Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-09-05. Last updated: 2026-09-27 (Google Analytics added). Publisher: Trace Korea, an independent English-language publication operated from the Republic of Korea. This page is updated whenever the site's hosting, analytics, advertising, contact method, or consent technology changes.

What this site does today

Trace Korea publishes evidence-led analysis. The site does not run Google AdSense or any other advertising. It uses Google Analytics 4 to measure readership, as described below. It has no newsletter, user accounts, contact form, or public comment system. We do not sell, share, or trade personal information.

Blogger hosting

The site is hosted on Google's Blogger service at www.tracekorea.com (custom domain; the underlying Blogger address korea-signal-dev.blogspot.com redirects here). When you visit, Google may process technical information such as your IP address, browser and device information, cookies, and server logs under Google's Privacy Policy and the Blogger terms. Trace Korea does not receive this information in identifiable form. Apart from Google Analytics, described below, the site adds no tracking of its own.

Google Analytics

Trace Korea uses Google Analytics 4, enabled through Blogger, to understand how many people read the site and which pages they read. When a page loads, Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (such as _ga and _ga_<ID>) to tell visits apart and sends Google information such as the page address, the referring page, browser and device type, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. We see only aggregated reports, use them only to understand readership, and do not use them to identify individual visitors or for advertising. Google processes this data under How Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can block it with your browser's cookie settings or the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Theme preference

The Trace Korea theme stores one first-party browser value named ks-theme in local storage when you choose System, Light, or Dark mode. It is read only to remember that display choice and is never transmitted. You can remove it by clearing site storage in your browser.

Advertising and consent

Advertising is not active. If Google AdSense is enabled in the future, this policy will be revised before activation to disclose advertising cookies, data use, opt-out choices, and the Google-certified consent management platform that will be shown to visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Email you send us

If you write to koreasignal.contact@gmail.com, we keep your message only as long as needed to answer it or to document a correction. Please do not send confidential information, account credentials, or sensitive personal data.

Your rights

You may ask what personal information we hold about you, request correction or deletion, or object to processing by emailing the address above. We answer within 30 days. Visitors in the Republic of Korea have rights under the Personal Information Protection Act; visitors in the EEA and United Kingdom have rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Contact

Privacy questions: koreasignal.contact@gmail.com. See also the Contact page.