(1) “Administrator” shall mean a User who is granted an administrative right by CL with respect to
the Service and the Software pursuant to this Terms of Use.
(2) “Agent” shall mean the agent who deals with the application for, and the after-sales service of,
the Service and is approved by CL in advance.
(3) “Agreement” shall mean the agreement made by and between CL and the Customer in order for
the Customer to receive the Service from CL.
(4) “Anti-social Force Member” shall mean the Anti-social Force Member as provided in Section
14.1 of this Terms of Use.
(5) “Application Form” shall mean the Application Form as provided in Section 4.1 of this Terms of Use.
(6) “Business Day” shall mean a day other than Saturday, Sunday, national holidays (as provided in the Act on National Holidays in Japan) and other non-business days of CL as determined by CL.
(7) “CL” shall mean ClipLine, Inc.
(8) “Clip Production Service” shall mean, as a part of the Service, our service of taking and editing. Contents and providing such Contents to the Customer or the User.
(9) “Confidential Information” shall mean the Confidential Information as provided in Section 12.1
of this Terms of Use.
(10) “Contents” shall mean videos, pictures, audio, texts, graphics, logos, button icons, letters, and
all other data uploaded to the servers by CL, the Customer, the User or any third party from time
to time in order to be used on the Software.
(11) “Contract Addition” shall mean the Contract Addition as provided in Section 4.5 of this Terms
of Use.
(12) “Contract Term” shall mean the Contract Term as provided in Sections 20.1 and 20.2 of this
Terms of Use.
(13) “Customer” shall mean the person or entity, as a party to the Agreement, who is provided with
the Service from CL upon the execution of the Agreement.
(14) “Disclosing Party” shall mean the Disclosing Party as provided in Section 12.4 of this Terms of
Use.
(15) “Estimate” shall mean the valid estimate issued by CL to the Customer in relation to the relevant
Service.
(16) “ID” shall mean a login ID to use the Software, and, unless otherwise CL specifically approves,
an ID shall be issued for each of the Customer’s access points to the Software.
(17) “Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean the Intellectual Property Rights as provided in Section
7.1 of this Terms of Use.
(18) “Posted Contents” shall mean videos, pictures, audio, texts, or comments, and so forth posted
by the User at the time of use of the Service.
(19) “Provided Information” shall mean the information input by the User on the Software through
the terminal equipment or the information otherwise provided by the User to CL (including, but
not limited to, the Posted Contents) with respect to the use of the Software or the Service.
(20) “Receiving Party” shall mean the Receiving Party as provided in Section 12.3 of this Terms of
Use.
(21) “Registered Information” shall mean the Registered Information as provided in Section 4.1 of
this Terms of Use.
(22) “Service” shall mean the Service as provided in Section 1.1 of this Terms of Use.
(23) “Service Fee” shall mean the fee, regardless of its name, to be charged by CL to the Customer
in consideration of CL’s provision of the Service.
(24) “Software” shall mean the application software or the web-service “ABILI Clip” and its related
software to be provided by CL.
(25) “Taxes” shall mean any taxes, dues, customs duties, or any other kind of government levies
similar to the aforementioned imposed by a country or municipality, regardless of their names.
(26) “Terms of Use” shall mean this ABILI Clip Terms of Use for Customers.
(27) “User” shall mean the person who is, upon designation by the Customer, granted to use the
Service and the Software by CL in accordance with this Terms of Use and the Agreement.
(28) “User Terms of Use” shall mean the User Terms of Use as provided in Section 1.3 of this Terms
of Use
4.1 Any person or entity who wants to apply for the use of the Service shall, based on this Terms of
Use and the relevant Estimate, apply for the use of the Service by filling in the service
application form to be specified by CL and submitting it by itself or through an Agent to CL
(the Estimate and the service application form collectively referred to as the “Application Form”).
In addition, the Customer shall provide CL with information which is required for CL
to provide the Service (the “Registered Information”) without delay after applying for the use
of the Service.
4.2 The Agreement shall be deemed to be executed at the time the Application Form is submitted
to CL by the Customer pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.1 hereof; provided, however, that,
in the event that CL objects to the Customer’s application without delay after such application,
the Agreement shall become retroactively invalid from the time of such application.
4.3 With respect to any provisions of this Terms of Use, if otherwise specifically provided for in the
Application Form, the terms of the Application Form shall take precedence over the provisions
of this Terms of Use.
4.4 The Service shall begin upon notification of the start of the Service by CL in compliance with
the terms prescribed in the Application Form.
4.5 In the event that the Customer increases the number of any IDs during the Contract Term, such
IDs shall be deemed to be added to the Agreement upon commencement of use of such
additional IDs (the “Contract Addition”). The Contract Addition shall be reflected in the Service
Fee to be claimed by CL. The number of IDs may not be decreased during the Contract Term.
