Article 1: Handling of Personal Information

1. Personal information about visitors obtained by the organizer shall be used for the following purposes.

• To authenticate the identity of visitors logging into the exposition
• To distribute communications or notifications pertaining to the exposition
• To backup data necessary for the operation of the exposition
• To respond to inquiries pertaining to the exposition
• To collect and analyze visitor information for the purpose of improving or enabling the smooth operation of the exposition

2. When a visitor accesses an exhibitor page or presentation viewing page while viewing the exposition, personal information may be provided to the corresponding exhibitor or presenting company for providing information to each exhibitor, presenting company, or the like with the objective of providing an efficient service.

3. The organizer, exposition office, and exhibitors shall handle personal information about visitors in accordance with the respective privacy policies established by these parties.

- For the privacy policy of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc., click here.

Article 2: Copyright

1. The copyright, rights neighboring on copyright, moral right of an author, trademark rights, and so on of profile information registered by a visitor shall be held by the visitor who registered the information, excluding those copyrights and the like that are held by a third party.

2. Each visitor shall guarantee that information registered by that visitor does not harm the rights or interests of a third party.

3. Excluding visitor information, the copyright, trademark rights and other intellectual property rights, as well as all other related rights of all copyrighted material, including the content and systems of the exposition, shall be held by the organizer or the source providing the corresponding information. Visitors are not permitted to duplicate, reprint, or the like (including by data scraping) any items of said information without the prior consent of the organizer.

Article 3: Stoppages, Interruptions, and Restrictions Applied to the Exposition

1. The organizer may, for any of the following reasons, permanently stop or temporarily interrupt or restrict use of all or part of the exposition without notifying the visitors in advance.

• To inspect or to carry our periodic or urgent maintenance of computers or systems involved in providing the exposition services
• If an accident has occurred that stops said computers, a communication circuit, or the like
• If providing the exposition is rendered impossible by an act of providence, including fires, blackouts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, or the like, or due to any other force majeure
• If providing the exposition is rendered impossible by man-made disruptions such as war, strike action, labor disputes, violence, civil commotion, cyber-attacks*, or the like
• If the exposition is required to be stopped, interrupted, or restricted by the organizer for any other operational or technical reason.
  *If an issue occurs in a system used to provide the exposition, and the cause of that issue is unclear at the time and subsequently remains unclear, this cause shall be regarded as a cyber-attack.

2. The organizer shall bear no responsibility for any damage or loss incurred by a visitor due to actions carried out by the organizer based on the previous Section.

Article 4: Prohibited Actions

1. The organizer prohibits visitors from performing or inducing the performance of the following actions during use of the exposition.

• Actions that harm or that might harm the portrait rights, copyright, trademark rights, or any other intellectual property rights or interests of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors
• Actions that impair use of the exposition by a third party, including the exhibitors and other visitors
• Actions that violate laws or regulations or actions that induce the violation of laws or regulations
• Actions involving the registration of false information
• Actions that are prejudicial to the good name or trust of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors
• Actions that infringe the privacy of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors
• Actions that slander or detract from the credibility of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors
• Actions involving the collection or accumulation of personal information of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors, or actions that attempt to collect or accumulate such information
• Actions that impair operations, inputs, or the like of a third party, including the organizer, exhibitors, and other visitors, or actions that attempt to do so
• Actions that damage or impede the functions of servers or networks of the exposition
• Actions involving the use, provision, or recommendation of detrimental computer programs (such as computer viruses) at the exposition
• Actions involving the improper acquisition or use of a visitor registration, or actions involving the transfer, resale, or diversion of registered information
• Actions involving the provision of an advantage to antisocial forces either directly or indirectly through the services of the exposition
• Actions involving the improper photographing or videoing, sound recording, downloading, processing, secondary use, reprinting, duplication, publication, broadcasting, public transmission, or the like, of any content posted at the exposition, or actions infringing any other copyright or the like
• Actions involving the use of the exposition for any purpose other than the intent of the organizer
• Actions deemed to be inappropriate by the organizer for any other reason, including actions deemed to be objectionable to social conventions, actions deemed to be counter to public policy, actions deemed to be harmful to the rights of other parties, and so on

2. If the organizer deems that a visitor has carried out an action as defined in the previous Section during use of the exposition, the organizer retains the right to cancel the registration of said visitor, temporarily suspend the right of said visitor to use the exposition, or take any other action, without prior notification.

3. With respect to item (14) of Section 1 of this Article, if it is discovered that a visitor has carried out an action that violates copyright, the organizer reserves the right to take legal measures against said visitor.

Article 5: Disclaimers

1. The organizer makes absolutely no guarantee regarding the content, completeness, applicability, or timeliness of information provided at the exposition.

2. When using the exposition, visitors shall be personally responsible for any damage or loss incurred by issues pertaining to telecommunications terminals or any other equipment. The organizer shall bear no responsibility for the operation and environment of devices or the like used by the visitor.

3. The organizer shall bear no responsibility for damage, loss, or the like incurred by the visitor pertaining to use of the exposition, including changes to these Terms of Use, or revisions, temporary stoppages, cancellation, or the like of exposition services, and so on.

Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan Cookie Policy

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