Korimio Terms of Service — India

These Terms govern access to and use of the websites, applications, and connected features operated under the Service name and define the rights and responsibilities of the Operator, Members, and Visitors.

They are designed to support a safe and reliable service while preserving consumer, privacy, child-protection, electronic-commerce, platform, and procedural rights that applicable mandatory law does not permit the parties to waive.

Capitalised terms have the meanings below. A term not defined here has the meaning given by an incorporated policy, a feature-specific notice, applicable law, or ordinary usage.

• Service means official reviews, user reviews, Life, Knowledge Center, Korean learning, maps and places, Play, search, recommendations, notifications, community features, and related websites or applications.
• Operator means the Korean service operator identified in the applicable country document and verified operator-information notice.
• Member means a person who creates an account; Visitor means a person who uses a public feature without an account.
• Content includes posts, reviews, answers, comments, photographs, video, translations, maps, place information, ratings, reactions, learning results, and similar material.
• User Content means Content submitted by a Member or Visitor; Operator Content means Content created by or lawfully supplied to the Operator.
• Policies means the Privacy Notice, community standards, feature rules, transaction disclosures, and other notices expressly incorporated into these Terms.

The Service is operated from the Republic of Korea by the legal operator identified in the applicable country page and verified operator-information notice. Support, privacy, rights, and complaint channels are provided through the Service.

Before a regulated or paid service is offered, the Operator will disclose every identity, physical or service address, registration, tax, pricing, and contact fact required by applicable law. No local office, entity, licence, or representative exists merely because a country draft has been prepared.

Where the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules apply, the final service must prominently disclose the verified legal name, principal geographic address of the headquarters and branches, website details, customer-care and grievance-officer contacts, and other prescribed particulars. It must appoint an India-resident nodal contact person or alternate senior designated functionary where required. This draft does not represent that those facts or appointments are complete.

The final service must separately identify any contact or officer required by the current Information Technology Rules, CERT-In Directions, privacy rules, or online-gaming regime. One generic support address is not represented as satisfying every statutory function.

These Terms apply together with the reviewed country profile, service-specific terms, transaction disclosures, and incorporated Policies relevant to the user and feature.

The parties select the law of the Republic of Korea as the general law governing their contractual relationship. That choice does not deprive a person of non-waivable protections that apply because of habitual residence, service targeting, transaction, data processing, or another mandatory connecting factor.

A mandatory local rule prevails only to the extent of an actual conflict. The remaining provisions continue to operate, and the Operator does not claim that Korean law always overrides foreign mandatory law.

A non-waivable Indian consumer, e-commerce, privacy, intermediary, cyber-security, child, gaming, electronic-record, advertising, court, regulator, or remedy rule applies according to its own territorial and subject-matter scope despite the Korean-law selection. A foreign-law or forum term is limited to the extent necessary to preserve that rule.

The Operator publishes these Terms in a form that can be reviewed and retained. The applicable version, announcement date, effective date, language status, and previous-version route are shown with the country document.

A material adverse amendment receives reasonable advance notice and any affirmative consent required by law. Silence or continued use does not replace express consent where the law requires it, and an amendment does not retrospectively remove an accrued mandatory right.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act and Rules use staged commencement. On 1 September 2026, the core data-fiduciary duties, notice and consent provisions, data-principal rights, child-processing duties, and corresponding operational rules scheduled for 18 months after 13 November 2025 were not yet in force. This text must be revalidated before each statutory commencement and updated without presenting a future duty as already operative.

A contract is formed when the user receives the required information, takes the requested affirmative acceptance action, submits a valid registration or transaction request, and the Operator accepts it or supplies the relevant Service.

The Operator may reject or reverse a request affected by material falsity, identity misuse, fraud, manifest error, technical duplication, legal restriction, or serious prior misuse. Any payment taken for an unformed transaction will be returned as required by law.

Electronic records, signatures, and notices may be used when valid under the law that applies to the transaction. A user should retain important contractual and transaction records.

