Article 1 Purpose

The purpose of these Terms of Use is to regulate the terms of use and operation of “UPtether” services.

Article 2 Definition of Terms

The definitions of major terms used in these Terms and Conditions are as follows.

• ① Member: Refers to a user who agrees to the terms and conditions of the site, registers as a member by providing personal information, enters into a service agreement with the site, and uses the site.
• ② Use Agreement: Refers to a contract concluded between the site and the member in relation to the use of the site.
• ③ Member ID: A unique combination of letters and numbers assigned to each member for identification and use of services.
• ④ Password: refers to a combination of letters and numbers selected by the member to confirm that the member matches the ID given to the member and to protect the member's rights and interests.
• ⑤ Operator: Refers to the operator who opens and operates a homepage on the service.
• ⑥ Termination: This refers to the member canceling the service agreement.

Article 3 Terms and Conditions and Other Rules

If necessary, the operator may separately announce the operating policy. If these terms and conditions overlap with the operating policy, the operating policy will take precedence.

Article 4 Conclusion of service agreement

• ① The service agreement is established when the person who registers as a member and wishes to use the site agrees to the terms and conditions and the operator approves the application for membership.
• ② Anyone who wishes to register as a member and use the service must read these terms and conditions when applying for membership on the site and indicate their agreement to these terms and conditions by selecting “I agree” below.

Article 5 Application for service use

• ① Users who wish to register as members and use the site must provide all information requested by the site (user ID, password, nickname, phone number, etc.).
• ② Members who do not register their true information, such as by stealing other people's information or registering false information, cannot claim any rights in relation to the use of the site and may be punished according to relevant laws.

Article 6 Personal information processing policy

The site and its operator do not have a password among the personal information provided when registering as a member, and related portions follow the site's personal information processing policy. The operator strives to protect members' personal information, including member registration information, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The protection of members' personal information is governed by relevant laws and the personal information processing policy established by the site. However, the operator is not responsible for any information exposed due to the member's fault. If a member registers or distributes illegal postings, such as posts that interfere with public morals or violate national security, the operator may view the member's data and submit the data to the relevant institution upon request from the relevant institution.

Article 7 Operator's Obligations

• ① If the operator deems that opinions or complaints raised by users are justified, he/she must process them as quickly as possible. However, if it is difficult to process quickly due to personal circumstances, we will do our best to post a notice or send a note or e-mail to the user.
• ② In order to provide a continuous and stable site, the operator may request the site to repair or restore the facility without delay in the event of equipment failure or loss. However, in the event of a natural disaster or unavoidable reasons for the site or operator, site operation may be temporarily suspended.

Article 8 Member Obligations

• ① Members must comply with the matters stipulated in these Terms and Conditions, all regulations established by the operator, notices, and operating policies, as well as matters announced by the site and related laws, and any actions that interfere with the work of the site or damage the reputation of the site are prohibited. You must not act.
• ② Members may not transfer or gift the right to use the service or any other status under the service agreement to another person without the explicit consent of the site, and may not provide these as collateral.
• ③ Customers must pay considerable attention to managing their ID and password, and cannot provide their ID to a third party for use without the consent of the operator or site.
• ④ Members must not infringe on the intellectual property rights of the operator, the site and any third party.

Article 9 Service usage time

• ① Service usage hours are, in principle, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, unless there are special business or technical disruptions. However, the site may temporarily suspend services on days or times set by the site for regular system inspection, expansion, and replacement, and any temporary suspension of services due to scheduled work will be announced in advance on the site's homepage, so please refer to this at any time.
• ② However, the site may temporarily or permanently suspend services without prior notice or notice in the following cases.
  • - In case of urgent system inspection, expansion, replacement, breakdown or malfunction
  • - In case of force majeure such as national emergency, power outage, natural disaster, etc.
  • - When the telecommunication service provider specified in the Telecommunications Business Act suspends telecommunication services
  • - When normal service use is disrupted due to excessive service use, etc.
• ③ In case of service interruption pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the site will notify members in advance through notices, etc. However, if advance notice is not possible for service interruption due to reasons beyond the control of the site, post-notification will be provided instead.

Article 10 Termination of service use

• ① If a member wishes to cancel the use contract with the site, the member must apply for registration cancellation online. Meanwhile, the termination of the site use agreement must be done separately from the termination of use of the site.
• ② As soon as a cancellation request is made, the site-related programs provided by the site are automatically deleted from the membership management screen, so the operator can no longer view the cancellation applicant's information.

Article 11 Restrictions on service use

Members must not engage in any of the following acts. If such acts are committed, the site may restrict the member's use of the service, take legal action, terminate the service agreement, or suspend the service for a set period of time.

