Article 1 (Consent to these Terms of Use)

1. You must use the Service according to the provisions of these Terms of Use.

2. If you are a minor, you must use the Service upon obtaining the consent of a legal representative such as a person with parental authority (including the consent to these Terms of Use). Furthermore, if you, who was a minor at the time of consenting to these Terms of Use, use the Service after becoming an adult, it shall be deemed that you have ratified the act of using the Service while you were a minor.

3. Company will deem that you have agreed to these Terms of Use based on your use of the Service, and these Terms of Use will be applicable to you from the time that you agree to these Terms of Use.

4. If there is any inconsistency or discrepancy between the Japanese version of these Terms of Use and the translated version of these Terms of Use in a language other than the Japanese language, the subject matter of the Japanese version shall prevail.

Article 2 (Account)

1. When you register information about yourself upon using the Service, you must provide true, accurate and complete information, and shall at all times register latest information.

2. When you register a password upon using the Service, you must strictly manage such password on your own so that it will not be fraudulently used by a third party. Company may deem any act related to the Service that is performed by using your registered ID and password as your own act.

3. Once you register for the Service, you may delete your account and cancel your membership at any time.

4. If Company acknowledges that you have breached, or may breach, these Terms of Use, Company may suspend or delete you account without any prior notice.

5. Any and all rights that you have for using the Service will be extinguished at the time that your account is deleted, irrespective of the reason. Even if you erroneously delete your account, your account cannot be restored.

6. Your account for using the Service belongs exclusively to you. Your right to use the Service may not be assigned or leased to, or succeeded by, a third party.

Article 3 (Handling of Personal Information)

When Company is to handle your personal information in the Service, Company shall properly handle your personal information based on the Privacy Policy which is separately set forth by Company.

Article 4 (Intellectual Property Rights, etc.)

1. Any and all rights (ownership, intellectual property rights, portrait rights, publicity rights, etc.) in texts, images, programs, data and other contents (collectively, "Contents") provided by Company in the Service shall belong to Company or a third party that owns such rights, and you may not replicate, copy, transcribe, transfer, accumulate, sell, publish or otherwise use the Contents beyond the scope of your private use without obtaining Company's permission, irrespective of the method or manner thereof.

2. Company does not guarantee, whether express or implied, that the Contents do not infringe upon the intellectual property rights and other rights of third parties.

Article 5 (Responsibility)

1. You shall use the Service under your own responsibility and cost burden.

2. You must not cause any disadvantage, burden or damage to Company based on, or due to, your acts that are conducted by using the Service. If Company suffers any disadvantage, burden or damage based on, or due to, your acts, you shall be responsible for compensating such disadvantage, burden or damage suffered by Company.

3. Company shall not be liable for any damage arising as a result of a third party using the Service through spoofing. If such damage is caused by your willful misconduct or negligence, you shall be liable for compensating such damage.

Article 6 (Prohibited Matters)

Upon using the Service, you must not commit any of the following acts or any similar acts:

• (1) criminal act or any act that may lead to a criminal act;
• (2) act of infringing upon the copyrights, trademark rights and other intellectual property rights, privacy rights, and honorary rights of Company or third parties;
• (3) act of discriminating or defaming/slandering Company or third parties;
• (4) act of using the Service for profit or commercial purposes (excluding those approved by Company);
• (5) act that is conducted as a religious activity or solicitation to participate in religious activities or religious groups, act for the purpose of sexual activity or pornographic activity, act for the purpose of meeting with or dating unacquainted persons of the opposite sex, act of independently, or through a third party, displaying information corresponding to child pornography or child abuse, act for the purpose of harassing or defaming/slandering third parties, and any other act of using the Service for any purpose that differs from the purpose of use which is scheduled in the Service;
• (6) act of obstructing the operation of the Service such as through unauthorized access to the system providing the Service;
• (7) act of replicating, copying, transcribing, transferring, accumulating, selling, publishing or otherwise using all or a part of the Contents beyond the scope of your private use without obtaining Company's permission;
• (8) act that impairs the credibility of Company or third parties;
• (9) act of using the Service upon impersonating others;
• (10) act that violates laws, offends public order and morals, or breaches these Terms of Use;
• (11) act of using the Service according to a method other than the methods approved by Company;
• (12) act of causing trouble to Company or third parties;
• (13) any other act that is deemed inappropriate by Company.

Article 7 (Disclaimer, etc.)

1. Company does not in any way guarantee the accuracy, concurrence, completeness or usefulness of the Service and information provided in relation to the Service.

2. You shall use the Service upon acknowledging in advance that there may be cases where all or a part of the Service may be unavailable due to the communication environment or other reasons.

3. Company will not be liable in any way for any damage that you suffer due to the Service; provided, however, that this disclaimer does not apply in cases where the contract (including these Terms of Use) concluded between Company and you in relation to the Service corresponds to the consumer contract under the Consumer Contract Act.