Electronic records and contracts may be used to the extent recognised by the Information Technology Act and applicable contract law. Before acceptance, an in-scope e-commerce user must receive clear, accessible, and prominent information about the entity, material service characteristics, total price and charges, payment, performance, cancellation, refund, warranty, and complaint process required for the transaction, together with an appropriate correction opportunity and retainable confirmation.

A pre-ticked option, disguised advertisement, false urgency or scarcity cue, subscription trap, basket sneaking, confirm-shaming, interface interference, or other prohibited dark pattern is not authorised. Consent and payment must result from an informed affirmative choice rather than a deceptive design.

A person who cannot lawfully agree to these Terms must use the Service only with the consent, involvement, and supervision required from a parent or legal guardian. A feature subject to a statutory minimum age may apply an age gate or refuse registration.

Child-directed processing, profiling, marketing, location use, and publication require heightened safeguards and any verifiable parental authorisation mandated by law. The Operator may restrict an account or remove information to protect a child, without shifting the Operator's statutory duties to the child or parent.

A person domiciled in India generally attains majority at 18 under the Majority Act, and contractual capacity is determined by the Indian Contract Act and other applicable law. A minor must not be induced to make a transaction that the law treats as beyond the minor's capacity, and parent or guardian involvement will be obtained where legally required.

The DPDP Act provisions concerning a child, verifiable parental consent, detrimental processing, tracking or behavioural monitoring, and targeted advertising were not yet operative on the 1 September 2026 research date. They are not described as current duties; however, any child-accessible feature must be reassessed and technically ready before their staged commencement, and stricter currently applicable child or consumer protection remains unaffected.

Members must provide accurate information, protect passwords, passkeys, sessions, recovery methods, and authentication devices, and promptly report suspected compromise.

The Operator may require proportionate reauthentication, terminate sessions, reset credentials, rate-limit attempts, or temporarily restrict high-risk activity. A Member is responsible only for loss lawfully attributable to that Member's fault and causation.

Security incidents and logs will be handled under the Information Technology Act, SPDI Rules, and applicable CERT-In Directions. Before publication, the Operator must verify the applicable incident categories, reporting time, clock-synchronisation source, log-retention location and period, point of contact, and evidence-preservation process for the actual infrastructure.

The Service may include publishing, reviews, community interaction, translation, discovery, mapping, learning, rankings, vendors, notifications, and entertainment features. A feature page may state additional eligibility, device, location, permission, or account requirements.

Beta and free features may have limited availability. Paid features are supplied under the pre-contract information, service level, and mandatory guarantees applicable to the purchase.

The Operator may maintain, secure, improve, replace, or discontinue a free feature for legal, technical, security, dependency, or operational reasons and will give reasonable notice of a foreseeable material discontinuation.

Emergency action may be taken without advance notice where delay would materially increase an outage, security incident, unlawful use, disaster, or safety risk. A paid feature retains every refund, substitute performance, cancellation, or other remedy required by law.

Users must comply with law, these Terms, incorporated Policies, and reasonable security or feature instructions, and must respect the rights and safety of others.

A user must verify submitted information and obtain permissions required for copyright, trade marks, privacy, publicity, confidential information, location information, and commercial disclosures.

A user must not misuse the Service or assist another person to do so, including through the following conduct:

• Illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, exploitative, defamatory, privacy-invasive, discriminatory, or seriously unsafe conduct.
• Identity misuse, impersonation, account trafficking, sanction evasion, credential attacks, unauthorised access, malware, injection, or security-control bypass.
• Spam, scams, unauthorised scraping or automation, unreasonable load, manipulated requests, fake engagement, ranking abuse, or coordinated inauthentic behaviour.
• Fabricated reviews, undisclosed paid endorsements, insider reviews presented as independent, or pressure intended to suppress a lawful negative review.
• Copyright, trade mark, publicity, privacy, confidential-information, or other rights infringement.
• Unauthorised collection, disclosure, sale, or tracking of sensitive, financial, health, child, or precise-location information.

