PRIVACY POLICY HIGHLIGHTS
LG Electronics Inc. (“LGE”), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “LG Group”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we process through the lg.com website (the “Website”), other websites provided by the LG Group, LG Accounts, our SmartHome services offered via our ThinQ App (collectively, the “Services”). It also applies to any other personal information you provide to your local LG Group member.
For LG Smart TV or Smart Media Product users, please see the separate Smart Media Product Membership Privacy Policy for details of how LGE processes personal information in the course of providing its Smart TV / Media Product service. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing covered by the Smart Media Product Membership Privacy Policy, although the LG Group may also use personal information collected via the Smart TV / Media Product service as described in this Privacy Policy, and LGE may use personal information collected via the services as described in the Smart Media Product Membership Privacy Policy. For more information, please refer to Smart Media Product Membership Privacy Policy in Account management menu or LG Account menu from settings of Smart TV/ Media Product.
OVERVIEW OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
In this Privacy Policy, we describe the types of personal information we collect through our Services, how we use this information, for how long we keep it and with which parties we share it. We also explain what choices and rights you have in relation to the use of your information, including a right to object to some of the processing we carry out (if provided by applicable law). More information about your rights, and how to exercise them, is set out in the “Your Rights” section. We also provide our contact details, so that you can contact us if you have questions about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices.
PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: 12 / 12 / 2024
1. Who is responsible for your Personal Information?
Your local LG entity is responsible for operating the Website or other LG Group websites in your country, and for information about you collected through the Website. Your local LG entity is also responsible for any personal information you provide to it directly, for example during customer service calls or product registration cards. LGE is responsible for operating all other Services, and for information about you collected through or in connection with those Services.
The name and contact details of your local LG entity and LGE can be found in the ‘Contact Us’ section below.
2. Personal Information We Collect
The following types of personal information are collected in connection with our Services:
Information You Provide Directly to us or third parties
Some Services enable us to collect information directly from you or from other companies with whom you have a relationship. For example:
• When you use our Services (for example, when you create a LG Account, register a device or product, make a purchase, review a product or contact us), you will provide us with information, such as your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, gender, account information, including your LG account profile, user ID, password, Home ID, speaker’s voice and its’ translated text, photo, video, payment card information, company tax code, shipping address (including zip code), purchase information and interactions with connected electronic devices.
• When you login with a third party account or profile, we will get access to information, such as, your name and email address and social media tags.
• When you communicate with our customer service staff or other LG Group staff, we will process these communications and other information required to respond to your queries and satisfy your requests.
Information about Your Use of Our Services
In addition to the information you provide, we will collect information about your use of our Services through software on your devices and by other electronic means (such as the use of cookies and sensors). We will collect:
• Device information: Your device name, IMEI, UUID, OS version, country, location, language, IP address, mac address, connected modem information, internet router information, mobile ad identifier and settings of devices.
• Product information: model name, manufacturer number, date and location of purchase, photo of receipt
• Log information: Usage information, such as, URL, redirected URL, performance timing, referrer, network type, network info, charge status, ad block info, your interaction with the Services, including visit history, the apps, services and features you use and cookies. For more information about how we use cookies for our Services, please see Cookie Policy relevant to the Services you are using.
• Location information: We will process your location information based on your consent or where this is necessary to deliver the Service you have requested (for example, by requiring your location information to give you directions).
• Other information about your use of our Services, such as the websites you visit, typing patterns (autofill), connected device behavior and history of use, connected device's power and power usage information and how you interact with content offered through our Services.
Other Information We Collect
When we seek your consent, we will explain at the time of obtaining consent from you what information we will be collecting and how we will use it.
Sometimes we receive information about you from third parties including from other companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon or Line. For example, we may receive your information from third party social networking providers if you choose to connect to our services using your social network account.
We verify certain information you provide with third parties, for example identity verification providers, in order to protect against fraud.
We also use personal information initially collected via LGE’s Smart TV / Media Product service for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Please see LGE’s separate Smart Media Product Membership Privacy Policy for further details.
We also collect information about you from other third parties, for example marketing companies and data brokers, in order to better understand your interests and deliver you with more tailored Services and advertising. For example, we receive aggregated information about lifestyle or purchase patterns of certain demographic groups in order to better understand your likely interests.
We may also collect other information about you, your devices, or your use of our Services where required by law (such as where we are mandated by law to collect internet search logs) or with your consent.
