paid Contents, items or money with others through the services not provided by the Company.
④ Duplication, distribution or commercial use of the information obtained through the Services or application of the Company without prior written consent of the Company.
⑤ Creating profit of fortune for the Users or others making use of the Services or application of the Company.
⑥ Damaging other’s reputation or causing loss to the others or collecting, distributing or posting personal information of the others without prior written approval of the Company thereupon.
⑦ Infringing rights of the others including but not limited to the intellectual property rights or portrait rights of the Company and a third party
⑧ Exchanging or posting obscene or vulgar information or linking obscene web site, or posting advertisement or promotional materials without written prior written approval by the Company.
⑨ Inducing or participating in the act of speculation such as gambling over money or property.
⑩ Transmitting, reaching or distributing words, sound, writing, video or image that arouse sense of shame, disgust or horror to the others.
⑪ Obtaining profit by deceiving others or causing damage to a third party making unhealthy use of the Services provided by the Company
⑫ Transmitting, posting, distributing or using the information (computer program) of which transmitting or posting is prohibited by the applicable laws or regulations, or software virus which was produced to disturb or destroy normal operation of computer software, hardware, or telecommunication equipments or data containing other computer code, file or program produced for the aforementioned purpose.
⑬ Altering the application without particular rights of the Company, adding or inserting other program to the application, hacking a server or altering the website in part or in its entirety.
⑭ Impersonating or disguising as a Company employee or system operator, posting writings or sending e mails under other’s name
⑮ Violating public order and traditional custom or illegal or unfair behavior or violating the applicable laws or regulations.
5. Users should check the notice carried in the web site of Company or application and revised provisions of the Agreement from time to time.
Article 10 Provision of Services
1. Services shall be provided by the Company 24 hours a day throughout the year in principle unless temporary suspension of the Services is inevitable for the Company business requirements or special obstacles. Temporary suspension of the Services, however, may be carried out due to operational requirements such as but not limited to regular system maintenance, establishing additional server or replacing a server, adding new contents, patching various bugs or replacing with new Services. In such event, Company shall announce the reasons and time of temporary suspension in the Company web site or application. If, however, Company cannot make prior notice thereupon, post hoc notice can be made to the Users.
2. Company shall provide the members of following services:
① Services and additional Services
② Social network services (SNS)
③ All the Services developed by the Company or jointly with other companies
3. Company shall provide the Users with the Services using the application or networks designated for smart devices and the Users can install the application by downloading or use the networks to use free or paid Services.
4. For the Services using the application downloaded or networks, Company shall provide the Services to be suitable for the device or the characteristics of the carriers. In no event Company shall be responsible for the non availability of using the Contents in part or in its entirety due to alteration of the device or roaming overseas.
5. Company may limit the time to use the Services or depending on the Users in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations or government policy concerned. Company shall not be responsible for such limitation and any matters occurred by such restriction.
Article 11 Change and Suspension
1. Company may change the Services according to operational or technical requirements of the Company. Description on the change and date of providing such change shall be announced in advance on the web site of Company or on the initial screen appearing after executing the application. In case of, however, occurrence of fatal bug, failure of a server, or urgent settlement of security problem that the Company cannot make announcement in advance, post hoc announcement thereon may be made.
2. In the event Company needs to suspend all the Services due to planning, operational or urgent situation of Company, Company may suspend providing the Services with 30 days prior posting on the Company web site or announcement on the initial screen after executing the application. Users, in such case, are not allowed to ask providing the Services continuously or request to refund for the remaining period of the paid Contents. For the paid items of which warranty period is shown as “Permanent” or such items of no warranty period (hereinafter called as “Permanent Item”), period of using the items is regarded to be until the closing date announced in the announcement of suspending the Services.
