Kuro Brand Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") set forth the conditions for using the websites, applications, software, APIs, documentation, templates, email delivery features, hosting support features, AI-related features, development support features, operations support features, and other related services provided or operated by Kuro (the "Brand") (collectively, the "Services").

By using the Services, you are deemed to have agreed to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Services.

Article 1 (Scope)

These Terms apply to all relationships between users and the Brand concerning use of the Services.
In addition to these Terms, the Brand may establish service-specific terms, licenses, guidelines, help materials, notices, fee schedules, privacy policies, and other separate rules (collectively, "Individual Terms").
Individual Terms form part of these Terms. If these Terms conflict with any Individual Terms, the Individual Terms will prevail with respect to the relevant service, unless otherwise stated in those Individual Terms.
The Services may include third-party services, software, platforms, payment services, hosting services, authentication services, email delivery services, advertising services, analytics services, AI services, open-source software, and other third-party components. Users must also comply with the terms, licenses, and policies of such third parties.

Article 2 (Description of the Services)

The Services include information publishing, content management, email delivery, document creation, editors, templates, development support, operations support, APIs, AI assistance features, and other features provided by the Brand.
The Brand may, at its discretion, change, add, suspend, or discontinue the content, features, specifications, available regions, supported environments, fees, usage limits, storage capacity, API limits, and support scope of the Services.
Some Services may be used without account registration. Certain features, including management screens, posting, email delivery, APIs, template publication, deployment, support, and paid features, may require account registration, authentication, a contract, payment, or separate authorization.
The Services are not provided as a substitute for professional advice or services, including legal, tax, medical, financial, or security audit services. Users should consult appropriate professionals where necessary.

Article 3 (Eligibility and Age)

Users represent that they have agreed to these Terms and have the legal capacity necessary to use the Services.
If a minor uses the Services, the minor must obtain the consent of a parent or legal guardian. If a parent or legal guardian permits a minor to use the Services, that parent or legal guardian is responsible for the minor's use of the Services.
The Brand may impose conditions for individual services, including age, residence, identity verification, purpose of use, technical requirements, screening, and usage limits.
Users must not use the Services in any region, manner, or for any purpose prohibited by law or by these Terms.

Article 4 (Accounts, Authentication, and Security)

Users must provide accurate and up-to-date information when registering an account or completing identity verification, and must update such information as necessary.
Users are responsible for managing their email addresses, passwords, passkeys, API keys, access tokens, private keys, authentication credentials, management screen URLs, backup files, and other authentication or administrative information.
Users must not transfer, lend, share, sell, purchase, or pledge their accounts, authentication information, API keys, or access tokens to any third party.
Acts performed using a user's account or authentication information will be deemed to have been performed by that user, except where caused by the Brand's willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Users must promptly notify the Brand if they become aware of unauthorized use, leakage, third-party use, or any security anomaly.
If the Brand determines that unauthorized use, leakage, attacks, excessive use, breach of these Terms, payment default, violation of law, or security necessity exists, the Brand may suspend, restrict, delete, require re-authentication for, or reset all or part of accounts, API keys, tokens, passkeys, sessions, delivery features, management screens, or related services.

Article 5 (License to Use)

Subject to the user's compliance with these Terms and the Individual Terms, the Brand grants the user a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to use the Services.
All intellectual property rights in the Services, software, designs, user interfaces, documentation, templates, logos, trademarks, source code, data structures, know-how, and other materials owned by the Brand or rightful rights holders belong to the Brand or the relevant rights holders.
These Terms do not transfer to users any intellectual property rights of the Brand or any third party.
For software, templates, documentation, or other materials released as open source, the license displayed in the relevant file or repository will prevail.
Users may use the Services for personal use, business use, development, testing, operations, and other purposes permitted by the Brand, except where restricted by Individual Terms, licenses, third-party terms, or applicable laws.

Article 6 (User Content)

"User Content" means text, images, videos, audio, code, templates, settings, email bodies, logs, data, prompts, outputs, and other information that users post, input, transmit, store, upload, publish, or connect through the Services.
Rights in User Content remain with the user or the rightful rights holder.
Users grant the Brand a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, transmit, display, convert formats, translate, process, distribute, publish, share, search, and analyze User Content to the extent necessary to provide, store, back up, convert, display, deliver, publish, share, search, analyze, maintain, troubleshoot, secure, support, comply with law, and execute external integrations configured by the user.
The license in the preceding paragraph is limited to purposes necessary for providing and operating the Services. The Brand will not provide users' non-public content to third parties as training data for general-purpose AI models without the user's consent.
Users represent and warrant that they have all necessary rights, permissions, and consents for their User Content, and that their User Content does not violate laws, these Terms, or third-party rights.
The Brand has no obligation to constantly monitor User Content. However, if the Brand deems it necessary due to legal violations, rights infringement, security risks, spam, nuisance conduct, breach of these Terms, or other reasons, the Brand may review, make private, delete, suspend delivery of, suspend publication of, restrict access to, or restrict accounts in relation to User Content.

