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Overview
Korean ("we", "our", or "us") is a Korean language learning application provided by Genkoritei. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, share, and safeguard information when you use our mobile application, create or use a Korean account, synchronize your learning data, or otherwise interact with our related services.
By using Korean, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires your consent for a particular type of processing, such as personalized advertising or tracking, we will ask for that consent separately.
Summary: Korean collects only the information reasonably necessary to provide account functionality, synchronize learning progress, personalize your learning experience, maintain security, improve the app, provide support, and display advertising. We do not sell your personal information.
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Information We Collect
We collect information in three main ways: information you provide to us, information generated through your use of Korean, and information collected automatically by the app or our service providers.
2.1 Account and Registration Information
When you create or use a Korean account, we may collect and process:
- Email Address: Used to create and identify your account, authenticate you, recover account access, and send important account or security notices.
- Internal User ID: A unique identifier assigned to your Korean account.
- Authentication Information: Information necessary to authenticate your account, including the authentication method you use and related security information.
- Account Metadata: Such as account creation time, last login time, login provider, account status, and other information necessary to operate and secure your account.
If password-based login is available, passwords are not stored by us in readable plain text. Authentication credentials are protected using security mechanisms designed for account authentication.
2.2 Third-Party Sign-In
Korean may allow you to create an account or sign in using a supported third-party authentication provider. When you choose a third-party sign-in method, we may receive information that the provider makes available to us and that you authorize the provider to share, such as a provider-specific user identifier, your email address, and, where available, basic profile information.
We do not receive your password for the third-party service. Information processed directly by the third-party authentication provider is also subject to that provider's own privacy policy and terms.
2.3 Learning and App Data
When you use Korean, we may store information related to your learning activity so that features can function across sessions and, when you are signed in, across supported devices. This information may include:
- Vocabulary and grammar learning progress
- Study history and activity records
- Quiz or exercise results
- Favorites and saved vocabulary, sentences, or grammar items
- Learning preferences and app settings
- Language and display preferences
- Other data that you choose to save through learning features
Some learning information may be stored locally on your device. If you are signed in and synchronization is enabled or supported, relevant information may also be stored on our servers so that it can be synchronized or restored.
2.4 Support Communications
If you contact us for support, we may collect your email address, information contained in your message, technical information you provide, and other information necessary to investigate and respond to your request.
2.5 Information Collected Automatically
- Device Information: Device model, operating system version, app version, system language, screen characteristics, and device or app identifiers where applicable.
- Usage Data: Features you use, screens or lessons you access, session duration, interaction events, and related usage statistics.
- Performance and Diagnostic Data: error logs, load times, feature latency, and technical diagnostics used to maintain and improve the app.
- Security Data: Login events, authentication failures, security-related events, and other technical information used to detect unauthorized access, fraud, abuse, or attacks.
- Advertising Data: Google AdMob may process device information, advertising identifiers where permitted, ad impressions, clicks, and other advertising-related information. See Section 05 for details.
2.6 Information We Do NOT Collect
- We do not collect your precise GPS location.
- We do not access your contacts, camera, microphone, or photo library unless you explicitly grant permission for a feature that requires such access.
- We do not collect or store your full payment card number. Purchases made through an app store are processed by the applicable platform.
- We do not collect biometric data for our own identification purposes.
- We do not sell your personal information.
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How We Use Your Information
- Account Creation and Authentication: To create, authenticate, maintain, and secure your Korean account.
- App Functionality: To operate Korean and provide the features you request.
- Cloud Synchronization: To save and synchronize learning progress, study history, favorites, preferences, and other supported account data.
- Personalization: To adapt learning content and recommendations based on your level, preferences, study history, and activity.
- Analytics & Improvement: To understand how users interact with Korean, identify usability issues, measure feature adoption, and improve the app.
- Advertising: To display and measure advertisements through Google AdMob. Personalized advertising is used only where permitted and subject to applicable consent requirements.
- Technical Support: To diagnose and errors, synchronization problems, account issues, and other technical problems.