3. Company may limit or suspend all or part of the Services in case of:
① Force majeure such as but not limited to war, incident, natural disaster or state of national emergency
② Providing normal services are disturbed by power failure, obstacle to providing services or deluge of using the services
③ Unavoidable situation due to repairing the facilities to provide the Services
④ When the Services cannot be provided any more due to the situations of the Company
4. Company shall not be responsible for any problems incurred by change or suspension of the Services as set forth in Clauses 1 through 3 above.
Article 12 Purchase of Paid Contents
1. Users may purchase paid Contents in accordance with the payment policy of the application store business operator or platform provider according to the device using the Services. Such purchase will be subject to its terms of service and user agreement.
2. Users do not own the Virtual Goods and/or Virtual Money but instead Users purchase a limited personal revocable license to use them - any balance of Virtual Goods and/or Virtual Money does not reflect any stored value. Users agree that once purchase is made on the paid Contents, either in form of Virtual Money or Virtual Goods, have no monetary value and can never be exchanged for real money, real goods or real services from us or anyone else.
3. Users can access the paid Contents only in their own account unless the Company specifies it otherwise and the Contents purchased cannot be assigned, rent or sold to a third party. If Users do not connect the game play on a device to an account that is linked to a social network account, Company will not be able to restore any Virtual Money or other data associated with the Game play to a different device if Users lose that device or it is damaged.
4. The Company reserves the right to control, regulate, change or remove any Virtual Money or Virtual Goods without any liability to Users. The pricing for Virtual Goods and Virtual Money offered through the Services may be revised by the Company at any time.
5. If the Company suspend or terminate User's account in accordance with these terms, Users may lose any Virtual Money and Virtual Goods in the account and Company will not compensate Users for this loss or make any refund.
Article 13 Payment
1. Payment for the paid Contents shall be made in accordance with the payment method and policy of the telecommunication company or platform business operator connected with the application store operator or the own method and policy of the application store operator. Furthermore, amount of payment may vary depending upon the payment method and policy of the aforementioned company or operator.
2. Company shall not be responsible for the User’s payment for a third party caused by not using the function of establishing passwords of a device and application store or disclosing such passwords carelessly.
Article 14 Withdrawal of Subscription and Refund
1. Paid Contents purchased by the Users may be cancelled (withdrawal of subscription) without paying any fee within 7 days from the date of executing an agreement or the date available to use the paid Contents. However, for the paid Contents which were given free of charge by the Company or a third party as a gift or event, or the paid Contents used already or deemed to be used at the time of withdrawal of subscription or some other paid Contents with similar nature, withdrawal of subscription (cancelling purchase) may be limited according to the Act on the Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Transactions, etc and the Online Digital Contents Industry Development Act. In such case, Company shall take measures as defined by the applicable laws or regulations such as making announcement when the relevant paid Contents are purchased.
2. Withdrawal of subscription shall be limited under any of the following and Company shall express the paid Contents of which withdrawal of subscription is restricted before making payment for such paid Contents:
① For the paid Contents which start to be used immediately after purchase or application is applied to immediately.
② For the Contents acquired without payment during normal use of the application
③ For the Contents given additional benefits, such additional benefits were used.
④ When part of the Contents sold in package was used.
⑤ In case opening can be regarded to be use or the paid Contents of capsule type or probability type of which use is decided when opening
3. Refund shall be made in accordance with the refund policy of each application store operator depending on the operating system of the device using the Services.
4. Such paid Contents as were acquired for compensation during service, not by payment settlement which records actual and normal purchase details or those which were given by the Company on the occasion of the Company’s own event or joint event with other companies shall not be subject to refund.
5. In the event Users convert into free contents using paid Contents, Users are regarded to have expressed their intension to use them. In case the basic unit to be able to purchase within the Services is damaged by partial or whole use, Company may judge that the Users have expressed their intension to use them. Furthermore, when the Users went through the procedures of agreement like “Accept” on the screen related to transmitting and receiving the paid Contents such as Message Box or Gift Box, such Users are regarded to have expressed their intension to use the Contents.
