Who we are
The Philippine Magazine is an independent online magazine dedicated to stories about the Philippines, its people, places, culture, traditions, food and everyday life.
Our website address is: https://thephilippinemagazine.com
The website is operated under the name The Philippine Magazine.
For questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the processing of personal information, you can contact us at:
contact@thephilippinemagazine.com
Data Controller
The Philippine Magazine is an independent online magazine privately operated by Dieter Sokoll.
Dieter Sokoll is responsible for the collection and processing of personal information through this website.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or requests concerning personal information, please contact:
Dieter Sokoll
The Philippine Magazine
contact@thephilippinemagazine.com
Purpose and Lawful Basis of Processing
The Philippine Magazine collects and processes personal information only for specific and legitimate purposes.
These purposes include:
- Contact enquiries: Information voluntarily submitted through our contact form is used to respond to enquiries and communicate with visitors.
- Comments: Information submitted with comments is used to manage, moderate and publish comments and to protect the website against misuse.
- Website operation and security: Technical information, including IP addresses and browser information, may be processed to maintain website functionality, security and reliability.
- Cookie preferences: Necessary cookies support essential website functions. Optional cookies are only activated in accordance with visitors’ consent preferences.
Depending on the purpose, the processing of personal information is based on the visitor’s consent, steps taken at the visitor’s request, or our legitimate interests in operating and securing the website, as permitted by applicable data protection laws.
Where processing is based on consent, visitors may withdraw their consent at any time through the available privacy and cookie settings.
Comments
Visitors may be able to leave comments on articles published on The Philippine Magazine.
When visitors submit a comment, we collect the information entered in the comment form, including the visitor’s name, email address and comment. WordPress also records the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent information. We use this information to manage comments, moderate submissions and help protect the website.
Comments are subject to manual moderation before publication. We reserve the right to approve, decline or remove comments.
Once approved, comments and the name provided by the commenter may be visible publicly alongside the relevant article.
We do not currently display Gravatar profile images on our website.
Media
Visitors cannot upload images or other media files to The Philippine Magazine through this website. Images and other media published on the website are selected and uploaded by the website administrators.
Cookies
The Philippine Magazine uses cookies to ensure the proper functioning and security of the website and to provide a reliable browsing experience.
Our cookie consent management system, CookieAdmin, stores visitors’ consent preferences in a necessary cookie named cookieadmin_consent. This cookie has an expiry period of 365 days and is required to remember the visitor’s cookie choices.
We distinguish between the following cookie categories:
Necessary Cookies: Required for essential website functions and always active.
Functional Cookies: Used to enable additional website features.
Analytical Cookies: Used to collect information about website usage and visitor interactions.
Advertisement Cookies: Used for advertising purposes and the measurement of advertising campaigns.
Optional cookies in the Functional, Analytical and Advertisement categories remain disabled until visitors give their consent.
At present, The Philippine Magazine does not use third-party analytics or advertising services such as Google Analytics, Google AdSense or Microsoft Clarity.
Visitors can accept all cookies, reject all optional cookies or customize their preferences individually. Preferences can be changed at any time using the cookie settings icon displayed on the website.
Where supported by their browser, we also respect Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.
WordPress may set additional cookies when visitors interact with certain website features, such as submitting comments. If visitors choose to save their name, email address and website information when commenting, WordPress may store this information in cookies to make future comments more convenient.
External Links
Our website may contain links to external websites, including video platforms such as YouTube.
The Philippine Magazine does not control these external websites or their privacy practices. When visitors follow an external link, they leave our website and are subject to the privacy policies and terms of the respective third-party provider.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information or using its services.
Who we share your data with
The Philippine Magazine does not sell or rent visitors’ personal information to third parties.
Personal information submitted through comments is stored in our WordPress website database, hosted by Namecheap. Contact form messages are transmitted through our website and delivered to our editorial email address, which is hosted by Namecheap. These messages are stored in our email account for as long as necessary to handle enquiries and maintain correspondence.
Messages submitted through the contact form are delivered to our editorial email address using the email service provided by our hosting provider.
Cookie consent preferences are managed by the CookieAdmin plugin within our website environment.
We only use personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operating the website, responding to enquiries, managing comments and maintaining website security.
If additional third-party services are introduced in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.
How long we retain your data
If visitors leave comments on our website, the comments and their associated information may be retained indefinitely, unless they are removed by the website administrators or the commenter requests their removal.
New comments are no longer accepted on articles after 90 days, but previously submitted comments may remain published and stored until they are removed.
Messages submitted through our contact form are received at our editorial email address. We retain these messages for as long as necessary to respond to enquiries, maintain correspondence and meet any applicable legal or administrative requirements. Messages that are no longer needed may be deleted.
Technical server logs may be retained for a limited period by our hosting provider for security, troubleshooting and maintenance purposes.
Cookie consent records may be retained within our website environment for as long as necessary for documentation, security and administrative purposes. These records are subject to periodic review and may be deleted when they are no longer needed.
What rights you have over your data
Visitors may contact The Philippine Magazine to request information about the personal data we hold about them.
Depending on applicable data protection laws, visitors may have the right to:
- Request access to their personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion or blocking of personal information where legally applicable.
- Object to certain types of data processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Lodge a complaint with the National Privacy Commission of the Philippines if they believe their data privacy rights have been violated.
- Request a copy of their personal information in a structured and commonly used format and have it transferred to another organization where applicable.
- Seek compensation for damages sustained as a result of inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained or unauthorized use of their personal information, where legally applicable.
Some information may need to be retained where required by law or for legitimate security and administrative purposes.
To make a request concerning personal information, please contact:
Dieter Sokoll
contact@thephilippinemagazine.com
Where your data is sent
The Philippine Magazine is hosted by Namecheap. Website data may be stored and processed on the hosting infrastructure used to operate the website.
Our website hosting environment is located in Singapore. As a result, personal information submitted through the website may be stored or processed outside the country where the visitor is located.
Contact form messages are delivered to our editorial email address, which is also hosted by Namecheap. These messages may be stored and processed on the same hosting infrastructure.
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information and limit access to it to those who need it to operate the website.
Last updated: November 13, 2026