Article 1 (Purpose of Terms of Use)
The following terms are for specifying rights, duties and other subjects between Huobi Inc. (the ‘Company’) and its members required for using the general service (the ‘Services’) provided by Huobi Inc. (the ‘Company’).
Article 2 (Specification, Validity and Amendment of Terms of Use)
- 1. The Company shall notify these Terms by posting it on the initial page of its website or equivalent in order for its members to acknowledge the Terms with ease.
- 2. The Company shall provide the trading service within the scope set by these Terms to its registered members who have agreed to these Terms of Use.
- 3. The Company may amend these Terms of Use where necessary, within the scope set by related legislation such as the 「Act on the Regulation of Terms and Conditions」, the 「Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc」, and the 「Personal Information Protection Act」. The Company shall notify its members of these amendments 30 days in advance by the method specified in Article 17 with information such as the details of amendments and effective date.
- 4. A member shall be assumed to have agreed to the amended Terms of Use if he/she fails to deliver his/her objection to the amendment, provided that the Company clearly and specifically notified its members that it will assume that the members agreed to the amendment if no specific objection is received before the effective date, when notifying the amendment to its members in accordance with Section 3 of this Article.
- 5. The Company shall not enforce the amended Terms to a member who does not agree to the amendment and the member has right to terminate these Terms of Use should this happen.
Article 3 (Policies other than Terms of Use)
- 1. The Company may adopt separate operation policies other than these Terms of Use.
- 2. Any issues and/or interpretation not established under these Terms should be construed from the User Guide and related legislation.
Article 4 (Definitions)
Definitions of terms used in these Terms of Use are as follows, while any other terms that are not defined in this Article shall be construed as defined in the same business industry in general that the Company belongs to. In the absence of definition in the virtual asset related legislation in the Republic of Korea, the definitions specified in this Article shall not assure the legal status of virtual asset and its legal interpretation, and the government and judicial agencies of the Republic of Korea shall not be bound by the following definitions, even in the conflict between parties that are bound by these Terms of Use.
- 1. ‘Members’ refers to clients with their own User IDs who have concluded the service contract with the Company by agreeing to these Terms of Use and registration.
- 2. ‘Services’ refers to the Company’s virtual asset trading and other related services that the members can use through equipment(including various wired/wireless equipment such as PC and mobile equipment).
- 3. ‘ID(Account or ID)’ refers to combination of letters, special characters, numerals etc that are indicated as email addresses or mobile phone numbers which are pre-registered to identify members. Once a member agrees to these Terms of Use and register his/her account and password, the Company approves the registration upon verification of individual identity through his/her email address or phone number.
- 4. ‘Password’ refers to combination of letters, numerals etc approved by the Company in order to identify the member and protect his/her personal information.
- 5. ‘Virtual Asset’ refers to Bitcoin(BTC), Ethereum(ETH) and other encrypted virtual assets that can be traded through the Services.
- 6. ‘KRW’ refers to virtual currency that can be used in trading virtual asset etc by the members and can be exchanged 1:1 with the South Korean Won(legal tender) while using the Services.
- 7. ‘KRW Market’ refers to the market for trading virtual asset using KRW as the key currency.
- 8. ‘Pair Market’ refers to the markets for trading virtual asset using other virtual assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum as key currencies.
- 9. ‘External Virtual Asset Address’ refers to all virtual asset addresses or accounts owned or used by the members or other individuals outside the Services. The External Virtual Asset Address is not owned, controlled or operated by the Company.
- 10. ‘Digital Wallet’ refers to the virtual asset wallet used for storing KRW and virtual assets owned by the members whose IDs are linked to.
- 11. ‘Asset’ refers to both virtual asset and KRW.
Article 5 (Conclusion of the Service Contract)
- 1. The service contract is concluded as the person wishing to be registered as a member (the “applicant”) completes the membership application after agreeing to the Terms of Use provided by the Company, and the Company approves the application.
