Inner Work Notes is a small site about Jungian psychology, dreams, and the patterns we tend to repeat. It isn’t a service, a platform, or a clinic — it’s a place to read. Still, the moment you open a page, some information moves between your device and the servers that deliver it, and you have a right to know what that is. This page explains what gets collected here, what doesn’t, who else is involved, and what you can do about any of it. It’s written to be read by a person rather than a lawyer, and it applies to everything published at innerworknotes.com.
Effective date / Last updated: September 23, 2026
Who runs this site?
Inner Work Notes is written and operated by Kim Hyung-keun, an object relations supervisor and the director of the Seoul Addiction Psychology Institute (서울중독심리연구소) in South Korea. For the purposes of the GDPR, he is the party responsible for the limited personal data described below — the data controller. There is no office elsewhere, no staff handling your data in other countries, and no third party runs the site on his behalf apart from the service providers described further down.
What information does this site collect from you?
Very little, and almost none of it on purpose.
There are no accounts here. You cannot register, sign in, or create a profile, so no username or membership record exists. The comment system under the articles is turned off across the site. The one place where readers write is the counselling board described below, and it does not ask for an email address. There is no newsletter signup collecting addresses, and no purchase, donation, or payment of any kind — so no billing or financial information is ever handled here.
What does exist is what exists for nearly every website: server logs. When a page is requested, the server records technical details of that request — your IP address, the type of browser and operating system you’re using (the user agent string), the page you asked for, the date and time, and sometimes the page that referred you. These entries are generated automatically, they aren’t linked to a name, and they aren’t used to build a profile of you. They exist so the site can be kept running, kept secure, and diagnosed when something breaks.
The one place where you can deliberately give information is the counselling board, at https://innerworknotes.com/board/ in English, /ko/board/ in Korean and /de/board/ in German. It replaced the earlier question form in September 2026. What follows is exact about which parts become public and which never do.
What does the counselling board collect?
When you write a post on the board, the following is recorded:
- the name you enter — a nickname is fine, and a post with no name is shown as anonymous;
- the title;
- the body of your post, including anything you choose to write in it;
- whether you marked the post as private;
- the password you choose, stored only as a one-way hash, so that it cannot be read back by anyone, including the site owner;
- your IP address, your browser’s user agent string, and the date and time — collected for spam filtering and abuse prevention, since an open form on a public site attracts a great deal of automated traffic.
A reply to a post records the name you enter, the text of the reply, your IP address, your user agent string and the time. Pressing “I relate” records only an anonymous token derived from a random identifier kept in a cookie in your browser (see the section on cookies), so that one browser is counted once.
These entries are stored in the site’s own database on the server described below. What other people can see depends on one choice: whether the post is public or private.
Public posts: the name you entered, the title, the body and the date are shown to everyone as soon as the post is made, together with the answer and any replies. A post that contains several links or sales wording is held back until it has been checked. Public means public: other people may read, quote, or link to it. Each board post carries a noindex instruction asking search engines not to index it; the major search engines honour it, but it is a request, not a guarantee. Use a nickname rather than your legal name if you would rather not be identifiable.
Private posts: only the title and the date are shown to everyone, so nothing should go into the title that you would not want strangers to read. The name you entered, the body of the post and the answer are shown only to you, when you open the post with its password, and to the site owner.
Never published: your password, your IP address, your browser’s user agent string. No email address is asked for, and there is no mailing list. None of it is sold, rented, traded, or shared with advertisers or any other third party.
Even a private post is stored on the server, and the board is protected by the ordinary HTTPS connection rather than by any further encryption. It is not the place for identifying details — names, addresses, phone numbers, workplaces — about yourself or anyone else.
You can delete your own post at any time with its password; its replies are removed with it. A deleted post goes to the site’s trash, from which the site owner can restore it for 14 days, after which it is erased. You can also ask for any post or reply to be removed.
Does this site use cookies?
The site itself sets only what WordPress and the hosting layer need in order to function. Cookies are small text files a site stores in your browser so that certain things work correctly between page loads.
The counselling board sets two cookies of its own, and only when you use it. After you write a post or enter its password, a cookie named iwn_cb_k followed by the post’s number lets that browser open the post for up to one hour; it is deleted when the browser is closed, and the “Lock again” button on the post deletes it at once. Pressing “I relate” sets a cookie named iwn_cb_uid that holds a random identifier for one year, so that the same browser is counted once. Neither contains your name or anything you wrote, and neither is used for advertising.
Cloudflare, which sits in front of this site as a content delivery network and security layer, may set its own technical cookies to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated traffic and to speed up delivery of pages. Cloudflare also processes connection data, including your IP address, in order to filter malicious traffic. This is a security and performance function rather than an advertising one.
The more significant cookies on this site come from advertising, and they deserve their own section.
How is advertising handled here?