Users retain ownership of User Content. These Terms do not transfer authorship or ownership to the Operator.

A user represents that the user may lawfully submit the Content and has obtained permissions required for included works, people, personal information, locations, brands, and commercial claims. The user remains responsible for unlawful Content to the extent of fault, causation, and legally recoverable harm.

By submitting User Content, the user grants the Operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, format, display, and distribute it only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and promote the Service within the user-selected visibility.

The licence includes accessibility conversion, device optimisation, thumbnails, search indexing, disclosed translation, recommendations, backups, moderation, and rights enforcement. It does not permit an unrelated stand-alone sale of the Content or a blanket waiver of moral rights.

The licence generally ends after deletion and a reasonable backup period, subject to lawful retention, dispute preservation, prior authorised distribution, and copies independently shared by others.

The Operator may make formatting, spelling, accessibility, safety-presentation, and technical adjustments that do not materially distort meaning. A material editorial change requires authorisation or a clearly stated legal or moderation basis.

Automated or model-assisted translations and summaries may contain errors. The identified source controls unless a reviewed translation is expressly designated as controlling, and users may report a material translation error.

Where the current Information Technology Rules require a synthetically generated information label, provenance control, or user declaration for a covered intermediary or content type, Korimio will apply the prescribed control and will not remove a legally required identifier. This clause does not label all edited or translated material as synthetic, and final obligations depend on the service's statutory role and the notified rule text.

Official Reviews are Operator Content produced or reviewed under editorial standards. Prices, hours, menus, availability, rules, transport, and local conditions may change after verification.

Sponsorship, affiliate relationships, free products, payment, or another material connection will be disclosed where required. An Official Review is information and opinion, not a guarantee of safety, quality, availability, or transaction outcome.

An official review, endorsement, ranking, comparison, or promotion must not be misleading, must disclose a material relationship or incentive, and must comply with applicable consumer, advertising, endorsement, and dark-pattern rules. A disclaimer cannot cure a materially deceptive overall impression.

User Reviews express the author's experience or opinion and are not the Operator's official position. They must be genuine, relevant, and free from unlawful manipulation or undisclosed material incentives.

The Operator may investigate authenticity, duplication, coordinated behaviour, and credible reports, but a lawful review is not removed merely because it is negative. Businesses may respond or report but may not coerce suppression of an honest review.

Korimio may act against fabricated, purchased, impersonated, coordinated, or undisclosed incentivised reviews. Review ranking, moderation, and commercial placement must not mislead a consumer about origin, independence, relevance, sentiment, or the existence of a paid relationship.

Comments, answers, questions, reactions, follows, and bookmarks are subject to the same legal and community standards as other Content. Counts may be deduplicated or corrected for error, fraud, or manipulation.

The Operator may restrict clear spam, malicious links, impersonation, automation, or safety threats. Legitimate criticism, questions, learning repetition, and ordinary activity are not prohibited merely because they are frequent or unfavourable.

Knowledge Center answers and Life posts provide general information and personal experience and do not replace licensed medical, legal, tax, financial, immigration, emergency, or other professional advice.

Lessons, handwriting feedback, quizzes, progress, and scores are educational aids and do not guarantee an examination, fluency, employment, admission, or other result. Important decisions should be checked with a qualified professional or public authority.

Maps, boundaries, places, roads, waterways, transport, distances, and coordinates may combine public, licensed, processed, and user-reported data and may be delayed, approximate, incomplete, or outdated.

The Service is not an authoritative source for legal boundaries, surveying, property title, safety-critical navigation, rescue, or disaster response. Users must check official maps, carriers, authorities, signs, and current conditions.

Games, seasons, rankings, scores, badges, achievements, and rewards operate under feature rules. Records affected by error, fraud, automation, collusion, account sharing, or exploit use may be corrected.

