Terms of Use | Leverages Global

These Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms”) stipulate provision conditions of the Service and rights/obligations relationship between the Company/Group Company (as defined in Article 2) and the Registered Partners. For using the Service, the Registered Partners are requested to read the full text of these Terms and agree to them. The governing language of these Terms is Japanese and translations into other languages are provided together with the original.

Article 1. Application

These Terms are intended to provide for the terms of use of the Service stipulated by each of Leverages group companies, and to set rights/obligations relationship between the Company/Group Company and the Registered Partners, and apply to all relationships between the Registered Partners and the Company/Group Company relating to use of the Service. If the content of these Terms and descriptions, etc. of the Service provided in materials or the like other than these Terms should differ, the provisions of these Terms shall be applied in preference.

Article 2. Definition

The following terms as used herein shall have the meaning defined in each i tem below.

(1) “Service Terms of Use” mean these Terms and the terms of use of the Service to be concluded between the Company/Group Company and the Registered Partner.
(2) “Intellectual Property Rights” mean copyrights, patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights and other intellectual property rights (including the right to obtain said rights or the right to apply for registration etc. for said rights).
(3) “Company/Group Company” means Leverages Co., Ltd. and each of its group companies as provided for in the “Country-by-Country Table”.
(4) “Registered Partner(s)” means an individual or a corporation who/which is registered as a user of the Service pursuant to Article 3 (Registration).
(5) “The Service” means a collective term of services provided by Leverages Global and the Company/Group Company as well as any services related thereto.
(6) “User Company” means a company which outsources matching of a case and human resources to the Company/Group Company.

Article 3. Registration

1. A person desiring to use the Service (hereinafter referred to as a “Person Desiring to Register”) may apply for the registration of use of the Service to the Company/Group Company by agreeing to comply with these Terms and providing the Company/Group Company with the specified information (hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Matters”) prescribed by the Company/Group Company by the Company’s/Group Company’s prescribed method. If a Person Desiring to Register suggests the country or region to which he/she desires to change the job, the Person Desiring to Register shall be deemed to have applied for use of service to the Company/Group Company located in the corresponding country.
2. The Company/Group Company will, according to their criteria, determine the propriety of the registration of a Person Desiring to Register who made the registration application pursuant to the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as “Registration Applicant”). If the Company/Group Company admits the registration, it will notify the Registration Applicant to that effect. Registration as the Registered Partner by a Registration Applicant shall complete with the notice in this paragraph provided by the Company/Group Company.
3. Upon completion of the registration provided for in the preceding paragraph, the Service Terms of Use is formed between the Registered Partner and the Company/Group Company, and the Registered Partner will be entitled to use the Service in accordance with these Terms.
4. The Company/Group Company may, if a Registration Applicant falls under any of each item below, refuse his/her registration or re-registration and will not be obligated to disclose the reason therefor in any case.
1. (1) When there is a false statement, erroneous description or omission in all or part of Registration Matters provided to the Company/Group Company
2. (2) When a Registration Applicant is any of a minor, adult ward of the state, person under curatorship or person under assistance, and the consent, etc. of the statutory agent, guardian, curator, or assistant has not been obtained
3. (3) When the Company/Group Company determines that a Registration Applicant is anti-social forces, etc. (meaning an organized crime group, a member of an organized crime group, right-wing organization, anti-social forces, or any other persons equivalent thereto; the same shall apply hereinafter), or that a Registration Applicant has a certain relationship or involvement with anti-social forces, etc. such as cooperating or being involved in the maintenance, operation or management of anti-social forces, etc. through providing funds or otherwise
4. (4) When the Company/Group Company determines that a Registration Applicant is a person who has breached any contract with the Company/Group Company in the past or is such person’s related party
5. (5) When a Registration Applicant has been subjected to the measures provided for in Article 10
6. (6) When the Company/Group Company determines the registration is not appropriate

Article 4. Accuracy of Registration Matters

The Registered Partners shall provide the Company/Group Company and the User Company with accurate personal information with no deficiency or inconsistency. In the event any objection, calin or demand, etc. is filed by the User Company or other third party due to the inaccuracy in personal information provided by the Registered Partner or to a deficiency or inconsistency, etc. in the content, the Registered Partner shall deal with the issue at his/her expense and on his/her own responsibility and ensure that he/she will not cause any trouble to the Company/Group Company.

