Privacy
The short version: I collect only what I need to build your trip, use it only for that, and clear it on a schedule. Nothing is sold, and nothing is used for marketing.
Your name and email, and the answers you give in the questionnaire: your dates, how you travel, and anything you tell me about allergies, faith or getting around, so I can build and send your itinerary and answer you if you write. Those last three are sensitive under Korean law, so the form asks before it sends them, and they're used only to build your trip.
The site also counts visits, anonymously and without cookies: which page, how far into the questionnaire, and the kind of site that sent you (a search engine, Instagram), one number a day. Nothing in those counts tells one visitor from another, and none of it is tied to your answers; to cap how many counts one network address can send, a scrambled stand-in for it (not the address) is kept for a day. To do that, your browser keeps one word for the kind of site that sent you, for 14 days, and the questionnaire keeps your answers in your browser as you go, so you can come back to them, until you send them or start over.
A few services do one job each. Cloudflare stores your answers and the book. Resend delivers my emails to you. PayPal takes the payment, and I never see your card details. Google keeps my own mailbox, where your order notes reach me. I draft the book with an AI assistant (Anthropic's Claude), which reads your answers for that and nothing else; I read and approve every page myself. All five are based outside Korea, so your answers are stored and processed abroad; each one is listed below.
The guide comes as a pass I send to your email, and that address is how it can be put back on a new phone. It's kept like any pass on the guide; the app's Privacy says how.
The book itself is deleted 90 days after I send it. Your answers are cleared two years after the order, and your name and email after five, the time Korean law asks me to keep sales records. If you never pay, the order and everything in it is deleted 90 days after you fill in the form. To stop floods of fake orders, the form's limit keeps the network address a request came from for about a day.
Each gets only the part it needs to build and send your book, over an encrypted connection. Who they are, how to reach them, and what each one gets:
- Cloudflare, Inc., in the United States (dpo@cloudflare.com): your name, email, answers and network address from when you send the form, and the book from when I finish it, kept for the periods above.
- Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.), in the United States (privacy@resend.com): your name and email, and each email I send you, the book included, when it goes out, and the notes about your order it carries to my own mailbox; its log keeps them for 30 days. Resend tells me when an email bounces or is marked as spam; I keep the kind and the address's domain (the part after the @) for 90 days.
- PayPal Pte. Ltd., in Singapore (skrprivacy@paypal.com): your payment, with the name and email you pay under, when you pay. PayPal keeps payment records for the life of the account and 10 years after, or as local law sets.
- Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., in Singapore (googlekrsupport@google.com), on Google's servers in several countries: my mailbox. A note with your name, email, dates, places and price lands there when you order, when you pay and when your book is ready, as does anything you write to me; what you told me about allergies, faith or getting around stays out of it. Those emails stay up to five years, the time Korean law asks me to keep sales records, and then I delete them.
- Anthropic PBC, in the United States (privacy@anthropic.com): your name, email and answers, when I draft the book; Anthropic keeps them for 30 days at most.
You can refuse: email me and I'll stop, and delete your answers and the book. Each of these is needed to build and send the book, so refusing means I can't make one for you.
You can ask what I hold, correct it, delete it, or tell me to stop. Email jay@lifeguide.world and I'll do it; I'm the person responsible for it (Jay Jeong, 정재석). If I get it wrong, Korea's Personal Information Infringement Report Center (privacy.kisa.or.kr, 118) takes complaints; in the EU or the UK, you can also go to your own data protection authority.
Last updated 2026-10-08.