Privacy Policy for First K-Food

Effective Date: April 30, 2026 Last Updated: June 12, 2026

At First K-Food (accessible from https://firstkfood.com), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by First K-Food and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

1. Items of Personal Information Collected and Methods

  • Required Items for Registration: Name, ID, Password, Email Address
  • Optional Items: Date of Birth, Phone Number, Areas of Interest
  • Automatically Collected Information: Service usage records, Access logs, Cookies, IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, and referring/exit pages.
  • Collection Methods: Website registration, written forms, email, and customer service communication.

2. Purpose of Collection and Use of Personal Information

We utilize the collected personal information for the following purposes:

  • Member Management: Identity verification for membership services, individual identification, prevention of unauthorized use, and deterrence of fraudulent activities.
  • Service Fulfillment: Performance of contracts regarding service provision, and billing/settlement for services or products provided.
  • Service Improvement: Analyzing website traffic and user behavior to optimize content, recipes, and user experience.

3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Policy (Crucial for AdSense)

First K-Food partners with third-party advertising companies, including Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our website.

  • Google DART Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based upon their visit to firstkfood.com and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
  • Third-Party Advertisers: Other third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on First K-Food, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note: First K-Food has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, First K-Food uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

  • You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

5. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • Right to Know: Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
  • Right to Delete: Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: Request that a business that sells or shares a consumer’s personal data, not sell or share the consumer’s personal data.
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: First K-Food does not sell your personal information in exchange for money. However, like many online platforms, we share certain automatically collected data (such as cookies and device identifiers) with third-party ad networks (like Google AdSense) to deliver personalized ads. Under the CCPA, this sharing may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information.
  • How to Exercise Your Rights: If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or if you wish to opt-out of the sharing of your data for personalized advertising, please contact us at our designated email below. We have 45 days to respond to you.

6. Retention and Use Period of Personal Information

The Company will destroy personal information without delay once the purpose of collection and use has been achieved. However, exceptions apply if preservation is required by relevant laws and regulations.

7. Destruction Procedures and Methods

  • Electronic Files: Permanently deleted using technical methods that prevent recovery or restoration.
  • Paper Documents: Shredded using a paper shredder or incinerated.

8. Provision, Sharing, and Outsourcing of Data

The Company does not share or provide personal information to external parties without your consent, except as required by law. We may outsource data processing to reliable external service providers (such as hosting, analytics, and email delivery services) strictly to maintain and improve website operations, under strict data protection agreements.

9. Rights of Users and Membership Termination

  • Users may view, edit, or delete their registered personal information at any time.
  • Users can request to terminate their membership directly through the ‘My Page’ section of the website. Requests will be processed without delay.

10. Measures to Ensure the Safety of Personal Information

We implement industry-standard technical and administrative security measures, including SSL encryption for data transmission, access control mechanisms, and secure password hashing, to protect your data from unauthorized access or disclosure.

11. Privacy Officer & Contact Information

For any inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy, your data, or to exercise your CCPA rights, please contact our Privacy Officer:

Contact Email: close2home@naver.com

Name: Choi Joo-chan

Position: Privacy Officer / Administrator