Terms of use

This kokosil license agreement (hereafter "this Agreement") sets forth the conditions under which service is provided by Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (hereafter "the Company").


Article 1. Definition

  1. "kokosil" is a portal site and an application where the information such as the location map and word of mouth can be viewed, and is provided by the Company.
  2. "The Service" is adapted version of kokosil for specific areas and facilities operated by the Operators who are stipulated in Article 1.4.
  3. "The Partner" is an operator of the Service for specific areas and facilities. It may operate the Service with the Company, or independently under the contract with.
  4. "The Operators" are the Company and the Partner in a collective manner.
  5. "The User" is the user of the Service.
  6. "The Content" is information provided from the Users through the Service including but not limited to word of mouth.

Article 2. Scope of Agreement

  1. This Agreement sets forth both the copyright and the terms of use concerning the Service provided by the Operators and the Content.
  2. If the Users use all the functions of the Service including editing, posting reviews and bookmarking, the User shall create a uID account provided by TRON Forum in advance.
  3. By using the Service, the User shall be deemed to have agreed to the terms of this Agreement.

Article 3. Consent for use

  1. The Operators shall grant without remuneration the license to use the Service on a non-exclusive basis to the User.
  2. The cost for provider subscription fees, communication expenses, etc. for accessing the Service by the User shall be borne by the User.
  3. This Agreement does not transfer or grant to the User either expressly or impliedly any industrial property rights which mean patent right, utility model right, design right, trademark, the right to obtain the license of these rights, know-how, etc. (hereafter collectively "Industrial property rights, etc.") other than those consented to under this article.

Article 4. Copyright of the Service

  1. The copyright of all software, documents, images and any reproductions thereof provided in the Service are owned by the Operators, or their suppliers.

Article 5. Copyright of the Content

  1. When the User posts the Content to the Service, the User shall grant a license to the rights (as mentioned in the Copyright Law of Japan and including the right to sublicense the following acts to a third party) to reproduce, publicly transmit, distribute, translate, adapt, publish the said Content all over the world using web site, electronic media such as CD and DVD, and print media such as magazines and books to the Operators without remuneration. The period of grant of the right of the said Content shall terminate when the copyright of the said Content expires.
  2. When the User posts the Content to the Service, the User shall guarantee the Operators that the User owns all the rights mentioned in the Copyright Law of Japan to reproduce, publicly transmit, distribute, translate, adapt and publish the said Content. In case the User does not own all or part of these rights, the User agrees that the User shall, at the User's own liability and expense, prevent any problems from occurring, and if they do, resolve any such problems when the Content is used by the Operators and/or the third party who has been sublicensed the rights to use it by the Operators.
  3. The User shall allow the Operators and/or the third party who has been sublicensed the rights to use the Content by the Operators to modify it by the following means.
    1. Summarizing and citing all or part of the Content available in text form.
    2. Changing the size and trimming (and other means of editing) parts or all of the Content available in still image and video form.
    3. Changing the volume or keys (and other means of audio editing) of all or part of the Content in the case of the Content available in audio form (such as sound and music, but not limited to them).
  4. The User shall agree that the User shall not exercise the moral rights of the authors of the Content including but not limited to the modification prescribed in the preceding paragraph to the Operators and/or the third party who has been sublicensed the rights by the Operators.

Article 6. Prohibited actions

  1. The User shall not take any of the following acts without prior written consent from the Operators.
    1. to reproduce, transfer, sale, distribute or modify in any manner of all or any part of the documents, images, other content provided in the Service.
    2. to reproduce, transfer, sale, distribute or place in a downloadable format in a public place, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble in any manner of all or any part of the software used in the Service.
    3. to rent or lease of the Service.
  2. The User shall not provide the Content that includes the following material.
    1. The material which harms the industrial property rights, etc., copyright, interest, etc. of the Operators, those who operate the affiliate sites of the Service and other third parties.
    2. The material which slanders others, harms honor of the others, etc., or infringes privacy rights of others.
    3. The material which violates public order or morality.
    4. The material which leads to illegal behavior, criminal behavior and risky behavior, and/or encourages them.

