Privacy

“You” - Customer

“We”, “Our” and “Us” - abrdn Korea Co. Limited

“Customers” - clients, business partners and all parties who have dealings with us

“Personal Information” - same meaning as "personal information" prescribed in the Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) which means information relating to a living individual that constitutes any of the following:

(a) Information that identifies a particular individual by his/her full name, resident registration number, image, etc.;

(b) Information which, even if by itself does not identify a particular individual, may be easily combined with other information to identify a particular individual (in this case, whether or not there is ease of combination shall be determined by reasonably considering the time, cost, technology, etc. used to identify the individual such as likelihood that the other information can be procured); and

(c) Information under items (a) or (b) above that is pseudonymised1in accordance with the relevant provisions and thereby becomes incapable of identifying a particular individual without the use or combination of information for restoration to the original state (referred to as “pseudonymised information”).

“Sensitive Personal Information” - same meaning as "sensitive information" prescribed in the Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) which is defined as personal information concerning an individual’s ideology, faith, labor union membership, political views or membership in a political party, health or medical treatment information, sexual orientation, genetic information, criminal records and biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person and race/ethnic information. Sensitive information can be processed if (a) such processing is required or permitted by a statute, or (b) the consent of the data subject is separately obtained.

General

We (abrdn Korea Co. Limited) take privacy seriously and we will only ever collect and use personal information where it is necessary and lawful to do so. We do not actively collect or use any personal information under the current scope of our business. This Privacy Notice applies to abrdn Korea Co. Limited.
We may need to make changes to our Privacy Notice; so please check our website for updates from time to time. If there are important changes to how we handle any personal information; we may contact you to let you know.

If there is any inconsistency between the English version of our Privacy Policy and the Korean translation, the English version will take precedence.

abrdn Korea Co. Limited is a subsidiary of abrdn plc; a global business providing a range of savings and investments products and solutions to meet customer and client needs.

How to make a complaint

We will always strive to collect, use and safeguard your personal information in line with data protection laws. If you do not believe we have handled your information as set out in this Privacy Notice, please let us know immediately and we will do our utmost to make things right.

While we hope that we can resolve any complaints for you, you do have the option complain to your local data protection authority e.g. Personal Information Protection Commission (“PIPC”). This is available to you whether or not you have exhausted our complaints procedure. 

You can contact the Personal Information Protection Commission at the following address:

Personal Information Protection Commission
4th floor, Government Complex Seoul
(03171) 209, Sejong-daero, Jongno-gu,
Seoul, Korea Rep