Privacy Policy
MinimalOps Co., Ltd. (주식회사 미니멀옵스), a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (the "Company", "we", "us"), operates the "Puri" application and related websites (the "Service"). This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, and what choices you have.
The Company is established in the Republic of Korea, and the Service is provided from there. Personal information processed through the Service is stored on servers located in the Republic of Korea. By using the Service, you acknowledge that your information is transferred to and processed in the Republic of Korea.
This Privacy Policy is the English-language version of the Company's Korean-language privacy policy. In the event of any conflict, the Korean version prevails to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Article 1 (Scope)
- This Privacy Policy applies to the Service in the languages other than Korean in which we make it available. The Korean-language service is covered by the Korean-language privacy policy.
- The features available to you depend on the language, platform and region in which you use the Service. Where you use the Service in a language other than Korean, the features generally available are PuriChat and Today's Fortune, and we collect only the information those features require.
- The Service is not intended for, offered to, or marketed to residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and we do not monitor the behaviour of individuals in those territories. See Article 10.
Article 2 (Information We Collect)
1. Information from your sign-in provider
When you register, we receive the following from the sign-in provider you choose. Availability of each provider may differ by region and platform.
| Sign-in method | Information received |
|---|---|
| Google Sign-In | Unique identifier, email address |
| Sign in with Apple | Unique identifier, email address (or Apple's private relay address, if you choose to hide your email) |
| Kakao Login | Unique identifier, email address |
| LINE Login | Unique identifier, email address |
2. Information you provide to receive fortune content (required)
- Name or nickname
- Gender
- Date of birth, and whether it follows the solar or lunar calendar
- Time of birth, or an indication that it is unknown
- Place of birth (selected from a list of cities)
3. Information about other people that you choose to enter
- Name or nickname, relationship to you, gender, and birth details of a person you ask about (for example, for compatibility content)
4. Information generated when you use PuriChat
- The messages you send, and the responses generated for you
- Conversation summaries and calculation results derived from your profile, used to continue the conversation
- Timestamps, the character or style you selected, and the language of the conversation
5. Payment information
- Store transaction or order identifier, product identifier, purchase date and quantity
- The store country recorded in the receipt (used for compliance monitoring only)
- Balance and consumption history of Tickets and other Virtual Items
6. Information collected automatically
- Device information (operating system and version, device model, application version)
- Application language and locale settings
- Service usage records, access logs, IP address
- Push notification token
- Crash and error diagnostics
- Device advertising identifier (Android Advertising ID, or the iOS Identifier for Advertisers where you have granted App Tracking Transparency permission)
- Ad interaction data (impressions, clicks)
7. Customer enquiries
- The contents of enquiries you send us, and the email address you send them from
Article 3 (How We Use Information)
We use personal information only for the following purposes:
- Providing the Service: identifying you, maintaining your account, calculating and generating fortune content and chat responses, and continuing your conversations.
- Payments and entitlements: verifying purchase receipts, crediting and consuming Tickets and other Virtual Items, keeping purchase and consumption records, and handling refunds and chargebacks.
- Notifications: sending push notifications and service announcements you have chosen to receive, and messages necessary for the operation or security of the Service.
- Support: responding to enquiries, investigating problems and resolving disputes.
- Safety and abuse prevention: detecting and preventing fraud, abuse of free allowances, unauthorized access, and breaches of our Terms of Service.
- Improvement and quality: measuring content quality, diagnosing errors, and analysing usage in anonymized or aggregated form.
- Advertising: displaying banner, interstitial and rewarded advertising in the Service, serving personalized advertising based on your device advertising identifier, and measuring advertising performance.
- Legal compliance: complying with obligations under the laws of the Republic of Korea and other applicable law, and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time by deleting the relevant data or your account, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. Withdrawing consent for required information means we can no longer provide the Service.
Article 4 (Artificial Intelligence Processing)
- Chat messages, profile information used for calculation, and information about other people that you enter are transmitted to our AI providers so that a response can be generated. Our current AI providers are Google LLC (Gemini) and OpenAI, L.L.C.
- Those providers act as our processors. Under the terms applicable to the paid application programming interfaces we use, they do not use content submitted through those interfaces to train their models.
- Generated responses are stored in your conversation history so that the conversation can continue, and are deleted when you delete the conversation or your account.
- We may review a limited sample of conversations, in the ordinary course of quality and safety review, to detect errors, abuse or unsafe output. We use anonymized or aggregated information for this purpose wherever it is sufficient.
- Content generated by these systems is provided for entertainment only and is not professional advice. See Article 14 of the Terms of Service.
Article 4A (Pseudonymized Information)
- Under Article 28-2 of the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea, we may pseudonymize the information we collect (including calculation inputs and conversation history) so that a specific individual can no longer be identified, and process it without further consent for statistical purposes, scientific research (including the development and improvement of artificial intelligence algorithms), and archiving in the public interest.
- Pseudonymized information is stored and managed separately from the additional information that would allow re-identification, with technical and organizational safeguards.
- We do not process pseudonymized information for the purpose of identifying a specific individual. If identifying information is generated in the course of processing, we stop processing immediately and recover or destroy it.
- Because pseudonymized and anonymized information cannot identify you, it is not subject to the access, correction, deletion or suspension rights in Article 9, and it may be retained after your account is deleted.
Article 5 (Sharing and Disclosure)
- We do not sell your personal information for money. The Service does display advertising, and our advertising provider processes device advertising identifiers to serve personalized advertising, as described in Article 5.3. You can turn personalized advertising off at any time in your device settings.
