Privacy Notice
Changes to this Privacy Notice
Additional Information for France
Studies using the SNDS Database
Date of Issue
April 2024
Introduction
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is a global company, providing a variety of services and products to consumers, customers, vendors, and suppliers.
We are committed to the privacy and security of the personal information (PI) entrusted to us and process it in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we operate or conduct business. Our commitment to privacy extends beyond compliance to ensure we are collecting and processing PI in a transparent and ethical manner.
This Gore Privacy Notice describes how W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. and its affiliate and subsidiary companies globally (together, “Gore”, “we”, “us”, “our”) process personal information which is subject to applicable laws.
For questions about this Notice you may contact the Gore Privacy Office.
Scope
This Privacy Notice applies to our processing of personal information about: -
- Information collected via websites - users of our websites, including associated pages and online services, that display this Privacy Notice (the “sites”),
- Information from our customers - personal information about our former, current, and prospective customers and others with whom we do or have done business,
- Information from our vendors and service providers - personal information about our former, current, and prospective vendors and service providers with whom we do or have done business,
- Information in any other capacity that you engage - others who engage with us regarding our products or services or otherwise communicate with us.
It does not apply to the personal information we collect from our associates or applicants for employment.
Information We Collect
Directly from You
Customer Service and Support
Gore may collect personal information directly from you, such as when you, contact us online, when you visit our sites or locations or when you email, call, or otherwise contact us. We maintain records about our interactions and communications with you. The information that we collect will vary depending upon the context of your contact, but for general inquiries, we require your first and last name and contact information, such as address, telephone number and email address.
Comments and Content
Some of our other sites may allow you to comment, share or post other content. We may keep a record of this content and it may be viewable by other users of the sites. You may ask us to remove such content.
E-Commerce
When you purchase products from us directly from our online stores we require additional information, such as billing and delivery address, and bank and/or credit card details to process your orders.
Collected from Other Sources
Business Relationship Information
We may also collect personal information from other sources. We work with external professionals, contractors, suppliers, experts, consultants, and others in the operation of our business. We also engage with customers and partners related to the provision of our products and services. We collect information such as
- Your contact information, including name, mailing address, email address, telephone number.
- Further personal data that you provide by filling in third party forms in some of our websites.
- Information submitted as part of a support request, survey or comment or forum post; and
- Information on your interaction with the online offering.
Automatically collected information
Third Party Advertising and Marketing
We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and similar technologies to automatically collect information when users access or use the sites.
Some data is automatically transferred from your browser to our server, including your device and user identifier, information on your operating system, sites and services accessed during your visit, the date and time of each visitor request may also be collected.
This data is collected and processed by us or by external service providers on our behalf and includes information about you collected through your use of our services. Please see our cookie settings for more information.
Purposes and Legal Bases
Specified below are the anticipated purposes of our use of personal information and the legal bases. When the purpose of use is notified or announced separately, the purpose of use shall be included.
Verifying Identity and Authorization
Purposes
- To verify the identity of contacts, customers, and others with whom we do business or with whom we are considering a business relationship.
- To confirm or verify that individuals are authorized to access, use, or provide information or services.
Legal Bases
Perform/Enter into Contract with You; Comply with Legal Obligation; Legitimate Business Interest; Consent
Services, Events, and Customer Service
Purposes
- To provide and operate our services and the sites (including membership site); communicate with you about your use of the services; respond to your enquiries; fulfil your orders and requests; process your payments; manage complaints and inquiries; provide technical support.
- To plan and operate events, seminars, training sessions and other programs (including registration and management of participants and provision of upcoming event information).
- For other legitimate customer service and support purposes.
Legal Bases
Perform/Enter into Contract with You; Establish, Defend, Protect Legal Rights; Legitimate Business Interests
Operate our Business
Purposes
- To identify usage trends in the use of our sites and analyze the effectiveness of our communications.
- To detect, prevent, investigate fraud and including (cyber) security monitoring and prevention.
- To validate your ability to access or use certain products or services.
- To operate and expand our business activities.
- Where necessary to the administration of our general business, accounting, recordkeeping, and legal functions.
