Please read carefully the license agreement below.
This License Agreement (hereinafter called "this Agreement") is a legal agreement executed between a customer (an individual or a corporation) and Recruit Co., Ltd. (hereinafter called Recruit) concerning the Recruit Software Products stated below (hereinafter called the "Software Products" or the "Software"). The Software Products may include computer software and associated media, printed matters (documents such as manuals), "online" or electronic documents. Customer shall agree that it will be bound by terms and conditions of this Agreement upon installation, duplication or use of the Software Products. Customer may not use the Software Products if the customer does not agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
License of Software Products
Product Name: Bottle Mail
The Software Products are protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties or other laws and treaties concerning intangible property rights.
1. Grant of License
The following rights shall be granted to the customer hereunder.
2. Use of the Software Products
üE The Software Products are shareware. A shareware, a software distributed in a certain method, is offered for trial use to customers for certain period of time before purchase by them. If a customer uses the Software Products for trial and continue to use them as a result, the customer shall be obligated to pay specified fee. The specified fee and the method of payment therefor is described in separate text entitled "Payment."
If payment of specified fee is not confirmed by Recruit, the customer must destroy all copies of the Software Products. Upon confirmation by Recruit of the payment of the specified fee, the customer may acquire the right to continuous use of the Software Products, which means:
a right to continuous use of the Software Products on a single computer;
a right to use the Software Products in a network; provided that the Software must have been licensed to each person accessing to the Software Products through the Network;
a right to use the Software on another computer; provided that concurrent use on two or more computers is prohibited.
a right to duplicate the Software for safekeeping; provided that the duplication must have a label concerning the rights provided by Recruit.
üE The Software Products may be used for a trial period 30 days from the day when the customer started using the Software Products for the first time. The trial period shall mean a period calculated from the day when the customer installed the Software Products on one or more computers for the first time.
üE The right to continuous use of the Software Products acquired by payment of the specified fee may not be assigned to any third party except the following cases:
a teacher or employee of an education facility (kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, high school, special and professional schools, junior college, university and graduate school) using the Software Products with the students or pupils who are under the guidance of him or her for certain period of time during working hours of the facility; or
an entity designated by Recruit which uses the Software Products for certain period of time.
In the case of (a), the right to continuous use of the Software Products may be temporarily assigned to the students or pupils, other than the payer of the specified fee, under the guidance of the customer for certain period of time during working hours of the education facility at which he or she works or to which he or she belongs. The temporarily assigned rights shall be extinguished if the customer resigns from such facility or the students or pupils are or are deemed to be no longer under the guidance of the customer.
üE The customer may not execute reverse engineering, reverse compiling or reverse assembling of the Software Products. Neither all nor part of the Software Products may be modified, translated or otherwise adapted, leased or rent resold, distributed, transmitted for commercial purposes or create secondary copyright works based on these acts.
3. Distribution of the Software Products
üE If the Software Products are to be duplicated and distributed, they must be accompanied, at all times, by all electronic texts, other designated files, etc. attached to the Software Products without any omission. Distribution of a single application, document, etc. is hereby prohibited.
üE Duplication and distribution of this Software Products or a part thereof for commercial purposes by an individual or entity other than Recruit is prohibited at all times.
4. Termination of Agreement
If the customer violates any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Recruit may terminate this Agreement without damaging any other right. In this case, the customer must destroy all copies of the Software Products.
5. Copyright
üE Recruit holds the authority and copyright concerning the Software Products and their duplications.
üE The copyright to contents generated or transmitted by the Software Products belongs to the entity who made the contents; provided that Recruit as a manager may distribute the contents without infringing upon such copyright.
6. Limitation of Liability
üE At all times, the liability of Recruit concerning any and all damages to the user of Bottle Mail shall not exceed the amount of consideration paid by the user to Recruit.
üE Recruit and its suppliers shall not be liable for any and all damages arising from the use of the Software Products or the inability to use them (any and all detriments including mental suffering, discontinuation of operation or other pecuniary losses).
üE Recruit and its suppliers shall have no liability for public disclosure of the contents of the data transmitted by the use of the Software Products or individual information on senders or receivers.
üE Services necessary for operating Bottle Mail (running of Bottle Server, etc.) shall be suspended without prior notice due to certain cause on the part of Recruit, for which user may not raise any objection.
üE If Bottle Mail is used to commit any slander or allegations of a harmful nature against a second party, or if a third party suffers damages as a result of such Bottle Mail, Recruit reserves the right to take any actions appropriate and necessary to aid the injured party or parties. This is a statement of a right and is under no circumstances to be interpreted as an assumption of any obligation on the part of Recruit.
7. Entire Agreement
This Agreement states all the arrangements between the customer and Recruit concerning the use of the Software and supersedes any prior agreements (both written and oral) concerning the subject matter hereof.
8. Governing Law
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of Japan.
