S-Court Membership Terms and Conditions

Article 1 Definition

In these Terms and Conditions, the following terms shall have the following meanings.
  1. The word “S-court” shall mean the operating company namely K.K. S-court.
  2. The word “Service(s)” shall mean all services offered on the s-court.me domain operated by S-court.
  3. The word “sign up” shall mean consent to these Terms and Conditions and using the Services.
  4. The word “User(s)” shall mean a user who signs up and uses the Services.
  5. The word “registered e-mail address” shall mean an e-mail address which is registered when User uses the Services.
  6. The word “Application Points” shall mean S-court points that can only be used for each of the applications, games, and sales websites provided by S-court.
  7. The word “Developer Points” shall mean S-court points that can be used for applications provided by application developers or sales companies.

Article 2 Terms and Conditions

  1. These Terms and Conditions shall apply to all acts of the User when using the Services provided by S-court on this site.
  2. The User confirms and agrees to the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, and shall use the Services in accordance with them.
  3. The Terms and Conditions can be modified by S-court without a prior notice to the User. After modifying the Terms and Conditions, upon using the Services, it is considered that the User has agreed to the modified Terms and Conditions.
  4. Even if there are terms and conditions provided for the individual services provided in the Services, the Terms and Conditions shall prevail unless S-court accepts an exception.

Article 3 Handling of Personal Information

The User’s Personal Information shall be handled based on the Privacy Policy separately provided by S-court.
The following describes Personal Information collected and stored by S-court and the purpose of usage, but more detail shall be described in the Privacy Policy.
  1. When you sign up as a User, S-court collects your e-mail address. S-court shall use this personal data in order to use it as a unique user ID of the service, to notify and communicate with you (such as sending an electronic receipt and notifying you of a product version upgrade upon the your request), to respond to inquiries, to enable the login of services and the browsing of personal page information, to provide paid services and to process payments, and to provide after-sales support.
  2. In addition, S-court collects information such as the phone number and will save it for further service. This is used to respond to inquiries and to provide the Services.
  3. When you receive mail services (such as user support service by mail or event ticket mail service), S-court collects, stores and uses information such as addresses. This is used for shipping if a shipment is required.
  4. When you use the Services, S-court collects and stores the history of purchase, the access and the IP address. These are used for managing the purchase status of products for enabling you to confirm the history of purchase and returns by logging in to a personal account and providing after-sales support to you. In addition, the history of purchase and usage will be used for statistical work in a form that does not identify individuals.
  5. S-court uses Cookie to collect the session ID of your equipment and will store and use the ID for managing access individually, storing login status, items in the cart, language settings and enabling the auto login function. If you agree to use the Cookie or want to use the auto login function, these facts are also stored in the Cookie. The session ID management starts after the consent is made for using Cookie.
  6. S-Court will not store your credit card information (including the credit card number).

Article 4 Confidentiality

S-court will protect the confidentiality of the User’s communications. However, S-court will not be obliged to maintain the confidentiality thereof, if S-court decides the data to be necessary for criminal investigations and so on.

Article 5 Sign up

In order to sign up to the Services, it is necessary to meet all of the following requirements.
  1. To agree to these Terms of Conditions.
  2. To confirm and agree to the Privacy Policy.
In addition to the above, if S-court determines that there are reasons of refusal, S-court may refuse the signing up at its discretion.

Article 6 Withdrawal

  1. The User may withdraw its registration as a User in line with the procedures set forth by S-court.
  2. If the User withdraws its registration as a User, the User will not be able to use any of the Services.
  3. S-court will not refund any fees for paid contents at the time of withdrawal.
  4. Even if a user signs up again after withdrawal, it is assumed that the user cannot restore all of the data which the user has owned before withdrawal.
  5. S-court may temporarily suspend the User’s use of the Services or force the User to withdraw from the Services if the User makes an illegal act, acts in contrary to these Terms and Conditions, interferes with the operation of S-court, becomes a nuisance to other Users or has registered with false information.
  6. The User does not need to pay any fees for withdrawal.

Article 7 Registered e-mail address

  1. The e-mail address registered when using the Services must be usable to communicate with the User. S-court may send e-mails to User's registered e-mail address.
  2. E-mail from S-court shall be deemed to be received when it has been sent to the registered e-mail address.

