Effective date: October 10, 2026
This document is an English translation of the Korean PEEK 개인정보 처리방침. The Korean version is the original. If this translation and the Korean version differ, the Korean version prevails.
The operator of PEEK (the “Operator”) processes the personal information of people who use PEEK (the mobile app, website and Chrome extension) as follows.
If you are in Japan, please read Information for Users in Japan before you agree. Information for people in the United States is in Information for Users in the United States.
The Operator processes the following personal information to provide the Service.
The Operator processes, without consent, personal information necessary to perform the service contract, to comply with legal obligations, or for the Operator’s legitimate interests, and processes optional items with your consent.
| Purpose of processing | Items processed | Legal basis (Korean Personal Information Protection Act) |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-up, login and account management; responding to inquiries | Account information | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Saving content, AI analysis, search and sync across devices; language settings | Saved content, usage information | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Confirming subscription payments; managing AI analysis credits | Payment information, credit balance and usage history | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Sending the daily reminder (only if you turn it on) | Daily reminder setting, notification token, device time zone, number of items saved | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Recording your consents and choices | Consent records | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Keeping the Service running reliably — checking errors and handling outages | Access logs, job processing records, error information (sent regardless of your consent to usage record collection) | Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract) |
| Preventing fraudulent use (checking for multiple accounts on one device and for repeated sign-ups after account deletion) | Device installation number, records linking it to accounts (first and last use date and time), sign-up and account deletion date and time, an identifier made from the login account that cannot be reversed | Link records during the contract: Article 15(1)(4) (performance of a contract); keeping records after account deletion: Article 15(1)(6) (legitimate interests of the personal information controller) |
| Keeping e-commerce transaction records (after you leave) | Minimum payment record (transaction date and time, product, amount) | Article 15(1)(2) (legal obligation — Article 6 of the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, etc.) |
| Purpose of processing | Items processed | Legal basis (Korean Personal Information Protection Act) |
|---|---|---|
| Analyzing usage records to improve the product (optional) | Usage records, acquisition channel (pseudonymized information; only the records of people who agreed with the consent box checked in the mobile app, or who chose “OK” (확인) on the Chrome extension’s usage record notice, are processed) | Article 15(1)(1) (consent) — “Personal usage data collection (optional)” on the sign-up screen or “OK” (확인) on the Chrome extension’s usage record notice; withdraw in the app’s Settings or with “Turn off collection” (수집 끄기) or the switch in the extension |
| Sending advertising information (marketing information) (optional) | Whether you agreed to receive marketing information, and the record of it | Article 15(1)(1) (consent) |
When you delete your account through [Settings → Delete account] in the app, we immediately erase the personal information in the Service’s database. However, records we keep under law, the device link records of deleted accounts that we keep to prevent fraudulent use, the identifier needed while we ask outside vendors to delete their records, and information that outside vendors keep under their own rules remain until the periods below.
| Item | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Account information, saved content, usage information, daily reminder setting, notification token, device time zone, consent records, acquisition check results (copy kept on the Service’s server) | Until you delete your account |
| Content moved to the trash | Until you permanently delete it from the trash or empty the trash (at the latest, until you delete your account) |
| Subscription status, credits, raw payment notifications (including the original account ID) | Until you delete your account — the raw payment notifications are erased when you delete your account |
| Device link records | Until you delete your account |
| Device link records of deleted accounts (installation number, sign-up and account deletion date and time, login identifier — without the account number) | 6 months after account deletion, then erased |
| Minimum payment record (transaction date and time, product, amount, currency, amount converted to US dollars — without the original account ID) | 5 years from the transaction date (Article 6 of the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, etc. and Article 6 of its Enforcement Decree), then erased automatically |
| Raw payment notifications that arrive after you delete your account | Cleaned up one day after receipt — actual transactions are moved to the minimum payment record and the raw notifications are erased |
| Original account ID needed to request deletion from outside vendors | Erased as soon as the deletion request succeeds (if it fails, the request is retried; if failures continue, it remains until the Operator handles it manually). A record of the request with the identifier removed is kept |
| Daily reminder send records (kept so that the same reminder is not sent twice) | Deleted automatically after 8 days |
| Records of unexpected logouts | 90 days |
| Server access logs | 3 months |
| Usage records, error information | Usage records: the period the analytics vendor sets by plan (free 1 year, paid 7 years; if you delete your account, we request deletion even before then); error information: 90 days |
| Information kept by vendors abroad | The “Recipient’s purpose of use and retention period” column of the transfer table in Section 4 |
Personal information whose retention period has ended or whose purpose has been achieved is deleted without delay by a method that makes it unrecoverable. The minimum payment records we keep under law are kept separately from other personal information and are not used for anything other than that purpose.
| Processor | Work entrusted |
|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services Korea LLC | Hosting the Service’s API server (run by the Operator) |
The legal basis for transfers to the vendors below is Article 28-8(1)(3) of the Personal Information Protection Act (entrusted processing and storage necessary to perform the service contract, disclosed in this Policy). Because this is necessary to provide the Service, there is no separate way to refuse it; to refuse, delete your account, in which case you will not be able to use the Service. Vendors for which this differs are noted in their own rows.
