■ Membership Terms and Conditions

1. General Terms of Membership

These terms and conditions relate to the conditions and procedures of all services (hereinafter referred to as "services") provided by Heart Smile Meditation (hereinafter referred to as the "company"). The purpose is to comply with and stipulate matters and other necessary matters in accordance with the Telecommunications Business Act and the Enforcement Decree of the same.

2. Effect and Change of Terms of Use

The contents of these terms and conditions become effective when posted on the service screen or disclosed to users in other ways. The company may change the terms and conditions in the case of reasonable change of circumstances or when there are important operational reasons, and the changed terms and conditions take effect by disclosing them in the same manner as in the preceding paragraph.

3. Compliance other than the Terms and Conditions

Matters not specified in this agreement can be applied in accordance with the purpose of the relevant laws and regulations, such as the Commercial Telecommunications Basic Act and the Telecommunications Business Act.

■ Service Use

1. Establishment of Service Use Contract

The use contract is established with the company's approval of the user's application for use and the user's agreement to the terms and conditions.

Those who wish to join the membership and use the service must provide personal information on the membership application form requested by the company.

If the company approves the user's application for use, the company notifies the user of the member ID and other contents deemed necessary by the company.

The company shall not accept the application for the use contract that falls under each of the following subparagraphs:

- When applying for the purpose of disturbing the company's education and order
- When applying using someone else's name
- When do not applying under your real name
- - When the contents of the application for use contract are written falsely
- When an application is made for the purpose of undermining social well-being and order or good morals

2. Service use and limitation of service use
Service use and limitation of service use is in principle 24 hours a day, 7 days a
Week unless there is a special problem in the company's business or technology.
The service use time in the preceding paragraph may be limited if the Company requires it, such as regular system inspection, after notifying the member in advance.


■ Obligations
1. Company's Obligation

Unless there are special circumstances, the company makes the service available to the member within 2 days or the date of service provision requested by the member.

The company has an obligation to provide services continuously and stably as stipulated in these terms and conditions.

The company handles the opinions raised by the members through the prescribed procedures through appropriate procedures, and if it takes a certain period of time to process them

The member must be informed of the reason and the processing schedule.

If the information provided to the member, such as e-mail information or electronic bulletin board, is lost due to the company's circumstances or the service needs to be suspended, the company shall not be held liable. The Company shall maintain the thorough security of the Member's information, use it only to operate or improve the quality service, and shall not transfer it to any organization or individual for any other purpose.

2. Member’s Obligation

Members are responsible for all management of ID and password.
Members agree to receive e-mails sent as part of the Service.
If the ID is used illegally, the member must notify the company.
Members must comply with the provisions of these Terms and Conditions and related laws.

■ Termination of Contract and Restriction of Service Use

1. Termination of Contract and Restriction of Use
When a member wishes to terminate the use contract, he or she can apply for termination in the "Membership Cancellation" section of the Company's site. We would like to inform that the termination of the subscription will be cancelled if it is not logged in with the existing ID or password.

Members are informed that from the moment of termination of the contract, they will not be able to use any of the services for members among the services provided by the company.

The Company may terminate the use contract without prior notice or suspend the use of the Service by setting a period of time if the member has performed any of the following actions:
- If it is against public order and morals
- In case of criminal activity
- When planning or executing the use of services for the purpose of impairing the national interest or social public interest
- In case of stealing another person's ID and password
- In case of damaging the reputation of others or giving a disadvantage
- When the same user double-registered with different IDs
- In case of damage to the reliability of the company or harm to the service
- In case of violation of other related laws or the terms of use set by the company

2. Removal of restrictions on use

If the company intends to restrict the use, it sets the reason, date, and period and notifies the member or agent through online, written or telephone methods. However, if the company recognizes that it is necessary to urgently suspend the use, the use of the service may be restricted without the process of the preceding paragraph. A member or his/her representative who has been notified of the suspension of use of the service pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 1 of Chapter 4 may file an objection if there is an objection to the suspension of use. The company shall immediately release the suspension of use only when it is confirmed that the reason for suspension of use has been resolved during the period of suspension of use.

