Korea Plastic Surgery is an independent research site. We don’t sell products, run an online store, or require account registration to read the site. The personal data we handle comes from the contact form, from comments on the few articles where comments are open, and from the analytics described below.
1. Contact Messages and Comments
The contact form asks for your name, email address, the topic and your message, and optionally a company name and phone number, along with your agreement to our using those details to answer you. We use them only to reply to your enquiry. We do not pass them to clinics, hospitals or agencies, and we do not use them for marketing.
Comments are open on only some articles. If you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comment form (name, email, comment text), plus your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized hash of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile picture there; if approved, that picture becomes publicly visible next to your comment. If you opt in, your name, email, and website may be saved in a cookie so you don’t have to re-enter them on your next comment; this cookie lasts one year.
2. Analytics
We use a self-hosted analytics plugin (Independent Analytics) to understand traffic to the site. It stores aggregate visit statistics directly in our own server database rather than sending data to a third-party analytics company, and it does not set tracking cookies.
3. Embedded Content and Outbound Links
Articles on this site may link out to Korean-language clinic sites, review platforms, and other sources we cite as part of our research, as well as government or medical references. Those are third-party sites with their own privacy practices, separate from ours. None of these outbound links is paid, sponsored or an affiliate link, and we receive nothing when you visit or contact a clinic. See our Commercial Disclosure.
4. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you left a comment or sent us a message, you can ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct or erase it, by writing to us through the contact page. This doesn’t include data we’re obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
5. What We Don’t Do
- We don’t sell or rent visitor data to third parties.
- We don’t require account registration to read the site.
- We don’t run e-commerce checkout or store payment information.
- We don’t share contact messages or your details with clinics, hospitals or agencies.