Privacy Policy

PatchSo 운영자 (the "Operator") publishes this Privacy Policy in accordance with Article 30 of the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea, so that visitors can see how their information is handled and raise concerns quickly. It applies to every page of PatchSo and takes effect on 2026-08-20.

This site has no membership, login, comment or bulletin board features. As a result, it collects no personal information directly from visitors, with a single exception: when you choose to send us a message. That fact is the premise of every clause below.

The Korean version of this policy is the authoritative text. This English version is provided for convenience. If the two versions differ in meaning, the Korean version prevails.

This site handles three categories of information and no others. We never collect unique identifiers such as your name, phone number, address or resident registration number, nor sensitive information such as beliefs or health data, nor payment details.

Regarding category 2, we state the current position plainly. This site does not currently serve advertising, and visit measurement is limited to the cookie-free measurement feature provided by our hosting provider. Google AdSense and Google Analytics are not yet in use. When either is introduced, we will update this clause and the table in Article 4 and record the change in the addendum.

We use the information above only for the purposes below. If a purpose changes, we amend this policy and give notice before acting on it.

• To operate the site and to identify and fix errors — category 1 information
• To understand which pages are used and how much, so that we can improve them — category 2 information
• To serve advertising and measure its performance — category 2 advertising information, once advertising begins
• To receive and answer enquiries, correction requests, copyright takedown requests and requests to exercise data subject rights — category 3 information

We do not use personal information for any purpose not listed above. In particular we do not send marketing messages, and we do not ask for consent to send them.

Where a statute imposes a separate retention obligation, we keep the information for that period and then destroy it, and we do not use it for any purpose other than that retention.

The Operator does not sell your personal information or provide it to third parties. We do, however, rely on the following providers to run the site, and information is processed or transferred overseas in the course of that.

If you do not wish your information to be transferred overseas, you may block cookies in your browser (Article 6) or stop using the site. Access logs, however, are a technical consequence of requesting a web page and cannot be avoided while you are using the site.

The three statements below are the disclosures that Google requires publishers to include in their privacy policy. They are reproduced here word for word.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

You can opt out of personalized advertising through either of the following.

• Opt out of personalized ads in Google Ads Settings
• Opt out of third-party vendor ads at aboutads.info

This site uses no advertising network other than Google AdSense. If we add another advertising network, we will list it here together with that provider opt-out method. Note also that this site does not currently serve advertising; the disclosures above apply from the moment ad serving begins.

A cookie is a small record stored in your browser. You may refuse to store cookies, or delete cookies already stored, from your browser settings.

• Chrome — Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies
• Safari — Settings › Privacy › Cookies and website data
• Edge — Settings › Cookies and site permissions › Manage cookies and site data

If you block cookies, some conveniences will stop working — your theme (light or dark) and language choice will not persist to your next visit, for example. Reading the content of the site is unaffected.

For advertising and analytics, the Operator does not load the relevant scripts before obtaining your consent. We keep that order rather than loading first and asking afterwards, and you may revisit your choice at any time. Your consent state is stored only in your browser and never on the Operator server.

You may at any time request access to, correction of, deletion of, or suspension of processing of your personal information. For a child under the age of 14, a legal representative may exercise these rights on the child behalf.

Please send your request through our contact channel or to contact@patchso.com. We will act on it and tell you the outcome within 10 days of receipt. If we need further material in order to verify the request, that period runs from the day we receive it.

• Send a rights request through our contact page

We may decline a request where a statute requires the processing or imposes a retention obligation, or where Article 35(4), Article 36(1) or Article 37(2) of the Personal Information Protection Act otherwise applies. In that case we will tell you the reason.

This site covers games, so we can expect younger visitors. We therefore set out the actual position here rather than leaving this clause empty.

The Operator does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 14. Because there is no sign-up feature, there is no age verification step — which also means we have no way to prevent a child from sending an email address through the contact channel in the first place. We state that limitation rather than conceal it.

If you are a legal representative and wish a child information deleted, please write to contact@patchso.com. Once we confirm that the information belongs to a child, we delete it without delay and confirm that we have done so.

Once advertising begins, we will apply the settings offered by the advertising provider so that personalized advertising is not directed at children.

Personal information is destroyed without delay once its retention period has passed or its purpose has been achieved.

Enquiry emails and their contents are deleted by the Operator personally. Once a quarter we review messages whose reply was completed more than a year earlier and destroy them. Information held in electronic files is permanently erased by a method that makes recovery impossible. This site never produces printed records containing personal information, so no document destruction procedure is required.

These are the measures the Operator actually takes.

• The most reliable measure is not to hold the data at all. This site does not store visitors' personal information in its own database; that database contains only site content such as the game update index.
• All traffic between visitors and the site is encrypted with HTTPS.
• The administration screens are access-controlled and access is logged.
• Access to personal information is limited to the Operator alone. If further people ever handle it, this policy will be amended first.

The Operator designates the following Personal Information Protection Officer, who has overall responsibility for personal information processing and handles complaints and remedies from visitors.

Please send any question, complaint or request for remedy relating to personal information protection to the address above or through our contact page, and we will respond without delay.

• Send a privacy question through our contact page

If you need to report or discuss an infringement of your personal information rights, you may contact the following bodies. They are independent of the Operator.

If your rights or interests are infringed by a disposition or omission of the Operator in relation to a request under Article 35 (access), Article 36 (correction or deletion) or Article 37 (suspension of processing) of the Personal Information Protection Act, you may request an administrative appeal as provided by the Administrative Appeals Act.

This Privacy Policy takes effect on 2026-08-20.

This is the first version of the policy. There are no previous versions.

Where content is added, removed or amended, we will post notice of the change and the reason for it on this page from seven days before it takes effect. Where the change materially affects your rights — for example a new processor, or a new category of information processed — we will give notice 30 days in advance.