6. In the event Users request refund or withdraw their subscription, such request will be processed by confirming the contents of purchase by the Company after going through the procedure of agreement on using personal information with the Customer Service of the Company and the contract company designated by the Company. During the course, contents of purchase of the Users will be confirmed with the platform operator or application store operator. Company may contact the Users to confirm the exact reason of withdrawal from subscription through the information provided by the Users and Company may request the Users of any additional information.
7. In case a minor made payment for the paid Contents sold at the application, without the approval of legal representative, such minor or the legal representative are entitled to cancel the payment for application. However, if the payment for the paid Contents by a minor reaches within the scope of the property allowed by the legal representative to dispose of or in case a minor made the Company believe the minor to be an adult by an evil trick, cancellation shall be limited. Judging a purchaser of paid Contents is a minor or not shall be based on the owner of the payment method such as the device processing payment or a credit card. When cancellation of payment by a minor is applied, document proving a minor and legal representative should be submitted in accordance with the requirements of the Company.
8. Paid Contents of application follows the payment method provided by the application market operators and thus if over or under payment occurs during payment procedures, Users should ask such application market operator to refund. However, if available according to the policy or system of the application market operators, Company may request the application market operator of fulfilling refund procedure.
9. Company shall try to complete refund as soon as possible from when relevant document required for refund is submitted by the Users to the Company.
Article 15 Termination and Suspension of Use
1. Users may terminate the agreement for using the Services whenever they do not want using the Services by withdrawal from a membership. Request of withdrawal shall be processed immediately and contents information owned by the Users shall be deleted and they cannot be recovered. In such case Company shall not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred to such Users.
2. Company is entitled to terminate or suspend the Agreement without prior notice or suspend using the Services within specified period, if the Users commit any of the following:
① If Users register false information when apply for the Services or use other’s service ID, passwords or payment information illegally.
② If Users disturb operating the Services intentionally or transmit bulk information for the purpose of disturbing stable operation of the Services or advertising information.
③ If Users harm other’s reputation or cause disadvantage to others
④ If Users infringe intellectual property rights of the Company or other members or other persons
⑤ If Users distribute computer virus programs causing malfunction of information telecommunication equipment or destroying information or data
⑥ In case Korea Internet Safety Commission or similar government agency requests correction or National Election Commission made authoritative interpretation on particular contents in relation to illegal election campaign.
⑦ If Users duplicate or distribute the information obtained using the service information of the Company without prior written approval of the Company or make commercial use of such information or send any messages assuming the service of the Company.
⑧ If Users post obscene material or link with obscene web site
⑨ In case Users violate Article 9 (Obligations of Users) herein.
3. If Company terminates the Agreement or suspends providing the Services according to Clause 2 hereinabove, Users cannot use the Contents downloaded and the payment made already to purchase the Contents, data bill, monthly service charge paid cannot be refunded to such Users.
Article 16 Compensation for Damages
1. Any loss or damage incurred to the Company by the Users due to violating the provisions of this Agreement should be compensated by such Users breaching this Agreement.
2. Users should indemnify and hold the Company harmless from and against any and all third party claims, damages, liabilities, loss arising in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against the Company insofar as such suit or proceeding shall be based upon a claim of tort or violation of this Agreement by such Users. Users should compensate all the loss and damages incurred to the Company arising or in connection with any such suit or proceeding as above unless the Users indemnify and hold the Company harmless from and against any and all third party claims, damages, liabilities or loss.
3. Company shall not be responsible for the loss or damages incurred to the Users by any faults not attributable to the Company. However, for the loss due to gross negligence of the Company, Company shall process the standard on compensating the damages to the members, scope, method and procedures in accordance with the “Guide to Protecting the Digital Contents Users”.
Article 17 Indemnity
1. Company’s liability for providing the Services shall be indemnified if the Services cannot be provided due to force majeure including but not limited to war, incident or natural disaster.
