These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of the mobile application “KOMA: Speech Bubble Maker” (the “App”) and all related services provided by Minerva Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). The App and related services are collectively referred to as the “Service.”

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

Article 1. Application of These Terms

  1. These Terms apply to all relationships between the Company and users in connection with the Service.
  2. By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the App, you are deemed to have agreed to these Terms, except where applicable law requires explicit consent.
  3. The Company may establish additional guidelines, notices, policies, or rules relating to the Service (“Additional Rules”).
  4. Additional Rules form part of these Terms. If there is any conflict between these Terms and the Additional Rules, the Additional Rules will prevail unless otherwise stated.

Article 2. Description of the Service

  1. The App is a photo and image editing application that allows users to add speech bubbles, text, fonts, colors, decorations, and other visual elements to photos and images and to edit, save, and export the resulting content.
  2. Features, specifications, supported formats, storage methods, and availability may vary depending on the device, operating system, App version, region, or other usage environment.
  3. The Company does not guarantee that every feature of the Service will be available or operate correctly on every device, operating system, or environment.

Article 3. License to Use the App

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and any applicable terms of the relevant app store or platform, the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to use the App for personal or otherwise lawful purposes.

Except where expressly permitted by applicable law, you may not:

  1. copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or commercially exploit the App;
  2. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the App;
  3. bypass or interfere with security features or technical restrictions of the App; or
  4. use the App in any manner that violates applicable law or these Terms.

Article 4. User Content

  1. “User Content” means photos, images, text, dialogue, captions, designs, and other content imported, entered, created, or edited by a user through the Service.
  2. Copyright and other rights in User Content remain with the user or the applicable rights holder.
  3. The Company does not acquire ownership of your photos, images, or works merely because you use the App.
  4. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have all rights, permissions, licenses, and consents necessary to use User Content within the Service.
  5. If you use photographs taken by third parties, copyrighted works, characters, logos, trademarks, fonts, or other protected materials, you are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions.
  6. If User Content includes identifiable individuals, you are responsible for ensuring that your use, publication, or distribution of such content does not infringe privacy rights, publicity rights, portrait rights, or any other rights of third parties.
  7. If a feature of the Service requires User Content to be transmitted to systems operated by the Company or its service providers, you grant the Company a limited right to process, transmit, store, reproduce, and otherwise handle such User Content solely to the extent reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, secure, and operate the Service.

Article 5. Use of Created Content

Users may use images and other works created through the App for personal use, social media posts, commercial purposes, or other lawful purposes, provided that such use complies with applicable laws, these Terms, and the rights of third parties.

Any third-party photographs, images, trademarks, fonts, characters, copyrighted works, or other materials included in created content remain subject to the terms, licenses, and rights applicable to those materials.

Article 6. Paid Features and Subscriptions

  1. Certain features of the Service may be offered as paid features, in-app purchases, or automatically renewing subscriptions.
  2. Prices, subscription periods, available features, trial periods, renewal terms, and other purchase conditions will be displayed in the App or on the applicable Apple App Store, Google Play, or other purchase screen.
  3. Subscriptions may automatically renew unless cancelled in accordance with the rules of the applicable platform.
  4. Subscription management and cancellation are generally handled through the Apple ID, Google account, or other platform account used for the purchase.
  5. Deleting or uninstalling the App does not necessarily cancel an active subscription.
  6. Billing, cancellations, refunds, and other payment-related matters are subject to applicable law and the rules of Apple, Google, or the applicable payment platform.
  7. Nothing in these Terms is intended to restrict any refund, cancellation, or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Article 7. Prohibited Conduct

Users must not engage in any of the following activities:

  1. violating any applicable law or regulation;
  2. engaging in or facilitating criminal activity;
  3. infringing copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property rights, or other rights of the Company or any third party;
  4. infringing privacy rights, publicity rights, portrait rights, reputation, or other rights of any person;
  5. impersonating another person or entity;
  6. using the Service to harass, threaten, defame, abuse, or harm another person;
  7. creating or using deceptive, fraudulent, misleading, or falsified content for unlawful purposes;
  8. creating, distributing, or using illegal sexual content or other content prohibited by law;
  9. placing an excessive burden on the Service, servers, or networks;
  10. attempting unauthorized access to the Service or related systems;
  11. circumventing security or access restrictions;
  12. reverse engineering or analyzing the App except where expressly permitted by law;
  13. interfering with the proper operation of the Service;
  14. providing benefits to criminal organizations or antisocial forces;
  15. using the Service for any unlawful or abusive purpose; or
  16. engaging in any other conduct that the Company reasonably determines may harm users, third parties, the Company, or the operation of the Service.

