Terms & Conditions

SHOWCHASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Last Updated: May 19, 2026

Important Notice: Any Japanese version of these Terms and Conditions is provided for convenience and informational purposes only as a translation of the English original. If any inconsistency, ambiguity, interpretive issue, or dispute arises between the English version and any translated version, the English version will control and will be treated as the governing original.

1. ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Showchase platform, including our mobile applications, backend services, public and private user interfaces, livestream tools, product listings, auctions, community and wiki functions, help-center workflows, share-preview pages, and all related content, features, and services (collectively, the “Service”).

By creating an account, accessing, browsing, or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. WHO WE ARE

Showchase is operated by Rodrigo Cerecero Curiel, a sole proprietor doing business as Showchase, with an address at 東京都千代田区神田和泉町1番地6-16ヤマトビル405, Japan. References to “Showchase,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in these Terms refer to that operator.

3. IMPORTANT REGIONAL NOTE

Showchase operates from Tokyo, Japan and may make the Service available internationally, except where prohibited by law or restricted by sanctions, export controls, or similar rules. If mandatory consumer, privacy, e-commerce, or other local laws in your jurisdiction provide rights or protections that cannot lawfully be waived or limited by contract, those mandatory laws will prevail to the extent of the conflict.

4. ELIGIBILITY

You may use the Service only if:

– you have legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement under applicable law;
– you are not prohibited from using the Service under applicable law;
– your use does not violate sanctions, trade restrictions, or export rules;
– you can comply with our payment, verification, content, and community rules; and
– if you are a minor, you use the Service only to the extent allowed by applicable law and, where required, with valid parental or guardian authorization.

We may refuse access, suspend, or terminate accounts that do not meet these eligibility requirements.

5. ACCOUNT REGISTRATION AND SECURITY

5.1 Account Creation

To access certain features, you must create an account and provide requested registration information, such as your email address, password, and any other information we reasonably require.

5.2 Accurate Information

You must provide accurate, current, and complete information and keep it updated. You may not impersonate another person, create misleading identities, or use false information in connection with the Service.

5.3 Credential Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity occurring under your account. If you believe your account has been accessed without authorization, you must notify us immediately.

5.4 Account Activation, Recovery, and Blocking

We may require activation, verification, password recovery, or security review before enabling account access. We may also block or restrict accounts after repeated failed login attempts, suspected compromise, suspected fraud, or policy violations.

6. SERVICE DESCRIPTION

The Service may provide some or all of the following features:

– user profiles and public identity surfaces;
– product listings for sale;
– product comments, likes, follows, and related community interactions;
– livestream creation, scheduling, realtime participation, and replay features;
– auctions with bidding rules and payment windows;
– price negotiation proposals between users;
– purchase-intent and settlement workflows;
– shipping-address and delivery management;
– stored payment setup through third-party processors;
– internal balance or credit-ledger features;
– seller payout methods and payout requests;
– support, disputes, help-center tickets, and ticket messages;
– user verification submissions and review workflows;
– notifications and push-notification features;
– search, recommendation, and discovery functions;
– share-preview pages and public previews of content;
– wiki, editorial, and community-card features; and
– administrative and moderation tools.

We may add, modify, suspend, or remove features at any time.

7. LICENSE TO USE THE SERVICE

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for its intended lawful purposes. This license does not transfer any ownership rights in the Service or its content.

8. USER PROFILES AND IDENTITY

8.1 Public Profile Elements

Your username, avatar, profile description, public listings, visible community activity, and certain other content may be visible to other users or the public.

8.2 Profile Accuracy and Non-Deception

You may not use your profile to:

– impersonate any person or entity;
– misrepresent your identity, authority, affiliations, or credentials;
– falsely suggest endorsement by Showchase;
– submit deceptive or fraudulent verification materials; or
– evade prior moderation actions or account restrictions.

9. USER CONTENT AND PLATFORM CONTENT

9.1 Your Content

You retain ownership of content you lawfully submit, post, upload, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Service (“User Content”), subject to the rights you grant in these Terms.

9.2 License You Grant to Showchase

By submitting User Content, you grant Showchase a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, format, display, perform, distribute, publish, transmit, cache, index, moderate, analyze, and otherwise use the User Content as reasonably necessary to operate, improve, secure, promote, and provide the Service.

