Effective Date: July 1, 2026
At Korean Medical Index (KMI), accessible from https://kmedicalindex.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 KMI and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://kmedicalindex.com. Korean Medical Index (KMI) operates as an independent digital intelligence media platform specializing in the South Korean biopharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.
2. Comments and User Data
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public within the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
4. Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Korean Medical Index 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.
- Log-in Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we establish several cookies to save your login credentials and screen display preferences. Login cookies persist for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies last for one year.
5. Third-Party Advertising and Analytics (GDPR & CCPA Compliance)
Korean Medical Index may partner with third-party networks, such as Google AdSense and Google Analytics, to serve advertisements and analyze web traffic.
These 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 KMI, 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 that Korean Medical Index has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
6. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
7. Data Retention and Your Rights
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This enables us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Contact Information
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact our editorial team via the official administrative channels.