Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1 (Purpose)
The purpose of these Terms & Conditions is to set out the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of STX Corporation (hereafter to be referred to as “STX”) and users of STX-provided online overseas marketing and support service (hereafter “TrollyGo”) through the relevant STX-operated website for trade support (“TrollyGo Website”).
Article 2 (Definitions)
- 2.1 “Trolly-go” refers to the e-commerce platform provided by STX for the purpose of convenient trading of products and services.
- 2.2 “Members” refer to those who have been provided their ID as members after signing the contract with STX for using the TrollyGo Website. Members are corporations or individual business with certificate of business registration engaging in professional business transactions. There are two types of members.
A. “Buyer” refers to members who are able to purchase products and use service within TrollyGo.
B. “Seller” refers to members who are able to sell products and use sales service within TrollyGo.
- 2.3 A “member ID” refers to an ID composed of a combination of letters and numbers selected by a member and approved by STX for identification of him/her and his/her use of the TrollyGo Website
- 2.4 “Password” refers to a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters selected by members for identification of themselves and for protection of their personal information.
- 2.5 Meanings of terms used herein but not defined in this Article 2 shall follow what is stipulated in relevant laws such as the Framework Act on Telecommunications, the Telecommunications Business Act, and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.
Article 3 (Notice about Terms/Conditions)
- 3.1 STX shall post the contents of these Terms and Conditions, names of businesses, contact information (email/phone numbers, etc.), business registration numbers, etc. on the initial Service screen for easy recognition of users.
- 3.2 As regards a specified service, STX may decide on and post the matters to be applied to it (hereafter “individual terms and conditions”) in advance where required. Where members have consented to individual Terms & Conditions for using a specified service, individual terms and conditions shall have priority over others in application.
- 3.3 STX may translate these Terms of Service into Korean and other languages and post the translated Terms of Service (hereafter "Global Terms & Conditions"). However, the Global Terms and Conditions are only intended to help international users understand the Terms of Conditions; in case of any contradictions or differences in interpretation, the English version of the Terms of Conditions shall take precedence.
- 3.4 Where these Terms & Conditions or individual terms and conditions are revised, STX shall post the reason for revision and the date of its enforcement on the initial Service screen from 7 days before the enforcement until one day before the enforcement.
- 3.5 Where the content of revision that may be disadvantageous to members is concerned, STX shall have at least 30 days of grace period and post it on the TrollyGo Website in advance of the enforcement, and inform members of the relevant changes by email. Where the members’ contact address remains unclear, such as due to non-entry of contact information or changes that have not been updated, which make it impossible to provide individual notices, a notice made in accordance with these Terms & Conditions shall be deemed to have acted as an individual notice.
- 3.6 Revised Terms & Conditions shall apply even to members who signed these Terms & Conditions before the revision.
- 3.7 Members who are against to the revised terms and conditions may cancel the contract for using the Service at any time and request STX to have their registered personal information deleted.
- 3.8 Members who continue to visit the TrollyGo Website to use the Service after the date of enforcement of the revised terms and conditions shall be deemed to have consented to these Terms & Conditions.
- 3.9 Revisions shall have priority over previous terms and conditions in application.
Article 4 (Relationship between Terms & Conditions and Relevant Laws)
- 4.1 If there is a conflict between these Terms and Conditions and a relevant law, the relevant law shall prevail.
- 4.2 Regarding the services that are provided, STX may amend these Terms & Conditions within the extent that does not violate any of the following relevant laws concerning members’ use of the Service: the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce , etc., the Act on the Regulation of Terms & Conditions, Framework Act on Electronic Document and Transactions, the Framework Act on Consumers, the Act on Fair Labeling and Advertising, and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.
Chapter 2 The Signing of Service Contract
Article 5 (Service Contract)
- 5.1 A contract for using the Website service (hereinafter referred to as "a service contract") shall become valid by STX’s acceptance of the service application. STX shall inform the applicant of its acceptance of the application by posting the notice on the Service screen or through email or the like.
