SlowAcorn (slowacorn.com) is a small, independently-run sandbox of self-made web tools and games. This page explains what information is collected across the site, how it's used, and the third-party services involved. If anything here is unclear, email slowacornbiz@gmail.com.
Who runs this site
SlowAcorn is operated by an individual developer as a personal, non-commercial project. There is no company, and no data is sold to anyone.
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, SlowAcorn uses Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) to understand aggregate traffic — which pages are visited, roughly how long, and general device/browser/location information derived from your IP address. This data is anonymized and used only to see which tools are useful and worth improving.
Advertising
SlowAcorn uses Google AdSense to display ads. Google and its partners may use cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalization at aboutads.info.
Tool-specific data
- Prayer Wall (함께 기도) — this is the one tool on SlowAcorn that stores what you write, permanently and in public. A prayer request you post is saved to the server and shown to anyone who visits the page; that is the point of it. A name is optional and the field is deliberately short — leaving it blank posts anonymously, and no account, email, or login is involved at any stage. What you write may reveal religious belief, which is treated as sensitive personal information under Korean law (PIPA), so please do not include your full name, contact details, or anyone else's — the form actively rejects links, phone numbers, email addresses, and account-like numbers. No IP address is stored: posts carry only a salted one-way hash of it, used solely to rate-limit spam and never to identify anyone. When you post, your browser (not the server) keeps a secret key for that post, which is what lets you delete it later; the server cannot tell who wrote what, so if you clear your browser data or switch devices, that key is gone and you can no longer delete the post yourself. You can report any post, and posts with enough reports are hidden automatically. To have a post removed after losing its key, contact the address at the bottom of this page with enough detail to identify it.
- Meeting Notes (회의록 요약) — this tool records audio, so read this one carefully. While you record, your browser cuts the audio into roughly one-minute pieces and uploads them one at a time. Each piece is passed straight through the server to a third-party speech-recognition service (Groq, running OpenAI's Whisper model) to be turned into text, and is then discarded — no audio is ever written to disk, kept in a database, or retained on the server after the response comes back. Recording captures your microphone, and, only if you explicitly pick that option and grant it, the audio your computer is playing (for a video call); the browser asks for both separately and shows its own indicator while either is active. The resulting transcript lives only in your browser's memory: closing or reloading the tab discards it, and it is never saved on the server. To produce the minutes, the transcript text is sent to an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) in blocks; those requests carry the transcript text and your chosen output language and nothing else — no name, email, or account identity — and neither the transcript nor the summary is stored or cached anywhere afterwards. Nothing is emailed by us: sending the result uses your own device's share sheet or mail app, or a file you save yourself, so the recipient's address is never sent to or seen by this site. Please note that whoever you are recording may have a legal right to be told and to consent first — obtaining that is your responsibility, not this site's.
- Voice2Font & MyColor — a short voice recording is uploaded to generate a font or color. The recording is processed in memory and deleted from the server immediately after the result is generated. Nothing is stored permanently, and recordings are never used for any purpose beyond that single request.
- Sports Owner & Touchline — these are choice-based / management games. Your save is written only to your own browser's local storage; nothing about your game, decisions, or squad is sent to or stored on any server.
- InvestPersona (투자 성향 테스트) — the tickers and quantities you enter are sent to the server to compute a risk score and suggestions. The narrative explanation is generated by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude); the request sent to it does not include any name, email, or account identity — only the portfolio shape (symbols and weights) and language. Generated narratives are cached by that anonymous portfolio shape for a limited time so identical portfolios don't regenerate the same explanation, and are never linked back to who asked.
- MarketDanger — a read-only dashboard. No personal data is submitted; it only displays market and fiscal data already fetched from public sources.
- QueryDojo — the SQL you write is sent to the server to run against a practice data warehouse and return results or a check against the exercise's answer. Query text is not stored or linked to you.
- ETF DNA, Trender, EducateMe, NewsToday, KoreanMetroSeat — these are read-only informational tools. No personal data is submitted; they only display data (market snapshots, trend estimates, daily topics, news headlines, transit schedules) already fetched from public sources.
- SpecialChess — runs entirely in your browser. No game state, moves, or personal data are sent to or stored on any server.
- DoctorLite — your selections (body region, symptom severity, etc.) are sent to the server only to look up general self-care information and are not stored or linked to you in any way.
Cookies
SlowAcorn itself does not set tracking cookies beyond what Google Analytics and Google AdSense set for the purposes described above. You can disable cookies in your browser settings at any time; most tools will keep working, though ads and analytics will be affected.
Children's privacy
SlowAcorn is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated as tools are added or changed. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to slowacornbiz@gmail.com.