Terms of Service

Article 1 (Purpose)

The purpose of these Terms of Service (these “Terms”) is to set forth the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of the Company and users, as well as other necessary matters, in connection with the use of the running course discovery and guide and runner matching platform service (the “Service”) provided by RunnersLikeMe (the “Company”).

Article 2 (Definitions)

1. “Service” means the online platform provided by the Company, comprising all services through which a Member can discover running courses, use or purchase Course Guides, and connect with runners to run with.
2. “Member” means a person who has entered into a service agreement with the Company under these Terms and uses the Service.
3. “Course” means a running route registered on the Service by a Member, together with related information (distance, estimated time, caution segments, convenience information, etc.).
4. “Course Guide” means digital content that a Curator provides in combination with a Course (audio narration, location-based guide points, photos, descriptions, etc.).
5. “Paid Course Guide” means a Course Guide that a Member pays a fee to use.
6. “Curator” means a Member who registers Courses and Course Guides of their own composition on the Service and provides them to other Members free of charge or for a fee.
7. “Host” means a Member who registers an in-person running schedule (a Run Post) and invites Guests.
8. “Guest” means a Member who applies to participate in a run registered by a Host.
9. “Run Post” means a running schedule and related information registered by a Host in order to recruit Guests.
10. “Match” means the state in which a Host has approved a Guest's participation request and the parties have agreed to run together.
11. Offline credits are units granted by the Company for eligible purchases and first use of paid guides, or for actual offline guidance. They are used only to participate in offline outings. Credits are not sold or available for paid top-ups. Hosts need no credit to create or guide an outing.
12. “Run Notes” means content in which a Member records and shares personal running activities such as solo runs.
13. “Content” means any and all information posted or registered on the Service by a Member, including Courses, Course Guides, Run Notes, reviews, photos, and chat messages.
14. “Individual Seller” means a Curator who sells a Paid Course Guide as an individual who is not a business operator.
15. “Business Seller” means a Curator who sells a Paid Course Guide as a business operator under applicable law.
16. “Platform Fee” means the fee charged to a Curator for marketplace intermediation, payment and refund support, creation tools, maps, cloud infrastructure, and related platform services.
17. “Estimated Settlement” means the amount expected to be paid to a Curator after the Platform Fee is deducted from the buyer's final payment; the actual payout may change due to refunds, chargebacks, or legally required withholding.
18. Purchased content means the paid course guidance covered by the purchase. Product descriptions, public course information and designated previews are excluded. The content and delivery method are disclosed before purchase.
19. First use occurs when, following the Member’s explicit request and acknowledgement, actual paid guidance text is successfully displayed or the requested paid audio begins playing. A title, contents page, cover, play button, click, redirect, preload, error, empty screen or denied access does not qualify. Reading the actual guidance is sufficient; completing the course, visiting it, GPS, a minimum listening time or dwell time is not required.
20. Reservation means setting aside one credit after valid host approval and any required participant reconfirmation. Application, a temporary seat hold and awaiting confirmation are not credit reservations. Reservation is distinct from confirmed use after actual completion.
21. Completed guidance means the parties actually met, provided and received the agreed course guidance, and finished. An agreed early end for safety, health or weather may qualify if guidance actually occurred. Posting an outing, approval, elapsed time or a review alone does not establish completion.

Article 3 (Posting, Effect, and Amendment of the Terms)

1. The Company posts the content of these Terms on the Service screen so that Members can easily review it, and obtains Members' consent to these Terms upon membership registration.
2. The Company may amend these Terms to the extent that the amendment does not violate applicable laws, including the Act on the Regulation of Terms and Conditions of Korea and the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce of Korea.
3. When amending these Terms, the Company announces the amendment, specifying the effective date and the reasons for the amendment, together with the current Terms, in the notices section of the Service from at least 7 days before the effective date. However, amendments that are unfavorable to Members or that concern material matters are announced from at least 30 days before the effective date, and Members are individually notified by electronic means such as email or in-app notification.
4. Only where the Company, together with the announcement or notice under Paragraph 3, has clearly stated that “a Member who does not express an intent to refuse by the effective date is deemed to have consented,” is a Member who has not expressed an intent to refuse by the effective date deemed to have consented to the amended Terms.
5. A Member who does not agree to the amended Terms may express an intent to refuse and terminate the service agreement (withdraw from membership) before the effective date. Matters requiring separate express consent to the amended Terms do not apply unless the Member consents.
6. The applicable version, effective date, reasons, key changes and previous Terms are available within the Service. The Company preserves the version accepted by the Member and disclosed transaction conditions in a verifiable form. Unimplemented drafts are identified separately.
7. Material or adverse changes follow Paragraphs 3–5. An amendment alone does not retrospectively reduce existing access periods, withdrawal or refund rights, earned credits or participation rights. Silence does not replace separately required express consent.

Article 4 (Operating Policies)

1. The Company may set out, in its Operating Policies, detailed matters not provided for in these Terms. The Operating Policies are available for review within the Service at all times.
2. The Operating Policies have effect only within the scope of these Terms; in the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Operating Policies, these Terms prevail.
3. Changes to the Operating Policies that materially affect Members' rights or obligations (sanction standards, Credit standards, commission rates, etc.) are subject to the same announcement and notice procedures as set out in Article 3, Paragraphs 3 through 5.
4. These Terms set the essential credit grant reasons, quantities, limits, reservation, use, return, refund reversal, validity and withdrawal rules. Operating policies may specify verification and contact procedures but cannot introduce an additional purchase, course-completion or review requirement absent from these Terms.

