Terms of Service

Last updated: May 9, 2026 / Effective: May 9, 2026

Article 1 (Definitions)

1. "The Company" means BrickWall Inc. (B1F, 1-15-9 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023).
2. "The Service" means the website, PWA, related APIs, notifications, emails, and all other functions provided by the Company under the name AXE THROW HUB on the axethrowhub.com domain and related subdomains.
3. "User" means an individual who uses the Service after agreeing to these Terms.
4. "Registered User" means a User who has registered an account with the Service.
5. "Guest User" means an individual whose data is recorded on the Service through the proxy scoring function or similar features of a Registered User (such as CREW or a tournament organizer), without registering an account.
6. "Posted Content" means any text, images, video, audio, scores, comments, hashtags, and other information that a User posts, transmits, or uploads to the Service.
7. "Partner Store" means an axe-throwing facility that has entered into a business partnership with the Company and uses the Service for in-store scoring and similar purposes.
8. "Actual Competition" means a physical activity actually conducted at a Partner Store or other location using thrown objects such as axes, knives, or shuriken.

Article 2 (Application and Consent)

1. These Terms apply to all relationships between the Company and Users concerning the use of the Service.
2. A User is deemed to have agreed to these Terms upon commencing use of the Service.
3. Guidelines, supplementary terms, and the like that are separately established for the Service constitute a part of these Terms. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and individual terms, the individual terms shall prevail unless otherwise provided.

Article 3 (User Registration)

1. A person wishing to register for the Service shall agree to these Terms and apply for user registration by the method prescribed by the Company; registration is completed when the Company approves the application.
2. The Company may decline to approve a registration application if the applicant falls under any of the following, and the Company bears no obligation whatsoever to disclose its reasons.
   • Where the applicant has submitted information that is false, erroneous, or incomplete.
   • Where the application is from a person who has previously violated these Terms.
   • Where the applicant is, or is involved through funding or otherwise with, an antisocial force (organized crime groups, members of organized crime groups, quasi-members, enterprises affiliated with organized crime groups, corporate racketeers, groups engaging in criminal activities under the pretext of conducting social campaigns, crime groups specializing in intellectual crimes, etc.).
   • Where the Company otherwise determines that the user registration is not appropriate.
3. If there is any change to the registered information, the Registered User shall promptly update such information by the method prescribed by the Company.

Article 4 (Use by Minors)

1. The Service does not impose an age restriction. However, if a minor uses the Service, they shall do so after obtaining the consent of a person with parental authority or another legal representative.
2. Because the community features, live streaming, and the like handled by the Service include Posted Content from third parties, when a minor uses the Service, the guardian shall manage the usage environment under the guardian's responsibility.

Article 5 (Management of Account and Authentication Information)

1. A Registered User shall, at their own responsibility, appropriately manage the account information of the Service (email address, social login authentication information, identity-verification PIN, etc.).
2. To prevent matters such as unauthorized proxy scoring by CREW, the Service may adopt a daily PIN authentication for the subject player. Disclosing, guessing, or wrongfully obtaining such a PIN of a third party is prohibited.
3. The Company bears no liability whatsoever for damages caused by insufficient management of account information or by use by a third party.

Article 6 (Fees, Paid Events, Payment, Cancellation, and Refunds)

