Privacy Policy | Korea, Lived

This page explains our approach to visitor data. We aim to keep this simple and to collect no more than we need, and to only ever run analytics with your explicit, opt-in permission.

Analytics — Google Analytics 4

Korea, Lived uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), provided by Google LLC, to understand which articles and topics readers find useful, whether readers move from one article to another, and how search traffic performs over time. This helps us plan future articles. Analytics data is not used for advertising, and analytics is a separate choice from advertising — accepting one never turns on the other.

Requires your consent first. Analytics is disabled by default and stays disabled until you click “Accept analytics” in the banner shown on your first visit, or later via “Cookie Settings” in the footer. Nothing analytics-related loads before that choice, and rejecting means nothing analytics-related loads at all.
What is collected: which page you viewed and its general category/type, a small set of approved internal-navigation click events, general traffic-source information (for example, whether you arrived from a search engine), and coarse, non-precise location/device information that Google Analytics derives automatically from your connection.
What is not collected: your name, email address, exact address, any government ID, the content of anything you type, full outbound links (only the destination’s domain, when relevant), or any advertising identifier.
No User-ID, no Google Signals. We do not link analytics data to a signed-in Google identity or to any other cross-device profile, and we do not enable Google’s advertising-linked “Signals” feature.
No cross-domain tracking. Analytics is scoped to this one domain.
Retention: Google Analytics data is retained for 14 months.
International processing: Google Analytics data may be processed by Google LLC in the United States. Google is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and its UK/Swiss extensions) and separately offers Standard Contractual Clauses as an alternative transfer safeguard.
We do not sell personal information to Google, an advertiser, or anyone else, and we never will as part of this analytics implementation.

Korea, Lived is funded by advertising, served by Google AdSense (Google LLC).

Requires your consent first, separately. Advertising is disabled by default and stays disabled until you choose to accept it. Nothing advertising-related loads before that choice. Accepting analytics does not accept advertising; they are independent, and you can accept one and refuse the other.
What we do not give Google: your name, email address, or any identifier we hold about you. We hold none of those in the first place.
No Google Signals, even with advertising accepted. Cross-device identity linking stays off; it is a separate matter from serving an ad, and we do not ask you to consent to it.
If you refuse: no AdSense script, cookie, or network request occurs, and the advertising consent signals sent to Google remain denied.

See our Cookie Policy for the exact storage/cookie detail, and how to change or withdraw your choice at any time via “Cookie Settings” in the footer.

Server logs

Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs (such as request timestamps and IP addresses) for operational and security purposes, in line with its own privacy practices. This is separate from the analytics described above and is not something this site’s own code controls or reads.

Your choices and rights

You can accept or reject analytics on your first visit, and change that choice at any time via “Cookie Settings” in the footer of any page — no page ever requires analytics to be readable.
You can ask what data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask a general privacy question, by contacting privacy@korealived.com (see our Contact page).

Third parties

Google (as described above, for both analytics and advertising) is currently the only third party that processes visitor data on this site. We do not sell visitor information. If we introduce any other third-party service that processes visitor data in the future, we will name it here and describe what it collects before it goes live.

Children’s privacy

This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when our data 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 means the “Cookie Settings” choice is asked again, even if you decided before.