Terms of service

ME-GRAPHICNOVELS.com TERMS & CONDITIONS

ME-GRAPHICNOVELS.com is a subsidiary of MAKIMONO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP and the terms should be considered interchangeable.  We will use the term MGN to refer to our company in the agreement below.  By visiting our site you agree to the following Terms and Conditions with the agreement that you understand and abide by these Terms as defined below.  These Terms affect your legal rights, responsibilities and obligations and govern your use of the Site, are legally binding, limit ME GRAPHIC NOVELS  (Makimono Entertainment) liability to you and require you to indemnify us and to settle certain disputes through individual arbitration.  If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and any Additional Terms, do not use the Site.

OWNERSHIP AND YOUR RIGHTS TO USE THE SITE AND CONTENT.

Ownership. The Site and all of its content (“Content”), including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and all other intellectual property rights therein (“Intellectual Property”), are owned or controlled by MGN, its licensors, and certain other third parties. All right, title, and interest in and to the Content and Intellectual Property available via the Site is the property of MGN, its licensors or certain other third parties, and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent and/or other Intellectual Property and unfair competition rights and laws to the fullest extent possible. MGN owns the copyright in the selection, compilation, assembly, arrangement, and enhancement of the Content on the Site.

You agree that any communications you make to MGN in any form allow us to use them for promotional purposes, parody, comedy, tragedy, introspection, focus group, and any other usage we deem viable.  You retain the rights to your content but you grant us full use in perpetuity.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may Link to the Site from a website or other online service, so long as: (a) the links only incorporate text, and do not use any MGN names, logos, or images, (b) the links and the content on your website do not suggest any affiliation with MGN or cause any other confusion, and (c) the links and the content on your website do not portray MGN or its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner, and do not contain content that is unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third-party or are otherwise objectionable to MGN. MGN reserves the right to suspend or prohibit linking to the Site for any reason, in its sole discretion, without advance notice or any liability of any kind to you or any third-party; and

Use any other functionality expressly provided by MGN on or through the Site for use by users, subject to these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms.

SERVICE AND CONTENT USE RESTRICTIONS.

Service Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not: (i) use the Site for any political or commercial purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds, collecting product prices, and selling products); (ii) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing any Intellectual Property; (iii) engage in any activities through or in connection with the Site that seek to attempt to or do harm any individuals or entities or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third-party, or are otherwise objectionable to MGN; (iv) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Site by any means whatsoever or modify any Site source or object code or any software or other products, services, or processes accessible through any portion of the Site; (v) engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to the Site or the proper operation of the Site, or otherwise causes harm to the Site, MGN, or other users of the Site; (vi) interfere with or circumvent any security feature (including any digital rights management mechanism, device or other content protection or access control measure) of the Site or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Site or Content; (vii) harvest or otherwise collect or store any information (including personally identifiable information about other users of the Site, including email addresses, without the express consent of such users); (viii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, other computer systems or networks connected to the Site, through password mining or any other means; or (ix) otherwise violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms.

Availability of Site and Content. MGN, in its sole discretion without advance notice or liability, may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Site and/or Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason, in MGN’s sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability.

NOTICES, QUESTIONS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE.

You agree that we may give you notices or otherwise respond to you by mail or to your email (if we have it on file) or in any other manner reasonably elected by us. All legal notices to us must be sent to: hello@me-graphicnovels.com. If you have a question regarding the Site, you may contact us by sending an email to hello@me-graphicnovels.com. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to provide you with customer support of any kind and that customer service personnel cannot change or waive Terms or applicable Additional Terms.

SUBMISSIONS.

MGN does not accept unsolicited submissions or comic proposals. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or responded to.

DISCLAIMER OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE”, AND “WITH ALL FAULTS” BASIS. To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, MGN and their direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and each of their respective employees, directors, members, managers, shareholders, agents, vendors, licensors, licensees, contractors, customers, successors, and assigns (collectively, “MGN Parties”) hereby disclaim and make no representations, warranties, endorsements, or promises, express or implied, in connection with, or otherwise directly or indirectly related to, without limitation, the Site, Content, MGN Licensed Elements, Submissions or other MGN products or services.

EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES PROVIDED HEREIN, OR IN APPLICABLE ADDITIONAL TERMS, OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MGN PARTIES HEREBY FURTHER DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES, TITLE, CUSTOM, TRADE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THIS SECTION DOES NOT EXPAND OR LIMIT MGN PARTIES’ LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY TO YOU CAUSED BY MGN PARTIES TO THE EXTENT NOT WAIVABLE OR CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW; OR (III) ANY CAUSE OF ACTION YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST MGN PARTIES THAT IS NOT WAIVABLE OR CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

LIMITATIONS OF OUR LIABILITY.

AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY MGN PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, including personal injury or death or for any direct, indirect, economic, exemplary, special, punitive, incidental, or consequential losses or damages of any kind, including without limitation loss of profits, in connection with, or otherwise directly or indirectly related to, without limitation, the Site, Content, MGN Licensed Elements, Submissions or other MGN products or services.

The foregoing limitations of liability will apply even if any of the events or circumstances were foreseeable and even if MGN Parties were advised of or should have known of the possibility of such losses or damages, regardless of whether you bring an action based in contract, negligence, strict liability, or tort (including whether caused, in whole or in part, by negligence, acts of god, telecommunications failure, or destruction of the Site).

UPDATES TO TERMS.

It is your responsibility to review the posted Terms and any applicable Additional Terms each time you use the Site (at least prior to each transaction or submission). EACH TIME YOU USE THE SITE YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A NEW AGREEMENT WITH US ON THE THEN APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY NOTIFY YOU OF NEW TERMS BY POSTING THEM ON THE SITE (OR IN ANY OTHER REASONABLE MANNER OF NOTICE WHICH WE ELECT), AND THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AFTER SUCH NOTICE CONSTITUTES YOUR GOING FORWARD AGREEMENT TO THE NEW TERMS FOR YOUR NEW USE AND TRANSACTIONS. Any new Terms or Additional Terms will be effective as to new use and transactions as of the time that we post them, or such later date as may be specified in them or in other notice to you. In the event any notice to you of new, revised, or additional terms is determined by a tribunal to be insufficient, the prior agreement shall continue until sufficient notice to establish a new agreement occurs. You can reject any new, revised or additional terms by discontinuing use of the Site.