Welcome to the topic™, owned and produced by EX International Inc.(topic™ web site and EX International Inc. are collectively referred to as "topic™"). topic™ makes available a variety of products and services through topic™ (collectively, the "Products and Services") subject to these General Terms and Conditions ("Terms of Use").

Because the Terms of Use contain legal obligations, please read them carefully.

 

1. ACCEPTANCE

By using the topic™ web site as a whole and products and services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and Conditions and any other posted guidelines or rules applicable to any individual topic™ web site, Product or Service. Also, if you log in to the service after authentication through the social media platform API (SNS login), you agree to these terms and conditions, and after authentication is complete, you are defined as a member of the service. Linkable social media platform APIs provided are Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Kakao.

 

2. CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE

Use of the Products and Services is subject to compliance with these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that topic™ may terminate your access to topic™ or to any of the Products and Services should you fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions. Any such termination shall be in topic™'s sole discretion and may occur without prior notice, or any notice. topic™ further reserves the right to terminate any user's access to topic™ or to any of the Products and Services for any conduct that topic™, in its sole discretion, believes is or may be directly or indirectly harmful to other users, to topic™ or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or business contractors, or to other third parties, or for any conduct that violates any local, or foreign laws or regulations.

 

3. REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY

Certain of the Products and Services will require the user to register and provide certain data. In consideration of use of such Products and Services, in registering and providing such data, you represent and warrant that: (a) the information about yourself is true, accurate, current, and complete as required by topic™ registration forms ("Registration Data") and (b) you will maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or topic™ has grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, topic™ has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Products and Services. (c) you must be 18 years or older to use the topic™ service and by registering, you represent that you are 18 years or older.

 

All registrations within topic™ become the exclusive property of topic™ and its parent company and subsidiaries. topic™ reserves the right to use and reuse all registration and other personally identifiable user information. Users may edit, update, alter or obscure their personally identifiable information at any time by following the instructions located in topic™ sites.

 

4. MEMBER AND USER CONDUCT

Upon registering, you will receive a password and topic™ account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately notify topic™ of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. topic™ cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this requirement.

 

You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not topic™, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Services. You acknowledge and Agree that by using the Products and Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will topic™ be liable in any way for any user or third party Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any such Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any such Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Products and Services. topic™ does not warrant that all inspections will be made to your satisfaction. topic™ reserves the right to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Products and Services for adherence to these Terms and Conditions or any other rules or guidelines posted by topic™.

 

Prohibited Conduct

You agree that you will not use topic™ Products and Services to:

- Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content, or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, pornographic or otherwise objectionable.

- Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for unlawful purposes.

 

You acknowledge and agree that topic™ and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any Content that is available via the Products and Services at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice. topic™ may also terminate access to, or membership in topic™, or any portion thereof, for violating these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by or obtained through the use of topic™ Products and Services.

 

You expressly acknowledge and agree that topic™ may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms and Conditions; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of topic™, its users and the public. You acknowledge and agree that the technical processing and transmission of the Products and Services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

 

topic™ also may suspend or terminate any user account for any Product or Service because of user inactivity. For example, a topic™ account may be terminated or suspended if a user fails to sign-in to topic™ Service for an extended period of time. For detailed information on account termination, please refer to See "4-2. Membership Regulation".

 

4-1. PRODUCT POSTING POLICY

You may not post, sell or buy any item that is restricted or prohibited by a federal, state or local law in any country or jurisdiction on topic.or.kr. Please be aware that topic™ does not permit any trading items that are illegal, infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others, or may easily be used for illegal purposes. As a member of topic™, you are responsible for ensuring that the trading items you have posted are legal or permissible. Thus, before posting any product, selling lead and/or buying lead, you need to make sure that your trading items are NOT against the “PRODUCT POSTING POLICY”. topic™ reserves the right to remove any trading items that violate the “PRODUCT POSTING POLICY” without further notice. topic™ also reserves the right to disable the accounts of any members who continue to violate the “PRODUCT POSTING POLICY” after having been warned.

The following is a list of product types that are prohibited on topic™:

1. Illegal drugs, Precursors and drug paraphernalia

1.1 Any and all listing or sale of narcotics, tranquilizers, psychotropic drugs, natural drugs, synthetic drugs, steroids and other controlled substances

1.2 The listing or sale of all drug precursor chemicals

2. Medical Drugs and Devices

2.1 The posting of prescription drugs, psychotropic drugs and narcotics is strictly prohibited.

2.2 The listing or sale of orally administered or ingested sexual enhancement foods and supplements is prohibited.

2.3 Prescription drugs or devices, controlled substances, unapproved drugs, unapproved medical devices.

3. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Infringing Products.

