Membership

Privacy Policy

VintageHouse (“Company”, “Watermelon”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) takes care of your personal information, and we follow the 「Act on Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Information Protection」. This privacy policy sets out how we use and protect any personal information that you give to us. We will notify you through the website (or individually) when there is any change in privacy policy.

■ Items of personal information to be collected
We collect your personal information in order to provide membership registration, communication, and service application, etc. Here are the types of personal information we collect:
Ο For General Member: nickname, sign in ID, password, phone number, email address, history of service use, access log, access IP information, payment history
Ο For Musician: name, nickname, date of birth, gender, sign in ID, password, phone number, email address, history of service use, access log, access IP information, payment history
Ο Method of collection: Homepage (Membership registration), written form

■ Purpose of collection and use of personal information
 We use your personal information for the following purposes:
Ο to fulfill contractual obligations for providing service
Ο to offer payment details for providing service
Ο to provide purchase/delivery details and billing address of products or services
Ο to manage membership: Identity verification, age verification, consent of a legal representative of member under age 14, notification
Ο for marketing, promotion, and advertising: frequency of login, usage data

■ Retention and use period of personal information 
Your personal information is destroyed without delay after the purpose of collection is achieved.

■ Destruction of personal information 
We destroy personal information after the purpose of collection is achieved. Data destruction process and method are as follows.
ο Destruction process
Your personal information is transferred to a separate DB (or a separate document box for a written form) after the purpose of collection is achieved and destroyed after being stored for a certain period of time in accordance with internal policy and related laws(Refer to “Retention and use period of personal information”). The personal information transferred to a separate DB is not used for any other purpose except for storage, unless otherwise required by the law.
ο Method of destruction
Personal information stored in the form of electronic files is deleted using technological methods that prevent its restoration.

■ Provision of personal information 
In principle, we do not provide your personal information to third parties. However, the following exceptions apply:
-	When you agree in advance
-	In accordance with the provisions of the law, or when there is a request from an investigative agency according to procedures and methods prescribed by the law

■ Consignment of collected personal information
We do not provide your personal information to third parties without your consent. If such a need arises, we will notify you about the consignee and work to be consigned, and get your consent in advance.

■ Rights of users/their legal representatives and how to exercise them
Users and their legal representatives (for users under the age of 14) can always review or change their registered information, and request membership termination.
In order to review or change personal information, go to ‘Mypage > Profile’ and click ‘Edit’, and to terminate your membership, go to ‘Mypage > Profile’ and click ‘Delete My Account’. You can review, change, or terminate your information after verification process. Also, you can contact the person in charge of personal information management by post, phone, or email, then we will take action without delay.
 When you request correction of errors in your information, we do not use or provide your personal information until the correction is completed. If incorrect information has already been provided to a third party, we will amend it with the correct details immediately and notify it to the third party.
Personal information that has been deleted as your request is process in line with the section referring to the “Retention and use period of personal information” and cannot be accessed or used for any other purpose.

■ Automatic information collection system
When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technologies. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. We use cookies for the following purposes.

▶ Purpose of using cookies
After figuring out your preference, interest, and activity history by analyzing your access frequency or visiting time, we can provide you personalized service and deliver tailored advertising. You can choose to allow cookies or refuse its use. Therefore, you can 1) allow all cookies, 2) check each time a cookie is saved, or 3) refuse to save all cookies, by setting options in your web browser.

▶ How to refuse cookies
[Example] There are 3 ways to manage cookies by setting options in your web browser. 
1) Allow all cookies 
2) Check each time a cookie is saved
3) Refuse to save all cookies
[How to manage]
1) Internet Explorer: tool > internet option > personal information > personal setting
2) Chrome: setting > advanced setting > cookies and other site data
However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our services.

■ Contact us
We have a personal information manager to protect your information and to take care of your complaints related to personal information.
Manager: Jung Jun-Young
Phone number: 010-9068-9035
Email: iamwatermelon@daum.net
You can report any complaint regarding personal information protection while using our service to our personal information manager. We will adequately respond to you without delay.
If you need to report or ask about infringement of personal information, please contact the following institutions.
1. Cyber Crime Investigation Division, Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office (cybercid.spo.go.kr)
2. Cyber Terror Response Center in the National Police Agency (www.ctrc.go.kr/02-392-0330)