Links to Other Websites, Devices, Apps and Features
Our Services may enable you to connect to other websites, devices, apps and other features, which may operate independently from us and have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review. To the extent any linked website, device, app or other feature is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for its content, use or privacy practices.
3. How We Use this Information
If you use more than one of our services, including our Smart TV / Media Product service, we will combine the personal information we collect from you in connection with each of those services and use it for the purposes set out below or as described in the privacy policy applicable to the services you use. For example, this prevents you from having to use different logins for different services.
Provision of services based on your contractual relationship with us
We process your personal information when this is necessary under our contract with you, including to:
• Provide you with our services, and specific features you select when using our services, which may require personalising the content of our Services.
• Process orders and payments and deliver to you our products or products of third parties that you purchase through our services and allow you to exercise your warranty rights or other rights you have under your contract.
• Identify and authenticate you so you may use certain of our services.
Facilitating installations and registrations, resolving technical issues, providing you with customer care support and sending you necessary information relating to the services.
Legitimate interests of the LG Group and/or third parties
We process personal information to the extent this is necessary to fulfil our legitimate interests (or those of third parties), which include our interests to:
Effectively manage our relationship with our customers, including by communicating with you and responding to your queries;
• Carry out direct marketing activities (when we are not required by law to obtain your consent), including by sending you marketing communications via email, phone calls, post, text messages, social media channels, or via push notifications through our mobile apps, presenting you with online ads both on our services and on third party websites, creating marketing profiles and personalising the recommendations and marketing content we and others present to you, and running promotions, competitions and prize draws.
• Protect our business operations against, identify and prevent fraud and other illegal activities or activities prohibited by our Terms of Use.
• Protect the security, availability and integrity of our services and information systems, including by using authentication mechanisms and other security measures, monitoring our systems for security threats, keeping back-ups, anonymising data, and carrying out system maintenance services.
• Protect our legal rights and the safety of end users, including by handling complaints, obtaining legal advice and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims relating to us or other companies in our group and our Services;
• Improve your user experience, including by providing you with tailored functions, such as an autofill function, a quick search function based on your most visited webpages and additional contents tailored to your interests;
• Improve our services and customer care, including by seeking your feedback and carrying out surveys and market research, performing data analytics on the usage of our services, analyzing customer behaviours, building up customer usage patterns and profiles in order to identify regional and global user trends and optimize our offering to customers globally;
• Effectively manage our business, including by generating reports and analysing the performance of our services (through the use of aggregated information), auditing our business processes, using statistics to make informed business decisions.
Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we have carried out a balancing test to consider what the impact of the processing will be on individuals and to determine whether individuals‘ interests outweigh our interests in the processing taking place. You can obtain more information about this balancing test by using the contact details at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Your consent
We seek your consent to process your personal information, where we consider it appropriate or where this is required by law. We use consent to:
• Place cookies and use similar technologies in accordance with our Cookie Policies and the information provided to you when those technologies are used. For more information, see the Cookie Policy relevant to the service you are using.
• Send you marketing communications (where this is required by law or where we otherwise elect to rely on consent).
• Provide you with recommendations and customized advertisements of content, products and services that we or others think you would like, by analyzing information relating to your use of the Services combined with various information that you provide to us by other means, for the purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. This may involve delivering marketing via various channels including through, email, through the LG account, on our websites or on third party platforms (including social networks).
On other occasions where we ask you for consent, we will use the data for the purpose explained to you at that time.
When we rely on your consent, you always have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we carried out before you withdrew your consent. To exercise this right, please see the “Your Rights” section below.
Legal obligations
We process personal information to the extent this is necessary to:
• Comply with our legal requirements under applicable laws (e.g. tax and accounting obligations, obligations relating to product safety, warranties and consumer protection).
• Comply with court orders and subpoenas, and respond to legally binding requests from government, law enforcement agencies, public authorities and/or regulators.
Where we need your information to perform our contract with you or to comply with our legal obligations, you are required to provide this information to us. In other instances, you are not required to provide personal information, however, not doing so may impact the way you use our Services.
4. Sharing Information
We transfer, disclose or otherwise make available personal information about you to third parties as described below:
• The LG Group and personnel: We share personal information between LG Group members and with our personnel, including contractors and agents, and other companies in our group, to the extent this is necessary or reasonable to provide our services and to fulfil the purposes set out in section 3 above or described in the privacy policies relating to our other services. For example, we share your personal information with LGE for product development and improvement purposes, and with your local LG Group member for marketing purposes.