Article 8 Account

  1. Unless S-court approves exceptions, the User can own only one account per person.
  2. S-court does not take any responsibility for any damages that may occur if the account is used by a third party.
  3. The User shall make a reasonable effort to prevent the account from being used by a third party.
  4. The account cannot be transferred to another person.
  5. The User cannot falsify its registration information and shall not impersonate others.
  6. If the User uses a guest account (ID including @guest), S-Court will not provide support services regarding loss or leakage of your account information and will not recover your S-court account or S-court points.

Article 9 Connectivity maintenance

S-court shall not be liable for any problems or malfunctions caused by the User's computers, internet connection and/or software other than those provided through the Services.

Article 10 Posting information by the User

  1. The User is solely liable for posting and uploading of information through the Services. S-court shall not be liable for any problems caused by information posted by the User.
  2. S-court may delete information posted by the User without any notice. Also, S-court has no obligation to protect the information posted by the User.
  3. If disputes or problems occur with other users or third parties due to posting of information by the User, the User shall be obligated to resolve the disputes and problems.
  4. The User shall not post any contents which infringe copyrights, trademark rights, intellectual property rights, or privacy of others regarding any element such as text or images.
  5. The User shall not post any contents that correspond to its own or another person’s Personal Information.
  6. The User shall not post any contents that leads to crime.
  7. The User shall not send out any image data which gives excessive discomfort to others, such as a photograph of a corpse or abuse or grotesque image.

Article 11 Fees and S-court points

There are no fees to sign up and register with the Services, provided however that the User shall bear its own communication charges. S-court Points are the common currencies available on the Services. S-court Points are valid for 6 months and will expire thereafter, based on the number of charge points. S-court points will be consumed from those with short expiration dates. Expiration dates will be counted from the day after the charge day. Even if the expiration date remains, if the User withdraws or the service is abolished, all S-court points shall be forfeited. S-court points can be categorized to “Developer Points” which can be used only for applications provided by application developers or sales companies, "Application Points" which can only be used for each of the specified applications, games, and sales websites provided by S-court, and “S-court Points” which can be used in all S-court services.

Article 12 Disclaimer

  1. S-court shall not be liable for any damages or losses caused to the User even if a failure (including but not limited to communication failure or failure of S-court’s server) occurs due to excessive access or any other factors and the User cannot assert any compensation for any damages or losses against S-court regarding the matters above.
  2. S-court shall not be liable for any problems, damages, losses, etc. (including but not limited to the disappearance of points) that occur or are caused by procedures such as suspension of use and forced withdrawal and the User cannot assert any compensation for any damages or losses against S-court regarding such procedures.
  3. S-court is entitled to view and store the information sent by the User. Also, if S-court decides necessary, the stored data can be disclosed to third parties.
  4. S-court shall not be liable to Users for any modification or stop of the Services.
  5. S-court shall not be liable to Users for damages caused by loss of a guest account (ID including @guest) or loss of S-court points.

Article 13 Changes and stop of the Services

S-court reserves the right to stop, change and abolish the Services at any time without any prior notice to the User. If there is a description entitled “Terms and Conditions” other than this Terms and Conditions page (s-court.me) and if there are any differences between them, this Terms and Conditions page (s-court.me) shall prevail.

Article 14 Governing Law and Jurisdiction and others

  1. If this English Version of S-Court Membership Terms and Conditions does not conform to the Japanese Version thereof, the Japanese version shall prevail. The Terms and Conditions and the Services shall be governed by the laws of Japan.
  2. The User and S-court agree that if there is a need for a lawsuit between the User and S-court, the Tokyo District Court of Tokyo, Japan shall be the exclusive jurisdiction court of the first instance.
Established on September 30, 2013
Revised on May 30, 2014
Revised on July 14, 2014
Revised on November 25, 2014
Revised on February 24, 2016
Revised on July 05, 2019
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Privacy Policy

1.Introduction

K.K. S-court recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal data. We have instituted strict policies and security measures to protect the information to be provided by you who signs up as a user (“User”) of the services provided at our website of s-court.me (“Services”).

2.Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data.

The Japanse company K.K. S-court (“S-court”) is the controller of your personal data. As stated below, S-court may share your personal data with its selected suppliers in order to provide services together with other companies or in order to have your personal data processed on S-court’s behalf.
If you have any questions, please make inquiries using the contact request form.

