Privacy Policy

1. Information stored by the service

There is no registration feature. Learning progress, ranks, game records, and sound and display settings are stored only in your browser's local storage and are not sent to the operator's server. You can delete them at any time by clearing the browser's site data.

2. Information processed for inquiries

If you contact us by email, we process your email address, message, and attachments to reply. We retain this information for as long as needed to handle your inquiry and meet legal obligations, then destroy it.

3. Information processed for payments

If you choose to pay, your name, mobile number, email address, order number, product name, and payment amount may be sent for payment processing, authorization, cancellation, refunds, and fraud prevention to payment integration provider PortOne Co., Ltd., and payment processor KG Inicis Co., Ltd.. Card information is processed on the payment provider's screen. The operator's server does not store your name, mobile number, email address, or card information. It stores only a one-way hash of a random payment session token, the order number, product, amount, and payment and refund status. These records are destroyed after the period required by applicable law and for settlement, refunds, and disputes. Payment providers may retain transaction information under their own policies and applicable law.

4. Hosting and external services

• Cloudflare may process technical logs, including IP addresses, browser information, and request times, to provide the service, maintain security, and respond to incidents.
• The game loads Google Fonts, which may send connection information to Google.
• The game page loads Google's AdSense tag to integrate Google AdSense/H5 Games Ads. Even during ad review and preparation, this network request may include technical information such as IP addresses and browser information. When ads are served, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to provide and measure ads and prevent misuse. For details, see Google's information about partner sites.

Advertising privacy choices

In regions where a consent message appears, you can choose through its consent, decline, and manage-options controls. On game pages that serve ads, reopen the message through the ‘Privacy and cookie settings’ link at the bottom to change or withdraw consent. Manage Google ad personalization through My Ad Center. You can manage cookies in your browser's site settings. Rewarded ads may be unavailable if cookies are refused or ad inventory is limited.

Purchases are not currently available. If payments become available, information will be handled as described in the payment information section above. Advertising consent is separate from whether you make a purchase.

Advertising and purchases in the Android family app

Baduk First Step for Google Play is a family app for children and adults. Choose an age group on first launch. The choice stays on the device; we do not ask for a birth date or send the age group to a server. Learning is available without registration or purchases.

The Android app uses Google AdMob banners and the UMP SDK for privacy choices. All ad requests use child-directed treatment, under-age-of-consent treatment, a G content limit and disabled personalization. We do not request Android advertising ID permission. Web ads are blocked inside the app. IP addresses, ad interactions, performance diagnostics and app or device identifiers may be sent to Google for advertising, measurement and fraud prevention. Manage ad privacy choices in the app privacy menu and device settings.

When Google Play purchases are available, the server verifies products, purchase tokens, transaction status and a one-way hash of a random wallet token to grant Pebbles and apply refunds. Purchase tokens support Google Play verification, consumption and recovery. Our server does not receive Google account names, email addresses or card details. Google handles payment information under its own policies. Transaction records needed for purchase and refund support are retained for legally required periods and settlement or dispute handling.

Children should consult a guardian before paid purchases. Purchase approval follows Google Play and Family Link purchase authentication and parental settings. The app reminder does not verify a guardian identity. A wallet recovery file contains a token that can access the purchase wallet; guardians should keep it secure and private. Send deletion requests to the operator email below. If transaction records must be retained by law, we will explain the scope and timing of deletion.

5. Your rights and contact information

Please send requests to access, correct, or delete personal information, or questions about its processing, to the address below.

Operator: The Luxury Road
Email: [email protected]

Optional visit analytics

Optional visit analytics are currently off on the live site. Before offering this feature, we will update the information about data collected, retention periods, and overseas transfers, and obtain separate consent.

The prepared analytics events cover referral channels, campaign categories, page types, learning starts and completions, dojo problem completion, AI game completion, contact-page views, and email-button clicks. They do not include names, email contents, full visited URLs, search terms, or detailed game records. An email-button click alone is not treated as a submitted inquiry.

Optional analytics are configured to use PostHog's United States region. A random session identifier is created only with consent and is replaced at least every 30 minutes. Your consent choice is stored in the browser for up to 180 days. A session identifier expiring does not mean previously sent analytics records are deleted. You can change your consent through ‘Visit analytics settings’ at the bottom of the site. Learning features remain available if you decline or withdraw consent. We also respect the browser's GPC or DNT do-not-track settings. Advertising choices and analytics consent are separate.

6. Changes to this policy

If the service or applicable laws change, we will update this document and display the effective date.