General Rules

These terms (Hereby referred to as the "Terms of Use" or "This Document") constitute an agreement with FC2, Inc (Hereby referred to as "FC2") and all concerned, in relation to FC2ID and all FC2 Services (Hereby referred to as "Our Service(s)" or "FC2 Service(s)"), to make our operation methods more clear and efficient.
When using Our Services, you automatically agree to our guidelines, and agree to the Terms of Use that display when registering to each individual service.
Those wishing to use Our Services, consent to the terms within This Document when applying to register. Those registered to use an FC2ID (Hereby referred to as or "Member(s)"), or all those (including Members) who potentially use any of Our Services (Hereby referred to as "User(s)") consent to holding full liability.

Fundamental Guidelines

1. Privacy Policy

Please refer here to see our Privacy Policy

2. Using Our Services.

1. FC2ID Application and Consent
   An FC2ID application constitutes FC2 lending a UserID and password, necessary for use of Our Service. However, in the event that information supplied by the User during application contains falsehoods, or in the event that FC2 concludes that a User's use of FC2ID is inappropriate, FC2 retains the right to cancel any Members' FC2ID. FC2 is not obligated to notify the Member about the cancellation.
   
2. Notice and Contact
   FC2 will notify users about necessary information, in a matter FC2 considers appropriate, including through our website or e-mail etc.。 When such notices are sent by email or over our website, they may come into effect from the point they were sent. Users do not retain any right to refuse emails from FC2, and Users are obligated to inform us of any change in contact email address, immediately. Users acknowledge that FC2 does not accept contact by phone, fax or visitation. All notices which require replies must be replied to within one week. If FC2 does not receive a confirmed reply within this period, FC2 retains the right to freeze and/or cancel Users' account(s).
   
3. Registered E-mail Address, User ID and Password
   Users are held fully responsible for their registered email addresses, User Ids and Passwords. By applying, Users agree that FC2 cannot be held accountable for any loss or damage caused by a User's mistake and/or inproper use by a third party. Furthermore, FC2 is not obligated to reissue Users' email address, User ID or password.
   
4. Transfer/Sale of Service Privileges
   Users are in no way permitted to sell, transfer or loan their service privileges to a third party without expressed approval from FC2.
   
5. Access
   All Users are required to have Internet access in order to use FC2 services. This Internet access will need to be installed and maintained at the User's own expense. FC2 is in no way responsible for arranging Internet access for Users.
   
6. Traffic and Domain
   FC2 retains the right to set and alter limitations to file sizes, savable domain space, and data transfer on its services, where otherwise undefined, and may do so at our own discretion.
   
7. User Content
   Members retain copyright and other privileges for all original, accessible information and creations on forums, blogs, websites and other FC2 services that they themselves create (Hereby referred to as "User Content" or "Content"). All User Content may be used, edited, translated, published, performed, presented, promoted or distributed by FC2 unconditionally. This is essential for the continual running of FC2 Services. Users express their consent by agreeing to these Terms of Use.
   
8. Third Party Contents
   Users and/or Members may use, trade or download software from third party individual or business services when using Our Services. In this case the User must have permission or an agreement with the third party, separate from This Document. This Document has no legal affect on said separate agreement.
   

3. Pay-for-use Services and FC2 Points

Users who use FC2 Pay-for-use Services (Hereby referred to as "Pay Service(s)") and/or FC2 Points, agree to the"FC2 Point Terms of Use" (also referred to as the "FC2 Pay Services Terms of Use").

4. Prohibited Conduct and Bans

1. FC2 expressly prohibits the following conduct on Our Services. FC2 retains the right to ban, without warning, any User who has engaged in prohibited acts or conduct; and may demand compensation or reparations from any User who caused any form of damage to FC2 or a third party. Also, FC2 Pay Services may be terminated without any repayment of the remaining contract period.
   Please refer here to see our Copyright Guideline.
   
   1. Breaching the trust of, or defaming other Users or third parties.Infringing others' Privacy rights, Image rights etc.
      
   2. Infringing on other Users' and/or third parties' industrial property rights (patents, trademarks etc.), copyright, trade secrets and/or intellectual property rights.
      
