Terms of Service
Effective Data: June 27, 2023
Mononoke is comprised of a web portal operated by Mononoke Digital Lab Limited ("Company" or “Mononoke”). Your use of the Site, including the features and services made available through this Site, is governed by the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms") which we may update from time to time. Your access or use of the Site constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
By accessing, using or attempting to use the Site in any capacity, you acknowledge that you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, you shall refrain from accessing, using or attempting to use the Site.
If you are a minor in your jurisdiction or under 18 years old, please refrain from using the Site. By accepting these terms and conditions, you are agreeing to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, so please read it carefully prior to doing so. You are strongly advised to review these Terms and Conditions from time to time to ensure that you understand it and how it applies to your access to and use of the Services.
Company may, in its sole discretion, and at any time, discontinue this Site or any part thereof, with or without notice, or may prevent your use of this Site with or without notice to you. You agree that you do not have any rights in this Site and that Company will have no liability to you if this Site is discontinued or your ability to access the Site or any content you may have posted on the Site is terminated. All restrictions, rights granted by you, and all disclaimers and limitations of liability will survive any termination.
Additional Terms
Additional terms and conditions may be issued by Company from time to time that apply to use of the Site and Services, including specific terms relating to your transactions or orders for Services. By using the Site or Services, you accept these additional terms, which are incorporated by reference into these Terms.
Privacy
Your use of the Site is subject to Company‘s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which informs users of our data collection practices.
Electronic Communications
Visiting the Site or sending emails to Company constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services
The Site may contain links to other sites not maintained by or related to Company. Hyperlinked sites are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by, affiliated with, or under the control of Company. Company makes no representations or warranties about the content, completeness, or accuracy of those third party sites. Information you submit at a third party site accessible from this Site is subject to that site's terms and conditions and privacy policy, and Company has no control over how your information is collected, used, or otherwise handled.
No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property
Content on this Site that is provided by Company or its licensors, including non-fungible blockchain-based digital asset or tokens (each, an “NFT”), graphics, photographs, images, text, digitally downloadable files, trademarks, trade dress, logos, product names or packaging, slogans, and the compilation of the foregoing ("Company Content") is the property of Company and its licensors, and is protected worldwide under trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property laws. As a condition of your use of the Site or Services, you warrant to Company that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms or that infringes any intellectual property right or violates any person's rights of publicity or right of privacy, or is used to harass or promote of facilitate violence or any obscene, defamatory or other illegal activity. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or Services interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site or Services. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, derive the source code of, or in any way exploit the Site or Services or Company Content. Company Content and Services are not for resale. Your use of the Site and Services do not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of the Company Content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in Company Content. You will use Company Content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the Company Content without the express written permission of Company and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in the Site or Services or any Company Content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Company or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
The following requirements apply to your use of the Site, including any submission or other materials provided by you (“User Content”): (a) you will not use any electronic communication feature of the Site for any purpose that is unlawful, tortious, abusive, intrusive on another's privacy, harassing, libelous, defamatory, embarrassing, obscene, threatening, hateful, invasive of the privacy of another person, abusive, racist, infringing, pornographic, violent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate as determined by Company; (b) you will not upload, post, reproduce, or distribute any information, software, or other material protected by copyright or any other intellectual property right (as well as rights of publicity and privacy) without first obtaining the permission of the owner of such rights; (c) you will not collect, store, or post any content that (i) contains personal information about other users or any individual, (ii) violates the privacy/publicity of any other individual or entity, or (iii) anything that you are under a contractual obligation to keep private or confidential; (d) you will not use the Site for any commercial purpose not expressly approved by Company in writing; (e) you will not upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any advertising or promotional materials or any other form of solicitation or unauthorized communication; (f) you will not impersonate any person or organization, including without limitation, the personnel of Company, or misrepresent an affiliation with another person or organization; (g) you will not upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any material that contains viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs which might interrupt, limit, or interfere with the functionality of the Site, any computer software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment; and (h) you are further prohibited from using any data mining, crawlers, spiders, robots or similar data gathering, scraping or extraction methods in connection with the Site.
