Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property rights

Your use of the Site and its contents grants no rights to you in relation to any copyright, designs, trademarks, and all other intellectual property and material rights relating to the Content. All such Content including third party trademarks, designs, and related intellectual property rights mentioned or displayed on this Site are protected by national intellectual property and other laws and international treaty provisions. You are permitted to use the Content only as expressly authorized by ESC. Any reproduction or redistribution of the above listed Content is prohibited and may result in civil and criminal penalties. Without limiting the foregoing, copying and use of the above listed materials to any other server, location or support for publication, reproduction or distribution is expressly prohibited. However, you are permitted to make one copy for the purposes of viewing Content for your own personal use

Content rights

In addition to the intellectual property rights mentioned above, "Content" is defined as any graphics, photographs, including all image rights, sounds, music, video, audio or text on this Site. ESC tries to ensure that the information on this site is accurate and complete. ESC does not promise that ESC’s Content is accurate or error-free. ESC does not promise that the functional aspects of the Site or ESC’s Content will be error-free or that this Site, ESC’s Content, or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We always recommend that all users of the Internet ensure they have up-to-date virus-checking software installed.
The personal opinions of the brands or production partners whose products we sell, or any third parties with whom we are associated are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of ESC and we accept no responsibility for any such views expressed in any media.

Prohibition of Commercial Use

This Site is for your personal non-commercial use only. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, commercially exploit, create derivative works from, transfer, data mine, or sell any Content, software, products, or services contained within this Site. You may not use this Site, or any of its Content, to further any commercial purpose, including any advertising or advertising revenue generation activity on your own site.

Ethical standards required of users of this website

You agree that you will be personally responsible for your use of this Site and for all of your communication and activity on and pursuant to this Site. If we determine that you are or have been engaged in prohibited activities, were not respectful of other users, or otherwise violated the TOS, we may deny you access to this Site on a temporary or permanent basis.

Force majeure

We are not responsible for failure to meet any of our obligations under the TOS where such failure is due to events beyond our reasonable control.

Compensation

At our request, you agree to compensate us fully, defend us, and hold us ESC harmless immediately on demand, its officers, directors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and suppliers, from and against all liabilities, claims, expenses, damages and losses, including legal fees, arising from any breach of the TOS by you, including the use by any other persons accessing this Site using your Internet account caused by your action or inaction.

No waiver

If you breach the TOS and we take no action against you, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach the TOS.

Governing law and dispute resolution

The TOS are governed by Japanese law and mandatory laws of Japan, such as the Consumer Contract Act and the Act on Specified Commercial Transaction, may apply subject to the provisions of conflict of laws. In the event of a dispute between ESC and you arising from the TOS, you and we both agree that the courts of Japan will have exclusive jurisdiction.