Terms of Service

These Terms set forth the conditions of use of the Service and apply to all relationships between the Company and Users in connection with the use of the Service. In the event that there are guidelines, policies, or individual terms separately stipulated by the Company with respect to the Service (collectively, "Individual Terms"), such Individual Terms shall constitute a part of these Terms. If there is any inconsistency or conflict between these Terms and any Individual Terms, the provisions of the Individual Terms shall prevail unless otherwise expressly provided.

The terms used in these Terms shall have the meanings set forth below.

1. "Service" means the SaaS service "PUBVOICE" provided by the Company that converts website article content into audio content for delivery.
2. "User" means any corporation or individual that applies for the use of the Service upon agreeing to these Terms and whose application is approved by the Company.
3. "Administrator" means a User who is granted authority within the Service to invite team members, configure roles, and manage accounts.
4. "Content" means any and all data, including text, audio, images, and other information, that is registered by the User through the Service or generated by the Service.
5. "Intellectual Property Rights" means copyrights, patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, and rights relating thereto, as well as any other similar rights.

1. A person who wishes to use the Service shall apply for use of the Service by registering, in the manner prescribed by the Company, the information designated by the Company, including corporate name, contact person, and contact details, after agreeing to these Terms.
2. Upon reviewing the application under the preceding paragraph, the Company shall, if it approves, issue an account for the Service to such applicant. At the time the Company gives such approval, a service agreement (the "Service Agreement") for the use of the Service shall be deemed to have been executed between the Company and the applicant.
3. The Company may decline to approve an application for user registration if it determines that any of the following items applies:
   1. if it is found that false information has been provided;
   2. if the applicant has previously been subject to suspension of use or other similar measures due to a breach of a service agreement for the Service or any other services provided by the Company;
   3. if the applicant is an antisocial force or has any relationship with antisocial forces; or
   4. if the Company otherwise deems the applicant inappropriate for the use of the Service.
4. If an applicant is a minor, the applicant shall apply for use of the Service after obtaining the consent of a parent or other legal representative.

1. The User shall, at its own responsibility, properly manage and store the account ID and password for the Service and any other authentication information such as OAuth credentials, and shall not allow any third party to use them, or transfer, assign, sell, lend, or pledge them.
2. The Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred by the User due to insufficient management of the account ID or password, misuse, or use by a third party, except where such damage is caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence.
3. If the User becomes aware that its account ID or password has been or may be used by a third party, the User shall immediately notify the Company thereof and follow the Company's instructions, if any.

1. The Company provides the functions of the Service, including generating audio content using AI and other technologies based on article content obtained via RSS feeds or other means registered by the User, and providing an audio player that can be embedded into the User's website.
2. The Company may, without prior notice to the User, add, modify, or discontinue all or part of the contents of the Service. However, if the Company makes any change that materially affects the core of the Service, the Company shall endeavor to give the User prior notice by a reasonable method.
3. In providing the Service, the Company may use external services, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and other third-party services, and the User hereby agrees to such use.
4. When registering or linking content from external platforms to the Service, the User shall comply with the applicable terms of use of such platforms, technical restrictions (including robots.txt), and applicable laws and regulations.

1. The fees, billing units, character counts subject to billing, and other conditions for paid plans of the Service shall be in accordance with the fee schedule separately determined by the Company and the descriptions on the Service website.
2. The User shall pay the fees in the preceding paragraph, by the payment method designated by the Company (including credit card payment, invoice payment, or any other method approved by the Company) by the due date specified by the Company.
3. Any dispute between the User and a payment service provider shall be resolved between the User and such provider, and the Company shall not be liable therefor.
4. If the User delays payment of any fees, the User shall pay to the Company a late payment charge at the rate of 14.6% per annum from the day following the due date until the date of full payment.
5. The Service Agreement for a paid plan shall be automatically renewed for the same terms upon the expiration of each period. The Company shall automatically bill and charge the fees for each period on the first day of such period (in the case of the first period, upon completion of the contract) through the payment service provider designated by the Company.
6. The User may stop renewal (cancel) by the next renewal date through the procedures prescribed by the Company, such as the Service dashboard or the portal screen of the payment service provider designated by the Company. If the User does not stop renewal, the Service Agreement shall be automatically renewed.
7. If prepaid usage units (including credits such as character counts) are granted under the Service, such credits may be used only during the subscription period of the plan under which they were granted. Credits are not convertible into cash, not transferable to other accounts, and not refundable for any unused balance, and shall expire upon a plan change, cancellation, expiration of the subscription period, or any other event specified by the Company.