- As part of our routine business administration, such as training, compliance auditing and similar internal activities.
- For management and maintenance of IT infrastructure and security.
- To fulfil our corporate obligations to provide a safe and hygienic work environment for visitors, contractors and associates.
Legal Bases
Legitimate Business Interest; Consent; Comply with Legal Obligation; Establish, Defend, Protect Legal Rights
Research. Development and Reporting
Purposes
- To develop, enhance, improve, or modify our products and services.
- To better understand how our products and services impact you and those for whom you care.
- To track and respond to concerns, including engaging in regulatory monitoring and reporting obligations related to adverse events, product complaints and patient safety.
- To conduct data analysis and audits.
- To provide and gather information relating to the safety, effectiveness and quality of our products, and information relating to the proper use of our products.
- To provide and gather scientific or medical information.
Legal Bases
Legitimate Business Interest; Consent; Comply with Legal Obligation; Public Interest
Personalized Support and Content
Purposes
- To tailor content we send or display on the sites in order to offer location customization and personalized help and instructions.
- To otherwise personalize your experiences with us.
Legal Bases
Legitimate Business Interest; Consent
E-Commerce
Purposes
- To process and manage any purchases you make in our online stores, including payments.
- To improve our online store.
Legal Bases
Perform/Enter into Contract with You; Legitimate Business Interests
Marketing, Surveys, and Promotions
Purposes
- For direct marketing and promotional purposes, including its follow up.
- To send you newsletters, special offers or promotions, and contact you about our products or services or information we think may interest you.
- To administer any competitions, advertising campaign seminar, event promotion or other marketing activities into which you applied or entered.
- To conduct market research, consumer or customer surveys, competitions and similar advertising campaigns.
- Analysis for internal purposes, such as data analyses, product planning, development and enhancement, sales promotion planning, customer satisfaction survey, improvement of our pages and services, identification of user behavior and users’ needs and to check the effectiveness of our advertising activities.
- For sales and sales expansion activities of our products.
- To investigate the usage of our products.
Legal Bases
Legitimate Business Interests; Consent
Evaluating and Engaging with Third Parties
Purposes
- To identify, evaluate, and engage with third parties such as contractors, suppliers, and business partners
- To conduct due diligence in accordance with applicable law.
- To outsource evaluations and surveys to a third party for the above evaluation and due diligence.
Legal Bases
Perform/Enter into Contract with You; Comply with Legal Obligation; Legitimate Business Interests; Consent
Protecting Our Legal Rights and Prevent Misuse
Purposes
- To protect the sites, services, and our business operations; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorised activities and access, and other misuse.
- To safeguard us, including information and assets of Gore and information and assets belonging to you or other individuals, and adopt appropriate measures for the purpose.
- For the management and access control of your entrance and exit from our facilities.
- To manage the history of and monitor your access to or use of our network, system and/or other IT resources.
- To investigate or prevent violations, and to enforce our terms of use and agreements, or this Privacy Notice.
Legal Bases
Establish, Defend, Protect Legal Rights; Legitimate Business Interests
Complying with Legal Obligations
Purposes
- To fulfill legal obligations in accordance with laws or legal proceedings, including those under jurisdictions outside of your place of residence.
- For notification or reporting to government bodies or to respond to legal process or law enforcement requests (e.g., warrants and subpoenas)
Legal Bases
Comply with Legal Obligation; Establish, Defend, Protect Legal Rights; Legitimate Business Interest
Disclosure of Information
Gore is a global enterprise that consists of various entities worldwide. To facilitate Gore’s global operations, personal information may need to be shared with and transferred between Gore affiliates. Gore affiliates may access and use your personal information as described in this Notice.
With the exception of certain information collected by Gore's SITKA® Gear brand, Gore does not sell your personal information to third parties. For information on Gore's privacy practices in connection with its SITKA® Gear brand, please see the SITKA® Gear Privacy Notice.
If necessary to achieve the notified purpose, we may disclose personal information to other affiliates and third parties, for example:
- Agents and distributors
- Sales partners or suppliers
- IT service providers
- Regulators, law enforcement, government authorities, or attorneys and consultants
International Transfers
As a global company, we may transfer your personal information to, access or store it in jurisdictions outside of your home jurisdiction, in which we (or our service providers) operate.
