Introduction
“ThinkDuel” (hereinafter referred to as “this Blog”) is committed to respecting the privacy of its readers and appropriately protecting personal information. To ensure that you can use this Blog with confidence, we have established the detailed Privacy Policy below and will strive to handle personal information properly.
1. Definition of Personal Information
In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about a living individual that can identify the specific individual by name, date of birth, address, telephone number, email address, or other descriptions included in the information, or information that contains a personal identification code, as defined in applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act). This also includes information that can be easily cross-referenced with other information, thereby identifying a specific individual. Furthermore, this includes information that, while not individually identifiable, can become identifiable when combined with other information.
2. Acquisition of Personal Information
This Blog may acquire personal information through the following methods:
- Contact Forms: When you make inquiries, we may ask you to provide information such as your name, email address, and inquiry details.
- Comment Sections: When you post comments, you may voluntarily provide information such as your name (or handle), email address, and comment content.
- Access Logs: To understand access patterns to this Blog, we automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser type, pages viewed, access time, referrer information, and device information. This information will not be used for the purpose of personally identifying individuals but cannot rule out the possibility of being linked to personal information.
- Cookies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to improve the functionality of this Blog, provide personalized content, deliver advertisements, and analyze access.
- Social Media: We may collect information about the usage of our official social media accounts (if any), post content, follower information, etc.
- Surveys: We may collect personal information when you participate in surveys conducted to improve the quality of this Blog.
- Other: We may acquire personal information when adding new services or functions in the future.
3. Purpose of Use of Personal Information
The personal information we collect will be used for the following purposes:
- Responding to inquiries, verifying your identity, and addressing your opinions and requests.
- Confirming and managing comments, contacting commenters, and facilitating community engagement.
- Operating and improving this Blog, analyzing usage patterns, and enhancing user experience.
- Providing information to readers (e.g., newsletters, event announcements, campaign information, only to those who opt-in), and personalizing content.
- Preventing fraudulent activity, violations of terms of service, and spam.
- Creating statistical data (processed to be unidentifiable), marketing analysis, and research.
- Delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertisements, and targeted advertising.
- Purposes permitted by applicable data protection laws, or other purposes that you have separately agreed to.
4. Provision of Personal Information to Third Parties
We will not provide your personal information to third parties, except in the following cases:
- With your prior express consent, which you may withdraw at any time.
- When required by law (e.g., disclosure requests from investigative authorities, court orders, requests from government agencies).
- When it is necessary to protect the life, body, or property of a person, and it is difficult to obtain your consent.
- When it is especially necessary for the improvement of public health or the promotion of the sound development of children, and it is difficult to obtain your consent.
- When it is necessary to cooperate with a national or local government agency or its entrusted party in carrying out legally stipulated affairs, and there is a risk of hindering the execution of the affairs by obtaining your consent.
- When it is necessary to outsource the handling of personal information within the scope necessary to achieve the purpose of use. (We will provide appropriate supervision to the outsourcing party.) In this case, we ensure that the outsourcing party manages information in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
- When personal information is provided due to a merger, business transfer, or other reasons for the succession of the business. (In this case, we impose the same obligations to protect personal information on the successor.)
- When providing statistical data to third parties. In this case, no personally identifiable information will be included.
5. Security Management of Personal Information
We will implement necessary and appropriate security measures to prevent the leakage, loss, or damage of personal information. Such measures include:
- Strict setting of access rights, implementation of multi-factor authentication, and monitoring of access logs.
- Measures against unauthorized access (firewalls, intrusion detection systems, WAF, etc.) and vulnerability protection.
- Encryption of data containing personal information (SSL/TLS, etc.), anonymization, and pseudonymization.
- Regular privacy and security training for employees.
- Physical security measures (access control, locking management, surveillance cameras, etc.) and disaster countermeasures.
- Appropriate supervision of entrusted parties, obligations under contract, and regular audits.
- Regular security audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests.
- Establishment of a system for responding to incidents.
6. Disclosure, Correction, Deletion, etc. of Personal Information
If you request the disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, erasure, or suspension of provision to third parties of your personal information, we will respond appropriately based on applicable data protection laws. However, there may be cases where we cannot respond to your request due to the Personal Information Protection Act or other applicable laws, or where identity verification is required. In addition, a prescribed fee may be charged for responding to your request.
7. Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies
This Blog may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to improve the convenience of readers, understand access patterns, deliver advertisements, and personalize content. These technologies may collect information such as browsing history, demographic information, and interests. If you wish to disable cookies, please change your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may make some functions of this Blog unavailable. Furthermore, this Blog may use third-party cookies to deliver behavior-targeted advertising. These ad delivery providers manage cookies based on their own privacy policies.
8. Disclaimer
The content of the articles published on this Blog is based on opinions of historical figures and experts and includes our interpretations and analyses. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, up-to-dateness, or usefulness of such content. We are not responsible for any damages incurred by readers as a result of using or relying on this blog content. Please use the information on this Blog at your own judgment and responsibility. Additionally, this Blog does not endorse any specific opinion or ideology.
This Blog is not responsible for the content, services, privacy policies, etc., of external websites linked from this Blog. Please check the terms of use etc., of each linked site for your use.
This Blog is not liable for any damages caused by the interruption, suspension, or change of services.
This Blog is not responsible for the content of the comment sections on this Blog.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Blog may change this Privacy Policy as necessary. The revised Privacy Policy shall become effective from the time of its publication on this Blog. In the event of any significant changes, we will announce such changes on this Blog. We recommend that you check this Privacy Policy regularly.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions, opinions, complaints, or other inquiries regarding the handling of personal information, please contact us at:
Date of Enactment
January 24, 2025
Date of Last Update
January 24, 2025 (Subject to update as needed)