Article 5 (Company Information and Mail-Order Sales Intermediary Notice)

1. The Company's information is as follows and is displayed at all times at the bottom of the Service screen.

   Item	Details
   Trade name	RunnersLikeMe (마카모이 macamoi)
   Representative	김동준
   Business address	서울특별시 서초구 효령로 200, 506호 (서초동)
   Business registration number	614-04-42904
   Mail-order sales registration number	2026-서울서초-3176
   Contact	070-5236-4618 / runnerslikeme@gmail.com

2. Mail-Order Sales Intermediary Notice: In transactions for Paid Course Guides sold by Curators, the Company is a mail-order sales intermediary under the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce of Korea and is not a party to the transaction. The parties to the transaction are the selling Member (the Curator) and the purchasing Member, and primary responsibility for product information, performance of the transaction, and defects lies with the Curator as the selling party.
3. Notwithstanding Paragraph 2, the Company bears the responsibilities that applicable laws impose on mail-order sales intermediaries (providing seller identity information, taking measures to resolve complaints and disputes, etc.), and the Company is not exempt from liability where damage is caused to a Member by the Company's willful misconduct or negligence.
4. The Company bears refund, dispute-resolution and other duties imposed by law on an intermediary or recipient of payment. Its allocation of tasks with sellers or settlement status does not exclude its legal duties or liability for intentional acts or negligence.
5. Where the Company itself directly sells goods or services, the relevant screen states that the Company is the selling party, and in such cases the Company bears responsibility as a mail-order seller.
6. The Company is not a party to in-person running arrangements between Hosts and Guests, and does not carry on a travel agency, insurance, sports facility, or exercise coaching business.
7. For arrangements between member hosts and guests, the Company supplies matching and operational functions. If it directly recruits, guides or operates an outing, it identifies that role and bears responsibility for its actual work. Professional coaching, insurance and medical services are not supplied without the relevant qualification or agreement. Calling an outing a member-to-member activity does not exclude statutory duties.
8. Credit issuance, ledger management, reservation, return and correction are the Company’s own services and responsibilities, distinct from a curator’s sale. Buying a guide does not guarantee a particular host’s approval or attendance on a particular date. Available schedules, capacity and approval are required and disclosed before purchase. Any separately promised outing benefit must be fulfilled as promised.

Article 6 (Membership Registration)

1. A person who wishes to use the Service applies for membership registration in accordance with the registration procedure set by the Company, consenting to these Terms and to the collection and use of personal information; the service agreement is formed when the Company accepts the application.
2. The following means are used for membership registration:
   • Social login (Google, etc.) or other authentication means provided by the Company
   • Phone number (SMS verification)
3. Children under 14 years of age may not register for the Service.
4. Minors who are at least 14 but under 19 years of age must obtain the consent of their legal guardian to register, and their use of the Service is subject to the restrictions in Article 7. The Company collects the date of birth at registration to verify age, and, for minors, verifies the legal guardian's consent and contact information by a method determined by the Company (such as entry and verification of legal guardian information). If it is confirmed that the age or legal guardian information was falsely provided, the Company may terminate the service agreement. A Member under 19 years of age who has reached the age of majority under the law of their home country is treated as an adult for the purposes of these Terms.
5. The Company may refuse registration, or subsequently terminate the service agreement, in any of the following cases:
   • Misappropriation of another person's information
   • Provision of false information
   • Prior sanctions for violation of these Terms
   • Failure to satisfy other usage requirements set by the Company

Article 7 (Use by Minors)

1. Minor Members may use the non-face-to-face services, such as browsing Courses, using Course Guides (audio guides), and Run Notes.
2. To protect minor Members from the risks involved in one-on-one, in-person meetings with Members they do not know, minor Members may not use in-person running (hosting a Run Post, applying to participate, and Matches) on their own. A minor may participate only when accompanied by an adult legal guardian or caregiver who also participates, in which case supervisory responsibility for the minor lies with the accompanying guardian.
3. Where a minor Member pays for a Paid Service, the consent of their legal guardian is required. A payment made by a minor without the consent of their legal guardian may be cancelled by the minor or their legal guardian in accordance with the Civil Act of Korea. The Company gives notice of this on the payment screen.

Article 8 (Account Management)

1. Members must manage their account information securely and may not share, transfer, or lend their account to any third party.
2. A Member who discovers signs of irregularity, such as account theft, must notify the Company immediately, and the Company takes measures necessary to protect the account.
3. Members must keep their profile information accurate and up to date.

Article 9 (Provision of the Service)

1. The Company provides the following services:
   • Registration, search, and viewing of Courses and Course Guides
   • Sales intermediation and playback of Course Guides (audio narration and other digital content)
   • Running Host-Guest matching service
   • Run Post registration and search service
   • Chat service between Members
   • Review and rating system
   • Credit system
   • Solo running records and Run Notes service
   • Other services additionally developed by the Company or provided through partnerships
2. The Service is provided 24 hours a day, year-round, in principle.
3. Matters concerning services that use location information are governed by the Location-Based Services Terms.
4. Before application the Company displays real outing dates, times, time zone, location, distance, pace, capacity, conditions, recruitment cutoff, response deadline, reservation and cancellation rules, including late-approval reconfirmation. The cutoff cannot be later than the start; absent a separate cutoff, the start is the cutoff. Purchase-credit promotion includes the Member’s actual eligibility, remaining grant opportunities and participation conditions. Lack of available local outings must not be hidden or represented as confirmed attendance.

Article 10 (Change and Discontinuation of the Service)

1. The Company may temporarily interrupt service for maintenance or failures and gives advance notice of planned interruptions.
2. For operational or technical discontinuation that prevents use of purchased guides, the Company guarantees at least: notice and individual electronic notification 90 days before closure, with refund criteria and procedure; normal access until closure; a full refund for valid purchases with no first use by the announcement, regardless of purchase date; for used guides, at least 50% where fewer than 12 months have elapsed since purchase at closure, or a more favourable statutory or remaining-period refund; and refund of divisible unsupplied portions. Overlapping criteria apply in the Member’s favour without double recovery. Refunds are in money unless the Member separately accepts a substitute. First use is assessed from verifiable supply records at announcement; subsequent use cannot reduce the refund. More favourable playback-based promises for older transactions are preserved; missing proof is not used against the Member. An email or other post-closure request channel remains open for at least six months; refunds are made within three business days of request, with statutory delay compensation where applicable. A request deadline does not extinguish legal rights. The Company may refund automatically when payment information permits. If legal orders, force majeure, rehabilitation or bankruptcy prevent 90 days’ notice, reasons and the longest feasible notice are provided while the other guarantees remain. Restrictions caused by removal, safety or infringement measures, or curator withdrawal are handled under Articles 18(3), 18(8) and 22(5); operational or technical closure of an individual guide is also covered here. The Member receives the more favourable remedy without duplicate recovery. These are minimum guarantees, not limits on legal rights.
3. The Company compensates losses caused by its intentional acts or negligence as required by law.
4. If offline participation or credit use is discontinued, the Company ordinarily gives 90 days’ individual notice describing actually available outings, unused and reserved credits, disputes and remedies. Reservations are fulfilled or returned, and substitute performance or compensation for unfulfilled promised benefits is discussed individually. A concrete proposal and calculation are provided within 15 days of request, extendable once by 15 days with reasons and a date. Substitution requires individual consent. If agreement is not reached, Article 29’s external dispute channels remain available, as do cancellation, refund and damages rights. Discussion does not extend statutory refund deadlines. Credits not being sold does not eliminate the Company’s responsibility. If 90 days is impossible, reasons and the longest feasible notice are given while accrued rights are protected.

