These terms govern your use of papat (“the Service”), provided by Murayama Photo Office (“we”). The Japanese version is the governing text; this translation is for convenience.
The Service
Photographers (“you”) upload photos to galleries that the people you invite (“viewers”) can open in a browser to pick, rate, comment on and download photos.
Accounts
You sign in with your email address or Google account and are responsible for keeping access to it secure.
Fees and payment
- Fees are as listed on our pricing page. Usage is billed monthly to your registered card; months without usage are not billed. If a month’s total is under ¥50, it may be carried over and charged with a later month.
- Your first 8 galleries require no card, regardless of photo count. Extending a gallery’s online time requires a registered card.
- Fees paid are non-refundable except where required by law. We will notify you in advance of any price change.
Your photos
- You (or the rightful owner) keep all rights to your photos. We handle them only as needed to run the Service (storing, displaying, delivering, generating resized copies).
- We never use your photos to train machine-learning or AI models, and never share them with third parties except as required by law.
- When a gallery’s online time ends (11:00 JST on day 8 after creation; if extended, the end of the extended period — extensions are 7 days each, up to 11:00 JST on day 29), its photos and data are deleted permanently. Keep your own copies.
- You confirm you have the rights and consents (including from people pictured) needed to share your photos with viewers.
- We don’t look at your photos. We look only (1) when you ask us to, for support (that gallery only), (2) when required by law, or (3) when we need to check a suspected breach of the prohibited-use rules. When we do, we record the date, the gallery and the reason, and tell you by email (unless the law forbids it).
- Murayama Photo Office also works as a photographer, but never uses photos or gallery data held in papat for its own shooting, sales or any other business.
Names
- You may set a username (for example, papat.app/@name) and gallery names, within the form we define.
- You may not set a name that (1) we have reserved (including names used for papat’s operation, features or future services), (2) uses another person’s name, business name or trademark in a way likely to be mistaken for an association with them, or (3) violates law or public order and morals.
- Subdomains of papat.app (for example, name.papat.app) and custom domains are assigned only to corporate contractors we have verified.
- If we determine a name falls under the rule above, or a rights holder makes a legitimate request and we determine there is a risk of confusion, we may require you to change the name or stop using it, after notifying you (or, in urgent cases, after the fact).
- After a name is changed, or after withdrawal or suspension, the former name cannot be set by another user for one year.
- A name does not grant you ownership or any other right. We do not mediate disputes between users and third parties arising from the use of a name.
Prohibited use
Illegal content; infringing others’ copyright, likeness or privacy; overloading or attacking the Service; using it as general file hosting; anything else we reasonably consider inappropriate. We may suspend galleries or accounts that break these terms.
Changes and termination
We may change, pause or end the Service, with reasonable advance notice before ending it.
Liability
The Service is provided as is. Except for our intent or gross negligence, we are not liable for damages; any liability is capped at the fees you paid in the month the damage occurred.
Governing law
Japanese law governs these terms; disputes go to the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance with exclusive jurisdiction.