Terms of Service

Effective Date: 2026-11-11
Last Updated: 2026-11-11
Version: 1.2

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the website at apieceofmap.com and any related sub-paths (collectively, the "Website"). The Website is operated by A Piece of Map Inc. (어피스오브맵(주), "APiM", "we", "us", or "our"), a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Korea, with its registered office at 4,5F Greits Pangyo, 117 Bundangnaegok-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13529, Republic of Korea.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Website.

Scope reminder: This Website is an informational and business-development platform. We do not sell products, accept payments, or deliver services directly through this Website. Distinct services — including APiM Galaxy (galaxy.apieceofmap.com) — are governed by their own separate terms.

1. About These Terms

These Terms apply to all visitors and users of the Website. They incorporate by reference our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

If you are accessing the Website on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, in which case "you" refers to that organization.

2. The Website

The Website presents:

Insights — articles, reports, and case studies authored or curated by APiM;
Newsroom — announcements about APiM and our products;
Services, Solutions, and About — descriptions of APiM's services for geospatial companies entering Korea, of our own solution, and of the company;
Sourcing Desk — a form for requests to source geospatial data and solutions;
Contact — a form for inquiries about entering the Korean market, data and solution sourcing, and press, media and research inquiries;
Newsletter — "APiM Insights", a periodic email update delivered with your consent.

The Website is informational. Any commercial engagement with APiM (for services, sourcing, or product use) is documented through a separate written agreement.

3. Intellectual Property

3.1 Our content

All content on the Website — including text, images, graphics, logos, design, source code, JSON-LD and other metadata, the "A Piece of Map" name and marks, the "APiM" abbreviation, Insights articles, Newsroom posts, and related materials — is owned by APiM or its licensors and is protected by Korean and international copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws.

3.2 Permitted use

You may:

View, read, and share Insights articles with attribution to "A Piece of Map" and a link back to the original article URL;
Print or save copies for personal or internal business reference;
Quote short excerpts with attribution for journalism, commentary, or research under applicable fair-use or fair-dealing exceptions.

3.3 Prohibited use

You may not:

Reproduce, republish, redistribute, or commercially exploit substantial portions of the Website's content without our prior written consent;
Use APiM logos, marks, or trade dress in a way that implies endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship without our written consent;
Crawl, scrape, or harvest the Website with an automated agent that our robots.txt file does not permit, in a manner that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, or in a way that circumvents technical protections. Our robots.txt lists the automated agents — including AI search, AI answer, and AI model-training crawlers — that we currently permit, and we may change that list at any time;
Treat permission to crawl as a license to the content. Access permitted by robots.txt does not transfer any right in Website content and does not permit reproduction, republication, or redistribution beyond §3.2. Automated agents that robots.txt does not permit may not use Website content as training data for any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model;
Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Website;
Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notice.

3.4 Third-party trademarks

Logos and trademarks of partners or referenced organizations belong to their respective owners and are used for informational and identification purposes only. Such use does not imply endorsement by or affiliation with those organizations unless we expressly state otherwise.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Website lawfully and respectfully. You agree not to:

Use the Website for any unlawful purpose, fraudulent activity, or in violation of applicable laws or regulations;
Transmit malware, viruses, worms, ransomware, or other harmful code;
Attempt unauthorized access to any part of the Website, its underlying systems, accounts, networks, or sub-processors;
Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Website outside of a coordinated responsible-disclosure engagement with us;
Bypass our security measures, including the spam-prevention technologies on our forms;
Use the Contact form to send harassment, threats, defamation, hate speech, spam, or unsolicited promotional content;
Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organization;
Interfere with or disrupt the Website's operation or the experience of other users.

We reserve the right to block, restrict, or terminate access for any user who, in our reasonable judgment, violates these Terms.

5. Contact and Sourcing Desk Submissions

When you submit information through the Contact form (/contact) or the Sourcing Desk form (/sourcing):

You confirm that the information you provide is accurate and that you are authorized to share it;
You acknowledge that your submission is processed in line with our Privacy Policy for the purpose of responding to your inquiry;
A submission does not create a binding contract or oblige APiM to provide any service. Any engagement is documented by a separate written agreement;
We may decline to respond to inquiries that violate these Terms or that we reasonably consider abusive, fraudulent, or out of scope of our business.