Article 11 (General Obligations of Members)

1. Members must comply with applicable laws, these Terms, the Operating Policies, and matters announced by the Company.
2. Members must respect other Members and treat them with courtesy.
3. Members understand that running activities involve inherent risks (injuries, accidents, etc.) and must use the Service in a manner appropriate to their own health condition and physical fitness.
4. While running, Members must comply with applicable laws, including road traffic laws, and with on-site safety rules.

Article 12 (Obligations of Hosts)

1. Hosts must provide accurate information (location, time, pace, distance, etc.) in their Run Posts.
2. Hosts must select safe running courses and must inform Guests in advance of any hazards.
3. Hosts may not use the personal information of approved Guests for purposes other than the Service or share it with third parties.
4. Hosts must not cancel a run without a legitimate reason and must appear at the agreed time and place. No-shows are prohibited.
5. Hosts must respond before the disclosed deadline and truthfully confirm actual completion. Reviews, ratings or thanks cannot be conditions for confirmation or credit. Material time, location, distance or pace changes require notice and renewed consent; participants who disagree receive cancellation and return without disadvantage under Article 23. Consent to old conditions is not consent to new conditions.

Article 13 (Obligations of Guests)

1. Guests must comply with the running rules and instructions set by the Host.
2. Guests must appear at the agreed time and place. No-shows are prohibited.
3. Guests must consider their own physical fitness and health condition and apply only for runs suitable for them.
4. Where a Guest is accompanied by a minor pursuant to Article 7, Paragraph 2, supervisory responsibility for that minor lies with the accompanying guardian.
5. Guests must truthfully confirm the guidance actually received. Quality or safety concerns can be reported separately; withholding confirmation alone is not a false report or no-show. Article 20(6) governs confirmation and disputes.

Article 14 (Obligations of Curators and Course Safety Standards)

1. Curators must provide accurate information in their Courses and Course Guides and, in particular, must indicate the following in the Course information:
   • Caution segments such as road crossings, stairs, and slippery surfaces
   • Hazards related to nighttime or weather conditions
   • Safety and convenience information such as water points and restrooms (to the extent known)
2. Curators must compose the Courses they register based on their actual experience of running them, and must not present a Course written without an actual run as if it had been actually run.
3. Curators must not include in a Course Guide any content that infringes the rights of others (copyright, portrait rights, etc.), and each Curator warrants that they lawfully hold the rights to, or have obtained permission to use, all materials included in the Course Guide, including background music and narration scripts.
4. The Company may take down, suspend the sale of, request the correction of, or delete Courses and Course Guides in any of the following cases:
   • Where a serious safety risk has been confirmed (e.g., inclusion of a no-pedestrian zone or a construction zone)
   • Where a report that the information is inaccurate has been received and confirmed
   • Where applicable laws or these Terms have been violated
5. When the Company takes a measure under Paragraph 4, it notifies the relevant Curator of the reason, and the Curator may appeal in accordance with Article 26.

Article 15 (Safety and Incident Response)

1. Scope and limits of Member verification: The Company verifies contactability at membership registration through phone number SMS verification. The Company does not verify or guarantee a Member's criminal history, the truthfulness of their identity, or their health condition. A profile verification badge signifies only the fact of verification through the relevant verification means.
2. Insurance: The Company does not provide insurance, such as accident insurance, for Members' running activities. Members are advised to obtain personal accident insurance.
3. Emergency response: In the event of an accident, crime, or imminent danger while running, Members must immediately call the local emergency number (in the Republic of Korea, 112 (police) or 119 (ambulance)). A report to the Company does not substitute for an emergency call.
4. Incident reports and cooperation: Members may notify the Company of accidents or crimes that occur in connection with the use of the Service through the in-service reporting channel or by email. Upon receiving a report, the Company begins verification without delay, may take interim measures such as an emergency suspension of the relevant Member's account where necessary, and cooperates with lawful requests from domestic and foreign investigative authorities for the preservation and provision of relevant records.
5. Caution when using audio guides: Using an audio guide or the screen while running may reduce attention to surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Members must keep their earphone volume at a level that allows them to hear ambient sounds, and must always prioritize on-site traffic signals and safety conditions over the audio guide's instructions. The Company gives notice of these precautions on the run start screen.

Article 16 (Paid Services and Price Display)

1. The Company may provide paid services, such as Paid Course Guides, or intermediate transactions in them.
2. Prices of paid services are displayed in Korean won (₩), and the payment screen displays the final payment amount, including any tax that applies according to the seller type and transaction. Where the applicable tax amount may differ depending on the Member's region, seller type, or payment method, the payment screen provides notice of this.
3. The price of a Paid Course Guide is chosen by the Curator within a price range presented by the Company (guided pricing). The Company informs Curators of the criteria for the price range (course quality, audio points, usage data, etc.).
4. Checkout identifies the seller, paid content, delivery method, price, access period and end, supported environment and location conditions, and withdrawal, termination and refund terms. New paid guides provide unlimited use for 12 months from payment completion, with the actual expiry in the receipt and purchase history. Existing purchases and previously sold vouchers retain their original terms.
5. The purchase grants personal, non-commercial access within the Service for the agreed period. A 12-month term ends at the same Korea Standard Time 12 calendar months after payment, or the same time on the last day of that month if the date does not exist. First use, completion and number of uses do not move expiry. Repeated use during the term requires no additional payment or credit. Access under that purchase ends on expiry; no unsolicited automatic renewal or charge occurs. Repurchase requires a new purchase. Older guides sold without a separate term retain their terms. Article 30 governs account withdrawal. Guide expiry does not expire earned credits or legal refund and damages rights.
6. The Company does not change the usage period or terms of use of Paid Course Guides already sold in a manner unfavorable to Members. However, corrections to Course information or guidance made to the minimum extent necessary for compliance with laws or for Members' safety are not deemed unfavorable changes. If such a correction materially reduces the substantive content of a Course Guide, the Member may demand a refund under Article 18, Paragraph 3; where use is restricted by a change to or termination of the Service, Article 10, Paragraph 2 applies.
7. The product consists of the disclosed course content and access functions. Promised text, audio and location-based guidance must remain usable during the agreed term. Reading text and location-dependent audio conditions are explained separately. Members can inspect the content composition; designated previews never count as paid use. Additions, material changes and removal must preserve existing purchase rights.
8. Before supplying paid content, the Company explains commencement and withdrawal restrictions and obtains explicit acknowledgement. Acknowledgement followed by failed delivery is not first use. Paid content is not automatically supplied from a receipt or public product screen to trigger a withdrawal restriction.
9. Article 20 governs purchase credits. Checkout and first-use screens show guide eligibility, previous grants for that guide and remaining opportunities. Payment does not reserve an opportunity. At most three qualifying grants follow the server-confirmed order of eligible first uses, not purchase order. Guides remain purchasable and usable without remaining opportunities. Delayed processing is recovered using verifiable original records.