1. Basic Fees: Account registration on the Service, viewing competition records, community features, expressing participation in free events, and the like can be used free of charge.
2. Paid Events: The Company may sell paid events (events, tournaments, workshops, etc. that require a participation fee) on the Service. All paid events sold through the Service are organized and operated by the Company (BrickWall Inc.) as the selling business operator, and the on-site staff of each event (such as staff of Partner Stores) handle participants as the Company's operational collaborators.
3. Payment Methods: Participation fees for paid events shall be paid by credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or the like through the payment platform provided by Stripe Inc. Payment information (such as card numbers) is not stored on the Company's servers and is processed directly via Stripe.
4. Consumption Tax and Receipts: Displayed prices are tax-inclusive (consumption tax 10%). The Company is a qualified invoice issuer (registration number: T5011101086708), and the electronic receipt automatically sent from Stripe after payment is completed states such number.
5. Timing of Payment and Delivery: Participation fees are charged immediately at the time of application. The provision of the service (holding of the event) is carried out on the date and time stated on each event page.
6. Cancellation and Refunds (For Participant's Convenience): Cancellations and refunds for the participant's convenience after payment are, as a general rule, not accepted. Where a separate cancellation policy is stated on an event page, that policy shall apply.
7. Cancellation and Refunds (For Organizer's Convenience): If the Company cancels an event for the Company's convenience (weather, safety reasons, insufficient number of participants, etc.), the full participation fee for such event will be automatically refunded via Stripe. The refund is processed as a return to the credit card or the like used at the time of payment and, after processing by the card company, is normally reflected to the User within 3 to 10 business days. After the refund, the Company will contact all participants by push notification or email.
8. Transfer Fees: In refunding from the Company to a User, neither Stripe nor the Company will pass on transfer fees or payment processing fees to the User.
9. Non-attendance and Lateness: If a participant does not attend on the day of the event, or if it becomes difficult to participate in the day's program due to lateness, no refund will be made as a general rule.
10. Notation Based on the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions: For details such as business operator information, sales conditions, delivery timing, and refund conditions concerning paid events, please refer to the Notation Based on the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions.
11. Changes to the Fee Structure: The Company may, in the future, newly establish or change paid features on the Service (monthly/annual membership features, premium features, additional in-app charge features, etc.), in which case, notwithstanding Paragraph 1 of this Article, separately established fee provisions shall apply. The Company will notify Users of material changes with a reasonable advance notice period.

Article 7 (Rights Concerning Posted Content)

1. Copyright and other intellectual property rights concerning Posted Content shall, as a general rule, belong to the User.
2. With respect to Posted Content, the User grants the Company a free, perpetual, geographically unrestricted, sublicensable right of use—including reproduction, public transmission, screening, exhibition, distribution, translation, adaptation, modification, and transmission to the public—to the extent necessary for the provision, improvement, promotion, statistics, and research of the Service.
3. The User represents and warrants that the Posted Content does not infringe the rights of any third party (copyright, portrait rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, trademark rights, or any other rights).
4. The User shall not exercise moral rights of authors with respect to the Posted Content against the Company or any successor in right from the Company.
5. If the Company determines that Posted Content violates these Terms, or determines it to be inappropriate in the Company's reasonable discretion, the Company may delete or hide it without prior notice.

Article 8 (Scores and Tournament Records)

1. Match scores, tournament results, certification information, rankings, and the like recorded on the Service (hereinafter "Competition Records") are, as a general rule, treated as public information and become viewable by other Users and the general public.
2. The Registered User who performed the scoring (the person themselves or CREW) is responsible for the accuracy of Competition Records. The Company does not warrant the accuracy, authenticity, or completeness of Competition Records.
3. If it is found that Competition Records contain falsehoods, fraudulent scoring, impersonation, or other improper records, the Company may delete or correct such records and impose usage restrictions on the relevant User.
4. In view of their public nature, tournament records (match results, final rankings, etc. of official tournaments) may be retained as statistical data on an anonymized basis even after withdrawal.

Article 9 (Certifications)

1. Certifications issued by the Service (such as OFFICIAL BLADE CERTIFICATION) are the Company's confirmation and recording of a User's achievement of attainment standards on the Service, and are not public qualifications or public titles granted by a third-party body.
2. Certifications may be used for display on the Service, sharing on social media, and the like, but their use for commercial transactions, transfer to third parties, external authority-lending, and similar purposes is not guaranteed.
3. The Company may change the issuance standards, issuance procedures, validity, and applicable weapon types of certifications with prior notice to Users.

Article 10 (CREW and Proxy Scoring Function)

1. Among Registered Users, those who hold CREW privileges (such as staff of Partner Stores) may perform proxy scoring on the Service with the consent of the subject player.
2. A CREW performing proxy scoring bears the obligation to accurately enter Competition Records after obtaining the subject player's PIN authentication.
3. If fraudulent scoring, false records, or wrongful obtaining of a PIN by a CREW is found, the Company will take measures such as suspending the CREW's account, notifying the Partner Store, and deleting related records.

Article 11 (Guest User Data)

1. The Service provides a function whereby a Registered User enters a tournament or the like on behalf of a Guest User and creates Competition Records.
2. A Registered User who creates Guest User data bears the obligation to obtain prior consent from the Guest User themselves. The relevant Registered User shall bear all liability arising from a failure to obtain consent.
3. A Guest User themselves may request the Company to delete or anonymize data concerning themselves.