1. As the Service is a digital service, returns and exchanges are not accepted. The statutory cooling-off period applicable to general mail-order sales does not apply to the Service.
2. For first-time contracts only, the Company offers its own voluntary refund program. If a request for a refund is made to the Company's inquiry desk within 7 days of the contract start date and the Company determines that the User has not yet made substantial use of the Service, including audio generation, the Company shall refund the fees for such first-time contract.
3. The refund under the preceding paragraph shall be made, as a general rule within 30 days from the date the Company confirms the refund request, through the payment method used by the User and by the method prescribed by the Company.
4. If credits or adjustments equivalent to refunds based on prorated calculation are granted in connection with a plan change, the conditions displayed by the Company on the Service shall apply.
5. Except as provided in the preceding paragraphs, no prorated refund of prepaid fees for the subscription period in which the cancellation date falls shall be made in connection with cancellation for the convenience of the User.

In using the Service, the User shall not engage in any of the following acts or any act that the Company deems likely to fall under any of the following:

1. acts that violate laws or regulations or public order and morals;
2. criminal acts or acts related to criminal acts;
3. acts that infringe the Intellectual Property Rights, privacy rights, portrait rights, honor, or any other rights or interests of the Company or any third party;
4. acts of redistributing, reselling, lending, or otherwise providing, without the Company's permission, audio content provided through the Service in places other than the User's website managed by the User;
5. acts that place an excessive load on the servers or networks of the Service or otherwise interfere with the operation of the Service;
6. acts of intentionally exploiting bugs in the Service, reverse engineering, or analyzing the Service;
7. acts of providing funds or other benefits to antisocial forces;
8. acts of registering a third party's voice data without the consent of that person, or generating audio that imitates or reproduces a voice derived from a specific third party, or any other act that may result in impersonation of a third party or infringement of a third party's rights or interests; and
9. any other acts that the Company deems inappropriate.

1. The User represents and warrants that it owns all rights necessary (including but not limited to copyrights, licenses based on moral rights, portrait rights, and publicity rights) for any article content or other content registered to the Service, or that it has lawfully obtained permission from the rightful owners to use such content.
2. The User shall not register with the Service, or subject to audio conversion or distribution by the Service, any article content or other content of a third party that the User does not own and for which the User has not lawfully obtained permission from the rightful owner. Audio conversion or distribution of a third party's article content requires lawful grounds, such as permission from the copyright holder or other rights holders.
3. The Company may reproduce, adapt, analyze, or otherwise use User content to the extent necessary for providing, maintaining, and improving the quality of the Service, as well as for analysis, statistics, and functional improvements relating to the Service. However, the Company shall not use User content as training data for the Company's or a third party's machine learning models, and shall not disclose User content to any third party without the User's prior consent, except where disclosure is required by law.
4. If any dispute arises between the User and a third party in connection with User content, the User shall resolve such dispute at its own responsibility and expense and shall not cause any damage to the Company.
5. If a third party claims that User content infringes such third party's rights, the Company may, after confirming the contents of such claim, take such measures as it deems necessary, including suspending audio conversion or distribution of, or deleting, such content. Claims regarding infringement of rights may be filed with the Company's inquiry desk.

1. If the Service provides a function for registering voice data (including the provision of voice sample data through the voice registration function), the User represents and warrants that the voice data to be registered is the User's own, or that the User holds all rights necessary for such voice data and has obtained the prior consent of the rights holder (including the person whose voice it is).
2. If a third party's voice data is registered in violation of the preceding paragraph, or the Company determines that the Service has been used for the purpose of imitating a voice derived from a specific third party, the Company may take such measures as it deems necessary, including deletion of such voice data and any audio content generated therefrom, and suspension of use.
3. Registered voice data shall be used only within the scope of providing the Service to the User concerned (including audio generation for that User) and shall not be used as training data for the Company's or a third party's machine learning models. The User may request deletion of registered voice data through the functions prescribed by the Service or by applying to the Company's inquiry desk.

