LEGAL
Privacy Policy
This policy applies from October 11, 2026. Until October 10, the previous version (effective October 3, 2026) applies. Required consent to tournament notices and DUPR ratings in participant lists (only for members who turn it on) apply from October 13, 2026 (section 12). Items on children under 14 signing up and entering tournaments with a parent's consent apply from October 7, 2026, the day that service opened (section 12). View the previous version →
What changed (compared with the previous version)
| Section | Before (Oct 3, 2026) | After (Oct 11, 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1 (3) My Page › DUPR | DUPR ID, account email, romanized name, doubles rating | Adds whether to show your DUPR rating in participant lists (a record of turning it on or off) |
| Section 1 (4) Data we collect | Entry items (depositor name, where you live, etc.). Consent to notices not listed (optional on the entry form). Only operators enter data on a player's behalf | Adds the record of consent to share with the host of a member-hosted tournament (whether, when, policy version, and the recipient and period shown). That host may also enter where a player lives if the player agreed. Consent to tournament notices (KakaoTalk/SMS) becomes required (entries from October 13, 2026) |
| Section 2 opening and (5) | “Operators” not defined. DUPR ratings and city/district seen by “you and the operators only” | “Operators” = the company and the people it entrusts (not hosts of member-hosted tournaments). City/district is also seen by that host if you agreed. Ratings are not given to hosts' operating screens. Only members who turn on “Show my DUPR rating in participant lists” have their rating published in the participant list of teams whose payment is confirmed (optional, separate consent, can be turned off anytime; from October 13, 2026) |
| Section 2 (11) Publishing player records | Name, gender, region (province), tournament history and results, KPR points published | Describes how participation is published — a participant list of teams whose payment is confirmed (names with middle letters masked; a partner with an open correction request shows as “being confirmed”). From October 13, 2026 also the DUPR ratings of members who turned it on, and team totals |
| Section 3 Retention | — | Hosts of member-hosted tournaments see the data only from entry until 90 days after the tournament ends (names and match records remain as the tournament record). Consent records are kept and deleted with the entry |
| Section 5 Sharing | No sharing with third parties (except the consented cross-border transfer and where required by law) | (1) Sharing with hosts of member-hosted tournaments with each player's consent — recipient, items, purpose, period, how to consent, right to refuse, withdrawal. (2) Three things shared without consent (a not-yet-consenting player's name, the fact of a partner-correction request, substitute checks) and the criteria (Personal Information Protection Act Art. 17(4)) |
| Section 8 Your rights | — | You can ask, via the contact, to withdraw consent to sharing with a host. Rights of the parent (legal guardian) of a child under 14 to access, correct, delete, suspend and withdraw consent, and where to ask (section 11 contact); a plain-language note for children (from October 7, 2026) |
| Section 1 (11) and section 2 (14) Children under 14 | Under-14s could not sign up | Sign-up with a parent's (legal guardian's) consent — the child's items (date of birth required), the parent's name, mobile, relationship and consent record; how consent is confirmed (consent shown on the sign-up page + a code to the parent's mobile + a confirmation text); a parent's consent for each tournament entry (text link — sharing with the host of a member-hosted tournament and the DUPR transfer are also agreed by the parent), withdrawal through the link until the first day, entries and the public profile on hold until the confirmation text has gone, no mate listings or messages, no hosting or tournament staff, consent given by the child before turning 14 treated as invalid (from October 7, 2026) |
| Section 5 (1) and (2) (children) | — | For players under 14, sharing with the host is agreed by the parent on the tournament consent page; until then only the name and the status of the parent's consent are shared (the fourth item shared without consent) (from October 7, 2026) |
| Sections 3, 4 (1) and 7 (children) | — | Parent details deleted when the account is deleted or consent is withdrawn (only when/how/version kept); code-check records deleted after a day; the DUPR transfer for under-14s is agreed by a parent; the parent's consent page is excluded from statistics and ads (from October 7, 2026) |
| Section 12 Notice | Effective October 3, 2026 | Effective October 11, 2026. Member-hosted tournaments are not published before it takes effect. Required notice consent and ratings in participant lists (for members who turn it on) apply from October 13, 2026. Items on children under 14 apply from October 7, 2026, the day that service opened |
1. Data we collect
