#plokia terms

Welcome to PLOKia!

We would like to introduce you with basic information relating to service use that you might be curious about while using PLOKia services. You will be able to understand the rights, obligations, responsibilities, and other necessary matters between PLOKia (hereinafter “PLOKia” or “Company”) and Subscriber (hereinafter “Subscriber” or “You”). The Terms of Service will help you with your use of the Services, so please read them carefully.

We make efforts to protect your personal information.

Safe handling of your personal information is very important to us. PLOKia will use your personal information only within the purpose and scope for which your consent is given to us to ensure seamless provision of Services. Unless otherwise required by the relevant laws and regulations or consented by you, PLOKia will never disclose your personal information to a third party. Please refer to the PLOKia Privacy Policy for information on the efforts made by PLOKia to protect your personal information.

PLOKia protects the copyright of content.

PLOKia respects your intellectual property rights. You may provide content such as photos, text, information, comments or proposals, by posting them on Services, and you retain all intellectual property rights in and to such content.

PLOKia believes that your content has useful information and that it is very important to ensure that such content is accessed by legitimate means and process. If you post any content on Services, the content may be exposed to PLOKia services, and you will be deemed to have granted to PLOKia and its partners a worldwide and permanent license to use, store, copy, modify, publicly transmit, display and distribute such content within the required extent.

In this case, PLOKia complies with copyrights laws, and you may at any time take actions to delete the concerned content or make it a private content through PLOKia’s Customer Service or using the administration function within Services if available. For the avoidance of doubt, the rights granted to PLOKia and its partners under such license will be used only for the purposes of the operation, improvement and promotion of Services and the development of new PLOKia services.

Some Services may offer ways to access and remove the content that you have provided to such Services. Also, for certain Services, there are settings that can limit the scope of PLOKia’s use of the content submitted through such Services. You can find more information about how PLOKia uses and stores your content in the PLOKia Privacy Policy or you can contact the Q&A Center for each Service.

You should have acquired all legal rights necessary for you to be able to grant a license to PLOKia to use the content you provided to PLOKia, and you may not disclose or post any content that is pornographic or violates public order, laws or good morals.

If PLOKia determines that the content you have provided violates relevant laws or PLOKia’s policies, PLOKia may remove, delete or refuse to post such content; however, PLOKia does not have an obligation to review or edit any content. If you believe that your right has been infringed, you may get help from the PLOKia Customer Center for the relevant Service.

Services may include content that is not owned by PLOKia. In such case, the individual who has provided such content will solely be liable for such content. Your use of Services does not grant you any right to the content provided by other users. To use other users’ content made available through Services, you must separately obtain the permission from the owner thereof.

Restrictions on Use of the Services

Promoting illegal gambling websites

Selling or promoting illegal products or products that are banned from sale on the Internet

Posting content that contains any information that motivates or assists illegal activities

Posting content that contains programs with viruses or other malicious codes, which may hinder the use of the Services by others

Attempting to steal personal information

Sharing works of other people including broadcasts, music records, movies and animated films without the consent of authors

Providing information on how to acquire works of others by unlawful means (e.g. free downloads, free servers and sharing of CD keys)

Infringing on other people’s rights including trademark rights and design rights

Using content posted by other people (in whole or in part) including photos and images without permission

Signing up or using Services by stealing someone else’s personal information, account, or device

Posting content that contains nudity or depict obscene behavior

Posting content that pertains to prostitution

Posting content that may sexually humiliate or offend others

Posting gruesome or offensive photos or content (e.g. mauled bodies of people/animals or criminal scenes)

Posting content that slanders people of any specific nationality, race, religion, ethnicity, gender or disability

Posting abnormal content such as repetition of a specific work or phrase on a Service or on Services

Engaging in promotional activities on others’ posts without permission, sending friend requests or liking posts to attract visits or likes

Signing up or using Services for commercial gain, promotional or advertising purposes

Signing up or using Services for malicious purposes such as taking advantage of systematic weakness

Selling, transferring, or lending accounts or content within the account to someone else, or letting someone else use your account

Attempting to exchange, purchase or transfer accounts and their content, or helping someone else do such activities

Accessing an account belong to someone else and stealing their content

Registering/unregistering of Services and creating multiple accounts

Causing any harm or confusion to other users by impersonating a company employee or an administrator of the Services, thereby deceiving other users or deriving benefit

Using any language that is generally considered profane such as swear words, vulgar words or slang expressions

Doing anything that is considered abnormal when judged by common sense of the Company and its users or by social norms

Unregistering from the Service after agreeing to the Company’s re-registration policy : The user will not be able to re-register for the Service.

