Who we are
Our website address is: https://hikoreahi.com. Hi Korea Hi is a personal blog sharing travel, food, beauty, and daily-life guides about Korea for an international audience.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Google AdSense and Advertising
This site uses, or plans to use, Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (such as the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Google Analytics
This site may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. For more information on how Google uses this data, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or trade your personal information to third parties. We may share limited data with service providers such as Google (Analytics and AdSense) and our hosting provider as necessary to operate the website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive 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, and data may be processed by third-party services such as Google (Analytics/AdSense) and our hosting provider, which may store data outside your country of residence.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hikoreahi.official@gmail.com.