Article 7 (Public Information and Sharing)

If users use publication settings, sharing settings, external integrations, APIs, public pages, repository publication, template publication, social media posting, or similar features, User Content or related information may be viewed, stored, copied, quoted, or redistributed by third parties.
Users are responsible for confirming publication scope, sharing destinations, external integration destinations, permission settings, license notices, and whether personal information or confidential information is included.
The Brand does not guarantee or control third-party storage, republication, use, inability to delete, or search engine display of information that users publish or share themselves.

Article 8 (Prohibited Conduct)

Users must not engage in any of the following acts when using the Services:

Acts that violate laws, public order and morals, these Terms, Individual Terms, or third-party terms.
Acts intended for crime, fraud, phishing, money laundering, spam, unsolicited email, unauthorized access, impersonation, false representation, or access without authority.
Acts that infringe intellectual property rights, privacy rights, portrait rights, reputation, credit, trade secrets, or other rights or interests of the Brand, other users, or third parties.
Acts involving discrimination, harassment, threats, stalking, excessive attacks, violent expression, sexual exploitation, harm to child safety, or harm to another person's life, body, property, or dignity.
Acts involving malware, viruses, unauthorized programs, vulnerability attacks, excessive requests, denial-of-service attacks, rate limit circumvention, security feature circumvention, or authentication circumvention.
Acts that interfere with the operation of the Services, servers, networks, APIs, databases, email delivery infrastructure, or external integration destinations.
Copying, modifying, adapting, translating, selling, leasing, redistributing, reproviding, commercially hosting, or turning all or part of the Services into a competing service without the Brand's authorization.
Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, scraping, crawling, data mining, model extraction, or unauthorized analysis of the Services, except where permitted by applicable law or license.
Automated access contrary to robots.txt, API documentation, rate limits, access controls, machine-readable usage restrictions, or technical protection measures.
Using Service outputs, content, data, screens, or API responses to develop or train machine learning models, AI systems, search indexes, datasets, or competing services, unless expressly permitted by the Brand.
Misrepresenting AI-generated materials, advertisements, reviews, articles, emails, posts, or similar materials as having been created by humans, approved by third parties, or guaranteed by the Brand.
Illegally acquiring, transferring, selling, purchasing, or sharing accounts, API keys, access tokens, passkeys, sessions, coupons, invitation codes, virtual usage quotas, points, template usage rights, or other rights.
Using the Brand's or any third party's trademarks, logos, names, or indications in a manner likely to cause confusion.
Using the Services to send illegal or unauthorized email, deliver advertisements, collect personal information, conduct surveillance or profiling, infringe rights, or leak confidential information.
Abusive language, threats, excessive demands, repeated transmission of identical content, or business obstruction against the Brand's contact channels, support, or related personnel.
Any other act reasonably deemed inappropriate by the Brand.

Article 9 (APIs, Email Delivery, and External Integrations)

Users must use APIs, webhooks, email delivery, and external integration features in accordance with specifications, authentication methods, rate limits, delivery limits, and security requirements established by the Brand.
Users represent that they have the necessary rights, consents, and legal basis for recipients, destinations, message bodies, attachments, headers, delivery logs, and integration data.
Users must not send spam, impersonated messages, phishing messages, illegal advertisements, unsolicited bulk email, or conduct that harms the reputation of third-party mail servers or domains.
The Brand may restrict or suspend delivery, APIs, webhooks, or external integrations in the event of delivery failures, bounces, complaints, spam determinations, excessive use, unauthorized use, external service failures, or conflict with laws or third-party policies.
External integrations may become unavailable due to specification changes, failures, usage restrictions, or termination of agreements by external services. The Brand does not guarantee continuity, compatibility, or completeness of external services.

