Terms of Service — Keisho X

1. Nature of the Service — information only, not advice

The Service provides general information about Japanese business succession (jigyō shōkei, 事業承継) and related topics. Nothing on the Service is investment, legal, tax, accounting, immigration, or other professional advice, and nothing on the Service is an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy, sell, finance, introduce, broker, or otherwise arrange any transaction.

We do not act as a securities firm, investment adviser, real estate broker, M&A intermediary, lawyer, tax accountant, or immigration consultant through the Service. Any such service would be provided only under a separate written agreement that says so.
Content may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong, and examples and market observations may not apply to your situation. Please verify information independently and consult qualified professionals before making decisions.
Submitting an inquiry or subscribing to the newsletter does not oblige us to respond, make an introduction, evaluate a transaction, or continue any relationship.
Any introduction, referral, or commercial engagement, if one occurs, will be governed by a separate written agreement, not by these Terms.

2. Fees

The Service is currently provided free of charge. If we introduce paid features, we will state their price and conditions before you buy them.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. We may refuse or restrict access if you have breached these Terms or if we reasonably consider it necessary to protect the Service or other users.

4. Intellectual property

The Service and its content, including text, design, graphics, logos, and trademarks (including “Keisho X”), are owned by Kenjin Labs合同会社 or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of Japan and other countries. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the Service for your personal or internal business information purposes.

Unless we agree in writing, or the law (for example, the quotation rules of the Copyright Act of Japan) allows it, you may not:

Copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly transmit, modify, or commercially exploit content from the Service, except short excerpts with attribution and a link that do not substitute for visiting the Service;
Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to extract content or data from the Service, other than general search engine indexing that respects robots.txt;
Remove proprietary notices, frame or mirror the Service, or use our marks in a way that suggests our endorsement;
Attempt to access source code or non-public systems, except to the extent such a restriction is not permitted by law.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them free of charge, to the extent permitted by law, without any obligation to you.

5. Information you submit

When you submit information through forms or otherwise (“Submissions”), you confirm that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge, does not infringe any law or third-party right, and does not contain malicious code. You allow Kenjin Labs合同会社 to store, use, and process Submissions to respond to you, to operate and improve the Service, and as described in our Privacy Policy. We may decline or delete Submissions that breach these Terms.

6. Prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

Use the Service for any unlawful, fraudulent, or deceptive purpose, or in a way that is contrary to public order and morals;
Interfere with or disrupt the Service, its servers, or networks, or attempt unauthorized access to any system or data;
Send spam, malware, or unsolicited promotional material through our forms;
Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, budget, authority, or intentions;
Collect personal information about other users from the Service;
Systematically copy or extract our content to build a competing service;
Breach applicable export control, sanctions, or anti-corruption laws, including the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan.

If you breach this section, we may suspend or end your access to the Service and take other steps permitted by law.

7. Third-party services and links

The Service may mention or link to third-party websites, platforms, tools, and data sources. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices. Your dealings with third parties are between you and them.

8. No professional relationship

Using the Service does not create a lawyer-client, adviser-client, fiduciary, agency, partnership, or employment relationship with Kenjin Labs合同会社. Please do not send us information you need to keep confidential under a professional privilege unless a separate written engagement covers it.

9. Disclaimer

We work to keep the Service accurate and available, but it is provided “as is.” We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, accurate, complete, or current, or that it is fit for any particular purpose. Decisions, transactions, investments, immigration steps, and negotiations you undertake are your own responsibility. This section does not limit any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including the Consumer Contract Act of Japan (消費者契約法).

10. Limitation of liability

Intent or gross negligence. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for damage caused by our intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

Other cases. Where we are liable to you for damage arising from our breach of these Terms or a tort in connection with the Service, and the damage was not caused by our intentional misconduct or gross negligence, our liability is limited to ordinary and direct damage actually incurred (excluding lost profits and damage arising from special circumstances), up to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) JPY 10,000. Because the Service is currently free, the limit in (b) will normally apply.

Where the Consumer Contract Act or other mandatory law does not permit a limitation in this section, that limitation does not apply to the extent it is not permitted.

11. Your responsibility

If you breach these Terms or the law in connection with the Service and this causes damage to us (including reasonable lawyers’ fees incurred because of a claim by a third party), you are responsible for compensating that damage to the extent permitted by law.

12. Suspension and discontinuation

We may change, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service, for example for maintenance, security, or business reasons. Where reasonably possible we will give notice on the Service in advance. Provisions that by their nature should continue (including Sections 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, and 16) continue to apply after you stop using the Service.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms when the change is in the general interest of users, or when it does not conflict with the purpose of these Terms and is reasonable in light of the need for the change, the appropriateness of the new content, and other circumstances (Article 548-4 of the Civil Code of Japan). Before a change takes effect, we will post the revised Terms and the effective date on this page. If you continue to use the Service after the effective date, the revised Terms apply.

14. Language

These Terms are written in English. We may provide a Japanese translation for convenience. If the English and Japanese versions differ, the English version governs, except where mandatory law requires otherwise.

15. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Service are governed by the laws of Japan. The Kyoto District Court (京都地方裁判所) has exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance.

If you use the Service as a consumer, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you habitually reside, or of any right to bring proceedings that cannot be waived by agreement under applicable law.

16. General

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Kenjin Labs合同会社 about the Service. A separate signed agreement with us governs its own subject matter.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the rest of these Terms remains in effect.
Assignment. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. If we transfer the business of the Service to another party (including by merger or business transfer), we may transfer our position under these Terms, and the information described in the Privacy Policy as permitted by law, to that party.
Force majeure. We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as natural disasters, network outages, or acts of government.
Notices. We may give notices by posting them on the Service or by email. You may contact us as described below.

17. Contact

For questions about these Terms or legal notices regarding Keisho X, email [email protected] or use the contact form.

Operator: Kenjin Labs合同会社, 23-7 Umezu Nishiurachō, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 615-0917, Japan.