Privacy Policy
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Short version: we use your selfie and birth year once, to pick your Korean name, and we don't keep them. We don't use cookies, we don't track you, we don't sell or share your data, and we never try to tell your age, race, ethnicity, health or personality from your face.
Who we are
(“we”) runs this site. Contact: .
What we use, why, and for how long
| Data | What we do with it | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Your selfie | Your phone crops it to a small square. It is sent to our AI provider (), which returns three rough scores for the overall feel of the photo (bright or calm, crisp or soft, younger or older looking). We use those scores to pick how your name should sound. We do not identify you, compare faces, or build a face template. | Not stored by us. A one-way fingerprint of the image and the three scores stay in server memory for up to 24 hours, so the same photo gives the same name, then disappear. Never written to disk. Our AI provider does not use it to train its models and keeps it for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring, then deletes it (see below). |
| Birth year | Picks names from your generation and checks you are old enough to use the site. | Not stored. Our anonymous statistics keep only the decade (e.g. “1990s”). |
| Name style (feminine / masculine / neutral) | Picks which list of names to use. It is your choice of name, not a question about your gender. | Only in anonymous statistics. |
| The name you type in “My name in Korean” | Turned into Hangul. Our own word lists and spelling rules handle most names; a name they don't cover may be looked up, word by word, in the National Institute of Korean Language's loanword examples, or sent to our AI provider () to be spelled. | Not stored by us. Each word's spelling stays in server memory so the same name reads the same way, until the server restarts. |
| A problem report you send | What you write in “Something wrong?”, the result shown (unless you untick the box) and your email if you give one. Sent to us by email through our email provider (Resend), and used only to fix the problem and, if you asked, to reply. | Not stored on the site. The email is deleted once the problem is handled. |
| Anonymous statistics | Which names come up and which buttons people use (e.g. “share to Instagram”), so we can keep results varied. Each record holds the name style, birth decade, the name given, the three photo scores, the site language, the kind of site you came from (e.g. a search engine or Instagram, never the page address), roughly how long the page was open, and the hour. For “My name in Korean”: only the language picked, the number of words and how each was spelled (word list, rules or AI), never the name itself. | Up to 180 days. No cookie, ID, IP address or device details, so a record can't be linked to you. |
| Server logs | Our hosting provider () may briefly see your IP address to deliver the page and block abuse. |
Legal basis (EU/UK visitors)
Photo processing: your consent, given with the checkbox before you start; you can stop at any time by not submitting. Birthday and name style: needed to provide the result you ask for. Anonymous statistics and security logs: our legitimate interest in running a fair, working service.
Who else handles it
Only service providers working for us: the AI provider that reads the photo, our hosting provider, the database provider it connects us to for anonymous statistics (Upstash) and the email provider that delivers problem reports you choose to send (Resend). They may not use your data for their own purposes or to train models. Some are outside your country; where required we use standard contractual clauses.
Our AI provider is . Under its API data policy, photos sent to it are not used to train its models; like all API requests they may be kept for up to 30 days to detect abuse and are then deleted, unless the law requires longer. Images are also automatically screened for illegal content, as required of AI providers.
If you support us
The support button opens PayPal in a new tab. PayPal handles the payment under its own privacy policy and shares with us what it shares with any payee (usually your name, email address and the amount). We use that only to keep records the law requires and to say thank you.
Cookies and storage
We set no cookies and use no advertising tools. To count visits we use Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and no identifiers that follow you across sites; it records aggregate data such as the page, referring site, country and device type. To see where pages are confusing we also use Microsoft Clarity, set up without cookies or browser storage: it records taps, scrolls and how the page changes during a single page view, with your typed name, birth year, selfie, name cards and problem reports hidden before anything is sent. Microsoft (USA) processes this data and keeps it for up to 13 months. Fonts are served from our own site. Your browser keeps the photo only while the page is open.
Children
Anyone can get a Korean name. If your birth year shows you are under , the site does not ask for a selfie at all: you pick a few answers instead (like "bright or calm" and a favorite symbol), and we use only those, your birth year and name style, which can't identify you. Nothing is stored.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example the EU/UK GDPR, California's CCPA/CPRA, or Korea's PIPA), you can ask to access, correct or delete your data, object to or restrict its use, or withdraw consent. Because we don't keep your photo or birth year or any ID, we usually hold nothing we could link to you, but you can always ask: . You can also complain to your data protection authority. We do not sell or share personal information, and we don't use it for targeted advertising or automated decisions with legal effects.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date above.