Article 12 (Live Streaming and Commentary Function)

1. The live streaming, spectating, and commentary functions of the Service (hereinafter "Live Functions") make real-time competition progress information available to the general public.
2. A Registered User who uses the Live Functions bears the obligation to obtain prior consent from the players and spectators who are subjects of filming.
3. The Company may record and use the content streamed through the Live Functions for purposes such as promotion of the Service, technical verification, statistics, and archiving.

Article 12-2 (Direct Message Function)

1. The direct message function of the Service (hereinafter "DM Function") is a one-to-one text communication function between Registered Users and can be used only between persons who have mutually registered as friends.
2. The communication content exchanged through the DM Function is treated as the secrecy of communications stipulated in Article 4 of the Telecommunications Business Act, and the Company will not view its content except where based on laws and regulations or as provided below.
   • Where there is a report from a User about the relevant message and it is recognized as necessary for investigating such report.
   • Where there is a court warrant, an inquiry from an investigative authority based on laws and regulations, or another legal request.
   • Where it falls under emergency evacuation (such as a warning of suicide, self-harm, or serious harm to a third party).
   • Where it is indispensable for the Company's system failure analysis or fraud investigation, limited to the minimum technical scope.
3. The Company shall retain DM message logs for a reasonable period for the purposes of responding to requests for disclosure of sender information, compliance with laws and regulations, and report investigations.
4. A User shall not engage in the following acts through the DM Function.
   • Sending content that constitutes harassment, threats, defamation, discriminatory remarks, or that causes sexual discomfort.
   • Sending advertising, solicitation, or spam for commercial purposes.
   • Acts attempting to wrongfully obtain personal information, contact details, passwords, authentication information, or the like.
   • Dissemination of false information; impersonation.
   • Trade in, or solicitation of trade in, illegal goods (drugs, weapons, copyright-infringing items, etc.).
   • Acts of enticement toward minors (grooming).
   • Other acts falling under Article 14 (Prohibited Matters).
5. A User shall not disclose or repost to third parties, without the consent of the other party, personal information or personally identifiable information received through the DM Function.
6. The Company may take measures such as warnings, sending restrictions, and account suspension pursuant to Article 17 against a User for whom misuse of the DM Function has been confirmed.
7. A User can block another party to cut off the sending and receiving of DMs. Where a block relationship exists, DMs cannot be sent or received in both directions.
8. The Company may delete a message even before deletion by the person themselves, where a violation of laws and regulations or a violation of these Terms is found. A soft delete (sending cancellation) by the sender themselves is also possible, but the operator's system records are retained for the purpose of legal compliance.

Article 13 (Disclaimer Concerning the Safety of Actual Competition)

1. The Service is a software platform that performs management of Competition Records, community, tournament operation, certification issuance, and the like, and does not provide the venue, instruction, safety management, or insurance for Actual Competition.
2. Actual Competition is conducted under the responsibility of Partner Stores and other operating business operators and in accordance with each operator's rules; the Company bears no liability whatsoever for the safety of Actual Competition, injuries, property damage, harm to third parties, and the like.
3. When conducting Actual Competition, a User shall act safely at their own responsibility and judgment in accordance with the rules of the relevant Actual Competition facility.
4. Although the match formats, rule explanations, and scoring methods on the Service refer to the official rules of partner leagues and organizations (IATF, WATL, JAAT, etc.), the interpretation and operation are the Company's own and do not guarantee the official views of any third-party organization.

Article 14 (Prohibited Matters)

In using the Service, a User shall not engage in the following acts.

• Acts that violate laws and regulations, judgments, decisions, orders, or legally binding administrative measures.
• Acts contrary to public order and morals.
• Acts related to criminal acts.
• Acts that infringe the intellectual property rights, portrait rights, privacy rights, honor, or other rights or interests of the Company, other Users of the Service, or third parties.
• Wrongful obtaining of an identity-verification PIN, impersonation of a third party, or registration of false scores or false Competition Records.
• Unauthorized access to the servers, networks, or systems of the Service, excessive load, or mass access by automated scripts.
• Reverse engineering, decompilation, or unofficial use of the API (use beyond the officially provided scope).
• Collection, accumulation, or disclosure to third parties of personal information concerning other Users.
• Religious activities, political activities, multi-level marketing, chain-sale transactions, or other solicitation activities through the Service.
• Defamation, harassment, discriminatory remarks toward other Users, or transmission of obscene information.
• Provision of benefits to antisocial forces, or acts that can be regarded as equivalent thereto.
• Acts that may interfere with the operation of the Service.
• Other acts that the Company reasonably determines to be inappropriate.