3. Management of Member's Post
The company may delete the contents posted or registered by the member in the service provided by Heart-Smile Training without prior notice if it is determined that the following apply:

- In the case of content that damages the reputation of individuals or groups by slandering or slandering others
- In case of content that violates public order and morals
- In the case of content that is recognized as conforming to a criminal act
- In case of content that infringes other rights such as copyrights of others
- In case of content that violates other related laws or regulations set by the company (By-Laws), these Terms and Conditions shall be in force from January 1, 2017.

Privacy Policy Uses
This Policy (the "Policy") explains the way of treatment of the information which is provided or collected in Heart-Smile Training site (the “web sites”) on which this Policy is posted.
Through this Policy, the Heart-Smile Research Institute (the “Company“) regards personal information of the users as important and inform them of the purpose and method of Company's using the personal information provided by the users and the measures taken by the Company for protection of those personal information.
This Policy will be effective on the 1st day of January, 2017 and, in case of modification thereof, the Company will make public notice of it through posting it on the bulletin board of Company's website or individual notice through sending mails, fax or e-mails).


1. User Information
Personal information items to be collected by the Company are as follows:
- Name, email address, ID, telephone number, address, national information, encoded identification information (CI), identification information of overlapped membership (DI)
- For minors, information of legal representatives (name, birth date, CI and DI of legal representatives)

2. Collection of Information
The Company collects the information of users in a way of the followings:
• Webpage, written form, telephone calling, e-mailing, tools for collection of created information

3. Use of information
The Company uses the collected information of users for the following purposes:
• Membership management and identification
• To detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of or abuse of the Service
• Performance of contract, service fee payment and service fee settlement regarding provision of services demanded by the users
• Improvement of existing services and development of new services
• Making notice of function of company sites or applications or matters on policy change
• To make statistics on member’s service usage, to provide services and place advertisements based on statistical characteristics
• To provide information on promotional events as well as opportunity to participate
• To comply with applicable laws or legal obligation
• Use of information with prior consent of the users (for example, utilization of marketing advertisement)
The Company agrees that it will obtain a consent from the users, if the Company desires to use the information other than those expressly stated in this Policy.

4. Disclosure of Information
Except for the following cases, the Company will not disclose personal information with a 3rd party:
• when the Company disclosing the information with its affiliates, partners and service providers;
- When the Company's affiliates, partners and service providers carry out services such as bill payment, execution of orders, products delivery and dispute resolution (including disputes on payment and delivery) for and on behalf of the Company
• when the users consent to disclose in advance;
-  when the user selects to be provided by the information of products and services of certain companies by sharing his or her personal information with those companies
-  when the user selects to allow his or her personal information to be shared with the sites or platform of other companies such as social networking sites
-  other cases where the user gives prior consent for sharing his or her personal information
• when disclosure is required by the laws: 

-  if required to be disclosed by the laws and regulations; or 

-  if required to be disclosed by the investigative agencies for detecting crimes in accordance 
with the procedure and method as prescribed in the laws and regulations 


5. User Rights
The users or their legal representatives, as main agents of the information, may exercise the following rights regarding the collection, use and sharing of personal information by the Company:
• The right to access to personal information;
The users or their legal representatives may access the information and check the records of the collection, use and sharing of the information under the applicable law. • The right to rectification;
- The users or their legal representatives may request to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• The right to erasure;
- The users or their legal representatives may request the deletion of the information after the achievement of their purpose and the withdrawal of their consent.
• The right to restriction of processing;
- The users or their legal representatives may make temporary suspension of treatment of personal information in case of the disputes over the accuracy of information and the legality of information treatment, or if necessary to retain the information.
• The right to data portability
- The users or their legal representatives may request to provide or transfer the information. • The right to object
- The users or their legal representatives may suspend the treatment of personal information if the information is used for the purpose of direct marketing, reasonable interests, the exercise of official duties and authority, and research and statistics.

If, in order to exercise the above rights, you, as an user, use the menu of 'amendment of member information of webpage or contact the Company by sending a document or e-mails, or using telephone to the company(or person in charge of management of personal information or a deputy), the Company will take measures without delay: Provided that the Company may reject the request of you only to the extent that there exists either proper cause as prescribed in the laws or equivalent cause.

