Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Blonde Kimchi (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are dedicated to providing the best Korean recipes, cultural commentary, and kitchen guides. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

2. The “Cookies” We Use (And Why)

To make Blonde Kimchi function as a modern publisher, we utilize “cookies”, small text files stored on your device. We use them for three specific purposes:

• Site Optimization & Performance: These cookies allow the site to load faster and function correctly on your mobile device or desktop. They help us remember your preferences (like staying logged in or keeping your language settings).
• Analytics: We use tools like Google Analytics to understand how our audience interacts with our content (e.g., seeing which “Webtoon Recipes” are trending). This data is anonymized and helps us create more of the content you love.
• Advertising & Marketing: These cookies allow us and our third-party advertising partners to display ads relevant to your interests.

Your Control: When you first visit our site, you will be presented with a Cookie Consent Banner. You have the right to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can change these settings at any time in your browser.

3. Affiliate Disclosure (How We Earn)

Transparency is a core value of Blonde Kimchi. We participate in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.

• Amazon Affiliate Disclosure:Blonde Kimchi is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and its regional counterparts (Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, etc.).
  • What this means for you: If you click a link to a “Stone Bowl (Dolsot)” or a “Rice Cooker” recommended in our guides and make a purchase, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps fund the development of our recipes.

4. Advertising Disclosure

To keep our content free, we display programmatic advertisements on our website.

• Third-Party Vendors: We work with third-party ad networks (such as Google AdSense or future premium partners) to serve ads. These vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
• Personalized Ads: Users in certain regions may see personalized ads based on browsing behavior.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

5. Your Rights (GDPR & Global)

Since we operate out of Belgium and serve a global audience, we adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You have the right to:

• Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction: Request that we correct any incorrect data.
• Erasure: Request that we delete your personal data (“The Right to be Forgotten”).
• Withdraw Consent: You may withdraw your consent for cookies at any time.

6. Intellectual Property

All content, photography, and recipes on this site are the property of Blonde Kimchi, unless otherwise noted (e.g., media commentary on Webtoons/K-Dramas falls under Fair Use). You may not republish our full recipes or images without prior written permission.

7. Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this policy or your data, please contact us at: Email: [email protected]