Unless a lawful regulated offer expressly states otherwise, points and badges have no cash value, are not currency or property, and cannot be transferred, sold, or redeemed. Paid or promotional features require separate price, eligibility, duration, cancellation, and reward disclosures.

Korimio will not offer, advertise, promote, facilitate, or accept funds for an online money game prohibited by the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act. A social game, e-sport, competition, ranking, point, reward, virtual token, or prize feature will be launched for India only after the Online Gaming Authority classification and any required registration, recognition, age, advertising, and payment controls are complete.

A point, badge, rank, or virtual item has no cash value and cannot be purchased, staked, transferred, or redeemed for money or a money-equivalent unless a separately reviewed lawful feature expressly provides otherwise. This clause does not represent that an existing feature has received Indian approval.

Displaying a restaurant, lodging, seller, advertiser, or booking link does not make the Operator a party to the transaction unless the Operator clearly states otherwise. The third party remains responsible for its price, inventory, delivery, quality, warranties, and refunds.

Advertising, sponsored placement, and affiliate relationships will be identifiable as required. The Operator remains responsible for its own representations, conduct, and intermediary duties that law assigns to it.

An in-scope seller or e-commerce entity must provide accurate identity, country-of-origin, importer, price, return, refund, warranty, delivery, and grievance information required for its role and must not engage in an unfair trade practice. Korimio may verify, suspend, or remove a seller that fails a legally required disclosure or consumer remedy.

Results may reflect relevance, recency, quality, language, settings, location, integrity, safety, popularity, and availability and need not be complete, neutral, or identical for every user.

The Operator may change ranking systems and protect details whose disclosure would enable manipulation or create security risk. Material sponsored placement will be distinguished, and principal-factor or appeal disclosures will be provided where law requires them.

The Service may depend on external hosting, login, payment, storage, maps, media, notifications, analytics, or other providers. Their terms and privacy notices may apply to a user's direct relationship with them.

The Operator does not control an independent provider's acts or availability but remains responsible for its own selection, integration, instruction, security, and oversight to the extent required by law.

A person may report illegal, unsafe, infringing, deceptive, privacy-invasive, or materially inaccurate Content through the available route and should identify the Content, legal or policy basis, authority, and reliable supporting information.

The Operator may preserve evidence, label, limit distribution, temporarily disable, remove, restore, or report Content after a proportionate review. Where compatible with law and safety, the affected person receives a reason and a route to challenge the decision.

Where Korimio is an intermediary for a feature, it will apply the due-diligence, user-rule, grievance, acknowledgement, decision, preservation, and lawful government or court notice process required by the Information Technology Act and current Information Technology Rules. Timelines and officer duties vary by classification and subject matter and are not replaced by a generic reasonable-time promise.

No safe-harbour protection is claimed unless the relevant intermediary role and every statutory condition have been verified. Korimio may restrict unlawful content after a valid legal process, an applicable statutory notice, or a proportionate rules decision, while preserving legally required records and available user explanation or challenge procedures.

The Operator may warn, rate-limit, restrict, suspend, or terminate an account for a material or repeated breach, illegality, fraud, security risk, or serious harm, considering context, severity, repetition, history, and evidence.

Urgent action may precede notice where delay creates material risk. Except where prohibited by law or necessary to protect an investigation, the Operator will provide a reason and an appeal channel, without restricting regulator or court remedies.

The Service software, design, trade marks, databases, Operator Content, and other assets are protected by law and remain owned by the Operator or licensors. Service access grants only the limited right needed to use the Service as intended.

Unauthorised copying, sale, sublicensing, systematic extraction, circumvention, or creation of a substitute service is prohibited, subject to any non-waivable exception for quotation, criticism, accessibility, interoperability, research, or other lawful use.

Personal information is handled under a separately reviewed exact-country Privacy Notice. It identifies the controller, data categories, purposes, lawful grounds, recipients and processors, transfers, retention, rights, security, complaint channel, and any representative required by law.

