Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern the conditions and procedures for using the tarot reading web service "Midnight Arcana" (the "Service"), operated by TeamCat (the "Company") at the domain 'taro.teamcat.app', as well as the rights and obligations of users and the Company, the ownership of intellectual property, the scope of liability, and the resolution of disputes.

The Service is an entertainment and cultural content service that supports self-reflection through the symbolic system of tarot cards. It does not predict the future and does not verify facts. This characterization is the lens through which all provisions of these Terms are to be read.

The terms used herein have the following meanings.

"Service" means all functions provided by the Company over the web, including shuffling and drawing cards, the card encyclopedia, the daily card, spread-based interpretations, and AI in-depth readings.

"User" means any person who accesses and uses the Service under these Terms without registering an account.

"Deck data" means the 78 card texts and spread structures compiled by the Company on the basis of the Rider-Waite tradition of meanings, together with the 79 card illustrations newly created for this Service.

"Base interpretation" means the reading assembled deterministically from the deck data according to the drawn cards, their positions, and their orientations.

"AI in-depth reading" means the narrative interpretation generated by a language model, at the User's separate request, strictly on the basis of the card layout the Company has already fixed.

"Question" means the sentence a User optionally enters when beginning a reading.

The Company publishes these Terms through a permanent link at the bottom of the Service. By accessing and using the Service, a User is deemed to have agreed to these Terms.

The Company may amend these Terms within the limits of applicable law. An amendment takes effect after being announced on the Service at least 7 days before its effective date; an amendment unfavorable to Users is announced at least 30 days in advance. A User who continues to use the Service after such an announcement is deemed to have accepted the amended Terms.

These Terms are translated into the eight languages the Service supports. If the translations diverge in meaning, the Korean original governs.

The Company's business registration details and official contact channel are as follows. Notices with legal effect — allegations of breach, intellectual property infringement reports, exercises of data protection rights — are valid only when sent to the email address below.

Representative: Hyungjun Park

Company name: TeamCat

Business registration number: 705-17-02663

Mail-order sales registration number: Not yet registered

Address: 4F, 443-98 Beon-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Service domain: taro.teamcat.app

Contact email: admin@taro.teamcat.app

The Service has no sign-up, no login, and no identity verification. The agreement is formed at the moment a User accesses the Service, accepts these Terms, and uses it.

Users must be at least 14 years old, or older where the law of their country of residence sets a higher minimum age. Minors under 19 must obtain the consent of a legal guardian. The Company provides no means of verifying a User's age, so responsibility for this verification rests with the User and their legal guardian.

Because the Company issues no accounts, no issue of lost or stolen credentials can arise. Users remain responsible for the devices and browsers they use.

A reading is built in two layers. Understanding this structure is necessary to understand the nature and the limits of what you read.

First, which card lands in which position and in which orientation is computed deterministically by the Company's program. Shuffling and selection begin with the User's own actions, and the base interpretation is assembled by looking the outcome up in the deck data. No language model takes part in this layer.

Second, and only where the User requests an AI in-depth reading, the Company passes the card layout fixed above together with the User's question to a language model, which generates a narrative interpretation. The model is instructed not to invent facts beyond the cards, positions, and orientations presented to it, but as stated in Article 10 there is no guarantee that this instruction is fully observed.

AI in-depth readings are generated through an external AI inference provider that the Company does not itself operate. The User's question and card layout are transmitted to that provider in the process; the Privacy Policy describes this in detail.

The Service is intended to be available 24 hours a day, year-round. It may nevertheless be suspended in whole or in part without prior notice in the following circumstances: maintenance, inspection, or replacement of equipment; server or network failure; power outage; natural disaster; national emergency; failure of an upstream network carrier or of the AI inference provider; and any other cause beyond the Company's control.

The Company may at any time change, add to, or remove the composition of the Service, the available spreads, the card texts, the interpretive method, and the interface. The Company reserves the discretion to replace or update the language model and its settings without prior notice or consent.

Where the Company modifies, suspends, or discontinues all or part of a service provided free of charge, the Company is not liable for any resulting loss to Users except as otherwise required by law.

As of the effective date of these Terms, every function of the Service is provided free of charge. The Company charges Users nothing and collects no payment details.

If the Company later introduces paid features or products, it will announce the items concerned, their prices, the payment methods, and the withdrawal and refund criteria on the Service before their introduction, and will bring a separate refund policy into force at the same time. No such change applies retroactively to features already provided free of charge.

Users understand and agree that every interpretation provided by the Service is entertainment and self-reflection content grounded in symbolic reading, and is neither a verification of fact nor a prediction of the future.

