1. Scope

These Terms apply to the App and to the features around it — shared cards, shared gardens, the pages that receive invite links, and so on. The Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and governs how information about users is handled.

2. Who can use the App

The App needs no account and anyone may use it. If you are a minor, please use it with the consent of a parent or guardian. Guardians: if your child uses a shared garden, please pay attention to who the invite link is sent to and what is written there.

3. Your data and your responsibility

Memos, photos, and settings in the App are stored only on your device. We have no way to recover data lost through a broken or lost device, deleting the App, resetting the OS, or anything similar. Please keep a copy of anything important using the App’s Backup feature.

4. Sharing features

Shared cards — send a Memolet as a link or a QR code. Anyone who has the link can open it, so it is your responsibility to choose who you send it to. A link always expires after the period you chose when you made it: 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days.

Shared gardens — several people see and write in the same garden. We call the person who made the garden the owner, and the people who joined from an invite link participants.

• Managing the invite link — anyone who has the invite link can join that garden (and the passphrase too, for a garden that has one). Managing where the link goes is the owner’s responsibility.
• The owner’s powers and responsibility — the owner can delete Memolets that participants placed, close the garden to new answers, and end the sharing. Keeping what is in the garden appropriate is the owner’s responsibility.
• Participants’ names — the name you enter when you join is shown to the other people in that garden. It does not have to be your real name.
• Expiry — a shared garden expires automatically on the day the owner picked when making it (45 days by default, at most 45 days ahead) and is deleted from the server. Viewing or writing does not extend it. The owner can change that day from the App (later than now, at most 45 days ahead; it can also be brought forward). It cannot be made permanent.
• Outfits — an outfit worn by a Memolet in a shared garden is shown to other participants as an appearance only. It does not give them ownership of that outfit.

5. What is not allowed

The following are prohibited when using the App. In particular, they are not allowed anywhere other people read — shared gardens, shared cards, and participants’ names included.

1. Anything against the law or against public order and morals
2. Harassment, bullying, threats, or stalking of other users or third parties
3. Discriminatory expression, abuse that hurts others, or defamatory content
4. Obscene content, violent or cruel content, or anything else others would find offensive
5. Impersonating someone else
6. Posting another person’s personal information, photos, or contact details without their consent
7. Posting content that harms the rights of children
8. Posting content that infringes copyright, trademarks, or other rights of others
9. Commercial advertising, solicitation, or sending spam
10. Placing excessive load on the App’s servers, accessing them improperly, or modifying or decompiling the App to get around its limits
11. Anything else we judge to be inappropriate

In a shared garden, a predefined list of words plus any words the owner adds are automatically masked as they are written. This is an aid, not a guarantee: it cannot catch every inappropriate expression.

6. Reports and what we do about them

We are not tolerant of inappropriate content or of harassment of other users.

• How to report — use “Report” on the shared garden screen, or write to [email protected]. Please tell us which garden, which Memolet, and what the problem was.
• What we do — we check reports promptly, and where we find a breach of these Terms we take the steps needed: suspending that sharing, deleting the data concerned, or refusing further use of the App.
• What the owner can do — individual posts inside a garden can be deleted by that garden’s owner. Participants can leave the garden.
• The limits of what we can do — the contents of a shared garden are encrypted on the device, and we cannot read them on the server. What we do is therefore based on the report itself and on what the reporter gives us, such as screenshots. Suspending or deleting a garden is something we can do without reading it.

7. Intellectual property

The rights in what you write in the App — memos, lists, names, photos — belong to you. We do not acquire those rights, and we do not view or use what you write.

The rights in the App’s illustrations, design, and program, and in the names “めも庭 / Memolet Garden” and “メモン / Memolet”, belong to us.

8. In-app purchases

In-app purchases are made through the App Store and Google Play. Payment, refunds, and restoring purchases follow each store’s rules. What you have bought can be restored with the same App Store or Google Play account.

Items you buy can only be used inside the App. They cannot be exchanged for money or transferred.

9. Advertising

The App shows video ads that you choose to watch, and a full-screen ad when you make a new shared garden. No ads appear on the screens where you write, read, or search your memos. The in-app purchase “Remove ads” turns off both kinds. See the Privacy Policy for details.

10. Changes to and suspension of the service

We may change what the App does, or stop providing it. If we end the server side of the sharing features, we will give notice on this site and in the App as far as we reasonably can beforehand. The memos on your device work regardless of whether the servers are running.

11. Disclaimer

The App is provided as is. We do not warrant that it fits any particular purpose or that it is free of defects. Except in cases of our intent or gross negligence, we are not liable for damage arising from your use of the App.

Disputes between users in a shared garden are to be resolved between the parties involved. We take the steps in Article 6 where necessary.

Where mandatory law — Japan’s Consumer Contract Act or otherwise — does not allow us to exclude liability entirely, we are liable to the extent that law provides.

12. Changes to these Terms

If we change these Terms, we will post the new text and the revision date on this page. Changes that materially affect users will also be announced in the App.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the law of Japan. If a dispute arises regarding the App, the district court with jurisdiction over our location shall be the exclusive court of first instance by agreement.

Where the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence gives you rights that this article cannot take away, that law applies to that extent.

14. Contact

For questions about these Terms, please write to us through the Support page.

Operator: the developer of Memolet Garden (an individual developer) / Contact: [email protected]

15. Language

This English text is a translation provided for convenience. The Japanese version is the authoritative text, and it governs if the two differ.