Article 17 (Payment)

1. Members may pay for paid services using the payment methods provided by the Company (credit card, simple payment, etc.). Payment processing is handled through a payment gateway (PG) provider, and the entrusted providers are disclosed in the Privacy Policy.
2. The Company retains payment records for 5 years in accordance with the Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce of Korea.
3. Payments by minors are subject to Article 7, Paragraph 3.
4. Where a payment made by misappropriating another person's payment method, or a fraudulent payment, is confirmed, the Company may cancel the transaction and impose sanctions under Article 25.
5. The Company may set, in the Operating Policies, the regions in which paid services may be purchased and the payment methods available, in order to comply with tax and payment-related laws.

Article 18 (Withdrawal of Purchase and Refunds)

1. Members may withdraw within seven days of receiving the written or electronic contract, or, if supply starts later, from receipt or commencement of supply. Statutory starting points apply when contract documents or address information are missing or withdrawal is obstructed. Purchase time alone does not determine every deadline.
2. After actual supply of paid content begins, change-of-mind withdrawal may be restricted only as permitted by law. Before purchase, the Company provides an actual preview and the restriction, obtains explicit checkout acknowledgement of supply commencement and withdrawal conditions, and includes them in a durable purchase confirmation. Article 16(8) requires a further acknowledgement immediately before first supply. Without proof of the required measures and successful supply, commencement is not used to restrict withdrawal. Rights for divisible unsupplied portions remain.
3. Where content differs from advertising or the contract, statutory withdrawal may be exercised within three months of supply and within 30 days of when the discrepancy was or could have been known. Defects, major course errors and inability to supply promised content receive contractual and statutory remedies irrespective of use. Expiry of this withdrawal period does not extinguish every other legal or contractual remedy.
4. Requests may be made through purchase history or email and are acknowledged without delay. A lawful digital-content withdrawal is refunded within three business days after the withdrawal takes effect; a more favourable contractual promise of three business days after receipt is honoured. Seller recovery, internal approval and credit adjustment cannot delay statutory refunds. Statutory delay compensation applies.
5. Full refund cancelling the purchase ends its access right. A partial content refund adjusts only the refunded portion and preserves remaining valid access. Termination ends access after its effective time. A price adjustment or damages payment is not automatically cancellation of the whole purchase. Article 19 governs seller settlement.
6. Duplicate charges and other overpayments are returned promptly through the original payment method, or an agreed alternative if technically impossible. No invented cash price or credit-use fee is deducted from a lawful refund.
7. Associated credits are handled separately under Article 20(8)–(10). A grant or use alone does not decide legal withdrawal or termination rights. Credits from another purchase or actual guidance are not deducted for this purchase’s refund.
8. Cancellation and mid-term termination are distinct from withdrawal. Where the actual transaction qualifies for a statutory continuing-transaction or other termination right, that right is honoured. For a 12-month contract to which such a right applies, the remaining-period refund equals the actual payment multiplied by the remaining term after effective termination divided by the total agreed term, measured from payment, agreed expiry and effective termination timestamps, rounded up to whole won, without a separate termination penalty. More favourable legal or promised rules prevail. This formula does not create an unconditional termination right for every guide. The Company explains applicability and calculations using the real product, delivery and transaction conditions; opening content or the passage of seven days alone is not a refusal ground. Where Company or seller fault defeats the contract’s purpose, applicable cancellation, refund and damages rights are preserved. Article 10’s closure guarantees also apply.
9. Partial refunds use the actual payment for that portion. Disclosed component prices are allocated with discounts and actual payment reflected. Without prior allocation, the Company provides its calculation and proposal based on composition, duration and supply and seeks agreement; a retrospectively chosen allocation is not unilaterally imposed. Disputed amounts follow Article 29 without extending legal refund deadlines. Undisputed amounts are paid on time, and accepting them does not waive the balance. Invented high usage prices or fixed penalties cannot reduce refunds. Any lawful deduction for use benefits requires a separate explanation of its basis and calculation.
10. The Company and seller prove disclosure, consent and supply within their respective legal responsibilities. A click, analytics page view, credit grant or playback-consent timestamp alone does not prove successful supply of the entire paid product. In a dispute, verified records, reasons and an appeal route are supplied.
11. These contractual buyer protections also apply to purchases from individual sellers, who accept the corresponding refunds and settlement adjustments. More favourable mandatory rights in the Member’s country remain applicable.

