Effective Date: [20.03.2025]
This Privacy Policy explains the purposes, methods, and legal basis for processing your personal data when using the website: https://www.kts-parts.kr (hereinafter referred to as the „Website”). By reviewing this document, you will learn who is the controller of your personal data, what data we collect, why we collect it, and how we protect it.
§1. Basic Information
The controller of your personal data is:
KTS MACHINERY PARTS
Industry Zone 124, 316600 Yuhuan
You can contact us via email: contact@kts-parts.kr
§2. Principles of Data Processing
We process your personal data according to the following principles:
- Lawfulness – based on a valid legal basis
- Fairness – in an honest and non-deceptive manner
- Transparency – clear and open communication about data processing
- Purpose limitation – we only collect data for specific, legitimate purposes
- Data minimization – we collect only the data necessary
- Accuracy – we strive to keep data accurate and up to date
- Storage limitation – we retain data only as long as needed
- Integrity and confidentiality – we secure data against unauthorized access or loss
§3. Purposes, Legal Basis, and Scope of Data Processing
Your personal data may be processed for the following purposes:
- Contact purposes – to respond to your message submitted via email or our contact form, based on our legitimate interest in communication (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR);
- Marketing purposes – only when you give your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR);
- Informational purposes – to provide important updates related to the Website;
- Technical purposes – using essential cookies necessary for the proper operation of the Website, based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR);
- Statistical and analytical purposes – using cookies for analytical purposes, if you have given your consent;
- Marketing purposes using cookies – only if you have given your consent;
- Archiving communications – for the purpose of protecting against potential legal claims, based on our legitimate interest;
- Anonymous data analysis – includes technical information such as browser type, operating system, session time, navigation behavior, approximate location, age range, and gender. These data are anonymized, not linked to individual users, and used for marketing, analytics, and statistics via third-party tools (e.g., Google Analytics).
Scope of processed data:
- If you contact us, we will process the data you voluntarily provide, such as your email address and optionally your name;
- We also collect IP addresses and use cookies to manage user preferences, traffic analysis, and functionality – the extent depends on your cookie consent settings;
- We may integrate third-party tools via APIs (e.g., Google Maps, analytics), which may set cookies and process data according to their own privacy policies.
§4. Data Recipients and International Data Transfers
Depending on the purpose of processing, your data may be shared with:
- Government authorities and public institutions, as required by law;
- Entities providing IT support, website hosting, and domain services;
- External developers managing our Website;
- Service providers for cookie management and analytics;
- If you consent to marketing cookies – with advertising partners (e.g., Google);
- If you consent to analytical cookies – with analytics service providers (e.g., Google Analytics).
While our website is hosted in the European Union, some services we use (e.g., Google) are based outside the EEA (e.g., in the United States). When data is transferred outside the EEA, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, including reliance on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other valid mechanisms.
Examples of such services include:
- Google LLC (USA) – for analytics (Google Analytics), advertising (Google Ads), document storage (Google Drive), embedded maps (Google Maps), and video content (YouTube).
§5. Data Retention Period
We do not define a single retention period for all data. The data is stored:
- As long as necessary to respond to inquiries;
- Until you withdraw consent or object to processing;
- In accordance with applicable legal and operational requirements.
§6. Your Rights
You have the following rights under the GDPR:
- Right to access your data;
- Right to rectification of incorrect or outdated data;
- Right to erasure („right to be forgotten”);
- Right to restrict processing;
- Right to data portability;
- Right to object to processing based on legitimate interest;
- Right to withdraw consent at any time (for consent-based processing).
To exercise your rights, please contact us at contact@kts-parts.kr. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority (DPA).
§7. Final Notes
- Our Website is primarily in English, with selected sections available in Korean.
- We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in regulations or our internal practices. The updated version will be published on this page with a new effective date.