Privacy Policy

Effective September 22, 2026

Upcoming revision — a fourth revision takes effect on September 29, 2026. It introduces visit statistics for the Website (totals only, IP addresses not stored, servers in Korea) and discloses the purposes, items, legal basis and retention, browser storage, and how to opt out. Read the full revised policy

Haedaljagae (해달자개, the "Operator") sets out this Privacy Policy to protect personal information received through the contact form on the official website of the artist Shin Haedal (https://shinhaedal.com, the "Website") and through the email address published on it, under the Personal Information Protection Act of Korea (PIPA), and to handle related concerns smoothly.

  1. 1Purposes
  2. 2Information processed
  3. 3Legal basis
  4. 4Retention period
  5. 5Destruction
  6. 6Provision to third parties
  7. 7Outsourcing of processing
  8. 8Transfer outside Korea
  9. 9Your rights
  10. 10Security measures
  11. 11Automatic collection and external services
  12. 12Children under 14
  13. 13Privacy officer
  14. 14Effective date and history

1Purposes

The Operator processes personal information only to review and reply to inquiries received through the Website's contact form or the published email address (artwork inquiry, exhibition, collaboration, licensing, other). It is also processed, to the extent necessary, to block automated or repeated submissions (spam) from the same source within a short time. It is not used for exhibition news or promotional emails.

2Information processed

What you send through the contact form is not stored in any database; the receiving server passes it straight to the Operator's mailbox, which is where it is kept.

CategoryItems
Entered by youName or organization, email address, inquiry type, subject, message, selected artwork number (artwork inquiries only)
Generated during submissionDate and time received, page language (Korean/English), version of the notice you agreed to
When you email us directlyYour name and email address, the subject and message, anything contained in attachments, and the time received — whatever you chose to send
For the repeat-submission checkA hash of your IP address made with a secret key held only on the receiving server (it cannot be reversed without that key), a hash of your email, subject and message combined (to catch the same inquiry sent twice), and the time of submission. The original values are not stored, and these records stay only briefly on the receiving server (Section 4)

Please do not include unnecessary personal information such as national ID numbers, bank account numbers or health information in your message.

3Legal basis

The contact form relies on your consent (PIPA Article 15(1)1) and asks for a single consent, to the collection and use of your information.

If you email us directly, inquiries about artworks, exhibitions, collaboration or licensing are processed as steps taken at your request in the course of entering into a contract (Article 15(1)4), and other inquiries on the basis of the Operator's legitimate interest in answering them (Article 15(1)6), in both cases only to the extent the reply requires. Anything not needed to handle the inquiry is deleted once noticed.

Processing that blocks automated or repeated submissions (issuing and checking the submit token, hashing the IP address) starts when you begin filling in the form, before consent is given. It is the minimum needed to keep the inquiry channel usable against spam and bots (Article 15(1)6); no original values are kept and the records are short-lived (Section 4).

4Retention period

5Destruction procedure and method

6Provision to third parties

The Operator does not provide personal information received through inquiries to third parties, except where a law specifically requires it.

7Outsourcing of processing

ProcessorOutsourced workWhere processed
Cafe24 Corp.Running the inquiry receiving server (including keeping its access logs) and sending the notification email to the OperatorRepublic of Korea
NAVER Corp.Providing the Operator's inquiry mailbox (Naver Mail)Republic of Korea

Processors receive only what is needed to handle your inquiry and are not permitted to use it for any other purpose.

8Transfer of personal information outside Korea

Personal information received through the contact form is not transferred outside Korea. Both the receiving server and the mailbox are located in the Republic of Korea.

The Website itself, however, is served by GitHub Pages (United States), so opening the site leaves connection data (such as your IP address) in GitHub's security logs. GitHub manages those logs under its own policy, the Operator does not receive them, and they are separate from the content of your inquiry (Section 11).

9Your rights and how to exercise them

10Security measures

11Automatic collection tools and external services

12Children under 14

The Operator does not collect personal information from children under 14. If you are under 14, please do not use the contact form; ask your legal representative to contact us instead. If we learn that a child's personal information has been submitted without that consent, we destroy it without delay.

13Privacy officer

You may also report or seek advice about privacy infringement from:

14Effective date and history