The Registered Partner shall, when there is a change in Registration Matters, notify the Company/Group Company of the change by the method prescribed by the Company/Group Company without delay. The Registered Partner shall, when requested by the Company/Group Company, promptly submit the following documents.

(1) Identity verification documents to identify and confirm that he/she is the Registered Partner, including name and address
(2) A register card or certificate of qualification for employment to confirm the status of residence
(3) Other certification documents required to be submitted by the User Company

Article 5. Management of User ID and Password

The Registered Partner shall, when the Company/Group Company issues a user ID and password in connection with the Service, be responsible for using and managing such user ID and password, and shall not have a third party use or assign to a third party such user ID or password in any case.

Article 6. Provision of Service

The Company/Group Company will provide the Registered Partner with appropriate services from among the following services at its own judgement.

(1) Collating the application content received from the Registered Partner with the job offering terms received from the User Company, and provision of job offering information based on the collating results
(2) Solicitation of applying for job offering to the user who is judged to have high degree of conformity to the job offering terms received from the User Company
(3) Agency service for application procedures
(4) Conduct of matching consultation by phone or interview
(5) Any other services the Company/Group Company determines beneficial to the user

Article 7. Prohibited Matters

The Registered Partners shall be prohibited from conducting any acts that fall or are determined by the Company/Group Company to fall under any of each item below when using the Service.

(1) An act that breaches laws and regulations, or an act related to a criminal conduct
(2) Fraud or an act of intimidation against the Company/Group Company, other users of the Service or other third parties
(3) An act that is contrary to public order and morals
(4) An act of infringing on Intellectual Property Rights, portrait rights, right of privacy, honor, any other rights or interests of the Company/Group Company, other users of the Service or other third parties
(5) An act of transmitting information that falls or is determined by the Company/Group Company to fall under the following to the Company/Group Company or other users of the Service through the Service
1. 1. Information containing excessively violent or cruel expressions
2. 2. Information containing a computer virus or other harmful computer program
3. 3. Information containing expressions that defame or discredit the Company/Group Company, other users of the Service or other third parties
4. 4. Information containing excessively indecent expressions
5. 5. Information containing expressions that encourage discrimination
6. 6. Information containing expressions that encourage suicide or self-injury
7. 7. Information containing expressions that encourage inappropriate use of drugs
8. 8. Information containing anti-social expressions
9. 9. Information that seeks to diffuse information to third parties such as chain mail
10. 10. Information containing expressions that make others unpleasant
(6) An act liable to interfere with operation of the Service
(7) An act of impersonating a third party
(8) An act intended to collect information of other users of the Service
(9) An act of causing disadvantage, damage or feeling of discomfort to the Company/Group Company, other users of the Service or other third parties
(10) Offering benefits to anti-social forces, etc.
(11) An act of giving a rise to or facilitating, directly or indirectly, the acts set forth in the preceding items
(12) An act of directly executing an outsourcing agreement with the User Company or a company which was the User Company without using the Service, or an act of solicitating thereof
(13) An act of providing any service similar to the Service without obtaining the Company’s/Group Company’s consent
(14) Any other acts that the Company/Group Company determines inappropriate

Article 8. Suspension, etc. of the Service

The Company/Group Company is allowed to suspend or discontinue the provision of the Service, wholly or in part, without the prior notice to the Registered Partners, if any of the following is applicable.

(1) When urgently conducting an inspection or maintenance work of the computer system relating to the Service
(2) When the computer or communications line, etc. is shut down due to an accident
(3) When the Company/Group Company becomes unable to operate the Service due to force majeure, including earthquakes, lighting strikes, fires, wind and flood damages, blackouts, or acts of God
(4) When the Company/Group Company determines it necessary to suspend or discontinue the Service

Article 9. Ownership of Rights

All Intellectual Property Rights relating to the Service shall belong to the Company/Group Company or a person who grants to the Company/Group Company a license, and permission for use of the Service under these Terms shall not mean licensing of Intellectual Property Rights of the Company/Group Company or a person who grants to the Company/Group Company a license relating to the Service.

The Registered Partners shall agree not to exercise the author’s moral right against the Company/Group Company or a person who assumes a right or to whom a right is granted by the Company/Group Company.

