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GDPR overview

GDPR implementation is thin. The only explicit compliance claim sits in the FAQ block of the home page, which states that all data is encrypted and that the platform complies with the GDPR and the Korean Personal Information Protection Act. The privacy policy itself never mentions the GDPR: it is built on Korean law, citing the Personal Information Protection Act and its article 26 for entrusted processing, and naming a Chief Privacy Officer, Kim Jun-seong (js.kim@adoba.net, +82-2-6952-0109). Users can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, withdrawal of consent and account closure, through the My Info / Settings menu, support@adoba.net, phone or postal mail to Seoul, with a response announced within ten days in general. What is missing is concrete: no Article 27 EU representative, no GDPR legal bases, no standard contractual clauses, no DPA. Korean law and Korean courts apply, including to members outside Korea.

Who owns the data?

Ownership is split by the Terms of Service. The copyright in the original video, audio, images and text you upload stays with you or the rights holder (art. 14.2), and rights and responsibilities over User Content remain with the member (art. 13.1). The software, algorithms, interface, databases, translation, subtitling and dubbing engines and their outputs belong to adoba Corporation (art. 14.1). Localization results are treated as derivative works: you keep the original, adoba keeps the agent-generated elements and grants only a non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence (art. 14.3). Article 14.4 lets adoba use your content and the localization results to improve the service, enhance model performance within legal limits, prevent errors and abuse, develop new features and promote the service.

Reuse rights

Localization results can be reused without asking, but only within three perimeters: the localized channels adoba provides, the member's own original channel, and the platforms and methods the company authorises. Everything else needs prior written consent — providing or selling the results to a third party for a fee, re-uploading them to platforms outside the service or to third-party services, repackaging them as a separate service, or handing them to other AI or translation services as secondary processing data. The original work itself is unaffected: the member keeps it and may use it freely. Complying with the rules of the external platforms, YouTube and Bilibili included, is the member's own responsibility. One practical consequence to keep in mind: when the Agent subscription is terminated, all data, channel information and revenue records included, is permanently reset and cannot be restored.

Data retention & training

Hosting summary

The publisher is established in the Republic of Korea, and Korean law and Korean courts govern the service. Hosting is outsourced: the privacy policy lists a cloud service provider (AWS, GCP and the like) for server hosting and data storage among its subprocessors. International transfers are described in three separate blocks. For YouTube and Google, processing takes place on servers operated by Google LLC, with transfer to the United States and to the countries hosting Google data centres, such as the United States and Singapore. For the Chinese platforms, data goes to the United States, to China and to the operating regions of each platform, Bilibili, Rednote and Kuaishou included. For cloud providers, the named recipients are Amazon Web Services, Inc. and Google LLC, with transfer to the countries where each cloud provider's data centres are located, such as the United States, Japan, and Singapore. Retention runs until account withdrawal or the end of the processing contract, or for as long as the law requires. What is not stated matters too: no EU or EEA hosting region is announced, Korea itself is never named as a hosting country, and no standard contractual clauses are mentioned.