Article 7. Non-guaranteed matters and disclaimers

  1. The Operators make no guarantee, in relation to the Service, express or implied, that the Service will be without defect, that it will be suitable for specific purposes, that the use of the Service will not infringe on third party rights, that use of the Service will not be interrupted, or for any other issues.
  2. The Operators shall bear no responsibility for any kind of damages (including but not limited to lost profit, disruption of business, loss of business information and other pecuniary damages) occurring as a result of, or in relation to, either the use or unavailability for use of the Service. This shall apply even if the Operators have been informed of the possibility of such damages.
  3. The Operators shall bear no responsibility for the details of the Content and any illegal or injurious action of the User arising from the Content.

Article 8. Responsibilities of the User

  1. The Operators shall use the Service at their own liability.

Article 9. Authority to delete information

  1. In cases cited below, the Operators may reserve the right, regardless of the validity of illegality of the Content or a breach of this Agreement to take measures including but not limited to the deletion of all or any part of the Content or its related information without notifying the User who supplied the Content.
    1. Cases in which a public organization or specialist identifies or expresses the opinion that there exists illegality, a violation of public order or morality, or an infringement of the rights of another person with regards to the Content.
    2. Cases in which a third party has claimed the rights to the Content.
    3. Cases in which it is judged by the Operators that the Content infringes the copyright of a third party.
    4. Cases in which the Content is the result of action in Article 6.2. of this Agreement.

Article 10. Termination and modification

  1. The Operators may terminate the Service and/or this Agreement without prior notice.
  2. The Operators may terminate the use of the Service of a User without prior notice when the User has breached the terms stipulated in this Agreement.
  3. The Operators may modify all or part of this Agreement at any time without obtaining the prior agreement of the User.
  4. It shall be deemed automatically that the User has agreed to this whole Agreement as a whole by using the Service after this Agreement is modified pursuant to the provision set forth in the preceding paragraph. However, the User may be requested to agree to the terms of the modified Agreement explicitly depending on the modification.

Article 11. Handling of personal information

  1. In using the Service, the User shall consent to Privacy Policy related to uID account which is stipulated by TRON Forum and kokosil Privacy Policy.
  2. The Operators shall use uID account information of the Users for the purposes of contacting the Users regarding the Service.
  3. The Operators use the technologies such as cookie to monitor the state of a user's Internet usage to operate and analyze the systems and services in order to improve the convenience of kokosil including its applications, web sites and servers. Also, the Operators obtain the traffic data between web browsers and servers, and use statistically anonymized data, which does not allow individual identification, for analysis.
  4. The Operators may obtain the location information of User's device to provide the service to the User. Such location information may be used on this website and application (including analysis for providing and improving the Service, etc.) in the state in which the information is statistically anonymized, which does not allow individual identification. Such location information is not presented to other Users in the state in which allows individual identification, provided to a third party other than the Operators, and sent to an external server operated by a third party on this website and application.
  5. Use of personal information for the Service not set forth in this article shall be handled pursuant to the privacy policy separately stipulated by the Operators. If there are any different provisions between Privacy Policy related to uID account and Privacy Policy separately stipulated by the Operators, Privacy Policy separately stipulated by the Operators shall govern.

Article 12. Survival Clause

  1. Article 3.3, 4 to 9 and 11 to 14 shall survive the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article 10.

Article 13. Miscellaneous rules

  1. This Agreement does not oblige the Operators to provide any kind of support (including but not limited to fixing of bugs, support and technical service by telephone, fax or e-mail, etc.) or upgrades.
  2. The formation, validity and performance of this Agreement shall be, in all aspects, governed by and interpreted under the laws of Japan.
  3. This Agreement is executed in Japanese language. This Agreement may be translated in any language other than Japanese for the purpose of reference. But the Japanese text shall govern the interpretation of this Agreement.
  4. Any dispute relating to this Agreement or the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the first instance

This agreement was created on and is effective as of April 17, 2010.
This agreement was revised on and is effective as of August 5, 2013.
This agreement was revised on and is effective as of December 4, 2013
This agreement was revised on and is effective as of October 22, 2014.