"Ask Japan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Application") is an Q&A application licensed by GeoTechnologies, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the " Company") for use in Taiwan and Japan that accepts questions from users who are planning to visit Japan or are currently visiting Japan regarding their destination and provides answers to those questions by other users located in Japan. 

 

 Article 1 (Application)
This "Ask Japan" Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms") set forth the terms and conditions for the use of this Application and also the information and data (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Data") including answers to questions provided in this Application. This Application may be used only by users who have agreed to the Terms of Use in a manner prescribed by the Company (hereinafter referred to as the " User" or "Users"), and the Terms of Use shall apply between all Users of this Application and the Company. The Terms of Use shall also apply to the updated version of the software in the event that this Application is updated.

 

 Article 2 (Terms of Use)
1.  The Company grant a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to one (1) User to create one (1) account for this Application and to use this Application only for that account, in accordance with the Terms of Use and the usage instructions notified to the User from time to time in this Application.

 

2.  This Application is not intended for users under the age of 13.

 

3.  In the event of any discrepancy between the Terms of Use and any usage instructions or explanations provided to Users from time to time in this Application, the provisions of the Terms of Use shall take precedence over the usage instructions or explanations.

 

4.  The Users shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations in downloading, installing, uninstalling, and using this Application, and shall do so entirely at their own risk.

 

5.  In using this Application, the User shall be responsible for the maintenance and management of the environment necessary for the use of this Application, as well as the payment of communication charges prescribed separately by telecommunication carriers, at the User's own responsibility and expense.

 

6.  While using this Application, the User may temporarily be unable to use this Application due to deterioration of the communication environment or other reasons.

 

 Article 3 (Account Creation)

1.  In using this Application, the User may create an account by logging in to this Application through the following procedures.
(1) Authentication using IDs, e-mail addresses, or other codes used to identify the User (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Account Information") that the Users have registered for services provided by operators other than the Company,

 

2.  The Users must provide true and accurate information when registering Account Information.

 

3.  In the event of any changes to the Account Information, theUsers shall register such information without delay in a manner prescribed by the Company. the Company shall not be liable for any damages or other disadvantages incurred by the Users due to the lack of such registration.

 

4.  The Users shall manage their Account Information appropriately at their own responsibility, and shall not allow any third party other than the Users to use, transfer, or lend their Account Information.

 

5.  The Users shall be responsible for any damages caused by insufficient management of the User's Account Information, errors in use, use by a third party, etc., and the Company shall not be liable for any such damages.

 

6.  The Users shall use their Account Information only for the purpose of using this Application and shall not use it for any other application provided by the Company.

 

 Article 4 (Prohibited Matters)
1.  Except as expressly permitted in this Application, the Users shall not, when using this Application, engage in any of the following acts, or any act that we reasonably determine, based on reasonable grounds, to fall under any of the following acts.
(1)  Reproducing, copying, duplicating, transmitting, making transmittable, publicly transmitting, or any other secondary use of this data beyond the personal use intended by this Application.
(2)  Extracting, processing, or modifying this Application or the Data.
(3)  To lend, sell, redistribute, publicly transmit, or sublicense this Application or the Data,  to allow a third party to use this Application or the Data.
(4)  Analyzing or modifying this Application or the Data by disassembling, decompiling, reverse engineering, etc.
(5)  Infringing the rights of the Company or other third parties regarding this Application or the Data, fraud or threats against the Company or other third parties, acts that cause disadvantage or damage, or acts that have the potential to do so
(6)  Acts that obstruct or may obstruct the operation of this Application
(7)  Acts of using or attempting to use this Application by impersonating a third party (including fictitious persons), 
(8)  Actions that violate the requirement to create one account for this Application and to use this Application only with that account.
(9)  Any act of asking questions, making requests, or otherwise contacting the advertisers of advertisements appearing in this Application or their advertising agencies.
(10)  Any act of advertising, or solicitation on this Application without the Company's prior written consent, or any act of using this Application or the Data for profit-making or commercial purposes.
(11)  Identifying the respondent or the respondent's attributes from the contents of the data
(12)  Acts that violate laws and regulations or are related to criminal acts
(13)  Acts that offend public order and morals
(14)  Provision of benefits to antisocial forces, etc.
(15)  Acts for the purpose of meeting people with whom the User is not acquainted
(16)  Acts that directly or indirectly cause or facilitate any of the aforementioned acts
(17) Other acts that the Company reasonably determines, based on rational grounds, to be inappropriate.

