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How Korea, Lived uses cookies and local storage, and how to change your choice at any time.

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This page explains, plainly, what this site stores in your browser and why. It is not a formal legal certification — it is a description of what this implementation actually does.

The short version

Korea, Lived uses at most three kinds of browser storage: one that remembers your own cookie choice, one — Google Analytics — that only runs if you say yes, and one — Google AdSense advertising — that also only runs if you say yes. Analytics and advertising are separate choices: you can accept one and refuse the other. Nothing loads before you decide, and rejecting or withdrawing means nothing loads at all.

Necessary storage

We store one small first-party record in your browser (localStorage, not a tracking cookie) that remembers your choices — analytics and advertising, each accepted or rejected — so we do not ask you again on every page. This record holds only your choice, a timestamp, a policy-version number, and your locale. It never holds your name, email, IP address, or any identifier that could be linked to you personally. This storage is not optional, because without it we could not remember your choice at all; it is not used for anything besides remembering that one choice.

Optional analytics storage — Google Analytics 4

If you choose Accept analytics, this site loads Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which sets its own first-party cookies (for example, cookies starting with _ga) to distinguish visits and sessions.

  • Purpose: understanding which articles and topics readers find useful, which pages readers visit next, and how much search traffic the site receives — used only for editorial planning, not advertising.
  • Analytics before you decide: disabled completely. No Google Analytics script, cookie, or network request happens before you make a choice.
  • If you reject: disabled completely, and it stays that way — nothing analytics-related loads, ever, unless you later change your mind via “Cookie Settings” below.
  • Provider: Google LLC. Analytics data may be processed in the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses.
  • Categories of data collected: which page was viewed, its category/type, a small number of approved navigation-click events (see our Privacy Policy for the full list), general traffic-source information, and coarse, non-precise location/device information that Google Analytics derives automatically. We do not collect your name, email address, exact location, or any government ID.
  • Retention: 14 months.
  • What we do not do: we do not use Google Signals, User-ID, or cross-domain tracking, and we do not sell your personal information to anyone.

Optional advertising storage — Google AdSense

This site is funded by advertising. If — and only if — you choose to accept advertising, this site loads Google AdSense, which may set its own cookies to serve and measure ads.

  • Purpose: funding the site’s writing and research.
  • Advertising before you decide: disabled completely. No AdSense script, cookie, or network request happens before you make a choice.
  • If you accept analytics but not advertising: no AdSense script loads, and the advertising consent signals sent to Google stay denied. Accepting analytics never turns on advertising.
  • If you reject: disabled completely, and it stays that way unless you change your mind via “Cookie Settings” below.
  • Provider: Google LLC.
  • What we do not do: we do not give Google your name, email address, or any identifier we hold about you, and we do not enable Google Signals (cross-device identity linking) even when you accept advertising.

How to change or withdraw your choice

Click Cookie Settings in the footer of any page, at any time, to see your current choice, switch from rejected to accepted, or withdraw a prior acceptance. Withdrawing disables all future analytics collection immediately and clears Google Analytics’ own cookies for this domain where your browser allows it.

Questions

For any question about this page, contact privacy@korealived.com.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page whenever our cookie/analytics practices change, and the Last Reviewed date above reflects the most recent review, whether or not a change was made. A meaningful change to this policy also means the “Cookie Settings” choice is asked again, even if you decided before.