This is an English translation of the Korean original. If the two differ, the Korean version prevails.

Grive (the "Company") has this Privacy Policy to protect users' personal information under the Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) and to handle related complaints quickly.

1. Personal Information We Process and Why

The Company processes only the personal information needed for the purposes below. If a purpose changes, we ask for your consent again.

Category Items Purpose
Sign-up and login (required) Social account identifier, email address, name or nickname (received from your social account or set by you) Identifying members, login, preventing duplicate sign-ups, responding to inquiries
Sign-up and login (optional) Profile photo (your social account photo or a photo you upload; for the social account photo, optional consent for Kakao and account photo for Google) Showing your profile on My Page and in Account settings. If you do not agree or do not upload one, a default image is used
Sign-up consent (required) Whether you confirmed you are 14 or older; whether and when you agreed to the Terms, Privacy Policy, and marketing; the document versions you agreed to; app language Managing consent history, handling disputes
Learning settings (optional) Learning language, current level, reason for learning, daily goal time Personalizing Lessons
Service use (required) YouTube links you enter, your video list, speak-along voice recordings, text converted from your voice, scoring results, learning records (watch time, practiced sentences, quiz answers and results, review records, consecutive learning days), saved expressions and words, Heart and ad reward records (including videos opened by watching an ad), video playback error reports, device time zone Providing Lessons, scoring, review, learning records, calculating free usage limits
Paid subscription (required) Subscription product, purchase/renewal/cancellation dates and times, store transaction ID, subscription status Providing subscriptions, checking subscription status, handling refunds
Account deletion (required) Date and time of the deletion request and its withdrawal, reason for leaving Processing and withdrawing deletion requests, improving the Service
Account deletion (optional) Comments you type (required if you choose "Other" as the reason) Improving the Service
Inquiries (optional) Email address, inquiry content, app version, device type (iOS or Android) Responding to inquiries, checking errors
App push Push token, notification settings Sending video processing results and learning reminders; sending advertising notifications if you agree to marketing
Collected automatically Device model, OS version, app version, device language, IP address, app usage records (events such as screen views and button taps), screen usage records (session replay: recordings of the app screen and taps for some users), error and crash records, advertising identifiers (IDFA, Android advertising ID) Improving the Service, analyzing errors, usage statistics, serving ads and measuring ad performance, preventing abuse

2. Retention Period and Destruction

  1. The Company keeps personal information until you delete your account. When you request account deletion, we keep it for 30 days from the request date and then delete it. During this period, we keep it only so you can withdraw the request, and we do not use it for any other purpose. If you sign in again within 30 days, the deletion request is withdrawn. Even after 30 days, it may be withdrawn if you sign in again before we complete the deletion.
  2. The following information is kept separately for the period set by law and then deleted.
Item Legal basis Period
Records of contracts or withdrawal of subscription Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (전자상거래법) 5 years
Records of payment and supply of goods Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (전자상거래법) 5 years
Records of consumer complaints or dispute handling Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (전자상거래법) 3 years
Service access records (login records, IP address) Protection of Communications Secrets Act (통신비밀보호법) 3 months
  1. If you agreed to receive marketing information, we notify you every 2 years from the date you agreed that your consent is still in effect.
  2. The reason for leaving (the option you chose) and the request and withdrawal dates are kept after the account is deleted, to improve the Service and handle disputes. These records do not include your name, email address, or other information that identifies you. Comments you type are deleted when the account is deleted.