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Service usage in a way not permitted by KakaoTalk

Kakao applies a variety of technical/physical safeguards to provide its users with safe and reliable service environments and strictly responds to any act of using the service in a manner not permitted by the company or impeding regular service operation, such as harming stability and reliability of the service and/or causing faults in the service.

KakaoTalk is protected according to the Copyright Law, and, therefore, reverse engineering KakaoTalk program codes and using the relevant information as follows without proper authority or permission of Kakao shall be subject to violation of copyright. The aforementioned acts are strictly prohibited since they may threaten service security and negatively affect a stable service provision, not to speak of infringing Kakao’s copyrights.

• Provide or disclose information obtained by reversely analyzing program codes with third parties
• Utilize reverse analysis codes to develop or produce a substantially similar program in terms of expressions used in KakaoTalk
• Sell, disseminate or provide similar programs developed or produced based on reverse analysis codes
• Utilize other reverse analysis codes to infringe any copyright

Suppose Kakao identifies a case where a user used the service in a way not permitted by KakaoTalk, by analyzing a report or complaint from other users or the service environments or usage patterns of the reported person. In that case, Kakao may temporarily or permanently restrict the reported person from using the entire KakaoTalk services to protect other users and the KakaoTalk system.

In addition, if Kakao identifies any of the following acts that cause or may cause service failure to KakaoTalk, it may permanently restrict the relevant user from using the entire KakaoTalk services. In particular, Kakao may restrict its users from accessing those accounts judged to harm service provision or severely impede stable operation, for example, causing malfunction of service facilities and destruction or disruption of service systems. However, users can raise an objection via Kakao Customer Service if they are dissatisfied with the results of service restriction measurements. In addition, if a serious service failure occurs due to the relevant act, Kakao may actively take measures in partnership with investigation institutions, such as linking it with legal countermeasures.

• Falsely call KakaoTalk protocol or API by using an abnormal program not permitted by Kakao
• Damage, destroy, alter, or forge the KakaoTalk data by using an abnormal program not permitted by Kakao
• Falsely collect or use personal information, identification key, and profile information of other users or provide any of them to third parties by using an abnormal program not permitted by Kakao
• Develop or produce malicious programs based on the KakaoTalk protocol or API and distribute or provide them to others free of charge or at a cost
• Distribute, provide, or promote unusual programs and malware not permitted by Kakao through Open Chat
• Utilize false information such as virtual numbers to join or use KakaoTalk
• Any other activities that causes or may cause failure in part or whole of the service through transmitting massive signals or data or processing malicious commands, utilizing the security vulnerability of KakaoTalk, or paralyzing technical safeguards of KakaoTalk with abnormal programs.

If Kakao confirms any of the following acts via the Report function in the Open Chat service in an effort to secure stability and reliability of KakaoTalk, it may restrict its users from using the Open Chat service and accessing or using the relevant open chat room.

• Provide and share information obtained by reversely analyzing KakaoTalk codes with third parties
• Create an open chat room to share the results of reverse analysis of KakaoTalk codes