   3. Uploading or posting unlawful content, and/or supporting illegal activity.
      
   4. Maintaining content which violates local, regional, national, or international law; in particular that which violates Japanese or US law.
      
   5. Depictions and/or conduct that go against public order or are immoral. Publishing and/or releasing vulgarities, in the form of video, audio, image, text etc. against other Users and/or third parties; or assisting in such an act.
      
   6. Hindering, interfering with, disturbing or blocking the use of Our Services to other Users, or engaging in conduct or performing actions which cause difficulty for others; or assisting in such an act.
      
   7. Engaging in discrimination against individuals, specific groups, government organizations, nations, products, political administrations, religions, ideas, ideologies etc. ; or engaging in slander or libel or any similar act that causes defamation to others; or assisting in such an act.
      
   8. Claiming to be another individual, business or organization, regardless of whether or not such an entity actually exists; and/or falsely claiming to be partners and/or in collaboration with an organization or business; or other such acts.
      
   9. Publishing or posting defamatory content or information which could potentially lead to damages to FC2 or FC2's business partner(s).
      
   10. Violating another's privacy rights by posting or publishing private information about that individual, or violating another individual's image rights.
       
   11. Acting in such a way as to place burden on FC2's server(s); disrupting, damaging, limiting or interfering with FC2's or others' computer software, hardware capabilities etc. or assisting in such an act.
       
   12. Posting the same, or similar, post or comment repeatedly. Spamming and/or trolling or other such acts.
   13. Engaging in conduct which is detrimental to the healthy development of, or causes harm to minors (child pornography, bestiality, obscenity, sending or posting violent images or text ), or anything that promotes or assists such conduct.
       
   14. Giving advanced notice of crimes or of actions leading to crime, or posting threatening information which can be viewed by an unspecified number of people.
       
   15. Using Our Service(s) as a medium to do illegal business.
       
   16. Establishing or recruiting people into pyramid schemes or other similar acts.
       
   17. Selling or attempting to sell Our Service(s) to a third party.
       
   18. Using, registering or upgrading mass amounts of software or programs, causing high access, and preventing our service from operating as intended.
       
   19. Deleting or concealing FC2's advertising apace, or altering the position, color, size, code or other such properties of advertisements.
   20. Engaging in any other action which FC2 deems to be inappropriate.
       
2. Users are forbidden to publish or post any of the following kinds of text, image, music, video etc.
   
   1. violates any third party's ownership, copyright, intellectual property right, trademark right or publicity right. Even in the event that such data is set as private or limited in its Exposure Settings, applicable data is considered a violation the moment it arrives on FC2 Server(s).
      
   2. Content, including music and images, that a third party owns the property rights, copyright, intellectual property right, trademark or publicity rights to.
      
   3. Content which violates another's privacy and/or image rights.
      
   4. Defamatory or libelous content.
      
   5. Immoral or obscene content. Content which goes against public order.
      
   6. Content that contains excessive solicitation into religion, excessive advertising or unscrupulous business methods, such as fraud.
      
   7. Discriminatory content based on race, religion, ethnicity or gender.
      
   8. Content that facilitates and/or supports criminal activity, including but not restricted to vandalism, suicide, illegal drug use, burglary etc.
      
   9. Violent and/or obscene content.
      
   10. Child pornography, child prostitution or similar content.
       
3. Any other content which FC2 deems to be inappropriate. FC2 retains the right to deem what counts as a violation.
   
4. Pay Service Guidelines
   
   1. Members who have been deemed to have violated the Terms of Service and have their accounts frozen or canceled, will also have their contracts canceled. Even if this occurs before a contract is due to finish, the remaining money will not be refunded.
      
   2. If a User(s) uses Our Service(s) maliciously or takes advantage of a system malfunction to commit violations; or uses Our Service(s) inappropriately, in such a manner that FC2 loses money, FC2 may demand financial restitution from the corresponding User(s) based on the damages inflicted.
      

5. Limitation of Liability

FC2 takes absolutely no responsibility for any of the following.

1. FC2 is in no way liable or responsible for content that users create themselves on Our Service(s) (Hereby referred to as "User Content" or "Content".) Users retain full statutory liability, including any and all court costs or damage payments due to their User Content. Also, content violating Japanese or US laws and/or regulations, as well as violating others' privacy or intellectual property rights; or libelous, defamatory or intimidatory content; and/or immoral or obscene content is the full responsibility of the User to delete swiftly. FC2 does not take responsibility for any User Content, and is not responsible to Users or third parties whatsoever.
   