Article 8. Intellectual Property Rights

All copyrights, trademarks, patents, designs, software rights, and other intellectual property rights relating to the App, the Service, speech bubble designs, interface designs, logos, software, and content provided by the Company belong to the Company or their respective lawful rights holders.

Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership or intellectual property rights to users.

Article 9. Storage and Backups

  1. The App may store projects, settings, images, or other data locally on a device or using another storage method designated by the Company.
  2. Users are responsible for maintaining their own backups of important data and images.
  3. Data may be lost due to device malfunction, device replacement, device loss, deletion of the App, operating system changes, insufficient storage capacity, software errors, or other circumstances.
  4. The Company does not guarantee that any project, image, setting, or other data will be stored indefinitely or recoverable.

Article 10. Third-Party Services

The Service may use or integrate with services, software development kits, payment services, analytics providers, advertising providers, cloud services, or other services provided by Apple, Google, and other third parties.

Your use of such third-party services may also be subject to their own terms and policies.

The Company does not control and is not responsible for outages, modifications, discontinuation, restrictions, security issues, or other matters arising from third-party services beyond the Company’s reasonable control.

Article 11. Modification, Suspension, or Termination of the Service

The Company may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue all or part of the Service where reasonably necessary, including in the following circumstances:

  1. maintenance, inspection, or system updates;
  2. security requirements;
  3. changes to operating systems, app stores, APIs, or third-party services;
  4. power outages, communication failures, natural disasters, or other force majeure events; or
  5. other circumstances reasonably requiring modification, suspension, or termination.

Where reasonably practicable, the Company will endeavor to provide advance notice of material changes or termination of the Service.

Article 12. Restriction of Use

The Company may restrict or suspend a user’s access to the Service where the user violates these Terms or where such action is reasonably necessary to protect the security, integrity, or proper operation of the Service.

Where prior notice or other procedures are required by applicable law, the Company will comply with such requirements.

Article 13. Disclaimer of Warranties

  1. The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
  2. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company makes no warranties or representations, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, regarding the Service, including its accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, security, usefulness, legality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or compatibility with any particular device or operating system.
  3. The Company does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, free from bugs, defects, failures, delays, data loss, display errors, image quality changes, or other technical problems.
  4. The Company does not guarantee that the Service will work properly on every smartphone, tablet, operating system, operating system version, device configuration, network, or other environment.
  5. The Company makes no warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, legality, completeness, availability, storage, suitability, or non-infringement of any image, text, speech bubble, design, or other content created, edited, exported, or saved through the Service.
  6. Users are solely responsible for determining whether any content created through the Service is suitable for their intended use.
  7. The Company does not guarantee that any content created through the Service will comply with the terms, advertising policies, community standards, copyright rules, or other requirements of any social media platform or third-party service.
  8. The Company does not guarantee the continued availability of any particular feature, font, speech bubble, design, editing function, or the Service itself.

