Terms of Service

1. These Terms of Service (hereinafter referred to as "these Terms") set forth the terms and conditions governing the use of the service provided by Adansonia Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "the Service"), and shall apply to all relationships between the user (hereinafter referred to as "the User") and Adansonia Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "the Company") concerning the use of the Service.
2. The User shall consent to these Terms prior to using the Service, and may only use the Service upon such consent. Minors or other individuals lacking full legal capacity shall obtain the consent of their legal representative before using the Service.
3. Any rules or detailed descriptions of the Service separately posted on the Company's website (hereinafter referred to as "Individual Provisions") shall constitute a part of these Terms. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of these Terms and those of the Individual Provisions, the provisions of these Terms shall prevail.

The terms used in these Terms shall have the meanings defined as follows:

1. "Service usage contract" means a usage contract for the Service entered into between the Company and the User pursuant to these Terms.
2. "Intellectual property rights" means copyrights, patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, and any other intellectual property rights (including the right to acquire or to apply for registration of such rights).
3. "The Company" means Adansonia Inc.
4. "Our website" means the website operated by the Company whose domain is "https://adansonia-inc.com/"; in the event that the domain name or contents are modified for any reason, the modified website shall also be included.
5. "The Service" means the service called "Renala" provided by the Company, including the website "https://renala.ai" and related applications operated for the provision thereof; in the event that the name or form of provision is modified for any reason, the modified service shall be included.

1. A person who wishes to use the Service (hereinafter referred to as "Registration Applicant") shall apply for use by agreeing to these Terms and providing the information specified by the Company (hereinafter referred to as "Registration Details") in the manner designated by the Company.
2. Registration shall be completed when the Registration Applicant receives a notice of registration completion from the Company, at which time, a service usage contract shall be deemed to have been concluded between the Company and the User.
3. The Company may, at its sole discretion, refuse an application for registration or re-registration in any of the following cases, and shall have no obligation to disclose the reason for such refusal:
   1. When any falsehood, error, or omission is found in the Registration Details.
   2. When the Company determines that the Registration Applicant has any relationship with organized crime groups or other antisocial organizations.
   3. When the Company determines that the applicant has violated a previous contract with the Company.
   4. When the applicant has been subject to measures stipulated in Article 13.
   5. When the Company otherwise deems the applicant inappropriate for registration.
4. If a minor or another individual lacking full legal capacity continues to use the Service after reaching the age of majority, such User shall be deemed to have ratified the legal act of use made at the time of initial registration.

1. The User shall properly manage, at the User's own responsibility, the login information related to the Service (including email address, password, or external authentication account), and shall not allow a third party to use, lend, transfer, or sell such information.
2. The Company shall not be liable for any damages resulting from inadequate management of login information, unauthorized use by a third party, or any other similar causes.

When there is any change to the User's registration details, the User shall promptly notify the Company in the manner designated by the Company. The Company shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the User's failure to make such notification.

1. The Service is an information management and idea-support platform that utilizes generative AI to create, generate, and structure notes based on the User's requests, notes created by the User within the Service, and files uploaded by the User. The service enables Users to manage their notes and files.
2. The User may share the notes saved within the Service with other Users. The User who shares such content shall bear full responsibility for the content shared.
3. The Service is provided via the Internet and is subject to functional limitations according to the User's subscribed plan. The functions available to the User may vary depending on the plan selected.

1. The User shall pay the usage fee corresponding to the plan and contract period specified by the Company, through Stripe, Inc.'s payment system.
2. Payments of usage fees shall be made via credit card settlement through Stripe or other payment methods designated by the Company, and the User shall comply with Stripe's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The User acknowledges that the Company shall not be directly involved in the Stripe payment process.
3. For paid plans, billing shall commence upon completion of the User's application based on the period selected at the time of application.
4. Even if the User applies for a plan change or deletion of the account, paid fees shall not be refunded for any reason whatsoever.
5. If payment via Stripe fails for any reason, the Company may, without prior notice to the User, suspend or terminate access to the paid plan.
6. The Company may change the usage fees with prior notice to the User, due to fluctuations in exchange rates, changes in tax rates, or revisions to Stripe's transaction fees.