The Terms of Use will be posted for you to easily understand and be modified upon sharing with you in advance.

Company will post the Terms of Use within the Service or connecting page so that You can easily access the content. The Company may amend the Terms of Use within the scope of not violating relevant laws. In the case when the Company amends the Terms of Use, it shall post a public notice in Service with clear statement of the application date and the reason of amendment thirty (30) days prior to the application day along with existing Terms. However, if the change is unfavorable to You, the Company shall post such change within the service for a certain period of time and use other possible electronic means, such as agreement pop-up during login to clearly notify you of the modification.

Notwithstanding the clear statement of the Company, that when it gives a notification pursuant to the previous Clause, if the Subscriber fails to express any disagreement explicitly within thirty (30) days, the Subscriber shall be deemed to have agreed with the amended version of Terms of Use. When You do not agree to the application of amended Terms of Use, the Company cannot apply the amended provisions, and You may terminate the Agreement. In case the existing Terms of Use cannot be applied for special reasons, the Company may terminate the use agreement. If any part of this Terms of Use shall be adjudged to be invalid, the remainder shall remain effective.

You will go through several steps before the actual use of Service.

The agreement is established with approval of Company at a request of a person who wish to be Subscriber (hereinafter “Subscription Applicant”) to apply oneself as Subscriber upon consenting to the details of the Agreement. As a general rule, the Company grants the Subscription Applicant the right to use the Service. However, the Company may disallow use or terminate the agreement at a later date in the following cases: First of all, if the Subscription Applicant previously lost his/her rights as a Subscriber, due to provisions in the Terms of Use; however, those who were permitted to re-subscribe as Subscriber to Company is an exception; secondly, if the Subscription Applicant provides false information or does not provide information requested by the Company; thirdly, if the approval of subscription is impossible due to a reason attributable to the Subscription Applicant or if the application is made violating provisions set forth herein. Lastly, child and youth below 13 in the US shall not be allowed to use the Service. Other than these, the Company may reserve approval if there is a lack of service-related facilities or if technical or managerial issues are present.

If the Subscription application is not approved, or is deferred, then as a general rule, the Company must notify the Subscription Applicant of the decision. The agreement for use will become effective when the Company shows that the application is completed on the application process. The Company may classify Subscribers based on company policies, and differentiate the conditions of each use category by segmenting use time and number of usages and service menus.

There are several matters that required your attention concerning Service use.

The Subscriber must not conduct the following actions for sound use of the Service. Such actions refer to using the Service against its original purpose and include the followings: 1) Submitting false information when subscribing or changing information 2) Illegally using other person’s information 3) Illegally collecting or disclosing other Subscriber’s personal information or registration/ usage history. 4) Posing risk to account security including allowing other to access one’s account 5) Distributing false information for the purpose of providing monetary benefits or posing damage to others 6) Using Service to encourage or mediate unsound relationship or 7) Actions that defame or damage individual or group’s reputation.

Also, we ask the Subscriber not to change information posted by the Company or use the Service for profit-making purposes, without approval from the Company. Subscribers shall not falsely represent oneself as the Company or the third party. Illegally using other’s identity, infringing on intellectual property rights, damaging reputation and interrupting Company’s business shall also be prohibited. Transmitting or posting information (including computer program) other than information decided by the Company or disclosing and posting information on Service that contain sexually explicit or violent messages, videos or sounds or other contents that go against good public order and customs shall also be banned.

Any action of aiding or encouraging activities stipulated above or unlawful or improper activities are also prohibited and You must abide by related legislation, the provisions herein, Operation Policy, notice on use and other matters notified in regards to the Service as well as the notices informed by the Company and shall not interfere with the Company’s business.

Services may be suspended occasionally.

