Terms of Service

These Terms of Service define the handling when users use “Kogei Japonica” (hereinafter referred to as “the Service”) provided by ARTerrace Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”). Users must agree to these terms before using the Service.

Article 1: Definitions

The definitions of terms in these Terms of Service are as follows:

  1. “Company” refers to ARTerrace Inc.
  2. “Service” refers to the service named “Kogei Japonica” provided by the Company (including any changes to the name or content).
  3. “Craft Artists” refers to those who create and provide traditional crafts, works using traditional techniques, products, and collaborative outcomes (hereinafter referred to as “craft works, etc.”) through the Service.
  4. “Clients” refers to those who request craft artists to create craft works, etc. through the Service.
  5. “Users” refers to both craft artists and clients collectively.
  6. “Content” refers to text, images, craft works, related materials, promotional materials, and other information posted, transmitted, or uploaded by users to the Service, as well as information edited, created, or uploaded by the Company based on such materials.

Article 2: Terms of Service

  1. Users of the Service operated by the Company must agree to these Terms of Service before use.
  2. The Company may revise the content of these terms without obtaining user consent, and users agree to this. Service provision conditions after revision shall be subject to the revised terms.
  3. When revising these terms, the Company will notify users of the content through methods designated by the Company.
  4. The effect of the revision defined in the preceding two paragraphs shall take effect from the time the Company provides notification as stated in the previous paragraph. Users who do not agree to the revision of these terms may not use the Service.
  5. In addition to these Terms of Service, users must agree to the terms of service of other sites linked from the Service before using them.

Article 3: Users

  1. Users must apply to use the Service and receive approval from the Company before using the Service. When applying to use the Service, users must enter their email address, password for identity verification (hereinafter referred to as “user password”), and other items designated by the Company. Users must strictly manage their user passwords. Users may also apply to use the Service through methods designated by the Company, such as linking with Google or Twitter accounts.
  2. When using the Service, users must authenticate (referred to as “login”) using the email address and user password from the previous paragraph, or using Google or Twitter accounts.

Article 4: User Withdrawal, etc.

  1. Users may withdraw by completing withdrawal procedures on the Service, except in the following cases:
    • When work related to individual contracts (business contracts for production based on traditional craft techniques between craft artists and clients; hereinafter the same) in which the user is a party has not been completed
    • When payment procedures related to individual contracts in which the user is a party have not been completed
  2. Users are recommended to regularly back up data on their side in case data becomes corrupted or lost for any reason while using the Service. The Company shall not be responsible for damages caused by users failing to create backups.

Article 5: User Information

  1. Those who wish to become users shall register and manage information registered for use (hereinafter referred to as “registration information,” including email addresses and user passwords) under their own responsibility. Users must observe the following matters to prevent third parties from using their user passwords:
    • Use user passwords that cannot be easily guessed by third parties
    • Do not disclose user passwords to third parties
    • When using the Service on computers, mobile phones, or smartphones used by multiple people, always log out and close the web browser when finished using the Service
    • When using the Service on computers, mobile phones, or smartphones used by multiple people, deregister the easy login function (which allows omitting email address and user password entry during login)
    • When there are changes to registration information, register such changes without delay using methods designated by the Company
  2. When the Service is used with a registered user password, the Company may treat it as use by the person who registered, and all results arising from such use and all accompanying responsibilities shall belong to the person who registered.
  3. If damage occurs to the Company or third parties due to unauthorized use of user passwords, users shall compensate the Company and third parties for such damage. Additionally, management of registration information shall be conducted under the user’s own responsibility, and the Company shall not be responsible for any disadvantages and damages suffered by users due to inaccurate or false registration information.
  4. Users may use the Service within the scope designated by the Company according to conditions such as age and usage environment. When minors use the Service, they must do so with the consent of their legal representatives. However, those aged 13 and under may not use the Service.

Article 6: Personal Information

Personal information shall be handled appropriately in accordance with the Privacy Policy separately established by the Company.

 

Article 7: Prohibited Acts

When using the Service, the Company requires users to use it in compliance with laws and regulations and prohibits the following acts:

  1. Acts that infringe on the intellectual property rights of the Company or third parties
  2. Acts that damage the reputation or credit of the Company or third parties, or unjustly discriminate against or defame them
  3. Acts that infringe on the property of the Company or third parties, or acts that may cause such infringement
  4. Acts that cause economic damage to the Company or third parties
  5. Threatening acts against the Company or third parties
  6. Users posting the following information:
    • Information that poses risks of causing damage to the rights and property of third parties
    • Information harmful to third parties, information that physically or psychologically harms third parties
    • Information belonging to criminal or illegal acts, dangerous acts, and information that incites or assists such acts
    • Information with content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, racially discriminatory, slanderous, defamatory, insulting, harassing, inciting, intended to cause discomfort, or likely to produce such results
    • Information that is contrary to fact or known to be non-existent
    • Information over which the user does not have controllable rights
    • Information that infringes on intellectual property rights including copyrights of third parties and other property rights, or information that infringes on public interests or individual rights
    • Information consisting of obscene materials, child pornography, or child abuse images, documents, etc.
    • Information that poses risks of causing damage to the rights and property of third parties
  7. Acts of using computer viruses or harmful programs or inducing their use
  8. Acts that place excessive stress on the Service infrastructure
  9. Attacks on the Company’s servers, systems, or security
  10. Acts attempting to access Company services through methods other than interfaces provided by the Company
  11. Prohibition of circumvention acts (acts of contracting directly without using the Service)
    • Users shall not enter into contracts for production or joint production using traditional crafts and techniques with other users they have met or become aware of through the Service without using the Service.
    • If users violate the previous paragraph, they must pay the Company as a penalty the highest amount among: (i) the usage fees the Company would have received if the contract concluded in violation of the previous paragraph had been conducted using the Service, (ii) the amount of usage fees the Company received from the user in the most recent 6 months at the time the violation was discovered, (iii) the total amount of money the user paid to other users based on the violation, or (iv) the total amount of money the user received from other users based on the violation. This provision does not prevent the Company from claiming damages exceeding the penalty amount from users.
    • When users are approached by other users to conclude contracts defined in paragraph 1, they must immediately report this fact to the Company.
  12. Other acts deemed inappropriate by the Company

Article 8: Service Suspension, Registration Deletion, etc.

