Article 1: Purpose
These Terms of Service aim to stipulate the rights, obligations, responsibilities, and other necessary matters between Infira Inc. (hereinafter "Company") and members regarding the use of Codeblic (hereinafter "Service"), a web-based code editor, cloud hosting, community, and related services.
Article 2: Definitions
- "Member" refers to all users who agree to these Terms and use the Service through a Google account.
- "Project" refers to a collection of source code, files, settings, and related assets created, modified, and saved by a member within the Service.
- "Deployed Site" refers to a website result published on the Internet by a member using the hosting function of the Service.
- "User Content" refers to all information registered by members to the Service, including projects, deployed sites, comments, and posts.
Article 3: Account and Security
[ Age Restriction ]
This Service is only available to individuals aged 14 or older. Members must guarantee that they are 14 years of age or older when signing up for the Service. If it is discovered that a child under 14 has falsely stated their age or used another person's information to register, the Company may immediately and permanently suspend the account and delete the data without prior notice.
[ Account Integration and Security ]
- This Service is provided based on Google account integration (OAuth). Members must have a legitimate account created in compliance with Google's Terms of Service and age policy to use the Service.
- Members are solely responsible for account security and password management, and the Company is not responsible for data loss within the Service due to member negligence or Google account hijacking.
Article 4: Intellectual Property Rights and Licenses of Projects
The Company respects members' rights to User Content and has only the minimum authority necessary to operate the Service.
[ Ownership Attribution ]
Copyright and intellectual property rights to projects created by members belong to the members.
[ License to the Company ]
Members grant the Company a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use User Content within the scope necessary to provide the Service (storage, reproduction, transmission, execution, backup, thumbnail generation, etc.).
[ Private Projects ]
When a member sets a project to 'private', the Company will not disclose or distribute the code to third parties without the member's consent, except for the technical operational purposes in Paragraph 2.
[ License for Public Projects (MIT License) ]
- MIT License: When a member sets a project to 'public', the project is deemed to be distributed under the MIT License. Accordingly, members allow all users the following rights:
- Viewing, execution, and reproduction through Service functions.
- Use, modification, distribution, merging, and creation of derivative works for commercial/non-commercial purposes.
- User Obligations: Third parties who replicate or use public projects externally must maintain copyright notices and permission notices included in the original source code without removal. This is to respect the contribution of the original author. However, if the original author does not specifically indicate otherwise, the obligation to display the original author is waived.
- Disclaimer of Warranty: In accordance with MIT License provisions, public projects are provided "AS IS" without any express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of third-party rights. The author (member) and the Company assume no liability for claims, damages, or other legal responsibilities arising from the use of the software.
- Persistence of Rights: Once a project is made public and the MIT License is applied, the license effect on legally replicated copies will not be retroactively revoked even if the member later changes it to private or deletes it.
[ Treatment of User Content After Withdrawal ]
- Information to be Deleted: When a member withdraws, information and project data stored in the member's personal account will be deleted at the time of withdrawal or destroyed in an irrecoverable form.
- Remaining Information: The following content will not be deleted after withdrawal and will be preserved within the Service. Members are deemed to agree to this upon withdrawal.
- Content replicated or scrapped by other members and stored in other members' repositories
- Content posted and shared with others in common spaces such as bulletin boards and comments
- Deletion Request: 'Remaining Information' must be deleted directly by members before withdrawal, and cannot be requested for deletion from the Company after withdrawal due to reasons such as non-existence of account information.
[ Member Service Improvement Feedback ]
When members provide ideas, suggestions, bug reports, etc. about the Service, the Company may use them for service improvement and new feature development purposes without limitation and free of charge.
Article 5: Hosting Service and Deployed Sites
[ Publicity of Deployed Sites ]
Deployed sites created by members using the hosting function are a separate concept from projects and become accessible to an unspecified number of people via the Internet through URLs.
[ Security Precautions and Disclaimer ]
- Members acknowledge and agree that, due to the nature of web hosting technology, client-side source code necessary for deployed websites to function properly is transmitted to visitors' browsers.
- Scope of Private Settings: The 'private' setting within the Service is a function to block third parties from accessing members' 'projects' and is unrelated to 'deployed sites'.
