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Privacy policy

What we collect, why, how long we keep it — and how to turn off personalised ads.

1. What we collect

We do not require an account and we do not run comments, so we do not collect names, addresses or contact details from readers in the ordinary course of reading the site. The following is processed:

  • Collected automatically — IP address, time of access, requested path, browser and operating system, referring page, and cookies.
  • Sent to us by you — the email address and message you provide when you request a correction, report a copyright issue, or otherwise write to us.

2. Why we process it

  • Running the site, diagnosing faults, and preventing abuse
  • Answering enquiries and correction requests
  • Understanding aggregate usage in order to improve the site
  • Serving advertising (see 5 below)

3. How long we keep it, and how it is destroyed

  • Access logs — three months from creation, then destroyed. Logs held for an ongoing fault or security investigation are kept until it concludes.
  • Correspondence about corrections — three years after the matter is closed. Korean press law sets limitation periods for such claims, so we do not delete these immediately.

Electronic records are deleted by means that prevent recovery; any printed material is shredded.

4. Disclosure to third parties

We do not pass personal data to third parties without consent, except where a law requires it or an investigating authority requests it through the procedure the law prescribes.

5. Advertising — Google AdSense and advertising cookies

This site uses Google AdSense to serve advertising.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookiesto serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site.
  • Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. To opt out of personalised advertising from many vendors at once, use www.aboutads.info.
  • How Google handles data when it serves ads is described in Google’s policy for partner sites.

Opting out stops ads being personalised; it does not stop ads appearing.

Readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are shown a consent message before personalised advertising is served.

6. Processors

Google LLC processes data on our behalf for the purpose of serving advertising. If we engage another processor, or the arrangement changes, we will say so here.

7. Transfer outside Korea

In the course of serving advertising (5 and 6 above), cookie identifiers and IP addresses may be processed on servers operated by Google LLC outside the Republic of Korea.

  • Recipient — Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
  • Destination — the United States and other countries where Google operates servers
  • Data — cookie identifiers, IP address, browser information, ad impression and click records
  • When and how — transmitted over the network when you open a page carrying advertising
  • Purpose and retention— serving and measuring advertising; retention follows Google’s own policies
  • How to refuse — opt out of personalised ads as described in 5, or block cookies as described in 8

8. Cookies and how to refuse them

A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store. This site uses:

  • a cookie recording the display language you chose;
  • cookies set by Google and other advertising vendors (see 5).

You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings — in Chrome under Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies, in Safari under Settings > Privacy, in Edge under Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Refusing cookies does not prevent you reading articles.

9. Your rights

You may ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to its processing. Write to the address in 11 below and we will act without delay and tell you the outcome.

Because we hold no account records, a request about access logs may require you to identify the relevant time and IP address so that we can locate them.

10. Security

  • Access to personal data is limited to the minimum number of people.
  • Traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS.
  • Access records are retained and protected against tampering.
  • Access to servers and databases is controlled.

11. Data protection officer

Under Article 31(2) of the Personal Information Protection Act, where no separate officer is appointed the publisher is the data protection officer. That is the position here.

12. Where else to complain

If you are not satisfied with how we handled a request, these Korean bodies handle personal data complaints independently of us:

  • Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee — +82 1833-6972 (www.kopico.go.kr)
  • Privacy Infringement Report Centre — 118 in Korea (privacy.kisa.or.kr)

Complaints about the accuracy of an article are a separate matter → corrections.

13. Changes

If this policy changes we will publish the change and the date it takes effect on this page. New advertising or analytics services are reflected here before they are introduced.

This is an English rendering of a document written to comply with Korean law. Where the two differ, the Korean version is authoritative.