- Communications: To send important service, security, account, or policy-related communications. We do not send marketing emails without consent where consent is required.
- Security and Abuse Prevention: To detect, investigate, prevent, and respond to fraud, unauthorized access, abuse, automated attacks, security incidents, or violations of our Terms of Service.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, legal processes, and lawful government requests.
Legal Bases for Processing
Where applicable law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely on one or more of the following: providing the services you request, our legitimate interests in operating and securing Korean, your consent where required, and compliance with applicable legal obligations.
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time, subject to applicable law.
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Analytics — Firebase
Korean uses Google Analytics for Firebase and services provided by Google, to understand app usage, diagnose technical problems, and improve reliability and user experience.
Data Processed by Firebase
Depending on your device and configuration, Firebase may process:
- Device model, operating system version, and language settings
- App version, session information, and timestamps
- Screen views and feature interactions
- Analytics events and usage statistics
- Stack traces, and error reports
- Device or app identifiers, such as Firebase Installation identifiers and other identifiers permitted by the operating system
We do not intentionally send your password or the contents of private support communications to Firebase Analytics. Analytics information may be associated with pseudonymous identifiers used to distinguish app installations or sessions.
Firebase's Privacy Practices
Firebase processes information in accordance with Google's privacy and data protection practices. You can review Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy and learn more about Firebase privacy and security at: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
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Advertising — AdMob
Korean uses Google AdMob, an advertising service provided by Google, to display advertisements within the app. Advertising revenue helps support the operation and development of Korean.
Data Processed by AdMob
Depending on your device, region, settings, and consent choices, AdMob may process:
- Advertising Identifiers: Such as IDFA on iOS or advertising identifiers available on Android, where access is permitted.
- Device and App Information: Such as device model, operating system, app version, and language.
- Advertising Interaction Data: Including ad impressions, clicks, and related interactions.
- Cookies or Similar Technologies: Where applicable, Google and its advertising partners may use technologies necessary for advertising, measurement, security, and fraud prevention.
App Tracking Transparency (iOS)
Where required by Apple, Korean will request permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework before accessing information or engaging in tracking that requires ATT authorization. If you deny tracking permission, features that require such permission will not use your IDFA for cross-app tracking. You may change ATT permissions through your iOS privacy settings.
Personalized and Non-Personalized Advertising
In countries or regions where consent is required for personalized advertising, we or Google may present a consent interface before personalized advertising is enabled. You may be able to change your advertising consent choices through the app or your device privacy settings, depending on your platform and region.
Choosing non-personalized advertising does not necessarily remove advertisements from Korean. It changes how advertising may be selected or personalized.
AdMob's Privacy Practices
Google processes advertising information according to its own privacy policies and applicable consent requirements. For more information, please review:
Google Privacy Policy
How Google uses information from sites or apps
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Third-Party Content
Korean incorporates vocabulary and dictionary data from the following third-party source:
Korean Basic Dictionary (한국어기초사전 · krdict)
Vocabulary and dictionary data used in Korean may include materials provided by the Korean Basic Dictionary (krdict), operated by the National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원), Republic of Korea. Unless otherwise specifically indicated by the provider, materials from the website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Korea license (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR).
Covered materials may be used, including for commercial purposes, subject to applicable attribution and share-alike requirements. Multimedia materials such as images, video, music, sound, or pronunciation recordings may have separate usage conditions and are subject to the individual license applicable to each item.
krdict.korean.go.kr ·
Copyright Policy / Open API
We do not claim ownership of material owned by the National Institute of Korean Language or other third parties. Third-party materials remain subject to the rights, licenses, and conditions of their respective providers.
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Data Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may disclose or make limited information available to the following categories of service providers or recipients where reasonably necessary:
- Authentication Providers: Third-party services you choose to use to create or sign in to your Korean account.
- Cloud and Backend Infrastructure Providers: Hosting, database, authentication, storage, and infrastructure providers that process information on our behalf to operate Korean.
