About WEBTOON PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: June 25, 2024
WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (including its affiliates, hereinafter together referred to as “WEBTOON”, “we”, “our” or "us") respect your concerns about privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we collect through this website (about.webtoon.com and its subdomains).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through WEBTOON services such as WEBTOON application and/or website, WEBTOON TRANSLATE and CANVAS, which is described under our WEBTOON™ PRIVACY POLICY.
OVERVIEW OF PRIVACY POLICY
In this Privacy Policy, we describe the types of personal information we process through the Services, how we may use the information, with whom we may share it and the choices available to you regarding use of the information and exercise of your rights. We also describe the measures we take to safeguard the information and tell you how to contact us about our privacy practices. Below you will find a summary of the key messages contained in our Privacy Policy. For more detailed information on how we process your information, please click on the headings or continue to read below.
1. Information We Collect
2. How We Use Your Information
3. Information Sharing
4. Retention of Personal Information
5. Your Rights and Choices
6. How We Protect Your Information
7. Contact Us
8. Links to Other Websites
9. Updates to Our Privacy Policy
10. Notice to Consumers Residing in Certain U.S. States
1. Information We Collect
We collect your email address to send you our e-newsletter.
In addition, information such as IP address, cookies, service usage records and device information may be automatically generated and collected during service use.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information collected above for the following purposes:
- Send you our e-newsletter.
- Respond to your inquiries.
- Maintain and monitor the performance of our website and to improve the website.
- Ensure the information security of our website.
3. Information Sharing
We disclose personal information as described in the following:
- Service Providers. We may disclose your information to companies that provide Services on behalf of us, such as companies that help us develop and operate systems.
- Our Affiliates. We may share your information with our subsidiaries and affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
4. Retention of Personal Information
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
When we no longer need the personal information, we will securely delete or destroy it.
5. Your Rights and Choices
Your personal information belongs to you. You can ask us to provide details about what we’ve collected, and you can ask us to correct any inaccuracies. If permitted by law, we may charge you a small fee for providing you with this ability. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. To make a request concerning your rights or to make an inquiry, contact us. See the Contact Us section.
You can unsubscribe to any of the investor alerts you are subscribed to by visiting the 'unsubscribe' section, links to which can also be found in the investor alerts. You can also unsubscribe to the investor alerts by clicking the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the email.
6. How We Protect Your Information
We take protection of your information seriously and maintain safeguards designed to protect the information we collect. We have implemented appropriate technical, administrative, organizational, and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification. We regularly review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information as it is transmitted to us. To the extent permitted under applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized access by third-parties or other causes beyond our control.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or practices, please contact us via about@webtoon.com.
8. Links to Other Websites
Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that this privacy policy does not cover how other companies will process your personal information. We recommend you to read the privacy policies applicable to such other websites.
9. Updates to Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to the Service, or changes in the applicable law. We will post a notice on our website to notify you in advance of material changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
10. Notice to Consumers Residing in Certain U.S. States
This section applies to consumers who reside in jurisdictions where there is a privacy statute.
A. Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
(1) Categories of Personal Information We Collect: We may have collected the following categories of personal information about you in the last 12 months: Identifiers/contact information, internet and other electronic network activity information.
(2) Sensitive Personal Information: We do not collect any sensitive personal information.
(3) Categories of Sources of Personal Information: We may have collected personal information about you from you or your devices.
(4) Business & Commercial Purposes for Collecting Personal Information: Business and commercial purposes of collecting personal information are described in our Privacy Policy under “2. How We Use Your Information.”
(5) Categories of Third Parties with Whom Personal Information is Disclosed: Categories of third parties are described in our Privacy Policy under “3. Information Sharing. “
(6) Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose: In the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for a business purpose: identifiers, internet and other electronic network activity information.
(7) Categories of Personal Information Sold or Shared & Third Parties: We do not sell or share your personal information to third parties.
B. Consumer Rights
Depending on where you reside, and subject to applicable law and exceptions, you may be entitled to the following rights with respect to your personal information:
Right to Know: You may have the right to request that we disclose personal information that we have collected, sold, or shared about you in the past 12 months.
Right to Data Portability: You may have the right to request that personal information that has been collected and maintained about you be transferred to you via a secure method in a commonly used electronic format that enables you to have complete access to and full enjoyment of your data, subject to applicable law and exceptions, including, but not limited to, the capacity to save, edit, and transfer the personal information to any other person or platform at your discretion.
Right to Correct: Subject to applicable law and exceptions, you may have the right to correct or modify inaccurate personal information that we may have collected about you.
Right to Delete: You may have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to applicable law and exceptions.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: We do not sell or share your personal information.
Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, although some of the functionality and features available on the website may change or no longer be available to you.
Other California Rights:
- Shine the Light: California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. We do not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
- Do Not Track: Some web browsers transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them. We currently do not take action in response to these signals.
We do not engage in profiling to make decisions that result in a legal or similarly significant effect based solely on automated processing of your personal information.
To make a request concerning your rights or to make an inquiry, contact us. See the Contact Us section.
You can unsubscribe to any of the investor alerts you are subscribed to by visiting the 'unsubscribe' section, links to which can also be found in the investor alerts. You can also unsubscribe to the investor alerts by clicking the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the email.
C. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
When we no longer need the personal information, we will securely delete or destroy it.