Privacy Policy
How Korea Local Guide handles visitor information, cookies, analytics, advertising, maps, videos, and user-submitted content.
Overview
This Privacy Policy explains how Korea Local Guide may collect, use, and protect information when visitors use this website. The site is intended to provide English-language travel information about South Korea.
This policy should be reviewed and adjusted before launch to match the exact services, analytics tools, advertising platforms, contact methods, and hosting environment used by the site.
Information we may collect
When visitors browse the website, limited technical information may be collected automatically. This may include:
- Pages visited
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Referring page or search query, when available
- Approximate location derived from network information
- Date, time, and basic usage patterns
- IP address or server log information required for security and operation
If visitors submit a traveler note, correction request, contact message, or similar content, we may collect the information included in that submission, such as name, message text, article URL, rating, visit month, or contact email if provided.
How we use information
Information may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Improve article quality and site structure
- Understand which content is useful to visitors
- Detect technical problems or abuse
- Review submitted corrections and traveler notes
- Respond to enquiries
- Measure advertising or analytics performance, if those services are enabled
We do not require visitors to create an account for normal browsing.
Cookies and similar technologies
The website may use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies to support basic functionality, analytics, embedded services, advertising, and user experience features.
For example, the route planner may store selected places in the visitor's browser so that the itinerary can be built without requiring an account. Analytics or advertising tools may also use cookies according to their own policies.
Visitors can control or block cookies through browser settings. Some features may not work correctly if cookies, scripts, local storage, maps, or embedded media are blocked.
Analytics and advertising
Korea Local Guide may use analytics tools to understand traffic, popular pages, device types, and general usage patterns. If advertising services such as Google AdSense are added, advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure, and improve ads.
Advertising partners may process information according to their own privacy policies. Visitors can manage ad personalization through the settings provided by their browser, device, or advertising provider.
Embedded maps, videos, and third-party services
Some pages may include embedded maps, YouTube videos, external links, public data, or other third-party services. These services may receive technical information such as IP address, browser details, and the page being viewed.
Korea Local Guide does not control the privacy practices of third-party services. Visitors should review the privacy policies of those services when using embedded maps, videos, or external links.
Public data and article content
Some travel information may be based on public tourism data, official sources, maps, or other publicly available materials. Article pages may include addresses, coordinates, images, videos, and practical visitor information related to places.
If you believe content on the site includes inaccurate information or should be corrected, please contact us through the contact page.
User-submitted content
Traveler notes, corrections, and other submissions may be reviewed before publication. Submitted content may be edited for clarity, length, spam prevention, formatting, or safety.
Do not submit private, sensitive, illegal, defamatory, or copyrighted material that you do not have permission to share.
Data retention
We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for site operation, content review, security, analytics, legal compliance, or communication. Server logs and analytics records may be retained according to the settings of the hosting provider or analytics service.
User submissions may be stored while the related article or moderation record remains relevant.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. However, no website, server, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Visitors should avoid sending highly sensitive information through general contact channels.
Children's privacy
Korea Local Guide is a general travel information website and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children. If a parent or guardian believes that a child has submitted personal information, they may contact us to request review or deletion.
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when site features, analytics, advertising, contact methods, or legal requirements change. The updated version will be posted on this page.
Contact
For privacy-related questions or correction requests, please contact the site operator through the contact page.