Legal

Terms of Service

Effective October 23, 2026 (previous version: August 18, 2026)

Thank you for using Kins ("the Service"). These terms are the agreement between the Service and you. We have kept the language plain and written down only what we will actually do.

Contents
  1. 1. What the Service does
  2. 2. Your account
  3. 3. Everyone in an album has the same rights
  4. 4. What you upload is yours, and your responsibility
    1. If your rights have been infringed (takedown request)
  5. 5. What you must not do
  6. 6. Paid features
  7. 7. Changes and discontinuation
  8. 8. Limits of liability
  9. 9. Contact

1. What the Service does

Kins is an app where several people collect the photos they each took into one album. You create an album and invite people with a link; everyone invited adds their own photos and fills the album together.

2. Your account

  • You sign up with an Apple or Google account.
  • You must be 14 or older to sign up.
  • Your account is yours alone. You may not lend or sell it.
  • You can delete your account at any time inside the app.

3. Everyone in an album has the same rights

An album has no owner. Any member can add photos, change the album name and cover, and invite other people.

  • You can delete only the photos you added. Nobody can delete photos that someone else added.
  • There is no way to remove a member. If someone bothers you, block them or leave the album.
  • If you leave, the photos you already added stay in the album. To remove them, delete them one by one before you go.
  • When every member has left, the album disappears.

4. What you upload is yours, and your responsibility

You keep the copyright in the photos and videos you upload. The Service uses them only as far as it must to show them to that album's members and to store them. We do not use them for promotion and do not give them to anyone else.

Before uploading, please make sure that:

  • You have the right to upload it (you took it, or you have permission)
  • The people in it have agreed

If your rights have been infringed (takedown request)

Kins does not review or screen what goes into albums in advance. What gets uploaded is the user's choice and responsibility. But when a rights holder tells us, we act promptly.

Please use the rights violation report form. It covers copyright, likeness and publicity rights, trademarks and exposed personal information. If the form doesn't work for you, email hello@joinkins.com with:

  1. Which right was infringed, and how
  2. Where it appears (a link to the album or post, or a screenshot)
  3. Something showing you are the rights holder or their agent
  4. How to reach you

For copyright reports, we make the post invisible as soon as we receive the report (within 24 hours at the latest) and notify the person who uploaded it. For other rights — likeness and publicity rights, personal information, trademarks and so on — we review the report within 2 business days; if we confirm an infringement, we make the post invisible and notify the person who uploaded it. We email the outcome to the person who reported. The uploader may object, and if they do we look at both sides and decide again. If the same person infringes repeatedly, we suspend their account.

Copyright reports follow the safe-harbour requirements for online service providers under Articles 102 and 103 of the Korean Copyright Act. Claims about likeness, privacy or personal information are handled under Article 44-2 of the Korean Network Act; where it is hard to tell whether there is an infringement, or a dispute is likely, we may temporarily block access to the content for up to 30 days.

5. What you must not do

  • Anything unlawful, and above all material that sexually exploits children
  • Photos taken without consent, or that invade someone's privacy
  • Content that harasses or threatens other people
  • Using the Service as personal storage or a file-sharing tool
  • Interfering with the normal operation of the Service

There is no tolerance for this content. We remove it as soon as we find it and suspend the account that posted it. Photos posted to a public album (visible to anyone) are checked by an automated classifier before other people can see them, and the person who created the album can remove posts, remove members, or lock the album.

Please report anything like this — with the report button in the app, or at the address below. (For rights violations, use the report form above.) We look at every report within 24 hours and, where needed, remove the post or suspend the account. Child sexual abuse material is blocked immediately and reported to the authorities.

6. Paid features

Kins has no paid features today and does not take payments. The Kins+ screen in the app only gauges interest; it shows no price and offers no way to pay. If we offer paid features in the future, we will announce them in advance with separate terms.

7. Changes and discontinuation

We may change or remove features. We give notice in advance of any change that disadvantages you. If we ever shut the Service down, we will give at least 30 days' notice and let you download your photos during that time.

8. Limits of liability

We do our best to keep your photos safe, but we recommend you do not treat the Service as your only copy. We are not liable for loss caused by natural disaster, network failure, or your own mistake.

9. Contact

hello@joinkins.com · Rights violations: joinkins.com/report

This English text is provided for your convenience. Where it conflicts with the Korean version, the Korean version governs.

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