Article 15 (Moderation)

1. The Company conducts moderation of Posted Content, including visual review by CREW and Company staff.
2. The Company may hide or delete, without prior notice, content that it determines to violate these Terms or to be otherwise inappropriate.
3. The restoration of deleted content and the detailed disclosure of reasons for deletion are at the Company's discretion.

Article 16 (Suspension, etc. of the Provision of the Service)

1. The Company may suspend or interrupt the provision of all or part of the Service without prior notice to Users if any of the following grounds exists.
   • Where maintenance, inspection, or updating of the systems related to the Service is performed.
   • Where the provision of the Service becomes difficult due to force majeure such as earthquake, lightning, fire, power outage, natural disaster, epidemic, war, riot, civil disturbance, or terrorism.
   • Where the provision of the Service becomes difficult due to a failure of an external service (cloud infrastructure, authentication infrastructure, email sending, etc.).
   • Where the Company otherwise reasonably determines that the provision of the Service is difficult.
2. The Company bears no liability whatsoever for any disadvantage or damage suffered by a User or a third party due to the suspension or interruption of the provision of the Service.

Article 17 (Usage Restrictions and Cancellation of Registration)

1. The Company may, without prior notice, take measures such as deleting Posted Content, temporarily suspending use, and canceling registration if a Registered User falls under any of the following.
   • Where the User has violated any provision of these Terms.
   • Where it is found that there is a false fact in the registered matters.
   • Where there is no response for a reasonable period to a communication from the Company.
   • Where there has been no use of the Service for one year or more since the last login.
   • Where the Company otherwise determines that use of the Service is not appropriate.
2. The Company bears no liability whatsoever for damages incurred by a User due to acts performed by the Company pursuant to this Article.

Article 18 (Withdrawal)

1. A User may withdraw from the Service by the prescribed withdrawal procedure.
2. Upon withdrawal, the User's profile information and public posts are, as a general rule, anonymized or deleted, and login becomes impossible.
3. However, the following information is retained on the Service even after withdrawal.
   • Tournament records and official Competition Records (retained as statistical data on an anonymized basis).
   • Among legitimate quotations, replies, and the like made by other Users, those whose deletion would significantly impair the context of the conversation.
   • Information whose retention is mandated by laws and regulations.
4. The User agrees that the license under Article 7 continues to exist with respect to such retained information even after withdrawal.

Article 19 (Handling of Personal Information)

1. The Company shall appropriately handle personal information obtained through the use of the Service in accordance with the Company's " Privacy Policy."
2. Event Surveys: The organizer may, through the survey function on the Service, obtain information necessary for the operation of the relevant event (dietary restrictions, equipment size, means of transportation, etc.) in arbitrary fields from Users who have expressed participation, whether paid or free. Information obtained through a survey can be viewed only by the organizer of the relevant event and the Company's operators, and is not provided to, reposted to, or used for the purposes of third parties outside the Service. A User can update their survey responses at any time, and upon withdrawal, such responses are also deleted together with other registered information.
3. Payment Information: Sensitive money-related information such as credit card information and bank account information concerning payment for paid events is not stored on the Company's servers at all and is processed under the responsibility of the payment agency Stripe Payments Japan Co., Ltd. (and Stripe Inc.) based on industry standards such as PCI DSS. The information the Company stores in connection with payment is limited to the minimum necessary for transaction history management of the Service, such as payment ID, amount, currency, payment status, and receipt URL.

Article 20 (Requests for Data Deletion)

1. A User may request the deletion, suspension of use, and suspension of provision to third parties of personal data concerning themselves, through the contact point prescribed by the Company.
2. Upon receiving such a request, the Company will respond within a reasonable period (as a general rule, within 30 days).
3. However, with respect to the information stipulated in Article 18, Paragraph 3, information necessary for system failure analysis or fraud investigation, and information whose retention is mandated by laws and regulations, the Company may be unable to comply with deletion or suspension.

Article 21 (Push Notifications and Email)

1. A Registered User can receive Web Push notifications and email notifications by configuring notification settings on the Service.
2. A User can stop notifications at any time through the settings screen of the Service, browser settings, or a link stated in an email.
3. However, emails concerning important contractual matters (notices of changes to these Terms, security notices, withdrawal completion notices, etc.) may be sent as long as the User is using the Service.