Interpretations do not substitute for professional advice in medicine, mental health, law, tax, accounting, investment, finance, real estate, careers, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, or any other field in which the judgment of a qualified professional is required. The Company provides no licensed professional service of any kind, and interpretations must not be relied upon in place of consulting a professional.

Where a User makes a significant decision on the basis of an interpretation, that decision and its consequences are the User's alone. The Company is not liable for any loss arising from anything a User did, or refrained from doing, in reliance on an interpretation.

If you are in a situation involving a risk to your own life or safety or that of another person, please do not use the Service — contact emergency medical services or a crisis line in your area immediately. This Service is not a crisis intervention tool.

Users understand and agree that the language model generating AI in-depth readings is a probabilistic system that produces text from statistical patterns.

Because of this, generated text may contain the following defects: (a) statements that contradict the facts presented to it, such as referring to a card that was not drawn or to a position that does not exist (hallucination); (b) interpretations inconsistent with traditional card meanings; (c) truncated, repetitive, or logically disjointed passages; (d) fragments in a language other than the User's.

The Company mitigates these defects by supplying the model only with the fixed card facts and instructing it to invent nothing further, but does not warrant that they will not occur.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, or consistency of any interpretation. Interpretations generated at different times for the same card layout may differ in content; this is normal behavior of the system and not a defect.

Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the following works comprising the Service belong to the Company: all 79 card illustrations, including the 78 cards and the card back; the card and spread interpretation texts compiled in eight languages; the composition and naming of spread positions; the Service's source code, design, logo, and name.

The card illustrations were newly created for this Service and are not reproductions of the original Rider-Waite artwork. Users may not download, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, adapt, or commercially exploit the illustrations without the Company's prior written consent. Bulk collection of the card images by automated means is likewise prohibited.

Users may capture their own reading screen and share it on social media for personal, non-commercial purposes. Crediting the source is appreciated.

Rights in the question a User enters belong to the User. The Company claims no ownership over it and processes it solely to generate an interpretation and provide the Service.

Users must not enter another person's personal information, confidential information, or content that infringes the rights of a third party. All liability arising from such input rests with the User.

Users may use interpretations generated for them for personal, non-commercial purposes without restriction. The Company does not, however, warrant that copyright subsists in, or vests exclusively in anyone, text generated by a language model. Identical or similar interpretations may also be provided to other Users.

The Company does not use questions entered by Users or interpretations generated for them to train, fine-tune, or update the weights of any language model. The data handling practices of the external AI inference provider the Company relies on are outside the Company's control; the Privacy Policy addresses this.

Users must not do any of the following.

Generate repeated requests by automated means to a degree that interferes with the normal operation of the Service.

Access the Service's internal processing paths by means the Company does not provide, or attempt to circumvent, reverse-engineer, or clone them.

Harvest the Service's interpretation functions or card data in bulk as material for a separate service, database, or artificial intelligence model.

Resell the Service or any part of it to third parties without the Company's consent, or repackage it as a similar service.

Use the Service to deceive others, or present an interpretation to a third party as though it were a verified fact or a professional judgment.

Use the Service for any purpose that violates the law or public order and morals.

Where a User breaches Article 13 or impairs the stable operation of the Service, the Company may block the requests concerned or restrict access without prior notice. Because the Company maintains no accounts, such restrictions ordinarily take the form of blocking a network address or limiting request frequency.

The Company is not liable for any disadvantage a User suffers as a result of such measures.

Except as otherwise required by law, the Company is not liable for any loss suffered by a User in connection with the use of a service provided free of charge.

In no event is the Company liable for lost profits, lost opportunities, non-pecuniary damage, loss of data, disputes with third parties, or any other indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damage arising from the use of, inability to use, or reliance on the Service. This applies even where the Company was aware in advance of the possibility of such damage.

In the exceptional cases where liability is nonetheless established by law, the Company's aggregate liability is limited to the amount the User actually paid to the Company in connection with the Service during the 12 months preceding the loss. As of the effective date the Service is free of charge, so that limit is zero.

This Article does not apply to damage caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence, nor to liability that mandatory consumer protection law does not permit to be limited.

These Terms and the use of the Service are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.

In the event of a dispute, the Company and the User will first seek resolution through good-faith discussion. Where litigation follows, the court of first instance is determined under the Civil Procedure Act, and the Seoul Northern District Court, which has jurisdiction over the Company's principal place of business, is agreed as the competent court.

Where the User is a consumer residing outside the Republic of Korea, this Article does not limit any choice of forum guaranteed to that User by the consumer protection law of their country of residence.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions continue in effect. Articles 9, 10, 11, and 15 survive termination of the agreement.