Subscribing to the APiM Insights newsletter requires your email address and your consent, captured at the time of subscription. By subscribing you agree to receive periodic email updates from APiM about Insights articles, news, and related content.

You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter or by emailing navigate@apieceofmap.com. Unsubscribing stops further communications. Limited records may be retained as described in the Privacy Policy §5.

7. External Links and Third-Party Services

The Website may contain links to external sites — for example, LinkedIn, partner solution sites, referenced source materials, and the APiM Galaxy product. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, security, or availability of those external sites. Your interaction with them is governed by their own terms and notices.

The Website depends on third-party service providers (including Vercel for hosting, Cloudflare for authoritative DNS, Ghost for newsletter and content management, Resend for transactional email, PostHog for analytics, and Google for reCAPTCHA and Maps). Our use of these providers is described in the Privacy Policy §6 and Cookie Policy. Their performance and uptime are outside our direct control.

8. Insights Content — No Professional Advice

Insights articles, Newsroom posts, and other Website content reflect APiM's analysis, opinions, and observations at the time of publication. We make reasonable efforts to ensure accuracy and to cite primary sources, but we do not warrant that any content is current, complete, or error-free.

Nothing on the Website constitutes legal, financial, investment, tax, regulatory, contractual, engineering, or other professional advice. You should obtain qualified professional advice before making decisions based on any Website content. Commercial decisions you take based on Website content are at your own risk.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. APiM specifically disclaims any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, uninterrupted availability, security, or absence of errors.

We do not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or free from defects.

Nothing in these Terms limits warranties or rights that cannot be excluded under applicable Korean mandatory law, including consumer-protection rights under the Korean Framework Act on Consumers.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, APiM and its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, suppliers, and licensors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, business, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the Website, even if APiM has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

For direct damages, APiM's aggregate liability under or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Website shall not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred U.S. dollars (USD 100) or (b) the amounts paid by you to APiM in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim (which, for Website users who have not entered a separate commercial agreement, is zero).

Nothing in this clause limits liability that cannot be excluded under applicable Korean mandatory law, including:

Death or personal injury caused by negligence;
Fraud, intentional misconduct, or gross negligence;
Statutory consumer-protection rights under Korean law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless APiM, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, suppliers, and licensors from and against any claim, demand, liability, damage, loss, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

Your violation of these Terms;
Your misuse of the Website or its content;
Your violation of any applicable law or third-party right (including intellectual-property or privacy rights) in connection with your use of the Website.

This indemnity does not apply to the extent the claim arises from APiM's own breach of these Terms, gross negligence, or willful misconduct.

12. Privacy

Our processing of personal data through the Website is described in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where there is any conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy on a matter of personal-data processing, the Privacy Policy governs.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our services, applicable law, or business practices. When we do, we will:

Update the "Last Updated" date (and, where appropriate, the "Effective Date") at the top of these Terms;
For material changes, post a banner on the Website and — where relevant to an active subscriber — send a notice by email.

Your continued use of the Website after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the Website.

14. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Website at any time, without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or applicable law, or if continued access poses a risk to APiM, other users, or third parties. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual-property, disclaimer, liability, indemnification, and governing-law clauses — will survive.

15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Website is brought before the court that has jurisdiction under the Civil Procedure Act of the Republic of Korea.

16. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and APiM regarding your use of the Website and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.
Severability: If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.
No waiver: Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.
Assignment: You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of substantially all of our assets, with notice published on the Website.
No agency: Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship between you and APiM.
Force majeure: We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, internet or network outages, and acts of government.
Notices: Notices to APiM must be sent to navigate@apieceofmap.com (with confirmation of delivery on request) or by post to the registered office. Notices to you will be sent to the contact email or postal address you provide.
Language: These Terms are published in English and Korean. If the two versions differ, the Korean version prevails.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms:

Email: navigate@apieceofmap.com
Subject prefix: "Terms of Service — …"
Post: A Piece of Map Inc., 4,5F Greits Pangyo, 117 Bundangnaegok-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13529, Republic of Korea