Location service terms

Effective date 2026-10-10

This document is a translation provided for convenience. If there is any discrepancy between this translation and the Korean original, the Korean original prevails.

Article 1 (Purpose)

These Terms set out the rights and obligations of Daldagury Co., Ltd. (the "Company") and Personal Location Information Subjects (the "Members") that are necessary for using the location-based services of Dear Place provided by the Company.

Article 2 (Service Content)

The Company uses the location of Members' devices to provide the following:

1. Finding Notes near where you currently are, and a list sorted by distance (including the distances shown in the lists of your own Notes and followed Notes)

2. Determining whether you are within the distance at which other people's Notes and replies can be read. The readable distance is set between 100m and 1km through operational settings and is shown in the app.

3. Determining whether you are at the spot when following a Note you have read, hiding the post, blocking its author, reporting it, or translating it

4. Confirming that you stay at the spot while writing a Note, and setting the spot where the Note will be left

5. Determining the region (administrative district) to which the spot of a Note that has been left belongs, and grouping Note lists by region

6. Showing your current spot and the name of the neighborhood you are in on the map

Article 3 (Fees)

The location-based services are free of charge. Data charges are subject to the rate plan of the carrier the Member subscribes to.

Article 4 (Method of Collecting Personal Location Information)

Only if the Member has granted location permission, the Company receives the device's location through its location services (GPS, Wi-Fi, cell towers) while the app is in use (while the app is on screen). The Company does not receive the location once the app leaves the screen, and does not use background location.

Article 5 (Purpose of Use and Retention Period of Personal Location Information)

1. Locations received for finding nearby Notes, reading, and checks for following, hiding, blocking, reporting, and translating are used only for the location check and are not stored.

2. Locations received while a Note is being written are kept on the server only while confirming that the Member is at the spot. They are deleted immediately once the Note is left; if the Member stops writing without leaving the Note, they are deleted within 3 minutes after location updates stop, and in any case no later than 30 minutes after writing began.

3. When a Member leaves a Note, its spot is stored as part of the Note's information. It is shown as the Note's location to other people who come near that spot, but who wrote it is not shown. The Company retains the writing location together with the author's Member ID until the Note is erased or the Member deletes their account, in order to let Members view their own Notes, enforce writing limits, and handle reviews and reports. Upon account deletion, the link to the author is deleted immediately. The writing location of a submitted post is retained with the review records for 1 year and is deleted immediately upon account deletion.

4. The region to which the spot of a Note belongs is determined within the Company's servers using public administrative boundary data stored on the Company's servers (Statistics Korea's SGIS for Korea; Overture Maps Foundation and OpenStreetMap for other countries). No location is sent outside the Company for this purpose.

5. Neighborhood names are determined on the device through the location services of the device's operating system (Apple on iOS, Google on Android). The spots (to a precision of about 10m) and neighborhood names of Notes left on this device are stored on the device in order to show the Member's own Notes, and the neighborhood names are also stored with the relevant Note's information on the server for the list of the Member's own Notes and for reply notifications. They are deleted from the device and the server upon account deletion.

6. Locations received while browsing without signing in are not linked to any Member, and the records described in Paragraph 7 are not created either.

7. In accordance with Article 16(2) of the Location Information Act, the Company automatically records the records confirming the use and provision of location information (Member ID, date and time of use, and purpose of use; coordinates are not included) in its location information system, retains them for 6 months, and then destroys them. If the records cannot be created, the location is not used for that request.

8. Database backups are kept on the server for 7 days and in backup storage for 30 days before being deleted, so destroyed information may remain in backups for up to 30 days.

Article 6 (Provision of Personal Location Information to Third Parties)

The Company does not provide Members' personal location information to others. If it begins to do so in the future, it will notify Members of the recipient and the purpose of provision in advance and obtain their consent, and will notify the Member immediately each time the information is provided. The text of reply notifications (including the name of the neighborhood where the original Note was left, but not coordinates) passes through the provider that delivers notifications to Members' devices, and this is governed by the outsourcing of processing and overseas transfer provisions of the Privacy Policy.

Article 7 (Rights of Personal Location Information Subjects)

1. Members may withdraw all or part of their consent to the location-based services at any time. Because the location-based services are a core feature of Dear Place, Members withdraw all of their consent by deleting their account. Partial withdrawal can be requested from the Location Information Management Officer, and the Company does not provide the features covered by the withdrawn part. Upon withdrawal, the Company destroys the personal location information and the records confirming the use and provision of location information covered by the withdrawal without delay. Notes the Member has left are erased or kept without an author according to the choice made when deleting the account.

2. Members may temporarily stop location collection at any time by turning off location permission in their device settings.

3. Members may request the Company to let them view, or to notify them of, their own personal location information and the records confirming the use and provision of their location information, and may request correction of any errors. The records confirming the use and provision of location information can be viewed directly in the app under My page > App settings > Location use records. Other requests can be made to the Location Information Management Officer in Article 9 by email or phone; they will be processed within 10 days and the Member will be notified of the result. The Company does not refuse such requests without a justifiable reason.

4. Because the Company does not provide personal location information to third parties, there are no reasons for or details of any such provision. If the Company begins to provide it, Members may also request notification of the reasons for and details of the provision.

Article 8 (Children Under 18)

Persons under 18 years of age cannot sign up, and the Company also confirms that users are 18 or older when they browse without signing in. Accordingly, there is no procedure for obtaining consent from a legal representative or a person obligated to provide protection.

Article 9 (Location Information Management Officer)

The Company designates a Location Information Management Officer to protect personal location information.

- Name: Dukwon Kim

- Phone: 010-4934-0626

- Email: c31sky@daldagury.com

Article 10 (Compensation for Damages)

If a Member suffers damage because the Company has violated the Act on the Protection, Use, etc. of Location Information, the Member may claim compensation for damages. The Company is liable unless it proves that there was no intent or negligence on its part.

Article 11 (Dispute Mediation)

If no agreement can be reached with the Company, Members may apply to the Korea Media and Communications Commission for adjudication or to the Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee for mediation (Article 28 of the Location Information Act).

Article 12 (Suspension or Discontinuation of Business)

If the Company intends to suspend or discontinue all or part of its location-based service business, it will notify Members through the app and its website at least 30 days in advance. Upon discontinuation, the Company immediately destroys the personal location information and the records confirming the use and provision of location information that it holds; during a suspension, it does not receive location for the duration of the suspension.

Article 13 (Changes to These Terms)

If the Company changes these Terms, it will give notice in the app and on its website starting 7 days before the effective date (30 days before for changes unfavorable to Members). If the purpose or scope of use of personal location information changes, the Company does not use location until it has obtained the Member's consent again to the changed Terms.

Article 14 (Business Information)

- Company name: Daldagury Co., Ltd.

- Representative: Dukwon Kim

- Address: 2F (Seogyo-dong, Prime Building), 17-13 World Cup-ro 8-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul

- Phone: 010-4934-0626

- Email: c31sky@daldagury.com

- Location-based service business report number: 1714 (reported to the Korea Media and Communications Commission on October 8, 2026)

Addendum

These Terms take effect on October 10, 2026.