It is 1stopKorea Personals' policy to completely respect the privacy of its users. Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in e-mail or forums, that information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited messages. Be smart about the information you provide online.

Some personally identifying information such as your name and address is required when registering. Visitors to our site whose personal data has been collected have rights to access the same, mandate corrections, and ascertain our policies and practices with regard to such data. Our visitors should feel free to exercise any of these rights by contacting us directly: Data Protection Officer, fax: (852) 3106 4753.

Personal data collected may be used by 1stopKorea Personals for various purposes. These include purposes related to run certain promotions, to process promotion entries, to offer online services, for general marketing, to enforce our legal or other rights to conduct research, contact visitors and the like. 1stopKorea Personals will not sell, rent or disclose any registration information without prior notice and giving you the chance to refuse disclosure.

Notwithstanding this commitment, we may disclose certain personally identifying information to partner companies with whom we work in order to provide our viewers with some of our services, such as 1stopKorea Personals email and instant messaging. In order to provide these services, we must disclose certain information to our partners including your 1stopKorea Personals username and email address.

Our content partners may also ask you for some additional personal information. Other companies may help sponsor promotions, contests and sweepstakes running on 1stopKorea Personals. These companies may choose to collect personal information from you. If you don't want your information collected by these sponsors, you can decide not to participate in the promotion, contest or sweepstakes. We have no control over how they may use any such information and 1stopKorea Personals disclaims all liability with respect to the same.

Please be aware that due to the nature of the Internet and other factors, privacy in your communications and viewing habits cannot be absolutely guaranteed. While we have undertaken certain security precautions, you should be aware that hackers may nonetheless possibly infiltrate our computer system and obtain and use your personal information.

1stopKorea Personals disclaims all liability in the event of such an occurrence, and your use of the 1stopKorea Personals site expressly indicates your acceptance of this possible risk.

You should be aware that our advertisers or other websites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. By activating a link (such as a banner of an advertiser), you are leaving our site and if you subsequently provide information, we have no control over its use. This privacy statement does not address the information practices of any of those other websites or advertisers, and 1stopKorea Personals disclaims all liability with respect to how they may use any such information.

In our effort to provide you services customized to your interests, we may use "cookies" to keep and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. For example, we use cookies to: access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; estimate our audience size for our advertisers; to assist in processing items in your shopping basket; to track the number of entries in our promotions, sweepstakes and contests; and to identify which areas of our site you have visited. If you want to disallow cookies, you are advised to do so in your "Preferences" menu on your own Web browser. Advertisers on our site may use their own cookies, and this privacy policy does not cover how these companies use their cookies.

Again, we make every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

No one under the age of 18 is allowed to register on 1stopKorea Personals. If we receive notice that a member has provided incorrect information during registration and is actually under 18, we will close their account immediately.

For users in China: You agree that 1stopKorea Personals may disclose any information, including your name and other information, if it believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate its systems properly or to protect itself and its members.