- 5.2 An application for using the Service shall be deemed to have been made upon members’ consent to the TrollyGo Website’s terms and conditions and registration of necessary items with STX.
- 5.3 STX shall accept applications that meet requirements stated in the foregoing 2.
- 5.4 STX may refuse to accept an application if one of the following is the case: the applicant having a past record of violating these Terms & Conditions or a relevant law; the application being in violation of these Terms & Conditions; and one of the following being the case:
1. False statement in the application,
2. Unauthorized use of another person’s name,
3. Unauthorized use of another business’s business registration number in the application,
4. When user is reported by another member of the TrollyGo Website for an unlawful act of dishonesty or fraudulence, etc., that has been perpetrated by the applicant
5. Failure to meet requirements stipulated in the application.
6. When a child under the age of 14 requests to create an account
7. When the person who requests to create an account has previously lost their membership qualifications under these Terms of Conditions
8. When the person disrupts the STX's service provision or the service use of others
9. When the person engages in any activity prohibited under these Terms & Conditions or relevant laws.
Article 6 (Granting and Management of Member ID)
- 6.1 A general member shall use one member ID. A corporate member shall use one member ID per business registration number.
- 6.2 All member ID and password-related management responsibility lies with members. STX shall not be held responsible for loss and/or damages caused by members’ careless management, leakage, or transfer or lending of their ID through no fault of STX.
- 6.3 Members shall perform the following for safe management of their ID and password.
1. Where their ID or password is stolen or used in an unauthorized way by a third party, they shall inform STX of it immediately and follow STX’s instructions, if any.
2. When users have finished using the Service, they shall check that they have logged out.
3. They shall not disclose their member ID or password to a third party or let him/her use it without a justifiable reason.
- 6.4 Corporate members shall manage their member ID thoroughly to prevent leakage or tampering of important information. STX shall not be responsible for any loss and/or damages incurred by corporate members caused by their carelessness in handling their member ID.
- 6.5 Member ID shall not be shared with others or transferred to others. Where a member is in violation of the foregoing sentence, STX may block the use of his/her/its member ID.
Article 7 (Service Contract Termination)
- 7.1 Members may terminate a service contract at any time by giving a notice to STX. However, the Member shall take necessary measures to conclude all transactions at least 7 days before notifying the intention to terminate the Contract.
- 7.2 STX may terminate a service contract where one of the following is the case. In such a case, STX shall inform the member of the termination by email, phone or fax. STX may provide the member with an opportunity to express his/her/its opinion of the termination in advance.
1. A member’s failure to meet STX- defined requirements for the Service provided by the TrollyGo Website either before or after the application
2. It being proven or reasonably suspected that the registered information is false or the application was made in the name of another person
3. A member’s violation of his/her/its obligation stated in Article 6 hereof
4. A member’s violation of his/her/its obligation stated in Article 13 hereof (additional)
5. A member posting things stated in Article 14.1 of the Terms & Conditions on the TrollyGo Website or engaging in transaction of goods that may run counter to public order or established social morals and good customs
6. A member refusing to consent to STX’s amendment to these Terms & Conditions or addition/change/deletion of the content of the TrollyGo Website due to a change in relevant laws or the situation of transaction or for improvement of the Service, even after having been asked for consent
7. A member engaging in an act in violation of these Terms & Conditions or a relevant law or being subject to a situation requiring termination of a service contract under these Terms & Conditions such as an act presumed to be linked to a crime, a (planned) act of using the Service to obstruct the public good, and/or an act of obstructing the provision of the Service
8. STX deems it necessary to terminate a service contract under reasonable judgement
- 7.3 As regards the termination of a service contract, STX shall inform the relevant member of it, along with the reason for termination, by email, phone, fax, or other methods. However, STX may give such a member an opportunity to express his/her/its opinion in advance before the termination.
- 7.4 Even after the termination, these Terms of Service shall remain in effect for the fulfillment of services already provided before the termination of a service contract
- 7.5 In case a service contract is terminated, STX may cancel various benefits that have been provided to the Member.
