Terms of use

Thank you for choosing Koreastartour.  The terms of this agreement (the “Terms”) determine the relationship between you (“user” or the “customer”, including “member” and “non-member”) and Koreastartour regarding your use of Koreastartour’s website, application (the website and application, ‘Site’), products and services (collectively, “the Services”) and payment processing services. By accessing and using this site, you agree to be bound by these Terms. In addition, when using particular services or any text, images, photos, location data, and other materials uploaded on this site (collectively, the “Content”), users shall be subject to any posted rules applicable to such services or materials that may contain terms and conditions in addition to those in these Terms. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms.

By using Koreastartour Services, you agree to these conditions. Please take the time to read them carefully and understand your rights and restrictions.

1. ELIGIBILITY

By using the Services, you warrant that all the information you supply us true, complete and accurate. You may not provide any false information about yourself, someone or something else.. You must be 8 years of age or older to register and use our website. You may be restricted to access our services if you have been previously banned by Koreastartour.

2. USER ACCOUNT AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION

In order to use some of the features of our services, you are required to create an account and provide certain information about yourself.

You are fully responsible for any and all use of your account, including maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party other than you nor access the account of another member at any time.

We reserve the right to close your account at any time for any reason (specified or unspecified) and without notice or liability of any kind. For example, we may terminate your usage for  suspected fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity. You may terminate usage with Koreastartour by closing your account. After closing your account, the content that you have posted on the site may still appear on the site. We have no obligation to remove your content.

3. CONTENT

You own your Content and information you post on the Services. By posting any content on or through the Services, you hereby permanently grant us transferable rights to use your Content for any purpose. We may use, modify, translate, publicly display, reproduce, or distribute your content in any media format. We own the Koreastartour Content and the Services, which are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade dress, and other proprietary rights and laws of the Republic of Korea. Koreastartour grants you limited license to reproduce and display the Koreastartour Content solely for your personal use in viewing the Site or using the Services. You may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create related works, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Koreastartour Content without authorization.

4. PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

Koreastartour attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, Koreastartour cannot fully guarantee that the product descriptions or other content of any Koreastartour Service is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. As our products are travel services, outcome of the services can vary according to weather, traffic, other customers, guide, driver, political situation, etc. and Koreastartour is not responsible for such changes.

5. LIMITATION OF ROLES AND LIABILITY

Koreastartour only acts as an agent in booking travel services as respective Service Providers. Therefore Koreastartour does not take liability for actions, inconveniences, or accidents caused by the Service Providers. Koreastartour will only provide interpretation in resolving the dispute between you and the Service Providers. Koreastartour will not be responsible for any action including but not limited to reimbursement, compensation and insurance payment.

6. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

The Koreastartour services and all related information, content, materials, products (including software) and other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the Koreastartour services are provided by Koreastartour on an “as is” and “as available” basis, unless otherwise specified in writing. Koreastartour makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the Koreastartour services, or the information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the Koreastartour services, unless otherwise specified in writing. You expressly agree that your use of the Koreastartour services is at your sole risk.

To the full extent permissible by applicable law in the Republic of Korea, Koreastartour disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Koreastartour does not warrant that the Koreastartour services, information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the Koreastartour services, Koreastartour’s servers or electronic communications sent from Koreastartour are free of viruses or other harmful components. Koreastartour will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of any Koreastartour service, or from any information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through any Koreastartour service, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages, unless otherwise specified in writing.  Fulfillment of the service promised is under the Service Provider’s responsibility.

7. RESTRICTIONS

We reserve the right at all times to investigate and take appropriate action at our sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision. Koreastartour reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such Prohibited content or activity below:

1. a) Violations and infringements of  other users’ rights, privacy or intellectual property
2. b) Racism, sexual discrimination, or any type of offensive or malicious act against any group or individual
3. c) Creating false information, including using a false email address, illusive acts, invasion of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, misleading information or activities
4. d) Generating promotion or commercial information without Koreastartour ’s prior consent
5. e) Provoking or facilitating illegal or unlawful activities
6. f) Use of other users’ or Koreastartour Content, including, but not limited to modifying the Content for commercial purpose
7. g) Biased or malicious commenting for the benefit of another party
8. h) Solicitation of personal information from other users

8. CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY

Each product on Koreastartour has different cancellation and refund policies. You are responsible for checking each individual cancellation and refund policy before completing your purchase.  Koreastartour will only honor cancellations and refunds according to the specific policy for the particular product.

9. PRICING

Pricing is subject to change without prior notification. Prices are listed on each individual product page. For instance, there may be additional service charges, or extra surcharges per hour added on the products. Please read the terms of each product carefully. All taxes (sales, VAT) are already included in price. These taxes are not refundable for tourists.

10. PRIVACY POLICY

All the information you provide Koreastartour is subject to our Private Policy. By agreeing to the terms and conditions, you are agreeing to the use of the personal information that you provide us. Refer to our Privacy Policy for more details.

11. COPYRIGHT POLICY

All the content and information seen on Koreastartour, including text, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio and video clips, etc. are all the property of Koreastartour and its ffiliates. We respect all intellectual property, If you believe your work or our work has been copied and constitutes copyright infringement, please contact Koreastartour.

12. PARTNER SITES

Other parties aside from Koreastartour operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on this site. Koreastartour provides links to parties other than Koreastartour on the website. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating these sites, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. Koreastartour does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.

13. DISPUTES AND APPLICABLE LAW

1. a)Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of Koreastartour, or to any products or services sold through www.Koreastartour.com will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court. All users of this site agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated or representative action. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, all users waive any right to a jury trial. KoreaTravel Easy and the user also agree that you or we may bring suit in court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.
2. b) By using any Koreastartour services, you agree that all disputes and legal actions of any sort between you and Koreastartour  are governed by the law of the Republic of Korea.