Article 10 (AI Features and Automated Processing)

If the Services include AI, anonymization, summarization, classification, generation, search, audit, translation, code generation, image generation, or other automated processing features, users are responsible for verifying the accuracy, legality, safety, rights status, publishability, and business suitability of outputs.
AI or automated processing outputs may contain errors, incomplete content, outdated information, bias, content that may conflict with third-party rights, or content unsuitable for the user's purpose.
Users must not input information into AI features or external AI services in violation of laws, contracts, confidentiality obligations, personal information protection requirements, or industry regulations without necessary authority, consent, and safeguards.
If a user configures integration with an external AI service, input data, prompts, outputs, logs, and similar information may be transmitted to that external service. Such handling is governed by the terms and privacy policy of the external service.
The Brand does not guarantee that AI feature outputs are fit for a particular purpose, accurate, complete, lawful, non-infringing, or continuously available.

Article 11 (Fees, Payment, and Subscriptions)

Some Services may be provided for a fee. Fees, payment methods, billing cycles, usage limits, free tiers, excess usage fees, cancellation terms, and refund terms are governed by the relevant service display or Individual Terms.
When applying for paid Services, users must pay the displayed fees, taxes, charges, communication costs, external service costs, and other expenses.
Subscription or recurring-billing Services may automatically renew at the displayed cycle unless the user completes cancellation procedures.
Unless otherwise provided in Individual Terms, cancellation takes effect from the next renewal. Fees already paid will not be refunded except where permitted by law or Individual Terms.
If payment fails, payment is delayed, or usage limits are exceeded, the Brand may suspend or restrict all or part of paid features, accounts, APIs, delivery features, storage features, or support.
The Brand may change fees, free tiers, usage limits, and billing structures. The Brand will endeavor to announce material changes in advance or afterward by a reasonable method.

Article 12 (Advertising, Affiliates, and Third-Party Content)

The Services may include advertisements, affiliate links, sponsor displays, external links, embedded content, and paths to third-party products or services.
Transactions, inquiries, disputes, and damages concerning third-party products, services, content, advertisements, or external linked sites must be resolved between the user and the relevant third party.
The Brand does not guarantee the accuracy, legality, safety, quality, continuity, or suitability of third-party products, services, content, advertisements, or external sites.

Article 13 (Rights Infringement Claims)

If a user or rights holder believes that content on the Services infringes their own or a third party's rights, they must contact the channel designated by the Brand.
A claim should include the URL or identifying information of the relevant content, the rights allegedly infringed, information confirming that the claimant is the rights holder or authorized representative, contact information, and the basis for the claim.
Taking into account the claim, applicable laws, rights relationships, urgency, and potential abuse, the Brand may review the relevant content, make it private, delete it, inquire with the poster, restrict accounts, or take other necessary measures.
If a false or inaccurate claim causes damage to the Brand, a user, or a third party, the claimant may be liable for such damage.

Article 14 (Changes, Suspension, and Termination of the Services)

The Brand may change, suspend, interrupt, or terminate all or part of the Services in the following cases:

1. Maintenance, inspection, updates, or security response.

2. Failures, incidents, overload, external service failures, or communication failures.

3. Response to laws, administrative agencies, courts, third-party services, platform requests, or terms changes.

4. Prevention or investigation of unauthorized use, attacks, information leakage, rights infringement, or breach of these Terms.

5. Technical, operational, or business reasons that make continued provision difficult or inappropriate.

The Brand will endeavor to announce material changes or termination by a reasonable method to the extent possible. However, this does not apply where advance notice is difficult due to urgency, security reasons, laws, or third-party requests.
Users are responsible for preserving necessary User Content, settings, logs, backups, and license information. The Brand does not guarantee permanent storage, re-download, restoration, or export.

Article 15 (Use Restrictions and Termination)

If the Brand determines that a user falls under any of the following, the Brand may, without prior notice, suspend all or part of the Services, suspend delivery, suspend publication, delete data, suspend accounts, terminate agreements, refuse re-registration, or take other necessary measures:

1. Breach of these Terms or Individual Terms.

2. False, incomplete, or impersonated registration information.

3. Non-payment, payment failure, or excessive use.

4. Suspected unauthorized use, attacks, spam, rights infringement, or violation of law.

5. Risk of harm to the credit, property, safety, rights, or interests of the Brand, other users, third parties, or external services.

6. No use for a certain period.

7. Any other case where continued provision of the Services is difficult or inappropriate.

The Brand is not liable for damage caused to users by measures under the preceding paragraph, except in cases of the Brand's willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Users may cancel their account or paid Services by the method designated by the Brand. However, unpaid fees, surviving provisions, and information that must be retained under law or operations may remain effective or retained after cancellation.