- 7.6 Termination shall not affect compensation for damages.
Chapter 3. The Use of Service
Article 8 (Service Types)
- STX shall provide the following Services to members on the TrollyGo Website.
The Service for providing an online marketplace for transactions and relevant additional services
A. Market: service for providing a page for Sellers to register goods and advertise
B. Buy, Sell RFQ: service for searching sellers or buyers of specific goods
C. Bidding: Goods bidding service
D. STX-designated Services related to public notices, market conditions, inquiries made between those engaging in transactions, special events, etc.
Article 9 (Service Hours)
- 9.1 STX shall operate a 24/7 Website Service unless technical difficulties are experienced.
- 9.2 The Service may be interrupted during STX’s periodical maintenance of the system. In such a case, STX shall serve a notice to members in advance. Under extenuating circumstances, such as inability to contact the member or requirement of urgency, STX may serve a notice to members posteriorly.
Article 10 (Change in Website-related Content)
- 10.1 STX may add something to or change or delete the content of the TrollyGo Website upon obtaining members’ consent and providing notice on the TrollyGo Website 7 days before the change is to the take effect, so that members can fully understand the changes
- 10.2 Members shall check to see whether there is any change in the content of the TrollyGo Website or a public notice about such a change.
Article 11 (Stoppage of Service)
- 11.1 STX may stop the Service temporarily where one of the below cases is true:
1. Maintenance, expansion, and replacement of the TrollyGo Website system
2. Occurrence of a situation beyond STX’s reasonable control (e.g. problem with system disk or system breakdown through no fault of system manager)
3. Problem in the system caused by a third party such as a communications business or CP through no fault of STX
- 11.2 STX may stop or put a limit on the Service where there is a problem in the normal use of the Service due to a national emergency, power failure or a problem in the TrollyGo Website facility or overuse of the Service.
- 11.3 STX shall not be held responsible for compensating for losses and/or damages incurred by members due to a (temporary) stoppage of the TrollyGo Website Service unless such losses and/or damages have been caused by STX’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Article 12 (STX’s Obligations including Protection of Personal Information)
- 12.1 STX shall provide the Service stably and without interruption under these Terms & Conditions.
- 12.2 STX shall protect personal information according to relevant laws and detail information will be provided in Personal Information Handling Guidelines.
Article 13 (Member Obligations)
- 13.1 To use the Service, members shall meet the requirements set by STX.
- 13.2 Members shall provide their corporate/personal information on the TrollyGo Website truthfully and accurately in accordance with the designated form and update it as time passes.
- 13.3 Members shall observe these Terms & Conditions and relevant laws.
- 13.4 Members shall provide information regarding transaction, including but not limited to, such as description of goods, customs authorization number, HS code etc) truthfully and accurately.
- 13.5 Members shall possess the requisite legal permissions or licenses for the sale or purchase of the goods.
- 13.6 Members shall not engage in the following:
1. Reproduction of information obtained from the TrollyGo Website or provision of such to a third party for any purpose other than the members’ own use without STX’s prior written consent
2. An act that runs counter to the healthy use of the Service such as continued transmission of advertising information against receivers’ wishes for the Service or transmission/receipt or registration of posting of an excessively large amount of data that may impede stable operation of the Service
3. An act that may infringe on the rights, honor, credit or other legitimate profiting of STX or other members
4. An act intended to obstruct smooth operation of the Service
5. Registering their goods without a real intention to sell them
6. An act that may breach international economic sanctions or be associated with any sanctioned countries, entities, or individuals. 7. Inducing members to engage in direct transactions by circumventing TrollyGo.
- 13.7 Members shall be liable for all losses and damages resulting from violations of this Article and shall indemnify STX against all disputes with third parties related to such violations.
Article 14 (Members’ Postings)
- 14.1 STX has the right to delete members’ postings or information registered or to stop providing the Service temporarily when a service contract is terminated or where it is judged that their content falls under any of the following category.
