Terms of Use and Service

September 30^th, 2001

In this site, we recognize that knowing your rights and responsibilities are critical, including in the event of two-way interactions between us or a one-way examination/review you do on one part or all the contents of this website or any related product/service derivations. We describe the rights and responsibilities in terms of use and service of our site/product/service. You should read those terms. We also know that legal documents may be tedious and you might not always do what you "should" do. So, we try to give you the basics here.

Please remember, terms of use/service is what you have to agree at the time you begin to interact with the site and all of its contents or its product/service derivations, including when you use, examine or review part or the entire contents of this site or its product/service derivations in either your private or public affairs. Some parts of this site or our product/service may have supplemental terms, especially on parts that we consider as containing sensitive or confidential materials. We advise you to always check the terms while examining these parts. Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.

Scope and Coverage

This notification exhibits the terms of use/service that describes detailed conditions applicable for the use of part or all the contents of this site or its product/service derivations all around the world. Regarding the Privacy Policy, you can obtain more information about our privacy rules by going through the PRIVACY menu on the bottom navigation panel.

Our Relationship

• Any of your activities within this site and/or when you use its product/service derivations, it must be based on a valid set of our Terms of Use and Service.
• This Terms of Use and Service is composed of the terms of use and service, including legal notices, for the site you are currently viewing as well as any of its product/service derivations.
• If you do not behave accordingly, we can terminate our relationship with you. It can make your access to part or all of our products/services become no longer function, and do not say you were not given a warning.
• We may also decide to discontinue the provision of a section of this site or our product/service to you. We have stopped the delivery of one part of the site, Home, but we reserve the right to do it again anytime.
• You are allowed to terminate your agreement with us anytime by blocking your own access to our site and/or its derivations. We regret if you decide leave us, but you can come back anytime!

Regarding Your Responsibility

• Keep in mind that when you use a part or the whole content of our website and/or its product/service derivations, you remain responsible for your own behavior and actions and for any content you get from our site and/or its derivations.
• In general, the content of our website and/or its product/service derivations is to be used by you personally. If you want to refer to a part or the entire contents of this website and/or its derivations, you do not need to first obtain permission from us as long as you use proper citation format and procedures for scientific references, including a provision of backlink in your referring article to every page being referred from our site.
• You are responsible to monitor the safety and security of your own browsing activity. Activities and effects that may occur on your computer fall within your personal responsibility.

Regarding Your Contents

• We hold the copyright of all contents in this website and/or its derivations, but we do not assert any ownership rights over your content. What belongs to you stays yours.
• For any content that is completely constructed from an existing content by other(s), the copyright remains with its original owner and indicated by a proper trackback to the original source of content.
• For any part of a content that is formed from an existing content by other(s), we hold the copyright of the whole content, otherwise stated, but the citing part is indicated by a proper citation format and procedure to be given as a form of respect and appreciation for the author of work being cited.
• We do not require you to give us a clearance or license for any content that you place so that we can host them, and, if you ask us for it, make it available to other parties.
• There might be some contents on our site and/or its derivations that are not ours. We are not able to monitor the tendency of any situation that emerged towards contents that we host or link (connect), although in some cases we can do it limitedly.
• Do not be surprised if you see something you do not like. You always the opportunity to tell us or just stop seeing it.

About This Site

• We are constantly changing and improving our site's performance. If you are afraid of change, it means that this is not a suitable place for you.
• We hope you can benefit from things we present within this site, but we did not give any specific promises that it can provide something extraordinary for your work, including its performance reliability or availability.
• Some things in this site contain certain secrets. A secret is meant to remain secret. Do not try to disclose our confidential information.
• This site is not affiliated with any group of interest, so any damage or contradiction that arises among the readers is the result of examination/review conducted by each reader, and we have no control over things outside this site.
• We are not responsible for things that may happen to you as a result of the use of part or all the contents of this website by yourself. Unfortunately, everything in life has risks. We found quite reasonable given the benefits that compensate for any risk.
• Biases that may appear within part(s) of this website have no intentional means to lead to a particular interest, but are the result of a way-of-thinking that may not always differ with everyone in the world.

updated 9 July 2015, 18.48 GMT+9