1. The contract period for a paid plan shall be the period selected by the User at the time of application.
2. Unless the User applies for a plan change or deletion of the account, the contract shall be automatically renewed for the same period.
3. A plan change shall take effect when the User completes the procedures prescribed by the Company.
4. Account deletion procedures shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures specified by the Company.
5. When a User terminates a paid plan, billing shall cease upon the expiration of the contract period, and the account shall continue as a free plan until deleted separately.
6. In the event of continued non-payment or payment errors, the Company may terminate the paid plan after notifying the User.
7. Data related to deleted accounts shall be retained for up to one (1) year as inactive data (logical deletion), inaccessible to third parties, and may be used solely for maintenance or compliance purposes.
8. When a User downgrades from a paid plan to a free plan, existing content shall remain viewable and editable; however, actions exceeding the limits of the free plan shall no longer be available.
9. The Company may, upon prior notice, modify the data retention period or restrictions set forth in this Article.

1. The Company shall provide the Service to the extent technically and operationally feasible, but does not warrant that the Service will meet the User's specific purposes, have the functions, performance, accuracy, or usefulness expected by the User, or be free from defects or interruptions.
2. The output of the AI functions in the Service is automatically generated by machine learning models, and the Company does not warrant its accuracy, completeness, legality, ethics, or usefulness. The User shall use such AI output at the User's own discretion and responsibility.
3. Even if any notes, files, or other data stored by the User within the Service are lost, damaged, or fail to synchronize due to communication issues, system failures, equipment malfunctions, or any other causes, the Company shall not be liable for any damages.
4. The Company shall not be liable for any data leakage, alteration, or deletion arising from sharing settings configured by the User, external integrations, unauthorized access by third parties, or inadequate management of authentication information.
5. The Company shall not be liable for any errors, failures, or damages arising from its integration with external services (including, without limitation, Stripe, Google, OpenAI, and other cloud infrastructure, API, or payment service providers).
6. The Company makes no warranty as to the accuracy, legality, or non-infringement of any intellectual property or other rights in relation to any content created or published by the User through the Service, and shall bear no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or claim arising out of or in connection with such content.
7. The Company shall not be liable for any damages arising from or related to the use or inability to use the Service (including lost profits, data loss, or third-party claims). Even if the Company is held liable to a User, the total amount of compensation shall not exceed the total usage fees paid by such User during the preceding one (1) year.
8. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, for Users of the free plan, the Company shall bear no liability for damages of any kind.

1. All intellectual property rights relating to the Service shall belong to the Company or to a third party that has granted a license to the Company.
2. Copyrights and other intellectual property rights in notes, files, projects, and other content created, posted, or stored by the User through the Service (hereinafter referred to as "User Content") shall belong to the User.
3. The Company may use User Content only to the extent technically necessary for the provision, storage, backup, and functional improvement of the Service.
4. The Company shall have no obligation to monitor, censor, edit, delete, or otherwise alter the content of User Content, nor to respond to any request from a third party for deletion or modification thereof.
5. The Company shall not use User Content for purposes of advertising, promotion, or sales activities.
6. The Company shall bear no responsibility for the content, accuracy, or legality of User Content, nor for any information leakage, access, or modification resulting from the User's acts of sharing or publishing such content.
7. The User warrants that the User Content does not infringe any third party's copyright, trademark, patent, portrait right, privacy right, or any other rights. If a User infringes upon such rights or a dispute arises between a User and a third party regarding User Content, the User shall resolve such dispute at the User's own responsibility and expense, and the Company shall not be involved or liable for such matters.
8. The Company does not warrant the ownership or legality of copyrights or other intellectual property rights related to outputs generated by AI functions used in the Service (including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and other external APIs). The User shall, at the User's own discretion and responsibility, comply with all applicable laws and ensure that no third-party rights are infringed when using such AI outputs.
9. The Company shall not be liable for any actual or potential infringement of any third-party rights arising from the use of AI outputs. In the event that the Company bears any liability, the maximum amount of compensation shall be limited to the total usage fees received from the relevant User during the preceding one (1) year.
10. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, AI outputs generated by the Service may not give rise to copyright or other intellectual property rights unless there is human creative involvement. The User acknowledges this and shall use such outputs at the User's own discretion and responsibility.

The User shall not disclose or leak to any third party, nor use for any purpose other than the use of the Service, any non-public technical or business information disclosed by the Company in connection with the Service (hereinafter referred to as "Confidential Information") without the prior written consent of the Company. However, this shall not apply to information that is already publicly known, lawfully obtained from a third party, or independently developed without reference to the Confidential Information.

1. The handling of User information by the Company shall be conducted in accordance with the User's consent and pursuant to the Company's Privacy Policy.
2. The Company may process information obtained from Users into a form that cannot identify individuals, and may use such processed information for statistical analysis, service improvement, or other similar purposes.

