Unless otherwise stated, Otaku Sphere and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website)
• show any material from the website in public
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose
• edit or otherwise modify any material on the website or
• redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Otaku Sphere’s express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Otaku Sphere’s express written consent.

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Otaku Sphere reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Otaku Sphere’s discretion.

If Otaku Sphere provides you with admin roles to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that you do not share your admin roles with any other person or entity.

Otaku Sphere may disable your account in Otaku Sphere’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to Otaku Sphere a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Otaku Sphere the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Otaku Sphere or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

Otaku Sphere reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Otaku Sphere’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding Otaku Sphere’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Otaku Sphere does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Otaku Sphere makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Otaku Sphere does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Otaku Sphere will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss
• for any indirect, special or consequential loss or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if Otaku Sphere has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Otaku Sphere’s liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by Otaku Sphere’s negligence
• raud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Otaku Sphere or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Otaku Sphere to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

You hereby indemnify Otaku Sphere and undertake to keep Otaku Sphere indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Otaku Sphere to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Otaku Sphere’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Otaku Sphere arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Without prejudice to Otaku Sphere’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Otaku Sphere may take such action as Otaku Sphere deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Otaku Sphere may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Otaku Sphere may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Otaku Sphere’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Otaku Sphere in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.