5.1 CL provides the Service based on the Registered Information. CL shall not be responsible for
not being able to provide the Service due to any errors in the Registered Information (the Service
Fee shall be incurred even in such case.). Unless specifically approved by CL, the Customer
may not use the same ID at different access points.
5.2 With respect to the Clip Production Service, when the Customer does not express any
objection to CL regarding the Contents received from CL within 5 Business Days after
receiving a CL’s notification stating the completion of the provision of such Contents
(unless otherwise expressly stated in the Agreement, the Contents may be provided in any manner, including, but not limited to, the provision via the Software or any other medium, etc.),
such Contents shall be deemed to be accepted as of the end of the said 5-Business Day period,
and the Clip Production Service in regard to such Contents shall be deemed to be complete.
5.3 In case that the period for the provision of the Clip Production Service is limited under
the Agreement, such Clip Production Service shall be deemed to be completed as of the end of such period regardless of whether or not all or any part of the Clip Production Service agreed in the Agreement is actually provided, and all or any part of the Service Fee for such Clip Production Service shall not be refunded.
6.1 In respect to the Service Fee, the Customer shall pay the amount provided in the Estimate in the
manner and the currency designated by CL and by the due date designated by CL.
6.2 The Service Fee described in the Estimate does not include any Taxes, and the Customer shall
be responsible for the payment of all such Taxes related to the use of the Service. In the event
of new implementation of any Taxes or of any changes in the rates of any Taxes during the
Contract Term, such new Taxes or such new rates of Taxes shall apply.
6.3 If the Customer fails to pay the Service Fee once or more than once, or falls under any Items
provided in Section 21.1 or 21.2 of this Terms of Use, the Customer shall lose the benefit of
term in relation to any amount payable under the Agreement and shall immediately pay all
remaining Service Fee.
6.4 CL shall never refund the Service Fee paid by the Customer, unless otherwise provided in laws.
and regulations, this Terms of Use, or the Agreement.
6.5 In case that any payment of the Service Fee cannot be confirmed, the Customer shall, upon
CL’s request, immediately pay such unpaid amount and the delinquent charge at an annual rate
of 14.6% on such unpaid amount in the manner designated by CL. In such case, CL may take
any necessary procedures to suspend or cancel the Service.
7.1 All patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, copyrights, rights under
the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, and all other property or personal rights (the
“Intellectual Property Rights”) concerning the Software or the Service shall belong to CL or a
provider of the relevant Contents. The Customer, with respect to all or a parts of the Software,
shall not attempt to analyze by reverse engineer, decompile or reverse compile, disassemble, or
other methods.
7.2 The intellectual property rights including copyrights, proprietary rights, and all other rights with
respect to all materials and information (including the Contents that CL provides the Customer
and the User after filming and editing as a part of our Service) which either the Customer or CL
provides the other party in relation to the Service, shall belong to and are reserved by the party
that provides such materials or information.
7.3 All Contents provided through the Software shall be the properties of CL or the providers of the
Contents and are protected by the Copyright Act and other international law pertaining to
copyrights. Unauthorized copying and replication of the Contents provided through the
Software shall be strictly prohibited.
7.4 CL grants the Customer the nonexclusive license to use the Service, the Software and the
Contents, provided that the User shall comply with this Terms of Use (any transfer or any
sublicensing of such license shall be prohibited). Such license shall not include any right to
resell, to use for commercial purposes, and to use for any other secondary application of the
Software or the Contents. In the event that the Customer use the Service, the Software or the
Contents in violation of this Terms of Use and any other applicable terms and conditions for use,
CL, at its sole discretion, may cancel the license at any time without any prior notice.
7.5 The copyrights of the Posted Contents posted by a User shall be reserved by such User or the
original right holder of such Posted Contents; provided, however, that, unless otherwise
expressly stated in the Agreement, the Customer, for itself or for its User, shall grant CL
nonexclusive and free-of-charge rights including sub-licensable rights to use, copy, amend,
adapt, publish, translate, create secondary work, distribute, or show such Posted Contents posted
by a User, given that CL complies with the confidentiality obligations provided in Section 12.1.
The Customer shall not cause such User to exercise their moral right against CL or any third
party that is granted to use such Posted Contents by CL. The Customer represents and covenants
to CL that it holds the necessary rights to their User for such grants.
8.1 CL may monitor, from time to time, the Posted Contents, in compliance with the applicable
laws and regulations, this Terms of Use, the User Terms of Use or CL’s privacy policy; provided,
however, that CL shall not be obliged to manage and/or supervise the details, the handling and
so forth of the Posted Contents.
