Korean Histories

KH recognizes the importance of privacy and is therefore commited to protecting the privacy of the users of its website. To do this we established the privacy policy below which provides information about the care with which we intend to treat your personal information.

 

 

 

If you subscribe to KH, we collect personally identifiable information, including your first name, family name, affiliation, e-mail address, ip-address and where applicable username and password. We may also collect non-personal information such as the name of assets being uploaded and downloaded, the type of browser you are using, the operating system you use and the domain name of your Internet Service Provider.

 

 

 

We use the information you provide to facilitate your use of KH, to respond to your inquiries about KH, to improve the design of our site and the database system, for system administration and troubleshooting purposes, to enable us to respond to uses of KH in violation of the KH Terms of Use, and to, in aggregated form, track and analyze site usage.

 

 

 

KH does in principle not share personal information about individual users. KH does share general usage data in aggregated form so that no personal information is identifiable to participating institutions. KH will provide you all of your personal information provided at registration on request. KH may only disclose personal information in special circumstances as outlined below in Compliance With Legal Proceedings.

 

 

 

A cookie is a small piece of data we sent from our web server to your web browser and store locally on your machine. The cookie is stored on your computer but is not an executable program and cannot do anything to your computer. Whenever a web browser requests a file from the same web server that sent the cookie, the browser sends a copy of that cookie back to the server. KH sends cookies when you use browse our site and use the database. The cookies KH uses do not give access to your personal information, but we may used to identify your computer. Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept certain cookies by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you and some Web pages may not display properly.

 

 

 

Though we have the necessary technology in place to prevent unauthorized access to the information we collect online, we cannot be held responsible for information collected by or from websites linking to or from KH.

 

 

 

KH may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if we believe that this is necessary to comply with the law or a legal proceeding, to protect against violations of our Terms of Use, or to protect and defend our rights and property or the rights and property of contributors to KH.

 

 

 

KH will remove you and your personal information from our database on request. Please note that this may cancel your access to KH.