Website Membership Terms and ConditionsThis is the Website Membership Terms and Conditions of Paradise Hotel Busan

ARTICLE 1. Purpose

This terms and conditions is to stipulate basic regulations and procedures of using the online service (Hereafter referred to as “Service”) of Paradise Hotel website provided by Paradise Hotel Inc. (Hereafter referred to as “Company”).

ARTICLE 2. Effective Date and Change of Terms and Conditions

1. This terms and conditions becomes effective when it is announced by posts on the service menu and the company.
2. The company can change the contents of the terms and conditions, and the changed contents take effect after announced or informed through the same means mentioned above in the paragraph 1.
3. Member customers can stop using the service or terminate the contract if do not agree with the changed terms and conditions. Continued use of service after the change is deemed as agreed to the changed contents.

ARTICLE 3. Rules beside Terms and Conditions

If an unmentioned subject in the terms and conditions is ruled by The Telecommunications Basic Act, Telecommunications Business Act and other related law, it could be ruled accordance with the law.

ARTICLE 4. Definition of Terms

The terms used in this terms and conditions are defined as below.
1. Membership: This terms and conditions becomes effective when it is announced by posts on the service menu and the company.
2. ID: It is a combination of letters and numbers decided by the member and approved by the company for the identification of the member and the use of service.
3. Password: It is a combination of letters and numbers decided by the member to identify oneself with the given ID and to protect the password.
4. Termination: The expression of the company or a member to end the membership after opening the service.

ARTICLE 5. Establishment of Service Use Contract

The service use contract is established when the company approves the member application for the use of service.

ARTICLE 6. Application for the Use of Service

1. One has to fill out all the requested user information in the application form.
2. One must be aged 19 or above to use the service.
3. All the user information written in the application form is deemed as actual information. Those who did not use real names or actual information cannot be legally protected and will be disadvantaged in using the service.

ARTICLE 7. Approval of the Application

• 1. The company approves the application for the use of service based on the article 6 with exceptions in paragraph no.2 and 3.
• 2. The company can defer the approval until it addresses the following situation.
  • A. When the service related equipment capacity is not enough.
  • B. When there are technological difficulties.
  • C. When the company recognized the necessity.
• 3. The company may not accept the application for the cases below.
  • A. When the applicant used other person’s identity.
  • B. When the submitted information is not true.
  • C. When the purpose of the application is to obstruct social order and stability or public morals.
  • D. When the application does not meet the required conditions by the company.

ARTICLE 8. Change of User Information

When the user information is changed, one must alter the information accordingly through online, and any problems rising from not correcting the information will be responsibilities of the user.

ARTICLE 9. Duties of Company

• 1. The company cannot disclose or distribute the personal information acquired through the use of service to the third party without prior consent. However, following cases are exceptions.
  • A. When asked by a government institution in accordance with regulations of the laws including The Telecommunications Basic Act.
  • B. When needed for a crime investigation or asked by Korea Internet Safety Commission
  • C. When requested in accordance with the procedure set up by a related law.
• 2. Within the range of paragraph 1, in relation to the business, the company can make and use the statistics on the personal information of the whole or certain members. Also, the company can send computer cookies through the service. In this case, the members can reject the reception of cookies or change the computer browser set up to receive warnings of incoming cookies.

ARTICLE 10. Duties of Members

• 1. Members should not engage in the following acts when using the service.
  • A. Using other member’s ID
  • B. Copying, duplicating, changing and translating the information acquired through the service or using it for publication or broadcast, or providing it to the third party without prior consent of the company beside for the purpose of the use by a member.
  • C. Infringement of rights including the copy rights of the company and others.
  • D. Distributing information, sentences, figures that disturb public order and morals.
  • E. Using for the purpose of crime acts or deemed to be connected with a crime.
  • F. Acts that violate related law.
• 2. Members must abide by the related law, regulations of the terms and conditions and service guidelines.
• 3. Member must follow the announcement noticed on the service board or notified separately by the company.
• 4. Members cannot seek profits using the service without prior consent of the company.

ARTICLE 11. Responsibilities of Members in Managing Member ID and Password

• • Members are responsible for the management of their ID and password.
• • All the consequences resulted from careless management and wrongful use of membership ID and password fall under the responsibility of the members.
• • Members must inform the company any cases of illegal use of ID or security violations.

