FC2 Terms of Use

General Rules

The FC2 Terms of Use (these terms of use) are agreement between the FC2, Inc (FC2) and all users including members (you) regarding use of each FC2 service (this service) and FC2ID. These terms of use were established in order to make operation of this service clear and efficient. Before you start using this service, you must agree to the basic guidelines. To use other services, you must also agree to the terms of use which are shown when registering. The purpose of these Terms of Use is to promote a set of rules which all members and users must adhere to.

Basic Guidelines

1. Privacy Policy
Please see for Plivacy Policy.
2. Use of Services
  1. Registration for FC2ID
    Before using this service, you must agree to these terms of use and apply for use of the FC2ID (ID). Both ID registrants (members, you) and general users with no ID (users, you) must use this service on their own responsibility.
  2. Use of FC2ID
    You will be assigned a User ID and a password upon the completion of registration process for FC2ID. Please understand that you must not provide us information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete. If you provide false information or if FC2 concludes that you should be refused to use FC2ID, your account may be terminated even after registration has been accepted. In such case, FC2 does not have an obligation to notify you about the termination.
  3. Communications
    FC2 may periodically inform of updates or changes through our website or e-mail. Such notification comes into effect when posted on the web or sent to members. FC2 members cannot reject notifications through e-mail and have to let us know when there is a change to e-mail address. Should you have any concerns or questions, please email us. However, we do not accept any contact via phone, FAX or visitations.
  4. Registered E-mail Address, User ID and Password
    You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your e-mail address, user ID and password. FC2 will not be liable for any losses or damages
    arising form your failure to comply with this requirement. FC2 will not be responsible for reissuing e-mail address, user ID or password either.
  5. No Resale of Service
    You must agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the service, use of the service, or access to the service without permission from FC2.
  6. Requirements
    You need to access to the internet in order to use FC2ID. FC2 will not be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred from the use of Internet.
  7. Correspondence and Transmissions
    You acknowledge and agree that while FC2 may not currently have set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through the services or on the amount of storage space used for the provision of any service, such fixed upper limits may be set by FC2 at any time, at FC2's discretion.
  8. Users' Creations
    You retain copyrights and any other rights for all the things you have created (contents) on or through their sites such as BBS or blog. By submitting, posting or displaying the contents, you give FC2 an absolute license to edit, translate, publish, perform, publicly display, promote or distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. You understand such a license is crucial for FC2 in order to run its services.
  9. Contents Offered by a Third-Party Company
    When you use this service, you may sometimes use a service offered by another person or company, purchase goods or download a piece of software. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. These terms do not affect your legal relationship with other companies or individuals.
3. Pay services and FC2 points
Before you use FC2 pay services and FC2 points, you must agree to the 'FC2 point terms of use'.
4. Bans
  1. The following is strictly prohibited. If your violation is detected, your membership will be terminated without advance notice. If FC2 or a third party sustains any losses or damages, the member or user concerned is liable for the compensation. If FC2 terminates your membership because you have breached the agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees. You agree not to use FC2 services to:
    1. defame other users or any third party, or violate their privacy rights, publicity rights of portrait or any other rights.
    2. violate other users' or any third party's intellectual property rights such as industrial property rights (patent rights, trademark rights), copyrights or business secrets.
    3. post and show anything that is against laws or solicit or encourage illegal acts.
    4. be against regional, local, national or international, especially Japanese and US laws.
    5. be against public order and decency. You may not show other users and any third party obscene images, pictures, sounds, character strings or encourage such conduct.
    6. disrupt running and offer of FC2 services or other users' or users' use of FC2 services. You may not do or encourage anything that could be troubles to FC2 services, members or users either.
    7. discriminate any particular individual, group, government organs, nation, product, political system, faith, ideology, doctrine or others. You may not do or encourage these kinds of conducts either.
    8. impersonate any person or entity. You may not falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or an entity.
    9. post or show messages or comments on an individual's privacy or violate anyone's publicity right of portrait.
    10. disrupt, damage or put restrictions on functions of FC2's or other user' computer software/hardware or others, or encourage these kinds of conducts.
    11. upload, copy, post, email, or otherwise transmit any unsolicited contents continuously or repeatedly.
    12. send or show child pornography, bestiality contents or obscene or violent text or images. You may not encourage these kinds of conducts either.
    13. do anything unlawful or illegal business through this service.
    14. build a pyramid scheme or any other form of solicitation.
    15. resell this service to any third party.
    16. disrupt our communications system, networks, communication infrastructure for the normal operation.
    17. remove or hide FC2 ad spaces or make a change to its position, color, size or ad display code.
    18. do anything considered inappropriate..
  2. Whether you are violating these terms or not depends on our judgment.
5. Limitation of Liability
FC2 is not liable for the following.
  1. All users including members (you) agree and acknowledge that they are liable for all the contents (user contents) they create through this service, compensation for damages or lawsuit costs arising from their use of our services. You are not allowed to post anything that is against Japanese or US laws or ordinaces, defames or harasses other people, violates other peoples' intellectual property rights or privacy rights or goes against public order and decency.If you should ever post these kinds of contents, you must promptly remove them. We do not garantee any user contents and do not take on responsibility to members, users or any third party.
  2. You understand and agree that FC2 may discontinue or change its free services with or without advance notice. A service itself may be discontinued suddenly, and also a free service may be changed to a pay service. (We will try to keep providing current services, however we may have to give it up as a result of unavoidable circumstances.) Also we may individually ask a user to stop using our services when we believe we have reasons to do so.
  3. FC2 is not liable for any troubles arising from your use of this service. You must be responsible for all the contents on your account. Even if a troble occurs to a member or a visitor to your site, we are not liable for compensation for damages or others. Especially if you are running a commercial site, you must clearly state your liability to users. You must prevent and deal with troubles all by yourself.
  4. FC2 has no obligation to monitor or delete user contents. It is you who is responsible for all the contents on your site. Therefore FC2 is not liable for any losses or damages you or any third party sustains due to those contents.
  5. FC2 may delete your ID or contents without any notice if we believe they get in the way of other members or users.
  6. FC2 does not share, sell or rent any of your information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or fax number (personal information) without your approval, except under following conditions:
    1. For judical reasons or police investigation.
    2. When we believe it is necessary in order to protect human life or property in emergency situations.
    3. When we believe it is necessary in order to provide or enhance a service.
    4. FC2 may share personal information with trusted third party contractors and service providers who work on behalf of FC2 under confidentiality agreements. FC2 does not grant these third parties any independent right to share your information.
    5. When we need to share personal information to enforce the FC2 terms of use or to protect our rights, property or services from violators
  7. The FC2 services may include hyperlinks to other websites or contents or resources. You acknowledge and agree that FC2 is not liable for any losses or damages which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources.
  8. FC2 is not liable for any losses or damages caused by your use or nonuse of our services.
6. The Language for These Terms of Use
  1. These terms of use are a translated version of the original one (the Japanese version). You agree that the original version is legally effective.
  2. When there is a difference or a contradiction between them, the original version comes before the translated version.
7. Discontinuance of Services
  1. FC2 reserves the right to make any changes to its services without advance notice to members and users.
  2. FC2 reserves the right to discontinue its services due to maintenance or restoration works, uncontrollable reasons such as power failure or natural disasters or other reasons. If that should happen, we inform members and users on the web. But not when it is urgent and impossible to do so.
  3. FC2 reserves the right to modify or discontinue or stop a part or all of its services at any time. FC2 may delete any content and information from the server. After a service is discontinued, FC2 will be entitled to delete all information in its servers.
8. Limitation of Guarantees