4. Even in the case provided in the preceding paragraph, Company will not be liable in any way for any damage arising from special circumstances (including cases where Company or you foresaw, or could have foreseen, the occurrence of damage) among the damages that you suffered due to default or tort arising from Company's negligence (excluding gross negligence).

5. If you breach these Terms of Use or Company otherwise determines that you committed an act that is inappropriate in terms of operating the Service, Company may discontinue your use of the Service and take necessary measures (including legal action) for preventing your act, such as seeking damages against you, without requiring any kind of notice, formal demand or disclosure of reasons, and Company will not be liable for any damage that you consequently suffer.

Article 8 (Change, Suspension or Abolition of Service)

1. In each of the cases listed below, Company may suspend all or a part of the Service without any prior notice, and Company will not be liable for any damage that is consequently suffered by you or third parties:

• (1) Company periodically or urgently performs the maintenance or inspection of the system for providing the Service (including cases associated with the change of specification of a service provided by a third party);
• (2) provision of the Service becomes difficult or impossible due to fires, blackouts, calamities or other emergencies;
• (3) provision of the Service becomes difficult or impossible due to wars, civil wars, riots, disturbances or labor disputes;
• (4) provision of the Service becomes difficult or impossible due to the malfunction of the system for providing the Service, unauthorized access to such system by a third party, or infection of a computer virus by such system;
• (5) provision of the Service becomes difficult or impossible due to measures taken pursuant to laws and ordinances;
• (6) provision of the Service becomes difficult or impossible due to the suspension or termination of a service provided by a third party (including, but not limited to, suspension for maintenance, change of specification, or repair of defects);
• (7) Company otherwise determines that the suspension of the Service is inevitable.

2. Company may revise, add, change or abolish all or a part of the Service without any prior notice, and Company will not be liable for any damage that is consequently suffered by you or third parties.

Article 9 (Antisocial Forces)

1. You represent that you do not currently correspond to an organized crime group, an organized crime group member, a person for whom less than five (5) years have elapsed since that person has ceased being a organized crime group member, an associate member of an organized crime group, a company related to an organized crime group, a corporate extortionist, a socially-branded racketeering organization, an organized intellectual crime group, etc. or any person or party equivalent to the above (collectively, "Organized Crime Group Member, etc."), or correspond to any one of the following items, and affirm that you will not correspond to the same in the future:

• (1) you have a relationship in which it is acknowledged that an Organized Crime Group Member, etc. is controlling or substantially involved in business management;
• (2) you have a relationship in which it is acknowledged that an Organized Crime Group Member, etc. is being used wrongfully for seeking the illicit gain of itself or a third party or inflicting damage to a third party;
• (3) you have a relationship in which it is acknowledged that funds are being provided to an Organized Crime Group Member, etc. or facilities are being offered to an Organized Crime Group Member, etc.

2. You affirm that you will not independently, or through a third party, conduct the acts set out in each of the following items:

• (1) act of making aggressive demands;
• (2) act of making unlawful demands beyond legal responsibility;
• (3) act of using threatening language or violence in transactions;
• (4) act of impairing the credibility of the other party or interfering with the other party's business by spreading false information, using fraudulent means, or using force;
• (5) any other act corresponding to each of the foregoing items.

Article 10 (Amendment of these Terms of Use)

1. Company may, based on its own judgment, amend these Terms of Use at any time based on arbitrary reasons.

2. Unless separately prescribed by Company, the amended Terms of Use shall come into force at the time that they are displayed on the screen of the terminal on which the Service is provided.

3. If you cannot agree to the amended Terms of Use, you shall terminate your use of the Service. If you continue to use the Service after the amended Terms of Use come into force, it shall be deemed that you have agreed to the subject matter of the amended Terms of Use.

Article 11 (Effectiveness of these Terms of Use and Other Terms of Use, etc.)

1. Even if a part of the provisions of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid under laws, the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall continue to remain in force.

2. Even if all or a part of the provisions of these Terms of Use is deemed invalid or cancelled in relation to a certain user, these Terms of Use shall continue to remain in force in relation to the other users.

Article 12 (No Assignment of Rights and Obligations)

1. Unless separately prescribed in these Terms of Use, you may not assign, lease or offer as security to a third party your rights and obligations arising under these Terms of Use without obtaining the prior written approval of Company.

2. If Company transfers its business related to the Service to another company, Company may transfer, to the transferee of the business transfer, its status under these Terms of Use, rights and obligations under these Terms of Use, and your information pursuant to the business transfer, and you shall agree in advance to such transfer. The business transfer set out in this paragraph shall include, in addition to ordinary business transfer, all cases where business is transferred such as by way of company split or other means.

Article 13 (Governing Law and Competent Court)

1. These Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of Japan.

2. If any legal action is required between you and Company, the Tokyo District Court shall be the competent court of agreed jurisdiction for the first instance.