8.2 In the event that the Posted Contents violates the Terms of Use, CL may delete such Posted
Contents or take any other measures (including legal measures) necessary at any time without
any notification, requisition, or disclosure of grounds against the Customer or the User who
posted such Posted Contents, and CL shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the
Customer or such User resulting from such measures taken; provided, however, that CL shall
not be obliged to delete such Posted Contents。
9.1 CL shall neither guarantee that the Provided Information will not be lost or damaged during the
period of use of the Service nor be responsible for any loss or damage incurred by the Customer,
User, or any third party from such loss or damage in any case.
9.2 In the event that the Contract Term is terminated for any reasons, CL shall not provide any
means to store, including download and so forth, the Provided Information to the Customer at
the time of such termination unless otherwise agreed to in the Agreement.
9.3 CL may freely publicize and/or use any information related to use of the Software and the
Service by the User (including, but not limited to, the Provided Information) in a manner that
will not allow identification of an individual or entity, such as processing the information into
statistical data, and so forth.
10.1 Each User is required to create an account and register a password when using the Service. The
Customer and User shall be responsible for managing such account and password and
maintaining their confidentiality. The Customer shall promptly report to CL of any information
leakage of such account or password or the risk thereof to any third party.
10.2 If the Service is logged into and used by inputting an account and password registered by the
User, CL may deem that such User him/herself is using the Service.
10.3 The Customer may not request compensation from CL for any expenses (including, but not
limited to, expenses for a cause-finding investigation, preventive measures, legal counseling,
and claim handling), loss, and damage incurred by temporary suspension of use or termination
of use of the Service or Software and so forth, due to theft, loss, or illegal use by any third party
of any account and password regardless of whether it is caused intentionally or through
negligence of the User.
CL shall, with respect to the handling of the private information provided to CL in relation to the
Service, take necessary and appropriate measures in compliance with the Act on the Protection of
Personal Information (Act No. 57 of. 2003, as amended) and CL’s privacy policy.
14.1 The Customer and CL shall represent and covenant that none of the aforementioned is now
currently an organized crime group, a member of any organized crime group, a person that is
within five (5) years of the date on which he/she no longer is a member of the organized crime
group, a quasi-member of any organized crime group, a company affiliated with any organized
crime group, a corporate racketeer known as “sokaiya” or other blackguard involved in a public
campaign or organized violence group with special intelligence, or any other person or entity
similar thereto (collectively, the “Anti-social Force Member”) or falls under any one of the
following, and further covenants that neither the Customer, User, nor CL will fall under any one
of the following in the future:
(1) that it has any relationship by which it is concluded that its management is controlled by
the Anti-social Force Member;
(2) that it has any relationship by which it is concluded that the Anti-social Force Member
substantially participates in its management;
(3) that it has any relationship by which it is concluded that it is illegally utilizing the Anti-
social Force Member, such as acting with the intent to acquire a wrongful gain for itself,
himself/herself or any third party or cause any third party damage;
(4) that it has any relationship by which it is deemed to be involved with the Anti-social Force
Member by certain conducts such as providing them with funds or benefit; and
(5) that any of its officers or any person who substantially participates in the management
has any socially reprehensible relationship with the Anti-social Force Member.
14.2 The Customer and CL shall hereby covenant that none of the aforementioned shall perform any
act falling under any one of the following directly or through the use of any third party:
(1) acts amounting to making a demand with violence;
(2) acts amounting to making unreasonable demands beyond lawful responsibilities;
(3) acts with any threatening behavior or violence in relation to a transaction;
(4) acts injuring the reputation and trust of the other party or hindering the business operation
of the other party by spreading untrue information or utilizing fraudulent means or threat; and
(5) other acts similar to each of the foregoing.
In the event that the Customer, the User, or the Administrator falls under any of the following Items,
CL may, without notice to the Customer, relevant User or Administrator, immediately revoke the
license or administrative authorization granted to such User or Administrator, suspend the use of the
account of such User or Administrator, or temporarily suspend the provision of the Service to such
User or Administrator:
(1) when instructed by the Customer;
(2) when the Customer, the User or the Administrator breaches any provisions of the
Agreement, this Terms of Use or the User Terms of Use (including the covenants inSection 14);
(3) when the Customer, the User or the Administrator discredits CL;
(4) when an order of attachment, provisional attachment, provisional disposition, or
disposition due to unpaid taxes is issued, or a petition for the commencement of
bankruptcy proceedings, special liquidation proceedings, civil rehabilitation or receiver
proceedings, or any similar proceedings related to bankruptcy is received or filed by theparty;
(5) when a disposition of dishonored bills or checks is received or a party otherwise
becomes insolvent;
(6) when the whole or any material part of the business is transferred or assigned to any other
person or entity;
(7) when a major change in the business environment occurs due to merger, acquisition, and
so forth;
(8) when solvency becomes doubtful;
(9) when the business is relinquished or it commences liquidation proceedings;
(10) when any loss is inflicted on CL or any action that may inflict loss on CL is taken;
(11) when CL deems the use of the Service by the User might affect the credit and so forth of
CL or the Service due to the troubles attributable to the User or claims from any thirdparty;
(12) when CL deems inappropriate based upon its trade criteria;
(13) when CL deems any provisions under this Terms of Use is unable to be performed by the
Customer, the User or the Administrator; and
In the event that CL causes damage to the Customer or officers and/or employees of the Customer in
relation to this Agreement and compensates such damage, the total amount of such damage shall be
no greater than the total amount paid by the Customer to CL as the Service Fee from the time of the
execution of this Agreement to the time of compensation.