This license includes the right to:

– display listings, profiles, comments, chats, and livestream or replay metadata;
– generate thumbnails, previews, replays, and share cards;
– distribute public metadata to users and crawlers;
– retain backup, evidentiary, or audit copies as operationally required;
– moderate, hide, remove, or restrict content; and
– use content in customer support, fraud review, dispute resolution, verification, refund handling, and compliance workflows.

9.3 Your Responsibility for User Content

You are solely responsible for your User Content and must ensure you have all rights, permissions, consents, and legal authority necessary to upload and use it.

10. PROHIBITED CONTENT AND CONDUCT

You may not use the Service to:

– violate any law or regulation;
– infringe or misappropriate intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
– engage in fraud, money laundering, deceptive practices, or illegal sales;
– promote or facilitate terrorism, violent extremism, or criminal activity;
– manipulate bids, prices, reviews, follows, likes, search visibility, ranking, or engagement metrics;
– create coordinated inauthentic activity, including fake listings, fake engagement, or synthetic trust signals;
– harass, threaten, intimidate, extort, or abuse other users or our personnel;
– post hate, discriminatory, or degrading content targeting protected characteristics;
– post content that encourages self-harm, suicide, or dangerous acts;
– expose personal data, confidential data, account credentials, or doxxing content;
– upload malware, harmful code, or content intended to interfere with systems;
– scrape, crawl, copy, or harvest data in a way not authorized by us;
– circumvent rate limits, authentication, moderation, or technical controls;
– use automated purchasing or bot workflows to place orders without permission where prohibited by our policies;
– create fake accounts or coordinate inauthentic activity;
– move transactions, payment, or protected dispute handling off-platform in order to evade our systems or rules;
– request, provide, or solicit direct payment methods outside approved Showchase flows to avoid fees, controls, or buyer/seller protections;
– misuse verification, support, refund, or chargeback systems;
– request premature receipt confirmation or otherwise pressure another user to waive dispute rights;
– submit false not-received, not-as-described, chargeback, or refund claims;
– return a different item, a switched item, or a materially used or altered item where a return is required; or
– otherwise interfere with the proper operation of the Service.

Without limiting the above, you may not list, sell, upload, promote, or otherwise use the Service for unlawful, dangerous, counterfeit, misleading, or restricted items or content, including:

– stolen, counterfeit, replica, pirated, or infringing goods;
– branded products without lawful rights to sell or where authenticity cannot be reasonably substantiated on request;
– illegal drugs, controlled substances, prescription medicines, or regulated medical goods;
– weapons, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or similar dangerous items;
– hazardous, unsafe, recalled, or non-compliant products;
– products prohibited or materially restricted by shipping carriers, customs, export controls, import controls, or destination-country laws;
– adult sexual content or sexually exploitative material;
– live animals, wildlife products, human body parts, or human remains;
– cash, payment cards, stored-value instruments, gift cards, securities, crypto-assets, or similar financial-risk items;
– digital goods, digital codes, accounts, electronically delivered items, or service-like listings unless we expressly allow them;
– raffle, lottery, gambling, mystery-purchase, or other chance-based listings;
– listings that exploit disasters, public emergencies, or abnormal scarcity through abusive price inflation or manipulation;
– used body-contact or hygiene-sensitive items, including categories we reasonably deem unsafe or inappropriate;
– goods subject to special licensing, recall, product-safety, import, export, or age restrictions that are not lawfully compliant;
– items you do not presently possess or control, including unauthorized dropshipping, future-ship items, or speculative inventory; and
– any item or category we temporarily or permanently restrict for safety, scarcity, anti-scalping, regulatory, or trust-and-safety reasons.

Showchase may classify policy violations by severity and context, including repeat behavior, evasion behavior, and user-safety impact. Enforcement actions may include listing removal, visibility restriction, transaction cancellation, fund holds, feature restrictions, account suspension, account termination, and referral to law enforcement or regulators when legally required or reasonably necessary for safety.

11. MARKETPLACE RULES

11.1 Platform Role

Unless expressly stated otherwise, Showchase is not the seller of user-listed goods, does not take title to user-listed items, and is not a common carrier. The sale contract for a user-listed item is between the relevant buyer and seller. Even so, Showchase may intervene in transactions, hold funds, issue or facilitate refunds, restrict accounts, and take enforcement action when reasonably necessary to protect users, comply with law, or maintain platform integrity.