(1) At sign-up (required): name, ID, password (stored hashed), residency, email address. (2) At sign-up (optional): DUPR ID, date of birth, mobile number, gender, region (province and city/district), and a profile photo and short bio (added on My Page) — without a mobile number you cannot receive KakaoTalk notices about entries and draws. (3) My Page › DUPR (optional): DUPR ID, DUPR account email, romanized name, DUPR doubles rating, and whether to show your DUPR rating in participant lists (a record of when you turned it on or off, the policy version and the screen used — section 2 (5)). (4) At tournament entry: (required) depositor name, where you live (province and city/district — optional for foreign-national members), whether and when you agreed to receive tournament notices by KakaoTalk or SMS (notices that run the tournament — entry received, payment confirmed, waitlist promotion, partner assignment, draws and schedule — not advertising; required for entries from October 13, 2026, optional before then), and for DUPR-rated divisions your DUPR ID and consent to the DUPR cross-border transfer (section 4); (optional) DUPR account email, romanized name, gender to confirm the division, mobile number (if not given at sign-up). Members who already entered without a city/district are asked for it when they sign in (optional — leaving it out does not affect your entry), and operators (and, in a member-hosted tournament, its host if that player agreed to the sharing in section 5 (1)) may contact a player and enter it on their behalf. When you enter a member-hosted tournament (section 5 (1)) we record (required) whether you agreed to share your data with its host, when, which version of this policy you agreed to, and the recipient and viewing period shown to you at the time; when a doubles partner or a substitute agrees on a review page, we keep the same record for that player. (5) Lesson or education inquiries (including non-members): Inquiry type, Name, Phone, Email, Organization (school, club, institution), Region, Approx. participants, Preferred dates / days / times, Your message. (6) Coach, club, court or vendor listings (including non-members): name or nickname, photos, phone, email, social or open-chat links, areas, gender, age band, DUPR rating, career and description you write, and an edit code (stored hashed). (7) Mate listings (members): the items in (6) plus skill level, availability and what you are looking for. (8) Community “Looking for players” posts (members): your member name, post title and body. (9) Member-to-member messages (members): message text, sender and recipient, the name of the mate listing the conversation started from, when each message was sent and read, when an email alert was sent, blocks (including the name shown for the other member when you blocked them), reports (including the reason and the operator's resolution note), and whether you receive message email alerts (if alerts were turned off with the link in an alert email, an irreversibly transformed value identifying that address). (10) Collected automatically: access logs, browser information (for session management), visit statistics, and behavioral data through advertising cookies (section 7). (11) Members under 14 (sign-up with a parent's consent): at sign-up — for the child, the same items as (1), with date of birth required; for the parent (legal guardian), name, mobile number, relationship (optional), the consent record (when and how consent was given, the policy version, whether the DUPR transfer was agreed, when the confirmation text was sent), and the code-check record (only values of the mobile number and code transformed with a server-side secret key — they cannot be turned back into the originals) / each time the child enters a tournament — the parent's consent record for that entry (the parent's name, mobile and relationship, when they agreed, declined or withdrew, the tournament, division, match day, venue and partner (masked) shown at the time, and whether they agreed to the DUPR transfer and to sharing with the host of a member-hosted tournament (section 5 (1))). For an under-14 member who joined before September 24, 2026 and has no parent record, the parent's name and mobile entered on the entry form are used for this record
2. Purpose
In this policy, “operators” means the company and the people the company entrusts with running the tournaments it holds. Hosts of member-hosted tournaments and the staff they appoint are not operators; what they receive is described in section 5 (1). (1) Member management (identity, account management, notices). (2) Tournament registration and operations (entries, payment checks, draw and result notices). (3) Minimal disambiguation in doubles partner search — alongside the name we show, when searching by name, a partly masked ID (e.g. ho****19); when searching by email or mobile, a partly masked form of that email or number (e.g. 010-****-1234); and whether a DUPR ID is registered. If several members match (the same name, or the same email or mobile), we show each one's partly masked ID and sign-up date, whatever you searched by. Dates of birth are not shown. (4) Submitting results to DUPR (only for members who consent to the cross-border transfer, section 4). (5) Balancing groups in the draw, and showing ability in participant lists — the DUPR doubles rating you enter on My Page (or that an operator checks and enters) is used to spread groups evenly (our system also uses it for automatic group assignment in member-hosted tournaments), and from October 13, 2026, only for members who turn on “Show my DUPR rating in participant lists” in My Page › DUPR (or on the entry form), the rating is published next to the name (partly masked) in the participant list on the tournament page once that member's team has its payment confirmed (see (11)). This is optional and asked for separately (it starts off); leaving it off does not affect your entries, and you can turn it off anytime by unticking it in My Page › DUPR and saving (it leaves the lists within a minute). Ratings of members who have not turned it on are not published. Otherwise it is seen only by you and the operators, and it is not shown on the operating screens of member-hosted tournament hosts (the