When using the Service, the User shall not engage in any of the following acts, or any acts that the Company deems to fall under or be likely to fall under the following:

1. Acts that violate laws and regulations, or acts related to criminal conduct.
2. Acts contrary to public policy or decency.
3. Acts that infringe upon the intellectual property rights, credibility, reputation, or any other rights or interests of the Company, other Users, or third parties.
4. Acts that impose an excessive load on the networks or systems of the Service.
5. Acts that interfere with the operation of the Service or damage the Company's credibility.
6. Acts of unauthorized access to the Company's networks or systems, attempts to do so, testing of system vulnerabilities, excessive transmission of requests, or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or other obstructive behaviour.
7. Acts of decompiling, reverse engineering, or analysing the Service.
8. Acts of imitating or altering the Service.
9. Acts of impersonating others, or illegally using or sharing another person's account or authentication information.
10. Acts of using or reproducing data obtained through the Service outside the Service without authorization or through methods not provided by the Service, or acts of selling such data without authorization.
11. Acts of analysing, acquiring, or manipulating data from the Service or other Users by unauthorized technical means such as decompilation, reverse engineering, or scraping.
12. Acts of linking or integrating data with external systems, or transmitting, transferring, or reproducing data externally through methods not provided by the Service.
13. Acts of abusing AI functions, such as prompt injection or other manipulations, that cause or may cause damage to the Service or to third parties.
14. Acts of collecting information about other Users of the Service.
15. Acts of registering, providing, or publishing false or misleading information.
16. Acts of creating, sharing, or publishing content within notes, files, or projects that contains illegal, false, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, obscene, violent, or otherwise inappropriate expressions.
17. Acts of recording, storing, or sharing personal or confidential information of a third party in notes or other content without such person's consent.
18. Acts of providing benefits to organized crime groups or other antisocial organizations.
19. Acts that directly or indirectly induce, promote, or facilitate any of the acts listed above.
20. Any other acts that the Company deems inappropriate.

The Company may suspend or interrupt all or part of the Service in the event of system maintenance or inspection, failure, malfunction of communication lines, response to legal or administrative orders, acts of God or other events beyond the reasonable control of the Company. Even if any damages occur to the User due to such suspension or interruption, the Company shall not be liable in any way whatsoever.

The Company may, without prior notice, suspend the User's access to the Service or terminate these Terms if any of the following circumstances arise:

1. the User breaches any provision of these Terms;
2. it is discovered that the User's registration information contains false statements;
3. the User becomes unable to make payments, or is subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar proceedings;
4. the User fails to respond to inquiries from the Company for an extended period of time;
5. the User engages in any prohibited acts; or
6. the Company otherwise deems the continuation of the Service to be inappropriate.

The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage incurred by the User as a result of such suspension or termination.

The Company may, for its own operational reasons, modify the content of the Service or discontinue its provision. In the event of discontinuation, the Company shall notify Users in advance. The Company shall not be liable for any damages or losses arising therefrom.

The Company may amend these Terms where such amendment:

1. is in the general interest of Users; or
2. is not contrary to the purpose of the Service Agreement and is reasonable in light of the necessity of the amendment, the appropriateness of the amended content, and other relevant circumstances.

When the Company amends these Terms, it shall notify Users of the amended content. If, after such notification, the User continues to use the Service or fails to delete their account within the period specified by the Company, the User shall be deemed to have consented to the amended Terms.

Communications and notices relating to the Service shall be made by the User to the Company through the inquiry form or such methods as designated by the Company, and by the Company to the User through postings within the Service, by email, or other electronic means. Notices from the Company shall take effect upon posting or transmission. The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the User's failure to confirm such notices.

1. The User shall not assign, transfer, grant a security interest in, or otherwise dispose of the User's status under the Service Usage Contract or rights and obligations under these Terms to any third party without the prior written consent of the Company.
2. In the event that the Company transfers the business related to the Service to another party, or succeeds such business by way of merger, company split, business transfer, organizational change, succession to a sole proprietor, or other similar acts, the Company may transfer its status under the Service Usage Contract, rights and obligations, and User information to the successor, and the User consents to such transfer in advance.

If any provision of these Terms or part thereof is held invalid or unenforceable under law or regulation, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

1. These Terms and the Service Usage Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Japan.
2. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance.
3. In the event that an English version or any other translation of these Terms is prepared, the Japanese version shall prevail. The translated versions are provided solely for reference, and in the event of any discrepancy between the Japanese and the translated versions, the Japanese version shall take precedence.