Home >Privacy Policy The Westin Chosun Hotel respects the privacy of visitors of echosunhotel.com and its related sites (collectively “echosunhotel.com”) by disclosing and explaining in this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) how The Westin Chosun Hotel collects, uses and shares information about you from echosunhotel.com and the choices that you can make about the way your information is collected, used and shared. The Westin Chosun Hotel encourages you to read this Privacy Policy and those of all web sites you visit. The following sections address echosunhotel.com’s privacy issues in more detail: 1.Items of personal information that service provider intends to collect 2.Collection of Personal Information and Purpose of Use 3.Who we share information with 4.Terms of Preservation and use of Personal Information Collected 5.Users’ rights such as removal of consent, perusal, or request for modification, and methods of exercising those rights 6.Items on the operation of cookies 7.Person in Charge of Personal Information 8.Keeping your information secure 9.Children’s privacy 10. Items on Revision of Privacy policy The Westin Chosun Hotel shall collect the mandatory private information required for to obtain membership, with certain optional items of information left to the applicant’s choice. (1) Mandatory private information required from applicants for membership: Name (English and/or Korean) Citizen registration number ( Korea residents only) Address and telephone number E-mail address Internet ID and password, and a hint to remember your password. (2) Optional information personal favorite food and beverage You can agree or not agree with The Westin Chosun Hotel’s Privacy Policy or service agreement by clicking the Agree or Do Not Agree button, expressing either your agreement or disagreement with the collection of your private information. By clicking on the Agree button, you shall be regarded as being in agreement with the collection of your private information./td> The Westin Chosun Hotel collects minimal information required for supply of goods and/or services such as order, reception, payment and delivery of goods and optimal services offered to you through the Internet website. The Westin Chosun Hotel shall not use personal information collected without members' consent for purposes other than the above-mentioned purposes. Also, The Westin Chosun Hotel will receive members' consent in advance when The Westin Chosun Hotel intends to use personal information for purposes out of the above-mentioned scope. The Westin Chosun Hotel takes seriously the trust you place in us and will not sell, rent or lease your information to others. We employ other companies and individuals (“agents”) to perform services on behalf of echosunchotel.com, such as sales and contests, sending emails, providing marketing assistance, web site management and analyzing data. Such agents will have access to personal and non-personal information only as necessary to perform their services for us and are not permitted to use it for any other purpose. We may also work with other companies (“partners”) to provide co-branded services or promotions. To provide a co-branded service to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information with our partners. The partner will only be able to use the information as necessary to perform the requested service or in aggregate form for statistical reporting. Remember, if you go to other web sites, including those of our partners, advertisers, merchants and other sites that link to our site, those other sites may collect personal and non-personal information about you. The information practices of those other sites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We have no liability or responsibility for those sites or their own policies. Disclosure of personal information for legal purposes and protection of echosunhotel.com and others: echosunhotel.com reserves the right to share your personal information with third parties if we believe such action is necessary in order to: (a) conform with the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served upon us; (b) protect or defend our legal rights or property, echosunhotel.com or our users; or (c) investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of the terms and conditions of using echosunhotel.com. Personal information collected upon your consent may be preserved and used while you are serviced by the Internet website of The Westin Chosun Hotel in principle. In the event that you request withdrawal of membership or lose member qualification, your personal information shall be instantly deleted and we shall treat it in such a way that it cannot be used and/or reused for any reason or purpose, or in any way. However, we shall notify or clearly state terms of preservation and use of personal information after establishing them in the event that it is required for calculation of usage fees and preparation for lawsuits and/or disputes. The Westin Chosun Hotel may collect, use or transfer personal information only if you agree when joining the membership. You can withdraw whatever you agreed anytime. You can use the website to terminate your membership or contact Customer Service Center to take necessary measures including deleting personal information. To serve customers in a more efficient way, The Westin Chosun Hotel uses cookies. Cookies are data packs which the server operating the website sends to user's browser. They are usually stored in user's hard disk. Cookies are used to recognize user's computer but impossible to identify individual user. As a member, you can choose to allow the use of cookies. If you allow using cookies and accessing echosunhotel.com next time, this will automatically connect you to the region/language that you initially selected. You can allow all the cookies to be used, confirm whenever cookies are stored or refuse to save all the cookies. If you refuse to save cookies, a wide range of The Westin Chosun Hotel services may not be available. The person in charge of managing personal information of The Westin Chosun Hotel is as follows. Department/Position: Executive of Business Planning - Name: Han, Dong Yeom - E-mail: crm@chosunhotel.co.kr - Tel: 02-317-0031 * With the above-named person's assistance, you can feel secure in using echosunhotel.com The security of your personal information is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting the information that we collect. We have security measures in place at our facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that The Westin Chosun Hotel has collected from you at our web site. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Westin Chosun Hotel cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. echosunhotel.com is not intended for use by children. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that personal information on a child under the age of 13 is collected, we will delete that information from our systems. We encourage parents and guardians to be familiar with the web sites that their children visit. The Westin Chosun Hotel shall strictly obey personal information protection related laws, including Korean laws on the promotion and protection of information communication network use, basic laws on e-commerce, and e-commerce consumer protection directives. Thus, the privacy policy of The Westin Chosun Hotel may be altered due to revisions in related Korean laws and governmental directives. We will publish notification of date, causes and contents of revisions on the Internet website in the event of making revisions. - The privacy policy for Internet members of The Westin Chosun Hotel has been in force since    the 15th of October 2007