- We do not disclose your personal information to third parties except:
- to the service providers listed in Article 6, acting on our instructions;
- where you have given prior consent;
- where disclosure is required by applicable law, court order, or a lawful request from a competent authority, and we are satisfied that the request is valid;
- where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or to protect the rights, safety or property of the Company, our Users or the public;
- in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, in which case the recipient remains bound by this Privacy Policy or a policy no less protective.
- The Service displays banner, interstitial and rewarded advertising through Google AdMob. AdMob processes your device advertising identifier (Android Advertising ID, or the iOS Identifier for Advertisers where you have granted App Tracking Transparency permission), device information, IP address and ad interaction data, in order to serve personalized advertising and measure its performance. You can opt out at any time through your device settings ("Allow Apps to Request to Track" on iOS, "Delete advertising ID" or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android). If you opt out, advertising is still shown, but it is not personalized.
Article 6 (Service Providers)
We use the following providers to operate the Service. Each processes personal information only on our instructions and for the purposes described.
| Provider | Purpose | Processing location |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Hosting, database, file storage and content delivery | Republic of Korea (Seoul region); content delivery may use edge locations worldwide |
| Google LLC | Google Sign-In; Firebase authentication, push notifications, analytics and crash reporting; Gemini AI responses; Google Play billing verification | United States and other countries |
| Apple Inc. | Sign in with Apple; push notifications; App Store billing verification | United States and other countries |
| Google LLC (AdMob) | Serving banner, interstitial and rewarded advertising; personalized advertising and performance measurement | United States and other countries |
| OpenAI, L.L.C. | AI-generated content | United States |
| Kakao Corp. | Kakao Login (where offered) | Republic of Korea |
| LY Corporation (LINE) | LINE Login (where offered) | Japan |
Article 7 (International Transfers)
- Personal information you provide is transferred to and stored in the Republic of Korea, where the Company and its primary servers are located (Amazon Web Services, Seoul region). If you use the Service from outside Korea, using the Service necessarily involves this transfer.
- Some of the providers listed in Article 6 process information in the United States and other countries. Where a transfer occurs, we require the provider to maintain protections consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- The Republic of Korea maintains a comprehensive personal data protection law, the Personal Information Protection Act, which is supervised by the Personal Information Protection Commission.
Article 8 (Retention and Deletion)
We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and then delete it without undue delay. Where the law of the Republic of Korea requires a longer period, we keep the information for that period and use it only for that purpose.
| Category | Retention period | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Account identifier and email address | Until account deletion | Providing the Service |
| Name, gender, birth date, birth time, place of birth | Until account deletion | Providing fortune content |
| Information about other people that you entered | Until you delete it, or until account deletion | Providing compatibility content |
| PuriChat conversations and generated responses | Until you delete the conversation, or until account deletion | Continuing the conversation |
| Purchase and payment records | 5 years | Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (Republic of Korea) |
| Records of consumer complaints and dispute handling | 3 years | Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (Republic of Korea) |
| Service usage records, access logs, IP address | Up to 1 year | Abuse prevention and service improvement (our internal policy) |
| Records kept to prevent repeated abuse of free allowances after account deletion (sign-in provider, email address) | 30 days after deletion | Fraud and abuse prevention |
| Account deletion survey records (identifier held at the time of deletion, sign-up route, device type, stated reason) | 3 years after deletion | Service improvement and statistical analysis |
| Device identifier used to prevent repeated grants of free allowances | For as long as the abuse-prevention purpose applies (not linked to an account) | Preventing repeated claiming of free allowances through multiple accounts |
Article 9 (Your Rights and Choices)
- You may, at any time:
- access and review the profile information you have provided;
- correct or update that information;
- delete individual conversations and information you entered about other people;
- delete your account, which deletes or anonymizes the associated information, subject to Article 8;
- turn push notifications on or off.
- Most of these rights can be exercised directly in the Service. For anything else, or to obtain a copy of the information we hold about you, contact us at the address in Article 13. We will handle your request within the period required by applicable law.
- We will verify your identity before acting on a request, normally by requiring that the request come from the email address associated with your account. We may decline a request that is manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive, or where the law requires or permits us to retain the information.
- We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
Article 10 (Users in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland)
- The Service is not intended for, offered to, or marketed to residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland. We do not target those territories, we do not offer prices in their currencies, and we do not monitor the behaviour of individuals located there.
- If you access the Service from one of those territories, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.
- Regardless of where you live, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, and you may object to our processing of it, by contacting us at the address in Article 13. We will handle your request in accordance with Article 9.
Article 11 (Children)
- The Service is not directed to children. You may use the Service only if you are at least 14 years old, or such higher minimum age as the law of your country of residence requires. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone below that age, and we may refuse registration or delete any account and associated information that we determine belongs to such a person.
Article 12 (Security)
- We apply the technical and organizational safeguards required by applicable law to protect personal information, including encryption of data in transit.
- Payment credentials never reach our systems; they are handled by the application stores.
- No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. While we take reasonable measures, we cannot guarantee absolute security, and you use the Service at your own risk to that extent.
Article 13 (Contact and Data Protection Officer)
Company: MinimalOps Co., Ltd. (주식회사 미니멀옵스)
Representative and person responsible for personal information: Junhyung Lee
Address: Room B040, 3F, 25-11 Seongji-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Email: minimalopskor@gmail.com
You may contact us at the email address above with any question, request or complaint about this Privacy Policy or about how we handle your personal information. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with the Personal Information Protection Commission of the Republic of Korea (www.pipc.go.kr).
Article 14 (Changes to This Privacy Policy)
- We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Service or in applicable law.
- We will publish the updated Privacy Policy within the Service at least seven (7) days before it takes effect, or at least thirty (30) days before where the change is materially disadvantageous to Users, together with the effective date and the reason for the change.
- If a change requires your consent under applicable law, we will obtain it before the change takes effect.