participant list itself is public). Where you live (province and city/district) is used to keep teams from the same neighborhood out of the same group; the city/district is seen only by you and the operators — and, in a member-hosted tournament, by its host if you agreed to the sharing (section 5 (1)) — and is never published (public player profiles show the province only). (6) Receiving and answering lesson and education inquiries. (7) Operating the coach, club, court, vendor and mate directories — listings are published so users can find and contact you; phone, email and social links appear only where you ticked “public”, and the rest is seen by operators only. (8) Reviewing and processing listings (checking content, verifying edit codes). (9) Publishing community posts — the author's name appears with the post. (10) Sending promotional messages (only with separate consent, which you can withdraw on My Page at any time). (11) Publishing player records — name (or nickname), gender, region (province), profile photo and short bio (if provided), tournament history and results, and KPR ranking points — as part of the official record service. Tournament participation is also published as a participant list on the tournament page (by division, in order of payment confirmation): once an entry's payment is confirmed, its players' names appear partly masked (Korean names keep only the first and last characters, ignoring spaces — e.g. 홍*동, 남**수, or 김* for two-character names; names in Latin letters keep only the first letter of each word, and single-letter words after the first are masked — e.g. J*** S****; a one-character name becomes *). If a partner-correction request on a team is still open, the partner's place shows “being confirmed” and the partner's name is not listed. From October 13, 2026 the list also shows the DUPR doubles rating (the value the member entered or an operator checked and entered) of members who turned on “Show my DUPR rating in participant lists” ((5)), and the team total adds up only the ratings shown. The same applies to member-hosted tournaments. Contact details (email, mobile number, date of birth) are never published; you may request name masking via My Page or the privacy officer. (12) Visit statistics to improve the service, and advertising to help fund the site (section 7). (13) Member-to-member messages — delivering and storing messages so you can contact a mate listing's owner without sharing phone numbers, and emailing you when a new message arrives (the email does not include the message, and you can turn it off on My Page or with the link in the email; once turned off with the link, no alerts go to that address until its owner turns them back on with the button in a confirmation email sent to it). Messages from a member you block are not delivered to you, whichever mate listing the conversation started from, and the sender is not told they were blocked. The “blocked” notice appears only in the conversation where you blocked them and on that conversation's mate listing. Operators do not read messages; only when a message is reported do they see that message and up to two messages before and after it, to handle the report (checking for advertising or harassment, hiding the message, or stopping the sender from sending). Each mate listing has its own conversation. In messages, a mate listing's owner appears under the listing's name as it was when the conversation started, and a member who writes to them appears under their member name (masked if they turned on name hiding on My Page); renaming or removing the listing doesn't change the name in conversations already started. “Accept messages” is on when a mate listing starts (including listings posted before messaging opened) and can be turned off in Edit listing. The other member can see whether you have read a message (“Read”). (14) Processing children's data (under 14) — we confirm a parent's (legal guardian's) consent: the sign-up page shows what is being agreed, the parent indicates consent, a code sent to the parent's mobile confirms the person holding that phone agreed, and after sign-up we text the parent that the consent was recorded (Personal Information Protection Act Art. 22-2; Enforcement Decree Art. 17-2). For each tournament entry we ask the parent to agree to the child playing — through a link texted to the parent's mobile showing the tournament, division, match day, venue and partner, where the parent agrees or declines; the entry is received and the operator checks the parent's consent. Consent to share the child's details with the host of a member-hosted tournament (section 5 (1)) is also given by the parent on that page; until then the host sees only the child's name and the status of the parent's consent (section 5 (2)). When a parent agrees to sign-up, the DUPR transfer or sharing with a host, we text the parent a confirmation; until the sign-up confirmation text has gone, tournament entries are not accepted and the player profile is not public. The parent's mobile is used only for this and for tournament contact about the child, and is never published or given to hosts of member-hosted tournaments or to other players on the team. Members under 14 receive no promotional messages; the DUPR transfer (section 4) and showing ratings in participant lists ((5)) happen only with a parent's consent or not at all (consent the child gave themselves before turning 14 is treated as invalid); they cannot create mate listings ((7)) or use member-to-member messages ((13)) (listings posted earlier are hidden from the public list); and, because it means receiving other players' data, they cannot host tournaments or be tournament staff.
