Terms of Service

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 (Application of These Terms)

Article 2 (Basic Rules)

1. You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you submit to the Services, and for any consequences thereof. Content that you submit, post or display may be viewed by other users of the Services and through third-party services and websites. Please provide only Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms.
2. You may use the Services only if you can form a binding contract with the Company and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of Japan or other applicable jurisdictions. You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, prefectural, national and international laws and regulations.
3. The Services we provide are always evolving, and their form and nature may change from time to time without prior notice to you. In addition, we may stop providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally, either permanently or temporarily, and may not be able to give you prior notice. We also reserve the right to impose limits on use and storage at any time, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you.
4. The Services may include advertisements, which may be targeted to Content or information on the Services, to queries made through the Services, or to other information. The types and extent of advertising by the Company on the Services are subject to change. In consideration of our granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that the Company and its third-party providers and partners may place advertising on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services, whether submitted by you or by others.

Chapter 2 Account

Article 3 (Password Management)

Chapter 3 Use of the Services

Article 4 (Trash Scan Feature and Use of AI and OCR Technology)

1. The Trash Scan feature performs optical character recognition (OCR) on a photograph of litter taken by the user and, based on the text read and images cropped from the areas where that text appears, uses generative AI (artificial intelligence that produces text and other content from the information provided to it) to suggest hashtag candidates. For details of this feature, please see Article 4 (Handling of Personal Information in the Trash Scan Feature of SNS Pirika) and Article 8 (Use of External Service Providers and Cross-Border Transfers) of our Privacy Policy.
2. Limits of AI inference: The Company does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the hashtag candidates or any other results inferred by this feature. Because suggested hashtag candidates are inserted automatically into the body of your post, you are responsible for reviewing them before posting and for deciding whether to keep or delete them.
3. Device resource consumption: Use of this feature may cause device heating, battery consumption, slower operation and other consumption of device resources within the range normally to be expected.
4. Opt-out: You may disable this feature using the switch on the posting screen or the camera screen.

Article 5 (Content on the Services)

1. All Content, whether publicly or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who originated it. We cannot monitor or control the Content transmitted through the Services, and we cannot take responsibility for such Content. Any use of or reliance on any Content or materials transmitted through, or obtained by you through, the Services is at your own risk.
2. We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy or reliability of any Content or communications posted through the Services, and we do not endorse any opinions expressed through the Services. You understand that by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases to postings that are mislabeled or otherwise deceptive. Under no circumstances will the Company be liable in any way for any Content, including any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted, obtained or otherwise made available through the Services.

Chapter 4 Rights

Article 6 (Users' Rights)

1. You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, distribute and sell such Content in any and all media or distribution methods, whether now known or later developed.
2. You agree that this license includes the right for the Company to provide such Content to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom we have partnered, for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services, in accordance with our terms for the use of such Content.
3. Such additional uses by the Company, or by other companies, organizations or individuals with whom we have partnered, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services.
4. We may modify or adapt your Content as necessary in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks and in various media, and may make changes to your Content as necessary to conform and adapt it to any requirements or limitations of any networks, devices, services or media.
5. You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you provide, and for the natural consequences thereof, including the use of your Content by other users and by our third-party partners. You understand that our partners may rebroadcast your Content, and that you will be liable if you do not have the right to submit Content for such use.
6. The Company is not responsible for its use of your Content where such use is in accordance with these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit. The Company grants you a personal, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by the Company as part of the Services. The sole purpose of this license is to enable you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by the Company, in the manner permitted by these Terms.

Article 7 (Our Rights)

1. All right, title and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of the Company and its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of both Japan and foreign countries. Nothing in these Terms gives you a right to use the Company's name or any of the Company's trademarks, logos, domain names or other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments or suggestions you may provide regarding the Company or the Services is entirely voluntary, and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.
2. We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, to suspend or terminate users, and to reclaim usernames. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve and disclose any information we reasonably believe is necessary to:

1. (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request;
2. (ii) enforce these Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof;
3. (iii) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
4. (iv) respond to user support requests; or
5. (v) protect the rights, property or safety of the Company, its users and the public.

3. You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services:

1. (i) access, tamper with or use non-public areas of the Services, the Company's computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of the Company's providers;
2. (ii) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures;
3. (iii) access or search, or attempt to access or search, the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available published interfaces that are provided by the Company (and only pursuant to their terms of use), unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with the Company;
4. (iv) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or
5. (v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so) the access of any user or other third party, host or network, including by sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming or mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Services.

