Privacy Policy

Below the Code (“this site”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information is handled and how.

1. Information we handle

This site has no user accounts and does not ask visitors for personal information such as names or contact details. However, the following information may be processed automatically or when you choose to provide it.

  • Access logs: The server that runs this site may record information such as IP address, browser type, date and time of visit, and pages requested, for security and troubleshooting.
  • Email inquiries: If you contact us by email, your email address and message are used only to reply to you.

2. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. This site uses cookies for the following purposes.

  • Language preference: A cookie (pll_language) remembers the language you chose (Korean or English).
  • Advertising: Advertising cookies may be used as described in section 3.

You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings. Some features, such as remembering your language, may not work properly if you do.

3. Advertising (Google AdSense)

This site may display ads through Google AdSense.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
  • To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are asked for consent before advertising cookies are used, as required by applicable law.

4. Sharing with third parties

This site does not sell or share visitors’ personal information with third parties, except where required by law.

5. Retention and deletion

Email inquiries are kept only as long as needed to reply and follow up, and are deleted once that purpose has been served. Server access logs are deleted after a period set by the hosting provider’s retention policy.

6. Your rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of information this site holds about you (for example, an email you sent). Please contact us at the address below and we will respond promptly.

7. Contact

For questions about this policy: belowthecode.contact@gmail.com

8. Changes

Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page. Effective date: 2026-10-10