40weeks later

Terms of Use

<Chapter 1> Welcome! Fill in the precious moments with ‘40weeks later’

Article 1. Purpose

Thank you for using the Services provided by Connect-i Co.,Ltd. (hereinafter, the "Company'). The Company has established “40weeks later Terms and Conditions" there to (hereinafter, the " Terms of Use") to provide a more diverse and convenient Internet and mobile Services. THIS Terms of Use prescribes general provisions about the rights, duties and responsibilities, terms of use, and procedures required in use of the Service. The Company appreciates your taking time to read it carefully.

Article 2. Effect and Modification of Terms and Conditions

• ① This Terms and Conditions shall be posted in the relevant pages of ‘40weeks later’ Website or app Services, and shall enter into force between the Parties that have consented hereto.
• ② The Company, if deemed necessary, can modify this Terms and Conditions within the scope not contravening the relevant laws and regulations. In such case, the amended contents shall be announced or notified by the Company at least fifteen (15) days prior to the effective date. If the foregoing modification unavoidably operates to your disadvantage, the Company shall individually transmit the notice thereon, at least thirty (30) days prior to the effective date, to your email address via email or to your mobile phone number or text messages (unless you have any email address, other electronic methods including electronic notice or pop-up message in the Service shall be applied.)
• ③ Unless you explicitly refuse to accept the aforementioned modification within a set period, from the date of announcement or notification hereby to seven (7) days after the effective date, the Company shall presume your consent thereto. Unless you agree to the revised Terms and Conditions, you may terminate the Service Agreement at any time.
• ④ Members may choose to terminate the use contract by expressing their objection to the changed terms and conditions. Termination of the use contract is possible through withdrawal of members from the service.

Article 3. Additional Terms

Any matters that are not prescribed in this Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the relevant laws and regulations, Terms of Service of Individual Services, and Operation Policies and Rules set forth by the Company (hereinafter, the "Guiding Principles").

Article 4. Definition of Terms

• ① The Terms herein shall be defined as follows:
  • 1) "Account" refers to the Company's Login Account Policy that allows users to manage with a single login account and password, verification of user identity, modification of his/her personal information, and sign-up and withdrawal for membership in the Individual Services provided by the Company or its Partners.
  • 2) "Member" refers to a person who uses ‘40weeks later’ service, after having agreed to this Terms and Conditions in the Individual Services associated with ‘40weeks later’ application service.
  • 3) "Account Information" refers to any required or optional information set by the Company. Account Information means any member information that can be checked, modified and managed in the account settings page.

<Chapter 2> Service Agreement

Article 5. Formation of Agreement

• ① If the user reads these Terms and Conditions, presses the "Agree" button, or checks "OK", etc., they are deemed to have agreed to these Terms and Conditions.
• ② Membership registration for the use of the company's service shall be made by entering mandatory matters including membership ID (email account) according to the membership registration method determined by the company, and pressing the "Register" or "OK" buttons. However, if the company deems it necessary, it may require members to submit separate documents.

Article 6. Limitation of Account Use

• ① Membership registration is established by the user's application for membership registration and the company's approval of membership registration. In principle, the company automatically approves the membership when the applicant faithfully enters the essentials and completes the application. However, in the following cases, the company may withhold consent or cancel consent until the reasons are resolved.
  • 1) Where it is deemed that he/she has subscribed to the service by using personal information such as the name or email address of another person
  • 2) If you don't have realistic leeway for service-provided storage
  • 3) If the technical part of the service delivery is deemed to be problematic
  • 4) Other cases deemed financially and technically necessary by the company
  • 5) Where a person who has received a suspension of service use from the company voluntarily cancels the service use contract and applies for re-registration
  • 6) If it violates other relevant laws and regulations or violates the standards set by the company, such as detailed guidelines
• ② If a member is found to have subscribed to the service in violation of the above conditions, the company may immediately suspend the member's use of the service or remove the account.