Article 19 (Curator Sales and Settlement)

1. Curators may sell their own Course Guides for a fee in accordance with the procedures and standards set by the Company. An adult Curator who is not legally a business operator may start as an individual seller without business registration. This does not exempt a person who is already carrying on a business, or who sells continuously and repeatedly from the outset, from any registration or filing duty.
2. Platform fee and settlement: The Company collects the sale proceeds for the Curator, deducts 60% of the buyer's final payment as a VAT-inclusive platform fee, and accrues the remaining 40% as the Curator's estimated settlement before any legally required withholding. For a final payment of KRW 5,500, the estimated Curator settlement is KRW 2,200 and the platform fee is KRW 3,300 (KRW 3,000 fee supply amount plus KRW 300 VAT). The Company treats only the platform-fee supply amount, rather than the entire transaction proceeds, as Company revenue. The applicable rates and amounts are shown on the sales-registration and settlement screens.
3. Notice that the current share is an early-participation benefit: The share in Paragraph 2 is set to favor Curators who join during the early stage of the Service and is neither final nor permanent. The Company may adjust it upward or downward in response to changes in the scale of the Service, production and operating costs, payment and settlement fees, and market conditions. By applying to sell for a fee, the Curator acknowledges and agrees that the share may change under the procedure in Paragraph 4.
4. Adjustment of the revenue share: The revenue share is not fixed, and the Company may adjust it as follows.
   • Timing: Adjustments take effect only on a semi-annual reference date (1 January and 1 July each year); the share is not changed at any other time.
   • Basis: The Company reviews production and operating costs, payment and settlement fees, sales performance, and Curator feedback to determine whether and by how much to adjust, and announces the basis together with any adjustment.
   • Advance notice: Any adjustment unfavorable to Curators is announced 30 days before the effective date, and Curators with active listings are notified individually at their registered contact.
   • Consent procedure: The Company does not separately obtain each Curator's individual consent to an adjustment. The advance notice above states, in plain terms, how and by when an objection may be raised and that failure to object by the stated deadline is deemed consent to the adjustment. A Curator who does not object by the day before the effective date is deemed to have consented to that adjustment.
   • No retroactive application: An adjusted share applies only to purchases made on or after the effective date. Settlement for purchases made before that date follows the share in effect at the time of purchase, and the Company preserves the share and settlement amount for each purchase in the transaction record.
   • Curator's option: A Curator who does not agree to an adjustment may suspend sales or unpublish their Course Guides before the effective date; settlement amounts already accrued are paid according to the settlement cycle in Paragraph 5.
   • Promotional shares: The Company may set temporary promotional shares, such as preferential terms for early Curators, by separate notice stating the eligible Curators, the period, and the base share that applies afterwards. The base share resuming at the end of a previously announced promotional period is not treated as an unfavorable adjustment under this Paragraph.
5. Settlement is calculated at month-end and paid to the curator’s registered account on the 15th of the next month, or the next business day. Ordinary settlement includes completed payments whose Article 18(1) withdrawal period, measured from the actual applicable starting point, has elapsed by the cutoff; other purchases roll forward. The same rule applies if payment frequency increases. Settlement does not limit lawful defect, cancellation, termination or refund rights; transaction-specific refund disputes follow Paragraph 6.
6. Withholding of payment: Settlement amounts for transactions subject to an ongoing refund dispute or suspected of being fraudulent may be withheld until the cause is resolved, and the Company notifies the Curator of the reason for the withholding.
7. Taxes: The Curator is responsible for income tax, VAT, and other taxes on Course Guide sales. VAT reported by the Company ordinarily relates to the Company's own platform fee and does not mean that the Company pays the Curator's sales VAT. The Company does not uniformly deduct business-sale VAT from an individual seller. Business sellers must handle sales tax according to their tax status. Where withholding, payment statements, transaction statements, or similar filings are required by law, the Company performs them and may request the necessary account, identity, and tax information.
8. Conversion to a business seller: If an individual seller's activity reaches a continuous and repetitive business level, the Curator must complete the applicable business registration and mail-order sales filing without delay and convert to a business seller on the same account. Courses, purchases, and settlement history stay with that account. The Company may pause only new paid sales while documents are reviewed, but platform notices or thresholds do not replace the Curator's own legal judgment and duties.
9. Where a Curator withdraws from membership, unpaid settlement amounts are paid in accordance with Article 30, Paragraph 4.
10. Refund-related settlement adjustments reflect the actual refunded transaction portion and the curator’s receipts from it. Independently promised Company compensation, credit costs and Company-fault compensation are not automatically passed to curators. Article 10 closure refunds are the Company’s cost, not a reason to recover already paid settlement. Deductions and reasons are notified; insufficient settlement or recovery problems cannot delay buyer refunds. Paragraphs 12–13 continue to govern offset, recovery and appeals.
11. Seller eligibility: The sale of Paid Course Guides is permitted only to Curators who reside in the Republic of Korea, hold an account with a Korean financial institution, and have completed the identity verification set by the Company. The Company may expand seller eligibility by region; the conditions applicable upon expansion are set out in the Operating Policies or supplementary terms. The registration and sharing of free Courses and Course Guides are not subject to the restrictions of this Paragraph.
12. Credits have no cash price or conversion rate for curator settlement. Purchase or offline-guidance credits do not change the paid-guide settlement rate of 40%. A separately agreed seller-funded promotion is disclosed distinctly in advance.

Article 20 (Credits)