- 2. The Company may reject the application of an applicant due to the reasons specified in the following subparagraph and may request rectification if any of the following is confirmed after the approval. The Company may cancel the approval or terminate the service contract if the reasons specified in the following subparagraph persist for some time upon the rectification request.
- ① The applicant/member has lost his/her membership in the past in accordance with the Terms of Use.
- ② The applicant/member uses assumed names or another person’s name.
- ③ The applicant/member submits false information or does not submit information, requested by the Company in accordance with relevant laws.
- ④ Where the Company cannot approve an application due to the applicant’s fault or applicant’s non-compliance with various obligations specified under the Terms of Use.
- ⑤ The applicant/member intends to use the Services for unlawful or dishonest purposes such as telecommunications-based financial fraud or his/her own commercial business.
- ⑥ The member intending to use the KRW Market is aged under 19.
- ⑦ The member is residing in or a citizen of a high-risk country announced by the FATF or UN, or is reasonably believed to be residing in or a citizen of a high-risk country.
- ⑧ The member/applicant is a foreign national not residing in the Republic of Korea.
- 3. The service contract is concluded when the Company notifies the successful creation of account or when the Company’s notification of such account creation is delivered to the applicant.
- 4. The Company may request the real-name verification or identity verification or other similar process through specialized agencies that does not violate relevant laws in order to confirm the accuracy of information provided by the Member.
Article 6 (The Member’s Duty of Managing Account and Password)
- 1. The member should only use one’s own account, and using other’s account is strictly prohibited under any circumstances. The member should manage one’s password in one’s own in order to prevent others from using the account without authorization. When the member detects an unauthorized usage, the member should notify the Company immediately, and the Company may take instant actions such as banning the account.
- 2. The member should notify the Company at instance if unauthorized usage of account or password is detected and follow the Company’s instructions. The Company is not responsible for any disadvantages caused by the absence of notification from the member or the ignorance to the Company’s instructions, unless for intentional actions of the Company or when the Company is to blame.
- 3. The Company considers the user as the member in cases when the account and password registered by the member matches with the ones registered to the Company.
- 4. For damages caused by the member’s lack of collecting information, unauthorized usage of the member’s account by stealing the password, and the member’s fault, the Company does not bear responsibility unless the Company is admitted to be blamed. In this case, the member may bear compensation duties to the third parties such as victims of electronic finance fraud, and unless the Company is admitted to be blamed for both intentional and accidental disclosure of personal information, the Company is not responsible for any of the member’s compensation duties to third parties.
- 5. Despite the Company notifying about important content about the service contract through email and phone, the member should bear the damages caused by the member’s ignorance for the Second Amendment by oneself.
- 6. The Company is enforcing one account for per person policy to abide by the Law of Real-name Financial Account System. The member should use one’s own account with one’s own name, and cannot use more than one account otherwise with the agreement from the Company.
Article 7 (Changes in Member Information)
- 1. The member can access and modify one’s personal information through the Settings Menu within the service. However, some information including information used for identifying the members in order to provide and manage the service, may not be available to change according to relevant regulations and management policies of the Company.
- 2. The member should always keep the information up-to-date by updating the information manually within the service, or contacting the customer service center to require the Company to make changes to the information. The Company is not responsible for damages caused by the absence of updating the information by Members in the absence of the Company’s mal-intention or negligence.
Article 8 (Terminating the Service Contract)
- 1. In case which the member does not want to use the service or not agreeing to the Terms of Use, the member may request the termination of the service contract by emailing the customer service center anytime, and the Company may terminate the membership according to law.
- 2. The Company may terminate the service contract in the following cases, if the Members do not rectify the issue after given a grace period by the Company.
- ① In case which the member violates the Terms of Use, making it difficult to retain the service contract.
- ② In case which the member is responsible for an interruption in the service or in case which the interruption persists despite the restriction in using the service.