11.2 Product Listings

Sellers may create and manage product listings, subject to feature availability and our moderation rules. Listings may include titles, descriptions, images, condition, shipping price, tags, currency, and status.

11.3 Listing Accuracy and Possession

Sellers must ensure listings are truthful, complete, and not misleading. Sellers represent and warrant that they:

– lawfully own or control the item they list;
– have the right to market and sell it;
– have the item in their present possession or lawful control unless we expressly allow otherwise;
– use accurate media and descriptions that reflect the actual item being sold; and
– disclose all known defects, authenticity limitations, missing parts, or material conditions.

11.4 Listing Visibility and Removal

We may publish, hide, delist, remove, or restrict listings for policy, legal, operational, fraud, trust-and-safety, or quality reasons. In some cases, the Service may mark a listing as deleted or non-public without physically removing the underlying record, especially when transaction integrity requires retention.

12. BUYER RULES

12.1 Purchase Intent and Supported Checkout

Some purchases may require a purchase-intent step before final settlement. Submission of a purchase or payment step may reserve or consume limited availability, create transaction-linked records, and initiate address, ledger, support, or dispute workflows.

12.2 Accurate Delivery Information

Buyers are responsible for maintaining accurate shipping and contact information. Incorrect address information may result in failed delivery, delay, returned goods, or additional costs.

12.3 Platform Protection Conditions

To remain eligible for supported dispute handling or platform protection, buyers must use supported Showchase payment, communication, and shipping workflows where those workflows are available. Off-platform payments, unsupported shipping arrangements, or undocumented side arrangements may reduce or eliminate eligibility for support or reimbursement.

12.4 Inspection and Claims Conduct

Buyers must inspect delivered items promptly and preserve all relevant evidence if a claim may be necessary. Buyers may not engage in payment abuse, false chargebacks, fraudulent disputes, price manipulation, harassment, or item-switching behavior.

13. SELLER RULES

13.1 Authority to Sell

Sellers represent and warrant that they have the lawful right to list, market, and sell the products they offer through the Service.

13.2 Fulfillment Obligations

Sellers are responsible for fulfilling valid transactions, communicating truthfully, complying with applicable consumer protection, product safety, import/export, tax, and recordkeeping requirements, and using shipping methods that satisfy the platform’s requirements where such requirements are communicated.

13.3 Cooperation in Disputes

Sellers must cooperate in support, refund, verification, and dispute workflows, including by providing requested evidence, responding within reasonable timelines, and following return or inspection instructions issued through the Service.

13.4 Seller Payouts

Seller payouts may be subject to verification, holds, balance calculations, pending transaction states, dispute review, fraud checks, reserve requirements, or other operational conditions. We may delay, hold, offset, or refuse payouts where reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, or legal compliance.

14. AUCTIONS AND BIDDING

14.1 Auction Structure

The Service may allow livestream-linked or platform-linked auctions. Auctions may include settings such as starting price, shipping price, bid step size, bidder caps, payment windows, and status changes.

14.2 Binding Nature of Bids

When you place a bid, you represent that you are authorized and able to complete the transaction if your bid becomes the winning or otherwise payable bid. Bids may be treated as binding commitments to purchase under the auction rules presented by the Service.

14.3 Bid Validation and Adjustment

The Service may reject bids that do not meet the current required amount, fail validation, violate step-size rules, violate user limits, or otherwise conflict with auction logic. We may update auction state automatically when bids are placed.

14.4 Payment Windows and Successor Eligibility

If the Service uses payment windows, bidder caps, or fallback logic for non-paying winners, users agree that the system may advance, expire, or reassign eligibility according to platform rules.

14.5 No Bid Manipulation

Users may not shill bid, coordinate bids, artificially inflate prices, use alternate accounts to manipulate auction outcomes, or otherwise interfere with fair auction operation.

15. LIVESTREAMS, CHAT, AND REALTIME FEATURES

15.1 Livestream Use

Users may create, schedule, start, update, or cancel livestreams where the Service permits. Livestreams may be subject to content rules, technical limits, visibility controls, and moderation.

15.2 Recording and Replay

Livestreams may be recorded and replayed. By creating or participating in a livestream, you acknowledge that livestream audio, video, chat, metadata, and related interactions may be captured, stored, reviewed, replayed, moderated, and used as reasonably necessary to operate the Service, resolve disputes, enforce rules, and provide replay or share features.

