General Terms
and Conditions for Service Use
The following
provisions are to specify the General Terms and Conditions for Service Use of
LG RESU HOME Monitoring Website (https://www.lgresuhomemonitor.com/) and smartphone applications of “LG RESU HOME”
and “LGES PV Master” provided by LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
Please verify the general terms and conditions before using our services.
Chapter 1.
General Provisions
The purpose of
these General Terms and Conditions is to provide rights, obligations, and
duties between the site and the members who use the Internet-related services
provided by the Company (hereinafter referred to as “Services”) LG RESU HOME
Monitoring Website (https://www.lgresuhomemonitor.com/) and smartphone applications of “LG RESU HOME”
and “LGES PV Master” provided by LG Energy Solution, Ltd. (hereinafter referred
to as the "Company").
- Article 2 (Definitions of Terms)
The definitions
of terms used in these General Terms and Conditions shall be as follows:
- “Member” shall refer to a person who
consents to these General Terms and Conditions as a user of ESS products
of the Company, or an agent or a seller selling the ESS products of the
Company, who specifies his or her personal information on the form of
membership application at the LG ESS Battery Website, and obtains
approval from a service administrator.
- “Site” shall refer to the virtual
business place established to provide goods or services by using
information telecommunication facilities of computers, etc. in order for
the Company to provide goods or services, and shall be also used as a business
operator administering the site.
- Article 3 (Effectiveness and
Modification of General Terms and Conditions)
- These General Terms and Conditions
shall come into effect with regards to all Members who intend to use the Services
provided by the Company.
- The provisions of these General
Terms and Conditions shall come into effect when they are publicly
announced at the site by being posted on the Company Site.
- For the purposes of administration,
business, or regulatory compliance, the Company may amend these General
Terms and Conditions to the extent that it does not violate relevant
laws. Amended General Terms and Conditions shall come into effect seven
(7) days after being publicly posted on the Company Site.
- Article 4 (Relevant Rules other than
these General Terms and Conditions)
With respect to
any matter not specified in these General Terms and Conditions, relevant
legislations such as the Framework Act on Electronic Telecommunications, the
Electronic Telecommunications Business Act, and any other regulations, and guidelines independently
provided by the Company, etc. shall be applicable.
- Article 5 (Content of Services)
The Company shall
provide each of the following Services:
- To provide information related to
the Company’s ESS and Inverter products
- To provide any other services as determined
by the Company.
- Article 6 (Restrictions on Services)
- In each of the following cases, the
Company may restrict or suspend the Services in whole or in part:
- (a) Where it is unavoidable to provide
the Services due to constructions, or repairs of Services equipment
- (b) Where the Services are likely
to have a negative effect on the other operations of the Company
- (c) Where there is any circumstance
beyond one’s control which a party was not responsible for, and such circumstance
prevents the Company from providing Services; or
- (d) Where it is difficult to provide
the Services due to national emergencies, power failures, failures of
relevant equipment, or excessive uses, etc., or due to administrative
issues.
Chapter 2.
Service Use Agreement
- Article 7 (Formation of Use
Agreement)
- If a Member consents to the consent
procedures specified for the provisions of these General Terms and
Conditions for Service Use, he or she shall be deemed to have consented
to the use agreement.
- A use agreement shall be formed when
the Company approves a Member’s application for use under this Agreement.
The Company shall approve of Member applications in accordance with
Article 9.
- Article 8 (Application for Use)
A Member’s
application for use shall be filed by specifying relevant records according to
the predetermined form and method, online or in an independent method for use
as determined by the Company.
- Article 9 (Approval of Application
for Use)
- When a Member files an application
for use in accordance with Article 8, the Company may approve such an
application at its sole discretion.
- The Company may deter its approval
of each of the following applications for use:
- (a) Where the Company does not have
sufficient facilities for the provision of the Services
- (b) Where it is impossible to
provide the Services on technical grounds
- (c) Where an application is found
to negatively affect the Company’s other Services or
- (d) Where it is otherwise difficult
to approve uses on any other grounds.
- The Company may not approve each of
the following applications for use:
- (a) Where an ID (Email) or
information specified is not accurate
- (b) Where an ID (Email) or
information specified overlaps that of a previous Member
- (c) Where a Member applicant files
an application by providing false information at the time of application
- (d) Where a Member applicant files
an application for the purpose of undermining the society's social
orders or good morals
- (e) Where an application is found
to negatively affect the Company’s other Services or
- (f) Where any other requirements
for application for use determined by the Company are not satisfied.
- Article 10 (Change of Specification
in Agreements)
Where there is a
change in the information provided by a Member after the time of his or her
application for use, the Member shall notify the Company in accordance with the
procedures as determined by the Company.
- Article 11 (Notifications for
Members)
- In the event that the Company is
required to give a notice to the Members, it may do so by the giving
notice to the email addresses submitted by the Members.
- In the event that the Company is
required to give a notice to a large number of members, it may replace
individual notifications by posting notices on the Site’s bulletin board
for not less than seven (7) days.
- In the event that a Member has not
verified a written confirmation provided by the Company due to his or her
negligent control of an email address, errors in providing the email address, etc.,
the Company shall not assume any responsibility therefor.
Chapter 3. Duties
of Contracting Parties
- Article 12 (Duties of Company)
- The Company shall not disclose or
distribute to a third party a Member’s personal information that it has
received from the Member with respect to the provision of the services
without his or her approval provided, however, that an exception shall be
made where there are lawful procedures under the provisions of the laws.