Article 16 (Disclaimer of Warranties)

The Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
The Brand does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, currency, usefulness, safety, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, continuous availability, absence of errors or failures, preservation or restoration of data, or maintenance of compatibility with external services.
The Brand does not warrant the accuracy, legality, lawful availability, or rights status of articles, news, technical information, AI outputs, templates, code, documentation, third-party content, advertisements, or external linked content.
Users use the Services, manage User Content, publish externally, send email, use APIs, adopt AI outputs, connect external services, create backups, and implement security measures at their own responsibility.

Article 17 (Limitation of Liability)

The Brand is not liable for damages incurred by users in connection with use or inability to use the Services, except in cases of the Brand's willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Even where the Brand is liable, the Brand's liability is limited to ordinary and direct damages, and the Brand is not liable for special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, lost profits, data loss, loss of business opportunities, reputational damage, or damages arising from third-party claims, except where such limitation is not permitted by law.
If the Brand is liable for damages in relation to paid Services, the amount of liability is capped at the total amount actually paid by the user to the Brand for the relevant paid Service during the 12 months preceding the occurrence of the damage, unless otherwise required by law. For free Services, the cap is JPY 10,000.
This Article does not apply to the extent limitations are not permitted under the Consumer Contract Act of Japan or other mandatory laws.

Article 18 (Indemnification)

If damage, expenses, claims, disputes, administrative responses, attorney fees, or other costs arise for the Brand, other users, or third parties in connection with a user's use of the Services, User Content, violation of law, breach of these Terms, infringement of third-party rights, or violation of external service terms, the user must resolve the matter at their own responsibility and expense and must not cause damage to the Brand.

Article 19 (Handling of Personal Information)

The Brand handles users' personal information in accordance with its separately established Privacy Policy.

Article 20 (Export Control and Legal Compliance)

In using the Services, software, technical information, encryption technology, AI features, APIs, documentation, and deliverables, users must comply with export controls, sanctions, trade regulations, personal information protection, communications, advertising, consumer protection, intellectual property, email, payment services, specified commercial transactions, and other applicable laws and regulations of Japan, the United States, and other applicable countries or regions.
Users must not provide, export, re-export, transfer, or make available the Services to any country, region, individual, or entity for which transactions are prohibited or restricted by law or sanctions.

Article 21 (Changes to These Terms)

The Brand may change these Terms due to legal amendments, changes to the Services, changes to external services, operational necessity, or security necessity.
When making material changes, the Brand will endeavor to notify users by posting on the Services, email, management screen notice, release notes, or other reasonable methods.
Unless otherwise specified, revised Terms become effective when posted on the Services. If a user uses the Services after the change, the user is deemed to have agreed to the revised Terms.

Article 22 (Notices and Communications)

Notices from the Brand to users will be made by posting on the Services, sending to registered email addresses, displaying on management screens, posting in repositories or documentation, or other methods deemed appropriate by the Brand.
Communications from users to the Brand must be made through the contact details or method designated by the Brand.
The Brand is not liable if notices do not reach a user because the user failed to update their registered email address or other contact information.

Article 23 (Assignment)

Users may not assign, transfer, pledge, or otherwise dispose of their status under these Terms or their rights or obligations under these Terms to any third party without the Brand's prior consent in writing or by electronic means.
The Brand may transfer its status, rights and obligations under these Terms, and user information to a third party in connection with a business transfer, merger, company split, business succession, operational transfer, or similar event relating to the Services.

Article 24 (Severability)

If any provision or part of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by law or by a court, the remaining provisions and the remaining parts of the relevant provision will continue in full force and effect.

Article 25 (Survival)

After termination of use of the Services, account deletion, or termination of an agreement, provisions that by their nature should survive will continue to remain in effect. These include provisions concerning intellectual property, necessary licenses for User Content, prohibited conduct, fee payment, indemnification, disclaimer of warranties, limitation of liability, governing law, jurisdiction, and other provisions that should apply after termination.

Article 26 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction)

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan.
The Tokyo District Court has exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Services.

Article 27 (Contact)

For inquiries regarding these Terms, the Services, rights infringement claims, or the handling of personal information, please contact:

Brand name: Kuro Brand
Operator: Kuro
General contact: info@kuro.boo
Rights contact: rights@kuro.boo

Establishment and Revision Dates

Established: March 1, 2026
Last revised: July 15, 2026