- 3. If the Members wish to terminate the service contract, they need to apply for termination after withdrawing all KRW points and virtual assets. If the balance remaining in the account is less than the minimum withdrawal amount, the Members can apply to terminate by depositing additional assets to make the balance more than the minimum withdrawal amount and proceeding the withdrawal. If the Members wish to delete the remaining amount that is less than the minimum withdrawal amount, they can agree to the deletion and apply to terminate the contract.
- 4. The Company is not responsible for damages caused during the process of terminating the service contract according to the member’s request or the Terms of Use. However, this does not apply to cases where the Company is to blame.
Article 9 (Provision of the Service)
- 1. In principle, the Company should always provide the trading service all year round.
- 2. The provision of the service may be temporarily suspended due to important management reasons such as a maintenance work for electronic equipment like computers. In this case, the Company notifies the member according to Article 17. However, in case which the service is suspended under unforeseeable circumstances, the Company may ask for ex post facto approval.
- 3. The Company may run maintenance work if necessary for providing the service, and the operation hour will be notified on the service screen.
- 4. The Company may notify messages concerning the service on the service screen or directly send out emails or text messages to members.
- 5. In case of a systemic error including independent programs, the Company may delete false information occurred by the error and restore and indicate the correct information, and may even initialize to the specific time before the error in some occasions. In case which the false information is corrected at time when the systemic error is detected, it means the correct information is indicated after the error is resolved, thus the member can exercise one’s right or perform one’s duty according to the correct information.
- 6. The communication and financial expenses used while using the service is for communication and financial services and this expenses does not concern the Company.
Article 10 (Change and Termination of the Service)
- 1. The Company may change the content of the service and management, technical details in order to provide stabilized services.
- 2. In case of making changes to the service, the Company will notify the changes and the enforcement date in advance in accordance to Article 17. However, if the Company cannot give a prior notice due to inevitable situations such as system repairs and urgent program maintenance, the Company may notify the Members afterwards.
- 3. The member may refuse to agree to the changes in the service and terminate the service contract.
- 4. The Company may change some or all part of the service under inevitable circumstances such as changes in policies relevant to service provision, and does not compensate the member unless there is a special regulation relevant to the circumstances.
- 5. The service may change or shut down due to reasons such as termination of the contract or contract change with partners, and a launch of a new service. In this case, the Company notifies about the changes or shut down on the initial screen of the service or equivalent.
Article 11 (The Members’ Obligation when Using the Service)
- 1. The member may use the service as one pleases, but the Company may restrict the use of services in following cases.
- ① Stealing other’s information.
- ② Modification in information which the Company placed notice.
- ③ Transmitting or uploading information outside of the Company’s designation such as computer programming.
- ④ Infringement of intellectual property rights of the Company or other third parties.
- ⑤ Obstruction of business or defamation against the Company or other third parties.
- ⑥ Uploading information against public order and good morals such as sexual or violent messages or false information on the service.
- ⑦ Using the service for one’s own profit without the Company’s prior approval.
- ⑧ Using automated mechanisms such as Agent, Script, Spider, Spyware or Toolbar to gain access to the service, increase the number of impressions and clicks in fraudulent ways, requesting the usage of service or overload the Company server.
- ⑨ Collecting other members’ personal information or account information.
- ⑩ Deranging the public trading order in ways such as unfairly affecting the market price of cryptocurrencies.
- ⑪ Other illegal actions infringing relevant laws such as “Special Act on the Prevention of Loss Caused by Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud and Refund for Loss” and “Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.”.
- 2. The member should comply with the notified requirements from the Company such as relevant laws, the Terms of Use and user guide for the service, and should not obstruct the Company’s business.
- 3. The member cannot lend·transfer·give the right to use the service, the debenture·debt generated from using the service from the Company, and other status of contract nor one can put them up as collateral, and the Members are responsible for the damages caused by such actions.
- 4. In case which the member does not comply with the relevant laws or the Company’s terms or policies, the Company may investigate the member’s offense or suspend the member from using the service temporarily or continuously, and may restrict the member from rejoining the service.
