Homestay Korea takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy on how we treat personally identifiable information collected from our members.
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What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers Homestay Korea's treatment of personally identifiable information that Homestay Korea collects when you are on the Homestay Korea site, and when you use Homestay Korea's services. This policy also covers Homestay Korea's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Homestay Korea's business partners share with Homestay Korea or that Homestay Korea may collect on a partner's site.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Homestay Korea does not own or control, or to people that Homestay Korea does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
Homestay Korea collects personally identifiable information when you register for a Homestay Korea account, when you use certain Homestay Korea services, when you visit Homestay Korea pages, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Homestay Korea may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.
When you register with Homestay Korea, we ask for your name, email address, present address and zip code, birth date, gender, nationality, religion, occupation, personal interests, and your travel plan to Korea. Once you register with Homestay Korea and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Homestay Korea also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Homestay Korea cookie information and the page you requested.
Homestay Korea uses information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for homestay placement or any other types of housing, and to contact you when special considerations are necessary.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Homestay Korea will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
Homestay Korea may send personally identifiable information about you to possible hosts or other parties only when:
- We have your consent to share the information;
- We need to share your information to provide the special service you have requested
- We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Homestay Korea to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.)
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process or
- We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Homestay Korea Terms of Service, or any of unlawful acts against the Republic of Korea's laws and regulations, or invasion of hosts' privacy.
Cookies
Homestay Korea may set and access Homestay Korea cookies on your computer.
Homestay Korea allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Homestay Korea's cookies.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
Homestay Korea gives you the ability to edit your Homestay Korea Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want Homestay Korea to contact you when necessary.
You may request deletion of your Homestay Korea account by visiting our Account Deletion page, verifying your password once more and confirming your choice to terminate the account.
Security
Your Homestay Korea Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.
In certain areas Homestay Korea uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Homestay Korea may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
Questions or Suggestion
If you have questions or suggestions, email us at any time.