3. Retention
Member data is deleted without delay when you delete your account. Data from lesson and education inquiries is deleted one year after the inquiry is received. Coach, club, court, vendor and mate listings are kept until the owner takes them down or asks us to delete them, and are then deleted with their photos. Coach, club and vendor listings rejected on review are deleted automatically, photos included, 30 days after rejection (court listings are not rejected but kept private, and are deleted as above when the owner takes them down or asks). When a member deletes their account, their mate listing and any coach, club, court or vendor listing they registered while signed in are deleted too, photos included; non-member coach, club, court and vendor listings can be taken down with the edit code or by contacting us. Member-to-member conversations, with their messages and reports, are deleted automatically one year after their last message. When a member deletes their account, every conversation they took part in (including the same conversation in the other member's inbox) and their blocks and reports are deleted immediately. Blocks are kept until you unblock the member or either of you deletes your account (you can unblock anytime on My Page). The transformed value of an address whose alerts were turned off with the email link is kept until alerts are turned back on or the account is deleted. Photos not attached to any listing are deleted automatically 24 hours after upload. Hosts of member-hosted tournaments and their staff can see the applicant data shared with them on the site only from entry until 90 days after the tournament ends (if the end date is moved later after you agree, never beyond the date shown when consent was first given); after that we block it from their screens. Names and match records stay on the tournament pages as the tournament record (section 5 (1)). Records of consent to share with a host (when, the policy version, and the recipient and period shown at the time) are kept with the entry and deleted with it. When an operator corrects a member's details or enters where a player lives on their behalf, the action log records only who changed which items and when, not the values. When a member deletes their account, any personal values left in the action log about them (names, dates of birth, mobile numbers and where they live in older correction entries, and the DUPR ID kept in DUPR-ID unlink records) are also deleted, and only the fact of the action is kept. For members under 14, the parent's details (name, mobile, relationship) and tournament consent links are deleted without delay when the member's account is deleted (including deletion because the parent withdrew consent); only when and how consent was given and the policy version remain (a record that identifies no one). Parent code-check records are deleted automatically after one day. A parent's consent record for a tournament entry is kept with the entry and deleted with it. Korean law may require longer retention in specific cases (e-commerce contract and payment records 5 years, consumer dispute records 3 years, access logs 3 months).
4. Cross-border transfer
(1) DUPR ratings — only matches of members who consent are transferred. · Recipient: DUPR (USA). Items: name (Korean and romanized), DUPR ID, DUPR account email, birth year, gender, match records. When and how: in bulk after each tournament, by file upload or API. Purpose: rating calculation. Retention: per DUPR policy. · When consent is needed: to enter a division whose results are submitted to DUPR (a DUPR-rated division), the applicant must consent; without consent you cannot enter that division. Divisions not rated by DUPR (e.g. para divisions) can be entered without consent. A member named as a doubles partner can play without consenting, but that team's matches are then not submitted to DUPR. · You can withdraw consent on My Page at any time; you are then left out of later DUPR submissions (entries you already made stay in place). · For members under 14, a parent (legal guardian) gives this consent, not the child — at sign-up, or on the parent's tournament consent page when entering a DUPR-rated division. Consent the child gave themselves before turning 14 is treated as invalid and nothing is transferred on it. (2) Storage and processing abroad for service operation — carried out without separate consent, as necessary to perform our service and disclosed in this policy (PIPA Art. 28-8(1)3). · Vercel Inc. (USA): hosting and visit statistics. Items: information submitted while using the service (member data, tournament entries, inquiries, coach/club/court/vendor/mate listings, community posts, member-to-member messages) and visit statistics (section 7). When and how: continuously while the service is used, over the network. Retention: until the processing agreement ends. · Neon Inc. (USA): database storage. Items: as above. When and how: continuously, over the network. Retention: per the periods in section 3. · Vercel Blob (Vercel Inc., USA): photo storage. Items: photos uploaded with coach/club/court/vendor/mate listings and member profile photos. When and how: on upload, over the network. Retention: per the listing retention in section 3. · Resend (USA): email delivery. Items: recipient name, email address and message body. When: when an email is sent. Retention: until the processing agreement ends. · If you do not want these transfers, you can stop the processing by deleting your account or withdrawing your inquiry, which limits use of the related service.
