네코챗 | Privacy Policy

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1. Introduction

Welcome to nekochat. The Service is provided and operated by the service operator (the "Operator"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you use our website and services (collectively, the "Service"). This Privacy Policy is informed by global privacy standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and applicable data protection laws.

2. Information We Collect

Account Information

We collect your email address and optional profile details when you create an account. When you use the incentive shop, we may also collect recipient name, recipient phone number, and delivery message details required to issue and send a coupon. If you complete identity or adult verification, we collect the information required for that verification, including the linking identifier (CI). We use secure authentication to protect access. This data is processed to fulfill our contract with you and maintain account, identity verification, and fulfillment functionality.

Chat Data

We store your AI chat interactions (messages, timestamps, character context) to enable seamless conversation continuity. You may request deletion at any time. This data is processed based on our legitimate interest in providing personalized services.

Usage Information

We track how you use nekochat (e.g., visited pages, time spent, features accessed) to improve functionality and user experience. This data is collected under our legitimate interest in service improvement.

3. Use of Your Information

Operate and maintain the Service
Personalize your character chat experience
Process incentive-shop exchange orders and deliver coupons
Detect, prevent, and address fraud or abuse
Communicate important updates or changes
Your prompts, conversations, and other input content may be transmitted to and processed by third-party model providers, including providers located outside your country, to generate AI responses and provide related features. Such processing may be subject to each provider's terms and privacy policy. Please avoid including personal data or sensitive information.
We do not use your content to train our own models. However, some third-party model providers or related providers used to generate AI responses may process your prompts and conversations for service improvement, quality enhancement, or model training purposes in accordance with their policies. Account identifiers are managed separately from chat data and are not transmitted to AI providers. Only chat data necessary to generate responses, such as character prompts and conversation content, may be transmitted to AI providers, so you should avoid including personal data or sensitive information in chats. If we later use your content for our own model training, we will provide prior notice and obtain consent, apply de-identification/pseudonymization, and offer an opt-out.
Fulfill legal obligations

5. Content Ownership & Use

You retain ownership of your characters and messages. By using nekochat, you grant the Operator and its service providers (including third-party AI/infrastructure) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to operate, maintain, and enhance the Service. We will not publicly share your content without your explicit consent. We do not use your content to train our own models. However, some third-party model providers or related providers used to generate AI responses may process your prompts and conversations for service improvement, quality enhancement, or model training purposes in accordance with their policies. Account identifiers are managed separately from chat data and are not transmitted to AI providers. Only chat data necessary to generate responses, such as character prompts and conversation content, may be transmitted to AI providers.

6. Third-Party Services

nekochat uses select third-party services to operate core features. These services may process limited data to provide specific functionality:

Google – used solely for user authentication. We do not share personal data with Google beyond what is necessary for sign-in.
Resend – used to send account-related emails such as verification or notifications. Email addresses are processed only for message delivery.
AI model providers and routing intermediaries – used to process your character prompts and chat messages to generate AI responses. Through routing intermediaries such as OpenRouter, your content may be routed to multiple model providers, including providers located outside your country, and the specific providers may change from time to time as part of service operations. Account identifiers are managed separately from chat data and are not transmitted to AI providers. Only chat data necessary to generate responses, such as character prompts and conversation content, may be transmitted to AI providers, so users are advised not to include personal data or sensitive information in chats. Detailed handling follows the 'Use of Your Information' and 'Content Ownership & Use' sections.
Toss Payments – used to securely process payments. When you make a purchase, your order details, payment amount, and basic user identifier may be shared with Toss Payments to complete the transaction.
Giftishow Biz (KT Alpha Co., Ltd.) – used to fulfill incentive-shop coupon delivery. Recipient name, recipient phone number, delivery message, and order identifiers may be shared only to the extent necessary to issue and send MMS-based coupons.

No personal data is shared with third-party services beyond what is required to provide the nekochat experience.

8. Your Rights

Access and review your personal data
Request correction or deletion
Withdraw consent where applicable
Request data export in a portable format
File a complaint with a data protection authority if you believe your rights have been violated

We process your personal data based on your consent, contractual necessity, legal obligations, or our legitimate interests, where applicable. You may exercise these rights by emailing zombcat@nekochat.xyz, and we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as needed for the purposes in this policy. When you delete your account, user data we kept to provide the service is deleted. Copies left in backups expire on a periodic schedule. The following may still be kept after deletion and is then destroyed: - Payment and transaction records, under the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce: 5 years for records of payment, supply of goods, contracts, and withdrawal of an offer, and 3 years for records of consumer complaints or dispute handling - The linking identifier (CI) from identity or adult verification, for as long as needed to prevent abuse and repeat signups Statistics already counted, and records that cannot identify you, may remain.

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