Privacy Policy

Who we are

The term “personal data” refers to personally identifiable information such as your name, birth date, email address, and mailing address that can be used to identify you. We are committed to protecting your privacy on the internet. We will treat any information that we receive from you with care and recognize the need for appropriate action to manage and protect any information that you share with us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Our services on this website do not require any form of direct registration, allowing you to visit and browse our site without disclosing your identity to us. However, some services and social media services may require registration and logging in before using it. When you register or log in with us or the social media services provided, you may need to provide to our website with your personal data. In other situations, we may also have received your personally identifiable information through our Website feedback form or when you send us an electronic mail message. In these situations, the personal data shall only be used for the purpose for which you gave it to us. Our website does not collect information or create individual profiles for commercial marketing.

In all situations, we keep your personal data only for as long as is reasonably needed for the purposes that it is provided to us and in accordance with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or documentation retention requirements.

Non-Disclosure of Information

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personal data to third parties outside of our website. However, personal data may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for or on behalf of us, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected. Where disclosure of personal data to a third party is likely or necessary for whatever reason, we will, wherever possible, endeavor to ensure that the disclosure and intended use of the data are clearly indicated. Such third parties may operate different privacy policies. However, we endeavor to ensure that such third parties provide the same level of protection as us, and, where appropriate, we contractually require them to process data transferred only for the purposes expressly authorized by us.

Security and Confidentiality

To ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data that we collect online, we use data networks protected, inter- alias, by industry standard firewall and password protection. If our employee breaches our policies and procedures, he will be disciplined accordingly. Staff compliance with our policies and procedures is regularly reviewed. While we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse or alteration to data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences to the best of our ability at all times.

Gathering of Anonymous Data

Most of the information that our website collects is anonymous information, such as the pages you visit and searches you perform. When you visit our website, we do not collect any personal data from you. Anonymous information is processed by us to help improve the contents of the website and to compile aggregate statistics about individuals using our site for internal analysis purposes only.

Spamming

We do not condone spamming. Spamming is defined as sending unsolicited e-mails, usually of a commercial nature, in large numbers and repeatedly to individuals with whom the sender has had no previous contact or who have declined to receive such communications. We also have user comment moderation policies in place to prevent user spamming.

Links to Other Sites

This privacy policy applies only to our website, with exclusion of third party websites. We may provide links to other/or partner websites which we believe may be of interest to our visitors. We aim to ensure that such websites are of the highest standard. However, due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee the standards of every website link it provides or be responsible for the contents of external sites.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy.

Cookies

Our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our website. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense and Taboola.

For more information of how Google uses data, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on hellokpop.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Contact hellokpop

If you have any question or require more information of our privacy policy, please contact admin@hellokpop.com.

Disclaimer

To read our disclaimer policy on linked content, intellectual property and contest information, please visit https://www.hellokpop.com/disclaimer.