5. Sharing with third parties
We do not share personal data with third parties, except where you have separately consented (the cross-border transfer in section 4, and (1) below for hosts of member-hosted tournaments), where we provide data as in (2) below within a scope reasonably related to the original purpose under Article 17(4) of the Personal Information Protection Act, or where required by law. (1) Hosts of member-hosted tournaments (with consent) — any member can open and publish a tournament on this site (we may take down a tournament that has problems, and delete one only if it has no entries — a tournament with entries is not deleted, and its entry records are kept as in section 3). Hosts of member-hosted tournaments and the staff they appoint (“hosts”) are third parties separate from the company, so we share the following items with them only with each player's own consent (what is shared before consent is set out in (2)). For players under 14 a parent (legal guardian) gives this consent on the tournament consent page, not the child; if the parent withdraws their consent to the entry before the first day, this sharing stops too (section 2 (14)). Tournaments the company holds itself involve no such sharing (they are run by the operators in section 2). · Recipient: that tournament's host — the organization or person named as organizer in the tournament details and the member who opened it (named on the consent screen), and the staff the host appoints. Once consent has been given, the organizer is not changed; if it must change, existing consents are cleared and consent is asked for again. · Items: name, gender, where you live (province and city/district), mobile number and email (partly masked, e.g. 010-****-1234), whether a DUPR ID is registered, birth year (age-restricted divisions only), depositor name and whether notifications are accepted (lead applicant), the text of a partner-correction request (partner), entry, payment-confirmation and cancellation records, and match records. Full phone numbers and emails, dates of birth, DUPR IDs and DUPR ratings, and login IDs are not shared (from October 13, 2026, however, the DUPR ratings of players who turned on “Show my DUPR rating in participant lists” appear in the public participant list on the tournament page once their payment is confirmed, where the host can also see them — section 2 (5) and (11)). · Purpose: running that tournament's entries and operations (payment checks, eligibility checks, groups and schedule), on-site check-in on the day, and recording results. · Retention: from your entry until 90 days after the tournament ends (counting from the day after the end date — the period for results inquiries and refunds). If the end date is moved later after you agree, it never goes beyond the date shown when consent was first given. After that we block the items above from the host's screens. Names and match records (draws, results, standings), however, stay on the tournament pages as the tournament record published on the site (section 2 (11)), and substitution records keep only who replaced whom (reasons and notes are hidden). Copies the host prints or saves are the host's responsibility, and the host must destroy them without delay once their purpose is fulfilled. · How consent is given: the lead applicant agrees on that tournament's entry page, and a doubles partner agrees personally on the partner review page linked from the partner email or on My Page. The lead applicant cannot agree on the partner's behalf. A player brought in as a substitute (including in the lead's place) agrees personally on the consent page in My Page. We record when consent was given, the version of this policy, and the recipient and period shown at the time. · Your right to refuse and its effect: you may refuse. If the lead applicant refuses, they cannot enter that tournament. If a partner or substitute refuses, they still take part and the host sees only their name ((2)), but the host may be unable to check their eligibility (gender, age) and may ask them to confirm it on site. · Withdrawing consent: contact us at the address in section 11 and we stop further sharing without delay (the host keeps seeing only the name, as in (2)). If the lead applicant withdraws, the host may be unable to run their entry, so taking part in that tournament may become difficult. (2) Sharing without consent (additional provision) — the following four are shared with the host of a member-hosted tournament without the data subject's consent, under Article 17(4) of the Personal Information Protection Act and Article 14-2 of its Enforcement Decree, only within a scope that meets all the criteria below. · The name of a player who has not agreed yet: before a doubles partner or substitute gives the consent in (1), the host still sees that player's name (it is essential to form teams and run the draw). Everything else is shared only after they agree. · The fact that a partner-correction request exists: when a partner reports being listed by mistake, we tell the host that the team has a correction request even before the partner agrees (the host must fix the team or cancel the entry). The text of the request is shared only if the partner has agreed. · Checking a substitute: when a host enters a member's exact email or mobile number to make a substitution, we show only that member's name and a partly masked form of that email or number so they can confirm it is the right member. Members cannot be searched by name or ID, and gender, birth year and DUPR details are not shown. · The status of a parent's consent (players under 14, from October 7, 2026): the host sees whether the parent's consent to that player's entry is pending, given, declined or missing a parent contact (the host must decide on payment and whether the player takes part — this status does reveal that the player is under 14). The parent's name and mobile are not shared. · Criteria: (a) Relevance — all four concern entering that tournament, forming teams, substitutions and deciding whether a player takes part, within the purpose for which members provide data to take part in tournaments (section 2 (2)). (b) Predictability — this policy and the partner and substitution emails tell players in advance that the host of a member-hosted tournament sees player names when running the draw, and names are published on draws and results. (c) No undue harm — only the name (plus the fact of a correction request, a masked echo of contact details the host entered, and the status of a parent's consent) is shared; contact details, gender, where you live and the like are not, and the correction request is passed on in order to act on the partner's own request. (d) Safeguards — contact details appear only in masked form, only to that tournament's host and staff accounts; the correction-request flag and substitute checks are unavailable once the period in (1) ends; and substitute lookups are rate-limited. · The privacy officer (section 11) checks that sharing follows these criteria. The advertising provider in section 7 (Google) may place its own cookies in your browser and collect behavioral data directly in order to show ads. This is not a transfer of the member data we hold; how to refuse is described in section 7. Data from lesson and education inquiries is used only to respond to the inquiry — never for marketing, and never shared.
6. Processors
We entrust the following work; processors may not use the data for any other purpose. · Vercel Inc. (USA): hosting, visit statistics (Vercel Web Analytics) · Neon Inc. (USA): database · Vercel Blob (Vercel Inc., USA): photo storage · Resend (USA): email delivery · Solapi (Korea): KakaoTalk and SMS delivery
7. Cookies and similar technologies
(1) Essential cookies: a session cookie that keeps you signed in, a cookie for the administrator two-factor step, a cookie that remembers your language (Korean or English), a cookie that remembers you passed the access password while the site is closed to the public, a cookie that remembers for 12 hours that you closed the “where you live” notice, and a cookie that remembers until midnight (Korea time) that you chose “Don't show again today” on the home page tournament entries notice (it holds only the tournament's identifier). They are used only to make the site work. Blocking them prevents sign-in. (2) Visit statistics: Vercel Web Analytics (Vercel Inc., USA) records the page address, the previous page (referrer), country, and device, OS and browser type. It uses no cookies, does not identify individuals, and is used only for statistics such as visitor counts and popular pages. The admin console, My Page, sign-in, sign-up, account deletion and print pages, the message email turn-off page and the parent's tournament consent page are excluded. (3) Advertising: public pages show Google AdSense ads (Google LLC, USA). To show ads and personalized ads, Google collects behavioral data (pages visited, time of visit, browser and device information, advertising identifiers, etc.) directly through its own cookies; retention follows Google's policy (policies.google.com/technologies/ads). No ads appear on the admin console, My Page, sign-in, sign-up, account deletion or print pages, the message email turn-off page or the parent's tournament consent page. (4) How to refuse: you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings (e.g. Chrome — Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies; Safari — Settings › Privacy & Security). You can turn off personalized ads at adssettings.google.com. Refusing advertising cookies does not limit your use of the site; non-personalized ads may still appear.