• ① Registering false information when registering as a member or changing information after registration
• ② The act of interfering with others' website usage or stealing information is commonly referred to in English as "cyber sabotage" or "cyber interference." This can also be termed as "cyber obstruction" or "information theft."
• ③ Impersonating a site operator, employee, or official
• ④ Actions that infringe upon the moral rights or intellectual property rights of the site or other third parties or interfere with business operations.
• ⑤ Illegal use of another member's ID
• ⑥ Collecting, storing and disclosing personal information about other members without their consent
• ⑦ An act that is objectively judged to be linked to a crime
• ⑧ Other acts that violate relevant laws and regulations

Article 12 Management of posts

• ① The operator is responsible for managing and operating the site's posts and materials. The operator must always monitor defective posts and materials, and when defective posts and materials are discovered or reported, the administrator must delete the posts and materials and issue a warning to the member who registered them. Meanwhile, since the poster is responsible for the postings posted by the user, the member must not post any posting that violates these Terms of Use.
• ② If there is a request for correction from a public institution such as the Information and Communication Ethics Committee, the operator may delete or move the posting without the member's prior consent.
• ③ The criteria for judging defective posts are as follows.
  • - If the content severely insults or damages the reputation of other members or third parties.
  • - When disseminating or linking to content that violates public order and morals
  • - If the content promotes piracy or hacking
  • - If the advertisement is for profit
  • - If the content is objectively acknowledged to be linked to a crime
  • - In case of infringement of copyright or other rights of other users or third parties
  • - If it is judged to be in violation of other relevant laws and regulations
• ④ If the site and operator receive a request to suspend posting for reasons such as defamation or infringement of intellectual property rights from a third party, the site and operator may temporarily suspend posting (suspend transmission), and there may be litigation between the requesting suspension and the registrant of the posting. If an agreement or other equivalent decision by a related agency has been reached and received on the site, it will be followed.

Article 13 Storage of posts

If the site operator discontinues this site due to unavoidable circumstances, we will notify members in advance and strive to take all measures to facilitate the transfer of posts.

Article 14 Copyright for posts

• ① The copyright of posts posted by members on the site belongs to the member who posted them. Additionally, the site cannot use posts commercially without the publisher's consent. However, this does not apply in the case of non-profit purposes, and the right to publish within the service is reserved.
• ② Members may not use materials posted on the service commercially, including arbitrarily processing or selling information acquired using the service.
• ③ The operator may delete, move, or refuse registration without prior notice if the operator determines that the content or postings on the site posted or registered by a member fall under any subparagraph of Article 12.

Article 15 Compensation for damages

• ① All civil and criminal liability arising from this site lies primarily with the member.
• ② If damage received by a member from this site is caused by force majeure such as a natural disaster or due to the member's intention or negligence, no compensation will be provided.

Article 16 Indemnification

• ① The operator is exempt from liability for the member's failure to obtain the expected benefits from the site's services, or for damages arising from the member's choice or use of service materials.
• ② The operator is exempt from liability in the event of a failure of this site's service base or telecommunication services provided by other telecommunications carriers, and damages incurred in connection with this site's service base shall be subject to the site's terms of use.
• ③ The operator does not assume any liability in relation to materials stored, posted or transmitted by members.
• ④ The operator is not responsible for any disruption in the use of the service due to the member's fault.
• ⑤ The operator is not responsible for any activities (including data transmission and other community activities) between members, between members and third parties, or between members within or outside of this service.
• ⑥ The operator is not responsible for the content, including the authenticity, reliability, and accuracy, of any materials posted or transmitted by members or any materials that members may receive through this site.
• ⑦ The operator is not responsible for any damages arising from trade in goods between members or between members and a third party through the service.
• ⑧ The operator is not responsible for any disputes that arise between members or between members and third parties that are not attributable to Sysap.
• ⑨ The operator is responsible for system failures that may occur without intentional or serious negligence in the process of managing, inspecting, repairing, and replacing equipment such as servers or in the process of operating software, and system failures due to attacks by third parties, as well as renowned research at home and abroad. We are not responsible for damage to members caused by the spread of computer viruses for which no response method has been developed by the organization or security-related company, or other force majeure reasons beyond the control of the operator.

Supplementary provisions

These terms and conditions take effect from the date of <application release>

UPtether (hereinafter referred to as “Company”) complies with the personal information protection regulations of relevant laws and regulations that information and communications service providers must comply with, such as the Personal Information Protection Act and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., and protects personal information in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. We are doing our best to protect member rights and interests by establishing an information handling policy. The company's personal information handling policy contains the following contents.