By displaying, publishing, or otherwise submitting any User Content on or through the Site, you hereby grant to Company a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty free license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such User Content in any and all media now known or hereinafter developed without the requirement to make payment to you or to any third party or the need to seek any third party permission. This license includes the right to host, index, cache, distribute, and tag any User Content, edit and revise any User Content (without notice), as well as the right to sublicense User Content to third parties. You continue to retain all ownership rights in your User Content, and you continue to have the right to use your User Content in any way you choose, subject to these Terms and the license described herein. You represent and warrant that you own all content submitted, displayed, published or posted by you on the Site and otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth herein, and the displaying, publishing or posting of any content you submit, and our use thereof does not and will not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, patents, contract rights or any other intellectual property rights or other rights of any person or entity. You further represent that all information provided by you through this Site is true and accurate. Company reserves the right to remove any User Content you provide, in its sole discretion, without any notice to you.
Registrations/Sign ups
Certain areas of the Site require registration or otherwise ask you to provide information to participate in certain features or access certain content. If you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to access certain content or participate in certain features of the Site, or any features at all.
If the Site requires you to submit information, you must complete the specified process by providing us with current, complete, and accurate information as requested by the applicable registration form. It is your responsibility to maintain the currency, completeness, and accuracy of your registration data, and any loss caused by your failure to do so is your responsibility.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Company, its parents, officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors and third parties and each of their respective officers, employees, and agents (collectively, “Company Entities”), for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of these Terms, your use of the Services (including any property damage, personal injury or death resulting from action or inaction based on use of the Services), or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Company reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Company in asserting any available defenses.
Liability Disclaimer
Company makes no representations about the reliability of the features of this Site, the Company Content or any other Site feature, and disclaims all liability in the event of any service failure. You acknowledge that any reliance on such material or systems or use of the Site will be at your own risk. Company makes no representations regarding the amount of time that any Company Content will be preserved. Company makes no representation or warranties that any material, NFT’s, images, applications or files obtained from or through the Site are free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. It is your responsibility to take customary precautions against computer viruses and/or concerning inaccuracies, typographical errors or other defects on the Site or applications or material available on or through Site. You agree to use this Site, applications and functions at your own risk.
THE INFORMATION, COMPANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MONONOKE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.
COMPANY AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, COMPANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, COMPANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. MONONOKE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, COMPANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, COMPANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF MONONOKE. OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME URISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE AND SERVICES.
ANY PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES DESCRIBED ON THE SITE ARE OFFERED IN JURISDICTIONS WHERE THEY MAY BE LEGALLY OFFERED FOR SALE. THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS NOT AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION BY ANYONE IN ANYONE IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION CANNOT LEGALLY BE MADE, OR TO ANY PERSON TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE A SOLICITATION.
Choice of Law/Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution
These Terms and Conditions are governed by and shall be construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong. Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions, or the interpretation, breach, termination, validity, or invalidity thereof, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre in accordance with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Administered Arbitration Rules (the “HKIAC Rules”) in force at the time when the notice of arbitration is submitted. The law of this arbitration clause shall be construed and enforced in accordance with Hong Kong law. The seat of arbitration shall be in Hong Kong. The number of the arbitrator shall be one (1). The arbitral proceedings shall be conducted in English, and the arbitral award shall be final and binding on the parties to such proceedings.
You may only bring claims in your individual capacity on your own behalf, and not in any representative capacity or on behalf of any class or purported class, and no arbitration you commence hereunder may be joined with or include any claims by any other persons. Each party shall be exclusively responsible for paying its own arbitration filing fees, which may later be allocated by the arbitrator as set forth below.
YOU AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONONOKE MUST BE BROUGHT WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER SUCH CLAIM AROSE; OTHERWISE, YOUR CLAIM WILL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED.
General Terms
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Company as a result of these Terms or use of the Site or Services. Company's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Company's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Company with respect to such use. If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms of use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Unless otherwise specified herein, the Terms constitute the entire agreement between the user and Company with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Company with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.
The failure of Company to comply with these Terms because of an act of God, epidemic, outbreak, war, fire, riot, terrorism, earthquake, actions of federal, state or local governmental authorities or for any other reason beyond the reasonable control of Company, shall not be deemed a breach of these Terms.
If Company fails to act with respect to your breach or anyone else's breach on any occasion, Company is not waiving its right to act with respect to future or similar breaches.
These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you, your heirs, successors, affiliates, and representatives and Company, and is accepted by you upon your use of the Site or your account. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Company regarding the use of the Site and your account. By using the Site you represent that you are capable of entering into a binding agreement, and that you agree to be bound by these Terms.
Changes to Terms
Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which is the Site and Services are offered. Any changes will be posted to the Site. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Company encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates. Your continued access and use of the Site and Services after such changes are made constitutes your acceptance of such changes.