8. Your rights
You may request access, correction, deletion, or suspension of processing at any time via My Page or the contact below, and we act without delay. If you sent an inquiry without an account, you can exercise the same rights through the privacy officer below. You can also withdraw your consent to sharing with the host of a member-hosted tournament (section 5 (1)) through the contact below. The parent (legal guardian) of a child under 14 may request access to, correction, deletion or suspension of processing of the child's data, and may withdraw the consent given for sign-up and for tournament entries. As parents are not members, please contact us at section 11; we confirm you are the parent (for example, the parent's mobile recorded with the consent) and act without delay. Withdrawing the sign-up consent deletes the child's account (entries for tournaments not yet started are cancelled with it). For a tournament entry, use the consent link we texted until the tournament's first day — “I do not agree” before agreeing, or “Withdraw consent” after — or contact us and the operator will settle the entry. Withdrawing through the link also withdraws any consent to share with the host given on that page. For our younger members: Pickleball Korea only collects what you need to play in tournaments. Your name and match results appear in the draws. Your phone number and birthday are never put on the website — only the people running a tournament see what they need, and the host of a member-run tournament sees them only if your parent allows it. We ask your parent again each time you enter a tournament. If you have questions or want to stop, tell us with your parent at the contact below.
9. Deletion
Data whose retention period has passed or whose purpose has been fulfilled is destroyed without delay by irreversible means.
10. Security
Passwords are one-way hashed (bcrypt); stored data is encrypted at rest (AES-256, by our processor Neon Inc.); transport is encrypted (HTTPS, TLS 1.2+); access is limited to the minimum necessary; administrator accounts require two-factor authentication by SMS; administrator actions are logged; and data past its retention period is purged automatically.
11. Privacy officer
Seokjae Lee · 02-6332-2017 · pickleballkorea@pickleballkorea.com Privacy questions, complaints and requests for redress can be sent to this contact.
12. Notice
This policy applies from October 11, 2026 (previous version effective October 3, 2026 — the full previous version and a before-and-after comparison of the changed sections are at the top of this page). This revision adds sharing players' personal data with the hosts of member-hosted tournaments (section 5). Items other than the name are shared only when the lead applicant and each partner or substitute agree (section 5 (1)); the name of a player who has not agreed yet, the fact that a partner-correction request exists, and substitute checks are shared without consent under the criteria in section 5 (2). Hosts can see the data only from entry until 90 days after the tournament ends (names and match records remain as the tournament record). To match, we added the consent record to what we collect (section 1 (4)), clarified that “operators” means the company and the people it entrusts and who sees DUPR ratings and the city/district (section 2), and set out the host's viewing period (section 3) and how to withdraw consent (section 8). Member-hosted tournaments are not published (entries do not open) before this policy takes effect. Two items added to this version later apply from October 13, 2026: requiring consent to receive tournament notices by KakaoTalk or SMS when entering (section 1 (4) — entries made before then stay as they are, and we do not ask for consent again), and publishing, in the participant list of teams whose payment is confirmed, the DUPR doubles ratings of members who turned on “Show my DUPR rating in participant lists” (section 1 (3), section 2 (5) and (11), section 5 (1) — only with that separate consent, which can be turned off anytime). Listing names (with the middle letters masked) in the participant list follows section 2 (11) (publishing names and tournament participation), which was already in the previous version; this version describes how it is done. The items on children under 14 signing up and entering tournaments with a parent's (legal guardian's) consent (section 1 (11), section 2 (14), keeping and deleting the parent's details in section 3, the parent's consent in section 4 (1), the parts of section 5 (1) and (2) on players under 14, the parent's consent page in section 7 (2) and (3), and the parent's rights and the note for children in section 8) concern a newly opened service and apply from October 7, 2026, the day it opened (before then, under-14s could not sign up). The previous revision (effective October 3, 2026) began collecting the city/district where you live (to spread neighborhoods across groups) and member-to-member messages, and added section 7 on visit statistics and advertising cookies. In that revision, the items about messages apply from the day the messaging service opened, and items about the city/district where you live (section 1 (2) and (4), section 2 (5), and the notice cookie in section 7 (1)) apply from September 25, 2026, the day that feature opened. We announce additions, deletions and changes on the site at least 7 days in advance.