1. The analysis of article content, generation of scripts, and generation of audio in the Service are performed using artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies. AI-generated content may contain content that differs from the original article content, errors, or inappropriate expressions.
2. The Company does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, usefulness, fitness for a particular purpose, or any other quality of AI-generated content. The User shall be responsible for verifying the content of generated content before publishing, distributing, or otherwise using it.
3. If laws, regulations, guidelines, or the rules of distribution platforms require labeling or other measures indicating that content was generated by AI, the User shall duly provide such labeling or take such measures.

1. The User shall be responsible for the management of User Content and any other data registered or stored by the User on the Service (hereinafter "User Data") and shall, where necessary, back up such data at its own responsibility and expense. The Company shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or deletion of User Data, except as provided in Article 14 (Service Level and Disclaimer).
2. Upon cancellation of the Service Agreement, termination of the Service, or deletion of the account, the User may export necessary User Data before completion of the procedures prescribed by the Company.
3. After termination of the Service Agreement, the Company shall delete User Data within a reasonable period, except where a retention obligation applies under laws and regulations.

1. Intellectual Property Rights relating to the Service and any programs, software, documents, designs, trademarks, logos, and other items associated with the Service belong to the Company or third parties that have granted licenses to the Company. The license granted to the User under these Terms to use the Service shall not be construed as a transfer or license of any Intellectual Property Rights of the Company or such third parties.
2. The User shall obtain a non-exclusive right to use audio content generated through the Service, to the extent it does not violate these Terms, within the scope of the purpose of use of the Service (including distribution on websites managed by the User).
3. The Company may freely use, without any obligation to pay compensation or any other obligation to the User, any feedback, requests, or ideas provided by the User in connection with the Service for the purpose of improving the Service or for other business activities of the Company.

1. The Company shall endeavor to provide the Service on a continuous basis to a commercially reasonable extent, but makes no warranty, whether express or implied, that the Service is free from factual or legal defects (including but not limited to defects relating to safety, reliability, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, fitness for a particular purpose, security, errors, bugs, or infringement of rights).
2. The Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred by the User in connection with the use of the Service, except where such damage is caused by the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Company.
3. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, even if the Company is liable to the User for damages, the Company's liability shall be limited, except in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence, to the total amount of fees actually paid by the User to the Company for the Service in the month in which such damage occurred.
4. If the User qualifies as a consumer under the Consumer Contract Act of Japan and any part of these Terms is deemed invalid under such Act, the Company's liability shall be limited to the extent permitted under such Act, and the relevant provisions shall be construed in accordance with the purpose of such Act.

1. If the User breaches or is likely to breach these Terms, the Company may, without prior notice, take such measures as it deems necessary, including suspending all or part of the User's use of the Service, deleting content, or refusing future use.
2. If the User remains in default of payment of fees for a certain period of time, the Company may, after giving notice to the User, temporarily suspend the provision of the Service or terminate the Service Agreement.
3. The Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred by the User as a result of measures taken by the Company pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, except where such damage is caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence.

1. The Company may temporarily interrupt the provision of all or part of the Service without prior notice to the User if any of the following events occurs:
   1. when maintenance, inspection, or updating of systems relating to the Service is performed;
   2. when provision of the Service becomes difficult due to force majeure events such as fire, power outage, natural disasters, or the spread of infectious diseases;
   3. when provision of the Service becomes difficult due to failure of communication lines, cloud infrastructure, or other facilities; or
   4. when the Company otherwise deems it unavoidable.
2. The Company may, for business or technical reasons, modify the contents of the Service or terminate the provision of the Service. In such case, the Company shall, to a reasonable extent, notify the User in advance.
3. The Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred by the User due to interruption, modification, or termination of the Service pursuant to this Article, except where such damage is caused by the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence.