 

2. The Users shall not post or transmit to the Company or other Users through the use of this Application any information that falls under any of the following items or any information that the Company reasonably determine, based on reasonable grounds, to fall under any of the following items.
(1)  Personal Information
(2)  Information that contains expressions that infringe on the portrait rights, rights to privacy, honor, trust, or other rights or interests of the Company or any third party, including other Users
(3)  Information that contains excessively violent or cruel expressions
(4)  Information that contains computer viruses or other harmful computer programs
(5)  Information that contains excessively obscene expressions
(6)  Information that includes expressions that promote discrimination
(7)  Information that encourages suicide or self-harm
(8)  Information that encourages the inappropriate use of drugs
(9)  Information including antisocial expressions
(10)  Information that calls for the spread of information to third parties, such as chain mail
(11)  Information that includes expressions that may cause discomfort to others
(12)  Information that is false or exaggerated

 

3. In the event that a User commits any of the acts listed in the Article 5.1 or 5.2 or violates these Terms of Use, the Company may, without prior notice to the user, take any of the following actions against the User.
(1)  Temporary suspension of this Application
(2)  Deletion or hiding of Question Data
(3)  Deletion of the account
(4)  Suspension of use of this Application (revocation of license)

 

 Article 5 (Ownership of Rights)
All rights, including copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, related to this Application and the Data belong to the Company or third parties who have licensed their rights to the Company.

 

 Article 6 (Handling of Question Data)
1.  Regarding questions posted or transmitted by the Users using this Application (including but not limited to text, images, videos, and other data, hereinafter referred to as "Question Data"), the Users shall represent and warrant that the Users have the legal right to post and transmit the Question Data (including but not limited to text, images, videos and other data, and that the Question Data does not infringe the rights of third parties.

 

2.  The Users grant the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, display and perform the Question Data.  The Users shall not exercise moral rights against the Company or any person who has succeeded to or been granted rights by the Company.

 

3.  Unless contrary to the law, the Company may check the contents of the User's Question Data in order to confirm compliance with the Terms of Use. However, the Company is not obligated to check the Question Data.

 

4. When a User uninstalls this application, or deletes his/her account for this Application, or when the Company take action to delete the account in accordance with Article 4.3, or when the Company terminate provision of this Application in accordance with Article 10.1, Question Data and the Data acquired on thisApplication shall be deleted in a form that cannot be restored, and the Users shall agree to such deletion.

 

 Article 7 (Non-warranty)
The Company does not represent and warrant the accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or normal operation or functionality of all information provided in this Application. The Company makes no warranty, express or implied, that this Application will not infringe the intellectual property rights, portrait rights, rights of privacy, honor, or other rights or interests of any third party, that it will be continuously usable, that it will be free from defects, or that its use conforms to applicable laws, regulations, or rules. 

 

 Article 8 (Change, Suspension, and Discontinuance of this Application)
1.  The Company may improve, add, discontinue, change, delete, or disable access to the contents and delivery method of this Application at our discretion without notice.

 

2.  The Company may suspend or discontinue delivery of all or part of this Application without prior notice to the Users in the event of any of the following events
(1)     When periodic or emergency maintenance, construction, or failure countermeasures are required for the equipment necessary for the distribution of this Application.
(2)     (3) If the provision or delivery of this Application becomes impossible due to the suspension of telecommunication services by telecommunication carriers, fire, power outage, accident, war, disturbance, riot, labor dispute, natural disaster, force majeure such as computer virus, or other reasons beyond our control.
(3)     In the event that the Company deem it unavoidable due to operational or technical reasons
(4) In the event that the Company is unable to provide or distribute this application due to any other reasons beyond our control.
(5) When the Company reasonably judges that it is necessary based on rational grounds. 

