Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 12, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected when you visit Stranger in Korea (www.strangerinkorea.com, "the blog", "we", "us") and how it is used.

1. Who runs this blog

This blog is a personal travel and food blog run by a couple based in South Korea. It is hosted on Google's Blogger platform. You can contact us at hello@strangerinkorea.com.

2. Information we collect

• Information you give us: if you leave a comment or email us, we receive the name, email address and message you choose to send. We use it only to reply to you and to run the comment section.
• Information collected automatically: like most websites, this blog and its service providers receive standard technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device, referring page and the pages you view. Blogger collects basic visit statistics for us; we only see aggregated numbers, not who you are.

We do not sell your personal information.

3. Hosting by Google (Blogger)

This blog is hosted by Google. When you visit, Google processes data as described in the Google Privacy Policy. If you comment using a Google account, Google's terms apply to that account.

4. Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored in your browser. This blog and its third-party providers (including Google) use cookies to keep the site working, to measure visits, to prevent spam, and — if advertising is enabled — to show and measure ads. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; some parts of the site may not work as expected if you do.

5. Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use or may use Google AdSense to show advertisements on this blog.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
• To learn more, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland may be shown a consent message (managed through Google) before personalized ads or cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time through that message.

6. Links to other websites

Our posts link to maps, booking sites, restaurant pages and other blogs. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites; please read their policies.

7. Affiliate links

Some posts may contain affiliate links. If you buy something through such a link, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Posts that contain affiliate links say so clearly.

8. Children

This blog is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe, the CCPA in California, or Korea's Personal Information Protection Act), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information we hold about you, such as a comment or an email. To make a request, email us at hello@strangerinkorea.com. For data held by Google, please use Google's own privacy tools.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page shows when it was last changed.