1. The term of the Service Agreement shall commence on the date on which the Company approves the User's registration and continue until the earlier of the date on which the Company terminates provision of the Service or the date on which the User terminates the Service Agreement.
2. The User may terminate the Service Agreement by submitting a cancellation request (including stopping renewal) in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the Company, such as the Service dashboard or the portal screen of the payment service provider designated by the Company. In such case, the Service Agreement shall terminate upon the expiration of the subscription period already paid for.
3. Obligations for payment of fees and other obligations that have already arisen by the termination date shall survive termination, and the User shall perform such obligations.
4. If there are any prepaid fees such as monthly or annual fees, no prorated refund shall be made in connection with termination for the convenience of the User; provided, however, that this shall not apply to the cases provided in Article 7 (Refund Policy).

1. The User and the Company represent and warrant that neither they nor their officers or employees are currently or will in the future be antisocial forces, including but not limited to organized crime groups, companies affiliated with organized crime groups, corporate racketeers, or any persons equivalent thereto (collectively, "Antisocial Forces"), and that they do not and will not have any capital or transactional relationship with Antisocial Forces.
2. If it is found that the User or the Company has violated the preceding paragraph, the other party may immediately terminate the Service Agreement without any notice.
3. Even if any damage is incurred by the party whose agreement has been terminated as a result of termination pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the party effecting the termination shall not be liable for such damage.

1. In these Terms, "Confidential Information" means any and all technical, business, and other operational information disclosed or provided by one party to the other in connection with the Service that is designated as confidential at the time of disclosure. However, information that falls under any of the following items shall be excluded from Confidential Information:
   1. information that was already public at the time of disclosure or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party after disclosure;
   2. information that can be proven to have been already in the possession of the receiving party at the time of disclosure;
   3. information lawfully obtained from a third party without an obligation of confidentiality; or
   4. information independently developed by the receiving party without reference to Confidential Information.
2. Unless otherwise agreed in writing in advance by the other party, the Company and the User shall not use Confidential Information for any purpose beyond the scope of providing or using the Service, nor disclose it to any third party.

Notices or public announcements from the Company to the User shall be given by posting on the Service website, displaying on the Service dashboard, sending an email to the User's registered email address, or any other method the Company deems appropriate. Such notices or announcements shall become effective at the time the Company issues or posts them.

1. The Company may amend the contents of these Terms as it deems necessary.
2. When the Company amends these Terms, it shall determine the effective date and, by posting on the Service website or by any other method the Company deems appropriate, notify the User of the amended Terms and the effective date within a reasonable period prior to the effective date.
3. If the User uses the Service on or after the effective date of the amended Terms or does not take procedures to terminate the Service Agreement within the period specified by the Company, the User shall be deemed to have agreed to the amended Terms.
4. If the consent of the User is required by laws and regulations for an amendment of these Terms, the Company shall obtain such consent by the method prescribed by the Company.

1. The User shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, assign, transfer, grant as security, or otherwise dispose of its status under these Terms or the Service Agreement or any of its rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder to any third party.
2. In the event the Company transfers its business relating to the Service to a third party (including by way of business transfer, corporate split, merger, or any other form of business reorganization), the Company may assign its status under these Terms and the Service Agreement and its rights and obligations relating to the Service to the transferee of such business, and the User hereby agrees in advance to such assignment.

1. Even after the Service Agreement or these Terms terminate, the provisions of Article 6 (Fees, Payment, and Automatic Renewal), Article 9 (Handling of User Content), Article 13 (Intellectual Property Rights), Article 14 (Service Level and Disclaimer), Article 19 (Confidentiality), this Article, and Article 24 (Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Language) shall remain valid and effective.
2. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable under applicable laws and regulations, such holding shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of these Terms.

1. These Terms and any disputes arising in connection with the Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Japan.
2. Any disputes arising between the Company and the User in connection with the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court or the Tokyo Summary Court as the court of first instance.
3. If these Terms are provided in a language other than Japanese, such translation is for reference purposes only, and in the event of any discrepancy between the translated version and the Japanese version, the Japanese version shall prevail.