• Service Providers. We transfer or disclose your information to carefully selected companies and individuals that provide services to us; for example companies that help us develop and operate systems for our Services, providers of IT services, security, hosting, Website maintenance, data maintenance and analytics, customer care and communication, order processing and fulfilment, mailing, billing, marketing and market research services, authorised service and repair centres, other administrative services, and companies that run contests, sweepstakes and other promotions on our behalf. These entities are only authorised to access and use your personal information to the extent this is necessary for them to provide us with their services and they are under contractual obligations with the aim of, amongst other things, preventing them from using your information for other purposes. Some of our service providers are located in the Republic of Korea or in other countries outside Europe.
• Third party IoT providers: when you activate third party connectivity features, for example when you connect home IoT devices to our Services, we will share personal information with the providers of those IoT devices to enable you to use the relevant features in our Services.
• Authorised resellers. In certain countries, products on our Website are sold by our authorised resellers. When you purchase products from our Website in these countries, we will share your personal information with these resellers.
• Advertising partners. We share personal information including how you interact with our Services, the ads you see and the purchases you make with social networks and other advertising partners in order to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, improve our marketing practices and help us deliver more relevant advertising to you. In accordance with your marketing preferences, we may also share your personal data with third parties who are offering products or services that we believe may be of interest to you or who are otherwise conducting marketing research and analysis. These parties may use your personal information to contact you with offers or advertisements.
• Other business partners. We will disclose your personal information to other business partners where necessary in order to enable you to access Services you have requested through our Services or promotional materials related to our Services.
• Visitors to our Website. The messages you post to some areas of the Website, including product review boards, chat rooms, forums or other public posting areas can be viewed by other visitors to our Website. [We make clear on our Website where information you post will be visible to others.]
• Business advisors: for example, our lawyers, accountants, business consultants, insurers, auditors, to the extent it is necessary for them to provide us with their services.
• Government authorities, judicial authorities, regulators or other third parties where required: We will disclose personal information to government authorities, judicial authorities, regulators or other third parties where we have a legal requirement to do so or where we believe this is necessary:
- to comply with the law or respond to compulsory legal processes (such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order);
- to verify or enforce compliance with the terms and policies governing our Services and to investigate and prevent fraud or other unlawful activity relating to the use of our Services or affecting our business, to the extent such disclosure is permitted by applicable data protection laws; and
- to protect and defend our rights, property, and the security or safety of our business operations and those of any of our respective affiliates, staff, business partners, our customers or members of the public.
• Corporate Transactions. We may disclose your information to a third party (and their business advisors) as part of a merger or transfer, reorganisation, acquisition or sale (including in the context of negotiations), dissolution or other corporate transaction, or in the event of a bankruptcy.
• Other Parties with Your Consent or on Your Request. In addition to the disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties when you separately consent to or request such sharing.
• Analytics We may collect personal information about your online activities on websites and connected devices over time and across third-party websites, devices, apps and other online features and services. We may use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, Firebase and others (see more). The information we obtain may be disclosed to or collected directly by these providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate use of the Services. For example, to learn more about Google Analytics, please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps,” (located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/), “Safeguarding your Data” (located at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245#zippy=) and “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” (located at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
5. Retention of Personal Information
We take appropriate steps to ensure that we process and retain information in accordance with the following principles:
• at least for the duration for which the information is used to provide you with our Services;
• as required under law, a contract, or with regard to our statutory obligations (e.g., tax laws);
• for as long as it is reasonably necessary to do so to manage an actual or apprehended complaint, investigation or legal dispute;
• only for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, is processed, or longer if required under any contract, by applicable law, or, in anonymized form, for statistical purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards. For example, if a dispute arises between you and the LG Group or you fail to make payment for our Services, we may retain relevant information until such dispute is resolved or until such payment is made, respectively. If you delete your entire LG Account, your information will be retained for three months and immediately destroyed thereafter, unless otherwise required under applicable law.
• Where we process your information, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your requests). We also keep a record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your data indefinitely so that we can respect your request in future.
6. Your Choices
Where permitted we may contact you via email, phone call, text messages or push notifications through our mobile apps. To submit a request concerning the receipt of such communications from us, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” section below.