Article 8 (Copyright Policy)

1. The Company respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Services to do the same. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and are properly provided to us. If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information:

1. (i) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
2. (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
3. (iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
4. (iv) your contact information, including your address, telephone number and email address;
5. (v) a statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
6. (vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner, acknowledging that a false statement may give rise to legal liability.

2. We reserve the right to remove Content alleged to be infringing without prior notice, at our sole discretion. In appropriate circumstances, we will also terminate a user's account if the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.
3. The contact details of our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement arising in connection with the Services are those set out in Article 17 (Contact).

Chapter 5 Handling of Personal Information

Article 9 (Handling of Personal Information)

1. Any information that you provide to the Company is subject to our Privacy Policy, which governs our collection and use of your information. By using the Services, you agree that we may collect and use such information (in accordance with the Privacy Policy) for storage, processing and use by the Company. As set out in Article 8 of our Privacy Policy (Use of External Service Providers and Cross-Border Transfers), we use external service providers located in the United States as contractors that process users' personal information in accordance with our instructions for the purpose of providing the Services, and Data Processing Addenda and similar terms, which are incorporated into our agreements with those providers, apply to such processing and require processing in accordance with our instructions, restrictions on use for other purposes, security measures and management of subcontractors. As part of providing the Services to you, we may need to provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and of your account, and you may not be able to opt out of receiving them.
2. The purposes for which we use your personal information are set out in Article 3 (Purposes of Use) of our Privacy Policy.
3. Except as permitted by law, we do not provide personal information to third parties without the consent of the individual concerned. However, you consent to the following.

1. (1) That, for the purposes of communications, advertising and research promoting cleanup activities and raising awareness, we may provide to partner companies, national and local government your account name, profile image and information we obtain in connection with your use of our Services (images attached to posts, comments, timestamps, the number, volume and type of collected litter, the number of participants in a cleanup activity, the time spent on a cleanup activity, location information from mobile devices, categories of illegal dumping, feedback between users on posts, and the like).
2. (2) That, for the purpose of providing information on illegal dumping and similar matters to national and local government, we may provide to partner government bodies the name, address, telephone number, email address and other contact details of users and business partners, your account name, profile image and other registration information obtained through registration for our Services, and information we obtain in connection with your use of our Services (as listed above).
3. (3) That, for the purposes of recognizing users and sending prizes, we may provide to partner companies, national and local government, prize fulfillment providers or sponsoring companies your name, username, address, email address, telephone number and information relating to your usage record.
4. (4) That we may compile rankings and similar information based on your usage record and publish them together with your registration information.

Chapter 6 Disclaimers

Article 10 (Provision of the Services "As Is")

1. You access and use the Services and any Content at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an "AS IS" basis. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and its partners disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility for the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content thereon.
2. Except in cases of our willful misconduct or gross negligence, the Company will not be liable for any damage arising from your access to or use of the Services or any Content, including malfunction of your usage environment (device, operating system or network), harm to your computer system, loss of data, consumption of device resources through use of the AI and OCR features (such as heating or battery consumption), or errors in AI inference as described in Article 4 (Trash Scan Feature and Use of AI and OCR Technology) of these Terms. This does not apply where the exclusion or limitation of our liability is not permitted by law.
3. You further agree that the Company will have no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from the Company or through the Services, creates any warranty not expressly made herein.

Article 11 (Limitation of Liability)

1. (i) your access to or use of, or inability to access or use, the Services;
2. (ii) any conduct or Content of any third party on the Services, including any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third parties;
3. (iii) any Content obtained from the Services; or
4. (iv) unauthorized access, use or alteration of your transmissions or Content,

Article 12 (Exclusions)

Chapter 7 Miscellaneous

Article 13 (External Links)

1. (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or
2. (ii) the Content, products or services on or available from such websites or resources.

Article 14 (Waiver and Severability)

Article 15 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction)

Article 16 (Entire Agreement)

1. These Terms, any rules separately established by the Company and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between the Company and you concerning the Services (excluding any services for which you have a separate agreement with the Company that is explicitly in addition to or in place of these Terms). These Terms supersede any prior agreements between the Company and you regarding the Services. No user or company other than a member of the corporate group of which Pirika, Inc. is the parent company may be a third-party beneficiary of these Terms.
2. We will revise these Terms of Service where necessary. If a revision made at our sole discretion is material, we will notify you through a notice displayed when you start the application. By continuing to use our Services after the revised Terms take effect, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.

Article 17 (Contact)