Terms of Service

Article 1 (Application)

These Terms shall apply to all relationships between Users and the Company concerning the use of the Service.

Article 2 (Registration)

• Registration shall be completed when a prospective user installs the application by the method designated by the Company and uses the app.
• The Company may decline to approve an application for registration if it determines that the applicant falls under any of the following, and shall bear no obligation whatsoever to disclose the reasons therefor.
  • (1) Where the applicant has provided false information in applying for registration;
  • (2) Where the application is from a person who has previously violated these Terms;
  • (3) Where the applicant is a minor, an adult ward, a person under curatorship, or a person under assistance, and has not obtained the consent of their legal representative, guardian, curator, or assistant;
  • (4) Where the Company determines that the applicant is an anti-social force, etc. (meaning organized crime groups, members of organized crime groups, right-wing groups, anti-social forces, or other persons equivalent thereto), or is engaged in some form of interaction with or involvement in anti-social forces, such as cooperating in or being involved in the maintenance, operation, or management of anti-social forces through funding or other means;
  • (5) Where the Company otherwise determines that the registration is inappropriate.

Article 3 (Account Management)

• The Service provides authentication using Apple ID sign-in or Google sign-in. Users shall, at their own responsibility, appropriately manage their account information for these external authentication services.
• Users may not, under any circumstances, transfer, lend, or share their account on the Service with any third party. The Company shall deem any access properly authenticated through Apple ID sign-in or Google sign-in to be use by the User who has registered that account.
• If a User's device or account is used without authorization by a third party, the User shall immediately notify the Company. However, the Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for any damages arising from such unauthorized use.

Article 4 (Prohibited Acts)

In using the Service, Users shall not engage in any of the following acts.

• (1) Acts that violate laws and regulations or public order and morals;
• (2) Acts related to criminal conduct;
• (3) Acts that destroy or interfere with the functions of the Company's servers or network;
• (4) Acts that may interfere with the operation of the Company's services;
• (5) Acts of collecting or accumulating personal information, etc. about other Users;
• (6) Acts of impersonating another User;
• (7) Acts of directly or indirectly providing benefits to anti-social forces in connection with the Company's services;
• (8) Acts that infringe the intellectual property rights, portrait rights, privacy, honor, or other rights or interests of the Company, other users of the Service, or third parties;
• (9) Acts of posting or sending expressions that are excessively violent, explicitly sexual, that lead to discrimination based on race, nationality, creed, gender, social status, family origin, etc., that induce or encourage suicide, self-harm, or drug abuse, or that otherwise contain anti-social content and cause discomfort to others;
• (10) Acts for the purpose of business, promotion, advertising, solicitation, or other profit-making (except those approved by the Company); acts for the purpose of sexual conduct or obscene acts; acts for the purpose of meeting or dating persons of the opposite sex with whom one is unacquainted; acts for the purpose of harassing or defaming other customers; or other acts of using the Service for a purpose different from its intended purpose;
• (11) Acts of religious activity or solicitation to a religious organization;
• (12) Other acts that the Company deems inappropriate.

Article 5 (Suspension of the Service, etc.)

• The Company may suspend or interrupt the provision of all or part of the Service without prior notice to Users if it determines that any of the following circumstances exists.
  • (1) Where maintenance, inspection, or updating of the computer system for the Service is carried out;
  • (2) Where provision of the Service becomes difficult due to force majeure such as earthquake, lightning, fire, power outage, or natural disaster;
  • (3) Where computers or communication lines, etc. are stopped due to an accident;
  • (4) Where the Company otherwise determines that provision of the Service is difficult.
• The Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever, for any reason, for any disadvantage or damage suffered by Users or third parties as a result of the suspension or interruption of the Service.