  1. The Company may delete or hide posted content within the Service, temporarily suspend the use of the Service for the user, or delete the user’s registration without prior notice or demand if the user falls under any of the following reasons:
    • Violation of any provisions of these terms
    • Discovery that registration information contains false facts
    • Payment suspension or inability to pay, or application for bankruptcy proceedings, civil rehabilitation proceedings, corporate reorganization proceedings, special liquidation proceedings, or similar proceedings
    • When the Company determines the user to be an antisocial force (referring to organizations or individuals that threaten the order and safety of civil society through violent or unreasonable demanding behavior, including organized crime groups, organized crime members, quasi-members of organized crime groups, companies related to organized crime groups, corporate racketeers, social movement imposters, specialized intelligence organized crime groups, co-operators, and others)
  2. If any of the reasons in the previous paragraph apply, users shall naturally lose the benefit of time for all debts owed to the Company and must immediately pay all debts to the Company.

Article 9: Rights to Content within the Service

  1. Users may use the Service’s content only within the scope designated by the Company.
  2. The Company holds all rights to all content provided in the Service, and does not grant users implementation or usage licenses for patents, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights held by the Company.
  3. Users are prohibited from reproduction, transmission, transfer (including sales between users), lending, translation, adaptation, unauthorized reproduction, secondary use, commercial use, modification, reverse assembly, reverse compilation, reverse engineering, etc. by any method beyond the scope of use designated by the Company.
  4. Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, when users lose user qualification due to withdrawal, etc., the right to use provided content shall also expire.
  5. While copyright and other rights to posted content sent by users to the Company belong to the users, users grant the Company free usage licenses for such posted content so that the Company may use and modify it for promotional purposes. Content previously introduced by the Company cannot be deleted from the time user qualification is lost.

Article 10: Usage Fees

  1. Registration and use of the Service are free of charge.
  2. Regarding client orders:
    • When placing orders, the Company will provide estimates to clients in advance and stipulate compensation for each project.
  3. Regarding craft artist orders:
    • When receiving orders, the Company will provide estimates to craft artists in advance and stipulate compensation for each project.

Article 11: Disclaimer

  1. The Company does not involve itself in users’ usage environments and bears no responsibility whatsoever.
  2. The Company bears no responsibility for any damages arising from changes, interruptions, or termination of the Service content.
  3. The Company bears no responsibility for the legality, morality, reliability, or accuracy of homepages linked from each page of the Service.
  4. The Company bears no liability for compensation for damages that occur directly or indirectly to users as a result of using the Service.
  5. The Company bears no responsibility for opportunity losses, business interruptions, or any other damages (including indirect damages and lost profits) that occur to users or other third parties, even if the Company was notified in advance of the possibility of such damages.
  6. The provisions from paragraph 1 to the previous paragraph do not apply when the Company has intent or gross negligence or when users qualify as consumers under the Consumer Contract Act.
  7. The Company bears no responsibility for disputes and troubles between users and third parties. Even if troubles arise between users and third parties, they shall be resolved through the responsibility of both parties, and no claims shall be made against the Company.
  8. When the Company bears liability for damages regarding use of the Service, it shall bear liability for compensation with the total amount paid by users to the Company as consideration for the Service as the limit.
  9. When users cause damage to other users or create disputes with third parties in connection with using the Service, they shall compensate for such damage or resolve such disputes at their own cost and responsibility, and shall not cause any trouble or damage to the Company.
  10. When the Company receives claims for damages from third parties due to user actions, users shall resolve this at their own cost (including reasonable attorney fees) and responsibility.
  11. When the Company pays damages to such third parties, users shall pay the Company all costs including such damages (including reasonable attorney fees and lost profits).
  12. When users cause damage to the Company in connection with using the Service, they shall compensate the Company for damages (including litigation costs and reasonable attorney fees) at their own cost and responsibility.
  13. The Company does not guarantee the accuracy of information and content posted on the Service. The Company bears no responsibility for disputes and troubles regarding information and content posted on the Service.

Article 12: Advertisement Placement

  1. Users understand and agree that the Service may include various advertisements and that the Company or its partners may place various advertisements. The form and scope of advertisements on the Service may be changed by the Company at any time.

Article 13: Prohibition of Rights Transfer

  1. Users may not transfer all or part of their position under these terms or rights or obligations based on these terms to third parties without prior written consent from the Company.
  2. The Company may transfer all or part of the Service to third parties at the Company’s discretion, and in such cases, all user rights related to the Service, including user accounts, shall be transferred to the transferee within the scope of transferred rights.

Article 14: Severability

Even if any provision of these terms or part thereof is deemed invalid or unenforceable under the Consumer Contract Act or other laws and regulations, the remaining provisions of these terms and the remaining parts of provisions deemed partially invalid or unenforceable shall continue to have full effect.

Article 15: Governing Law

The validity, interpretation, and performance of these terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Japanese law.

Article 16: Jurisdiction

In case of litigation between users and the Company, Tokyo District Court or Tokyo Summary Court shall be the exclusive agreed jurisdiction court.

Established: June 22, 2025
Last Revised: June 22, 2025

ARTerrace Inc.