Privacy Policy

Honour Tech processes only the minimum personal data needed to answer your inquiries and run this website.

This Privacy Policy explains how Honour Tech Inc. ("Honour Tech", "we", "us") processes personal data when you visit honourtech.net or contact us. It is written to meet the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea and, for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and equivalent laws.

Effective date: 27 October 2026

1. Who we are

The controller responsible for your personal data is Honour Tech Inc., 2F, 30 Daehwa-ro 139beon-gil, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Our privacy officer is Chun Sungjae, CEO (chun@honourtech.co.kr).

2. Personal data we collect

Personal data we collect
Category Data Source
Inquiry (required) Name, email, company, country/region, purpose of inquiry, application, inquiry details Contact form
Inquiry (optional) Phone number, company website, category Contact form
Usage data IP address and time of access, browser and device information, pages visited, cookies Generated automatically when you use the website

Please describe only your process in the inquiry details and do not include sensitive personal data. Inquiries sent directly by email or phone are processed within the same scope.

3. Purposes and legal bases

Purposes and legal bases for processing
Purpose Legal basis (GDPR)
Responding to inquiries, technical reviews, quotations and proposals Steps taken at your request before entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)); your consent given on the contact form
Follow-up on tests, pilots and supply contracts Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) and our legitimate interest in managing business relationships (Art. 6(1)(f))
Website statistics with Google Analytics Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time
Keeping records required by law Compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))

We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not sell personal data.

4. How long we keep your data

  • Inquiry data: 3 years after your inquiry is closed, so we can follow up and keep a record of our consultations
  • Contract and payment records, if the inquiry leads to a transaction: 5 years, as required by Korean law
  • Website access logs: 3 months
  • Google Analytics data: 14 months from collection

When the retention period ends, we delete electronic records so they cannot be recovered and shred paper records.

5. Who we share data with

We do not sell or provide your personal data to third parties for their own purposes. We use the following service providers, who process data only on our instructions:

Service providers
Provider Service Location
Cafe24 Corp. Website hosting and delivery of contact form emails Republic of Korea
Google LLC Company email (Google Workspace): receiving and storing inquiry emails United States and other countries
Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd. Google Analytics website statistics (only with your consent) United States and other countries

We may also disclose data where required by law or by a competent authority.

6. International transfers

Honour Tech is based in the Republic of Korea. The European Commission has recognized the Republic of Korea as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data (adequacy decision of 17 December 2021), so data you send us from the EEA is covered by that decision.

Inquiry emails stored in Google Workspace and Google Analytics data may be transferred to the United States. Google LLC participates in the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and Google also relies on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

7. Cookies

We use Google Analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website. Cookies are small text files stored in your browser. We do not use advertising cookies.

Cookies we use
Cookie Provider Purpose Duration
_ga Google Distinguishes visitors 2 years
_ga_* Google Maintains session state 2 years

Your choices

  • If you visit from the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, analytics cookies are not used until you accept them.
  • You can accept, reject or withdraw consent at any time under "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.
  • You can also block cookies in your browser settings. Rejecting cookies does not affect any website features.

8. Your rights

Depending on the law that applies to you, you have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you
  • have inaccurate data corrected
  • have your data erased
  • restrict or object to processing, including processing based on our legitimate interests
  • receive your data in a portable format
  • withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal

To exercise these rights, email chun@honourtech.co.kr. We will respond within one month at the latest, and within 10 days where Korean law applies. We may ask you to confirm your identity. Data that we must keep by law cannot be erased until the legal retention period ends.

9. Security

We encrypt all connections to this website (HTTPS), restrict access to personal data to the people who need it, protect administrator accounts with password controls, and keep paper records and storage media locked.

10. Children

This website is intended for business customers. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 (under 14 in Korea).

11. Complaints

If you have a concern, please contact us first. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you live or work. In Korea, you can contact the Personal Information Infringement Report Center (118, privacy.kisa.or.kr).

12. Changes to this policy

We will post any changes on this page at least 7 days before they take effect.

  • 27 October 2026: first version

13. Contact us

Privacy officer
Chun Sungjae, CEO
Address
2F, 30 Daehwa-ro 139beon-gil, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea