This privacy statement is based upon a draft privacy policy statement generated from the OECD Privacy Policy Statement Generator available at www.oecd.org/sti/privacygenerator. The draft privacy policy statement has been modified by us in order to make it accurately reflect our organization’s personal data practices.

This privacy policy covers the Preparation Office for the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy and its Website.

This policy establishes how we handle the information we learn about you when you visit our site. Protecting the privacy and personal data of our visitors is of utmost importance to us.

1. The services and links of our website

Our website enables you to communicate with other visitors or to post information for others to access to. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.

Our website does include links to third party Web service providers such as OECD and the Broadcasting Communications Commission of the Republic of Korea.

2. Collection of your personal information

You can access and browse our site without disclosing your personal data, but we do collect personal information to make certain features and options available. We collect minimum necessary personal information when it is voluntarily provided, for instance when signing up on our website, participating in the online discussion, registering for the Ministerial and making hotel and tour reservations.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

Signing up on our site is voluntary. You can still use our website without signing up or provide personal information. In that case, you cannot use our online services: online discussion, meeting registration and hotel/tour reservation. If you choose to sign up or provide personal information for full access to our services, we may collect and store the following information:

• Personal information: name, gender, e-mail address, phone/fax number, date of birth, nationality,
  passport number, passport-size photo


• Business information: employer/organisation, job title, address, phone/fax number


• Identifiers: on-line identifiers, financial identifiers

If we wish to use your personal data for any other purpose, we will notify you and request your prior consent.

3.Automatic collection of information

We sometimes collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us provide better customer service by using “cookies.” A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. In our Website, the user’s IP address is stored in the cookies.

4. Disclosure and visitor choice

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations. We may, however, disclose your personal data if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request.

5. Confidentiality / Security

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access
• improper use or disclosure
• unauthorised modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to government institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

6. Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can check whether we are keeping personal data about you, by visiting this URL, www.oecdministerialseoul2008.org/en/mypage/modify.html. Upon request, which you can indicate by visiting the URL above, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, almost instantaneously on-line. Although we may before require proof of your identity, we will provide the information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you, and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

• erased
• rectified or amended
• completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal.

We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

7.Privacy compliance

Our privacy policy is compliant with the Law on the Personal Information Protection of Public Institutions of the Republic of Korea. It is also compliant with the OECD Policy Guidelines.

In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure.

8. Privacy support

If you have an inquiry or concern about our privacy policy,
please contact the Preparation Office for the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy.

Tel: +82-2-750-2853
Fax: +82-2-750-2899
E-mail address: futureinternet@bcc.go.kr
Mailing address: 14 Cheonggyecheon-no, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-775, Republic of Korea