Article 10. Deregistration, etc.

1. The Company/Group Company shall be entitled to, if a Registered Partner falls under any of each item below, temporarily suspend use of the Service by such Registered Partner, or cancel their registration as the Registered Partner, or terminate the Service Terms of Use without the prior notice or demand.
1. (1) When a Registered Partner breaches any of the provisions herein
2. (2) When it is revealed that there is a false fact in Registration Matters
3. (3) When a Registered Partner suspends payment or becomes insolvent, or when a petition for commencement of bankruptcy procedures, commencement of civil rehabilitation procedures, commencement of corporate reorganization procedures, commencement of special liquidation or any procedures equivalent thereto is filed against a Registered Partner
4. (4) When a Registered Partner has not used the Service for six (6) months or more
5. (5) When no reply has been given to an inquiry or other communication asking for a reply by the Company/Group Company for thirty (30) days or more
6. (6) When a Registered Partner falls under each item of Paragraph 4, Article 3
7. (7) When the Company/Group Company determines use of the Service, registration as the Registered Partner or continuation of the Service Terms of Use is not appropriate
2. If a Registered Partner falls under any of the events in each item of the preceding paragraph, he/she shall automatically forfeit the benefit of time with respect to all obligations owed to the Company/Group Company, and shall immediately pay all obligations to the Company/Group Company. The Company/Group Company will not be liable for any damages incurred by the Registered Partner due to an act conducted by the Company/Group Company pursuant to this article.

Article 11. Withdrawal

The Registered Partners may, by notifying the Company/Group Company by the Company’s/Group Company’s prescribed method, withdraw from the Service and cancel his/her registration as the Registered Partner. If there are obligations owed to the Company/Group Company when withdrawing from the Service, the Registered Partner shall automatically forfeit the benefit of time with respect to all obligations owed to the Company/Group Company, and shall immediately pay all obligations to the Company/Group Company. The handling of personal information after withdrawal shall be subject to provisions of Article 17.

Article 12. Change of Contents and Termination of the Service

The Company/Group Company may change the contents of the Service or terminate the provision for its convenience. When terminating the provision of the Service, the Company/Group Company will notify the Registered Partners in advance.

The Company/Group Company will not be liable for any damages incurred by the Registered Partners due to the measures taken by the Company/Group Company pursuant to this article.

Article 13. Disclaimer of Warranties

1. The Company/Group Company will not warrant that the Service fits for any particular purpose of the Registered Partners, that the Service has function/commercial value/accuracy/usefulness as expected, that use by the Registered Partners of the Service conforms to laws and regulations or the internal rules, etc. of industry organizations applicable to the Registered Partners, and that no defect shall occur in the Service.
2. The Company/Group Company collates the application content received from the Registered Partner with the User Company’s preferred job offering terms, however, it may not inform the consideration criteria or judgment reasons, etc. Furthermore, even when the Company/Group Company accepts a request from the Registered Partner to apply for the job offering, the Company/Group Company may not sometimes recommend to said job offering as a result of judging the degree of conformity to said job offering in reference to the selection standard, etc. presented by the User Company, or inform the Registered Partner that he/she does not fit for the job offering terms on behalf of the User Company.
3. The Company/Group Company relays communication, at the Registered Partner’s desire, when confirming the employment conditions of the User Company and other contract contents, the Registered Partner shall, however, enter into an agreement after directly confirming with the User Company the employment conditions and other contract contents on his/her own responsibility, and shall agree that the employment conditions the Company/Group Company notified to the Registered Partner will not finally guarantee the details of such contract.

Article 14. Elimination of Anti-social Forces

The Registered Partners shall represent that they are not and shall not be in the future anti-social forces (meaning an organized crime group, a member of an organized crime group, a person for whom less than five (5) years have elapsed since he/she has stopped being a member of an organized crime group, a quasi-member of an organized crime group, a company involved with an organized crime group, a corporate racketeer, etc., a social movement, etc. advocating miscreant, a crime group specialized in intellectual crimes, or any other persons equivalent thereto), that they do not and shall not in the future conduct illegal acts, including violent acts, fraudulent/act of intimidation, and acts of interfering with business. In the event of a breach of the representation, the Registered Partner shall accept the termination of provision of the Service without any objection.

