Privacy Policy

VS Note (vsnote.com, the “Site”) values the privacy of its visitors and complies with applicable law, including Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act.

1. What we collect and how

The Site has no sign-up, and we do not ask you to enter personal information such as your name or phone number. The Site does not offer comments or a guestbook.

The following may, however, be collected automatically or through your own actions.

  • Collected automatically: IP address, browser type and version, device, date and time of visit, pages visited and referring site (through web server access logs and cookies)
  • When you contact us: your email address and the content of your message

2. Why we use it

  • To analyze how the Site is used and improve its content
  • To show personalized advertising
  • To reply to your messages

3. How long we keep it

  • Automatically collected information: 26 months from collection
  • Messages: 1 year after we reply

4. Advertising and cookies

The Site uses third-party ad vendors to display ads. This section does not apply until ads are actually shown.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site or other websites
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet
  • You can opt out of personalized advertising at google.com/settings/ads
  • You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info

If you do not want cookies stored, you can refuse them in your browser settings. Some features may not work properly if you do.

  • Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
  • Safari: Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
  • Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions

5. Sharing with third parties

The Site does not provide your personal information to third parties, except where the law requires it, such as a lawful request from an investigative authority.

6. Service providers that process data for us

To run the Site, we entrust data processing to the following companies.

  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. — server hosting (Seoul region, Republic of Korea)
  • Cloudflare, Inc. — content delivery (CDN) and security
  • Google LLC — ad serving (Google AdSense)

Where these companies are located outside Korea, the automatically collected information in section 1 may be transferred abroad to the extent needed to provide their services.

7. Your rights

You may ask at any time to see, correct or delete your personal information, or to stop its processing. Contact us at the address below and we will act without delay.

If you need help with a privacy violation, you can also contact the following Korean bodies.

  • Personal Information Infringement Report Center (privacy.kisa.or.kr / 118 within Korea)
  • Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (kopico.go.kr / 1833-6972)
  • Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, Cyber Investigation (spo.go.kr / 1301 within Korea)
  • Korean National Police Agency, Cyber Investigation (ecrm.police.go.kr / 182 within Korea)

8. Privacy officer

9. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will post the change on this page at least 7 days before it takes effect.

  • Established: September 4, 2026
  • Effective: September 4, 2026
  • English version published: September 10, 2026 (translation only; the substance of the policy did not change)