1. Offline credits are granted and managed by the Company for participation in offline outings under these Terms. They are not sold, charged up, transferred, resold, exchanged for cash or treated as money. This does not waive legal refund, compensation or damages rights.
2. One credit is granted for an eligible paid guide’s first successful use under Article 2(19), or to the host for actual completed guidance to one participant. Account registration, posting a course or outing, solo running, reviews and ratings do not earn credits. Hosts need no credit to create or guide an outing; online guide use does not consume credits.
3. An eligible purchase is a genuinely paid transaction for a paid guide, excluding self-purchase, unpaid or fully cancelled purchases, free distribution, test transactions and other non-qualifying transactions disclosed in advance. Voucher eligibility follows its actual paid transaction and the original sale conditions. Purchase alone and designated previews do not earn credits. First paid text display or requested paid audio playback qualifies without completion, GPS, minimum listening or dwell time.
4. Purchase grants are limited to one per distinct guide and at most three non-reversed grants per account. Repeated use or repurchase of the same guide does not earn another grant. Actual offline-guidance grants are separate from this cap. Valid full-refund reversals restore an opportunity, then eligible recorded first uses are reassessed in original server-confirmed order without requiring another purchase, revisit or playback. Eligibility at the original first use is preserved even if the guide later expires. No duplicate grant occurs on retry. Total historical grants may exceed three after reversals, but non-reversed grants, including reserved, spent and legitimately forfeited grants, remain at most three. Restored accounts inherit their history under Article 30(8).
5. Applications do not reserve or consume credits. The response deadline is the earlier of 24 hours after application and the disclosed recruitment cutoff; unanswered applications expire with notice and no credit, cancellation or no-show disadvantage. Approval at least 24 hours before the start confirms attendance and reserves one credit. Approval less than 24 hours before the start requires the participant to explicitly reconfirm the current time, location, conditions and cancellation terms. Until the earlier of two hours after approval and the cutoff, only the seat is held and counted toward capacity; no credit is reserved. Decline or expiry releases the seat with notice and no disadvantage. Silence and notification failure are not consent or fault; expired requests cannot be booked retrospectively. Confirmation requires both available capacity and one available credit, including when the balance changes during a hold. Retries never duplicate a reservation. The wallet shows available and reserved quantities separately. The oldest available unit is assigned first, using ledger order for ties, and its source is fixed rather than reassigned after a refund. One unit cannot back two reservations or be settled twice. Expiry operates independently of delayed notification. Material changes follow Articles 12 and 23 and require new consent.
6. After actual guidance ends, both parties confirm it separately. Mutual completion immediately consumes the reserved unit and grants the host one credit, once per participant; reviews, ratings and thanks are optional. Confirmation is due 48 hours after the recorded actual end, or 48 hours after the reserved start if no end is recorded or no outing occurred. The actual deadline is displayed and the other party is notified after one confirms. Disputed end times enter fact-finding; unilateral time changes cannot continually extend or shorten the period. After unanswered expiry, a case is opened and a staff member starts fact-finding by the next business day, with receipt, state and next-update date disclosed. Business days exclude Korean Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in KST. An automated message is not staff review. Disagreement, non-delivery or safety reports enter review immediately without waiting 48 hours. Available booking records, communications and explanations may be considered; GPS or a review is not uniformly required, and unrelated credits and reservations remain usable. Decisions are due within 15 days of receipt, extendable once by 15 days with specific reasons and a date. This exception ceiling does not delay undisputed mutual completion. Assignment changes cannot reset the deadline. Silence alone neither earns credit nor permanently denies it. Proven guidance is settled once. If neither guidance nor culpable participant cancellation or no-show is established, the reservation is returned without a host grant or sanction, subject to Paragraph 8 for refunded sources. Reasons and Article 26 appeals are supplied. Later problem reports and legal rights remain available.
7. Article 23 governs cancellation, changes and no-shows. No actual guidance means no host grant for a cancellation or no-show. Forfeiture of a reserved unit is recorded separately from a new-activity restriction. No additional unrelated credit is deducted for a no-show.
8. If the entire purchase contract ends by full refund or cancellation/termination: an unissued grant is not issued; an available unused grant is reversed and one opportunity restored; an existing reservation is protected and continues to count toward the cap, becoming spent on completion or reversed with cap restoration if legitimately released; a spent or legitimately forfeited grant and its cap usage remain. No cash demand, negative balance or deduction from other grants is imposed for protected reserved or spent credits. Restoration is an opportunity for another eligible guide, not cash or a registration bonus. A refunded guide’s legitimate prior grant still prevents a further grant on repurchase. A guide refunded before first use with no grant history may qualify on a later valid purchase. Reversal of a forfeiture restores its original source, unless that purchase also ended, in which case the grant is reversed and only its opportunity restored. Retries cannot restore twice. A lawful refund after withdrawal also corrects the original unused closed grant and recoverable account history.
9. A partial refund leaving a valid paid guide contract in force preserves its normal credit and cap count. Damages or a price adjustment alone do not reverse the grant. A refund request alone neither freezes a valid grant or reservation nor moves it back in the allocation order. Normal eligibility and sequencing continue until actual refund or termination, followed by Paragraph 8. Fraud investigations and error corrections require Paragraph 11 procedures.
10. The Company retains linked purchase, first-use, grant, reservation, use, return and reversal records and lets Members inspect their own reasons and outcomes. Cash refund and subsequent credit adjustment states are separate so an adjustment failure does not delay a lawful refund. Unrelated grants and reservations are not collectively frozen.
11. Suspected errors, omissions, duplicates or improper grants are identified with reasons and corrected through Article 26’s explanation and appeal process. Final recovery requires established facts, not speculation. System errors and lawful refund requests are not fraud. Correcting an erroneous first-grant history also repairs its false cap and guide restriction so later proper grants are possible. Paragraph 8’s protection of normal refunded use is distinct from proven sham transactions or collusion under Articles 24–26. Monetary claims require an independent legal basis and proof of loss.
12. Credits have no separate expiry and do not expire with a guide’s 12-month term. Introducing expiry for future grants requires at least 90 days’ notice and Articles 3–4 procedures, preserving existing grant terms. Withdrawal and closure follow Articles 30 and 10.

Article 21 (Reviews and Run Notes)

1. After completing a run, Hosts and Guests may write mutual reviews, and Members who have used a Course Guide may write reviews of the Course.
2. Reviews must be based on facts, and the following reviews are prohibited:
   • False or exaggerated content
   • Profanity, defamation, or hate speech
   • Disclosure of personal information
   • Retaliatory reviews
   • Advertising or promotional content
3. The Company may delete, or request the correction of, reviews that violate Paragraph 2. However, the Company does not delete a review solely on the ground that it contains facts unfavorable to a Member.
4. Members may record their solo runs as Run Notes and publish them, and may choose whether to make them public or private. Run Notes must not contain false information or content that infringes the rights of others; in the event of a violation, the Company may delete the Run Notes or switch them to private.
5. Reviews, ratings and thanks are not conditions for purchase credits, completion confirmation or guidance credits. Members may decline to review or leave truthful negative feedback without losing or delaying a proper grant or return.

Article 22 (Rights to Content)

1. Copyright in the Content a Member posts on the Service (Courses, Course Guides, Run Notes, reviews, photos, etc.) belongs to that Member.
2. The Member grants the Company a royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the Content (storage, reproduction, transmission, display, and secondary display such as thumbnails) to the extent necessary for the operation, improvement, and promotion of the Service. Where a Member's Content is used for promotion outside the Service, attribution (nickname, etc.) is displayed.
3. Where a Member withdraws from membership or deletes Content, the license under Paragraph 2 ends. However, the continued use of Course Guides already purchased by other Members, portions combined with other Members' Content (reviews, etc.), and information subject to statutory retention obligations are excepted.
4. A paid-guide curator grants buyers a non-exclusive right to personally and non-commercially read and play the paid content within the Service during the agreed period. Buyers may not reproduce, resell, publicly transmit, distribute or use it to make another guide. Lawful uses and reasonable preservation of consumer evidence are not improperly restricted.
5. The Paragraph 2 licence ordinarily ends on withdrawal or content deletion, but the licence needed to fulfil previously sold guides continues for their agreed term. If infringement or safety prevents continued delivery, buyers receive reasons, scope and Article 18 remedies. Minimum licences needed for inseparable other-member content, ordinary backup deletion cycles, disputes or legal retention continue only as necessary.