2. Company shall not be responsible for terminating the Agreement or suspending the Services due to the faults attributable to the Users.
3. Company’s liability for the loss or damages exempted against the suspended network services or abnormal provision of the Services by a mobile telecommunication operator.
4. Company’s liability for the suspension of providing the Services shall be exempted if such suspensions is announced in advance or is unavoidable due to urgent maintenance of facilities, replacement, regular inspection or construction.
5. Company’s liability for improper maintenance of a device or illegal use of a device by the Users shall be exempted and furthermore Company shall not be responsible for any problems incurred due to the environment of a device or network environments not attributable to the Company.
6. Company shall not be responsible for the reliability or correctness of the information, data or fact posted or transmitted by the Users in relation to the Services.
7. Company is not obligated to be involved in any disputes between the Users or a user and a third party arising from the Services as a medium of such disputes.
8. Company shall not be responsible for not obtaining expected contents, point, ranking or advantage except the grade acquired while using the Services and the paid Contents purchased directly by the Users.
9. Company shall not be responsible for any disadvantage and lost information incurred by the personal information changed by the Users.
Article 18 Jurisdiction and Governing Law
1. Company and Users shall try necessary efforts to solve the disputes amicably arising out of or in connection with the Services.
2. Any disputes arising from or in connection with using the Services shall be brought to the court of law as defined by the laws or regulations.
3. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws of Republic of Korea.
[Appendix 1]
This Agreement shall be effective from 5 month 25 day of 2018.
ESTgames (hereinafter called as the “Company:”) regards personal information of the Users important and has been doing its best efforts to protect the rights and interests of the Users, establishing the policy of protecting personal information in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.
Company informs the Users of how the personal information provided by the Users is used and protected by the Company. This Privacy Policy may be modified in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations or Company’s own policy and Company will announce modification of the Agreement immediately on the Company’s web site and games and explain the reason of modification and its details.
- Article 1
- Items of personal information collected and collecting method
- Article 2
- Collecting personal information and purpose of use
- Article 3
- Sharing and providing personal information
- Article 4
- Possession of personal information and period to use
- Article 5
- Procedures and method to destroy personal information
- Article 6
- Rights of the Users and legal representative and method to exercise the rights
- Article 7
- Installation/operation of automatic collecting equipment of personal information and refusal
- Article 8
- Technical/managerial protection of personal information
- Article 9
- Link site
- Article 10
- Public complaints about personal information
- Article 11
- Age Limits
- Article 12
- Others
- Appendix
Article 1 Items of personal information collected and collecting method
Items of personal information to be collected
① Company collects following personal information to apply for membership and provide consultation for the customers and various services when applying for membership for the first time or using the services:
– basic information allowed by SNS platform Facebook, inherent identification number of the users, name and gender of the users, profile photo or relevant URL of the users, inherent identification number of friends and other disclosed data, log-in e mail address provided when the users are registered in SNS, gender, date of birth of the users
② Following information may be created and collected in the course of using the services:
– IP address, inherent number of device (device ID or IMEI)
– Status information of the users, date and time of visit, records of using the services, record of bad use, payment information
③ Information on the credit card, carrier, details of purchase, number of gift card or other relevant information may be collected for payment, if it is unavoidable, while using free or paid services. Also additional personal information may be collected such as e mail address, details of purchase when the clients request restoration of paid Contents or refund to consult with the clients smoothly and real name and certifying family relation to verify the facts of making payment by others not by the User him/herself.