Some of these jurisdictions may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection comparable to the protection under applicable law in the jurisdiction from which we collect such personal information, including through appropriate written data processing terms and/or data transfer agreements.
Security
We have implemented organizational, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information under our control. While the security safeguards we have put in place are routinely reviewed and updated, the security of any data transmissions and data storage systems cannot be completely guaranteed.
Further information on our data protection approach can be found here.
Retention
In accordance with our data retention practices, we will retain your personal information as long as needed to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Notice, and as otherwise necessary to fulfil our legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, enforce our agreements or for such longer period as required by applicable law. The retention period depends on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.
Third Party Sites
This Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices, information collected, or other activities and practices of any third parties. The inclusion of a link on the website does not imply endorsement or recommendation of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.
In some cases, we may permit you to use third-party payment services to make payments. If you wish to make a payment using a payment service, you will be directed to a webpage that is hosted by the payment service and not by us. Any information that you provide through this page will be subject to the applicable payment service’s privacy policy, rather than this Notice. We do not have control over, and are not responsible for, any payment service’s use of information collected through any payment service page.
Use of Website by Minors
Our sites are not directed towards minors and we do not encourage minors to participate in providing us with any personal information. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from minors without verifiable parental consent. If you have reason to believe that a minor, without a parent or guardian's consent, has provided personal information to us through the sites, please contact the Gore Privacy Office. We will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible should we learn that we have collected the personal information of a minor without first receiving verifiable parental consent.
Your Rights
Gore takes reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate, up to date and complete.
Under certain circumstances and subject to applicable law, you may have a right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of, your personal information. In some circumstances, you may request that we cease using or sharing personal information about you with our business partners or Gore Affiliates. You may also have the right to withdraw your previously given consent or change the scope of the given consent.
We will endeavor to make the required updates and changes within the time specified by applicable law. Where permitted by law, we may charge an appropriate fee to cover the costs of responding to the request.
If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact the Gore Privacy Office
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with us and with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your personal information infringes applicable law.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Notice from time to time to reflect changes and will indicate changes by posting the new version of this Privacy Notice (and effective date) on this website. We encourage you to periodically review this website and our Privacy Notice to understand how Gore protects your personal information. Once effective, the revised Privacy Notice will apply to you and your personal information.
Additional Information for France - Studies Using the SNDS Database
When we conduct studies using the French Health database SNDS (Système National des Données de Santé), we are required to inform the people concerned that they have the rights of access to, rectification of and objection to the use of their personal data. These rights are exercised with the director of the health Insurance center administering the mandatory health insurance plan to which the persons are attached, in accordance with the National Law (article R. 1461-9 of the French Code de la Santé Publique).
Additional Information for Japan
The following information applies to personal data which we process from any individual that is related to Japan under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI).
Joint Use of Personal Data
We may share and jointly use the personal data as follows. Joint use of personal data is limited to the extent necessary for each purpose of use.
(1) Categories of the jointly used personal data: all or part of personal information acquired within the scope of the above "Purposes and Legal Bases for Use of Personal Information."
(2) Scope of Joint users: a) W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. and its affiliate and subsidiary companies. (Please check here for a list of group companies); b) Distributors of our products (Personal information provided to us at exhibitions, etc. may be shared with businesses that sell our products in order to request sales and sales expansion activities of our products).
(3) Purpose for Use: Same as "Purposes and Legal Bases for Use of Personal Information" above.
(4) Responsible entity for shared use of personal data: W.L. Gore & Associates G.K. Hironobu Hamanishi
Third Party Provision
We will not provide or disclose personal information to a third party without the consent of the individual, except in the case of provision to entrusted parties and joint use. However, this does not apply in the following cases;
(1) Based on Laws and Ordinances
(2) When it is necessary for the protection of human life, body or property, and it is difficult to obtain consent of the person himself/herself.
(3) When it is particularly necessary for improving public health or promoting healthy development of children and it is to obtain the consent of the person himself/herself.
