Privacy Policy
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Ppunwife (뻔와이프, 요리하는 여자; “the Site”) handles users' personal information with care and processes only the minimum that is necessary.
1. Personal information we collect
The Site has no features where users enter personal information, such as sign-up, login, comments or surveys, and it does not collect names, contact details, email addresses or the like.
2. How searches are handled
Searching by title or ingredient and choosing a theme work only inside your browser; what you type is not sent to or stored on a server. However, if you use “semantic search”, which lets you ask in a sentence, the sentence you type is passed through the Site's server to an external service (Google Gemini API) that converts the meaning of the sentence into numbers. The sentence is used only to find search results, and the Site does not store it in a form that can identify you. To prevent abuse, only the number of uses per IP address is counted temporarily.
Questions you type into the conversational finder “PPUN AI” (beta) are passed through the Site's server to the Google Gemini API in order to understand the question and compose an answer from Ppunwife's recipe information (the last few lines of the conversation and information about candidate recipes may be sent with it and, on a recipe page, the content of the recipe you are viewing). When AI cannot be used, and for the prepared question buttons, the answer comes from rules inside your browser. Questions and answers may be cached briefly (for up to one day) so that the same question can be answered again, but not in a form that can identify you. To prevent excessive use, the number of uses is counted temporarily (for up to two days) per random value created for each browser tab (a session ID, which disappears when the tab is closed) and per value derived irreversibly from the IP address (a hash; the original IP address is not stored). If the feature is used too much in a short time, AI answers are limited for a while and basic search answers instead. The conversation stays only in your browser (session storage) and is erased when you close the window. Please do not write personal information such as names or contact details in your questions.
3. Cookies and analytics
The Site uses Google Analytics (Google LLC) to compile visit statistics and improve its content. Through cookies and similar means, information such as the pages visited, time spent, device and browser type and approximate region is collected, without information that directly identifies an individual such as a name or contact details. You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on to prevent collection. The Site does not use cookies for advertising. In addition, to improve its features, the Site tallies the number of uses of search, theme selection, PPUN AI conversations, recipe and magazine views, and sharing, only as daily totals. These totals do not include question text, IP addresses, cookies or any other information that can identify a user. To watch for abnormal bulk viewing (automated collection), recipe views are counted per temporary session ID and IP hash described above over 10 minutes, in server memory only; these values are not stored, and only the number of cases over the threshold is kept as a daily total. Fonts and other page components are served by the Site itself.
4. Access logs
The hosting and network services that deliver the Site may automatically generate access logs (IP address, access time and so on) for security and stable operation. The operator does not use these logs to identify users or for any other purpose.
To decide whether to suggest the pages in another language (English, Japanese), only the country you are connecting from (a two-letter country code, e.g. KR, US, JP) may be checked. This value is not stored on the server and is remembered in your browser for 7 days. The language you choose (한국어, English, 日本語) is also stored only in your browser.
5. External sites
The Site contains links to external sites such as Naver Blog, YouTube and Naver Influencer. The handling of personal information on external sites follows the policies of those sites.
6. Your rights
If you send a partnership or other inquiry by email, its content is used only to reply to you, and it is deleted without delay at your request.
7. Changes to this policy
When new features, such as conversational search, are added and the information that is processed changes, this policy is revised and announced before the change takes effect.
8. Contact
Privacy inquiries: ppunwife@naver.com