We will try to keep providing current services as stably as possible. However, we do not guarantee the following.

  1. Constant service operation without a stop.
  2. Complete restoration to its original status after fixing flaws within services.
  3. Nonexistence of destructive constituents such as computer viruses.
  4. Security offer to secure constant service operation and nonexistence of destructive constituents.
  5. Even if this service is discontinued, FC2 will not be liable to compensate you for any losses or damages no matter what the cause is.
9. Exemptions from Liabilities
In case of a natural disaster, authority's ommision, fire, strike, flood, epidemic, riot or war or others, FC2 or people concerned are not responsible for delay or impossibility of performance of these terms in any case.
10. Disputes
  1. The laws of state of Nevada, USA are applied to these terms of use.
  2. All disputes and complaints arising from your use of FC2 services will be resolved by intercession recognized in the state of Nevada.
  3. The disputes and complaints that are not resolved by intercession will be taken into court. In this case, a district court in the state of Nevada will have the exclusive jurisdiction for the first trial.
  4. Expenses for intercession and litigation as well as attorneys' fees must be paid by the person(s) concerned.
  5. Even though the relevant terms are voided and deemed to be impossible to enforce by court, other terms will remain valid and can be applied.
11. Promotions from Advertisers
  1. You can participate in promotions of advertisers who are using our service. Any such correspondence or promotions, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such correspondence or promotions, are solely between you and the advertiser. FC2 assumes no liability, obligation or responsibility for any part of any such correspondence or promotion.
  2. You agree that FC2 reserves the right to make changes to ad spaces, positions, periods or specs without any notice.
12. Modifications to the Terms and Provisions
  1. FC2 may change the terms of use without your approval according to our own judgment.
  2. The revised terms of use will come into effect right after it is shown on the web.

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