Article 23 (Cancellation and No-show Policy)

1. Cancellation Policy

2. No-show Penalties

1. After attendance is confirmed and a credit reserved, cancellation at least 24 hours before the start returns the unit without sanction. Personal cancellation less than 24 hours before the start forfeits only that reserved unit with a warning, unless separate misconduct is established under Articles 25–26. Host cancellation or absence, Company error, disagreement with a material change, or an accepted weather, official-closure, safety or unavoidable health reason returns it without participant disadvantage. A confirmed participant no-show forfeits the reserved unit and may receive Paragraph 3’s separate restriction. These late-cancellation and no-show rules do not apply before required late-approval reconfirmation. Booking screens show the relevant time and time zone.
2. Disputed cancellation reasons or no-shows hold only that reservation and follow Articles 20(6) and 26’s deadlines, notices and appeals. A specific diagnosis or detailed health record is not routinely required. Material changes cannot be accepted by presumed consent; if the original outing cannot be fulfilled it is promptly cancelled and returned. A protected reservation sourced from an already refunded purchase is reversed with cap restoration under Article 20(8), rather than returned to the available balance.
3. A no-show means absence from the agreed place and time resulting in no actual outing and no accepted valid reason. Lateness alone is not automatically a no-show. Hosts and guests follow the same rolling six-month standard measured back from the incident’s scheduled date: first confirmed occurrence is a warning; the next qualifying stage restricts new offline creation and applications for seven days; the third or later stage for 30 days. Escalation occurs only for a new incident after the preceding sanction notice. Several older incidents reported together cannot automatically advance successive stages.
4. Forfeiture and activity restrictions are separate. The same reservation cannot be spent or deducted twice; no additional credit charge, cash debt, negative balance or automatic offset of future grants applies. No guidance grant is paid without actual guidance. A no-show alone does not block paid guides, refunds or transaction history or impose a permanent service ban. Other previously approved outings may proceed unless a specific safety risk is separately established with reasons under Articles 25–26. Restriction start and end are notified and the same incident is not doubly escalated under Article 25.
5. No-show reports may be made within 48 hours of the scheduled start. Reporting alone does not establish a no-show. The affected Member may explain, and verified facts and grounds are notified. This deadline does not limit general harm reports or legal rights. Article 26 governs appeals.
6. Application expiry, rejection or silence before late-approval confirmation, and refusal of materially changed conditions are not late cancellations or no-shows. Withdrawal while awaiting approval or reconfirmation carries no disadvantage. Once late approval is explicitly reconfirmed and the unit reserved, Paragraph 1 applies; immediately before reconfirmation the Company explains that a later personal cancellation may forfeit that unit. Valid exceptions and appeals remain.

Article 24 (Prohibited Activities)

Members must not engage in any of the following activities:

1. Misappropriating another person's personal information or registering false information
2. Harassing or threatening other Members
3. Sexual harassment, discrimination, or hate speech
4. Fraud, or the trading of illegal goods or services
5. Direct transactions in which consideration for a Paid Course Guide or guided running is exchanged outside the Service, bypassing the payment and settlement system provided by the Company (a Curator selling and settling through the Company's payment system is not a prohibited activity)
6. Sending spam or advertising messages
7. Using the Service for one's own separate business without the Company's prior approval (activities as a Curator or Host under these Terms are approved uses)
8. Infringing the intellectual property rights of others
9. Interfering with the normal operation of the Service
10. Improperly obtaining credits through sham purchases, false paid-content use, completion confirmations without actual guidance, collusion, multiple accounts or withdrawal and re-registration to evade limits is prohibited. Lawful refunds, error reports, account recovery and truthful negative reviews are not such misconduct.
11. Violence, sexual harm, stalking, or harassment directed at a Member whom one came to know through the Service, whether inside or outside the Service
12. Other activities that violate applicable laws

Article 25 (Reports and Sanctions)

1. Members may report inappropriate behavior by other Members through the in-service reporting function. Report reasons include inappropriate behavior, harassment or threats, no-shows, fake profiles, spam or advertising, and safety concerns.
2. The Company reviews the reported matter and, depending on whether a violation occurred and its severity, may impose the following sanctions: warning, 7-day suspension, 30-day suspension, or permanent suspension.
3. In urgent safety-related cases (crime reports, concerns of imminent harm, etc.), the Company may impose a temporary suspension on the relevant account even before the facts are verified. A temporary suspension may also be applied where 5 or more cumulative reports have been received.
4. A temporary measure under Paragraph 3 may be initiated according to automated criteria, but the final decision on sanctions is made through human review by the Company, and the Company begins its review without delay after the temporary measure. A Member subject to a temporary measure is notified of the reason and the appeal method.
5. A sanctioned Member may appeal in accordance with Article 26.
6. Article 23’s specific cancellation and no-show rules take precedence. The Company must not confuse a justified cancellation or simple no-show with separately established fraud or threats to impose a harsher general sanction. Repeated late cancellation alone does not exceed Article 23(1)’s disclosed consequence without separately proven deliberate disruption or other misconduct.

Article 26 (Restriction of Use and Appeals)

1. The Company may restrict a Member's use of the Service where the Member violates these Terms or interferes with the normal operation of the Service.
2. When restricting use, the Company notifies the Member of the reason, the restriction period, and the appeal method.
3. The Member may file an appeal within 30 days of receiving the notice and may submit explanatory materials with the appeal.
4. Appeal outcomes are notified within 15 days of receipt. Unavoidable cases may be extended once by 15 days with specific reasons and a decision date. An unresolved case is not left indefinitely under sanction; the Company decides on established facts and explains its basis and external remedies. This process does not extend statutory refund deadlines.
5. Where the appeal is found to have merit, the Company immediately lifts the sanction and restores benefits lost due to the sanction, such as extinguished Credits.
6. Reasons, submissions, deadlines and correction procedures also cover denied or recovered grants, refused returns and completion disputes. An internal appeal deadline does not extinguish legal rights. Refund, transaction-history and appeal contact routes remain available during account restrictions.