- Analytics Providers: Including Google Analytics for Firebase, as described in Section 04.
- Advertising Providers: Including Google AdMob and its advertising partners, as described in Section 05.
- App Store Platforms: Apple App Store, Google Play, or other authorized distribution platforms may independently process information related to downloads, purchases, subscriptions, or use of their services.
- Professional Service Providers: Where necessary, service providers assisting us with security, technical support, legal compliance, or similar operational purposes.
- Legal Authorities: We may disclose information where required by applicable law, legal process, court order, or a valid request from a competent authority.
- Business Transfers: If Genkoritei or the Korean service is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, or transfer of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to applicable law.
International Data Processing
Some of our service providers operate infrastructure in multiple countries. As a result, information may be processed or stored outside the country or region where you live. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers of personal information, we take appropriate measures or rely on appropriate safeguards provided by our service providers.
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Data Retention & Account Deletion
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the service, maintaining security, resolving disputes, and complying with applicable legal obligations.
- Account Data: Generally retained while your Korean account remains active.
- Learning and Synchronization Data: Generally retained while your account remains active so that your learning progress and saved information can be synchronized and restored.
- Security Records: Certain authentication or security logs may be retained for a limited period where necessary to prevent abuse, investigate security incidents, or protect our services.
- Analytics: Retained according to our configured retention settings and the retention practices of the applicable analytics provider.
- Advertising Data: Retained by Google and its advertising partners according to their applicable retention policies.
- Support Communications: May be retained for a reasonable period after your inquiry has been resolved where necessary for support, security, or legal purposes.
Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your Korean account using the account deletion function provided within the app or by contacting us.
When you delete your account, account information and associated server-side learning data will be deleted or anonymized in accordance with applicable law, except for information that we are required or permitted to retain for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or other legitimate purposes.
Deleted information may remain temporarily in encrypted backups or disaster-recovery systems until those backups are overwritten according to the applicable backup retention cycle.
Some information stored locally on your device may remain after account deletion until you clear the app's local storage or uninstall the app.
Important: Uninstalling Korean does not by itself delete your Korean account or server-side account data. Similarly, disconnecting a third-party sign-in provider does not necessarily delete your Korean account. To delete the Korean account itself, use the account deletion function in the app or contact us.
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Your Choices & Privacy Rights
Depending on the laws applicable to you, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Request restriction of certain processing where applicable
- Object to certain processing where applicable
- Request data portability where provided by law
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Lodge a complaint with an appropriate data protection authority where applicable
You may also control certain privacy choices through your device settings, including advertising permissions, tracking permissions, notifications, and permissions for hardware or media access.
To exercise a privacy right that is not available directly within the app, please contact us at contact@3734649.xyz. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests in order to protect your account and personal information.
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Children's Privacy
Korean is a general-audience language learning application and is not specifically directed to young children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in a manner prohibited by applicable law.
If the law in a user's country or region requires parental or guardian consent before a minor may create an account or provide personal information, the user should use Korean only with the required consent.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to us in violation of applicable law, please contact us. We will review the request and take appropriate action.
Where required by Google's policies or applicable law, advertising shown to children is configured without interest-based personalization.
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Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.
- Encryption in Transit: Network communications containing personal information are protected using HTTPS/TLS.
- Credential Protection: Authentication credentials are handled using security mechanisms designed to prevent storage of readable plain-text passwords.
- Access Controls: Access to systems and personal information is restricted to authorized systems or personnel with a legitimate operational need.
- Security Monitoring: We may monitor authentication events and technical activity to identify unauthorized access, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
- Security Reviews: We periodically review and improve security measures as the service evolves.
- Incident Response: If a security incident involving personal information occurs, we will take appropriate steps and provide notifications where required by applicable law.
No method of electronic transmission, network communication, or data storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
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Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in Korean, account functionality, technology, service providers, legal requirements, or our privacy practices.
When we update this policy, we may:
- Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
- Provide an in-app notice where a change is material or where notice is required by law.
- Request consent again where applicable law requires new consent for a particular processing activity.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.