The Company may use a Member’s personal information without his or her
consent only for the provision of Services.
- To the extent of Section 1, the
Company may prepare and use the statistical materials on the personal
information of all or some of the Members with prior consent by Members with
respect to its businesses, and transmit cookies to the Members' computers
during the Services. In this case, the Members may change the browser
setup of the devices used to reject their receipts of cookies or give
warnings to the receipts of cookies, and the Members shall be responsible
for changes of the use of the services resulting from a change in the
setup for cookies.
- The Company may provide the Members’
personal information to public authorities including, but not limited to,
the national government, regional governments, organs of the national
and/or regional governments, courts, and other public entities, without
prior consent by members and in accordance with relevant laws, in a form
of big data, etc. in which the Members’ personal information is not
disclosed.
- The PRIVACY POLICY FOR USERS independently
specified shall regulate in detail the handling of personal information
of Members
- Article 13 (Duties of Members)
- The Members shall not engage in each
of the following activities in using the services. In the event that a Member
has engaged in each of the following activities, the Company may withdraw
membership without prior notice:
- (a) To wrongfully use another Member’s
email address or password
- (b) To use the information obtained
by use of the Services for duplication, performance, broadcasting,
display, distribution, publication, etc. by way of copying, processing, translation,
or secondary copyright works, etc. other than for a Member’s personal
use, or to provide the information to a third party
- (c) To damage the reputation of
third parties
- (d) To infringe upon the copyrights
and other rights of the Company and/or other third parties
- (e) To engage in any criminal
activity
- (f) To register or distribute
computer virus-infected materials that cause malfunctions of the
services related facilities or the destructions or confusions of
information, etc.
- (g) To send information that may
obstruct stable operations of the Services or send advertising
information against the intention of a recipient or
- (h) To engage in any other activity
in violation of relevant laws.
- The Members shall comply with the
requirements specified in these General Terms and Conditions and any restrictions
on the use of information provided by the Services.
- The Members shall comply with the
restrictions on use posted on the notifications or independently notified
by the Company for each of the contents.
- The Members may not assign or grant
to third parties, or offer as security, the rights to use the Services
and any other status under the use agreement, and the Member who has
placed the postings in the Site shall have all the rights to and
responsibilities for such postings including the copyrights to the
postings.
- The Members may not appropriate the
contents or functions of the Services in whole or in part without prior
approval by the Company.
Chapter 4. Use of
Services
- Article 14 (Members’ Duties and
Responsibilities for Management of Member IDs and Passwords)
- The Members shall be responsible for
managing their log-in information of IDs (emails) and passwords. The Members
shall be responsible for all the consequences resulting from their
negligence management or wrongful use of log-in information.
- In the event that a Member’s ID
(email), password, or company information is used by a third party
without permission, the Member must notify the Company thereof. In the
event that a Member has suffered damages or damages has been expanded
because his or her default on or delay in giving a relevant notice to the
Company, the Company shall not assume responsibilities for such damages.
- Where there is a change in the Member
information specified by a Member at the time of his or her application
for use, the Member shall directly make a change(s) online, and shall be
responsible for any problem that may arise due to his or her not doing
so.
- Article 15 (Provision of Information)
The Company may
provide the Member by email any information that it finds to necessary while
the Services are used.
- Article 16 (Compensation for Damages)
- The Company may conduct regular
monitoring for improving the Services, during which period the Company
shall not compensate for damages caused by unstable Services or
discontinuance of the Services.
- The Company shall not assume
responsibilities for damages or delay in provision of the Services resulting
from causes beyond the control of the Company, such as Members’ malicious
or negligent conduct, natural disasters of fires, flood, etc., or
strikes, difficulties in supply of electricity, etc.
- In the event that a Member suffers
damages as a result of the Company’s willful misconduct or negligence,
the Member may request the Company to compensate for damages provided,
however, that where a Member suffers damages in violation of these
General Terms and Conditions for Service Use and the Personal Information
Handling Policies, the Company shall not assume responsibilities for such
damages.
- In the event that a Member violates
these General Terms and Conditions for Service Use or otherwise obstructs
the Company’s service provisions or other normal business activities
because of his or her willful misconduct or negligence, he or she shall
be responsible for compensating the Company for damages.
- In the event that a Member does not
receive goods shipped due to registering a wrong address on the Site, the
Company shall not assume responsibilities therefor.
Chapter 5.
Exemptions, Competent Court of Jurisdiction, etc.
- Article 17 (Exemptions)
- The Company shall not assume
responsibilities for use failures of the Services due to reasons
attributable to the Members.
- The Company shall not be responsible
for a Member’s loss of profits or consequential damages, nor shall it be
responsible for damages, etc. resulting from the use of the materials
acquired through the Services.
- Article 19 (Governing Laws and
Competent Court of Jurisdiction
- The General Terms and Conditions for
Service Use and the Personal Information Handling Policies shall be
governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.
- In the event that there is a dispute
between the Company and a Member with respect to the use of services, in
the first place, both parties shall sincerely make efforts to resolve
such a dispute. In the event that a dispute is not resolved
notwithstanding consultations, it shall be resolved by a lawsuit, in
which case the Seoul Central District Court shall be the competent court
of jurisdiction.