You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of emails or by contacting us directly (see “Contact Us” section below).
Please note that if you unsubscribe from our marketing communications, we will process your unsubscription as soon as possible, but please be aware that in some circumstances you may continue to receive marketing messages for a short time whilst we process your request. We will also continue to send you service messages to provide you with necessary information in relation to your contract and the Services you use (for example, to update you on changes to our Terms of Use).
7. Your Rights
To the extent provided by applicable law, you can ask your local LG Group member for a copy of the personal information we hold about you. You can also ask us to delete personal information or correct any inaccuracies, to restrict or limit the processing of your personal information, to withdraw your consent and to provide you with personal information that you provided to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller.
In addition, to the extent provided by applicable law, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement).
However, these rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. Relevant exemptions are included in both the GDPR and in national laws. We will inform you of relevant exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make. To make a request concerning your rights or to make an inquiry, use the contact details under the “Contact Us” section below. In some cases you can also exercise your rights directly through the Website.
8. How We Protect Personal Information
We take the protection of your information seriously and we have in place safeguards designed to protect the information we collect through our Services. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.
9. International Transfer of Information
Your use of our Services will involve the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information within and outside of your country of residence, consistent with this Privacy Policy. In particular, your personal information will be transferred to the Republic of Korea and United States. Please note that data protection laws and other laws of countries to which your information may be transferred might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.
[For European Residents]
If you are in the EEA (European Economic Area, that is in the European Union and Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway), UK or Switzerland, we will transfer your personal information to other countries outside the EEA, UK or Switzerland, including the Republic of Korea and the United States. European Union Law recognises the Republic of Korea as adequately protecting personal information. However, where we transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction which is not considered adequate by applicable law, we will take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable laws, to ensure that your personal information remains protected. Such measures include for instance the use of model clauses which have been approved by the EU, UK and Switzerland. In some instances, we will rely on your explicit consent, where this is appropriate. To request more information or obtain a copy of the contractual agreements or other safeguards in place, use the contact details set out in the “Contact Us” section below.
10. Updates to Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to our Services, or changes in the applicable law.
11. Contact Us
To exercise your rights, or for further information about how we use your personal information, please contact us.
For requests and enquiries relating to information about you collected via the Website or otherwise by your local LG Group member, please contact your local LG Group member. The name of and contact details for your local LG Group member can be found here.
For requests and enquiries relating to information about you collected via all other Services, please contact LGE at [here] or via post [LG Twin tower, 128 Yeoui—daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea]. The name of and contact details for your local LG Group member can be found here.
12. Personal Information of Children
Our Services are designed for a general audience and are not directed towards children. In connection with our Services, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Services. Please do not provide us with any personal information relating to persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for our Services or provide us with any personal information. If we learn that a person under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal information, we will promptly delete such personal information. If you believe that a child under age 18 may have provided us with personal information, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” section above.
In some jurisdictions we may adopt a stricter age-gating policy. Please read the supplemental information for your jurisdiction at the bottom of this Privacy Policy for further information.
LG Entities
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India |
LG Electronics India Limited |
parag.mathur@lge.com |
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ThinQ |
LG Electronics Inc. |
LG Twin tower, 128 Yeoui—daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
thinq@lge.com |
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LG Electronics India Limited |
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parag.mathur@lge.com |
Supplementary Terms to the Privacy Policy: Jurisdiction Specific - India
Please note that in addition to the Privacy Policy, if you are an Indian citizen or a person resident in India, the following Supplementary Terms are applicable to your use of the LGE Service.
A. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means than through our Services (including offline) or from other sources. The use of information collected through our platform shall be limited to the purposes under this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use applicable to users of our websites and mobile applications
B. In the event you provide personal information belonging to a third party, you shall ensure that due consent has been procured from such third party for providing their Personal Information for further sharing and processing by LGE. You shall ensure that such consent is documented and can be provided, if required by LGE. We disclaim all liability arising out of any unauthorized sharing or processing of any Personal Information belonging to a third party and you agree to indemnify and hold LGE harmless against any third party claims which arise out of such unauthorized sharing and processing of Personal Information belonging to a third party.
