What we use today
Korea Now currently sets one cookie, and only after you sign in: a session cookie that keeps you logged in. It is marked HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite, so it cannot be read by scripts and is not sent from other sites. The value stored in our database is a hash, not the token itself.
There is no advertising cookie, no analytics cookie, and no third-party tracker in the service today.
Browser storage, not cookies
Several features save data in your browser rather than on our servers, so they work without an account and never reach us:
- Your travel stage, trip readiness checklist, and saved trip items
- Your accommodation address and airport arrival plan
- Draft questions and visit updates you have not published
Clearing your browser data removes all of it. Because it is local, it does not transfer between devices.
Offline support
A service worker caches the interface shell and an offline page so the app opens without a connection. Advertising responses are never stored in that cache.
Cookies we will add
Two categories are planned, and neither is active yet:
- Consent — recording your advertising and analytics choices, including which version of the notice you answered and when. This is required for the choice to persist.
- Advertising — set by Google when advertising is enabled. In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland these are not set unless you consent through a certified consent platform.
Refusing cookies
The session cookie is required to stay signed in; refusing it means browsing without an account, which works for all public content. Advertising cookies will be refusable without losing any feature. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time.
Related policies
See the privacy policy for what we collect and how long we keep it, and the advertising disclosure for where advertising can and cannot appear.
This page describes the current implementation and is updated when storage behaviour changes. It is not legal advice.