- 5. The member should be aware of the disadvantages that may be caused for using the service in regions where the service is or may be against the local law. Especially, in case which the Company confirms the residence of the member and if the usage of service in the confirmed region is or may be against the local law(such as commencement of an investigation for the member’s usage of service from the investigative agency of Republic of Korea), the Company may begin the process of banning the account immediately.
- 6. The member should always pay particular attention in order to prevent electronic finance fraud, and in case which the concerning account and digital wallet need to be frozen due to investigations for the electronic finance fraud from governmental authorities such as investigative agency, the judicature or the administrative authority, the Company may freeze the concerning account and digital wallet and ban the account without the member’s consent.
Article 12 (Restriction in Using the Service)
- 1. The Company may restrict the use of service in cases including the following where the member has violated the Terms of Use or obstructed the Company’s business.
- ① Continual errors in entering the password (5 times).
- ② Occurrence of hacking or fraud.
- ③ Suspicion of identity theft.
- ④ Request from governmental authorities or financial institutions.
- ⑤ Solid relevance or reasonable suspicion for relevance in crime or financial accident such as phishing.
- ⑥ The Members have not gone through the KYC in accordance with the “Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information” and the Presidential Decree of the same Act.
- ⑦ The Member is categorized during the regular or ordinary risk assessment as the Company’s ‘Service Denial/Termination’ group performed in accordance with the “Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information”.
- ⑧ The member is residing in or a citizen of a high-risk country announced by the FATF or UN, or is reasonably believed to be residing in or a citizen of a high-risk country.
- ⑨ The member/applicant is a foreign national not residing in the Republic of Korea.
- 2. In case which the member violates the relevant laws such as identity theft or account theft violating the “Residents Registration Law”, provision of illegal programs and obstruction of the Company’s business violating the “Copyright Law”, illegal communications and hacking, distribution of malicious programs, overload of the access privileges violating “Information Communications Network Act”, the Company may terminate the service contract immediately. If the service contract is terminated according to this amendment, the member’s asset may be restricted from withdrawal.
- 3. In case which the account is stolen from the third parties or is used in illegal activities such as vishing irrelevant to the member’s intent, the Company may freeze the account during the period of investigation. In this case the Company may take necessary actions according to the result of investigation from the investigative agency or the court’s ruling about the virtual asset relevant to the illegal actions.
- 4. In case which the Company restricts the use of service or terminates the service contract according to this clause, the Company notifies the member according to Article 17.
- 5. The member may raise an objection to the restriction of using the service by following the Company’s process. In this case, if the Company admits the objection to be fair, the Company resumes the usage of the service immediately.
Article 13 (Cautions for Using the Service)
- 1. The following contents are the cautions for using the Huobi trading services. The member should check the following cautions and use the service under one’s cost and responsibility.
- ① The Huobi trading service is a service which brokers virtual asset trading between members, and the Company does not guarantee any of the cryptocurrencies’ values or liquidity under any circumstances, the member is responsible for all the economic interests caused by trading cryptocurrencies.
- ② The market price of cryptocurrencies may temporarily be discordant with the real market price due to errors in systems or programs, information asymmetry, and technical limits caused by restraint on domestic and foreign communication environment. Still, the Company is doing its best to improve the suitability of the market prices of cryptocurrencies provided to its members.
- ③ The Company does not guarantee the veracity of the member’s personal information which the Company possesses. However, the Company is obligated to ban the concerning member from using the Huobi trading services or corresponding actions in case which the information provided to the Company from the member is confirmed to be false.
- ④ The Company is not responsible for compensating the damages caused by identity theft from the third parties. However, this does not stand in cases which the company is to blame.
- ⑤ When using the Service, the Members can only trade the amount above the minimum trading amount, and if the Members have less than the minimum trading amount, they can deposit additional virtual assets or KRW points to achieve the minimum trading amount in order to trade.
- 2. In case which the Company bans the member from using the account or bans the account, the member bears the following obligations.
- ① In case which the company bans the account, the Company conducts self-inspection on the account, and the member should completely cooperate with the company’s request.