K.K. S-court
202 Wabe-Suzu, 1-16-4, Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-0022 Japan

3.Types of data processed, purpose and legal basis for processing

If you wish to become a User to use the Services, it is necessary to sign up as a User of the Services in accordance with S-court Membership Terms and Conditions.
  1. When you sign up as a User, S-court collects your e-mail address. S-court shall use this personal data in order to use it as a unique user ID of the service, to notify and communicate with the User (such as sending an electronic receipt and notifying the User of a product version upgrade upon the User’s request), to respond to inquiries, to enable the login of services and the browsing of personal page information, to provide paid services and to process payments, and to provide after-sales support. The legal basis of such use is that the processing is necessary in order for us to be able to fulfill our contractual obligations to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage.
  2. In addition, S-court collects information such as the phone number and will save it for further service. This is used to respond to inquiries and to provide the Services. The legal basis of such use is that the processing is necessary in order for us to be able to fulfill our contractual obligations to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage.
  3. When the User receives mail services (such as user support service by mail or event ticket mail service), S-court collects, stores and uses information such as addresses. This is used for shipping if a shipment is required. The legal basis of such use is that the processing is necessary in order for us to be able to fulfill our contractual obligations to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage.
  4. When the User uses the Services, S-court collects and stores the history of purchase, the access and the IP address. These are used for managing the purchase status of products for enabling Users to confirm the history of purchase and returns by logging in to a personal account and providing after-sales support to the Users. The legal basis of such use is that the processing is necessary in order for us to be able to fulfill our contractual obligations to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage. In addition, the history of purchase and usage will be used for statistical work in a form that does not identify individuals. The legal basis with regard to this processing is our legitimate interests in providing more convenient services to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage.
  5. S-court uses Cookie to collect the session ID of the user equipment and will store and use the ID for managing access individually, storing login status, items in the cart, language settings and enabling the auto login function. The legal basis of such use is that it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to the User and also that the User agrees to this usage. If the User agrees to use the Cookie or wants to use the auto login function, these facts are also stored in the Cookie. The session ID management starts after the consent is made for using Cookie.
  6. S-Court will not store the User’s credit card information (including the credit card number).

4.Disclosure and sharing of User’s personal data

S-court will not disclose the User’s personal data to third parties. However, S-court shall not be obliged to maintain confidentiality if S-court decides the data to be necessary for criminal investigations.
S-court may also share your data with selected suppliers who perform functions on our behalf such as fulfilling orders, downloading the products, processing payments, data management, to maintain our website, to distribute e-mails, to provide client communications and to manage our customer database. These will be made solely on S-court’s behalf and in accordance with S-court’s instructions. We do not authorize any of our suppliers to make any other use of the User’s personal data.

5.Protection of your data / Transfer outside of the EU/EES

  1. S-court will protect your data by adequate means (including the following items).
  2. S-court may share your data with our selected suppliers, who may process your data in countries both inside and outside of the EU/EES. However, S-court has taken appropriate safeguards to ensure that the receiving parties of your data in countries outside of the EU/EES shall provide an adequate protection of your data (including the following items).
    1. Your personal information shall be encrypted and communicated by SSL technology.
    2. Your data shall be encrypted as much as possible, except for information which must be used immediately to respond to your queries. Passwords will be irreversibly converted so that it cannot be known by anyone (including operators or developers).

6.Your data subject rights

You have your data subject rights to request access (including obtaining a copy of your data), rectification, erasure of your personal data and so on. You may withdraw your consent for processing of your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, however, it is not possible for us to provide you with the Services.

7.Duration for keeping your data

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary in relation to the purposes for which the data was collected or otherwise processed and we will destroy your personal data if it is no longer needed. In addition, we may maintain user data in order to comply with applicable legal obligations.

8.Necessity of Personal Data

When you sign up as a User with S-court in purchasing our products online, we will inform you which data is mandatory by marking certain fields with a symbol (*). The provision of mandatory data is necessary for S-sourt to be able to fulfill our contractual obligation to you, for example processing your order.

9.Children's privacy and legal purchase age

S-court does not intend that anyone under the age of eighteen (18) signs up as a User or uses the Services. If you are under twenty (20), we require that you inform and get your parents’ or guardians’ consent before purchasing anything or provide any personal data to us.

10.Modifications and others

If this English Version of the Privacy Policy does not conform to the Japanese Version thereof, the Japanese version shall prevail.
S-court reserves the right to occasionally make changes to this Privacy Policy. We will post the updated policy on our website.
Last date for modification: April 2019
Established on September 30, 2013
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