Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy for LG Chem

Our Contact Information is:
LG Chem
LG Twin Towers 128, Yeoui-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
+82-2-3777-1114
security@lgchem.com

We do not collect any information about our visitor's email or referring domain.

For visitors on our website we collect:

The email address and personal information from the visitors who communicate with us via email.
Aggregate (General Tracking) information about pages that users visit on our site.
Any information given to us by users that contact us via inquiry form, survey, etc.

The information that we collect is used for:

Internal review, tracking, or contacting and is then discarded.
Improving the quality of our website content and user friendliness for a better user experience.

We may use a standard technology called a cookie for the following purposes.

Store visitor preferences for return visits to our website. If you are currently receiving a newsletter or emails from us and would like to stop receiving them, please notify us by contacting us by at the above address. We do not partner or use any 3rd party ad services or content delivering services. With respect to security, we use industry standard encryption technologies, when transferring and receiving data from visitors on our website. For questions regarding our privacy policy or website in general, please contact by; email, listed above.

This is our privacy policy that complies with the General Data Protection Regulation.

PRIVACY POLICY FOR SUBMITTER

■ General

1. [LG Chem, Ltd. registered office: 128 Yeoui-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea ] (‘Company’) is a controller of the submitter(of inquiry form and webinar registration in the meaning of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (‘GDPR’).
2. ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. (Art. 4. (1) of the GDPR)
3. The Company considers your personal data as valuables and complies with GDPR and personal data protection laws.
4. This Privacy Policy informs you, what the purpose of processing is, how the personal data are processed.
5. This Privacy Policy is provided to the data subject when the personal data are collected and the data subject can easily access to the information of personal data processing.
6. The Company may amend this Privacy Policy as required by relevant laws or Company’s internal regulation.

■ Purpose and legal grounds of processing personal data

1. The Company processes personal data for purposes related to the negotiations and performance of a contract, i.e. for the purposes necessary to perform the contract (legal basis - Art. 6.1 point b of the GDPR)
2. In other cases, the Company may process personal data based on a voluntary consent to the processing of data and for the purposes indicated in such consent. Then a legal basis for processing is the submitter’s consent (Art. 6.1 point a of the GDPR).

If you don’t provide personal data to the Company, you may be restricted from receiving appropriate answer to your inquiry and invitation for webinar session you submit interest for, which means that collection of the data is necessary for this purpose. In the case of consent, providing personal data by the submitter is voluntary, and not giving such consent has no negative consequences.

■ Retention period

Company retains the personal data for the one(1) year from the date of submission, registration as required by the law.

■ Recipient

The Company discloses the personal data to the third party as below.

Recipient	Purpose
LG Chem, Ltd. and its affiliates or subsidiaries	Share the information of submitter
LG CNS	Maintenance of system

LGCCI, LGCLA

Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, the personal data may be transferred to other entities, e.g. entities providing services to the Company, such as IT service providers, advisers, auditors, and to the extent that it is necessary to fulfill obligations resulting from legal regulations, e.g. to the government authorities.

■ Deletion of personal data

1. The Company will delete the personal data without delay, when the purpose of personal data processing is achieved or the retention period is expired unless the personal data is necessary or mandatory by the laws or the contract with the third party.
2. In case of the personal data in the form of the paper, the Company uses the paper shredder to dispose of such data or incinerate the paper, and in case of the personal data in the form of the electronic files, the Company deletes the data by using the means which preclude any restoration of such data.

■ Rights of the data subject

1. The Company has obligation and responsibility to ensure the rights of data subject with regard to personal data in the Company retained in any form such as electronic files, papers.
2. The laws may grant the submitter specific rights in connection with the processing of personal data by the Company. In situations specified in the regulations, the submitter has the right to access their data, rectify it, delete, and restrict the processing of personal data, the right to object to the processing of personal data and the right to data portability.
3. The data subject may exercise its rights by contacting the personal data protection department/team as specified information below and upon receiving your fax, phone or email, the Company will promptly respond. The Company may demand to the data subject the copy of identification by which the Company can verify the identity of the data subject.
4. The Company may request the Power of Attorney and the copy of identification by which the Company can verify the existence of legitimate delegation to the representative of the data subject, if the data subject exercises its rights through its representative.
5. If the personal data are processed under the data subject’s consent, the data subject may withdraw its consent at any time without prejudice to the lawfulness of personal data processing before data subject’s withdrawal of consent.

■ Automated decision making, including profiling

The Company does not adopt any automated decision making including profiling which produces legal effects concerning the data subject or similarly significantly affects the data subject

■ Transfer of personal data

Company doesn’t transfer your personal data to any third party, except the submitter explicitly consent on the transfer.

■ Data protection department/team

- Department/team : Marketing Communication
- Name : Kate Ha
- Title : Associate
- Phone/Email : +82-2-3773-3111, hamingyeong@lgchem.com

■ Data Protection Officer (If Company doesn’t designate DPO, fill in the information of Personal Data Protection Chief Officer)

- Name : Kate Ha
- Title : Associate
- Phone/Email : +82-2-3773-3111, hamingyeong@lgchem.com

■ Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority i.e. the President of Data Protection Authority.
※ Supervisory Authority is a separate organization from the Company. If you are not satisfied with Company’s response to your complaint regarding your rights on personal data and you need further assistance, then you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

■ Enforcement of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy shall enter into force on March 4, 2022.