ART iT Co. Ltd. (hereafter, "the Company") that operates the ART iT website www.art-it.asia (hereafter, "the website") hereby establishes the basic terms of use for the website (hereafter, "the Terms of Use").

The Terms of Use establish matters to be observed by members as defined in the following article when using the website and shall apply to all relationships between the Company and members.

(1) "Member" in the Terms of Use shall mean a person who upon agreeing to the Terms of Use, applies, in accordance with procedures designated by the Company, to be registered on the website by a method prescribed by the Company, and who is approved by the Company.
(2) Where the Company decides that it is not appropriate to approve an applicant, we may not accept that person's application for registration. We may also cancel approval or deregister a person even after he or she has been approved.
(3) It is prohibited for members who are already registered to apply again for registration as a member.

(1) Members shall, when using the services provided by the Company, use the mail address and password (hereafter together referred to as "ID etc") registered with the Company.
(2) Members shall take personal responsibility for the use and management of their ID etc and shall not disclose it to a third party or allow a third party to use it. Members shall assume personal responsibility for all acts related to the services provided by the Company performed with their own ID etc and the consequences thereof, irrespective of whether the act in question was performed by the member himself or herself or whether the member himself or herself was negligent or not.
(3) Members shall, where their ID etc has been stolen, where they have forgotten their ID etc, or where it becomes apparent that their ID etc is being used by a third party, immediately notify the Company to that effect and follow the Company's instructions.
(4) Members cannot hold more than one ID etc. Where it is discovered that a member has registered multiple times and holds multiple IDs etc, the Company may deregister the member in question.
(5) Where a member has, by wrongful use of the ID etc of a third party, caused damage to that third party or the Company, the member shall compensate the third party in question or the Company for damage that arisen due to that wrongful use.

(1) All of a member's registered information including his or her ID etc shall be retained and managed by the Company. A member's registered information consists of information made public on the website (hereafter, "registered information made public") and information not made public on the website (hereafter, "registered information not made public").
(2) The Company shall manage a member's registered information appropriately, and the handling of any information among a member's registered information that is capable of identifying a specific individual (hereafter, "personal information") shall be subject to the provisions of the document "Handling of personal information on the website."
(3) Members shall be responsible when registering information for designating on the registration screen by the prescribed method, whether registered information is to be made public or not made public. At the point at which a member enters information and applies for membership, he or she is deemed to have consented to the registered information that he or she designated to be made public being made public on the website.
(4) Members shall assume responsibility for all damage they suffer by the information entered as registered information to be made public being made public. The Company shall accept no responsibility. Please enter registration information to be made public carefully.
(5) Members shall not make false statements in relation to any of the items of registered information entered or stated at the time of registration.
(6) Where an address, telephone number or other registered information has changed, members shall promptly follow the prescribed procedures for updating information. The member himself or herself shall accept responsibility for any damage suffered from failure to update information. The Company shall accept no responsibility.

Members shall not, when using the services, either intentionally or negligently perform any of the acts in the following subparagraphs (hereafter, "prohibited acts"). Where a member performs a prohibited act, the Company may, without prior notice, take measures that it decides are appropriate, including deleting the prohibited act, suspending use of the services or cancelling membership etc. In this case, the Company shall not respond to any questions or complaints relating to these measures and shall not assume any responsibility for disclosing the reasons for its actions:
(i) an act contrary to public order and good morals;
(ii) an act connected to a criminal act;
(iii) an act that infringes the intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright, design rights, patent rights, utility model rights, trademark rights and know-how), right to likeness, privacy and other rights;
(iv) an act for the purpose of inducing a group, service or activity etc that has no relationship with the website;
(v) an act that causes a nuisance or disadvantage to other members, third parties or the Company or an act that defames or damages the honor or credit of those persons;
(vi) an act that interferes with the website's system infrastructure from the use or provision of a harmful program including a computer virus or an act that interferes with the operation of the website by the Company;
(vii) pre-election campaigning, election campaigning or acts that resemble them or an act that conflicts with the Public Official Election Act;
(viii) an act with another member or with a third party, by a method other than a method approved by the Company, that generates a financial benefit (for example, sale and purchase), an act that produces an economic benefit (for example, exchanging or gifting goods that have no value), an act establishing or inviting the establishment of a pyramid scheme or other act that uses the website for a profit-making purpose;
(ix) an act found to be detrimental to minors;
(x) the act of forwarding spam mail or electronic mail to unspecified members, or the act of forcing or requesting the reading of them, responding to questionnaires or sending the electronic mail in question to other members or third parties;
(xi) the act of posting information that identifies an individual, whether that individual is the principal or a third party;
(xii) the act of reproducing without permission or redistributing electronic mail from the Company or the content of the website;
(xiii) an act breaching laws and ordinances;
(xiv) an act that furthers the acts specified in any of the provisions;
(xv) an act that the Company decides may come under any of the subparagraphs;
(xvi) any other acts that the Company decides are inappropriate.

(1) The Company shall accept no responsibility for the exchanging of information between members through the website or any acts performed incidentally thereto.
(2) Where in relation to the exchanging of information between members through the website, the Company, another member or a third party has suffered damage due to the information in question being infected with a virus, the member who posted the information in question shall compensate for the damage. The Company shall accept no responsibility to members or third parties with respect to the damage in question.

(1) In the absence of any special provisions, all intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright, design rights, patent right, utility model rights, trademark rights and know-how) and other rights relating to information uploaded by the Company to the website shall belong to the Company and other copyright holders, and members cannot, except where the Company has agreed, use any information obtained through use of the website by a method other than a method specified by the Company.
(2) Where an intellectual property right (including but not limited to copyright, design rights, patent rights, utility model rights, trademark rights and know-how) is created on the website or by the services provided through the website, all rights in question shall be transferred to the Company at no charge. The same shall apply also to illustrations, catch copy, planning or other contents submitted by a member in response to a call for submissions made by the Company on the website or through the services provided on the website.
(3) The rights in Article 27 and Article 28 of the Copyright Act shall be included in the copyright in the preceding paragraph.
(4) Members shall not enforce moral rights (right of divulgence, right of authorship and right of integrity) against the Company and third parties that have legitimately acquired rights from the Company or are legitimately permitted to use rights. Please also be aware that the information on this site may be published in newspapers, magazines etc or issued as a publication. However, personal information such as names and addresses etc cannot, from the perspective of protection of personal information and of privacy, be made public without the prior agreement of the member. For more details, please refer to the document "Handling of personal information on this website".

(1) Members shall, when receiving or sending electronic mail as a member to and from the Company, use the same mail address as the mail address registered with the Company.
(2) The Company shall accept no responsibility, where as a result of a member sending or receiving electronic mail with a different address from the address registered with the Company, some disadvantage or damage has occurred to the member in question.
(3) The Company can select or determine information in electronic mail posted on the website or sent to members.
(4) When replying to an electronic mail from the Company, members shall reply by the method specified by the Company.
(5) The Company shall accept no responsibility where a member replies to an electronic mail by a method that is different from the method specified by the Company and disadvantage or damage occurs to the member in question.
(6) The content of electronic mail sent as a member shall be the responsibility of the individual member.

Advertisements for products etc are created on the basis of materials provided by the company that sells or offers the product etc. Members should be aware, therefore, that the Company shall accept no responsibility for the content of advertising.