3.1 Replica and Counterfeit Items

3.2 Unauthorized Copies of Intellectual Property

4. Gold dust, gold bullion and other precious metals (not including jewelry)

4.1 Listings that offer the sale or buying of gold, silver and other precious metals (not including jewelry) are prohibited.

4.2 Rough diamonds and “conflict minerals” originating from non-compliant countries may not be listed.

5. Counterfeit currency and stamps

6. Tobacco Products

6.1 The posting of tobacco products, including cigars, cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, chewing tobacco and tobacco leaf is prohibited.

6.2 The posting of electronic cigarettes is not permitted. Cigarettes accessories are permitted, however nicotine and other liquids (e-liquids) for use in electronic cigarettes is forbidden.

7. Fake documents (e.g. Degrees or Diplomas, Government and transit documents, Government IDs and licenses)

8. Wildlife and related animal products (e.g. pelts, skins, internal organs, teeth, claws, shells, bones, tusks, ivory and other parts)

9. Financial services, including money transfers, issuing bank guarantees and letters of credit, loans, fundraising and funding for personal investment purposes, etc.

10. Others

Adult subscription services or chatting services / Contracts and tickets / Credit card, credit repair Services, applications for financial services or loans, collection services / Firearms, ammunition, high capacity magazines, stun guns, air guns, military weapons / Human body parts, fluids and remains / Job postings / Lottery, raffle, contests related / Mailing lists and personal information / Pornographic, erotic & adult contents including but not limited to: pictures, videos, DVDs, magazines, toys, etc. / religious propagation / Posts promoting hatred, racism or religious persecution products or images showcasing nudity / Requests for donations / Sanctioned and prohibited items / Software - Unauthorized, OEM or bundled copies of software / Spyware, Spamware, e-mail advertising, opt-in or any commercial messaging services

 

4-2. MEMBERSHIP REGULATION

You as the author of your pages take full responsibility for its contents. As the author you state your page contains nothing illegal, pornographic. As the author, you also state that nothing on your page is copyrighted material. You agree that topic™ has the right (for any reason or no reason) to remove any page. By submitting your pages, you are agreeing to all conditions as below.

1. Pages are subject to removal, if there is no member login on topic™ for 180 days.

2. A valid email address must be entered in the member information or it will be removed.

3. topic™ reserves the right to delete any page it deems unacceptable for any reason without prior notice. Here are the examples.

1) Non-English Pages
2) Pages containing critical errors
3) Pages containing anything illegal
4) One company's pages built by multi-accounts
5) Pages for testing

4. topic™ makes no guarantee as to the availability of service.

5. Pages can not contain, or contain links to, any of the following:
nudity, sex, pornography, foul language, religious propagation, hate propaganda, anything illegal, mail fraud or pyramid schemes. This includes anything considered Adult material.

6. You can not copy any other page and/or images without prior consent from the originator of the other page and/or images.

7. You can not obtain paid advertising for your page. Paid advertising is reserved for topic™. You can advertise your company or products here, but you can not get paid from an outside source to advertise on your page.

8. topic™ reserves the right to change these rules at any time without notice.

 

4-3. BUYER-SELLER TRANSACTIONS

topic™ does not directly engage in buyer-seller transactions. topic™ does not provide the ability to pay for a transaction. Therefore, topic™ is not responsible for the transaction between buyers and sellers and all matters that occur accordingly, and the buyer or seller of the transaction is responsible.

 

5. LICENSE TO MEMBER WEB PAGES AND OTHER USER CONTENT

By submitting a web page to topic™, or any other web page hosting service on topic™, you grant topic™ a world-wide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, and distribute such web page, and any associated Content, for the limited purposes of publishing and promoting the user's web page in connection with the particular service with which the user has chosen to have the web page hosted and for publishing. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You acknowledge and agree that topic™ runs advertisements on the web pages of its users and grant topic™ the right to do so. The form and scope of advertisements are subject to change at the discretion of the topic™.

 

6. DISCLAIMER

Information on this web site may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. When you access a website other than the website of the topic™, please understand that it is independent from topic™, and that topic™ has no control over the content on that web site.

In addition, a link to a website other than the website of the topic™ does not mean that topic™ endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, use, or products and services made available through such web site.

In no event will topic™ be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this website, or any other hyperlinked web site, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption.

 

The information on this web site is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, express or implied.