This site displays advertising through Google AdSense. That means third-party vendors, including Google, are permitted to serve ads on these pages, and those vendors use cookies and similar technologies of their own.
Here is what that involves in practice. Google uses cookies — historically including the DoubleClick DART cookie — to serve ads based on your visits to this site and to other sites across the internet. Third-party vendors and ad networks may likewise use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits elsewhere. This is how an ad you see here may appear related to something you were reading somewhere else entirely.
You are not obliged to accept this. You can opt out of personalized advertising by Google at any time — including use of the DART cookie — by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. To opt out of personalized advertising from many third-party vendors at once, you can use the Digital Advertising Alliance’s tool at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or the Network Advertising Initiative’s tool at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. Opting out doesn’t remove ads — it means the ads you see are less tailored to your browsing history.
Please note that these third-party vendors set and read their own cookies according to their own privacy policies. This site has no access to those cookies and cannot control or read them. Google’s own description of how it uses information from sites that display its ads is published at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and its advertising technologies are described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. If this matters to you, those pages are the authoritative source rather than this one.
Is there analytics on this site?
At present, no analytics service such as Google Analytics is installed. If that changes and a measurement tool is added later, this page will be updated to say so before or at the time it goes live, along with a description of what it collects.
Where is this information stored, and for how long?
The site is hosted on a Microsoft Azure server located in South Korea, and that is where the WordPress database — including counselling board posts — and the server logs reside. Traffic passes through Cloudflare’s global network on its way to you, which means data may also transit servers outside your own country.
If you are reading from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, this means your data is transferred outside that area to South Korea. It is worth knowing that the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the Republic of Korea in December 2021, recognizing Korean law as providing a comparable level of protection; transfers to this site’s server rely on that decision. If you would prefer not to have data stored in Korea, the practical remedy is simply not to use the counselling board, since browsing alone produces only ordinary server log entries.
Server logs are retained only as long as they are useful for security and troubleshooting, and are then overwritten or deleted in the ordinary course of server maintenance. A board post and its replies, with the IP address and user agent recorded with them, are kept for as long as the post stays up: until you delete it with its password, or until it is removed at your request. Deleted posts are erased from the trash after 14 days. Advertising cookies are governed by the retention practices of the vendors that set them, not by this site.
What are your rights if you’re in the EU or the UK?
If you’re reading from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you rights over personal data relating to you. You may request access to what is held, ask that inaccurate information be corrected, ask that it be deleted, ask that processing be restricted, object to processing — including processing for advertising purposes — and request a copy of your data in a portable form. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.
Because this site holds so little to begin with, most requests will be answered by explaining exactly what exists and, where it exists at all, removing it. Requests can be made in a private post on the counselling board at https://innerworknotes.com/board/, and a reply will follow within a reasonable period, normally within one month. Requests about advertising cookies set by Google or other vendors are best directed to those companies, whose systems actually hold that data — though the opt-out links above are the fastest route.
What if you live in California?
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, California residents may ask what categories of personal information have been collected about them, ask that such information be deleted, ask that inaccurate information be corrected, and opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information — a definition broad enough to cover certain kinds of targeted advertising. You have the right not to be treated differently for exercising any of these rights.
This site does not sell personal information for money. Advertising cookies served by third parties may nonetheless fall within California’s definition of “sharing,” which is why the opt-out links in the advertising section above matter. To make a request, write a private post on the counselling board at https://innerworknotes.com/board/.
Is this site intended for children?
No. Inner Work Notes is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. Personal information is not knowingly collected from children under 13, consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If you believe a child has provided information here — through the counselling board, for instance — please say so in a private post on the board and the entry will be deleted.
What about links to other sites?
Articles here sometimes link to other websites, and advertisements link to destinations chosen by advertisers. Once you follow such a link you are on someone else’s site, subject to their privacy policy rather than this one. It’s worth glancing at that policy before entering anything about yourself.
How will you know if this policy changes?
If the practices described here change — a new analytics tool, a different ad configuration, a change of host — this page will be revised and the effective date at the top updated. Significant changes will be noted on the page itself. Because there is no mailing list, this page is the only place such notices appear, so checking it occasionally is the reliable way to stay current. Continuing to use the site after a revision means the revised policy applies.
How can you get in touch?
Questions about this policy, and requests under any of the rights described above, can be made in a private post on the counselling board at https://innerworknotes.com/board/. No public email address is published, so the board is the way to reach the site. Please describe what you’re asking for clearly enough that it can be acted on — for a deletion request, for example, it helps to say which post you wrote and roughly when.
One last note, offered plainly: this page describes how this website handles information. It is not legal advice, and it isn’t a substitute for advice from a qualified professional in your own jurisdiction. The articles published here are educational writing about psychology — they are not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and nothing on this site creates a clinical relationship of any kind.