Inko Privacy Policy

Inko collects and processes only the information needed to provide, protect, and improve the service.

Data we process

• Account and social login identifiers from Google, Apple, or Facebook.
• Profile data such as name, handle, nationality, region, visa type, language, bio, age-related information, and profile image.
• User-generated content such as posts, comments, chat messages, uploaded images, uploaded audio, reports, blocks, likes, bookmarks, and follows.
• Optional location data when nearby discovery, city community, or map cluster features are enabled.
• Device, push token, server log, crash, security, payment, and subscription data needed for operation and fraud prevention.

Location privacy

Location sharing is optional and opt-in. Users can deny location permission, stop sharing location, or turn off nearby discovery features. If location sharing is not active, the app may still show general city-level community information, but nearby user lists are limited.

When a user opts in, Inko may process precise latitude and longitude internally for distance calculation, abuse prevention, and safety filtering. Precise latitude and longitude are not displayed to other users and are not returned in map, city, nearby, profile, chat discovery, Hour, or Bingo API responses.

Other users see only approximate location signals such as city, district, nearby, within-city, or aggregated map clusters. Map cluster coordinates are city centers or rounded/geohash display coordinates, not a user's raw GPS coordinate. Single-user clusters are hidden to reduce location inference risk.

Hour captures do not store raw latitude or longitude. Hour may use a user's existing opt-in shared location only for internal nearby filtering, and Hour grid responses do not display a user's precise capture location.

Bingo verification does not store, display, or return location in v1.0. Inko will not introduce Bingo location verification unless a separate opt-in product design, approximate display policy, retention period, and report/block safety filtering are reviewed and approved.

Location may be used for nearby users, city online counts, map clusters, profile discovery context, and starting chat connections from discovery. Blocked, hidden, reported, suspended, or otherwise restricted users are filtered from discovery where applicable.

Active shared location expires automatically and is no longer used for active discovery after its expiration time. Users can refresh their location by choosing to share again, or stop sharing to remove themselves from active nearby discovery.

Deletion and retention

Users can delete their account in the app or at /account-deletion. After deletion, profile, location, device tokens, social links, user content, and uploaded media are deleted, anonymized, or removed from public access. Limited records may be retained when legally required or needed for security, billing, abuse prevention, or report handling.

Korean summary

인코는 서비스 제공과 안전 운영에 필요한 계정, 프로필, 사용자 콘텐츠, 선택적 위치, 기기/push token, 로그, 진단, 결제/구독 정보를 처리합니다. 위치 공유는 명시적 선택 사항이며, 사용자는 위치 권한을 거부하거나 위치 공유를 끌 수 있습니다. 정확한 위도/경도는 거리 계산, 안전 필터링, abuse 방지를 위한 서버 내부 처리에만 사용하고 다른 사용자에게 표시하거나 지도/주변/도시/프로필/채팅 연결/Hour/Bingo API 응답으로 반환하지 않습니다. Hour 인증은 raw 위치를 저장하지 않으며, Bingo 인증은 v1.0에서 위치를 저장·표시·반환하지 않습니다. Bingo 위치 인증은 별도 opt-in, 대략 위치 표시, 보존 기간, 신고/차단 안전 필터 정책이 승인되기 전까지 도입하지 않습니다. 다른 사용자에게는 도시, 구/지역, 근처, 도시 내, 집계 클러스터 수준의 대략적 위치만 표시됩니다. 활성 위치는 만료 시간이 지나면 active discovery에 사용되지 않으며, 차단/숨김/신고/정지 등 제한 대상은 가능한 discovery 노출에서 제외됩니다. 사용자는 앱 또는 웹 계정 삭제 페이지에서 탈퇴할 수 있으며, 탈퇴 후 공개 노출 데이터는 삭제, 비식별화 또는 접근 차단됩니다.