Sensitive, child, biometric, health, financial, and precise-location information receives safeguards proportionate to risk. Acceptance of these Terms never substitutes for separate consent or authorisation where law requires it, and a generic or foreign-locale privacy page is not treated as an approved country notice.

On the 1 September 2026 research date, section 43A of the Information Technology Act and the SPDI Rules remained the current general private-sector baseline for an in-scope body corporate processing sensitive personal data or information. Where they apply, Korimio will publish the required privacy policy, give the required notice, obtain consent where required, provide review and correction, limit use and retention to the stated lawful purpose, maintain reasonable security practices, restrict transfers to recipients providing the required level of protection, and identify the applicable grievance contact.

The core DPDP data-fiduciary, notice, consent, security, breach, erasure, grievance, data-principal-rights, and child-processing provisions scheduled for later commencement are not represented as current on that date. When they become operative, the privacy notice and service will transition to the applicable DPDP duties, including the legally required clear notice, withdrawal and rights process, security and breach response, processor controls, erasure and retention rules, and access to the notice in English or an Eighth Schedule language as prescribed.

The exact-country privacy notice must state the actual purposes, data items, recipients, processors, retention, international transfers, security, automated decisions, children's processing, and current and future rights. This Terms summary is not the privacy notice and cannot be used to imply that DPDP migration is complete.

Operational, security, legal, and transaction notices may be sent through the Service or verified contact details and will be retainable where law requires. Users should keep those details reasonably current.

Marketing email, messages, and push notifications require the consent or other basis required by applicable law, identify the sender, and provide a simple withdrawal method. Marketing withdrawal does not disable essential contractual or security notices.

A marketing or promotional communication must comply with the current privacy, consumer, advertising, telecom, and electronic-message rules that apply to its channel and recipient. It must accurately identify the commercial nature and sender, honour consent and withdrawal requirements, and provide an effective opt-out where required. A service notice will not be used to conceal a promotion.

Before charging, the supplier will disclose its identity, main characteristics, total price and charges, duration, renewal, payment, performance, cancellation, statutory withdrawal, refund, complaint route, and applicable exceptions in a clear retainable form.

A mandatory withdrawal, conformity, warranty, refund, repair, replacement, price-reduction, or termination right is not reduced by these Terms. Immediate digital performance that affects a withdrawal right requires the separate request, consent, acknowledgement, and copy required by law.

A paid or recurring service must display the total price, recurring nature, billing interval, renewal and cancellation method, refund and complaint terms, and material restrictions before consent and payment. A prohibited subscription trap, hidden charge, forced add-on, or blanket no-refund term is not authorised. Repair, replacement, refund, compensation, and other mandatory remedies under consumer law remain available according to the transaction.

The Operator uses reasonable care in providing its own Service, but User Content, translations, maps, schedules, prices, and changing third-party information may contain error or become outdated.

To the extent lawful, the Service does not guarantee a commercial, educational, travel, medical, financial, or other outcome. No mandatory guarantee, conformity duty, remedy, or duty of reasonable care is excluded.

The Operator is responsible for direct loss caused by its intent or fault to the extent required by law. A lawful limitation applies only to indirect or unforeseeable loss outside an essential obligation and only where fair, transparent, and proportionate.

Nothing excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence where protected, death or bodily injury, privacy or security breach, paid-service obligations, statutory consumer liability, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

No limitation, exclusion, or indemnity removes a mandatory Consumer Protection Act or E-Commerce Rules remedy, liability for an unfair or misleading practice, an in-scope privacy or cyber-security responsibility, a child-protection duty, or any responsibility that Indian law makes non-excludable. Any limitation is construed narrowly and remains subject to applicable fairness and reasonableness controls.

A Member is responsible for legally recoverable harm caused by the Member's intentional or negligent breach where causation is proved. The Member does not give an unlimited indemnity or assume risk unrelated to the Member's conduct.