1. Slander of STX or other members or a third party; infringement on another person’s rights, honor, credit or legitimate profit through slander
2. Running counter to public order or established social morals and good customs
3. All acts related to posting, registering or publicizing illegal/obscene materials, media, etc. that are harmful to youth
4. Possibility of infringing on others’ intellectual property rights
5. Registration of goods associated with infringement on the holder of trademark rights
6. Posting not corresponding to the nature of the Service or overlapping with another posting
7. False content or content including exaggerated ad
8. Content objectively judged to be associated with a criminal act
9. Content reported as a case of Internet fraud based on valid merits
10. Content including computer virus or data causing confusion or malfunction of information/communications facilities
11. Content judged to run counter to STX’s posting management regulation or relevant laws
- 14.2 All responsibilities under the Civil and Criminal Acts including infringement on copyrights caused by images, phrases, videos (including attached files) posted shall rest with the member who posted such materials and STX shall not be held responsible for them.
- 14.3 The poster shall retain the copyright for postings registered with the TrollyGo Website unless they do not infringe on a third party’s rights. STX shall retain the right to post them within the TrollyGo Website
- 14.4 STX may display member-registered postings on search sites, STX-related sites or social media channels and use them for STX’s sales promotion, publicizing and the like, at no cost. STX may reproduce, display, transmit or distribute members’ postings within the Service. STX may also derive them as derivative or edited works, but shall comply with the request of members who registered relevant postings to stop using or delete them immediately except as required by law to retain them. Copyright and intellectual property rights for the work undertaken by STX and its entrusted business shall revert to STX.
- 14.5 Where there is a party alleging that its rights related to privacy, copyright or intellectual property rights have been infringed upon due to information registered or posted by a member on the TrollyGo Website and asks that STX delete such information or post a refutation countering such information, STX shall comply with the request and take a necessary temporary step to block access to such information for a period not exceeding 30 days. The foregoing sentence shall apply mutatis mutandis to a case, where STX judges that certain information registered or posted by a member infringes on someone’s rights. Upon taking a necessary step concerning such information, STX shall inform the requestor and the member who registered or posted such information of its action taken. Where a relevant member asks STX for restoration of the deleted information and stoppage of the temporary step taken by STX by presenting written evidence about such information not considered as being breaching information such as an agreement between the relevant parties or a report with the power of finality or the like, STX may comply with such a request.
Article 15 (Posting Advertisements; Transactions with Sponsors)
- 15.1 STX may run advertisements on the TrollyGo Website.
- 15.2 STX shall not be responsible for any loss and/or damages incurred by members through their participation in advertisements or sponsors’ sales promotional activities on the TrollyGo Website.
Article 16 (Disclaimer of Warranty)
- 16.1 STX will not control or restrict information, including but not limited to descriptions of goods, customs authorization number, HS code provided by members. However, where it is judged that the content of the information posted by a member may infringe on a third party’s honor or rights or violate law, STX may refuse to approve it, delete it or take other necessary steps.
- 16.2 Members shall be liable for all losses and damages resulting from violations of these Terms & Conditions and shall indemnify STX against all disputes with third parties related to such violation.
Chapter 4 Buyer Service
Article 17 (Buyer obligations)
- 17.1 The Buyer shall submit a purchase confirm as an expression of intention to purchase with the sales conditions for the goods offered by the Seller as an expression of intention to sell on TrollyGo.
- 17.2 The Buyer shall confirm the details and sales conditions of the goods written by the seller before purchasing the product. The Buyer shall bear the responsibility for any damage that occurs as a result of buying the product without reading the details and sales conditions.
Article 18 [Payment Method]
- 18.1 The payment method through TrollyGo can be made by any of the methods prescribed under the following subparagraphs.
1. Card Payments, including prepaid card, debit card, or credit card
2. Transfer to an online virtual account
3. Payment through electronic currency
4. Payment through crypto currency
5. Other methods of payments designated by STX
- 18.2 The Buyer shall use the method of payment under their name when purchasing a product and shall not use another person's method of payment without proper authorization. The Buyer shall bear all responsibilities for any loss or damage incurred by STX, payment method owner, or the Seller as a result of using another person's method of payment.
