This policy explains what information the K-Pop Today application (the "App") processes, why, and your rights under applicable laws including the EU/UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec's Law 25, the Korean Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Japan's APPI, Singapore PDPA, and the Australian Privacy Act.
The App is designed to work without a user account and without tracking identifiers. Specifically:
Under GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) the limited processing described above is necessary to deliver the service you have asked for (showing news, reading it aloud). No consent banner is required because we do not set tracking cookies, we do not use the data for profiling, and we do not share it with advertising partners.
Because the App stores nothing about you on our servers, we have nothing to retain. Cached RSS/JSON on the edge is keyed by source URL only and never by user. Local settings stay on your device until you uninstall the App.
Our backend runs on Cloudflare's global edge network. Requests are served from the geographically nearest Cloudflare data centre, which may be outside your home region. Because no personal data is stored, no Standard Contractual Clauses or transfer impact assessments are needed for the App itself.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, and request portability of your personal data. Since we do not hold any personal data about you in the first place, requests to access or delete will usually be answered with "we have no data linked to you." You always have the unconditional right to delete the App from your device, which removes all locally-stored settings.
You may contact Halcyon Audio at halcyonaudio.app@gmail.com to exercise these rights. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority (e.g. ICO in the UK, CNIL in France, PIPC in Korea, PPC in Japan).
The App is not directed to children under 13 (under 16 in some EU member states, under 14 in Korea). We do not knowingly collect information from children.
News headlines, thumbnails and summaries displayed in the App are retrieved from publicly available RSS feeds and public APIs published by independent outlets (allkpop, Soompi, Wikinews, public Reddit JSON, etc.). Clicking an article opens the original publisher's website; their privacy policies apply there.
All network traffic between the App and our backend is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS). Clear-text traffic is blocked at the OS level via an Android Network Security Configuration. The App requests only the minimum permissions needed (Internet access, foreground-service playback, optional notifications).
If this policy changes materially, we will update the "Effective" date and, where required by law, prompt you in-app.
Halcyon Audio — halcyonaudio.app@gmail.com