15.3 Rights and Consent

If you create or upload livestream or other media content, you must have all rights, permissions, and consents necessary for the people, voices, images, music, and other content appearing in that material.

15.4 Chat and Message Conduct

Livestream messages, comments, and related community content must comply with these Terms and applicable law. We may remove, restrict, preserve, or review chat content as needed for moderation, fraud prevention, user safety, dispute resolution, or legal compliance.

15.5 Technical Interruptions

Livestream and realtime features depend on third-party infrastructure and network conditions. We do not guarantee uninterrupted broadcast quality, message delivery, or realtime synchronization.

16. PRICE NEGOTIATION FEATURES

The Service may allow users to make price negotiation proposals with statuses such as pending, accepted, rejected, expired, or similar states. Acceptance may create time-limited opportunities to complete a purchase. Users must not abuse negotiation tools to spam, manipulate listings, or disrupt other users.

17. PAYMENT TERMS

17.1 Third-Party Payment Processing

Payments may be processed through third-party providers. Your use of those payment functions may also be subject to the payment provider’s own terms and policies.

17.2 Authorization

By initiating a transaction, you authorize the relevant processor and Showchase, as applicable, to charge, settle, capture, reverse, refund, or otherwise process amounts necessary to complete the transaction and related operational steps.

17.3 Currency

The Service may support one or more currencies, including Japanese yen and United States dollars. Currency options, exchange references, and display values may vary by feature. You are responsible for understanding which currency applies to your transaction.

17.4 Fees and Commissions

The Service may apply commissions, fees, or pricing rules to certain marketplace activities. Unless prohibited by law, you authorize us to deduct or apply such fees as disclosed in the Service or otherwise communicated to you.

17.5 Internal Balance and Ledger Records

Some features may rely on internal balance or ledger records to reflect credits, debits, payouts, top-ups, sales proceeds, refunds, or other transaction-related events. Ledger records are part of the Service’s system of record for applicable flows. We may correct manifest errors, reverse invalid entries, or suspend usage if abuse or inconsistencies are detected.

18. REFUNDS, RETURNS, AND DISPUTES

18.1 Material Not-as-Described Claims

Refunds are generally available only where the received item materially does not match the seller’s description or other circumstances where a refund is required by law or expressly approved by Showchase. Buyer-remorse, preference changes, fit issues, ordinary wear consistent with the description, or issues that were clearly disclosed before purchase are not generally eligible for refunds.

18.2 Claim Deadline

Unless applicable law requires otherwise, a buyer must open a not-as-described claim within 72 hours after confirmed delivery and before voluntarily completing or otherwise finally confirming the transaction, if the feature flow allows that. We may, in our discretion, consider later claims where the issue could not reasonably have been discovered within that period.

18.3 Required Evidence

For mismatch claims, an unboxing video is required unless Showchase expressly accepts alternate evidence. We may also require photos or video of the item, packaging materials, shipping label, serial numbers, authenticity indicators, missing or damaged contents, and any other evidence reasonably necessary to assess the claim.

18.4 Preservation of Item and Packaging

Buyers must preserve the item, original condition, packaging, labels, and related evidence while a claim is pending. Sellers must also preserve relevant records and communications.

18.5 Return Shipping Responsibility

If a return is required, return shipping costs will generally be borne by the party responsible for the issue. If the item is materially not as described, the seller generally bears return-related costs. If the buyer initiates a return without seller fault, the buyer generally bears return-related costs. In other cases, cost allocation may be determined by Showchase support or secretariat after reviewing available evidence.

18.6 Refund Method

Where a refund is approved, we may refund all or part of the transaction to the original payment method, to internal balance, or through a combination of methods that reflects the original payment mix, legal requirements, technical constraints, and operational decisions.

18.7 Platform Cooperation

Users must follow dispute instructions issued through the Service. Off-platform settlement, failure to provide required evidence, unsupported shipping methods, or non-cooperation may result in denial or closure of a claim.

19. PAYOUT TERMS

19.1 Payout Method Registration

Users may register payout methods where supported. Payout methods may require activation, verification, or review, and may have statuses such as inactive, active, blocked, on hold, or deleted.

19.2 Payout Eligibility

Payout availability may depend on current balance, pending payouts, verification status, fraud review, dispute exposure, reserve requirements, or other risk-management considerations.

