Kakao Personalized Advertising

Behavioral advertising provides personal advertisements¹⁾ by utilizing online users' activity information (hereinafter, the "Behavioral Information") that helps us identify and analyze users' interests, tastes, and tendencies via the history of website visit, app use, purchase, and search, based on 'Advertising Cookie' or 'Advertising ID.' Cookies are small files that users store on their computer's hard disk when they first visit a website. Cookies also refer to a technology used to help users utilize web-based services. Advertising ID means an identifier used to provide users with personalized information or advertisement via IDs issued in a mobile OS.

Kakao values user information.

Kakao does neither collect/create sensitive information that may clearly infringe on a user's rights, interests, or privacy nor combine behavioral information collected via Advertising Cookie or Advertising ID with identification information without the relevant user's consent. To provide personalized advertisements and content depending on sex, age, and matter of interest analyzed/predicted based on demographic features, any behavioral information collected through Advertising Cookie or Advertising ID will be maintained for the maximum of one(1) year and then destroyed permanently in a non-recoverable way or maintained separately. Kakao neither collects activity logs from children who know they are under 14 or online services whose primary users are under 14 nor provides personalized advertisements to children who know they are under 14.

How to set behavioral advertising

Users can block the receipt of personalized advertising at any time. Even with Personalized Advertising blocked, you will still see ads, but their relevance to you may be minor.

When you block ads in the web browser

If you block cookies by setting options in the web browser, behavioral ads will not be displayed. If you set to 'Block Personalized Advertising' in 'Exercise the Right of User Control' as below, you can block the use of behavioral ads. If you want to receive personalized ads again, please switch to 'Allow Personalized Advertising.' Please note that you may have trouble using some web services or any service that requires login.

Even though 'Exercise the Right of User Control' is set to 'Block Personalized Advertising,' 'Exercise the Right of User Control' will be switched to 'Allow Personalized Advertising' when you remove cookies from browser options, and personalized ads may be displayed again.

When you block ads in the app

If you don't want to expose behavioral ads in mobile apps, you can turn off Personalized Advertising in each OS as follows:

쿠키 차단 설정방법의 예 설명

• Android

  Home > Settings > Google > Ads > Delete advertising ID More Info
• iOS

  Home > Settings > Privacy > Tracking > Allow Apps to Request to Track (OFF) More Info

Behavioral information to be collected

Behavioral information to be provided

Membership Information Based Advertising provides personalized ads by utilizing information entered by a user based on the user's KakaoAccount Membership Number and personalized information collected while the user uses the service, including the history of service use, purchase, and payment.

Kakao values user information.

Kakao never collects or creates sensitive information that may clearly infringe on a user's rights, interests, or privacy, without the user's consent. Kakao uses a user's personal information only within the scope of the user's consent and never provides any third parties with the personal information without the user's consent. Besides, when collecting personal information of a child under 14, Kakao must acquire the consent of his/her legal representative.

View details of personal information collected or provided to third parties

How to set membership information based personalized advertising

Users can block the receipt of membership information based personalized advertising at any time. Even with Personalized Advertising blocked, you will still see ads, but their relevance to you may be minor. Log in with Kakao Account to check or update settings for ads customized for you.

Remedy for Damage

For inquires, complaints, or other matters related to personalized advertising, please contact our KakaoMoment Customer Service, and we will do our best to provide a prompt and sufficient answer.

Advertising Damage Report