Baview Terms of Use

Effective: 2026-11-09

1. Who we are

These terms govern your use of the Baview app and related services (the "Service") provided by Kommode (owner: Dahye Kim, Republic of Korea) ("Baview", "we"). By using the Service or signing in, you agree to these terms.

2. Definitions

3. Changes to these terms

  1. We may change these terms within the limits of the law.
  2. We will tell you in the app 7 days before a change takes effect, or 30 days before if it is less favourable to you.
  3. Changes to the core of the Service or to your essential rights only take effect with your explicit consent in the app.
  4. If you don't agree, you can delete your account before the change takes effect. If you keep using the Service afterwards, you accept the new terms.

4. Who can use Baview

  1. You must be 14 or older. If you are a minor where you live, you need your parent's or guardian's permission to use Baview.
  2. Posting, commenting and saving require Sign in with Apple or Google.
  3. You may not use several accounts or devices to get more free searches.
  4. Keep your account and device to yourself.

5. The Service and free searches

  1. The Service includes search, summaries of web reviews with links to the originals, ingredient, nutrition and recall information, place search, and user posts.
  2. You can search as often as the free limit shown in the app allows. Showing a result that someone else already searched for also counts as one search.
  3. We may change the Service, the free limit and features, and will tell you about important changes in advance.

6. What Baview shows you

  1. Only bad reviews: Baview selects bad reviews to show the complaints and problems worth knowing before you spend money. It does not show good reviews, so a Baview result is not an overall rating of a product or place. Few bad reviews only means few complaints were found in what Baview searched; it is not a guarantee of quality.
  2. Web reviews: texts from the public web are selected, summarised and translated automatically, with a link to each original. The originals belong to their authors and websites. Automatic summaries can be wrong, so check the original before an important decision.
  3. How we check that reviews are genuine: for web reviews, we filter out texts that look like ads, sponsored content or sales promotion, but we do not check whether the author bought or used the product. User posts can only be written from Apple or Google accounts; we do not verify purchases, and we review reported posts.
  4. Not advice: information in the Service is not medical, legal or financial advice. Ingredient, nutrition and recall information comes from public sources and may be outdated or incomplete.
  5. Place information and maps are provided by Google Maps. When you use place features, the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy also apply.

7. Rules for posts

Write about what you actually experienced, and stick to the facts. You may not post:

  1. Invented experiences, posts you were paid or asked to write, promotion of your own business or attacks on competitors
  2. Untrue statements that damage the reputation of a person or business, or posts meant only to insult
  3. Other people's personal data (full names, phone numbers, addresses, photos of faces, etc.)
  4. Insults, hate, threats, harassment, sexual content, or content that helps illegal acts
  5. Content that infringes copyright or other rights
  6. Ads, spam, repeated posts, or posts made by automated tools

8. Your posts

  1. You keep the copyright in your posts.
  2. You give Baview a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to show your posts in the Service, translate and summarise them, and show them with your username on pages that present the Service. The licence ends when the post is deleted, except for copies other users have already saved and backups.
  3. You are responsible for what you post. Baview does not review posts before they are published.

9. Reports and notices

  1. Anyone can report a post or comment with the report button. A post reported by several users may be hidden automatically until we review it and either restore or remove it.
  2. If you believe a post violates your rights (this includes businesses), email info@baview.app with: (a) the post (screenshot or link), (b) why it is unlawful, (c) your name and contact details, and (d) a statement that your notice is accurate and made in good faith.
  3. We review each notice and remove the post or, if the case is unclear, hide it for up to 30 days. We do not remove posts just because a business asks; we act when a legal violation is shown.
  4. When we hide or remove a post, we tell its author the reason and how to object, using the contact details we have. We also tell the person who sent the notice what we decided.
  5. If you disagree with a decision, email info@baview.app and we will look at it again. You can always go to court instead.
  6. Reviews are done by a person. The only automatic step is hiding a post after enough reports.

10. Restrictions

  1. If you break these terms or the law, we may hide or remove posts, suspend your use for a period, or close your account, depending on how serious and how frequent the violation is. We tell you why, unless it is urgent or the law prevents it.
  2. If you repeatedly post manifestly illegal content, we will suspend you for a reasonable period after a warning.

11. Not allowed

Automated collection of the Service (crawling, scraping), analysing or modifying the app or server, overloading the server, getting around the free limit, pretending to be someone else, and breaching security.

12. Subscriptions

  1. The price, period and benefits of each subscription are shown on the purchase screen. Payment is handled by the Apple App Store or Google Play.
  2. Subscriptions renew automatically on the same terms at the end of each period unless you cancel. Cancel in your store's subscription settings at least 24 hours before renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
  3. We will tell you 30 days in advance before raising a price or before a free trial turns into a paid subscription.
  4. Withdrawal and refunds follow the rules of the store you paid through and the consumer law of your country. If you are in the EU, the store's 14-day withdrawal rules apply. Where the law allows, the right of withdrawal ends once you start using paid features after agreeing to immediate access.
  5. Request refunds through the store you paid through. If you could not use paid features because of our fault, we will refund you as the law requires.

13. Changes and end of the Service

We may change or end all or part of the Service. We will tell you 30 days before ending the Service, so you can look at your posts first. Free features are changed or ended without compensation.

14. Liability

  1. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, or where the law does not allow a limitation.
  2. For slight negligence, we are liable only if we breach an obligation that is essential for providing the Service, and only for damage that is typical and foreseeable.
  3. We are not responsible for the accuracy of web reviews, user posts or content from third parties such as Google, or for purchases and decisions you make based on them, unless we knew the content was illegal and did nothing.
  4. We are not responsible if you can't use the Service for reasons outside our control, such as natural disasters, network failures, or outages of services we depend on.
  5. If we face a claim from someone else because you broke the law or these terms, you must compensate us to the extent you are responsible.

15. Apps from the App Store

If you got the app from the App Store, Apple's standard licence agreement (EULA) also applies. These terms are between you and Baview; Apple is not a party to them and is not responsible for the app, its support or warranties.

16. Governing law and courts

  1. These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Korea. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live.
  2. Disputes go to the competent court under the Korean Civil Procedure Act. Consumers living in the EU can also sue in the courts of the country where they live.

17. Contact

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