Terms of Service

Article 1. Purpose and scope

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your use of the Griing Talk website and service (the "Service"), operated by Foo AI Corp. (the "Company", "we", "us").

By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

Matters not covered by these Terms are governed by the Privacy Policy, any additional terms published for a specific feature, and applicable law.

Article 2. Definitions

"Member" means a person who has agreed to these Terms and created an account.

"Partner" means another Member you are matched with for conversation practice.

"Session" means a conversation practice session provided through the Service, including the practice session available today and the live 1:1 video session that will be provided in the future.

"Level" means the self assessed proficiency value from 0 (beginner) to 4 (advanced) that the Service uses for matching within a range of plus or minus one level.

"Content" means text, profile information, reports and any other material you submit to the Service.

Article 3. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms within the limits permitted by applicable law.

When we amend the Terms we will publish the amended text, together with the reason for the change and the effective date, on the Service at least 7 days before the effective date.

If a change is unfavourable to Members or is otherwise material, we will publish it at least 30 days before the effective date and will also notify affected Members individually by email or another means they can reasonably access.

You have the right not to accept an amendment. If you do not accept it, you may terminate this agreement at any time before the effective date by closing your account. We will not disadvantage you for refusing an amendment.

Where we have given individual notice and have clearly stated that failure to object by the effective date will be treated as acceptance, and you neither object nor close your account and you continue to use the Service after the effective date, you will be deemed to have accepted the amended Terms.

Article 4. Eligibility: adults aged 18 and over only

The Service is for adults only. You must be aged 18 or over to create an account or use any part of the Service. This restriction exists because the Service is designed to connect you with a stranger for 1:1 video conversation.

At sign up you must enter your date of birth and confirm that you are 18 or over. We calculate your full age from that date and refuse the account if you are under 18.

Providing a false age is a breach of these Terms. If we learn that a Member is under 18, we will suspend the account immediately, terminate it, and destroy the related personal data without undue delay, as described in the Privacy Policy.

We rely on your honest answer. Our age check is a self declaration check and is not identity verification. If you become aware that a person under 18 is using the Service, please tell us at contact@griing.com.

Article 5. Accounts and sign in

To use the Service you create an account with your email address, a display name and your date of birth. Your account and profile are stored on our servers, in a database operated by Supabase and hosted in the Seoul region of the Republic of Korea. When you delete your data or close your account, we destroy them without undue delay. The Privacy Policy explains exactly where each piece of data is stored.

You can sign in with your email address and a password, or with your Google account. If we add another sign in method in the future, we will publish the amended Terms and Privacy Policy in advance, in accordance with Article 3.

You are responsible for the information you enter and for keeping access to your device and browser secure. Do not impersonate another person and do not let another person use your account.

Article 6. What the Service provides today

We currently provide: creation of an account with an adult age check; setting up a learning profile (native language, target language, self assessed level, interests, goal); a match preparation screen and a practice session with a timer and topic cards; the option to request a notification when live matching opens; and a language setting for the interface.

The practice session available today is a solo practice session. There is no other Member on the other side and no real time communication between Members takes place.

The following are not available yet: live 1:1 video sessions; matching with a real Partner; the in session panic button; the reporting queue and its review process; and mutual ratings. Requests to those endpoints are refused by the Service today.

The provisions of these Terms that concern those features, in particular Articles 7, 8 and 9, will apply from the moment each feature is made available. We will publish the amended Terms and Privacy Policy before those features go live, in accordance with Article 3.

Article 7. Community rules and prohibited conduct

Griing Talk exists for language learning. The following conduct is prohibited, both in the current Service and in live sessions once they are available:

Using the Service for dating, romantic or sexual purposes, or treating a Partner as a date.

Sexual remarks, sexual content, nudity or sexual gestures, in any form.

Harassment, threats, stalking, discrimination, hate speech, or any behaviour that makes a Partner feel unsafe.

Pressuring a Partner to share contact details or social accounts, or pushing them to move off the platform.

Recording, capturing, screenshotting, streaming or photographing a Session or a Partner, and distributing any such material. We do not record Sessions, and you may not record them either.

Impersonating another person, misstating your age, or using the Service while under 18.

Commercial use: advertising, promotion, recruitment, solicitation, sales or any other business purpose that is not language practice.

Requesting or offering money, gifts or financial help, and any fraudulent or deceptive scheme.

Anything unlawful, and any attempt to disrupt, probe, overload or reverse engineer the Service.

Article 8. Safety: reporting, blocking and the panic button

We do not record audio or video. Not recording Sessions is a locked design decision, and it also means we cannot review a recording after the fact. Please report problems promptly so that we can act on them.

When live Sessions become available, each Session will include a panic button. Pressing it will end the Session immediately, separate you from the Partner, block that Partner from matching with you again, and file a report for review.

Reports are reviewed by us. If a report is upheld we take the measures set out in Article 9. We do not disclose the identity of the reporting Member to the reported Member.