C. In addition to purposes for which Information may be collected as detailed in Section 3, the Information We collect may be used to:
i. Send you service-related announcements, for instance, if our Services are temporarily suspended for maintenance, we may send you an email, text message, flash notification or telephone call;
ii. Operate and improve the platform and tools associated with the platform;
iii. Prevent, discover and investigate violations of this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, and to investigate fraud or other matters;
iv. Customize the content or the Services on the platform for you, or the communications sent to you through the platform;
v. Analyse how the platform is used and diagnose technical problems;
vi. Confirm your identity in order to determine your eligibility to use the platform and avail the Services;
vii. Notify you about any changes to the platform;
viii. Marketing and for market research purposes, including internal demographic studies, so that we can optimize our products and Services and customize the platform for you and for the purpose of providing Our Services.
ix. Transmit, share or transfer the data to a group company or affiliate of LGE to enable such group company or affiliate to provide you with the Services;
x. Send administrative notices, service related alerts and other similar communication with a view to optimizing the efficiency of the platform; and
xi. To do market research, troubleshooting or project planning
D. On other occasions where we ask you for consent, we will use the data for the purpose explained to you at that time and you shall have an option to provide or not provide such personal information However, please note that in the event you choose not to provide personal information, we may be unable to provide you the Services or provide the Services in a limited manner.
E. With regard to Information Sharing under Clause 3, we may disclose your information to a third party as part of a merger or transfer, acquisition or sale, or in the event of a bankruptcy. In such cases, we will ensure that the receiving party ensures the same level of data protection that is adhered to by us with respect to protection of your personal information. You will be notified via email and/or through a prominent notice on the platform of any change in Company or uses of Your personal information, as well as any choices You may have regarding Your personal information.
F. In all cases where we share your personal information with third parties, we aim to protect the personal information by i) only sharing and providing access to personal information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to appropriate contractual restrictions including confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymized basis wherever possible; (ii) using secure servers to store personal information; (iii) verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to personal information prior to granting them access to such information; and (iv) using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software or other similar encryption technologies to encrypt any payment transactions You make on or via our platform.
G. Notwithstanding section 5 of the Privacy Policy, if you are using our Services in India, we may be allowed to retain Personal information for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, we may be obliged to retain Personal information for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
H. Please note that in the event you exercise your right to withdraw your consent to processing of your information, restrict or limit our right to process your personal information or object to processing of your personal information, such exercise of rights may adversely impact the provision of the Services by us. In this context, we reserve the right to discontinue the provision of some or all of the Services or provide the Services in a limited manner should you choose to exercise any of the aforesaid rights.
I. Your use of our Services will involve the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information within and outside of your country of residence, consistent with this Privacy Policy. In particular, your personal information will be transferred to the Republic of Korea. Please note that data protection laws and other laws of countries to which your information may be transferred might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Where your personal information is being transferred to a body corporate situated in another country, we shall ensure that the receiving body corporate ensures the same level of data protection that is adhered to by us.
J. This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to our Services, the manner in which your personal information is collected or processed, any changes to the categories of personal information collected, or changes in the applicable law. Prior to implementation of any material changes in our Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on our Services to notify you in advance of the material changes made and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated. Your continued use of the Services on the platform shall be deemed acceptance of the updated and amended terms of the Privacy Policy.
K. Opt Out: If you wish to specifically opt for receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding LGE, the platform and the Services, please send LGE an email at [here]. You may choose to opt out of providing any personal information to us or withdrawing any consent that was previously accorded by you to us for processing of your personal information by contacting us on the “Contact Us” option below.
Please note that in the event you exercise your right to withdraw your consent to processing of your information, restrict or limit our right to process your personal information or object to processing of your personal information, such exercise of rights may adversely impact the provision of the Services by us. In this context, we reserve the right to discontinue the provision of some or all of the Services or provide the Services in a limited manner should you choose to exercise any of the aforesaid rights.
L. Grievance Officer: If you have any grievances with respect to the provision of the Services or any portion of this Privacy Policy, please contact us on [here]. You can also contact the competent data protection authority as the responsible supervisory authority in case of any grievances.
To exercise any of your rights under this privacy policy, or for further information about the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information, please contact us at [here].
M. The following personal information is collected from you during the course of your usage of Services.
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Information collected through the Website |
- Information collected through the LG Account (see further below), web registration form, survey form, demo or purchase request forms, customer service contact form or online chat.
- Product and service information, including information about the products and services you purchase or use through the Website, including country code, product category, code, and model number, device ID, billing and payment information, delivery information (e.g. shipping address, zip code), registration information, IP address, and firmware and software information.