Article 6 (Copyright)

• Users may use the Service to post or edit only text, images, video, and other information for which they themselves hold the necessary intellectual property rights such as copyright, or for which they have obtained permission from the necessary rights holders.
• The copyright in text, images, video, etc. posted or edited by a User using the Service shall be reserved to that User or other existing rights holders. However, the Company may use the text, images, video, etc. posted or edited using the Service, and Users shall not exercise their moral rights as authors in relation to such use.
• Except as provided in the main text of the preceding paragraph, all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Service and all information related to the Service belong to the Company or the rights holders who have licensed their use to the Company, and Users shall not, without permission, reproduce, transfer, lend, translate, modify, reprint, transmit to the public (including making transmittable), transmit, distribute, publish, or use commercially such rights.

Article 7 (External Services and Licenses)

• As an application distributed through the App Store, the Service complies with the Standard End User License Agreement (EULA) prescribed by Apple Inc.
• By using the Service's application, Users shall be deemed to have agreed to the terms of Apple's Standard EULA. For details of Apple's Standard EULA, please refer to https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
• In the event of any conflict between these Terms and Apple's Standard EULA, Apple's Standard EULA shall prevail.
• The Service may use external services or third-party services. The use of such external services shall be governed by the terms of service and privacy policies established by each respective service provider.

Article 8 (Usage Restrictions and Deregistration)

• The Company may, without prior notice, delete posted data and restrict the use of all or part of the Service by a User, or deregister a User, in the following cases.
  • (1) Where the User has violated any provision of these Terms;
  • (2) Where it is found that there is a false statement in the registration details;
  • (3) Where a petition for commencement of bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, corporate reorganization, or special liquidation proceedings, etc. is filed;
  • (4) Where the Service has not been used for one year or more;
  • (5) Where there is no response for 30 days or more to a communication from the Company requesting a response or otherwise;
  • (6) Where the User falls under any item of Article 2, Paragraph 2;
  • (7) Where the Company otherwise determines that use of the Service is inappropriate.
• If a User falls under any item of the preceding paragraph, the User shall automatically forfeit the benefit of time with respect to all obligations owed to the Company, and must immediately pay in a lump sum all obligations borne at that time.
• The Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for any damage incurred by a User as a result of any action taken by the Company pursuant to this Article.

Article 9 (Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability)

• The Company does not warrant, whether expressly or impliedly, that the Service is free from de facto or legal defects (including defects relating to safety, reliability, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, fitness for a particular purpose, security, etc., as well as errors, bugs, and infringements of rights).
• The Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for any damage incurred by a User arising from the Service. However, this disclaimer shall not apply where the contract between the Company and the User concerning the Service (including these Terms) constitutes a consumer contract as defined under the Consumer Contract Act.
• Even in the case set forth in the proviso of the preceding paragraph, the Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for damages arising from special circumstances (including cases where the Company or the User foresaw or could have foreseen the occurrence of damages) among the damages incurred by a User due to default or tort caused by the Company's negligence (excluding gross negligence). Furthermore, compensation for damages incurred by a User due to default or tort caused by the Company's negligence (excluding gross negligence) shall be limited to the amount of usage fees received from the User in the month in which such damages occurred.
• The Company shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for any transaction, communication, or dispute, etc. that arises between a User and another User or a third party in connection with the Service.

Article 10 (Changes to Service Content, etc.)

The Company may change the content of the Service or discontinue the provision of the Service without notice to Users, and shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for any damage incurred by Users as a result thereof.

Article 11 (Changes to the Terms of Service)

The Company may change these Terms at any time without notice to Users if it determines it necessary.

Article 12 (Notice or Communication)

Notices or communications between Users and the Company shall be made by the method designated by the Company.

Article 13 (Prohibition of Assignment of Rights and Obligations)

Users may not assign to a third party, or provide as security, their status under the usage agreement or their rights or obligations under these Terms without the prior written consent of the Company.

Article 14 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction)

• Japanese law shall govern the interpretation of these Terms.
• In the event of a dispute concerning the Service, the court having jurisdiction over the location of the Company's head office shall have exclusive agreed jurisdiction.