Until live Sessions are available, if you have any safety concern about the Service, write to contact@griing.com and we will respond.

The Service is not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number first.

Article 9. Enforcement: warnings, suspension and termination

If you breach these Terms we may, depending on the seriousness and the frequency of the breach, issue a warning, restrict specific features, suspend the account temporarily, or terminate the account permanently.

Before we take a measure we will notify you of the reason for it, its scope and duration, and how to object. Where there is an imminent risk to the safety of another Member, or where immediate action is required by law, we may act first and notify you without undue delay afterwards.

You may object to a measure by writing to contact@griing.com within 30 days of the notice. We will review the objection and inform you of the outcome within 15 days of receiving it. If the measure turns out to have been unjustified we will restore your account and your access without delay.

We explain the grounds for any measure we take. We do not require you to prove your own innocence as a condition of restoring your account.

Article 10. Fees

The Service is currently provided free of charge. We do not collect payment details and there is no payment function in the Service.

If we introduce a paid plan in the future, we will announce the price, the payment terms, the right of withdrawal and the refund policy in advance, and we will obtain your separate consent before charging you. We will not convert a feature that you already use free of charge into a paid feature without prior notice.

Article 11. Changes to and interruption of the Service

We may change or discontinue all or part of the Service for operational or technical reasons. We will announce a material change or a discontinuation on the Service at least 7 days in advance, and at least 30 days in advance where the change is unfavourable to Members.

Where a system failure, a security incident, force majeure or another unavoidable event makes advance notice impossible, we will notify you without undue delay after the fact.

Because the Service is currently free of charge, we are not liable for loss caused by a temporary failure or interruption of the Service unless we acted intentionally or with gross negligence. This does not exclude any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Article 12. Intellectual property and your Content

The Service itself, including its software, design, topic cards and text, belongs to the Company or its licensors. You may not copy, distribute or create derivative works from it beyond what these Terms or the law allow.

Content you submit remains yours. You grant us a non exclusive, royalty free licence to use it only to the extent necessary to operate the Service, to match you with a Partner, and to review reports and enforce these Terms. The licence ends when you delete the Content or close your account, except where we must retain a record to handle a report or to comply with the law.

Article 13. Our commitments

We will operate the Service in accordance with these Terms and applicable law, and will not discriminate between Members without a legitimate reason.

We will protect your personal data in accordance with the Privacy Policy, and we will apply appropriate technical and organisational security measures.

We will receive and review safety reports and take the measures set out in Article 9.

Article 14. Limitation of liability

We are liable for damage we cause intentionally or negligently, to the extent required by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury, or any other liability that may not be excluded by law.

Subject to the paragraph above, we are not liable for loss arising from: your own breach of these Terms; a fault in your device, browser, camera, microphone or network; or force majeure and other events outside our reasonable control.

We are not a party to the interaction between Members and we do not control what a Partner says or does. We are, however, obliged to receive and review reports and to apply the safety measures and enforcement measures set out in these Terms.

Damages we pay are limited to ordinary damages foreseeable at the time of the breach. If a paid plan is introduced, our aggregate liability towards a paying Member for claims arising in any 12 month period is limited to the amount that Member paid us during that period, except in cases of intent or gross negligence and except where such a cap is not permitted by law.

Article 15. Closing your account and deleting your data

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time, without giving a reason and without any fee. Use the "Delete my data" button on the home screen, or write to contact@griing.com.

Closing your account deletes the account and profile data held on our servers and deletes your email address from our launch notification list. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is deleted and what, if anything, we must retain.

We may terminate this agreement where you have breached these Terms, in accordance with the procedure in Article 9.

Article 16. Governing law, jurisdiction and dispute resolution

These Terms and this agreement are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.

If you are a consumer habitually resident outside the Republic of Korea, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer provisions of the law of the country where you live.

If a dispute arises, we will first try to resolve it with you in good faith. Please write to contact@griing.com so that we can address the issue directly.

If a dispute cannot be resolved, an action may be brought before the court having jurisdiction under the Civil Procedure Act of the Republic of Korea. We do not impose an exclusive jurisdiction clause that would deprive you of your right to bring a claim in the court that the law makes available to you.

You may also seek mediation through the Korea Consumer Agency (consumer counselling centre 1372) or the Electronic Commerce Mediation Committee (www.ecmc.or.kr). If you live in the EEA or the United Kingdom, you may also contact the consumer protection body and the data protection supervisory authority of the country where you live.

Article 17. Operator information and contact

Company: Foo AI Corp. Representative: JEEHO SONG. Business registration number: 284-81-02702. Mail order business registration number: 2026-Daejeon Yuseong-0983. Address: 82 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34183, Republic of Korea.

The Service is currently provided free of charge and involves no paid e-commerce transaction. If a paid plan is introduced, the applicable statutory information will be updated here in advance.

Contact for all enquiries, including safety and account matters: contact@griing.com or 02-581-3001.