- ② In case of the banning of the account, the member cannot recharge or withdraw the KRW points or make transactions using all sorts of digital wallets.
- ③ After the self-inspection on the concerning account is complete, the Company may terminate the member account with 7 days of prior notice. The Company may notice the reason for this action and the member may go under a vindication process. After the vindication process, the member account can be resumed depending on the issue.
- ④ The member may liquidate one’s virtual asset balance in one’s digital wallet during the 7 days of reminder period mentioned in the Third Amendment. After the reminder period, the Company may liquidate the virtual asset balance by force according to the market price of the time of the liquidation and return the remaining KRW points in the account to the refund bank account registered in the member’s personal information.
- ⑤ The member should provide accurate detailed information to Huobi Inc. in relevance to the KRW point withdrawal, including the refund bank account. The Company is not responsible for damages caused by provision of inaccurate information when withdrawing KRW points.
- 3. The Company may refuse orders placed using the service or limit the transaction amount or other trading conditions if any situations specified in Article 5(2) or Article 12(1) or to prevent any damages caused to the Members due to such reasons. For example, the Company can limit the number of outstanding orders the member can set using the service or restrain trading with members of certain regions. In this case, the Company notify the Members in accordance to Article 17.
- 4. The member can cancel the order only before the order is concluded. For partially concluded orders, the outstanding parts can be cancelled. The Company may refuse the member’s away from the market orders.
- 5. In case which the amount of disposable cryptocurrencies in the member’s digital wallet is shorter than the amount needed to place the order, the Company may cancel the entire order or place a partial order in the disposable range of the cryptocurrencies.
- 6. The company may add or exclude any virtual asset available to members in the service with sufficient predictability by doing so in accordance with the Token Listing Rules and the Token Management Rules. Unless required by law or regulatory authorities, the company will make reasonable efforts to inform the members in advance of the exclusion of virtual asset. When certain virtual asset are excluded from the services provided by the company, the company supports the withdrawal of the virtual asset into the external wallet within 30 days, but the withdrawal support period may be shortened in unavoidable circumstances. Any member who has an virtual asset with fixed exclusion must withdraw the virtual asset into an external wallet before the expiry of the withdrawal period. The Company shall not be responsible for any loss and/or costs incurred from exclusion of virtual assets unless it occurred from the Company’s mal-intention or negligence.
Article 14 (Process for Selling/Buying Virtual Asset)
- 1. The usage of information about the seller and the buyer relevant to virtual asset trading is authorized for the member’s convenience only, thus actions outside of the entitled range such as provision of similar services or usage of information for commercial purposes is not allowed.
- 2. The member willing to sell or buy cryptocurrencies through the service provided by the Company should register the transaction as per the registration form the Company provides.
- 3. The sales contract is closed immediately when the member places selling or buying orders by specifying a certain price(or market price) for cryptocurrencies in one’s digital wallet as per the instructions for the service from the Company, and when there is another member who agrees to the condition of the trading.
- 4. The Company provides summarized information about the order including the amount of virtual asset the member is trying to sell or buy, price, and fee before the member places the order. The member agrees that the order is not effected even when the Company is unable to provide this information due to reasons such as systemic errors.
- 5. As per the technical limitations of cryptocurrencies, even after the sales contract is closed as per the Fourth Amendment, the transaction is completed after the time required to execute the fundamental process within the concerning blockchain has passed. The result of the transaction is applied to the digital wallet when the transaction is complete.
- 6. The Company may cancel the transaction mentioned in the Fourth or Fifth Amendment with authority and reverse to the original state in the following cases.
- ① Unusual usage of the service by the member such as lending the account to the third party.
- ② Hacking from third parties or equivalent.
- ③ Systemic error in the service.
- ④ Service failure caused by telecommunications business operator or security business operator.
- ⑤ Occurrence of actions suspected as market price manipulation for the member’s unfair advantage, disruption of the market orders, or trading for illegal purposes.