Article 14. Limitation of Liability

  1. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will not be liable for any loss, damage, expense, claim, or liability arising out of or relating to the use of, inability to use, or reliance upon the Service, except where such liability cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
  2. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company will not be liable, to the extent permitted by applicable law, for losses arising from:a. use or inability to use the Service;
    b. bugs, defects, errors, crashes, outages, delays, or termination of the Service;
    c. App updates, feature changes, or specification changes;
    d. operating system updates or device-related changes;
    e. internet, network, carrier, or communication failures;
    f. failures, restrictions, or changes involving Apple, Google, or other third-party services;
    g. device failure, damage, theft, loss, or replacement;
    h. deletion or reinstallation of the App;
    i. user error or incorrect operation;
    j. insufficient device storage or incompatible environments;
    k. loss, corruption, modification, or deletion of images, projects, settings, or other data;
    l. changes in image quality, resolution, color, layout, or appearance;
    m. saving, exporting, sharing, publishing, or distributing content created through the Service;
    n. publication or sharing through social media or third-party services;
    o. unauthorized copying, redistribution, modification, misuse, or publication of User Content by third parties;
    p. disputes between users and third parties; or
    q. circumstances beyond the Company’s reasonable control.
  3. Users are solely responsible for ensuring that they have sufficient copyrights, licenses, trademark rights, publicity rights, privacy permissions, portrait rights, and other necessary rights relating to User Content.
  4. Any dispute, demand, claim, or proceeding arising from User Content or content created using the Service, including claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violation of privacy, violation of publicity or portrait rights, defamation, or other third-party rights, shall be handled by the user at their own responsibility and expense, except to the extent the Company is legally responsible for the underlying cause.
  5. The Company is not responsible for consequences resulting from a user publishing, distributing, sending, selling, advertising, or otherwise using content created through the Service, except where the Company is legally responsible for such consequences.
  6. The Company does not assume responsibility for any removal, account restriction, account suspension, content moderation action, rejection, copyright claim, or other action imposed by a social media platform or third-party service in connection with content created through the Service.
  7. The Company has no general obligation to back up User Content. Users are responsible for maintaining independent backups of important images, projects, and other data.
  8. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will not be liable for any loss arising from data deletion, data corruption, failed storage, failed synchronization, failed recovery, or inability to restore data.
  9. The Company is not responsible for the availability, quality, security, content, operation, or continuity of Apple App Store, Google Play, payment processors, advertising providers, analytics services, cloud providers, or other third-party services.
  10. The Company is not responsible for account suspensions, payment decisions, refund determinations, subscription management, billing errors, payment processing failures, or other matters controlled by Apple, Google, or other third parties, except to the extent caused by the Company.
  11. The Company will not be responsible for damages arising from earthquakes, storms, floods, fires, power failures, communication failures, cyberattacks, malware, unauthorized access by third parties, war, terrorism, riots, epidemics, government action, or other circumstances beyond the Company’s reasonable control.
  12. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, or loss of data arising out of or relating to the Service.
  13. Where the agreement between the Company and a user qualifies as a consumer contract under the Consumer Contract Act of Japan or another applicable consumer protection law, any limitation or exclusion of liability under these Terms applies only to the extent permitted by such law.
  14. Where the Company is liable for damages caused by ordinary negligence and applicable law permits liability to be limited, the Company’s liability will be limited to direct and ordinary damages actually suffered by the user.
  15. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company’s aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of:

a. the total amount actually paid by the user to the Company for the Service during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim; or
b. JPY 10,000.

  1. The limitations and exclusions of liability in these Terms will not apply to the extent liability results from the Company’s willful misconduct or gross negligence, or where exclusion or limitation of liability is prohibited by mandatory applicable law.
  2. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any statutory consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Article 15. Privacy

The Company handles personal information and other user information in accordance with its separately published Privacy Policy.

Where the App accesses photos, device information, advertising identifiers, analytics data, purchase information, or other data, the handling of such information will be governed by the Privacy Policy, applicable law, and any disclosures presented within the App.

Article 16. Changes to These Terms

  1. The Company may amend these Terms where:a. the amendment is in the general interests of users; or
    b. the amendment is reasonable in light of the purpose of the Service, the necessity of the change, the appropriateness of the amended provisions, and other relevant circumstances.
  2. When these Terms are amended, the Company will provide notice of the amended Terms and their effective date through the App, the Company’s website, or another appropriate method.
  3. Where applicable law requires the user’s explicit consent to an amendment, the Company will obtain such consent.

Article 17. Business Transfers

If the Company transfers, sells, assigns, or otherwise succeeds the business relating to the Service to another entity, the Company may transfer its contractual position, rights, obligations, and information reasonably necessary for the operation of the Service to the successor, in accordance with applicable law and the Privacy Policy.

Article 18. Apple App Store and Google Play

If you obtain the App through the Apple App Store, your use of the App may also be subject to Apple’s applicable terms, including Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement.

If you obtain the App through Google Play, your use of the App may also be subject to Google Play’s applicable terms, policies, and purchase rules.

If these Terms conflict with any mandatory rule imposed by an applicable app store or applicable law, that mandatory rule will prevail to the extent of the conflict.

Article 19. Notices and Contact

Questions regarding the Service or these Terms may be submitted through the Company’s website or other contact method designated by the Company.

Operator: Minerva Inc.
Contact: minerva.kyoto@gmail.com

Article 20. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

  1. These Terms and all matters relating to the Service are governed by the laws of Japan.
  2. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall, unless otherwise required by applicable law, be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent court having jurisdiction over the location of the Company’s principal office in Japan as the court of first instance.

Article 21. Language

These Terms may be provided in multiple languages.

If there is any inconsistency or difference in interpretation between the Japanese version and a translated version of these Terms, the Japanese version shall prevail, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Effective Date: August 30, 2026