Thank you for visiting East Japan Railway Company’s (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) official page (“this Site”). We provide you on this Site with information pertaining to the Company. The following terms of use (the “Terms of Use”) apply to your use of this Site for viewing the Company’s timeline posts and posting your content. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.
a) As a general rule, the Company does not reply to your posts, including but not limited to your comments, photographs, videos, URL links, or any other content included in your posts. We do not answer your questions or respond to your opinions in connection with your posts or posts by other users.
You own copyrights to your original content posted on this Site. By posting your content on this Site, however, you are granting an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, and fully transferable, assignable, and sub licensable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create collective or derivative works from, distribute, perform and display your content in whole or in part and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You further warrant that all so-called moral rights in the content have been waived.
c) Age Requirement
You must be at least 13 years of age or older (in some jurisdictions, the age requirement may be higher) to use this Site. If you do not satisfy this age requirement, please exit this Site immediately.
2. Posting Standards
You are bound by the Facebook’s standards and the Company’s when you use this Site. If your posts include the content listed below, the Company may delete your posts or have Facebook remove such content without notifying you and may take further actions against you.
- Content that is irrelevant to this Site
-Content that impersonates the Company or others
-Content that includes false, deceptive, misleading, or inaccurate information
-Content that includes private information of a specific individual
-Obvious prank or meaningless content (blank posts, list of random letters, or consecutive posts that include such content, etc.)
-Content that includes private, personal information (including an individual’s name, address, email address, and telephone number, etc.) except for the information automatically appears on this Site as a Facebook function
-Content that offends, defames, or harms the reputation of the Company or any third party including the content that may cause such harm to the Company or any third party
-Content that promotes your own business or products (either legal or illegal) or your political view
-Content that includes harmful computer programs such as computer virus, or any content that intends to destroy or malfunction this Site or the Facebook system.
-Content that includes violent language or graphic materials
-Content that supports criminal activity or praises individuals or groups that are engaged in violent or criminal activity, including but not limited to, terrorist activity organized hate, mass or serial murder, human trafficking, or organized violence or other violent activity.
-Hate speech
-Content that includes discriminative language or materials against an individual’s race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, s*xual orientation, caste, s*x, gender, gender identity, serious disease or disability, or immigration status
-Content that includes child nudity and s*xual exploitation of children
-Content that includes adult nudity, s*xual activity, or s*xual exploitation
-Content that targets private individuals with abusive, disrespectful, harmful, or cruel language or materials
-Content violates or may violate any federal, state, local or municipality laws/statutes/ordinances
-Content that violates the Company or a third party’s intellectual rights (including but not limited to copyrights, patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, and trademark rights), property rights, trade secrets, portrait rights, or privacy rights, and any other rights or benefits, which include the content that may violates or infringe the foregoing rights
-Content with a deleted name or legal information, such as copyright information, where required
-Content with a forged name
-Content that spreads commercial spam
-Any other content determined inappropriate by the Company or Facebook or a threat to the Facebook operation system
3. Confidentiality
Please do not submit confidential information to this Site unless we have mutually agreed in writing otherwise. The Company is also unable to accept your unsolicited ideas or proposals, so please do not submit them to the Company in any circumstance.
4. Disclaimer of the Company’s Responsibility for Content or Links Posted by Third Parties
You understand that all comments or opinions posted by users on this Site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as the Company’s representatives or any of the Company’s sponsors or partners. The opinions that you or others post on this Site do not necessarily reflect the Company’s opinions.
This Site may link you to other sites on the Internet or otherwise include references to information, documents, materials and/or services provided by other parties. These other sites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites and parties are not under the Company’s control, and you acknowledge that the Company is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such sites, nor is the Company responsible for errors or omissions in any references to other parties or their products and services. The inclusion of such a link or reference is provided merely as a convenience and does not imply endorsement of, or association with, the site or party by us, or any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties
ALL MATERIALS POSTED ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (A) THE MATERIALS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR (C) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR MATERIALS WILL BE EFFECTIVE, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE.
THIS SITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL OR OTHER MISTAKES, INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. INFORMATION ON THIS SITE MAY BE OUT OF DATE, AND WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE SUCH MATERIALS OR SERVICES.
THE USE OF THIS SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND WITH YOUR AGREEMENT THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA OT YOUR POSTED MATERIALS THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH ACTIVITIES.
You understand and agree that temporary interruptions of this Site may occur as normal events. You further understand and agree that the Company has no control over Facebook or third party networks you may access in the course of the use of this site, and therefore, delays and disruption of other network transmissions caused by network maintenance or troubleshooting, for example, are completely beyond our control.
You understand and agree that the services available on this site are provided “AS IS” and that the Company assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications, drafts for your posts, or personalization settings.
You understand and agree that the Company assumes no responsibility for any damages caused by the result of your use or unavailability of this Site. In addition, the Company takes no responsibility for any cause of action, legal claim, or dispute arising out of or related to use of this Site among users of this Site or users of this Site and any third parties.
You understand and agree that the Company may terminate this Site or disable its posting function anytime at the Company’s sole discretion without any notice to users.
6. Indemnification
Upon a request by the Company, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney’s fees, that arise from your use or misuse of this Site. The Company reserves the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
7. Liability
If the Company is injured that resulted from your violation of these Terms of Use, we may ask you for compensation for such damage along with all costs and expenses and attorney’s fees.
8. Privacy Policy
The Company may collect your personal information when you use This Site. Your collected information is handled under the Company’s privacy policy posted on our website. https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/policy/index.html
9. Modification of Terms of Use
The Company may modify the Terms of Use or add new rules to them anytime at the Company’s sole discretion without notice to users. You agree that you are bound by modified or new Terms of Use as soon as the Company makes such changes. Modified or new Terms of Use are immediately effective when they are posted on this Site unless otherwise stated.
10. Termination of Use
You agree that the Company may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to this Site or report to Facebook to terminate or suspend your access for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of these Terms of Use. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity may be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
Use of this Site, including posting your content, and the Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of Japan. The Tokyo District Court shall be the court of exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance for any dispute arising in relation to this Site.
12. Other Matters
Any matters not covered by the Terms of Use herein are subject to the Terms of Use posted on the East Japan Railway Company website. https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/termsofuse/index.html
13. Contact Information
Please contact our customer support for your questions pertaining to East Japan Railway Company through our website http://www.jreast.co.jp/info/index.html
We do not handle your questions pertinent to Facebook, including its operation system, its application and function, technical issues, or third party application systems that comply with Facebook.
For our train schedule or service update, please visit Route Maps and Train Information on the Company website https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/
14. These Terms of Use are effective as of June 1st, 2019.