6. Security
The Company regard the security of personal information of uses as very important. The company constructs the following security measures to protect the users' personal information from any unauthorized access, release, use or modification
• Encryption of personal information
-  Transmit users' personal information by using encrypted communication zone 

-  Store important information such as passwords after encrypting it
• Countermeasures against hacking 

- Install a system in the zone the external access to which is controlled so as to prevent leakage or damage of users' personal information by hacking or computer virus
• Establish and execute internal management plan

• Install and operate access control system

• Take measures to prevent forging or alteration of access record

7. Use of Tracking Technologies
The Company may collect collective and impersonal information through 'cookies'.
Cookies are very small text files to be sent to the browser of the users by the server used for operation of the websites of the Company and will be stored in hard-disks of the users' computer.
These functions are used for evaluating, improving services and setting-up users' experiences so that much improved services can be provided by the Company to the users
The items of cookies to be collected by the Company and the purpose of such collection are as follows: Cookie is used for memorizing the set-ups so that the Company provides services and improves visit of users. Any information collected by this cookie do not identify the users individually.
The users have an option for cookie installation. So, they may either allow all cookies by setting option in web browser, make each cookie checked whenever it is saved, or refuses all cookies to be saved: Provided that, if the user rejects the installation of cookies, it may be difficult for that user to use the parts of services provided by the Company.

8. Protection of personal information of children
In principle, the Company does not collect any information from the children under 13 or equivalent minimum age as prescribed in the laws in relevant jurisdiction. The website, products and services of the Company are the ones to be provided to ordinary people, in principle. The website or application of the Company has function to do age limit so that children cannot use it and the Company does not intentionally collect any personal information from children through that function.
(Additional procedure for collecting personal information from children) However, if the Company collects any personal information from children under 13 or equivalent minimum age as prescribed in the laws in relevant jurisdiction for the services for unavoidable reason, the Company will go through the additional procedure of the followings for protecting that personal information of children:
• Verify, to the extent that efforts are reasonably made, whether they are children of the age at which consent from their guardian is required and the consenting person is an authorized one.
• Obtain consent from the parents or guardian of children so as to collect personal information of children or directly send the information of products and services of the Company
• Give the parents or guardian of children a notice of Company's policy of privacy protection for children including the items, purpose and sharing of personal information collected
• Grant to legal representatives of children a right to access to personal information of that children/correction or deletion of personal information/temporary suspension of treatment of personal information/ and request for withdrawal of their consent provided before
• Limit the amount of personal information exceeding those necessary for participation in online activities

9. Modification of Privacy Protection Policy
The Company has the right to amend or modify this Policy from time to time and, in such case, the Company will make a public notice of it through bulletin board of its website (or through individual notice such as written document, fax or e-mail) and obtain consent from the users if required by relevant laws.

10. Period for retention and use of personal information
In principle, the Company destructs personal information of users without delay when: the purpose of its collection and use has been achieved; the legal or management needs are satisfied; or users request: Provided that, if it is required to retain the information by relevant laws and regulations, the Company will retain member information for certain period as designated by relevant laws and regulations. The information to be retained as required by relevant laws and regulations are as follows:
∘ Record regarding contract or withdrawal of subscription: 5 years (The Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce )
∘ Record on payment and supply of goods:5 years (The Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce )
∘ Record on consumer complaint or dispute treatment: 3 years (The Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce )

11. Procedure and method of destruction of personal information
In principle, the Company destructs the information immediately after the purposes of its collection and use have been achieved without delay: Provided that, if any information is to be retained as required by relevant laws and regulations, the Company retain it for the period as required by those laws and regulations before destruction and, in such event, the personal information which is stored and managed separately will never be used for other purposes. The Company destructs: hard copies of personal information by shredding with a pulverizer or incinerating it; and delete personal information stored in the form of electric file by using technological method making that information not restored.

12. Technical, managerial and physical measures for protection of personal information

In order to prevent the loss, theft, leakage, alteration or damage of personal information of the users, the Company takes technical, managerial and physical measures for securing safety as follows:
∘ Utilize security servers for transmitting encryption of personal information
∘ Take measures of encryption for confidential information

∘ Install and operate access control devices and equipments

∘ Establish and execute internal management plan

13. Staff responsible for managing personal information
The staff of the Company responsible for managing personal information is as follows: • Name of staff responsible for managing personal information:
Dept. : Operations Team Leader
Tel. : +82-10-8572-9006
Contact : heartsmilem@gmail.com
The latest update date: 1, January, 2017.


Terms & Conditions for Memberships