(1) In case that no contract term is provided in the Application Form, the Contract Term shall
be the period from the time of the execution of the Agreement to the end of the month in
which one (1)-year-period has elapsed from the execution of the Agreement.
(2) In case that a contract term is provided in the Application Form, the Contract Term shall
be such term.
20.2 The Contract Term shall be automatically renewed and extended for another period of one (1)
year under the same terms and conditions, unless the Customer notifies CL in writing and in the
manner designated by CL to reject the renewal or to offer any amendments to the terms and
conditions of the Agreement no later than three (3) months prior to the expiration of the Contract. Term, and the same shall apply to any subsequent period thereafter. In case of any Contract
Addition, the original Contract Term prior to such Contract Addition shall also apply to such
Contract Addition.
20.3 The Customer may not cancel the Agreement during the Contract Term after the execution of
the Agreement. In the event of the cancellation of all or a part of the Agreement for any reason
attributable to the Customer or of the termination of the Agreement due to any ground
attributable to the Customer, the Customer shall pay CL the Service Fee for the period till the
expiration of the Contract Term as a cancellation charge. If the Customer has already paid the
Service Fee, such paid Service Fee shall be applied to such cancellation charge, and if there is
any shortage in payment of the cancelation charge, the Customer shall immediately pay CL the
amount of such shortage.
20.4 In the event that CL faces difficulties in continuing the Service, CL may terminate the
Agreement by notifying the Customer.
20.5 Even in the event of termination of this Agreement, for whatever reason, those provisions set
forth in Section 2 (Definitions), Section 7 (Intellectual Property Rights), Section 9 (Loss or
Damage of Provided Information), Section 11 (Privacy Policy), Section 12 (Confidentiality),
Section 18 (Damage), Section 19 (Indemnities), Section 22 (Communication),
Section 25 (Transfer or Assignment), Section 26 (Entire Agreement), Section 27 (Severability), Section 28 (Governing Law), Section 29 (Exclusive Jurisdiction), Section 30 (Mutual Consultation) and this Section 20.5 shall survive and continue after any termination of the Agreement to the extent
necessary for the nature of each provision.
The communication from CL to the Customer shall be in the form of postal service letters, emails or
posts on the Software screen and so forth that CL deems appropriate. In the event that such
communication is conducted via email, the time when such email is transmitted to the internet shall be
considered as the time such email was delivered to the Customer.
The Customer and CL shall respectively notify the other party without delay in case of any changes in
the information previously provided to the other party such as its address, name, designated
representative, telephone number, email address, and so forth.
CL may subcontract all or a part of its obligations related to the Service to any third party, and the
Customer shall agree in advance to such subcontracting.
The Agreement, including any and all provisions and documents referred to in the Agreement or this
Terms of Use, constitutes the entire and complete agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral
agreements, understandings or communications between the Customer and CL with respect to the
subject matter of this Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement
and this Terms of Use, the terms of the Agreement shall prevail.
Even if any provision of this Terms of Use is held illegal, invalid, or unenforceable under the applicable
laws or regulations or by a court decision, the rest of this Terms of Use shall remain in force.
This Terms of Use and the Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Japan.
Any disputes arising out of or in connection with the Service, the Software, this Terms of Use or the
Agreement shall be exclusively submitted to the Tokyo District Court in Japan as the court of the first
instance.
With respect to the Service, if any problem arises between the Customer and CL, the Customer and
CL shall consult each other in good faith and endeavor to settle such problem.
Established on July 1, 2014
Revised on September 29, 2014
Revised on October 1, 2015
Revised on September 1, 2017
Revised on September 6, 2018
Revised on January 10, 2020
Revised on March 31, 2020
Revised on November 25, 2020
Revised on November 30, 2023
CONTACT
サービス資料やお役立ち資料は
こちら
プランや料金などお気軽に
お問い合わせください
©2014-2025 ClipLine, Inc.