- 18.3 The Buyer shall use a method of payment over which the Buyer has complete legitimate and lawful control and authorization, and STX may verify proper authority for the method of payment. Moreover, the STX may suspend or cancel the transaction until the legitimacy of the Buyer's method of payment has been confirmed.
- 18.4 STX may ask the Buyer to change their method of payment, tentatively put the payment on hold, or reject the payment under the TrollyGo’s policy if legal or technical issues arise in the payment of the Buyer or the STX faces unexpected disruption (including the disruption of bank communication networks).
- 18.5 The information the Buyer has provided pertaining to the payment of purchase amount and any liability or disadvantages shall be solely afforded to the Buyer.
Article 19 [Shipping and Transaction Completion]
- 19.1 Upon the completion of delivery, the buyer shall express the intent to complete the purchase within the period specified in the purchase contract.
- 19.2 If no expression of intention is provided by the Buyer within the specified time frame as per paragraph 1, it shall be deemed that the purchase has been completed.
- 19.3 Upon completion of the purchase, members shall no longer be able to raise a complaint against STX based on defects, non-delivery of the product.
- 19.4 This Article is applicable only upon both the Seller and the Buyer hold Korean nationality and the Buyer qualifies as a consumer under the Electronic Commerce Act.
Article 20 [Scope of application]
In the event that the buyer qualifies as a consumer under the Electronic Commerce Act, the Electronic Commerce Act shall take precedence related to supply, refund and cancellation. In all other cases, the individual terms and conditions, individual contract and TrollyGo’s policy takes precedence.
Chapter 5 Others
Article 21 (Indemnity)
- 21.1 STX shall not be held responsible for a result of the inability of providing the Service either temporarily or permanently due to a force majeure situation such as acts of God, repair or check of information/communications facilities or interruption of communications. In such a case, STX shall inform members by posting a notice on STX-provided Internet site screen or the like.
- 21.2 STX shall not be responsible for mental suffering experienced by members incurred by other members while using the TrollyGo Website, unless it is a case where STX has knowingly left the problem unattended with malicious intent.
- 21.3 STX shall not be responsible for loss incurred by members due to reliance on information or materials posted on the TrollyGo Website.
- 21.4 Personal information included in a content that a member voluntarily and openly posted may be collected and used by others. Individual members shall bear such a risk, and STX shall not be responsible for any results incurred from such risks.
- 21.5 All losses and/or damages due to a member’s failure to correct wrong or outdated information registered at the time of the member’s application for the Service and registration of postings shall be the member’s own responsibility and STX shall not be responsible for any results as such.
- 21.6 STX does not represent or has control over other sites that members may visit through the TrollyGo Website.
- 21.7 STX shall not be responsible for losses and/or damages incurred to a member concerning the Service without STX’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Article 22 (Governing Laws and Jurisdiction)
- 22.1 These Terms & Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Korea.
- 22.2 Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms & Conditions shall be finally settled by arbitration in Seoul in accordance with the International Arbitration Rules of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and laws of Republic of Korea.
Article 23 (Others)
- 23.1 All schedules and attachments to these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to be an integral part of these Terms and Conditions.
- 23.2 Matters not covered by these Terms & Conditions and disputes over interpretation of a clause in these Terms & Conditions shall be settled amicably through mutual consultation between STX and members.
- 23.3 STX and members shall not transfer the rights and responsibilities under these Terms of Conditions to a third party or provide as a pledge without the prior written consent of the counter-party.
- 23.4 In interpreting these Terms & Conditions, the calculation of periods, currencies, etc., shall be based on the Republic of Korea. The currency shall be based on the US dollar.
- 23.5 These Terms & Conditions may be executed in English and in other language. In the event of any difference or inconsistency among different versions of These Terms & Conditions, the English version shall prevail over in all respect.
Additional Rules
(Date of Implementation)
These Terms & Conditions shall be implemented starting November 22, 2023.