Terms of Use

The following terms and conditions must be agreed in order to use our applications ("our Apps") and the website at https://www.little-forest.jp ("our website") provided by LittleForest ("we", "our", "us"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using our Apps and our website.

Acceptance of terms of use

By accessing or using our Apps and/or our website you confirm that you have read, understood and accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use or access (or continue to use or access) our Apps and/or our website. You are responsible for bringing these Terms to the attention of anyone who may use our Apps and/or our website as a result of your access to it.

Eligible Users

By using or accessing our Apps and/or our website, you are agreeing on behalf of yourself or those you represent to comply with and be legally bound by these Terms in their entirety and our Privacy Policies at https://www.little-forest.jp/Privacy_Policy.html. You must 1) be at least 18 years of age; or 2) have parent or legal guardian consent and supervision to use our Apps and/or our website. By using our Apps and/or our website, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the Agreement and warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age or have consent from and are under supervision in use of a parent or legal guardian. You may not use our Apps and/or our website 1) if You do not agree to the terms and conditions of the Agreement; or 2) if you are not at least 18 years of age or do not have parent or legal guardian consent and supervision.

Restrictions on Use

• You agree to use our Apps and/or our website only for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from any use of our Apps and/or our website that would constitute an illegal offense, give rise to liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.
• You must not use our Apps and/or our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to our Apps and/or our website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of our Apps and/or our website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
• You must not use our Apps and/or our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
• You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our Apps and/or our website without our express written consent.
• You must not use our Apps and/or our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
• You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
• You must not collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names and e-mail addresses, from our website, or to use the communication systems provided by our Apps and/or our website for any commercial solicitation purposes.
• You must not use or launch any automated system, including without limitation "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses our Apps and/or our website in a manner that sends more request messages to the servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional online web browser.
• You must not use material that is offensive, derogatory, obscene, infringing of any third party's rights, or contrary to local, national, and international laws and regulations.
• You must not conduct other actions that we determine to be inappropriate.

Disclaimer

• We may update our website from time to time, and may change the content at any time. All content on our website is provided for general information only. We will not bear any responsibility for any transactions, contacts, or disputes between users and other users or third parties.
• our Apps and/or our website are provided to users on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Apps and/or our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Apps and/or our website is accurate, complete, up-to-date or free from errors or omissions. We do not guarantee that our Apps and/or our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
• We do not guarantee that our Apps and/or our website, or any part of it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our Apps and/or our website is permitted on a temporary and as is basis. We may suspend or change all or any part of our Apps and/or our website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Apps and/or our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Intellectual property rights

• our Apps and/or our website contain content that is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, patents, or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media, and technologies existing now and hereinafter developed and that all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
• You acknowledge that the content is and shall remain the property of LittleForest or any other party who has been involved in the preparation or publication of the content. 
• You shall at no time assert any claims of ownership over any content by reason of Your use of or any right to use our Apps and/or our website and shall not grant or create or suffer to exist any lien or other security interest arising therefrom. 
• You agree to comply with all copyright and trademark laws and you shall not encumber any interest in, or assert any rights to, the Website, Program or Content. 
• You must not, in whole or in part, transmit or republish Content from our Apps and/or our website (including republication on another website); sell, rent or sub-license the Website, Program or Content from our Apps and/or our website, or participate therein; show any Content from our Apps and/or our website in public; reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit Content on our Apps and/or our website for a commercial purpose; create derivative works based on any Content; edit or otherwise modify any Content; or redistribute Content from our Apps and/or our website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution. Where Content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within Your organization.
• Any content you provided to us will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Although you retain all of your ownership rights in your content, you are required to grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, assignable, royalty free and global licence to use, operate, store, copy, modify and sub-licence that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. You waive any moral rights in respect of any such content unless stated otherwise in this terms of use.

Use of your personal information

If you supply personal information to us through our Apps and/or our website we will maintain, record and use such personal information in accordance with our privacy policies found at https://www.little-forest.jp/Privacy_Policy.html.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless LittleForest, its officers, directors, employees, and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (a) your use of and access to our Apps and/or our website; (b) your violation of any term of this Terms of Service; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (d) any claim that one of your User Submissions caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms of Service and your use of our Apps and/or our website.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms, any contract that incorporates them, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them or their formation are governed by Japanese law. We both agree that the courts in Tokyo will have exclusive jurisdiction.

Severability

If any of the regulations of these terms are determined by a competent court to be illegal, invalid, or not legally enforceable, the remaining regulations of these terms will not be affected by the aforementioned regulations and will maintain their efficacy.

Revisions

The Terms of Use are subject to change at any time, effective upon posting on our website, and Your use of our Apps and/or our website after such posting will constitute acceptance by you of such changes. By accessing or using our Apps and/or our website, You consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.

Contact us

In the event of any comments or questions concerning this Terms of use, please contact us at https://www.little-forest.jp/contact.html.

Effective Date

The Effective date of this Terms of use is March 15, 2021.