2. Collecting method
① Company collects personal information with following methods:
– through platform services used for the services of the Company
– Voluntary provision or input by the users when apply for the Services or during use
– written format, fax, phone, consulting bulletin board or e mail
Article 2 Collecting personal information and purpose of use
1. Company uses the personal information collected for the following purpose:
① Performing agreement of providing basic services and settlement of the fee for providing the services
– Providing contents, delivery of goods or invoice, certifying the users, purchase and paying the fee and collecting charges
② Management of members – confirm the users for using membership service and limited user indentifying system, identifying individuals, confirm the intension of joining as a member, restrict joining and frequency of joining
– Preventing bad members from using (members whose agreement was terminated due to their breaching Clause 4, Article 9 and Clause 2, Article 15 of this Agreement) and unauthorized use.
– Keeping records to settle disputes, solving public complaints and delivering notice
③ Development of new services and application for marketing/advertisement
– Development of new services and provide customized services, verification of service effectiveness
– Providing services according to the statistical characteristics and posting advertisement, statistics of using the services by members and their log-in frequency.
– Providing event and advertising information and participating opportunity
④ Operating game app. of partner company, delivery of event gifts, supporting consultation with the customers
Article 3 Sharing and providing personal information
1. Company shall use personal information within the range announced at Article 2, Collecting personal information and purpose of use and does not exceed such range without prior approval of the Users thereupon nor disclose personal information of the Users in principle. However, personal information may be used and provided carefully if:
① User agrees upon in advance
② it is required to settle fee payment for the services
③ investigative agency requests it legally according to the laws or regulations
④ it is required for statistics, academic study or market survey and providing it in a form not to be able to identify specific individuals.
Article 4 Possession of personal information and period to use
1. Company shall destroy personal information collected immediately in principle when the purpose of collecting and using personal information is achieved to improve the services. Company, however, keeps the personal information for 30 days after the application for withdrawal from membership is submitted to the Company in preparation for unwanted application due to stolen personal information.
Furthermore, Company shall preserve following information during specified period for specified reason and the information shall not be used for other purposes than the specified reasons:
① Reason of preserving information according to the Company policy
– Record of illegal use
(Reason of preservation: prevent illegal use / period of preservation: 1 year)
② Reason of preserving information according to the applicable laws or regulations
If the information is required to be preserved according to the applicable laws such as but not limited to the Commercial Act or Act on the Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Transactions, Company shall preserve the information of members for certain period as set forth in the applicable laws or regulations.
– Record of visiting the services
(Reason of preservation: Protection of Communications Secrets Act/ period of preservation: 3 months)
– Records on the agreement or withdrawal from subscription
(Reason of preservation: Act on the Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Transactions/ period of preservation: 5 years)
– Record on verifying the principal
(Reason of preservation: Act on Promotion, etc. of Utilization of Information System/ period of preservation: 6 months)
– Records on the payment and supplying goods
(Reason of preservation: Act on the Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Transactions/ period of preservation: 5 years)
– Records on the complaints of consumers and settlement of disputes
(Reason of preservation: Act on the Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Transactions/ period of preservation: 3 years)
Article 5 Procedures and method to destroy personal information
1. Company shall destroy personal information collected immediately in principle when the purpose of collecting and using personal information is achieved.
① Destroying procedures
– Information input by the users to apply for joining in the Services shall be destroyed, preserving it for certain period after the purpose of collecting is achieved and transferring to a separate DB, in accordance with the Company policy and the reasons to protect personal information according to the applicable laws or regulations (refer to Possession and Period of Use).
– The said personal information shall not be used for other purpose than the reason of preservation except the case required by law.
② Destroying method
– Personal information output in paper shall be crushed by a crusher or destroyed by incineration.
– Personal information stored in electronic file shall be deleted by technical method in a way of impossible restoration.
Article 6 Rights of the Users and method to exercise the rights
1. Upon User’s request via e-mail, the Company will provide the User with the personal data and the user may change or request to modify the data to the Company. To protect User’s privacy and security, the Company will take reasonable steps to verify User’s identity before granting access or making changes or modifications. Unfortunately, the Company cannot always ensure that such changes or modifications will be reflected in all iterations of your information as previously stored.
