Updated: May 29, 2024

Effective: June 6, 2024

We(“VecMul”, “we”, “our” or “us”) provide the Privacy Policy to explain the way of treatment of the information which is provided or collected in the websites on which this Policy is posted. In addition the Policy also explains the information which is provided or collected in the course of using the applications of the Company which exist in the websites or platforms of other companies.

Through this Policy, we regard personal information of the users as important and inform them of the purpose and method of our's using the personal information provided by the users and the measures taken by “VecMul” for protection of those personal information.

1. Disclosure of this Policy

· The Company discloses this policy through the first page of the Company’s website or the page linked to the first screen so that users can easily check this policy at any time.

· If the Company discloses this Policy in accordance with Clause, the size of letters, colors, etc. shall be used so that users can easily confirm this Policy

2. Personal Information to be collected

Personal Information you provide:

· Account Information: When you create an account, we collect an email address, password, language. Optionally, we collect profile photo by user’s decision

· Payment Service: When you make payments through the service, We will collect name, payment card information, billing address, and transaction history to provide advanced service for paid users.

· Customer Support: We will collect information through communications with our team. Your name, contact information, and the messages you send will be collected.

· Inputs and Outputs: Our service predicts outputs based on users’ inputs. If you provide personal information in your inputs, we will collect this data and it may be replicated in your outputs.

· User Profile: When you upload your profile information including input, file uploads or survey information, we will collect information that you may provide to us.

· Other: Preference, advertisement environment, visited pages regarding service use of users

Personal Information collected while the users use services:

Besides information directly provided by the users, we may collect information in the course that the users use the service provided by ‘VecMul’.

· Equipment Information: We may collectEquipment identifier, operation system, hardware version

· Log information: Log data, use time, word/sentences input by users, cookie and web beacon, Internet Protocol address.

· Cookies, Beacons and Similar Technologies: We may collect collective and impersonal information through ‘cookies’ or ‘web beacons’. 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 ‘VecMul’ and will be stored in hard-disks of the users’ computer. Web beacon is a small quantity of code which exists on websites and emails. By using web beacons, we may know whether a user has interacted with certain webs or the contents of email.These functions are used for evaluating, improving services and setting-up users’ experiences so that much improved services can be provided by us to the users. You can change the settings of the browser in order not to save cookies.

· Third Party: Third-party content may use cookies, web beacons, or other mechanisms for obtaining data in connection with your viewing of the third party content on the Service.

· Analytics: We may utilize various online analytics services, including "Google Analytics," "Hotjar," and "Clarity," to enhance user experiences.

Personal Information collected by OAuth2.0
We collect user data from Google and GitHub when users sign up or log in through these platforms. This data is solely used to identify users and register them in our database. We do not share any Google or GitHub user data with third parties.

When users attempt to sign up or log in via Google or GitHub, we request an access token from the OAuth server. This access token allows us to identify the user's email.

Aside from OAuth2.0 authentication, we do not request any other Google APIs.

The personal information we store from Google/GitHub is as follows
· email

· profile picture

· name

· locale

3. Use of collected Information

We use the collected information of users for the following purposes:

· Member management and identification

· To detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of or abuse of the Service

· Performance of contract 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 help you connect with other users you already know and, with your permission, allow other users to connect with you

· 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)

· Cases necessary for the operation of the Company, such as delivery of notices

We may use non-identifiable, aggregated information, including chats, posts, comments, replies, or content, to analyze the usage of VecMul. This analysis, conducted through cookies and other third-party analytics tools, helps us enhance our services.

4. Disclosure of collected information

Except for the following cases, we will not disclose personal information with a 3rd party:

When we disclosing the information with its affiliates, partners and service providers

· When our 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

· 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. Period of Retention and Use of Personal Information

· We shall retain and use personal information for the period of time to achieve the purpose of collecting and using personal information.

· Notwithstanding the foregoing, we shall keep the records of fraudulent use of the Services for up to one (1) year from the time of withdrawal of the Member in order to prevent fraudulent subscription and use in accordance with internal policies.

· The Company retains and uses personal information as follows in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

Information and period of retention under the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, Etc.