- 7. The request information for buying(or selling) cryptocurrencies cannot be modified after the transaction is in progress. Also, the request information for buying(or selling) cannot be deleted after the counterparty is fixed.
- 8. The Company imposes transaction fee after the transaction is complete, the fee might change as per the circumstance of the Company and the market and details are specified on the website, etc. The interest income acts as a compensation for the Company for providing virtual asset purchasing service, and the member cannot request for refund on this matter.
Article 15 (Restriction in Deposit and Withdrawal of the Korean Won, etc.)
- 1. The Company may restrain the member from withdrawing the Korean Won in the following cases. In the following cases, the Company will notify the member of the relevant contents via the notice section on the website, etc. Additionally, when the reason for restriction and delay is resolved, the restriction may be removed.
- ① In case which the registered name and the depositor’s name differ.
- ② In case which information about suspicion for the account being used for illegal activities is provided from governmental institutions such as the Police Department or National Tax Service or financial institutions.
- ③ In case which the bounds set by the Company for using the service are overstepped.
Article 16 (The Company’s Use of Member Information etc.)
- 1. The Company shall put its best effort in protecting the Members’ personal information in accordance to The “Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, Etc” and the “Personal Information Protection Act”. Related laws and the Company’s “personal information policy” will be applied to protect and use the personal information.
- 2. The Company may use or provide personal information to partners as per the Terms of Use so the member may make good use of the service of the Company and its partners conveniently. Unless for cases which there are requests from governmental institution as per laws such as Electronic Financial Transaction Act, Framework Act on Telecommunications, etc. the Company always notifies the partners, purpose of provision, and the content of personal information that is provided in advance and deliver the member’s information only with the member’s consent.
- 3. In case which the personal information submitted at the time of registration is changed the member should modify the relevant content immediately through the Company’s manager or one’s personal information modification section.
- 4. For damages caused by absence of updating the information by the member regardless of intention or accident the member bears the consequences of the damage, and the Company does not hold any legal responsibilities for it.
- 5. In case which the member is dissatisfied with the Company’s way of handling personal information the member can submit a document containing the concerning content and the Company should resolve the dissatisfaction in a legal way.
- 6. The termination of the service contract follows Clause 8, and in case of termination the personal information of the member is stored as per relevant laws and is deleted afterwards.
- 7. Even in case which the Company is obligated to destruct the personal information, if the relevant law requires the Company to preserve it the Company preserves the personal information during the period mentioned in the relevant law.
- 8. In case which collecting or transmitting the personal information for using specific services is necessary, the Company must notify the pertinent content to the member in advance and ask for permission.
- 9. The personal information submitted by the member cannot be provided for usage outside the purpose without the member’s consent.
Article 17 (Notifying to the Members)
The Company shall notify important issues in relation to the Terms and Conditions and the Service to the individual members through the means specified in Article 2(1) and sending emails to email addresses or SMS messages to the mobile phone numbers registered under each Member’s account.
Article 18 (Personal Information Protection)
The member’s personal information is used only within the range of the member’s consent in order to seamlessly provide the service. The Company does not disclose the member’s personal information to third parties without the member’s additional consent or unless as per the law. Detailed information about this topic is specified in the Personal Information Processing section.
Article 19 (Special Clause for Corporate Members)
- 1. The Terms of Use was written on the premise that the member uses the Company’s service as an individual, if a corporation wishes to use the service it must undergo the procedure the Company requires, and the Company may refuse or restrain the usage of the corporate member.
- 2. In case which a corporation wish to register as a member, the corporation can make a separated contract or make an equivalent contract excluding some or all parts of the Terms of Use or overriding the Terms of use, the corporate member may have different policies for fee, withdrawal limit and other additional services(Not limited to these) and if the corporate member wish to terminate the service contract the corporate member oneself or the person in charge of the corporate should apply for the termination of the contract.
- 3. A corporation that wishes to join as a member shall apply for a corporate membership at support-kr@hb.co.kr or contact the customer center.
