Effective date: August 7, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Seung-Ki Kim (“I,” “me,” or “my”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information through sourcing.seungkikim.ca (the “Website”) and in connection with international sourcing inquiries and related communications.
This Privacy Policy applies only to sourcing.seungkikim.ca. It does not apply to other websites or subdomains operated under seungkikim.ca unless they expressly link to this Privacy Policy.
The Website and the international sourcing services described on it are operated by:
I am responsible for personal information under my control and for responding to privacy questions, requests, and complaints relating to this Website.
Information You Provide
When you submit a sourcing request, contact me, or otherwise communicate with me, I may collect information such as:
Please do not provide personal information or confidential information that is not reasonably necessary for your sourcing request.
Information Collected Automatically
When you access the Website, certain technical information may be processed automatically as part of operating, protecting, and delivering the Website.
This may include:
Some of this information is processed by infrastructure providers such as Cloudflare.
I may use personal information to:
I will not use personal information for a materially different purpose without obtaining additional consent where required.
International sourcing necessarily involves communicating with businesses and individuals in different countries.
Information you provide may therefore be disclosed to prospective:
For example, product specifications, drawings, photographs, requested quantities, technical requirements, packaging information, or other details may need to be shared with potential sources in order to determine whether they can supply what you require.
Only information that I reasonably consider relevant to the sourcing process will be shared.
Potential suppliers and sourcing contacts may be located outside Canada, including in countries whose privacy and data protection laws differ from those in Canada.
You should not submit materials that you are not authorized to share with potential sourcing parties.
If particular information requires confidentiality restrictions, non-disclosure protections, or special handling, those protections should be discussed and agreed upon separately before that information is provided for sourcing purposes.
The Website uses a self-hosted installation of OpenPanel to understand how visitors use the Website and to improve its design, content, and performance.
OpenPanel is hosted on infrastructure located in Helsinki, Finland.
Analytics may include information such as:
OpenPanel may temporarily process an IP address to derive approximate geographic information and generate privacy-oriented device or session identifiers. Raw IP addresses are not intended to be stored as part of the OpenPanel analytics record.
OpenPanel is used for analytics only after you provide consent through the Website’s analytics consent mechanism.
If you decline analytics, the Website and sourcing request functionality will remain available.
With your consent, the Website may also use OpenPanel’s Session Replay feature.
Session Replay creates a structured reconstruction of how a visitor interacts with the Website. It is not a conventional screen or video recording.
It may record information such as:
Session Replay is configured with privacy protections intended to prevent sensitive information from being captured.
Form input values and page text are masked where appropriate, and the sourcing inquiry form is excluded from Session Replay so that the information entered into the form is not intentionally recorded as part of a replay.
Session Replay information is not transmitted to OpenPanel unless you consent to analytics and Session Replay.
You may decline this tracking without affecting your ability to use the Website or submit a sourcing request.
OpenPanel analytics and Session Replay are configured so that analytics information is not sent for processing until you provide consent.
If you decline analytics tracking, analytics information held temporarily in your browser for that session will not be intentionally transmitted to the OpenPanel analytics server.
You may also withdraw or change your analytics preference through the consent controls made available on the Website.
Strictly necessary technologies required to deliver, secure, or operate the Website may continue to function regardless of your analytics preference.
The Website uses Cloudflare for infrastructure services that may include:
Because Website traffic passes through Cloudflare’s network, Cloudflare may process technical information such as IP addresses, traffic metadata, system configuration information, and request information as necessary to provide these services.
Cloudflare is not used by me as the Website’s primary visitor analytics platform.
Sourcing requests submitted through the Website are processed through a self-hosted n8n automation system hosted on infrastructure located in Helsinki, Finland.
n8n is used as an automation and routing layer to deliver sourcing inquiries to me.
Successful sourcing form submissions are intended not to be retained in n8n execution history longer than necessary to complete the automation.
The resulting inquiry and related correspondence may be retained in my business email and other legitimate business records as described below.
I use Zoho Mail to receive, send, and maintain email communications relating to sourcing inquiries and business relationships.
Information included in a sourcing request may therefore be processed through Zoho Mail and its supporting infrastructure.
When you communicate with me by email, your message, email address, correspondence, attachments, and related metadata may be stored as part of my business records.
I may use service providers to operate the Website and business infrastructure.
Current providers and systems include:
I may replace, add, or remove service providers as the Website and sourcing operations evolve.
Where reasonably required, I take steps appropriate to the circumstances to protect personal information processed by service providers under my control.
Personal information may be processed or stored outside Canada.
In particular:
When personal information is processed in another jurisdiction, it may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction and may be accessible to courts, law enforcement, regulators, or other authorities where permitted by local law.
I remain responsible for personal information under my control in accordance with applicable Canadian privacy law.
I retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or for legitimate legal and business purposes.
Sourcing inquiries, correspondence, and related business records may be retained as long as reasonably necessary to:
Information that is no longer reasonably required may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.
Analytics and Session Replay information is retained only for a limited period consistent with the purposes of understanding and improving Website use and the applicable analytics system configuration.
I use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information under my control.
These may include:
No method of Internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
If a privacy breach occurs, I will assess and respond to it in accordance with applicable legal obligations.
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may request to:
Deletion requests are subject to information I may reasonably or legally need to retain, including information required for legal, regulatory, accounting, security, dispute resolution, or legitimate business record purposes.
To make a privacy request, contact: [email protected]
I may need to verify your identity before providing access to, correcting, or deleting personal information.
You may accept or decline optional Website analytics and Session Replay through the Website’s consent mechanism.
Declining analytics will not prevent you from:
Where available, you may change your analytics preference later through the Website’s privacy or consent controls.
Submitting a sourcing request does not automatically subscribe you to a marketing mailing list.
I may send communications necessary to respond to your inquiry and manage any resulting business relationship.
If marketing emails, newsletters, sourcing updates, or similar communications are offered, they may be sent where:
Where required, marketing emails will include a way to unsubscribe.
You may withdraw your consent to marketing communications at any time.
I do not sell personal information collected through this Website.
I do not disclose personal information to third parties for their independent advertising purposes.
Disclosure to potential suppliers, manufacturers, sourcing contacts, infrastructure providers, and other parties involved in a sourcing request is for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and is not a sale of personal information.
The Website and sourcing services are intended for businesses and adults.
They are not directed toward children, and I do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the Website.
The Website may contain links to third-party websites or services.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of websites or services operated by third parties. Their own privacy policies and terms apply when you use them.
If you have a concern about how your personal information has been collected, used, disclosed, retained, or protected, please contact me first at: [email protected]
I will review privacy concerns and respond as appropriate under applicable law.
You may also have the right to raise a complaint with an applicable privacy or data protection authority.
I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:
The current version will be posted on sourcing.seungkikim.ca with an updated effective date.
Material changes may be communicated through the Website or by other appropriate means where required.
For questions, requests, or complaints relating to privacy or this Privacy Policy, contact: