Terms of Service


1. Welcome!
2. GolfConnect Service
3. GolfConnect Account
4. Join Service
5. Restrictions on Use
6. Post Management
7. Personal Information Protection
8. Content Copyright Protection
9. Location-based services
10. Youth Protection
11. Use of Paid Services
12. Service Interruption
13. Service Termination
14. Service Warranty
15. Service Responsibility
16. Modification of Terms of Use
17. Customer Services

1. Welcome!
Thank you for using GolfConnect services. GolfConnect is a mobile application service that provides services such as golf joining, golf friends, and chatting with friends in the most comfortable and friendly way for you to use. To help you get closer to GolfConnect services, GolfConnect has created one set of terms and conditions that can be applied to all GolfConnect services. If you take the time to read these terms and conditions, we believe that you and GolfConnect will become closer.

‘GolfConnect Service’ refers to 1) a service using the “GolfConnect” brand (e.g. GolfConnect) or 2) a golf join service,golf friends, and conversation service with friends provided by Smart Commerce, Inc.

2. GolfConnect Service
GolfConnect provides a variety of services related to golf, including golf joins, make with golf friends, conversation services with friends, and location-based golf course and golf course information. You can use the GolfConnect service by downloading and installing it from the application store of your smartphone. However, GolfConnect provides various services you want at any time. Because we provide this service, we have no choice but to provide detailed information about the service separately. We hope you understand the circumstances of GolfConnect, and GolfConnect also provides more detailed information on how to use individual GolfConnect services in the application store and each service's 'My' page -> Help, relevant information, and notices. Please check at any time.

GolfConnect grants you a personal, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the GolfConnect Services. However, please keep in mind that GolfConnect does not grant you the right to use GolfConnect trademarks and logos. GolfConnect may provide updated versions of software required for the Service to provide better GolfConnect Service. Updates to the software may include adding important features, fixing bugs, or removing unnecessary features. We hope that you will continue to receive updates so that you can enjoy using the GolfConnect service.

In order to provide better GolfConnect services, GolfConnect may display various information, including various notices, administrative messages, and other advertisements related to the use of GolfConnect services, on the GolfConnect service or send them directly to your email account. If you discover any problems, such as system errors, while using the GolfConnect service, please report it to GolfConnect Customer Center at any time.

Please note that if you use the GolfConnect service and do not use Wi-Fi, but instead connect to the wireless Internet of your subscribed mobile carrier, you will be charged a separate data communication fee from your mobile carrier. Data communication charges incurred in the process of using the GolfConnect service must be paid to the mobile carrier at your own expense and responsibility. For detailed information on data communication charges, please contact the mobile carrier you subscribe to.

3. GolfConnect Account
GolfConnect account means the login account required for you to use GolfConnect services. A GolfConnect account is required to use GolfConnect services. A GolfConnect account is created by agreeing to these terms and conditions and entering the schedule information required to create a GolfConnect account. GolfConnect verifies the entered schedule information and approves the subscription.

However, if GolfConnect deletes your GolfConnect account in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, if you attempt to create a GolfConnect account using personal information such as another person's name or email address, if you do not enter the required information when creating a GolfConnect account or if you provide false information. If you enter your information, etc. We may not accept your account creation. In particular, if you are under 14 years of age, you can create an account only with the consent of your parents or other legal representative. If you meet the above conditions If it is determined that you have created an account in violation, GolfConnect may immediately suspend your use of GolfConnect services or impose appropriate restrictions, such as deleting your GolfConnect account.

Your GolfConnect account is for your own use only, and you may not allow anyone else to use your account. Additionally, you must manage your password yourself to prevent others from using your GolfConnect account without permission. GolfConnect may require you to enter a password and undergo additional identity verification procedures to prevent unauthorized use of your GolfConnect account by others. If unauthorized use is discovered, please notify GolfConnect through GolfConnect Customer Center. Please let us know, and GolfConnect will guide you on how to prevent unauthorized use.

You can view and edit your information through the ‘My’ screen within the GolfConnect service. However, some information such as GolfConnect account, phone number, gender, terminal identification number, and other identity verification information required for service provision and management may not be able to be modified, and additional identity verification procedures may be required when modified. The information you entered when applying for GolfConnect service If there are any changes to the content, please correct them directly in the GolfConnect service or notify GolfConnect via email or GolfConnect Customer Center. GolfConnect is not responsible for any disadvantages arising from failure to notify GolfConnect of changes.

4. Join Service
The golf join service refers to a service that is completed when a user who wishes to play a round applies to join when you register to join the golf. It refers to a platform service where the join registrant can select the applicant and play a round with the applicant on the relevant date.

You can use it if you have a GolfConnect account, and it provides general golf community platform services.

The booking fee incurred when registering and applying to join is free, but any costs incurred during the rounding will be paid by the rounding party and will be displayed in the registrant's joining post.

If necessary for the purpose of operating the join service and supporting efficient use, GolfConnect may adjust part or all of GolfConnect or take measures such as restricting or terminating use of GolfConnect in accordance with the policy.

Other details regarding use follow the operating policy separately set by GolfConnect, and GolfConnect provides information to you through 'My' page -> Customer Services -> Help.

5. Restrictions on Use
You are free to use GolfConnect services, and GolfConnect's goal is to help you meet better golf friends by using GolfConnect services. However, please remember that you cannot use GolfConnect services in the wrong way.

For example, you may not interfere with the provision of the GolfConnect Services in a wrong manner or access the GolfConnect Services using any method other than that provided by GolfConnect. Additionally, unauthorized collection, use, or provision of information of other GolfConnect service users to others, sending advertising information against the recipient's express intention to opt out of receiving it or without the recipient's explicit consent, or using the GolfConnect service for commercial purposes. Please understand that using, sending or posting information that is obscene, infringes copyright, or posts false information about GolfConnect or third parties is also prohibited. And copying, modifying, distributing, selling, transferring, renting, providing as collateral, or allowing others to use the GolfConnect service or any part of the software included therein without the consent of GolfConnect, and reverse engineering the software or attempting to extract the source code. Any act of copying, disassembling, imitating, or otherwise modifying the GolfConnect service is also prohibited.

If there is a report between users within some services that provide friend viewing and conversation functions with friends, GolfConnect may save and store the conversation information of the reported user, and this information is retained only by the company. GolfConnect may view this information only for the purpose of resolving disputes between users and handling complaints, and third parties may view this information only if authorized by law. For the purpose of preventing and managing illegal use, GolfConnect stores the information for 3 years from the time a report is received and then destroys it. However, in the case of terminals with low specifications, the reported conversation information may not be saved.

If you do not comply with relevant laws or any of GolfConnect's terms or policies, GolfConnect may investigate your violation, delete or temporarily delete the relevant posting, or temporarily or permanently suspend your use of the GolfConnect service. You can do it too. In addition, if you adversely affect the provision of the service or seriously disrupt stable operation, such as causing malfunction of service-related equipment or destruction or confusion of the system, the company may use your accounts for which such risky activities have been confirmed. There may be restrictions. However, you may If you are dissatisfied with the results of the action, you can raise an objection through customer service. If there is no record of you logging in or accessing the service to use the service during the period stipulated by law, the company will send you an email, text message, or email to the email address or mobile phone number you registered in the GolfConnect service. Your information may be destroyed or stored separately after notification through other valid means, such as sending a GolfConnect message, and as a result, if necessary information for using the service is insufficient, the service agreement may be terminated.

Please refer to the GolfConnect operation policy for further details regarding the use of the GolfConnect service, including prohibited service use activities within the GolfConnect service, the resulting restrictions on the use of the GolfConnect service, and the GolfConnect service dormancy policy.

6. Post Management
If your post contains content that violates related laws such as the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the 'Information and Communications Network Act') and the Copyright Act, the rights holder may request GolfConnect to delete the post in accordance with the procedures set forth in the relevant laws. You may request suspension or deletion of posting, and GolfConnect will take action in accordance with relevant laws. In addition, even if there is no request from the rights holder, GolfConnect may take temporary measures, etc. against the posting in question in accordance with relevant laws if there is reason to believe that there is a violation of rights or if it violates other GolfConnect policies or related laws. Detailed procedures related to this shall follow the ‘Right Infringement Reporting’ procedure established by GolfConnect within the scope stipulated by the Information and Communications Network Act and the Copyright Act.

7. Personal Information Protection
The secure handling of your personal information is one of the most important things to GolfConnect. Your personal information will be used only for the purpose and scope to which you have consented to provide the GolfConnect service smoothly. You can rest assured that GolfConnect will never provide your personal information to a third party unless required by law or with your separate consent. Please refer to the GolfConnect Privacy Policy for further details and the efforts GolfConnect makes to safely process your personal information.

8. Content Copyright Protection
GolfConnect respects your intellectual property rights. You may post photos, text, information, comments or suggestions about GolfConnect to the GolfConnect Service, and you will, of course, retain any intellectual property rights in such content.

GolfConnect believes that your content contains useful information and that it is important for many people to access your content legally. If you post content to the GolfConnect service, the content may be exposed to the GolfConnect service and may be used, stored, copied, modified, publicly transmitted, displayed, distributed, etc. to the extent necessary for this purpose. We provide you with a worldwide license. In this case, GolfConnect complies with copyright law, and you can take actions such as deleting or making the content private at any time through the customer center or the management function within the GolfConnect service if it is provided. (However, depending on the characteristics of some services, Depending on the nature of the content, etc., deletion of posts may not be possible). As a reminder, the rights you grant to GolfConnect and its partners in this License are used only to operate, improve and promote the GolfConnect Services and to develop new GolfConnect Services.

Some GolfConnect Services may provide you with a way to access or delete content you have contributed. Additionally, some Services have settings that limit GolfConnect's use of the content provided. If you require more information about GolfConnect's use of content, please visit the GolfConnect Privacy Policy or 'My' page -> Help screen.

You must have the necessary rights to license to GolfConnect the content you provide to GolfConnect. And again, you are not obscene, violent or otherwise. You cannot disclose or post content that violates public order and morals and laws.

If GolfConnect determines that your content violates laws and GolfConnect service policies, it may delete or refuse to post it. However, GolfConnect is not obligated to review all Content. If you believe someone has violated your rights, you can contact GolfConnect Help Center for assistance requesting a takedown.

The GolfConnect Service may display some content that is not owned by GolfConnect. The entity providing the content bears sole responsibility for such content. Even if you use GolfConnect services, you do not have any rights to other users' content. If you want to use another user's content, you must obtain separate permission from the content owner.

9. Location-based services
GolfConnect may include location-based services in the GolfConnect Service to provide useful services that further enhance your join rounds and golf course location. GolfConnect’s location-based services are available on your device. It is a free service provided by receiving location information from a location information provider that collects the location information of the device. Specifically, it shares your current location or a specific location with other users, information on the distance between you and the golf course, or posts related thereto. A service that allows you to create a service (golf course location service), a service that provides golf course information using your current location (information provision service), and photos recorded or stored in content you own. There is a service (content sharing service) that helps you share content with your friends by using location information combined with . In particular, if you are a user under the age of 14 and want to use location-based services using personal location information, GolfConnect will use or provide your personal location information, and in this case, you must first obtain consent from your parents or other legal representative. If it is determined that location-based services have been used without the consent of the legal representative, GolfConnect may immediately suspend your use of location-based services and impose appropriate restrictions.

You (including the legal representative of users under the age of 14) may reserve your consent to the use of personal location information related to the GolfConnect service, the purpose of provision, the scope of recipients, and some of the location-based services, or You may withdraw all or part of your consent to use and provision, and may request temporary suspension. GolfConnect stores personal location information and data confirming the use and provision of location information for more than six months in accordance with the provisions of the Act on the Protection and Use of Location Information, etc., and if you withdraw all or part of your consent, GolfConnect will retain the withdrawn portion. We will destroy without delay personal location information and data confirming the use and provision of location information.