 

3.  Even if a User suffers damage as a result of our actions based on the Article 8.1 or 8.2, the Company shall not be liable for any compensation.

 

 Article 9 (Modification of Terms of Use) 
1.  The company may change the contents of the Terms of Use at any time at its discretion.

 

2.  In the event of the preceding Article 9.1, the Company shall display a notice stating such modification on the official website managed by the Company or in other designated places. Such change shall not be applied retroactively and shall take effect 14 days after such display. However, changes that address new features of the Application or are based on statutory reasons shall take effect immediately.

 

3. If the User continues to use the Application after the period specified in Article 9.1 and 9.2 has passed, or if the User does not delete his/her account within the period specified by the Company, the User shall be deemed to have accepted the changes. 

 

 Article 10 (Termination of this Application)
1. The Company may terminate the provision of this Application for the Company's own reasons. If the Company terminate the provision of this Application, the Company shall notify the Users in advance.

 

2.  The Company shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the Users due to the deletion of Question Data and the Data in a form that cannot be restored as a result of the termination of the provision of this Application.

 

 Article 11 (Communication and Notification)
1.  Inquiries regarding thisApplication and other communications or notifications from the Users to the Company, and communications or notifications from the Company to the Users, shall be made in a manner determined by the Company.

 

2.  If the Company contact or notify the email address included in the Account Information, the User shall be deemed to have received said contact or notification.

 

 Article 12 (Prohibition of Transfer)
1.  The Users may not transfer, assign, pledge, or otherwise dispose of any rights or obligations pertaining to the Terms of Use to any third party.

 

2.  In the event that the Company transfer the business pertaining to this Application to another company, the Company may transfer the position under the Terms of Use, rights and obligations based on the Terms of Use, user registration items, and other user information to the transferee of said business transfer, and the User agrees to such transfer in advance in this section. The business transfer stipulated in this section shall include not only ordinary business transfers, but also corporate divestitures and any other cases in which business is transferred.

 

 Article 13 (Disputes among Users, etc.)
The Users shall use this Application based on their own responsibility, and shall be solely responsible for any and all actions taken by the Users in using the Question Data and the Data, and for the results thereof. Any inquiries, communications, disputes, etc. arising between the Users and other Users or third parties in relation to this Application shall be resolved by the Users at their own responsibility and expense, and the Company shall not be held responsible in any way.

 

 Article 14 (Disclaimer)
1.  The Company shall assume no responsibility for the products and services provided by advertisers of advertisements posted in this Application, or for transactions with the Users.

 

2.  The Company shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the Users or other third parties in connection with this Application, regardless of whether or not such damages were foreseeable.

 

 Article 15 (Compensation for Damages)
1.  Notwithstanding Article 14.2 and other provisions of the Terms of Use , if a User falls under the category of consumer under the Consumer Contract Act, the Company will treat as follows.
(1) The Company shall compensate for damages incurred by the User due to our intentional or gross negligence.
(2) If the Company are liable for default or tort (except in the case of (1) above), the Company shall compensate for the same. However, even in this case, the Company shall not be liable for any indirect damages, special damages, incidental damages, consequential damages, or lost profits, regardless of whether or not they were foreseeable.

 

 Article 16 (Jurisdiction)
1.  The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Japan.

 

2.  In the event that any question or dispute arises between a User and the Company concerning the Terms of Use, the matter shall be resolved through good faith consultation, but if the matter is still unresolved, the Tokyo Summary Court or the Tokyo District Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance.

 

 Article 17 (Survival Clause)
Any other matters not stipulated in the Terms of Use shall be subject to our separate stipulations. If any provision of this Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such provision shall be modified or interpreted to realize the intent of the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and shall not affect the validity of any other provision of the Terms of Use.

 

 Article 18 (Language)
The Terms of Use is written in Japanese and translated into English and Traditional Chinese. The Japanese version is the original, and the English and Chinese (Traditional) versions are for reference only. In the event of any discrepancy between these language versions, the Japanese version shall prevail.
 

Supplementary Provisions:
Date of enforcement: October 6, 2025