PIPA compliance for a SaaS
Personal Information Protection Act (South Korea). This page applies it to one kind of product (SaaS), so you get the obligations that are actually yours instead of a summary of the whole statute.
Does it apply to you?
Any handler of personal information of people in South Korea.
What a SaaS typically processes
- account creation and authentication
- subscription billing through a payment processor
- product analytics and session tracking
- transactional and marketing email
Each of these is processing you have to disclose. Adding an SDK later adds to this list — which is why a policy written once goes stale.
Documents you need
The intersection of what PIPA requires and what a SaaS actually does:
- Privacy policy
Rights you must honour
PIPA gives people in South Korea the right to:
- Access a copy of their data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Have their data deleted
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Ask for human review of an automated decision
Cookies and trackers
Nothing non-essential may load before the visitor agrees. Analytics and marketing scripts must be blocked until then — a banner that only informs is not enough.
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Primary sources
- PIPA — Personal Information Protection Act (South Korea) · official text · Personal Information Protection Commission
- Art. 15 — Conditions for collecting and using personal information
- Art. 17 — Providing personal information to third parties
- Art. 30 — Duty to publish a privacy policy
- Art. 35 — Right to access personal information
PIPA for other kinds of product
Other frameworks for a SaaS
This page is an engineering summary of publicly available regulatory requirements, generated from LexVibe's framework registry — not legal advice. Every framework links to its official text so you can check it yourself. For decisions about your own compliance posture, consult the primary sources and a lawyer qualified in the relevant jurisdiction.