Privacy Policy

Gwangmyung Maritime (the "Company") establishes and publishes this privacy policy in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) of Korea, in order to protect the personal information of data subjects and to handle related complaints promptly and smoothly.

1. Purposes of Collecting and Using Personal Information

The Company processes personal information for the following purposes. Personal information being processed is not used for any purpose other than those set out below; where the purpose of use changes, the Company will take the necessary measures, such as obtaining separate consent.

• Receiving and handling enquiries: confirming and responding to project consultations and technical enquiries submitted through the website contact form
• Website usage statistics: aggregating page-usage statistics through Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not identify individuals

2. Personal Information Collected

The Company collects the following personal information in order to receive enquiries and provide its services.

• Collected through the contact form (required): name, email address, enquiry content (message)
• Collected through the contact form (optional): organisation (company), role
• Information sent together with the enquiry: the address of the page from which the enquiry was submitted, the entry point, and the language setting in use
• Page-usage statistics aggregated by Cloudflare Web Analytics (no cookies, no identification of individuals), and the connecting IP address and request logs that Cloudflare records in the course of delivering and securing the site

The contact form is submitted only when you have consented to the collection and use of personal information. You may refuse consent; in that case, however, enquiries cannot be submitted through the contact form.

The language a visitor selects is stored in the browser's localStorage (preferredLanguage) and is not transmitted to the Company's servers. The Company does not use any IP-address-based location service.

3. Retention and Use Period of Personal Information

The Company processes and retains personal information within the retention and use period prescribed by law, or the period to which the data subject consented when the personal information was collected. Personal information collected through enquiries is retained for three years after the enquiry has been handled and is then destroyed.

4. Provision of Personal Information to Third Parties

The Company processes personal information only within the scope specified for its collection and use, and provides personal information to third parties only in the cases set out in Articles 17 and 18 of the Personal Information Protection Act, such as with the data subject's consent or under a specific provision of law.

4-1. Outsourcing of Personal Information Processing

To carry out its operations smoothly, the Company outsources the processing of personal information as follows.

• Processor: EmailJS (email delivery service)
• Outsourced task: delivering by email the name, email address, organisation, role and enquiry content entered in the contact form to the Company's enquiry address (info@gmmaritime.com). The delivery is performed by the Company's server (Cloudflare Workers), not by the browser, and the contact form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile bot protection
• Processor: Cloudflare, Inc. (website hosting, delivery and security)
• Outsourced task: website hosting and delivery, bot protection (Turnstile) and security processing, and aggregation of page-usage statistics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)

This site does not use cookies for advertising or tracking. Usage statistics are aggregated solely through Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses neither cookies nor browser fingerprinting and does not identify individuals. The language a visitor selects is stored only in the browser's localStorage (preferredLanguage).

5. Destruction of Personal Information

When personal information becomes unnecessary, for example because the retention period has expired or the purpose of processing has been achieved, the Company destroys it without delay. Information in electronic file form is deleted using technical methods that make the records unrecoverable, and personal information printed on paper is shredded or incinerated.

6. Rights and Obligations of Data Subjects and How to Exercise Them

Data subjects may at any time exercise the following rights relating to the protection of their personal information against the Company.

• Request access to personal information
• Request correction where there are errors or the like
• Request deletion
• Request suspension of processing

7. Overseas Transfer of Personal Information

The Company transfers personal information overseas as follows, in accordance with Article 28-8 of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) of Korea, for the purposes of sending enquiry emails, delivering and securing the site, and analysing usage statistics. The contact details of each recipient are those set out in the recipient's own privacy policy.

Data subjects may refuse the overseas transfer of enquiry-related personal information by not submitting the contact form. If you refuse the transfer via the contact form, your enquiry cannot be received or handled through the form; in that case you may contact us by email at info@gmmaritime.com.

8. Privacy Officer

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

This privacy policy takes effect on 9 October 2026. Previous versions of the privacy policy are listed below.

• 9 October 2026: Privacy policy established and brought into effect
• 17 October 2026: Section "7. Overseas Transfer of Personal Information" added and the subsequent sections renumbered
• 18 October 2026: Google Analytics and the cookie consent banner removed. Usage statistics are now aggregated solely through cookie-free Cloudflare Web Analytics
• 18 October 2026: Web fonts moved to self-hosting; the Google overseas-transfer entry removed