Article 20 (Compensation for Damages and Special Clauses)
- 1. The Company is not responsible for any accidents caused by transactions against the regulations stated in the Terms of Use unless it occurred from the Company’s mal-intention and/or negligence, and the Company is also not responsible for disputes caused by the fault of the buyer or seller. Damages caused by the partners of the Company will be dealt as per the partner contraction, but the Company is obligated to help resolve the dispute between the partner and the member.
- 2. In cases which the member suffer damage caused by the Company regardless of the damage being intentional or accidental the Company compensates for the damage as per the Terms of Use and relevant laws. However for the following cases the Company restores only the cryptocurrencies and KRW points confirmed through the final transaction information after the error is eliminated and does not hold responsibility for the damage. However, for cases which the following cases and the company’s responsibility overlaps, the company is held responsible within the parameter of the law.
- ① Obstruction of service use and damages due to reasons attributable to the member.
- ② Damages of the member caused by the member’s fault while accessing or using the service.
- ③ Damage caused by third parties illegally accessing or using the Company’s server.
- ④ Damages caused by third parties disturbing the transmission to the Company’s server or from the Company’s server.
- ⑤ Damages caused by the transmission or distribution of malicious programs from third parties.
- ⑥ Damages caused by third parties using the service such as omission or destruction of the transmitted data, defamation, etc.
- ⑦ Damages caused by failure of the telecommunication service that the communicative enterprise provides. Especially including cases which the failure of service occurred due to uncontrollable fault of the communicative enterprise in legal relation with the Company and the member through service contract.
- ⑧ Damages caused by uncontrollable forces due to natural disasters or state of national emergency such as war, earthquake, or equivalent.
- ⑨ Inevitable damages caused by virtual asset’s inherent nature. Especially including cases which the service failure occurred due to flaws in issuance management system or technical limitations.
- ⑩ Damages caused by the Company checking the server for the purpose of providing service (Regardless of whether it is regular inspection, temporary inspection, emergency inspection, etc.)
- ⑪ Damages not caused by the Company’s intention or mistake.
- 3. If the Members do not proceed the KYC or are denied to trade due to being categorized in the “transaction denial” group in accordance with the Customer Risk Assessment, “Act on Reporting and Use of Certain Financial Transaction Information”, and other relevant regulations for the AML purposes, the Company shall not bear any civil/criminal liability for damages occurred from cancellation of incomplete orders or non-approval of withdrawal requests.
- 4. In case which the member provided false information to the Company, the Company can suspend the service at any time and terminate some or whole part of the service contract made through the Terms of Use, and the Company can claim for damages caused by this action.
- 5. In case which the member claims for damages as per this Clause, the Company can compensate through paying cryptocurrencies possessed in the digital wallet confirmed to be owned by the member or paying KRW with the member’s consent.
Article 21 (The Company’s Guarantee and Denial of Acting as Proxy)
- 1. The Company does not possess any right to subrogate the member willing to sell or buy cryptocurrencies, nor any actions of the company is considered as act of subrogation for the seller or buyer.
- 2. The Company does not get involved in the selling and buying between members taking place through the Company’s service and does not guarantee the veracity and legality of the intent for selling or buying.
- 3. The Company does not bear the surety liability for products or services the websites linked to the Company carry. The Company and the website linked to the Company is run separately and the Company does not involve in transactions made between the website and the member thus the transaction should be solved between the concerned. However, this does not apply to cases which the Company is to be held responsible.
Article 22 (Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction)
The Terms of Use and the Services are defined and executed as per the laws of the Republic of Korea, and regardless of the member’s nationality and residence, the applicable law is set as the laws of the Republic of Korea. In case of dispute between the Company and the member as regards the usage of the Services the Company will try its best to resolve the dispute between the parties, but if the dispute is not resolved the Company may litigate through the competent court according to the Civil Procedure Act of the Republic of Korea.
Additional Clause
Terms of Use shall take effect from October 13, 2021.
Previous change history of terms of use is available below.