(4) In cases which there is a need to cooperate in regard to public institutions such as police and courts performing affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and when there is a possibility that obtaining a principal's consent would interfere with the performance of the said affairs.
(5) When it corresponds to the reason permitted by relevant laws and regulations.
Security Control Measures
Please check here for the measures we take to manage the security of our retained personal data (including personal information that we have obtained or are about to obtain and intend to handle as our retained personal data).
Procedure to Request Disclosure etc. of Retained Personal Data
Please check here for procedures for disclosure etc. of our retained personal data (notification of purpose of use, disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, erasure, suspension of provision to third parties).
Contact for Enquiries
If you have requests for disclosure etc. or any enquiries regarding our retained personal data handled by us, please contact below. This contact also accepts any questions or complaints about our handling.
W Building, 1-8-15 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan
W.L. Gore & Associates G.K.
Privacy Office
japan-privacy@wlgore.com
Additional Information for the European Union
This section applies and provides you with further information if your personal data is processed by one of our companies located in the European Economic Area.
Data Controller
The specific company identified on this page as being the operator of this website is the data controller in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation for the processing activities described in this Privacy Notice.
In the course of our business relationship with you, we may share Business Partner contact information with affiliated Gore companies. We and these Gore companies are jointly responsible for the proper protection of your personal data (Art. 26 General Data Protection Regulation). To allow you to effectively exercise your data subject rights in the context of this joint controllership, we entered into an agreement with these Gore companies granting you the right to centrally exercise your data subject rights under the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Notice against Gore.
To exercise your rights, you may reach out to: dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
International Data Transfers
In the event that we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, we ensure that your data is protected in a manner which is consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation. Therefore, and if required by applicable law, we take the following measures:
- We share your personal data with affiliated companies outside the European Economic Area only if they have implemented an intragroup data transfer agreement enabling sufficient guarantees for the protection of personal data including international transfers.
- We transfer personal data to external recipients outside the European Economic Area only after establishing that appropriate safeguards exist between us and the recipient. You may request further information about the safeguards implemented in relation to specific transfers by contacting dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
Your Competent Data Protection Authority
In case of data privacy related concerns and requests, we encourage you to contact our Data Privacy Organization at dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com. Besides contacting the Data Privacy Office, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.
A list and contact details of local data protection authorities is available here.
Additional Information for the United Kingdom
This section applies and provides you with further information if your personal data is processed by one of our companies located in the United Kingdom.
Data Controller
The specific company identified on this page as being the operator of this website is the data controller in the meaning of the UK General Data Protection Regulation for the processing activities described in this Privacy Notice.
In the course of our business relationship with you, we may share Business Partner contact information with affiliated Gore companies. We and these Gore companies are jointly responsible for the proper protection of your personal data. To allow you to effectively exercise your data subject rights in the context of this joint controllership, we entered into an agreement with these Gore companies granting you the right to centrally exercise your data subject rights under the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Notice against Gore.
To exercise your rights, you may reach out to: dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
International Data Transfers
In the event that we transfer your personal data outside the United Kingdom, we ensure that your data is protected in a manner which is consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation. Therefore, and if required by applicable law, we take the following measures:
- We share your personal data with affiliated companies outside the United Kingdom only if they have implemented an intragroup data transfer agreement enabling sufficient guarantees for the protection of personal data including international transfers.
- We transfer personal data to external recipients outside the United Kingdom only after establishing that appropriate safeguards exist between us and the recipient. You may request further information about the safeguards implemented in relation to specific transfers by contacting dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
Your Competent Data Protection Authority
In case of data privacy related concerns and requests, we encourage you to contact our Data Privacy Organization at dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com. Besides contacting the Data Privacy Office, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.
Contact details of UK Information Commissioners Office
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Additional Information for the United States
This section applies and provides you with further information on how the personal information of US residents may be collected, used, shared, sold, and/or disclosed by one of our entities.
Residents of some are entitled to additional rights, as described below:
- Access: The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, shared, and/or sold about you.
- Deletion: The right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you.