PLOKia strives to provide Services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without interruption. However, as a result of a regular or temporary inspection of the equipment for maintenance or repair or due to other unavoidable causes, Services may temporarily be suspended. In such case, we will provide a prior notice to you within the relevant Service. If Services are suspended due to causes not foreseen by PLOKia, PLOKia will notify you thereof immediately after PLOKia determines the causes for the relevant suspension.

Service is subject to change from time to time.

Company may modify parts or the whole Service if operational or technical necessities arise due to significant reasons. If modifications have been made to the Service contents, use method and/or time, then Subscribers must be made fully aware of details including the reason for such modifications, the modified sections of the Service, and provided date before such modifications are made using methods easily recognizable by you such as through Notifications in the pertaining Service.

The Company may modify, suspend, or update portions of, or the whole Service, which is provided free-of-charge, if it is necessary for the Company’s policy or for operational needs and the Company may not provide separate compensation to You, unless specified in provisions of related laws.

We can provide a variety of information.

Company may provide information that is deemed to be useful to Subscribers while using the Service using methods such as notice or in-Service alert and in such cases, the Subscriber may refuse to accept the information, excluding information on transactions and customer inquiries, as is stated in related laws, at any time.. However, prior approval from the Subscriber is needed when transmitting for-profit information, through phone or similar methods including SMS.

In association with the Service operation, the Company may place advertisements on the Service webpage, homepage etc. The Subscriber shall not modify, update or restrict Postings or information related to the Service provided by the Company.

You can cancel your Subscription at any time.

You may cancel his/her Terms of Use anytime through account deletion screen within the Service and the Company shall immediately handle such withdrawal according to related legislations. When You cancel the Agreement according to related legislation and Privacy Protection Policy, all Your data shall be deleted immediately and will not be restored except for a case where the Company possesses Subscriber information.

When You cancel the Agreement, all information registered to your account such as profile picture with which You can be identified shall be deleted. However, postings registered to public board or re-posted by others by scrapping shall not be deleted, thus be sure to delete such information before withdrawing your Subscription.

You could be restricted for Service use in unavoidable circumstances.

If you violate any obligations or interfere with normal operations of service, the company can limit your use of service by warning, temporarily terminating, and permanently terminating your account. However, the Company may immediately terminate the use permanently if the Subscriber violates relevant laws, as in the cases where he/she illegally provides illegal programs and disrupts the operation, conducts illegal communications and hacking, distributes malicious programs, and exceeds his/her login authority. All benefits acquired through Service use shall become extinct during permanent suspension, and Company shall not make additional indemnification for such matter. The Company shall follow policies stipulated in Restrictions on use and Operation Policy for conditions and details of restrictions.

Company shall notify upon its Subscribers via set notification method in case of restricted Service use or cancellation of agreement, and if You were to raise an objection to the restriction measure taken by the Company, You shall do so in compliance with process set by the Company. When the Company acknowledges the objection of the Subscriber just, the Company shall reinitiate the Service immediately.

There are several exceptions to the responsibility imposed during Service operation.

Company shall be exempt from any responsibility related to providing Service in the case where the Company is unable to provide Service due to natural disasters or any force majeure and the Company shall not be responsible for Service use or network error caused by your fault such as loss of accessing media (device).

Furthermore, the Company shall not be responsible for the credibility and accuracy of the information, document and facts that You had posts regarding Service and the Company shall be exempt from liabilities for the exchange which is made among Subscribers or between Subscribers and the third person with the Service being medium. The Company shall not be responsible for use of Service provided for free unless specified otherwise in relevant law.

Lawsuits filed between the Company and Subscriber shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea and all the conflicts hereunder shall follow the Code of Civil Procedure.

The definition and interpretation of the terms used in this agreement is as follows.

“Service” refers to PLOKia and PLOKia related services that can be used regardless of the device (including all sorts of wired/wireless devices including PC, TV, portable device and etc.) “Subscriber” refers to a customer who logs into Service, signs an agreement for use with the Company in accordance with these Terms of Use and uses Service provided by the Company. “Posting” is messages, photos, videos, files and links composed of signs, characters, sounds, pictures and movies that You had posted on the Service while using the Service.