(Last updated 01-2012)
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This privacy statement applies to a website and services of Korea Medical Hub (KMH) that collect data and display these terms, as well as its offline product support services. It does not apply to those KMH family sites, services and products that do not display or link to this statement or that have their own privacy statements.
We collect information as part of operating our website and services.

1.1 At some areas of the KMH website, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your email address, name, or the country of residency. We may also collect demographic information, such as your age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or an appointment for customized medical services of KMH, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address.

1.2 In order to access certain KMH services, you will be asked to sign in with an email address and password, which we refer to as your KMH User ID.

1.3 We collect additional information about your interaction with KMH website and services without identifying you as an individual. For example, we receive certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring website addresses. We also use website analytics tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our website, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height.

1.4 We use cookies to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our website and services.
KMH collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its website and services. These uses include providing you with more effective customer service; making the website or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and displaying content that is customized to your interests and preferences.

We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communication such as welcome letters, appointment or billing reminders, status of your inquiries answered, and security announcements. KMH may send periodic member letters that are considered part of the service. Additionally, with your permission, we may also occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products or services available from KMH and its affiliated, and /or share your personal information with KMH partners so they may send you information about their products and services. You can opt-out from receiving newsletters or promotional email anytime by using the web form or by following the steps as described in the respective newsletter or promotional email.

Personal information collected on KMH website and services may be stored and processed in Korea or any other country in which KMH or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. KMH abides regulations set forth by of Korea Communications Commission.
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of KMH and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. Some parts of KMH website allow you to choose to share your personal information with select KMH partners so that they can contact you about their products, services or offers.

KMH occasionally hires other companies (vendor) to provide limited services on our behalf, such as providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose than for delivering the service to KMH in accordance with KMH instructions and policies. However, our vendors may use aggregate data for fraud detection to help improve their services. This helps them to more accurately detect fraudulent transactions. We may access or disclose information about you, including content of your communication, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of KMH or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of KMH employees, customers or the public.
Some KMH services give you the ability to view and edit your personal information online. To help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, you first will be required to sign in. If you are a registered user of KMH Community Board, you can access and edit your personal information by clicking My Page at the Community Board Menu:
You can stop the delivery of future promotional email from KMH website and services by following the specific instructions in the email you receive.

Depending on the respective services, you may also have the option of proactively making choices about the receipt of promotional email, telephone calls, and postal mail from particular KMH website and services by visiting and signing into the following page:Please sign in to read details. allow you to choose whether you wish to receive marketing communications from Kmhglobal.com, to select whether kmhglobal.com may share your contact information with selected third parties, and to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsletters about our products and services.
KMH is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information we collect on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a website or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
KMH website and services are intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal information from underage users. When KMH website does collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 18, the website will either block such users from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of personal information of underage users. We will not knowingly ask users under the age of 18 to provide more information than is reasonably necessary to provide our services.

Please note that parents can change or revoke the consent choices previously made, and review, edit or request the deletion of their children's personal information. If we change this privacy statement in a way that expands the collection, use or disclosure of children's personal information to which a parent has previously consented, the parent will be notified and we will be required to obtain the parent's additional consent.
KMH website uses "cookies", which are small text files placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized content and targeted advertising on your later visits to these sites.

When you sign in to a website, we store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move form page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page.

When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. We also use cookies to improve the sign in experience. For example, your email address may be store in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your email address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be store, you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in-page, and this cookie will not be used.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies that you have accepted. For example, you can delete cookies by selecting "Tools", "Delete browsing history" on the IE menu. Then select the control box "Cookies" and click the "Delete" button. If you choose to delete cookies, any setting and preferences controlled by those cookies will be deleted and may need to be recreated.
KMH is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial email, or "spam". KMH will not sell, lease or rent its email subscriber lists to third parties. While KMH continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filtering features, there is no technology that will totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited email. Using junk email tools and being cautious about the sharing of your email address while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited email you receive.
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement or in how KMH will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how KMH is protecting your information.

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