- Opt-out of having your personal information shared: The right to opt out, at any time, of the sharing of your personal information with third parties. Gore in the preceding 12 months has not sold your personal information to third parties. In the preceding 12 months, we may have shared your personal information to provide you with customized experience, offers or services. To opt-out of the sharing of your personal information please click on “Do Not Share My Personal Information,” link in the footer of this page.
- Correction: The right to request that we correct any inaccurate information we may have about you.
To exercise any of the rights above, submit a request by calling us at +1 888 914 4673 or visiting https://www.gore.com/privacy/contact. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for access on your behalf on our website at https://www.gore.com/privacy/contact.
To request this information and for any other questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below. When you exercise these rights and submit a request to us, we will verify your identity by asking you to log in to your account if you have one with us. If you do not have an account with us, we may ask for your email address, order numbers of previous orders of our products and services, the date of your last purchase from us, or other similar data elements to verify your identity. We also may use a third-party verification provider to verify your identity.
Your exercising of the aforementioned rights will have no adverse effect on the price and quality of our goods or services.
Categories of Personal Information Collected & Data Retention Practices
At Gore, we operate with data minimization as a privacy principle, collecting, processing, and maintaining the minimum necessary Personal Information. Personal Information is retained as long as necessary to fulfill the original purpose. Gore’s criteria to determine data retention periods are based on legal, regulatory, and operational requirements. In the course of our business relationship with you, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information:
- Identifiers
- Customer records information
- Internet or electronic network activity
Sensitive Personal Information
In the course of our business relationship with you, we do not collect, use, share, sell, and/or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information.
Third-Party Disclosures
In the course of our business relationship with you, we may collect, use, share, and/or disclose your information with the following category of third-party businesses:
- Business communication and collaboration tool(s)
- Data analytics provider(s)
- Cloud service provider(s)
- Data storage service provider(s)
- Payment processor(s)
- Ad network(s)
- Sales and marketing tool(s)
- Order fulfillment service(s)
- eCommerce platform(s)
Use of Website by Children
We do not knowingly collect or share any personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16). If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16, without a parent or guardian's consent, has provided personal information to us through the sites, please contact us at DataPrivacyOffice@wlgore.com.
Additional Information for Brazil
This Privacy Notice describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes, as described above. Under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) or the Brazilian General Data Protection Law, residents of Brazil are entitled to additional rights as defined below.
Your Rights
If you are a resident of Brazil, Brazilian law also provides you with the following rights with respect to your personal information:
- Confirmation: You have the right to have the existence of processing confirmed.
- Access: You have the right to access personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you.
- Data portability: You have a right to the portability of your data to another service or product provider, upon express request, in accordance with the regulations of the national authority and subject to commercial and industrial secrets.
- Rectification: You have the right to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Anonymization: You have the right to request anonymization, blocking or elimination of unnecessary or excessive personal data, or of any data that is not being processed in compliance with LGPD
- Deletion: You have the right to have your personal data deleted if the processing of that data was based on consent.
- Information: You have the right to be informed of third parties that access or process your personal data. You also have the right to be informed about your consent choices and the consequences of refusing consent.
- Revocation: You have the right to revoke or withdraw consent.
To exercise any of the rights above, as defined by LGPD, submit a request by visiting https://www.gore.com/privacy/contact or sending an email to dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
Your exercising of these rights will have no adverse effect on the price and quality of our goods or services.
Legal Basis of the Processing
The LGPD requires us to provide you with information on the legal basis for processing your personal information. Gore processes your personal information on the following basis:
- Consent (Article 7 I LGPD)
- Fulfillment of Legal or Regulatory Obligations (Article 7 II LGPD)
- Contract Performance (Article 7 V LGPD)
Legitimate Interest (Article 10 I & II LGPD)
Additional Information for China
Legal Basis of the Processing Without Consent
We will not provide or disclose personal information to a third party without the consent of the individual, except in the case of provision to entrusted parties and joint use. However, this does not apply in the following cases.
(1) When it is necessary to conclude or perform the contract at your request.
(2) When it is necessary for the performance of statutory duties or obligations, such as those directly related to national security, national defense security, criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments, etc.
(3) When it is particularly necessary for improving public health or the protection of human life, health, or property in an emergency.
