Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern the use of “AI Creators” service provided by ARATAMA 璞.
Please use this service only after agreeing to these terms.

Article 1: Definitions

The definitions of terms used in these Terms of Service are as follows:
  1. ARATAMA 璞 is referred to as “the Company” hereinafter.
  2. “Service” refers to the service named “AI Creators” provided by the Company (including any service after name or content changes).
  3. “Creator” refers to a person who uses this Service to create deliverables such as illustrations, photographs, manga, videos, animations, 3DCG, music, writing, engineering, data science, etc. (hereinafter referred to as “Products”).
  4. “Client” refers to a person who uses this Service to request Creators to create Products.
  5. “User” refers to both Creators and Clients collectively.
  6. “Posted Content” refers to text, images, and other information posted, transmitted, or uploaded by Users to this Service.

Article 2: Terms of Service

  1. Users of this 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 governed by the revised terms.
  3. When revising these terms, the Company will notify Users of the content through methods specified by the Company.
  4. The effectiveness of term revisions specified in the preceding two paragraphs shall take effect from the time the Company provides notification as specified in the previous paragraph. Users who do not agree to term revisions may not use this Service.
  5. In addition to these Terms of Service, please agree to the terms of service of other sites linked from this Service before use.

Article 3: Users

  1. Users must apply for Service use and obtain Company approval before using this Service. When applying for Service use, Users must enter their email address, password for identity verification (hereinafter “User Password”), and other items specified by the Company. Users must strictly manage their User Password. Users may also apply for Service use through Company-specified methods such as linking with Google or Twitter accounts.
  2. When using this Service, Users must authenticate (called “Login”) using the email address and User Password from the previous paragraph, or using Google or Twitter accounts.

Article 4: User Withdrawal

  1. Users may withdraw by completing withdrawal procedures on this Service, except in the following cases:
    • When work related to individual contracts (referring to creative work outsourcing contracts between Creators and Clients; same hereinafter) 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 must regularly back up data on their end in case of data corruption or loss during Service use. The Company bears no responsibility for damages caused by Users’ failure to create backups.

Article 5: User Information

  1. Persons seeking to become Users shall register and manage information registered during use (hereinafter “Registration Information,” including email addresses and User Passwords) under their own responsibility. Users must observe the following 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 this Service on computers, mobile phones, or smartphones used by multiple people, always log out and close the web browser when finished
    • When using this Service on computers, mobile phones, or smartphones used by multiple people, cancel easy login registration (function to omit email address and User Password entry during login)
    • When Registration Information changes, promptly register such changes through Company-specified methods
  2. When this Service is used with registered User Passwords, the Company may treat such use as being performed by the person who completed user registration, and all results and accompanying responsibilities from such use shall belong to the person who completed user registration.
  3. If unauthorized use of User Passwords causes damage to the Company or third parties, Users shall compensate the Company and third parties for such damages. Registration Information management shall be performed by Users under their own responsibility, and the Company bears no responsibility for any disadvantages and damages suffered by Users due to inaccurate or false Registration Information.
  4. Users may use this Service within ranges specified by the Company according to conditions such as age and usage environment. When minors use this Service, they must do so with the consent of their legal representatives. However, users 13 years old and younger may not use this 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 this Service, the Company requires Users to use it in compliance with laws and prohibits the following acts:
  1. Acts that infringe upon intellectual property rights of the Company or third parties
  2. Acts that damage the honor or credit of the Company or third parties, or unjustly discriminate against or slander them
  3. Acts that infringe upon or may infringe upon the property of the Company or third parties
  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 damage to third-party rights and property
    • Information harmful to third parties or that physically or psychologically harms third parties
    • Information related to crimes, illegal acts, or dangerous acts, and information that instigates or aids such acts
    • Information intended to be illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, racist, defamatory, insulting, harassing, inciting, or unpleasant, or that may produce such results
    • Information that is contrary to fact or known to be non-existent
    • Information over which Users themselves do not have controllable rights
    • Information that infringes upon intellectual property rights including third-party copyrights and other property rights, or information that infringes upon public interests or individual rights
    • Information including obscene materials, child pornography, or child abuse images and documents
    • Information that poses risks of damage to third-party rights and property
  7. Acts using computer viruses or harmful programs or inducing such acts
  8. Acts that place excessive stress on Service infrastructure equipment
  9. Attacks on the Company’s servers, systems, or security
  10. Acts attempting to access Company services through methods other than Company-provided interfaces
  11. Prohibition of intermediary circumvention acts
    • Users shall not enter into contracts related to creative work with other Users known or knowable through this Service without using this Service.
    • If Users violate the previous paragraph, they must pay the Company a penalty equal to the highest amount among: (i) usage fees the Company would have received if the contract concluded in violation had been conducted using this Service, (ii) usage fees the Company received from the User in the 6 months immediately prior to discovery of the violation, (iii) total monetary amount the User paid to other Users based on the violation, or (iv) total monetary amount 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.
    • If other Users propose contracts defined in paragraph 1, Users must immediately report this fact to the Company.
  12. Other acts the Company deems inappropriate

