1. Purpose of treating personal information, retention period, and items to be collected
- Name of personal information file: WMO LC-SPMME website member information
- Personal Information Retention Period : Two years (Where a user consents to the provision of his/her personal information until your withdrawal from our website)
| Purpose of collection and use |
Items to be collected |
- To provide customized information;
- To manage website membership, such as maintaining a membership database, member identification, and transmitting announcements; and
- To gauge and improve the effectiveness of the website and services, research reports
|
Required |
Optional |
Name,
ID, Password,
E-mail,
Security Question & Answer,
Country |
Affiliation and position |
2. Commission for personal information
| Name of subcontractor |
Items to be provided |
Retention period |
|
• APEC Climate Center
• APTN, Co.
|
All information entered at the time of registration, such as name, email address etc. |
Jan. 1st ~ Dec. 31st, 2023 |
3. Methods to exercise the rights and responsibilities of the subject of information and legal representatives.
The users, as the subjects of information, can exercise the following rights concerning personal information protection.
(legal representatives for those under 14 years of age)
- Exercise right to access to personal information
- Make corrections or deletion
- Make temporary suspension of treatment of personal information
- Director of processing requests for access to personal information
Director:Youngsun Lee
Contact address: lc_lrfmme@korea.kr
4. Destruction of personal information
If the retention period has expired or the treating purpose has been achieved, personal information will be deleted immediately, and it is impossible to restore it.
- Personal information in electronic files shall be permanently deleted so that it cannot be restored: Provided, That where it is substantially impracticable to permanently delete the files due to technical characteristics, the personal information controller shall take measures to make it impossible to restore the information by treating it as information falling under Article 58-2 of the Act;
- Other records, printouts, paper documents, and media containing personal information shall be shredded or incinerated.
5. Personal information stored and collected automatically
We will automatically collect and store the following information during your visit.
- User’s IP address
- WMO-SP website connect time
- Visitor log
- OS and web browser used for access to WMO-SP websites
If there are any changes concerning the privacy policy, members will be notified for their approval
6. Measures to Ensure Security of Personal Information
WMO LC-SPMME takes the following measures to ensure security of personal information. Personal information is treated safely under Article 29 of the Personal Information Protection Act.
- Management measures: To Formulate and implement an internal management plan for the safe processing of personal information and the regular training for staff, etc
- Technical measures: To control access to personal information and restrict the authority to access personal information, to install an access-controlled systems and security programs to protect personal information and to encrypt of personally identifiable information, etc
- Physical measures: To control ]of unauthorized persons access to computer rooms, etc
7. Director of personal information protection
Name : Kyungsuk CHO
Post : Director of Climate Prediction Division, Korea Meteorological Administration
Privacy Manager
Affiliation : Climate Prediction Division
Name : Juyounn Lim
Email : anisse@korea.kr
Tel : 82-42-481-7389
8. In case of an infringement on rights and interests
① Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee: 1833-6972 (www.kopico.go.kr)
② Privacy Complaint Center: (without area code) 118 (privacy.kisa.or.kr)
* You can find previous policy at
Old Privacy Policy (01 Aug 2020 ~ 31 Dec 2021)
Old Privacy Policy (09 Oct 2018 ~ 31 Jul 2020)
Old Privacy Policy (09 Mar 2016 ~ 08 Oct 2018)
Old Privacy Policy (14 Nov 2012 ~ 09 Mar 2016)
Old Privacy Policy ( ~ 13 Nov 2012)
* You can find comparison table of major contents before and after the change from the previous Privacy Handling Policy
Comparison table