19.3 Holds and Reversals

We may place holds on payouts or reverse payout eligibility where necessary to address disputes, fraud, refunds, platform misuse, technical error, regulatory concerns, or suspected violations of these Terms.

20. SHIPPING, ADDRESSES, AND TRANSACTION GROUPING

The Service may use transaction-grouping or container-like records to associate products, buyers, sellers, and shipping destinations. Address information must be accurate and lawfully usable for the transaction. We may preserve transaction-linked shipment records to maintain order integrity even if later account or content states change.

21. VERIFICATION AND TRUST REQUIREMENTS

21.1 Verification Requests

We may require or offer identity or trust verification for access to some features, enhanced credibility, seller eligibility, payout access, or fraud prevention.

21.2 Truthful Submission

You must not submit forged, altered, stolen, or misleading verification materials. False verification submissions may result in rejection, suspension, reporting, or other enforcement.

21.3 Review Outcome

Verification decisions may be subject to internal review criteria, fraud-prevention measures, and administrative judgment. Approval is not guaranteed.

22. SUPPORT, APPEALS, AND HELP CENTER

22.1 Support and Dispute Handling

The Service may provide ticket-based support and dispute handling, including attachments, resolution updates, and administrative communication. You agree to cooperate in good faith in resolving support or dispute issues and to provide truthful information.

22.2 Appeals

Where Showchase allows appeals for moderation decisions, verification decisions, payout holds, or account suspensions, those appeals may be submitted through the support-ticket or help-center process. An appeal does not guarantee reversal, and we may limit repetitive, abusive, or bad-faith appeals.

22.3 Record Preservation

We may preserve support and dispute records as necessary for enforcement, compliance, legal defense, and transaction integrity.

23. NOTIFICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS

By using the Service, you agree that we may send transactional, operational, security, verification, support, and service-related communications by in-app notice, push notification, email, or other contact method associated with your account, subject to your settings and applicable law.

You may be able to control some communications, such as push-notification preferences, in the Service or at the device level. You may not opt out of certain essential security or transaction-related communications where they are necessary to provide the Service or comply with law.

24. SHARE FEATURES AND PUBLIC PREVIEWS

The Service may create public share-preview metadata for profiles, products, or livestreams. By using public-facing features, you acknowledge that content and metadata may be cached, previewed, indexed, or displayed by third-party platforms, crawlers, or services outside our control.

25. MODERATION AND ENFORCEMENT RIGHTS

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law, to:

– monitor use of the Service;
– investigate suspected violations;
– remove, hide, delist, or restrict content;
– reject listings, bids, negotiations, payouts, refund requests, or verification submissions;
– disable messaging or livestream features;
– force-close support tickets or intervene in disputes;
– suspend or terminate accounts;
– preserve evidence;
– report unlawful conduct to relevant authorities; and
– take any other action reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, or our legal interests.

For enforcement consistency, Showchase may classify moderation outcomes by status and severity, including unconfirmed reports, confirmed violations, and severe confirmed violations. Raw report counts alone do not automatically result in account sanctions; only confirmed violations after review are counted for escalation.

Unless immediate stronger action is required for safety, fraud, legal compliance, or security, Showchase may use a graduated framework that includes:

– a soft ban threshold of three (3) confirmed violations within a rolling ninety (90) day period; and
– a hard ban threshold of five (5) confirmed violations within a rolling twelve (12) month period.

Showchase may apply hard-ban-level measures before those thresholds when severe conduct, fraud indicators, user-safety risk, legal requirements, or coordinated evasion are present.

We are not obligated to monitor all activity, content, or transactions.

26. ACCOUNT SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access if:

– you violate these Terms or our policies;
– you create legal, regulatory, fraud, safety, or reputational risk;
– your conduct harms users or the Service;
– you fail verification or provide false information;
– payment, dispute, refund, or support activity indicates abuse;
– your account is compromised or insecure; or
– we are required to do so by law.

High-impact enforcement actions, including soft ban and hard ban actions, may require an authorized superadministrator to manually confirm the target username in the administrative workflow before final application.

Soft ban scope: During a soft ban period, the affected account may be restricted to read-only or other limited access. The account may be blocked from initiating new actions such as buying, selling, listing, commenting, chatting, bidding, negotiating, payout requests, or similar transactional or community actions.