2. When the users request correcting errors in their personal information, such information shall not be used or provided until correction is completed.
Furthermore, if wrong personal information is provided to a third party, Company will notify the third party of correction without delay.
3. Company shall dispose of the personal information terminated or deleted by the request of the users or a legal representative in accordance with Article 5, Possession and period of use and such information shall be made not to be read or used for other purpose.
4. Users also have the right to use or restrict the data from being collected, and can use various options to control use and sharing of the personal information as following:
① Opt-out of Interest-Based Advertising
- Users can opt-out of interest-based advertising on mobile applications by checking the privacy settings of Android or iOS device and selecting "limit ad tracking" (Apple iOS) or "opt-out of interest based ads" (Android). For more information, see also: http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
② Opt-out options for notifications
- Users may be able to adjust notification settings to opt-out from receiving any push notifications from the Services provided by the Company.
③ Geolocation Information
- User’s device may enable the user to control the collection of the precise geolocation information through the settings on the mobile devices.
④ Cookies
The Company may use cookies and similar technologies to provide and personalize the Service, analyse use, target advertisements and prevent fraud.
- Users can delete or disable HTML cookies in browser settings of the personal device, but some parts of the Service may then not function properly.
Article 7 Installation/operation of automatic collecting equipment of personal information and refusal
1. Company may automatically collect device ID or IMEI when the users join in the services for the first time to provide personalized and customized services.
Furthermore, Company may automatically collect inherent identification number and inherent identification number related to the list of friends from SNS platform to provide the function of registering friends or recommending friends.
2. If the users refuse collecting phone number and device ID automatically, some of the services cannot be used normally.
Article 8 Technical/managerial protection of personal information
1. Company implements following technical and managerial measures in processing personal information of the users to secure stability of personal information not to be lost, stolen, leaked, falsified or damaged:
① Measures against hacking
– Company is doing its best efforts for personal information of the members not to be leaked or damaged by hacking or computer virus.
Company backs up data in preparation for damaging personal information and prevents personal information or data of the users from leaking or being damaged. Also Company ensures personal information to be transmitted safely on the networks through encoded telecommunication.
Unauthorized approach from outside is controlled by firewall system and Company is endeavoring to install all the possible technical equipments to make sure of the security systematically.
② Minimize number of employees processing personal information and education
– Employees processing personal information are limited to those involved directly in the business and separate passwords which are renewed regularly are given to such employees, who are educated from time to time to comply with the Privacy Policy.
③ Operate an organization exclusively to protect personal information
– Company checks whether Privacy Policy is properly implemented or not and compliance with the policy by the employees responsible for processing personal information through an organization exclusively to protect personal information. If any problems are found, Company corrects them immediately.
Company, however, shall not be responsible for any problems occurred due to the leaked personal information by the users’ own fault or not by reasons of gross or intentional negligence of the Company.
Article 9 Link site
1. This Privacy Policy is not applied to the act collecting personal information from the web site of other companies or services linked with this site.
Article 10 Public complaints about personal information
1. Most concerns can be solved quickly by contacting us at cage@estgames.com
2. In the unlikely event that we cannot solve your concern and you wish to bring legal action against us these terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Republic of Korea.
Article 11 Age Limits
1. Children under 13 are not allowed to use any services provided by the Company. The Company does not knowingly collect personal data or direct or target interest based advertising to anyone under the age of 13.
2. If you are children under 13, please stop using the services provided by the Company. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal data to the Company.
3. If we learn that we have collected personal data about a child under age 13, we will delete that data as quickly as possible.
4. If you are a parent and you learn that your child is using the services provided by the Company and you don’t want them to, please contact us at cage@estgames.com.
Article 12 Others
Any addition, deletion or correction of this Privacy Policy will be announced at least 7 days prior to the date of enforcement on the Company’s web site or in the game services.
[Appendix 1]
This Privacy Policy shall be enforced on 5 month 24 day of 2018.