| Recipient | Location | Date/time and method of transfer | Contact of the person in charge of data | Personal information entrusted | Entrusted work | Recipient’s purpose of use and retention period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase Pte. Ltd. | Republic of Korea | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | privacy@supabase.com | The entire Service database, including account information, saved content and AI analysis results, settings and consent records, payment and credit records | User authentication, database storage | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion (device link records of deleted accounts: 6 months after account deletion) |
| Journey Mobile, Inc. | Japan | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | dpo@powersync.com | Saved content and AI analysis results, categories, recently viewed records | Syncing the app with the server database | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion |
| Vercel Inc. | United States | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | privacy@vercel.com | Website access logs (IP address, browser information), web login authentication information | Providing the website | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion |
| 650 Industries, Inc. | United States | When a notification is sent or the app checks for updates, network transfer | expo.dev/contact | Notification token and notification text (only if the daily reminder is on), device and app information during app update checks | Delivering push notifications, app updates | Performing the entrusted work; according to each vendor’s policy (notification token in the Operator’s database: until account deletion) Refusal: turning off the Daily Reminder stops notification transfers; app update checks cannot be refused |
| RevenueCat, Inc. | United States | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | compliance@revenuecat.com | Original account ID, purchase, receipt and subscription status, Apple’s ad attribution token (iOS, with consent to usage record collection) | Processing subscription payments, checking subscription status | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion (customer record deletion requested on account deletion) Apple ad attribution token: same legal basis and refusal as the Apple row (no longer sent from the next app launch once turned off) |
| Gemini API: Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (in Korea, contracted through Google Cloud Korea LLC) · YouTube Data API: Google LLC | The United States and other countries where Google maintains facilities (cannot be narrowed to one) | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | Contact form | Content submitted for AI analysis (text, body text, subtitles, images, video, audio), YouTube video IDs | AI analysis (reading video, images and audio; preliminary organizing), checking video length | Performing the entrusted work; Gemini API: 55 days, YouTube Data API: according to each vendor’s policy |
| OpenAI OpCo, LLC | United States | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | privacy@openai.com | Text of content submitted for AI analysis and the organized output, photos another AI could not read, page text of links the server could not retrieve (without account information) | Organizing AI analysis, reading photos, checking link content (all accounts) | Performing the entrusted work; up to 30 days (may be longer if required by law) |
| Hetzner Online GmbH | Germany | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | data-protection@hetzner.com | Search terms, content titles, summaries and tags (without account information) | Server hosting for semantic search (run by the Operator) | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion |
| Oracle Corporation and its affiliates | Japan | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | privacy_kr_grp@oracle.com | Content to be analyzed and analysis results, account identifier | Server hosting for analysis processing (run by the Operator) | Performing the entrusted work; until account deletion |
| Content retrieval service providers (names not listed) | United States, Israel, Czech Republic, etc. (some cannot be identified) | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | — | Link URLs only (without account information) | Fetching link content | Performing the entrusted work; according to each vendor’s policy |
| PostHog, Inc. | United States | When an event occurs, network transfer | privacy@posthog.com | Feature usage events and derived information, connecting IP address and approximate location, acquisition channel (iOS) — pseudonymized information tied together by a pseudonymous identifier | Product usability analysis (optional) | Performing the entrusted work; by plan (1 year free, 7 years paid), not shortenable by the Operator, deletion requested on account deletion Basis: the data subject’s consent (Article 28-8(1)(1) of the Personal Information Protection Act; “Personal usage data collection (optional)” on the sign-up screen) · Refusal: leaving the box unchecked or turning it off under [Settings → Privacy → Personal usage data collection] (in the Chrome extension, “Turn off collection” (수집 끄기) on the usage record notice or the switch); all features available even if refused |
| Functional Software, Inc. d/b/a Sentry | United States | From time to time during use of the Service, network transfer | compliance@sentry.io | Error type, call trace, device model, OS and app version, connecting IP address, pseudonymous identifier (with consent to usage record collection) | Reliable operation of the Service and error analysis (required) | Performing the entrusted work; 90 days from the date of collection |
| Apple Inc. | United States | Once at first launch or after login, network transfer | Contact form | The one-time ad attribution token Apple issues on the device (iOS) — sent when the Service’s server and RevenueCat check with Apple | Checking whether the app was installed through an App Store ad (optional) | Performing the entrusted work; according to Apple’s privacy policy Basis: the data subject’s consent (Article 28-8(1)(1) of the Personal Information Protection Act; “Personal usage data collection (optional)” on the sign-up screen) · Refusal: leaving the box unchecked or turning it off in Settings — the Service’s server then only performs checks that are not linked to your account, and checks through RevenueCat stop from the next app launch; tokens already sent cannot be taken back; all features available even if refused |
Every third party with whom the Operator shares user data (the processors and vendors abroad above — including analytics tools, error reporting tools and SDK providers) will provide the same or equal protection of user data as stated in this Privacy Policy. The Operator uses only vendors that commit to that protection in their published terms of service, privacy policies or data processing terms. We do not send personal information to advertising networks, and the Operator, as a sole proprietor, has no parent company or affiliate with access to user data.
The Operator takes the following measures to keep personal information secure.
The Operator is a sole proprietor (small business owner), and the representative is the Chief Privacy Officer (Article 31(2) of the Korean Personal Information Protection Act). For inquiries, complaints, remedies for damage, and exercising your rights, please contact us below.