<Chapter 3> Use of the service

Article 7. Providing a wide range of services

• ① You can use the service immediately after the company approves the service after signing up for membership. Members are free to use the service whenever they want.
• ② However, some sub-services can only be used if you agree to the terms and conditions. You can use the service if the conditions are met after you enter the necessary additional information or complete the authentication process set by the company, such as e-mail address approval or self-authentication.
• ③ The company can provide the updated version needed for the service for better service. Updates include the addition of critical features or the removal of unnecessary features. Please update us continuously so that we can get better service.
• ④ To provide better service, we can display various information within the service, such as announcements, messages, and other advertisements related to the use of the service, or send it directly to the contacts registered in your account information. However, the company does not send advertising e-mails, push messages, or text messages for commercial purposes that the members did not agree to receive.
• ⑤ If you find any problems such as system errors while using the service, please contact the customer center at any time. (customer center : after10month@connect-i.co.kr)

Article 8. Disruption and termination of services

• ① The Company exerts every effort in providing the Service 24/7/365. If a case falls under any of the following subparagraphs, all or part of the Service shall be restricted or suspended by the Company.
  • 1) Regular or provisional check for equipment maintenance of Service
  • 2) Service disruption due to blackout, equipment failure, or traffic overload
  • 3) Any case that the Company can no longer maintain Service due to changes in circumstance including termination of Partnership Agreement, the government order/restriction, changes in the Service/Member policies etc.
  • 4) Natural disaster, national emergency, or other force majeure events
• ② Suspension of Service that is due to any of the foregoing reasons shall be notified or announced in the method prescribed in Article 14. Repeated logins and/or additional consent from users may be required when using Services in order to modify Services or policies seamlessly. However, prior notifications and announcements cannot be provided if the Service is suspended for reasons the Company is unable to predict or control (ex. Disc, server or system failure that is not due to the Company's negligence). However, the Company shall still make its utmost effort to immediately restore the Service once the cause is identified. If Service restoration is delayed for more than two (2) hours, such delay shall be alerted through Services' Notice and Customer Support Notice sections.

Article 9. Management of Account

• ① Account shall be used only by its holder, and any access by other person must be banned. The Member shall manage his/her password in person to allow no one to appropriate his/her Account. The Company may require both password and additional verification to prevent abuse of Account by other person. In case of the foregoing appropriation, please report it via the Customer Center. (after10month@connect-i.co.kr) The Company exerts its utmost effort to inform how to prevent such appropriation.
• ② The Members can view and modify their information in the page of Account Settings. However, you may not be able to change some information including Account, phone number, unique device identifiers and other user identification information require to provide and manage Account Service. In case of such modification, an additional user identification may be required. If you wish to update any information you entered at the time of sign-up, you can modify it in person or contact us via email or Customer Service.
• ③ The Company takes no responsibility for any loss attributable to your negligence in timely updating Account Information.
• ④ When using SNS login such as Google or Apple login, it is impossible to find a password within the app service because it is logged in through the linked token provided by the SNS.

Article 10. management of posts

• ① If a member's post contains content that violates related laws such as the Copyright Act, the right holder may request the company to stop or delete the post in accordance with the procedures set by the relevant laws and regulations, and the company takes action in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations. The relevant laws may be applied differently depending on the laws of each country.
• ② The company may take temporary action or delete the post in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations if there is a reason for the infringement of rights or other violations of the company's policies and related laws, even if there is no request from the right holder.
• ③ Detailed procedures related to the above shall be in accordance with the reporting procedures set by the company within the scope prescribed by the relevant laws and regulations.

