Terms of Use

Article 1. Purpose

These Terms of Use set out the conditions for using and operating the services of “Site name” (the “Site”).

Article 2. Definitions

The principal terms used in these Terms are defined as follows.

① Member: a user who agrees to these Terms, provides personal information, registers as a member, enters into a service agreement with the Site and uses the Site.

② Service agreement: an agreement between the Site and a Member regarding use of the Site.

③ Member ID (“ID”): a unique combination of letters and numbers assigned to each Member for identification and service use.

④ Password: a combination of letters and numbers selected by a Member to verify the Member associated with an ID and protect the Member's rights.

⑤ Operator: the operator who establishes and runs a website within the service.

⑥ Termination: a Member's cancellation of the service agreement.

Article 3. Matters outside these Terms

The Operator may separately announce operating policies when necessary. If these Terms and an operating policy overlap, the operating policy takes precedence.

Article 4. Formation of the service agreement

① The agreement is formed when a person wishing to register agrees to these Terms, applies for membership and the Operator accepts the application.

② A person wishing to register indicates agreement by reading these Terms and selecting “I agree” on the registration application.

Article 5. Application to use the service

① A user wishing to register must provide the information requested by the Site, such as ID, password and nickname.

② Members who use another person's information or submit false information instead of their own true information may not assert rights relating to use of the Site and may be subject to penalties under applicable law.

Article 6. Privacy policy

The Site and Operator do not hold the passwords included in information provided at registration. Related matters are governed by the Site's Privacy Policy.

The Operator endeavors to protect Members' personal information, including registration information, as required by applicable law.

Protection of Members' personal information is governed by applicable law and the Site's Privacy Policy.

The Operator is not responsible for information disclosed for reasons attributable to a Member.

If a Member registers or distributes unlawful posts, including content contrary to public morals or national security, the Operator may inspect and submit the Member's data at the request of a competent authority.

Article 7. Operator's obligations

① The Operator shall address Members' opinions or complaints as promptly as possible when considered justified. If prompt handling is difficult for personal reasons, the Operator will endeavor to notify Members later or contact them by message or email.

② To provide a continuous, stable Site, the Operator may request immediate repair or restoration when equipment fails or is lost. Operation may be suspended temporarily in a natural disaster or other unavoidable circumstances affecting the Site or Operator.

Article 8. Members' obligations

① Members must comply with these Terms, rules, notices, operating policies and applicable law. They must not interfere with the Site's business or damage its reputation.

② Without the Site's express consent, Members may not assign or give their service rights or contractual status to others, or offer them as security.

③ Users must exercise due care in managing IDs and passwords and may not give their IDs to a third party without the Operator's or Site's consent.

④ Members must not infringe the intellectual property rights of the Operator, Site or third parties.

Article 9. Service hours

① Unless business or technical circumstances prevent it, service is generally available 24 hours a day, year-round. The Site may suspend service at designated times for routine inspections, expansion or replacement, with advance notice on its website. Please check notices regularly.

② The Site may nevertheless suspend service temporarily or permanently without advance notice in the following cases.

- Emergency system inspection, expansion, replacement, breakdown or malfunction

- Force majeure such as a national emergency, power outage or natural disaster

- A telecommunications carrier defined under Korea's Telecommunications Business Act suspends telecommunications services

- Excessive service demand interferes with normal use

③ Members will be notified through notices in advance of suspension under the preceding provision. If advance notice is impossible for reasons beyond the Site's control, notice will be given afterward.

Article 10. Termination of service use

① A Member wishing to terminate the agreement must personally apply online to cancel registration. Termination of the Site's service agreement must be carried out separately from termination of Site use.

② Upon a termination request, Site-related programs provided by the Site are automatically removed from the Member management screen, and the Operator can no longer view that Member's information.

Article 11. Restrictions on service use

Members must not engage in the following acts. The Site may restrict use, take lawful measures, terminate the agreement or suspend service for a specified period if a Member does so.

① Registering false information when joining or updating information

② Interfering with others' use or misappropriating their information

③ Impersonating the Site's management, employees or representatives

④ Infringing personal or intellectual property rights, or interfering with the business of the Site or third parties

⑤ Improperly using another Member's ID

⑥ Collecting, storing or disclosing another Member's personal information without consent

⑦ Acts objectively considered connected with crime

⑧ Other acts contrary to applicable law

Article 12. Management of posts

① The Operator is responsible for managing and operating posts and materials on the Site, must monitor inappropriate content, and must remove it and warn the posting Member when it is discovered or reported.

Members are responsible for their own posts and must not post content that violates these Terms.

② The Operator may delete or move posts without a Member's prior consent if a public authority, such as the Information and Communications Ethics Committee, requests corrective action.

③ The following criteria determine inappropriate posts.

- Seriously insulting another Member or third party, or harming their reputation

- Distributing or linking content contrary to public order or morals

- Encouraging unlawful copying or hacking

- Advertising for commercial gain

- Content objectively considered connected with crime

- Infringing copyright or other rights of another user or third party

- Otherwise considered contrary to applicable law

④ If a third party requests removal for defamation or infringement of intellectual property or other rights, the Site and Operator may temporarily suspend the post or transmission. They will follow a judgment, settlement or equivalent competent-authority decision submitted concerning the dispute between the requester and poster.

Article 13. Preservation of posts

If unavoidable circumstances require closure of the Site, the Operator will notify Members in advance and endeavor to take all measures to make transfer of posts easy.

Article 14. Copyright in posts

① Copyright in a Member's posts belongs to that Member. The Site may not use a post commercially without the poster's consent, except for non-profit purposes, and retains the right to display it within the service.

② Members may not commercially use materials obtained through the service, including by modifying or selling them without authorization.

③ The Operator may delete, move or refuse registration of content without prior notice if it considers the content to fall under Article 12.

Article 15. Damages

① Members bear primary responsibility for all civil and criminal liability arising on the Site.

② No damages are payable for loss caused by force majeure, such as natural disasters, or by a Member's intentional act or negligence.

Article 16. Exclusion of liability

① The Operator is not responsible for failure to obtain expected benefits from the service or losses arising from selecting or using service materials.

② The Operator is not responsible for failures of the Site's infrastructure or telecommunications services supplied by other carriers. Losses relating to the Site's infrastructure are governed by the Site's Terms.

③ The Operator bears no responsibility for materials Members store, post or transmit.

④ The Operator is not responsible for service interruptions attributable to a Member.

⑤ The Operator is not responsible for activities between Members, between Members and third parties, or any Member activity inside or outside the service, including data transmission and community activity.

⑥ The Operator is not responsible for the authenticity, reliability or accuracy of materials Members post or transmit, or any materials provided through the Site.

⑦ The Operator is not responsible for losses arising from goods transactions or other dealings conducted through the service between Members or with third parties.

⑧ The Operator is not responsible for disputes between Members or with third parties where the Operator is not at fault.

⑨ The Operator is not responsible for losses caused, without intentional misconduct or gross negligence equivalent to intent, by failures during server or equipment management, inspection, maintenance, replacement or software operation; third-party attacks; computer viruses for which leading research or security organizations have not developed countermeasures; or other force majeure beyond the Operator's control.

Supplementary provision

These Terms take effect from <Site opening date>.