Who we are
K-er (pronounced kay-er), whose legal name is K-er Co., Ltd. (주식회사 케이어), is a company incorporated in the Republic of Korea (website: k-er.ai; contact: [email protected]) and is the data controller for the processing described below.
What we do
We review publicly available business information about content creators (public profile name/handle, follower or subscriber counts, and the general nature of published content) to identify creators who may be a good fit for future business collaboration with K-er. We collect this information from public sources only (public profiles, press coverage, and official platform APIs). We do not collect sensitive personal data, and we never sell or share this information with third parties, other than service providers processing it on our instructions. Our legal basis under GDPR is legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) in identifying potential business partners.
International transfer
The information is processed in the Republic of Korea, which is covered by the European Commission's adequacy decision for Korea (2021), meaning EU law recognises Korea as providing an adequate level of data protection. Text sent for translation — comments and applicants' notes — is processed by our AI provider in the United States under standard contractual clauses; see "Translating comments and application notes" below.
Bot check when you cheer, comment or report
On the applicants page, selecting Cheer, posting a comment or reporting a comment runs a bot check by Cloudflare Turnstile, so that automated tools cannot flood those actions. It works quietly in the background: in almost every case you see nothing and the action simply goes through. During the check, Cloudflare looks at signals from your browser and device under its own terms — see the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum. To confirm the result, our server passes the one-time check token and your IP address to Cloudflare; the only thing we use from the reply is whether the check passed, and we do not see or keep the signals behind it. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping participation fair.
Translating comments and application notes
If a visitor taps Translate on a comment, or on the short note an applicant wrote about how they would contribute, we send that text — and nothing else about you — to Anthropic, an AI provider based in the United States that processes it only on our instructions, so visitors who speak other languages can read it. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest in letting visitors read what others have written here. Anthropic does not use the text to train its models and normally deletes it after a short period under its own retention policy. We keep our copy of each translation on our server for as long as the comment or application it belongs to is kept, so it can be shown again without a new request, and we delete our copy if a moderator hides the comment.
While translating, the AI also checks for profanity or a serious personal attack, on the same basis. If it finds one we show no translation, remove any translation we had stored, and note in one line what was found so our team can look. Nothing is deleted, hidden or restricted automatically: the text stays, only our team sees the note, and a person reads the text before deciding anything. If the text is edited, the note no longer applies and the text is checked afresh, and you can ask us to look again (see "Your rights").
Retention
We keep this information only while the collaboration review described above is active; platform-derived metrics are refreshed or deleted within 30 days in line with platform API policies, and records are deleted when a creator is no longer under review (save for a minimal do-not-recollect entry where needed).
Your rights
You may request access, correction, or deletion, restrict or object to this processing, at any time: [email protected], and we will act on your request within one month. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.
To request deletion of your information, email [email protected] with your public handle, and we will act within one month and confirm.