Article 8: Service Suspension and Registration Deletion

  1. The Company may delete or hide Posted Content within this Service, temporarily suspend Service use for the User, or delete User registration without prior notice or demand if Users fall under any of the following:
    • Violation of any provision of these terms
    • Discovery of false information in Registration Information
    • Payment suspension or inability to pay, or filing for bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, corporate reorganization, special liquidation, or similar proceedings
    • When the Company determines the User to be an antisocial force (referring to organized crime groups, organized crime members, quasi-members of organized crime groups, companies related to organized crime groups, corporate racketeers, social movement racketeers, specialized intellectual organized crime groups, cohabitants, and other organizations or individuals that threaten civic social order and safety through violent or unreasonable demanding behavior)
  2. If Users fall under any of the reasons in the previous paragraph, they 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 Service Content

  1. Users may use Service content only within ranges specified by the Company.
  2. The Company holds rights to all content provided in this Service and does not grant Users implementation or usage licenses for patents, utility model rights, design rights, trademarks, 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 exceeding Company-specified usage ranges.
  4. Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, when Users lose User qualification through withdrawal, etc., usage rights for provided content shall also expire.
  5. Rights such as copyrights to Posted Content transmitted by Users to the Company shall belong to Users, and Users shall grant the Company free usage licenses for such Posted Content so the Company may use and modify it for introduction purposes.
    When User qualification is lost, content introduced by the Company in the past from that point cannot be deleted.

Article 10: Usage Fees

  1. Registration and Service use are free of charge.
  2. Regarding Client Orders
    • When placing orders, the Company shall provide advance estimates to Clients and specify compensation for each project.
  3. Regarding Creator Orders
    • When receiving orders, the Company shall provide advance estimates to Creators and specify compensation for each project.

Article 11: Disclaimer

  1. The Company has no involvement in and bears no responsibility for User usage environments.
  2. The Company bears no responsibility for any damages caused by Service content changes, interruptions, or termination.
  3. The Company bears no responsibility for the legality, morality, reliability, or accuracy of homepages linked from Service pages.
  4. The Company bears no liability for damages directly or indirectly incurred by Users through Service use.
  5. The Company bears no responsibility for opportunity losses, business interruptions, or any other damages (including indirect damages and lost profits) incurred by 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 Users have troubles with third parties, both parties shall resolve them under their own responsibility and make no claims against the Company.
  8. When the Company bears damage compensation liability regarding Service use, it shall bear compensation responsibility with the total amount Users paid to the Company as Service consideration as the limit.
  9. If Users cause damage to other Users or create disputes with third parties in connection with Service use, they shall compensate for such damages or resolve such disputes at their own cost and responsibility, causing no inconvenience or damage to the Company.
  10. If the Company receives damage compensation claims from third parties due to User actions, Users shall resolve these at User cost (including reasonable attorney fees) and responsibility.
  11. If the Company pays damage compensation to such third parties, Users shall pay the Company all costs including such damage compensation (including reasonable attorney fees and lost profits).
  12. If Users cause damage to the Company in connection with Service use, they shall compensate the Company for damages (including litigation costs and reasonable attorney fees) at User cost and responsibility.
  13. The Company does not guarantee the accuracy of information and content posted on this Service. The Company bears no responsibility for disputes and troubles regarding information and content posted on this Service.

Article 12: Advertisement Placement

  1. Users understand and agree that this Service may include various advertisements and that the Company or its partners may place various advertisements. Advertisement formats and scope on this 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 this Service to third parties at its discretion, and in such cases, all User rights related to this Service, including User accounts, shall transfer 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, 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 1, 2024
Last Revised: June 1, 2024