Article 11. Attribution of rights and use of works

• ① Members may post content (hereinafter referred to as "posts") within the service, such as photos, writings, information, videos, or opinions or suggestions about the company, and intellectual property rights, including copyrights, of course, will continue to be held by the members who posted them.
• ② Posts created by members may also be exposed to search results, customized content areas, and related promotions. To the extent necessary for such exposure, some modifications, replications, edits, and publications may be made. In this case, the company complies with the copyright law regulations, and members may take measures such as deleting the post through the customer center at any time.
• ③ The company may delete or refuse to post a member's post without notice if it is deemed to be in violation of relevant laws or regulations, a post that encourages discrimination, a post that is plastered, advertised, promotional, spammed, transferred or traded accounts, or a post impersonating another person. However, the company is not obligated to review all content, so if someone violates the rights of members, you can report it or get help through the customer center.

<Chapter 4> Obligation of Contracting Parties

Article 12. Member Obligations

• ① The Members must perform none of the following activities in use of the Service. The company may restrict or suspend members' use of the service in the event of a reason falling under each subparagraph.
  • 1) Enter false fact while applying or modifying the Service Use; appropriate or unjustifiably use other Member's Account and Password; use other's name; or conduct SMS verification without consent of a registered person
  • 2) Copy, alter, distribute, sell, transfer, lend, secure or allow others to use the Service or part of software thereof without the Company's consent; and/or copy, disassemble, imitate or transform the Service including reverse-engineering of software or any attempt to extract source code
  • 3) Defame or injure other's reputation
  • 4) Upload lewd materials on the bulletin board and/or connect (link) harmful sites
  • 5) Violate other rights of the Company or a third party including copyright
  • 6) Posting false facts about the company or a third party within the service
  • 7) Disseminate to others any information, sentence, figure, or voice against public order and/or good morals and manners
  • 8) Register or circulate computer viruses to cause malfunction of equipment, and/or destroy and disrupt information related to the Service
  • 9) Transmit any information, in bad faith, that can interfere or impede a stable Service operation, or any commercial information or Spam Mails against recipient's explicit refusal of reception
  • 10) Personate a false identity of other person and/or misrepresent the relationship with other person
  • 11) Collect, store and/or disclose other Member's personal information
  • 12) Circulate false information to provide oneself or others with proprietary benefits, or to damage others
  • 13) Gambling or gambling with property or engaging in speculative acts
  • 14) Circulate any information to arrange prostitution or mediate lewd acts
  • 15) Interfere other's daily life by having utterance, sound, writing or video clip that arouses shame, revulsion or fear continuously reached to the aforementioned other person
  • 16) Transmit or publish any information (including computer program) prohibited by the relevant laws and regulations
  • 17) Upload a post, or transmit email or message by disguising or personating any officer or administrator of the Company or Partners, or appropriating other's name
  • 18) Stalking, abusive language, false or malicious reporting abuse, etc. that interfere with the use of other members' services
  • 19) Other Illegal Act
• ② Members shall neither transfer nor grant their rights to use and legal status hereby, nor impignorate the foregoing rights and status.
• ③ If you fail to abide by relevant laws and regulations, all Terms and Conditions and/or Policies of the Company, your contravention may be investigated, use of the Service may be temporarily or continuously suspended, and re-subscription may be restricted by the Company. If you adversely affect the provision of Services or severely interfere with the stable operation of Services by causing malfunction of equipment or by destroying or creating disorder in the system, the Company may restrict you from using your account. However, you can appeal through Customer Service if you are dissatisfied with the imposed restriction.
• ④ Members can refer to Operation Policy for any matters prescribed herein and/or other details about use of the Service.

Article 13. Protection of Personal Information

The primary task of the Company is to securely process the Member's personal information. Such information shall be used to provide a seamless Service only within purpose and scope agreed between the Parties hereto. Unless the Members have made a separate consent, or except as otherwise prescribed in the relevant laws and regulations, the Company must not provide the Member's personal information, which the Members can rest assured. The Members can find which efforts the Company exerts to securely process their personal information in the Privacy Policy.