You (including the legal representative of users under the age of 14) may not provide information confirming the use or provision of your location information to GolfConnect, or if your personal location information has been provided to a third party pursuant to the law. In this case, you may request to view or notify the reason and contents, and if there is an error, you may request correction. If GolfConnect discloses your personal location information to a third party you designate. When providing direct location information, we will immediately notify you of the recipient of personal location information, the date and time of provision, and the purpose of provision through a smartphone or other device that has collected personal location information in accordance with laws and regulations.

GolfConnect considers that if a person responsible for protecting a child under the age of 8 (including incompetent persons and persons with severe mental disabilities) consents in writing to the use or provision of personal location information, the person's consent is deemed to have been given. In this case, the person responsible for protection can exercise all rights of the subject of personal location information.

In order to safely protect your location information, GolfConnect contacts the location information manager ('My' page -> Contact us) is specified.

10. Youth Protection
GolfConnect is a space that can be used freely by all ages. In order to protect youth from harmful information and help youth use the Internet safely, GolfConnect is implementing the youth protection policy set forth in the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. as follows. GolfConnect will continue to work harder to create a clean and healthy Internet culture and help youth grow into healthy individuals through proper information sharing activities.

1. Goals and basic principles for youth protection
We strive to protect youth from mentally and physically harmful environments and create a beneficial environment, and we specify a youth protection policy to provide services that allow youth to use the Internet safely.

2. Youth protection device
To prevent youth from being exposed to harmful information without any restrictions, we are preparing and applying a certification system for media materials harmful to youth, and taking preventive measures to prevent exposure of harmful information.

3. Restriction of youth access to harmful information and management measures
Bans on keywords that are illegal or harmful to youth are being expanded and applied to various services, including general search, and systematic management is being carried out, such as restricting the scope of use for services equipped with adult authentication devices.

4. Education to protect youth from harmful information
We provide training to youth protection officers and each service representative on various related laws and sanctions standards for youth protection, how to respond when harmful information is discovered, and reporting procedures for handling violations.

5. Protection of youth by raising awareness among all users
Through the Terms of Service, etc., we inform you that you may be subject to usage restrictions or civil and criminal liability if you engage in unhealthy behavior. When new harmful information occurs, we quickly disseminate it through notices or emails to protect youth and all users. is protecting. We are also working to raise awareness of netiquette through various information health education and campaigns.

6. Designation of youth protection officer and person in charge
As shown below, we designate a youth protection officer and a youth protection officer to carry out youth protection work, such as blocking and managing youth harmful information and establishing youth protection policies from youth harmful information.

11. Use of Paid Services
GolfConnect provides services for free, but some services are available for a fee. For example, at GolfConnect, you can use the app without advertising, see the friends who is interested in you, see the friends who likes you, see the friends who has set up a blind date, send unlimited text messages to the friends, Unlimited viewing of photos of the friends are available only with a paid purchase. If you wish to use the paid services provided by GolfConnect, you must pay the usage fee, and GolfConnect may additionally request your personal information necessary to fulfill payment. If you do not wish to use the paid service, you may request a refund of the usage fee from GolfConnect, and GolfConnect will In principle, we will refund you.

Details such as payment of paid service fees, refund methods, objections, etc. are subject to the GolfConnect Paid Service Terms of Use.

12. Service Interruption
GolfConnect makes every effort to provide GolfConnect services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. However, the provision of GolfConnect services may be temporarily suspended due to regular or temporary inspections for equipment maintenance or repair, or for other reasonable reasons, and in this case, notice will be announced in advance.

In this case, in order to smoothly change services and policies, re-login or additional consent procedures may be required when using the service. If the GolfConnect service is interrupted for reasons that cannot be predicted by GolfConnect, the company will endeavor to restore the service as soon as possible as soon as the company understands the situation. However, if restoration is delayed for more than 2 hours, GolfConnect service notices, GolfConnect customer center notices We will let you know by posting on the etc.

13. Service Termination
If you no longer wish to use the GolfConnect service, you may apply for termination of the GolfConnect service use agreement at any time using the menu provided within the GolfConnect service, and GolfConnect will promptly process it in accordance with the provisions of the law.