2. FC2 also does not guarantee the continuation of any of Our Service(s) whatsoever. FC2 retains the right to discontinue any or all of our services without forewarning, or to convert previously free services into pay services. (We will endeavor to continue services, but may not be able to due to unforeseen circumstances.) FC2 also retains the right to deny use, without forewarning, in particular cases. Please use Our Services with a full understanding of these Terms of Use.
   
3. FC2 cannot be held accountable for any trouble you experience during use of Our Service(s). Users are responsible for managing their content. As such, if Users are in anyway harmed or experience damage or loss due to another User's Content FC2 is in no way responsible for compensation. This is especially true for Users engaged in business, who are obligated to explicitly specify the contractual relationship between themselves and other Users. All Users engaged in business, using FC2 Service(s), must attempt to prevent or resolve any potential or resulting issues between themselves and others.
   
4. FC2 is not obligated to monitor or delete User Contents. Users retain all responsibility for all their Content. FC2 is not accountable for any damage or loss caused to Users or third parties due to any such Content.
   
5. In such cases where a User is harming or causing damage to other Users and/or third parties; FC2 retains the right to delete and/or freeze the applicable User's ID and/or Contents, without forewarning, and at FC2's own discretion.
   
6. FC2 will not disclose any personal information that Members/Users present us, such as your address, name, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, etc. (Hereby referred to as "Personal Information") to other Users or third parties without the consent of the User. However, in the following cases FC2 retains the right to disclose Personal Information to third parties.
   
   1. Public institutions such as courts or the police, lawfully appeal for an inquiry.
      
   2. There appears to be imminent danger to a person's life, physical wellbeing, and/or property; and FC2 finds an urgent need to disclose the information.
      
   3. The sharing or disclosure of information is found to be necessary by FC2, in order to provide desired Service(s).
      
   4. FC2 finds it necessary to disclose the information to other company(s) working with us, to better provide Service(s) to Users. (Such companies may not use Users' Personal Information, that FC2 provides them, in anyway that exceeds what is necessary to reach the intention stated above.)
      
   5. FC2 finds it necessary to disclose such information in order to protect FC2's legal rights, property and/or Service(s); due to actions or conduct conducted by a User in violation of these Terms of Use.
      
7. FC2 accepts no responsibility for any damage or losses incurred to Users accessing external links posted on FC2's site or in a User's Content. All Users must acknowledge that FC2 can not be held accountable for the security, validity, integrity or accuracy of the information on any external sites.
   
8. In the case that a User creates merchandise and/or other salable Content which violates the Terms of Use, FC2 takes no responsibility for the freezing of the offending User's contents or the refunding of money to purchasers.
   
9. FC2 takes no responsibility for any damages or losses incurred from Users using Our Service(s), Users not be able to use Our Service(s) or Users not using Our Service(s).
   

6. Withdrawal

1. Users can terminate using FC2 Services and withdraw from FC2 membership in accordance with Terms of Use in the way FC2 specified.
   
2. When you withdraw from FC2ID, you will lose any and all rights such as to use all FC2 Services including getting prizes in campaigns by FC2.
   
3. Your FC2 Points will become invalid when you withdraw from FC2ID and, FC2 is unable to support any refunds or converting of FC2 Points.
   

7. These Terms of Use

1. This Document is translated version of the original Terms of Use (the Japanese version). All Users agree and acknowledge that the original Japanese version is legally binding.
   
2. If there is any difference or a contradiction between This Document and the original Japanese version, the the original Japanese version will be given priority.
   

8. Discontinuation of FC2 Service(s)

1. FC2 retains the right to modify Our Service(s) without forewarning Users.
   
2. FC2 may also, due to maintenance, system restoration, power failure, natural disaster or any other Force Majeure; permanently or temporarily discontinue any number of Our Service(s). In such cases we will attempt to notify Users beforehand; but in emergencies we may not be able to.
   
