Last updated: April 2, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how travelinginkorea.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our website at https://travelinginkorea.com.
Who we are
Our website address is https://travelinginkorea.com. We publish articles about Korean culture, language, food, and travel for an international audience. If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach us at the email address listed on our Contact page.
What information we collect
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the information shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection. If you provide an email address, an anonymized string created from it (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.
We do not require you to create an account to read our articles. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies so you do not have to enter them again next time. These cookies last for one year.
If you have an account and log in, we set temporary cookies to check that your browser accepts cookies, and additional cookies to store your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen option cookies last one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or articles from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking you if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies, including Google, to serve ads when you visit our website.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://www.aboutads.info.
Third-party vendors and ad networks may also use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the site, which pages they view, and what other sites they used before arriving. We use this information only to improve our content and the experience of the site. Google Analytics collects this data in a way that does not personally identify individual visitors to us.
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. As described above, advertising and analytics data may be processed by Google in accordance with its own privacy policy, available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.