Privacy Policy

How we collect and use the personal information you provide when you sign up.

1. Personal information we collect

The only required item collected at sign-up is your **email address**. We do not collect your name, phone number, date of birth, or similar details.
As you use the service, the following usage records are saved to your account: saved books, reading position and progress, highlights, saved sentences, notes, and bookmarks.
Passwords are stored one-way encrypted by our authentication provider (Google Firebase Authentication); Hope Library cannot view your password.

2. Purpose of collection and use

To identify members, keep you signed in, and send email verification and password-reset notices.
To provide the My Library feature — resuming your reading position, and storing highlights and notes.
We do not use your information for any purpose beyond the above, and never for advertising or marketing.

3. Retention period

We retain your information until you close your account. Once you withdraw, your account and usage records (library, highlights, notes) are deleted without delay.
Where the law requires records to be kept, we retain them for the legally required period (e.g., under the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce).

4. Third-party processing

To operate the service, we entrust personal data processing to Google LLC's Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage).
The databases and storage holding member information and usage records are located in the Seoul region (asia-northeast3). However, account authentication data may be processed on Google's global infrastructure, which constitutes an overseas transfer under Korea's Personal Information Protection Act.

5. Disclosure to third parties

We do not disclose members' personal information to third parties, except where required by law and following the procedures the law prescribes.

6. Your rights and how to exercise them

You may request to view, correct, delete, or suspend processing of your personal information at any time.
You can delete highlights and notes yourself from My Library. To delete your account entirely, please contact us using the details below.

7. Destruction

Personal information is destroyed by an irrecoverable method once its retention period has passed or its processing purpose has been achieved.

8. Security measures

Access rules restrict each member's library, highlights, and notes so that only that member can read or write them.
Data in transit is encrypted with HTTPS, and administrator privileges are granted only to designated accounts.

9. Privacy inquiries

Hope Library Foundation

Address · 6F, 193 Gangseo-ro, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Corporation registration no. · 260121-0027971

Phone · 070-4517-9006

Email · dreamer@hopeslibrary.org

Effective date · August 29, 2026

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1. Personal information we collect

The only required item collected at sign-up is your **email address**. We do not collect your name, phone number, date of birth, or similar details.

As you use the service, the following usage records are saved to your account: saved books, reading position and progress, highlights, saved sentences, notes, and bookmarks.

Passwords are stored one-way encrypted by our authentication provider (Google Firebase Authentication); Hope Library cannot view your password.

2. Purpose of collection and use

To identify members, keep you signed in, and send email verification and password-reset notices.

To provide the My Library feature — resuming your reading position, and storing highlights and notes.

We do not use your information for any purpose beyond the above, and never for advertising or marketing.

3. Retention period

We retain your information until you close your account. Once you withdraw, your account and usage records (library, highlights, notes) are deleted without delay.

Where the law requires records to be kept, we retain them for the legally required period (e.g., under the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce).

4. Third-party processing

To operate the service, we entrust personal data processing to Google LLC's Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage).

The databases and storage holding member information and usage records are located in the Seoul region (asia-northeast3). However, account authentication data may be processed on Google's global infrastructure, which constitutes an overseas transfer under Korea's Personal Information Protection Act.