Users and third parties should ordinarily resolve their own transaction or Content dispute. The Operator may preserve evidence and take lawful safety measures without thereby becoming a party to the underlying transaction.

Neither party is liable for delayed or failed performance caused by an unforeseeable or unavoidable event beyond reasonable control, including disaster, war, government action, widespread network or power failure, or critical infrastructure failure.

The affected party will use reasonable efforts to reduce harm, restore performance, and communicate material effects. This Article does not remove a refund, restitution, data-protection, or other obligation that remains mandatory despite the event.

A Member may request account closure through the offered process. The Operator may complete proportionate authentication, security, payment, legal-retention, and active-dispute checks before an irreversible action.

After closure, data is deleted, anonymised, or retained only for a lawful purpose and period, including fraud prevention, accounting, security, claim defence, and backup cycles. Account closure does not by itself exercise a statutory right to cancel a separate purchase.

Within lawful limits, the Operator may retain records of acceptance, versions, notices, authentication, publication, moderation, payment, and communications to operate, audit, secure, and resolve disputes.

Electronic records have the validity and evidential weight assigned by applicable law. A person may request access to or correction of a relevant record where law provides that right.

The law of the Republic of Korea generally governs the contractual relationship. The parties should first attempt resolution through support or another available complaint procedure, without delaying urgent relief or a statutory deadline.

Courts in the Republic of Korea are an ordinary, non-exclusive forum to the extent lawful. This choice does not deprive a consumer of a mandatory regulator complaint, alternative dispute process, collective remedy, or competent court in the consumer's habitual-residence country.

Korean law and Korean courts remain the general contractual baseline only to the extent lawful. An Indian user may use a competent consumer commission, regulator, adjudicating authority, court, or other non-waivable local remedy and may complain to the applicable consumer, MeitY, CERT-In, privacy, gaming, or other authority. A foreign forum term does not shorten a statutory period or make an Indian mandatory remedy impracticable.

If a provision conflicts with applicable mandatory law, it is disapplied or limited only to the minimum extent necessary. The remaining Terms continue, and the affected provision is interpreted as closely as lawful to its legitimate purpose.

The Korean-law choice does not remove non-waivable consumer, privacy, child-protection, electronic-commerce, advertising, platform, accessibility, procedure, jurisdiction, or language rights applicable in the user's country.

If a term conflicts with mandatory Indian law, it is limited or disregarded only to the extent necessary, and the rest remains effective. Nothing in this profile contracts out of non-waivable consumer, e-commerce, privacy, intermediary, cyber-security, child, gaming, advertising, court, regulator, or remedy protections.

• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Consumer Protection Act 2019, Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules 2020 as amended, and applicable dark-pattern and misleading-advertisement guidelines
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Information Technology Act 2000 and Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, as amended through February 2026
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: CERT-In Directions under section 70B of the Information Technology Act 2000
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Indian Contract Act 1872 and Majority Act 1875
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, G.S.R. 843(E), and Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025, G.S.R. 846(E), subject to their staged commencement
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act 2025 and operative subordinate rules and notifications
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Foreign Trade Policy 2023, SCOMET controls, and applicable DGFT export restrictions
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Copyright Act 1957, Trade Marks Act 1999, and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 section 356
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, applicable ICT accessibility standards, DST geospatial rules, and UGC online-programme regulations
• Local legal reference, according to its applicable scope: Reserve Bank of India payment-system data-storage circular, only where its entity and system scope applies

The country profile states its version, announcement date, effective date, language status, and local additions. A prior country version remains addressable when one exists.

Country additions form part of these Terms only within their legal scope. Internal drafting, technical implementation, or publication does not constitute certification by independent local counsel.

Internal draft based on official sources accessed 1 September 2026. DPDP core commencement remains future as stated above. Publication is blocked until the privacy transition, verified operator and India-resident officer facts, all service classifications, language counterparts, operational compliance, and Indian counsel approval are complete.