(4) In cases where there is a need to process personal information already disclosed by yourself or otherwise lawfully disclosed, within a reasonable scope in accordance with the provisions of the relevant laws.
(5) When it corresponds to the reason permitted by relevant laws and regulations.
To the extent required by Chinese laws, we will use your personal information for marketing purposes only after obtaining express consent from you.
Security
In case of personal information security incidents, we will activate emergency plans to prevent the expansion of security incidents and inform you by emails, push notifications, announcements, and other forms, in a timely manner and in accordance with laws and regulations.
Your Rights
If you are a resident of mainland China, you may have the following rights under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) in relation to personal information that we hold about you:
- Right to access to and copy your personal information;
- Right to withdraw your consent to processing your personal information; however, the withdrawal will not impact any processing before the withdrawal;
- Right to require correction or supplementation if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Right to require deletion of your personal information where:
- such personal information is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected;
- Gore has ceased to offer the products or services, or the retention period for the data has expired;
- you have withdrawn your consent and the processing is based on your consent;
- Gore has processed personal information in violation of Chinese laws or regulations, or in breach of this Privacy Notice;
- other circumstances provided by Chinese laws or administrative regulations that apply;
- Right to request us to interpret the personal information processing rules;
- Right to request us to transfer your personal information to another party designated by you according to Chinese laws; and
- Any other rights provided under PIPL.
To exercise any of the rights above, as defined by PIPL, please contact Gore Privacy Office by visiting www.gore.com/privacy/contact or sending an email to dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
Disclosure of Information
We may also share the personal information about you:
- with our trusted service providers who work on our behalf – such service providers do not have an independent use of the information we disclose to them and have agreed to adhere to rules and standards substantially similar to those set forth in this Privacy Notice; or
- if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of this information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
International Transfers
In due course, we will publish a list of the recipients to whom we transfer personal information outside of mainland China, their contact details and details on what, how and why such recipients process your personal information. Should you require such information in the meantime, please contact Gore Privacy Office at dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com.
Additional Information for Korea
The following information applies to personal data which we process from any individual that is related to Korea under the PIPA - Personal Information Protection Act
Outsourcing of Personal Information Processing
To facilitate processing of personal information, we outsource personal information processing as follows. At the time of executing an outsourcing agreement, we specify therein, pursuant to Article 26 of the Personal Information Protection Act, prevention of personal information processing for purposes other than the outsourced purpose, technical and managerial safeguards of personal information, prevention of re-outsourcing, and the external service provider’s liability, including that for management and supervision and liability for damage, and we supervise whether the external service provider processes the personal information safely.
Contact Information for Personal Data Protection
All inquiries regarding the issues of personal information in use of the website, please contact the Enterprise Privacy Office below. Gore will try our best to fulfil your request.
- Email : dataprivacyoffice@wlgore.com
Refusal of Automatic Collection of Personal Information
You have the option to install cookies. Therefore, you may allow all cookies by selecting the web-browser’s option used by you in a manner refusing the installation of cookies, confirm whenever cookies are stored, or refuse the storage of all cookies. However, when you refuse the installation of cookies, you may have difficulty in receiving services.
- Method of setting (Internet Explorer): Tool in the upper part of the web-browser > Internet option > Privacy > Settings: Change
- Method of setting (Google Chrome): Tool in the upper part of the web-browser > Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data: Change
Destruction of Personal Information
(1) Procedure for destruction
- Following the achievement of the purpose of processing, your personal information will be destroyed after being stored for a certain period in accordance with reasons for information protection under internal policy and other relevant laws (processing and storage period).
(2) Method of destruction
- The personal information printed out in paper shall be shredded or destroyed by burning, and personal information stored in an electronic file shall be deleted by using a technology allowing no reproduction of records.
Further Contact Details of the Korean Government Institutes
- Privacy Infringement Report Center (privacy.kisa.or.kr / +82-118)
- Cyber Crime Investigation Unit, Supreme Prosecutor’s Office (https://www.spo.go.kr / +82-1301)
- Cyber Bureau of Investigation, National Police Agency (ecrm.police.go.kr / +82-182)