• 1. Personal information collected from members
• 2. Purpose of collection and use of personal information
• 3. How we collect personal information
• 4. Entrustment of personal information handling
• 5. Retention and use period of personal information
• 6. Personal information destruction procedures and methods
• 7. Information to ensure accuracy of member personal information
• 8. Temporary service suspension measures that may be taken to ensure the safety of members’ personal information
• 9. Matters related to information sharing and provision with third parties
• 10. Contents to maintain confidentiality of member’s personal information
• 11. Contents regarding restrictions on personal information handlers
• 12. Rights of members and legal representatives and methods of exercising them
• 13. Matters related to installation/operation and refusal of automatic personal information collection devices
• 14. Contact information of personal information manager and person in charge

1. Personal information of members being collected

A. Items of personal information collected

• - Information such as name, ID (email account), password, screen name, year of birth, gender, region, and mobile phone number is collected when the information subject agrees to the collection.
• - Profile information required for marriage remarriage matching, i.e. profile photo, profile keywords (occupation, salary, style, height, weight, blood type, religion, personality, hobbies, number of children, desired spouse information (desired age, desired area, desired religion, my Information such as ideal type, hobbies, etc.) and uploaded photos are additionally collected if the information subject agrees to the collection. Additionally, the following items may be additionally collected through legal procedures and member consent in order to provide stable services. can.
  • 1) IP Address, Cookies, date and time of visit, service use record, bad use record
  • 2) Mobile carrier used, account number, etc.
  • 3) When paying by credit card: card company name, card number, etc.
  • 4) When paying by mobile phone: mobile phone number, telecommunication company, payment approval number, etc.
  • 5) When paying by bank transfer: bank name, account number, etc.

B. Personal information collection method

The company collects personal information in the following ways.

• - Homepage, mobile app (APP), mobile web (WEB), written form, fax, phone, consultation bulletin board, email, event application
• - Collecting information through joint partnerships and cooperation from partner companies
• - Information collection through generated information collection tool

2. Purpose of collection and use of personal information

A. It is used to fulfill contracts for service provision and to settle fees for service provision.

- Provision of content, provision of specific customized services, identity verification, purchase and payment, fee collection

B. We use some member information for member management.

- Identity verification, personal identification, prevention of unauthorized use by delinquent members (members who violate Article 10 of the UPtether Terms of Use or do not faithfully perform member obligations), prevention of unauthorized use, confirmation of intent to join, and registration according to the membership service use and authentication service. and limiting the number of subscriptions, preserving records for dispute resolution, processing complaints, and delivering notices.

C. It is used for new service development, marketing, and advertising.

- New service development and certification services, provision of customized services, service provision and advertisement posting according to statistical characteristics, provision of event and advertising information and participation opportunities, identification of access frequency, statistics on members' service use, verification of service effectiveness

3. How we collect personal information

In order for all members to receive services from the company, the member's personal information is required, and personal information is collected through the applicant's consent on the membership registration form when registering as a member.

4. Entrustment of personal information handling

The company does not entrust processing of your personal information to external parties without consent. However, in order to improve service and ensure stable handling of personal information, the company may entrust processing of your personal information to external parties.

• A. If we entrust the processing of personal information, we will notify you in advance.
• B. In the case of entrusting the processing of personal information, the service provider's compliance with personal information protection instructions, confidentiality of personal information, prohibition of provision to third parties, and liability in the event of an accident are clearly stipulated through a consignment contract, etc., and the contents of the contract are specified. We will keep it in writing or electronically.
• C. In order to improve service, the company entrusts the processing of members' personal information to an external party after obtaining the member's consent or disclosing or notifying related matters in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The personal information processing trustee and its duties are as follows.
  • - fiduciary : CorePlanet Inc.
  • - Consignment work details :

5. Retention and use period of personal information

A member's personal information is processed in such a way that it cannot be viewed or used by third parties when the service period expires after registering as a member or when the member requests deletion of personal information through email or writing for reasons such as contract termination or withdrawal. In accordance with Article 6 (Preservation of Transaction Records, etc.) of the ‘Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, etc.’, it is stored and managed for the period specified below.

• A. Records of transactions such as contracts, subscription cancellation, member service provision, etc.: 5 years
• B. Records of payment and supply of goods, etc.: 5 years
• C. Records of consumer complaints or dispute resolution: 3 years

6. Personal information destruction procedures and methods

When personal information becomes unnecessary, such as when the personal information retention period has passed or the purpose of collection and use of personal information has been achieved, the company destroys the personal information without delay. The company's personal information destruction procedures and methods are as follows.

A. Destruction procedure

• - The information entered by members for membership registration, etc. is transferred to a separate DB after the purpose is achieved (in the case of paper, a separate locking device) and is stored according to information protection reasons (retention and retention) according to internal policy and other related laws. (See period of use) It is stored for a certain period of time and then destroyed.
• - Personal information will not be used for any purpose other than that for which it is retained, unless required by law.

B. Destruction method

• - Personal information printed on paper is destroyed by shredding or incineration.
• - Personal information stored in electronic file format is deleted using technical methods that render the records unrecoverable.