Article 15. Disclaimer

The Company/Group Company shall not be liable for discontinuation, suspension, termination, unavailability or change of provision of the Service by the Company/Group Company, deletion or disappearance of message or information transmitted by the Registered Partner to the Service, deregistration of the Registered Partner, disappearance of registration data due to use of the Service, or failure or damages of devices, and any other damages suffered by the Registered Partners in relation to the Service (hereinafter referred to as “User Damage”).

Even if the Company/Group Company assumes liability for some reason, the Company/Group Company shall not be held liable for User Damage exceeding the amount of consideration that has been paid by the Registered Partner to the Company/Group Company over the past twelve (12) months. In addition, the Company/Group Company shall not be liable for compensating incidental damage, indirect damage, special damage, future damage, and damage pertaining to lost profit.

The Company/Group Company will not take any responsibility for any transaction, communication, dispute, or the like arising between the Registered Partner and another Registered Partner or a third party in connection with the Service or the Company’s/Group Company’s website.

Article 16. Confidentiality

The Registered Partners shall, with respect to information which is disclosed by the Company/Group Company requesting the Registered Partners to handle in confidence, handle it in confidence except where the prior written consent of the Company/Group Company is obtained.

Article 17. Handling of Personal Information

The handling of personal information of the Registered Partners by the Company/Group Company shall be governed by provisions of the “Handling of Personal Information,” and the Registered Partners shall agree that the Company/Group Company handles the user information of the Registered Partner in accordance with the “Handling of Personal Information.”

Article 18. Liability for Damages

If a user inflicts damage on the Company/Group Company, related persons or third parties in breach of each provision herein, the user shall compensate for the damage.

Article 19. Amendment to these Terms, etc.

The Company/Group Company may amend these Terms. When amending these Terms, the Company/Group Company will release content of the amendment to the Registered Partners. After the release of content of the amendment, if a Registered Partner uses the Service or if he/she did not take deregistration procedures within the period specified by the Company/Group Company, the Registered Partner shall be deemed to have agreed to the amendment to these Terms.

Article 20. Communication/Notices

Inquiries in relation to the Service, any other communication or notices from the Registered Partners to the Company/Group Company, and the publication pertaining to amendment to these Terms, any other communication or publication from the Company/Group Company to the Registered Partners shall be given in the manner prescribed by the Company/Group Company.

Article 21. Assignment, etc. of Contractual Status under the Service Terms of Use

The Registered Partner may not, without the prior written consent of the Company/Group Company, assign, transfer, establish security to a third party or otherwise dispose of the contractual status under the Service Terms of Use or rights or obligations founded on these Terms.

If the Company/Group Company transferred the business pertaining to the Service to another company, the Company/Group Company shall be entitled to assign the contractual status under the Service Terms of Use, rights and obligations founded on these Terms, or Registration Matters of the Registered Partners and other customer information to the assignee of the said business transfer, and the Registered Partners shall be deemed to have agreed in advance to such assignment under this paragraph. The business transfer set forth in this paragraph shall include company split and any other cases of business transfer, beside ordinary business transfer.

Article 22. Entire Agreement

The Registered Partners shall confirm that these Terms constitute and represent the entire agreement between the Registered Partners and the Company/Group Company and supersedes any prior communication, representation, understanding and agreement, irrespective of whether oral or written, between the Registered Partners and the Company/Group Company as to the Service Terms of Use.

Article 23. Severability

If any provision of these Terms or a part thereof shall be determined to be invalid or unenforceable by the Consumer Contract Act or other laws and regulations, the remainder of these Terms and the remainder of the provision determined to be partially invalid or unenforceable shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect.

Article 24. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and the Service Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of Japan; provided, however, that if the Company/Group Company providing services is a corporation outside Japan, it shall be subject to provisions set forth in the “Country-by-Country Table”. The parties hereto agree that even if buying and selling of goods arises in the Service, application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall be precluded.

The parties hereto consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court or the Tokyo Summary Court in the first instance for the settlement of any and all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service Terms of Use; provided, however, that if the Company/Group Company providing services is a corporation outside Japan, it shall be subject to provisions set forth in the “Country-by-Country Table”.

[Last updated: August 30, 2021]