All sites elements are legally protected and may not be used without authorization of the site designer. The award system, in addition to all award programs within the system, are legally protected.

• We do not intentionally use material that is under copyright to someone else without permission.
• All rights for any material under copyright created by the author are reserved. (Credit is marked on each page.)
• Many of the photo images and graphics, as well as the text found at this ART Gallery and Korea Award Program, are copyrighted by webmaster Jin-Seok Kim(koreaawards@gmail.com) of About Korea and Korea Award Program.
  (BUT..Image and text which receive Credit: The copyright to these images and text remains with the individual program owners or Artist. - "About Korea" & "Guest Artist Gallery" information used text and part image)
• Copyrights regarding the flags can be found on this website: Die Flaggen unserer Welt.
• The Korea Award graphic is authorized for use only by award winners and by those award-rating indexes with which we are affiliated.
• Free graphics and free award graphics on the (Resources page) may be used by anyone with permission of the webmaster.
• The "My Awards Won" pages contain graphics received from the individual web sites. The copyright to these graphics remains with the individual program owners.

Special thanks to:

• Nikola Kitanovic for support and assistance with the Privacy Statement.
• Lionel Bouchon for the French Translations.
• Debbie Sharp for support and assistance with the Color Chart, ALT key symbols and HTML symbols.
• Special thanks to Vance Elderkin from QIWA and The Beacon Awards: Helped me in English corrections of Korea Award program.
• Awards created by JennieM at Pics N Trics.
• Korean Orchid for assistance with Korean orchid photos.
• Korea Overseas Information Service & Korea National Tourism Organization for assistance with Korean information data.

We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information-gathering and dissemination practices for the Korea Award web site. (This site contains links to other sites. The Korea Award web site & award program is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these web sites.).

I. Information gathered by the Korea Award web site
The About Korea web site & Korea Award program uses information that you submit voluntarily through contact and award program application forms. The Korea Award program asks you to provide information such as your name, e-mail
address, site title, URL of a nominated site and the town or country you are from. You are under no obligation to answer these questions. However, we are unable to evaluate your web site without this information.

II. How the information is used
"Korea Award" Program, "Korea Award" and his evaluators uses information about you to contact you if you have won an award or not. By filling out an award application form you agree to be contacted by "Korea Award" Program, via email.

III. Sharing of information
If you voluntarily provide information to the About Korea and Korea Award web site, your name, e-mail, and address will never be divulged to any third party. The About Korea and Award web site will divulge information only as necessary to comply with state and federal laws.

IV. Public forums
This site makes guest books, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. No child under the age of 13 should post in this or any other type of public forum.

V. Children's guidelines
1. This site does NOT seek to collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes.

2. This site does NOT seek to collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent.

3. This site does NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent.

4. This site does NOT publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.

5. This site does NOT seek to entice anyone, by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is necessary to participate in the Korea Award program.

6. No under the age of 13 should apply for an award, and no child under the age of 13 should post on the message board, sign any guest book, or contact About Korea and Korea Award web site and/or Jin-Seok Kim without WRITTEN
PARENTAL CONSENT and/or GUARDIAN CONSENT. (The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective April 21, 2000.COPPA)

VI. Opt-out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. This includes the options of having their information removed from our database, not receiving future communications, and/or no longer receiving our service.

You can send email concerning opt-out options to: koreaawards@gmail.com

VII. Corrections/updates
This site gives users the opportunity to change and/or modify information that was previously submitted.

You can send email concerning changes and updates to: koreaawards@gmail.com

VIII. Contacting the web site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact the About Korea and Korea Award program webmaster at: koreaawards@gmail.com

Whose site is this?

This site is owned by JinSeok Kim, e-mail: koreaawards@gmail.com
All the inquiries connected to this site can be posted or sent by e-mail.

Guide for visitors

Surfing this site is free and safe for the whole family. It doesn't leave any cookies in your computer. This site respects your privacy and that is why our server easily recognizes you local server (IP), but doesn't recognize your e-mail. Take care that any site-violation is punishable by law. Each time you record, copy or publish any part of this site without JinSeok, Kim's consent, you are committing an offence.

Content and design

All the content of the site, as well as graphics, art-work and design was made by JinSeok, Kim, except:

• Banners of other sites legally present here
• Service I use legally from other sites
• Texts in About Korea wrote for the site (this part of the site is also under double protection: copyright of this site and copyright of Webmaster and therefore, any violation of the site is punishable by law)
• As well as of those material legally used here and is a work of other people where the copyright is clearly marked
• Campaign ANTI-WAR graphics and Award graphics and awards the site received from other sites and designer, as well as the text written by critics deciding upon the awards (those graphics and texts are protected by the copyright of those sites and they are legally present on this site, every their record, copying and publishing, without the knowledge of the owner of the Award program is punishable by law)
• Code of Ethics, publicly owned and taken over from the CEM/CEMA Association
• Some sites which presented awards no longer exist or have changed their mission so much that it is now against the Privacy and Code of Ethics of this site. In such cases, the following was done:
  a) With the sites no longer existing, the link was taken off, to avoid dead links on our site.
  b) With the sites acting against Privacy and Code of Ethics of this site, both the award graphics and the link to that site were taken off. No matter that certain sites which gave awards no longer exist, their award graphics are protected by the appropriate copyright and any violation is punishable by law.
• Texts received from the site visitors as comments on the site are also protected by the copyright

Instructions for beginners

Many beginners surfing Internet very often don't understand that the site they are surfing on is legally owned by somebody. It actually means that your recording, copying or publishing of any part of the site, without the previous consent from the site-owner is punishable by law because it represents an offence or violation of the site. Try to compare that with the following circumstances: You invite your guests to come and visit freely and with that, you are a good host, looking forward to their visit and do your best to make them feel at home. However, when they leave, you find that many of your valuables have been taken, without your consent. They didn't even ask anything. How would you call that?

Copyright note

All the parts of this site are protected with the Korean Authors Agency, a member of World Association of author's rights. That all means that all the parts of your site are protected in all the countries of the world and any violation of the site is punishable by Law. Site is additionally protected in WA-ICS! As a writer and artisr, whose work was published, I emphasize that the site-graphics and site- texts are also protected by the appropriate associations (publishers, galleries, writers' association, artists association, Web Master association).

How is that possible

If you want to have some of my graphics, texts or designs on your site, ask JinSeok Kim for that because it is only with his consent that you can use that. You can get a permission to use some of the texts, graphics and similar, only if you site is accordant with the Privacy of this site. JinSeok Kim reserves the right to deny you the right to use some parts of the site. If after the denial, you continue to use the content and the design of this site, it is against the law and you will be sued. The person who gets the permission to use parts of the site and post them to his own site is obliged to mark on every page where the parts of this site appear that the owner of this site is JinSeok Kim and link that note with: http://www.koreaaward.com/

DISCLAIMER

Having in mind that the author and the owner of this site neither does any illegal things nor distributes viruses, sells your e-mail addresses to third parties or organizations, he does not accept the responsibility for the possible consequences of your surfing through this site. Also, the author does not accept the responsibility for any damage of your browsers, software's, computers and personal impressions about the site.