3. FC2 retains the right to modify Service(s), or partially or completely discontinue Service(s) at FC2's discretion, at any time FC2 deems appropriate. When or after a Service(s) is discontinued or erased, FC2 retains the right to deem whether or not to erase all posted data on FC2 servers (or third party servers used by FC2).
   
4. FC2 is not liable to any Users, and is not responsible for any damages or losses incurred due to the discontinuation of Our Service(s) for any reason.
   

9. Guarantee Limitations

FC2 will always try as hard as possible to maintain stability in Our Service(s), business practices, use and effects of use. However, FC2 does not guarantee any of the following.

1. Continual operation. Operation of Service(s) without interruption.
   
2. Total or complete recovery or restoration of any Service(s) that experiences a defect or bug.
   
3. That destructive and/or malicious components such as computer viruses do not exist within Our Service(s).
   
4. Security offer to secure constant service operation and nonexistence of destructive constituents.
   
5. Provision of security methods to secure against the above 3 items.

10. Exemptions (Force Majeure)

FC2 can not be held accountable for not meeting, or being delayed in fulfilling it's obligations in these Terms of Use, in the case of natural disasters, inaction by authorities, fire, strike, flood, pandemic, violence, acts of war or other such circumstances which are reasonably beyond the powers of FC2 to control.

11. Disputes

1. The laws of Nevada, USA are applied to these Terms of Use.
   
2. Any disputes resulting from the use of Our Service(s), will be resolved through arbitrary proceedings recognized by the state of Nevada.
   
3. If a resolution cannot be made through arbitration, a Nevada State District Court receives exclusive jurisdiction rights.
   
4. The parties concerned are responsible for their own legal costs in court and arbitration.
   
5. If any clauses in This Document are found to be invalid, or otherwise non-binding, by a court; all other clauses will still remain as valid and binding.
   

12. Advertising

1. All business relating to placing advertising on Our Service(s) is the responsibility of Users and corresponding advertisers. FC2 holds no responsibility for any losses or damages suffered, due to the posting of advertising on Our Service(s).
   
2. FC2 may modify advertising space, position and/or display duration without forewarning. Users agree to and acknowledge this.
   

13. Revision of our Terms of Use

1. FC2 retains the right to alter or revise these Terms of Use at any time, as FC2 deems necessary, without the consent of Users.
2. New stipulations in a revised Terms of Use will come into effect immediately after the Terms of Use have been posted onto the web.
   

The FC2 Clap Terms of Use constitute a part of the FC2 Terms of Use. The FC2 Clap Terms of Use (Hereby also referred to as "This Document") and the "Fundamental Guidelines" section of the FC2 Terms of Use apply to the use of the FC2 Clap service.

FC2 Clap Guidelines

1. User Provisions

Users acknowledge and agree to the terms set by these Terms of Use when using the FC2 Clap Service. In order to qualify to use This Service, Users must reach the following requirements.

1. Users must have read these Terms of Use and observe its stipulations.
   
2. Users must not include falsehoods when applying for This Service.
   
3. Users must not include falsehoods in any data or information provided to FC2 from the beginning of use.
   
4. Users must have never been banned from FC2 before.
   
5. Users must be planning on maintaining a healthy and courteous relationship with FC2.
   

2. Prohibited Conduct and Bans

Users may not engage in any conduct or commit any acts prohibited by the Fundamental Guidelines, or any corresponding suspected act. Users are also prohibited from any of the following activity.

1. Publishing, posting, or releasing falsehoods or anything that could potentially be misunderstood.
   
2. Posting, publishing or releasing third parties' private Personal Information, such as names, addresses, email address, phone number etc.
   
3. Hindering, damaging, destroying or interfering with the normal operation of FC2's communication system(s), FC2 Clap's network system(s) and/or communications infrastructure.
   
4. Engaging in any other action which FC2 deems to be inappropriate conduct as a FC2 Clap User.
   

3. Discontinuing the Service

1. When a User wishes to discontinue use of the FC2 Clap Service they may do so from the FC2ID management screen.
   
2. Users relinquish responsibility under the FC2 Clap Terms of Use, only once said User has completed the process of service discontinuation.
   

4. Amendments to the Terms of Use

1. All Users of FC2 Clap acknowledge and accept any and all amendments, changes and revisions to This Document as they occur.