When the service agreement is terminated, all data, including your information and posts you have written, will be deleted, except in cases where your information is retained in accordance with laws and personal information processing policies. However, if a post you wrote is posted by a third party through scraping or other sharing functions, or if you add a comment or other post to a third party's post, other users may not be able to do so. It will not be deleted within the GolfConnect service to the extent necessary to use the service, so please be sure to delete it before requesting cancellation and then withdraw.

Even if the service agreement is terminated, you can apply to conclude a service agreement with GolfConnect again. However, if you apply for a service use contract again after terminating the use contract while the use of the service has been suspended due to failure to comply with relevant laws and all GolfConnect terms and conditions or policies, time restrictions, etc. may apply to signing up for the service. Specific details can be found in the GolfConnect operating policy.

14. Service Warranty
GolfConnect provides the GolfConnect Services with a reasonable degree of care to ensure that you enjoy the GolfConnect Services to your fullest ability.

To the extent permitted by law, GolfConnect does not make any promises or warranties regarding any specific matters not specified in these Terms and Conditions in relation to the GolfConnect Service. For example, GolfConnect does not make any commitments or warranties with respect to the content of the GolfConnect Service, any specific features of the Service, or the availability of the Service, and GolfConnect only provides the GolfConnect Service as is.

15. Service Responsibility
GolfConnect hopes that you will receive more enjoyment and benefits from using GolfConnect services. If GolfConnect is responsible for personal damages incurred in the process of accessing or using the GolfConnect service, damages resulting from a third party illegally accessing or using GolfConnect's servers, or transmissions to or from the GolfConnect servers by a third party. Damage resulting from interference; Damage caused by a third party transmitting or distributing malicious programs, damage caused by omission, omission, or destruction of transmitted data, defamation, etc., caused by a third party in the process of using the GolfConnect service without GolfConnect's negligence. We are not responsible for this. Additionally, GolfConnect will not be liable for indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or exemplary damages to the extent permitted by law.

16. Modification of Terms of Use
GolfConnect may revise these Terms and Conditions or the GolfConnect Service usage method and applicable guidance and notices in each GolfConnect Service Help Center for the purpose of reflecting changes in the law or GolfConnect Service. If these Terms and Conditions are changed, GolfConnect will post the changes in the GolfConnect Service Notice, and the changed Terms and Conditions will become effective 15 days from the date of posting.

However, if the content is inevitably revised to your disadvantage, GolfConnect may reasonably do so, such as sending an email or text message to the email address or mobile phone number you registered in the GolfConnect service, sending a GolfConnect message, sending an electronic message within the GolfConnect service, or displaying a notification message. We will notify you of any changes 30 days in advance where possible.

GolfConnect will await your opinions on changes to the Terms and Conditions from the date of posting the changed Terms and Conditions until the effective date. If your opinion is not received by GolfConnect after the above period, you will be deemed to have agreed to use the service in accordance with the changed terms and conditions. Unfortunately for GolfConnect, if you do not agree to the changed Terms and Conditions, we will no longer be able to provide you with services subject to the changed Terms and Conditions.

17. Customer Services
GolfConnect values communicating with you. You may visit GolfConnect Customer Center at any time to provide feedback. GolfConnect informs members of various news by sending an email or text message to the email address or mobile phone number you registered within the GolfConnect service, sending a GolfConnect message, sending an electronic message within the GolfConnect service, or displaying a notification message. Notice to all members will be effective upon posting in the GolfConnect service notice for at least 7 days.

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These Terms govern GolfConnect's relationship with you and do not create any third party beneficial rights.

If you fail to comply with these Terms and Conditions, GolfConnect's failure to act immediately will not waive any of GolfConnect's rights, and if some provisions of these Terms and Conditions become unenforceable, this will not affect other provisions. The laws of the Republic of Korea apply in relation to these Terms and Conditions or the GolfConnect Service.

• Announcement date: January 15, 2025
• Effective date: January 15, 2025

If you have any questions regarding GolfConnect services (including location-based services), please contact GolfConnect Customer Center at any time.