Article 22 (Disclaimer of Warranties)

1. The Company makes no warranty, whether express or implied, regarding the Service as to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, completeness, accuracy, usefulness, currency, legality, non-infringement of third-party rights, freedom from errors or bugs, or continuous availability.
2. The Company bears no liability whatsoever for troubles arising between Users or with third parties due to the use of the Service (transactions, disputes, defamation, fraudulent scoring, injuries during Actual Competition at a Partner Store, etc.).

Article 23 (Limitation of Liability)

1. With respect to the provision of the Service, the Company bears no liability whatsoever for damages incurred by a User, except in cases of the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence.
2. Even where the Company bears liability, the Company's liability shall be limited to the total amount of fees that the relevant User has directly paid to the Company in connection with the Service (0 yen during a free-use period).
3. In no event shall the Company be liable for special damages, lost profits, indirect damages, consequential damages, incidental damages, or punitive damages, regardless of the foreseeability thereof.
4. The provisions of this Article do not apply where the contract between the Company and the User constitutes a consumer contract as defined in the Consumer Contract Act and the case is attributable to the Company's willful misconduct or gross negligence.

Article 24 (Intellectual Property Rights)

1. All intellectual property rights concerning the software, design, logos, text, images, databases, documents, and the like that constitute the Service belong to the Company or to the legitimate right holders who have granted licenses to the Company.
2. A User shall not reproduce, repost, modify, distribute, or the like beyond the scope necessary for the use of the Service.

Article 25 (Third-Party Services)

The Service is operated based on third-party services such as Supabase, Vercel, Resend, Sentry, Google (OAuth, Analytics), Apple (OAuth, Push), Stripe (payment processing), and others. The Company bears no liability whatsoever for the suspension or feature limitation of the Service arising from failures, specification changes, or termination of such third-party services. However, in the event of a clear erroneous charge, such as a participation fee being double-charged due to a payment processing failure by Stripe, the Company will serve as the point of contact and carry out investigation and corrective action.

Article 26 (Changes, etc. to Service Content)

The Company may change, add to, or discontinue the content of the Service with prior notice to Users, and Users shall consent thereto. However, the Company will provide notice with a reasonable advance notice period regarding changes that cause material disadvantage to Users.

Article 27 (Changes to the Terms of Service)

1. The Company may change these Terms pursuant to Article 548-4 of the Civil Code if any of the following applies.
   • Where the change to these Terms conforms to the general interests of Users.
   • Where the change to these Terms does not contravene the purpose of the contract and is reasonable in light of the necessity for the change, the appropriateness of the content after the change, the content of the change, and other circumstances relating to the change.
2. When changing these Terms, the Company will establish the effective date of the changed Terms and, by the effective date, make known to Users the content of the changed Terms and the effective date on the Service or by a method prescribed by the Company.
3. If a User uses the Service on or after the effective date of the changed Terms, such User is deemed to have agreed to the change to these Terms.

Article 28 (Assignment of Rights and Obligations)

A User may not, without the Company's prior written consent, assign, transfer, pledge as security, or otherwise dispose of their status under these Terms or their rights and obligations under these Terms to a third party. In the event that the Company transfers the business related to the Service to another company, the Company may, in connection with such business transfer, transfer to the transferee of such business transfer the status under these Terms, the rights and obligations under these Terms, User registration information, and other customer information, and the User agrees to this in advance.

Article 29 (Severability)

Even if any provision of these Terms or part thereof is determined to be invalid or unenforceable under the Consumer Contract Act or other laws and regulations, the remaining provisions of these Terms and the remaining part of any provision determined to be partly invalid or unenforceable shall continue to be fully effective.

Article 30 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction)

1. The interpretation of these Terms and all matters concerning the Service shall be governed by the laws of Japan.
2. In the event a dispute arises between the Company and a User concerning the Service, the Tokyo Summary Court or the Tokyo District Court shall be the exclusive agreed court of first instance depending on the amount in dispute.
3. This English text is a reference translation. In the event of any discrepancy between the Japanese and English versions, the Japanese version prevails.

Article 31 (Contact)

For inquiries concerning these Terms, please contact the following point of contact.

• Business Operator Name: BrickWall Inc.
• Address: B1F VINTAGE1, 1-15-9 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
• Representative Director: Makoto Kato
• Qualified Invoice Issuer Registration Number: T5011101086708
• Contact: brickwall.1994myky@gmail.com
• In-service inquiry form: /contact

These Terms are a document independently created by the Company based on the operating policy of AXE THROW HUB. In the event of a serious legal dispute, separate review by an attorney may be necessary.