- Due to the above technical characteristics, members must manage themselves to ensure that important security information (API Keys, passwords, personal information, etc.) is not included in the source code of deployed sites as well as projects. The Company assumes no responsibility for information leaks and theft damages occurring from deployed sites due to member negligence.
[ Data Management and Deletion Notice ]
The Company has the right to delete or compress and store deployed site data of free members who have not logged in for more than 1 year (dormant) for efficient use of server resources. However, prior notice will be given via registered email 30 days before implementation.
Article 6: Prohibited Acts and Company Authority
The Company may delete the following content or restrict member use at its sole discretion to create a healthy service environment.
Prohibited Content:
- Distribution or storage of malicious code, viruses, ransomware.
- Execution of cryptocurrency mining scripts.
- Content that infringes on intellectual property rights such as copyrights and trademarks of others.
- Phishing, scams, social engineering hacking attempts.
- Content deemed inappropriate by the Company according to social norms, such as hate, harassment, excessive violence, regardless of legal illegality.
Prohibition of System Abuse:
- Repeatedly creating/deleting or deploying projects using automated means.
- Attempts to bypass security system detection.
Monitoring and Access Rights:
While the Company does not in principle view private projects, it may access and review all content when violations of the Terms, security threats, or illegal activities are reasonably suspected.
Retroactive Application:
Even if a member deletes or changes violating content to private, responsibility for violations that occurred during the public period or storage period is not exempted. The Company may keep logs of deleted data for security audits.
Article 7: Disclaimer
- Form of Service Provision: The Company provides the Service "As-Is" and does not guarantee the integrity, security, or uninterrupted use of the Service.
- Local Data: The Company utilizes members' browser local storage for offline functions. If data stored locally is lost due to browser cache deletion, device failure, synchronization errors, etc., the Company has no responsibility to recover it.
- Hosting Disclaimer: In accordance with MIT License provisions, public projects are provided "As-Is" without any express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of third-party rights. All legal responsibility for disputes with third parties arising from websites deployed by members lies with the members themselves, and the Company assumes no liability for claims, damages, or other legal responsibilities arising from the use of the software.
Article 8: Compensation for Damages and Limitation of Liability
- Member's Duty to Compensate: If damage occurs to the Company due to a member's violation of these Terms or illegal acts, the member has a duty to compensate.
- Company's Limitation of Liability: The Company is not responsible for damages caused by natural disasters, force majeure, or deliberate service interference by third parties. However, in cases of damages caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence, the Company shall bear compensation liability in accordance with the law.
Article 9: Use of Paid Services and Withdrawal of Subscription
[ Definition of Paid Services ]
The Company may provide paid subscription services (hereinafter "Paid Services") that provide premium features to members.
[ Withdrawal of Subscription ]
Members may request withdrawal of subscription within 14 days from the payment date of the Paid Service. However, if the member has substantially used the paid features even once after payment, withdrawal of subscription may be restricted in accordance with the Electronic Commerce Act.
- Contact: help@codeblic.com
[ Mid-term Cancellation and Refund ]
- Members may terminate the Paid Service contract at any time.
- Regular Payment Cancellation: Upon cancellation request, charges will not be billed from the next payment date and the service can continue to be used for the remaining period. (Partial refunds for the remaining period are not provided in principle.)
- Immediate Cancellation and Refund: If a member requests immediate cancellation, the Company will refund the remaining amount after deducting [Total payment amount - (Days used × prorated daily rate) - Payment fees and penalty (10% of remaining amount)]. However, if the amount to be refunded is less than the minimum fee, no refund will be provided.
[ Special Provisions and Restrictions on Refunds ]
Refunds are not possible or are restricted in the following cases.
- When an account is permanently suspended or service use is restricted due to member's fault (violation of terms, illegal acts, malicious code distribution, etc.).
- When payment was made with promotional credits, coupons, etc. provided by the Company.
- When the remaining usage period and related data held by the member are immediately extinguished due to membership withdrawal
[ Refund of Overcharge ]
If an overcharge occurs due to the Company's fault, a full refund will be provided. If it occurs due to the member's fault, a refund will be provided after deducting costs incurred in the refund process.
Article 10: Governing Law and Jurisdiction
- Korean law shall apply to the interpretation of these Terms and disputes.
- In the event of a lawsuit arising from disputes between the Company and members related to service use, the court having jurisdiction over the Company's headquarters location shall be the exclusive jurisdiction court.