ARTICLE 12. Provided Service

The company can provide various information that is deemed necessary through emails or letters during the service period, and if a member wishes to deny the service, he/she can decide to opt out in the member application and membership information modification menu.

ARTICLE 13. Business with Advertiser

The company is not liable for any loss or damage resulting from participating, communicating or conducting businesses on the promotion activities that are posted on the service or advertiser’s other promotions through this service.

ARTICLE 14. Posts of Members

The company bears no responsibility for any contents posted, published or delivered through various means including emails by members. The company can delete the posts without prior notification for the cases below.

• 1. Contents that slander other members, infringe privacy and taint one’s reputation through mudslinging.
• 2. When there are disruptions or concerns for disturbances in the stable operation of the service.
• 3. When recognized as related to crime acts.
• 4. Contents that violate rights including the copy rights of the company and others.
• 5. When the posting period set by the company has been expired
• 6. When determined as violations of other related law.

ARTICLE 15. Rights and Responsibilities to the Posts

The member who uploaded the post has all the rights and responsibilities to the post including the copyright.

ARTICLE 16. Responsibilities of Service Use

Members can not engage in business activities using the service that sell illegal products, and are especially banned from hacking, putting up advertisement for money, commercial acts through pornographic sites and illegal distribution of commercial S/W. The company is not responsible for any losses or the results of business activities occurred by breaking the regulation, or other legal consequences including imprisonment by related institutions.

ARTICLE 17. Service Suspension

The company can limit or suspend the whole or parts of the service in the times of war, natural disasters and national emergency or when there are possibilities of those events, and also when a key telecommunications service provider suspends its service based on Telecommunications Business Act. Under the regulation in paragraph 1, the company must inform the members the cause and the period of the suspension when the service use has been suspended or stopped.

ARTICLE 18. Termination of Contract and Restriction of Use

If a member wants to terminate usage contract, the member should apply for termination to the company personally.
The company may terminate usage contract without any notification or restrict or stop service usage for a limited time if a member is found to have done 1 of the following items.

• 1. When a member wishes to terminate the use contract, one must request to the company by him/herself.
• 2. The company can terminate the contract or restrict or suspend the use of service by setting the use period without prior notice under the following cases.
  • A. Illegal use of other member’s ID and password.
  • B. Disruptions on the service operation.
  • C. Distribution of contents on purpose that hurt public order and morals.
  • D. Planning or executing the use of service for the purpose of hindering the national interest or social benefits.
  • E. Engage in the acts that bring disadvantage or disgrace on others through diverse means of posting, publishing or sending via emails the contents that infringe other’s copy rights
  • F. Constantly sending unsolicited pornographic, vulgar, threatening contents or advertisement and emails.
  • G. Distributing computer virus programs that cause malfunction of telecommunication equipment or information destruction
  • H. Violating the copy rights of the company and others.
  • I. When there are requests for correction from outside organizations including Korea Internet Safety Commission, and when an authoritative interpretation is asked from National Election Commission in relation to illegal campaigning.
  • J. Illegal use of other’s personal information, ID and password
  • K. Duplication, distribution or commercial use of the information acquired by using the company’s service information without the company’s prior consent
  • L. Violating telecommunication related law.
  • M. Breaking related law or regulations including this terms and conditions set up by the company

ARTICLE 19. Compensation for Damage

In relation to the service use, the company bears no responsibilities for any damages occurred to the members during the period of no service charge.

ARTICLE 20. Liability Exemption

• 1. In cases when the company is in an unmanageable situation to provide the service due to natural disasters or events that are beyond control, the company has the exemption from liability.
• 2. The company is free from liability if a member is at fault for the service error.
• 3. The company is not liable for a member’s not attained expected benefits from service provision of the company or losses caused from using, adopting or rejecting service contents.
• 4. The company is not responsible for the posted information and documents by members and their accuracy and reliability. The members take responsibilities for any losses occurred from posting or sending contents using the service, and also for the disadvantage in relation to the adoption and rejection of information and other service use.
• 5. The company has no responsibilities for the trades of good between members or between members and the third party, and is exempted from liability of the benefits expected by members through the use the service.
• 6. The damage caused by the careless management and use of membership ID and password or the illegal use by a third party are the responsibilities of the member.

ARTICLE 21. Competent Court

Any disputes arising from this terms and conditions will be governed by the court that has the jurisdiction over the location of the company main office.