Article 27 (Company Liability and Disclaimers)

1. The Company bears liability, in accordance with applicable laws, for damage caused to Members by the Company's willful misconduct or negligence.
2. The Company is not responsible for the following matters. However, this does not apply where they result from the Company's willful misconduct or negligence.
   • Injuries, accidents, or illnesses occurring during running activities between Members
   • Disputes or conflicts between Members
   • The accuracy or reliability of information or Content provided by Members (including Curators and Hosts)
   • Damage caused by force majeure, such as natural disasters or severe weather
   • Service disruptions attributable to the Member
3. In curator guide transactions the Company bears the intermediary and other responsibilities in Article 5(3)–(4), and its own credit issuance, reservation, return and correction duties in Article 5(11). A credit-based model does not reduce Articles 15 and 28’s safety and report-response duties or liability for the Company’s intentional acts or negligence.
4. Members are responsible for checking their own health condition before running and for consulting a medical specialist where necessary.
5. Where the Company bears liability, the scope of compensation is limited to ordinary damages; damages arising from special circumstances are compensated only where the Company knew or could have known of those circumstances. However, this limitation does not apply to damage caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence, or to damage to life or body.

Article 28 (Members' Acknowledgment and Confirmation of Risk)

1. Running is a physical activity that carries inherent risks of injury, accident, and illness.
2. When a Member applies for an in-person running Match or registers a hosting, the Company gives notice of the inherent risks of running activities and the safety rules of Article 15, and requires the Member's confirmation (a check step). A Member's acknowledgment of risk is established through this confirmation procedure, and a Member is not deemed to have assumed risk without this confirmation.
3. The confirmation under Paragraph 2 presupposes the Member's own obligations of health management and compliance with safety rules, and does not have the effect of exempting the Company from liability for its willful misconduct or negligence.

Article 29 (Dispute Resolution)

1. Disputes between the Company and Members: Members may submit complaints and disputes through the in-service customer center or by email (runnerslikeme@gmail.com). The Company replies with the outcome or a processing schedule within 10 business days of receipt.
2. Article 18’s procedures and deadlines take precedence for withdrawal, termination and refunds. Credit, reservation, completion and cancellation disputes follow Articles 20, 23 and 26. General complaint response times do not extend legal refund deadlines. The Company assists buyer–seller disputes but does not refer disputes about its own issuance or operation exclusively to the seller.
3. Disputes between Members: Disputes between Members are, in principle, to be resolved between the parties; however, the Company provides fact-checking and mediation support for disputes concerning no-shows, reviews, safety reports, and paid transactions. (This mediation support is not arbitration under the Arbitration Act of Korea and does not limit the parties' right to file a lawsuit.)
4. External dispute mediation bodies: If a dispute is not resolved, Members may apply for mediation to the following bodies:
   • the Consumer Dispute Mediation Committee (Korea Consumer Agency, 1372, www.kca.go.kr)
   • the Content Dispute Mediation Committee (Korea, 1588-2594, www.kcdrc.kr)
   • the Electronic Document and Electronic Commerce Dispute Mediation Committee (Korea, 1661-5714, www.ecmc.or.kr)

Article 30 (Membership Withdrawal)

1. Members may request withdrawal from membership at any time through the settings menu, and withdrawal is processed immediately.
2. Pending outings are cancelled on withdrawal with notice to the other party. If the withdrawing Member is the host, participant reservations are returned; if the guest, Article 23’s timing and responsibility rules apply. Withdrawal alone does not cancel another party’s rightful grant or confirmation for an already completed outing.
3. Before withdrawal, the Company shows expiring available credits, reservation treatment, purchase-grant recovery rules and unresolved-dispute contact routes and obtains acknowledgement. Voluntarily surrendered available credits expire without cash exchange. Expiry without valid notice and acknowledgement cannot be asserted against the Member. Withdrawal does not waive refund, damages or appeal rights under law or for Company fault.
4. Where a withdrawn Member has unpaid settlement amounts, the Company pays the remaining settlement amounts according to the settlement schedule. The minimum information necessary for this (account information, etc.) is retained until payment is complete, and details are governed by the Privacy Policy.
5. The rights of withdrawal of purchase and refund for Paid Course Guides purchased before withdrawal are not extinguished by withdrawal, and may be exercised by email within the statutory period.
6. Re-registration after withdrawal for the purpose of evading sanctions may be restricted.
7. Paid-guide access ends on completed withdrawal only after the affected guide list and this consequence have been shown and acknowledged; the Company cannot assert an unacknowledged termination. Within 30 days of withdrawal, verified re-registration or a recovery request can restore the remaining purchased access to one linked account. Suspected sanction evasion is determined through facts and appeal procedures under Paragraph 6. The original expiry remains; time away is not automatically added. Minimum purchase-link data is held for 30 days as disclosed in the Privacy Policy. Paragraph 5’s refunds and more favourable older recovery promises remain.
8. Recovery also restores purchase-grant counts and per-guide history, preventing duplicate grants. Final use, justified forfeiture and corrections carry over. Available credits validly surrendered under Paragraph 3 are not reissued; credits lost without valid notice and acknowledgement are restored. A normal new account is not silently subject to an undisclosed lifetime limit per person. Proven abusive re-registration follows Articles 24–26.
9. Unresolved grants and disputes from pre-withdrawal outings continue using necessary minimum records, with results and remedies notified. Guidance credits recognised later can be applied once to a verified account following a recovery request within 30 days of the final notice. The Privacy Policy states the data, purposes, retention and deletion. Withdrawal itself is not delayed until the dispute ends.

Article 31 (Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Language)

1. The interpretation and application of these Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.
2. Lawsuits between the Company and a Member in connection with the use of the Service are brought before the court of competent jurisdiction under the Civil Procedure Act of Korea. For disputes with a Member who is a consumer, the exclusive jurisdiction provisions of applicable consumer protection laws take precedence.
3. For users outside Korea, consumer protection provisions that apply mandatorily under the laws of the user's country of residence may take precedence over these Terms.
4. The Korean text of these Terms is the authentic text; in the event of any discrepancy between a translation and the Korean text, the Korean text prevails. The personal data rights of users residing in the European Union (EU) are described in the “Notice for Users Outside Korea” section of the Privacy Policy.