A. Records on withdrawal of contracts or subscriptions, etc.: 5 years

B. Records on payment and supply of goods, etc.: 5 years

C. Records on settlement of consumer complaints or disputes: 3 years

D. Records on labeling/advertising: 6 months

Information and period of retention under the Protection of Communications Secrets Act

A. Website log record materials: 3 months

Information and period of retention under the Electronic Financial Transactions Act

A. Records on electronic financial transactions: 5 years

Act on the Protection, Use, etc. of Location Information

A. Records on personal location information: 6 months

6. Users’ right

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:

· exercise right to access to personal information;

· make corrections or deletion;

· make temporary suspension of treatment of personal information; or

· request the withdrawal of their consent provided before

If, in order to exercise the above options, you, as an user, use the menu of 'amendment of member information of webpage or contact at dev@vecmul.com, we will take measures without delay: Provided that we may reject the request of you only to the extent that there exists either proper cause as prescribed in the laws or equivalent cause.

Services generate responses based on user inputs by predicting the next words through third-party APIs such as those from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic. Therefore, the factual accuracy of the output should not be relied upon. Additionally, if you provide personal information, it may appear in the output. You can request the removal of your personal information from the model’s output by contacting dev@vecmul.com.

7. Principle of Destruction of Personal Information

· In principle, the Company shall destroy the relevant information without delay if personal information is not required due to the achievement of the purpose of handling personal information by the user, the expiration of the retention/use period, etc.

· The information entered by the user for membership registration, etc. shall be transferred to a separate database after the purpose of personal information processing is achieved (in case of paper, a separate document) and stored for a certain period of time in accordance with internal policies and other reasons for information protection under relevant laws and regulations (regarding the period of possession and use).

· The Company destroys personal information for which a reason for destruction has occurred through the approval process of the Personal Information Protection Officer.

· The Company deletes personal information stored in an electronic file format using a technical method that cannot be reproduced, and personal information printed in paper shall be destroyed by shredding using a shredder or incineration, etc.

8. Security

We regard the security of personal information of uses as very important. we 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

9. Protection of personal information of children

In principle, we do 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 us are the ones to be provided to ordinary people, in principle. The website or application of the ‘VecMul’ has function to do age limit so that children cannot use it and we do not intentionally collect any personal information from children through that function.

If you believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at dev@vecmul.com. We will delete the Personal Information from our systems.

10. Data transmission

Considering it engages in global businesses, we may provide the users' personal information to the companies located in other countries for the purpose as expressly stated in this Policy. For the places where the personal information is transmitted, retained or processed, we take reasonable measures for protecting those personal information.

In addition, when the personal information obtained from the European Union or Switzerland is used or disclosed, we may have to comply with the US-EU Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield, take other measures or obtain consent from users so far as those complies with the regulations of EU so as to use a standardized agreement provision approved by executing organizations of EU or securing proper safe measures.

11. Guide for users residing in California

If the user resides in California, certain rights may be given. We prepare preventive measures necessary for protecting personal information of members so that we can comply with online privacy protection laws of California. In case of leakage of personal information, an user may request us to check the leakage. In addition, all the users in the website of the Company, can modify their information at any time by using the menu for changing information by connecting their personal account. Moreover, we do not trace the visitors of its website nor use any signals for 'tracing prevent'. We will not collect and provide any personal identification information through ad services without consent of users.

12. Lawful processing of personal information under GDPR

Processing personal information by us shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

· A user has given consent to the processing of his or her personal information.

· Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which a user is party or in order to take steps at the request of a user prior to entering into a contract:

Member management, identification, etc.
Performance of a contract in relation to providing the services required by users, payment and settlement of fees, etc.

· Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject

Compliance with relevant law, regulations, legal proceedings, requests by the government

· Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of users, or other natural persons

Detection of, prevention of, and response to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that may harm users or other natural persons

· Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the excise of official authority vested in the Company

· Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party (except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child)

13. User’s right when applying GDPR

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 us:

· 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.

· The right to automated individual decision-making, including profiling

The users or their legal representatives may request to cease the automated treatment of personal information, including profiling, which has a critical impact or cause legal effect on them.

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

14. Modification of Privacy Protection Policy

We have the right to amend or modify this Policy from time to time and, in such cases, we will make a public notice of it through the bulletin board of its website (or through individual notice such as e-mail) and obtain consent from the users if required by relevant laws.

We shall give notice of the notice at least 7 days prior to the effective date of this Policy Amendment. However, if there is a significant change in user rights, notice shall be given at least 30 days in advance.

15. How to Contact us

In order to protect users’ personal information and handle complaints related to

personal information, the Company designates the relevant department and the

personal information protection officer as follows.

Telephone number: (+82) 010-9930-3386
Email: dev@vecmul.com