Privacy Policy

Information we collect

• -Contact form submissions, including name, email address, topic, and message.
• -Account profile information, such as display name, email address, nationality, resident type, city, visa type, language preferences, and optional bio.
• -Community submissions, such as settlement stories, monthly budget ranges, rent, deposit, housing type, ratings, and practical advice that you choose to share.
• -Basic technical data collected by hosting, analytics, security, or monitoring providers, such as IP address, browser, device, and page activity.
• -Voluntary feedback or corrections sent by users.

How we use information

• -To respond to messages and improve site content.
• -To operate, secure, debug, and measure the website.
• -To publish approved community submissions and aggregate anonymized settlement data by city, visa type, or resident type.
• -To review resource suggestions, corrections, and partnership requests.

Third-party services

settlykorea may use hosting, analytics, form delivery, email, database, or monitoring providers. These providers process data according to their own terms and privacy policies.

Retention

We keep contact messages and operational logs only as long as reasonably needed for support, site improvement, security, and legal compliance.

Contact

For privacy questions or deletion requests, use the contact page.