In-flight transaction handling during soft ban: The account may retain limited access only to complete or resolve already-active transactions, including shipment confirmation, receipt confirmation, dispute handling, refund handling, and required support communications.

Hard ban scope: A hard ban may result in permanent account disablement, broad feature revocation, public profile or content suppression, and denial of normal account access. For policy communication, this may be described operationally as virtual deletion, subject to the retention terms in Section 27.

In-flight transaction handling during hard ban: Showchase may cancel, restrict, hold, or force-resolve unfinished transactions and related payouts based on risk category, including fraud, counterfeit risk, payment abuse risk, user-safety risk, or legal obligations. In some cases, limited transaction-resolution access may be allowed solely to complete legally or operationally required obligations.

Suspension or termination may affect access to listings, payouts, messages, purchases, streams, content, and other account-linked functionality.

27. ACCOUNT DELETION

If the Service offers an account deletion feature, deletion may be implemented as anonymization or deactivation rather than immediate hard deletion of all records. Transaction records, payout records, support records, audit trails, compliance data, and other business-critical records may be retained where legally or operationally necessary.

Public content may be hidden or marked deleted, while non-public records may be retained to preserve accounting, legal, support, and fraud-prevention integrity.

28. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

28.1 Our Rights

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, interfaces, trademarks, service marks, logos, compilations, platform data structures, and non-user content, is owned by or licensed to Showchase and protected by intellectual property and other laws.

28.2 Restrictions

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, decompile, frame, mirror, scrape, or otherwise exploit the Service except as expressly allowed by these Terms or by mandatory law.

28.3 Feedback

If you provide suggestions, comments, or ideas about the Service, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, royalty-free right to use them without restriction or compensation, unless prohibited by law.

29. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Service may rely on or interoperate with third-party services, including payment processors, cloud infrastructure providers, email providers, push-notification systems, livestream or realtime vendors, share-preview infrastructure, and app stores. We are not responsible for third-party acts, omissions, outages, policies, or terms except as required by law.

30. TAXES, COMPLIANCE, AND LOCAL LAW

Users are responsible for determining and fulfilling their own tax, import/export, customs, licensing, product-safety, consumer-protection, and other legal obligations arising from their use of the Service, except to the extent the law places such obligations directly on us.

We may request information or take steps necessary to satisfy our own legal obligations, including anti-fraud, accounting, reporting, sanctions compliance, and regulatory requirements.

31. DISCLAIMERS

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, accuracy, or error-free operation.

We do not guarantee:

– uninterrupted or error-free operation;
– successful payment completion;
– successful payout processing;
– uninterrupted livestream delivery;
– that any item will sell or be purchased;
– that any bid will result in a completed sale;
– that user content is accurate or lawful;
– that verification approval will be granted;
– that support or dispute outcomes will favor any party; or
– that public content will not be copied or misused by third parties.

32. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Showchase and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, opportunity, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

– the amount you paid to us, if any, during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
– one hundred United States dollars (USD 100).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law.

33. INDEMNIFICATION

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Showchase and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, expenses, and fees, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to:

– your use of the Service;
– your User Content;
– your products, listings, bids, transactions, messages, or verification submissions;
– your violation of these Terms or applicable law; or
– your infringement of any third-party right.

34. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms and any non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of Japan, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except to the extent mandatory law in your jurisdiction requires otherwise.

35. DISPUTE FORUM

Unless applicable law requires otherwise, the Tokyo District Court or the Tokyo Summary Court, as applicable, will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service.

If you are a consumer residing in a jurisdiction whose laws give you the right to bring claims in your local courts or under mandatory consumer procedures, those rights are preserved to the extent required by law.

36. CHANGES TO THE SERVICE AND TERMS

We may modify the Service and these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, or by other reasonable means. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms, unless applicable law requires a different form of consent.

37. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms, together with any other policies or rules expressly incorporated by reference, form the entire agreement between you and Showchase regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings relating to the same subject matter.

38. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these Terms is held unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

39. NO WAIVER

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or any other right.

40. ASSIGNMENT

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, asset transfer, financing, or by operation of law.

41. CONTACT

If you have questions about these Terms, contact:

Showchase
Rodrigo Cerecero Curiel, doing business as Showchase
Address: 東京都千代田区神田和泉町1番地6-16ヤマトビル405, Japan
Email: hello@showchase.net
Contact form: https://showchase.net/contact/