- Website usage information: including information about how you interact with the Website, and the device you use to do so. Please see our Cookie Policy for further information about this.
- Image and voice information.
- Comments or similar posts on the Website, if applicable, including time of the post, your email address and nickname, attached image or files.
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Information collected through the LG Account |
- Identity information, including your display name, country code, language, your name, date of birth, address, contact details and profile photo and user authentication by name. If you are a business customer or an employee of one of our business customers this also includes any information regarding your company, e.g. contact information, company tax code, job title and sector of activity.
- Device information, including device identification information such as IMEI number and product serial number, UUID, advertising ID and IP address |
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Information collected through the ThinQ service |
- Identity data including speaker’s voice and its’ translated text. If you are a Member in a virtual Home or Room: user number, profile photo, name, email address
- Profile information, including status of the host user, shared home ID, customer-generated home and room information (such as name of home, home ID, background screen URL, address, area code, geolocation)
- Product information (used for product warranty benefit purposes): date and location of purchase, photo of receipt
- Location information: including city code, server address, geolocation information
- Communication information: including inquiry details and attached images when you use 1:1 Inquiry or One Stop service
- Technical information, including information about your network connection, access to the app (e.g. number of times, timeline) and information generated during your use of our Service (such as log data, cookie data) |
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Information collected through electronic devices linked to ThinQ |
- Device information, including device registration information (such as unique identification value, type, name, manufacturer, model number, manufacture number, sales country, version information), device status, device settings, device behaviour and history of use, power (on/off) and power usage information, information on network connection and surrounding network environment, information on the execution and operation of various functions of the LG Electronics Service, Product Error/Malfunction Information, IP address |
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Information collected during the Proactive Customer Care (PCC) service delivery process |
- Product information, including model name, manufacture number, product status information, product history, information about product diagnostics, repair request information, date and location of purchase |
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Information collected when using Air Conditioning Smart Care |
- Product and settings information, including reservation information, filters, temperature unit information, setting values, indoor pollution level and energy monitoring
- Spatial data, including user location (according to distance and angle), temperature information (temperature of space used, temperature set), human sensing information and indoor load information |
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Information collected when using the camera or gallery photo upload function (this relates to the following features: Refrigerator panoramic view, Insta-view refrigerator background screen/upload gallery photo, Roboking Home view/Home guard, Air Conditioning) |
- Image and video information: including photo information, smartphone gallery photos, home view/home guard positioning screen information, home view photo/video information, Home Guard specified value, Home Care photo information, My Home view (streaming).
This information will only be collected if you make use of features that require or support image or video functionality and/or grant access to the camera or photo gallery on your device via your operating system settings. Image and video information be stored solely on your device, and only for so long as is necessary in order to provide the Services. When you use our Home View/Home guard functions, you are required to inform individuals who are present in any recorded space, that their image or video recording will be processed by us and to make this Privacy Policy available to them. |
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Information collected when connecting to the robot vacuum cleaner |
- Images and drawing map, cleaning reservation information, cleaning history, cleaning diary list and video information |
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Information collected when using voice link |
- Device identification information, - Technical information needed to link with external devices, and - Product information: including product model name and type, product nickname, status (On/Off, time remaining in action, appliance status value) and status properties, range of product property values, product control results, session key - Voice information. |
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Information collected when connecting to the Smart TV |
- OTA ID, TV os version, device feature set code, content recommendation list ID, content ID |
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Video Call |
- If you send us a video call request via our customer service, we will collect and save your video & audio data with your prior express consent only, as well as your contact details (email, address, and telephone number), device information, the OS version of the smartphone used, the browser name of the web browser used and server log data including IP address. For the video call, we use the “Telepresence” web service published by LG Inc. The video call with LG customer service and the technicians used by LG is pre-recorded and assigned to your support case basis the request. We use the data to further process your request and to check warranty service of your product. The recording of the video service is only done to provide precise and for efficient processing of your request so that the transmitted technical picture or the transmitted sound can already partially recognize the essential technical problems and solve them more quickly afterwards. - For the provision of our LG customer service, we use data processors integrated in compliance with data protection regulations, who can view the records for the purpose of providing the service you require. The record will be deleted after 30 days. The other data will be deleted after support is provided & your service request is closed. - You can revoke your consent to the storage of video and audio data at any time with future effect by writing to us at serviceindia@lge.com or contacting the LG service number |
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