7. Information to ensure accuracy of member personal information

The company encourages members to regularly update their personal information to keep it up to date. Some information is periodically verified. A member's inaccurate personal information may cause inconvenience in use, so if the personal information manager determines that the member's personal information is clearly inaccurate, the inaccurate personal information may be destroyed.

8. Temporary service suspension measures that may be taken to ensure the safety of members’ personal information

The company is doing its best to ensure safe service use for members. However, if the company's service is damaged by an unwanted method, in order to protect the personal information of members, services using the member's personal information may be temporarily suspended until the problem is completely resolved.

9. Regarding sharing and provision of information with third parties

In accordance with Article 24-2 (consent to provision of personal information, etc.) of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., the company exceeds the scope of notification or specified personal information, except in cases where there is consent from the member or there are special provisions in the law. It is not used or provided to third parties. Additionally, in accordance with Article 59 (Prohibited Activities) of the Personal Information Protection Act, any person who handles or has handled personal information for the purpose of providing the company's services shall not engage in any of the following acts.

• A. Obtaining personal information or obtaining consent for processing by lying or other illegal means or methods
• B. Leaking personal information learned during work or providing it to others for use without permission
• C. Acts of damaging, destroying, altering, falsifying or leaking another person's personal information without legitimate authority or exceeding permitted authority.

10. Contents to maintain confidentiality of member’s personal information

In order to maintain the confidentiality of members' personal information, the company does not disclose personal information to third parties without the member's consent. Additionally, even if a member gives consent, the member's personal information will not be leaked to anyone who is likely to be re-disclosed through a third party. The company does not provide members' personal information in response to unilateral requests for provision of member personal information by various government agencies. A member's personal information is provided only when a government agency in accordance with the law requests data after completely completing the official procedures in accordance with the law. The company does not use members’ personal information for purposes other than basic services and other service activities determined by the company. When a member's information is required for the above activities, the member's personal information is used through collection and consent procedures through a separate form.

11. Contents regarding restrictions on personal information handlers

The company grants only a limited number of employees the authority to handle members' personal information, grants personal IDs and passwords to employees with the authority to handle them, and changes them from time to time to protect members' personal information. I do my best to do it.

12. Rights of members and legal representatives and methods of exercising them

• - Members and legal representatives can view or modify their registered personal information at any time and request cancellation of membership.
• - To view or modify a member's personal information, you can click 'Change personal information' (or 'Modify member information', etc.), and to cancel your membership (withdraw consent), you can click "Withdraw" to cancel the contract or withdraw your membership.
• - Alternatively, if you contact the customer center or the person in charge of personal information in writing, by phone, or email, we will take action without delay.
• - If a member requests correction of an error in personal information, the personal information will not be used or provided until the correction is completed. Additionally, if incorrect personal information has already been provided to a third party, we will notify the third party of the result of the correction without delay so that the correction can be made.
• - The company processes personal information that has been canceled or deleted at the request of a member or legal representative in accordance with the personal information handling policy "5. Retention and use period of personal information" and processes it so that it cannot be viewed or used for any other purpose. .

13. Matters related to installation/operation and refusal of automatic personal information collection devices

In order to provide specialized customized services to members, the company uses 'cookies' to store members' information and retrieve it from time to time. Cookies are a small amount of information that the server (HTTP) used to run the website sends to the member's computer browser and are sometimes stored on the hard disk of the member's PC computer.

A. Purpose of Use of Cookies

It is used to provide convenient functions when communicating with each other based on members' login and recent access records.

B. Installation/operation and refusal of cookies

• - Members have the option to install cookies. Therefore, members can allow all cookies by setting options in their web browser, confirm each time a cookie is saved, or refuse to save all cookies.
• - To refuse cookie settings, members can allow all cookies by selecting options in the web browser they use, confirm each time they save cookies, or refuse to save all cookies.
• - Example of setting method (for Internet Explorer): Tools at the top of the web browser > internet options > Privacy
• - However, if you refuse to store cookies, you may have difficulty using them.

14. Contact information of personal information manager and person in charge

You may report any complaints related to personal information protection that arise while using the company's services to the personal information manager or department in charge. The company will provide prompt and sufficient responses to members' reports.

Personal information manager

• name : Cha Keehuyn
• Position : Representative
• email : [email protected]

If you need to report or consult about other personal information infringements, please contact the organizations below.

• - Personal Information Infringement Reporting Center(www.118.or.kr / 118)
• - Information Protection Mark Certification Committee(www.eprivacy.or.kr / 02-580-0533~4)
• - High-tech Crime Investigation Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office(www.spo.go.kr / 02-3480-2000)
• - National Police Agency Cyber Terror Response Center(www.ctrc.go.kr / 02-392-0330)

Supplementary provisions

1. This privacy policy is effective from April 5, 2024.