Article 14. Notification and Announcement to the Members

Communication with the Members is most valued by the Company. The Members can visit Customer Center and raise their opinions at any time. Notification for all Members shall come into force by being posted in the Service Notification for no less than seven (7) days. Any notification that may gravely affect your conditions shall be individually sent to your registered email address via email, or to your registered mobile phone number text message. (Unless mobile phone number has been registered, other electronic methods including electronic note or pop-up message in the Service will be applied.)

<Chapter 5> Termination of the Service

Article 15. Termination of the Service

• ① If a member withdraws from the membership, the service usage contract will also be automatically terminated.
• ② The Members can apply for the termination of the Service Agreement at any time in use of the menu provided in the Services. The Company will take actions accordingly in a swift manner as prescribed under the relevant laws and regulations.
• ③ When the service usage contract is terminated, all data, such as records stored in the member's diary, will be deleted, except for holding the member's schedule information in accordance with relevant laws and privacy policies.
• ④ However, services that share information with other members, such as Mom’s Talk and Reviews, are not automatically deleted upon withdrawal because posts written by members are posted by other members or other sharing features, or because members add comments to other members' posts.
• ⑤ Posts not deleted by members pursuant to the preceding paragraph will remain unremoved to the extent necessary for the normal use of other members' services. Therefore, the posts and comments will not be deleted, so please delete them before applying for withdrawal. However, even if the post remains, all information of the withdrawing members such as nicknames is deleted and is not exposed.
• ⑥ If you leave an SNS account linked to the service while using the service through SNS login such as Google and Apple ID, the SNS-linked token will be deleted immediately, making the service unavailable, and the service use contract will be automatically terminated.
• ⑦ Data deleted upon withdrawal can no longer be recovered.
• ⑧ Even if the service use contract is terminated, you can apply for the conclusion of the service use contract through membership registration again.
• ⑨ However, if a member cancels the service contract and applies for a new service contract due to failure to comply with relevant laws, these terms and conditions, and detailed guidelines, the service subscription may be limited or rejected for a certain period of time.

Article 16. Indemnification for Damage

• ① With regard to the Service, the Company must not assure or guarantee any specific matters that are not prescribed in this Terms and Conditions within the scope permitted under the relevant laws and regulations. The Company shall provide no warranty on credibility and accuracy of information, data and fact posted in the Service in a way that the Contents Provider (CP) offer or the Member write, and shall take no responsibility for any loss occurred without the Company's negligence.
• ② The Company will compensate for any loss caused by its negligence under this Terms and Conditions and the relevant laws and regulations; provided, however, that the Company shall take no responsibility for any loss occurred without its negligence as prescribed in the following subparagraphs. Furthermore, the Company shall take no liability for indirect, particular, consequential, disciplinary and punitive loss.
  • 1) Any loss occurred in an uncontrollable state including natural disaster or equivalent force majeure
  • 2) Service error due to reasons attributable to the Members
  • 3) Personal loss arising from access to or use of the Service
  • 4) Any loss originated from illegal access to or use of the Company's Server by a third party
  • 5) Any loss originated from impeded transmission to or from the Company's Server by a third party
  • 6) Any loss originated from transmission or spread of malware by a third party
  • 7) Any loss arising from use of the Service by a third party including damage or defamation caused by omission, deletion, destruction, etc. of transmitted data
  • 8) Any other loss arising from acts of the Company that are not intentional or negligent
• ③ The company does not support responsibility for damages, and the company does not support responsibility for damages caused by service, and other services obtained through services.

The company has no obligation to intervene in dispute between members or members and third party interactions between members and third parties and third party interactions.

Article 17. Dispute Settlement

This Terms and Conditions or the Service shall be stipulated and executed under the laws and regulations of the Republic of Korea. In case of any disputes arising out of or related to use of the Service between the Parties concerned, the Company shall faithfully consult with the other Party hereto to resolve such issues. Unless the foregoing conflicts are settled, the Company may file a lawsuit to a competent court under the Civil Procedure Act.

Notification Date: Oct 20, 2023

Enforcement Date: Oct 20, 2023