Once you create an account at OSDN, you can use all the functions that are provided by OSDN which is an open-source development support site.
You do not have to create an account if you only want to download softwares that are developed at OSDN.
Upon creating an account, you will have to agree to the following terms of services. Click on "agree to the terms of services" under "create an account" to put a check mark, which is down at the bottom.
Before using OSDN, please carefully read these Terms relating to your use of this web site.
By using this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the site.
OSDN provides the information and services on this website to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance, without modification, of the terms and conditions contained herein. Your use of this website constitutes your agreement with such terms and conditions.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms periodically. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified agreement to the website. Your continued use of the OSDN following the posting of changes to these terms and conditions will mean that you accept those changes.
In addition, each user's use of particular Services may be subject to specific guidelines or Service-specific Rules. Use of OSDN and/or its Services constitutes full acceptance of and agreement to the Terms; if a user does not accept our Terms, he or she is not granted rights to use OSDN or any of its Services, as defined herein, and should refrain from accessing OSDN and its Services.
OSDN reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, OSDN or any Service thereon (or any part thereof). OSDN shall not be liable to any user or other third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuance except as expressly provided herein.
By using the OSDN website, you warrant to OSDN that you will not use this website, or any of the content obtained from this website, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the OSDN website automatically terminates.
OSDN is a website owned and operated by Appirits Inc. , for the purpose of fostering software development and content creation under Open-Source Initiative ("OSI")-approved licenses or other arrangements relating to software and/or content development that may be approved by OSDN (the "Purpose"). OSDN currently offers users access to a rich collection of on-line resources for Open Source software development and content creation, including various communications tools, source code control and project management tools, online forums, personalized content and branded programming through its network of properties (collectively, the "Services"). To use the Services, each user must independently obtain access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access Web-based content, and pay any and all service fees or equipment costs associated with such access.
If required by OSDN, each user must: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information on the Service's registration form (collectively, the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data as necessary. If, after investigation, we have reasonable grounds to suspect that any user's information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate that user's account and prohibit any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof) by that user other than as expressly provided herein.
Each user will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Service's registration process and is wholly responsible for maintaining the confidentiality thereof and wholly liable for all activities occurring thereunder. OSDN cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from a user's failure to comply with this Section, including any loss or damage arising from any user's failure to (a) immediately notify OSDN of any unauthorized use of his or her password or account or any other breach of security and (b) ensure that he or she exits from his or her account at the end of each session.
OSDN handles user Registration Data in accordance with the OSDN Privacy Statement.
All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or any other materials whatsoever (collectively, "Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that the user, and not OSDN, is entirely responsible for all Content that he or she uploads, posts, emails or otherwise transmits via OSDN or any Service. No user shall transmit Content or otherwise conduct or participate in any activities on OSDN and/or any Service which, in the judgment of OSDN, is likely to be prohibited by law in any applicable jurisdiction, including laws governing the encryption of software, the export of technology, the transmission of obscenity or the permissible uses of intellectual property.
OSDN will not pre-screen or review Content, but OSDN reserves the right to refuse or delete any Content of which it becomes aware that it reasonably deems not to fulfill the Purpose. In addition, OSDN shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or delete any content that it reasonably considers to violate the Terms or be otherwise illegal. OSDN, in its sole and absolute discretion, may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or judicial or governmental mandate or as reasonably determined useful by us to protect the rights, property or personal safety of OSDN, its users and the public. OSDN does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. Under no circumstances will OSDN be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, liability for any errors or omissions in any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via OSDN or any Service thereon.
Each user, by using OSDN or any Service, may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Each user must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content.
Use, reproduction, modification, and ownership of intellectual property rights to data stored in CVS, SVN or as a file release and posted by any user on OSDN ("Source Code") shall be subject to the OSI-approved license applicable to such Source Code, or to such other licensing arrangements that may be approved by OSDN as applicable to such Source Code.
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers, the submitting user retains ownership of such OSDN Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display project activity, such content is owned by OSDN. In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable approved license.
With respect to Content posted to private areas of OSDN, i.e., private OSDN development tools or OSDN Mail, the submitting user may grant to OSDN or other users such rights and licenses as the submitting user deems appropriate.
Content located on any OSDN-hosted subdomain which is subject to the sole editorial control of the owner or licensee of such subdomain, shall be subject to the OSI-approved license applicable to such Source Code, or to such other licensing arrangements that may be approved by OSDN as applicable to such Content.
You agree not to sell, resell or offer for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Services, use of the Services or access to the Services.
OSDN may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services, as defined by posted Service-specific Rules. While OSDN will use reasonable efforts to back up site data and make such data available in the event of loss or deletion, OSDN has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by any Service. OSDN reserves the right to mark as "inactive" and archive accounts and/or projects that are inactive for an extended period of time. OSDN reserves the right to change these general practices and Service-specific Rules at any time, in its sole discretion, with notice to users and the public as described in Section 1 above.
We may terminate a user’s account in our absolute discretion and for any reason. We are especially likely to terminate for reasons that include, but are not limited to, the following: 1.) violation of these Terms; 2.) abuse of site resources or attempt to gain unauthorized entry to the site or site resources; 3.) use of Service in a manner inconsistent with the Purpose; 4.) a user's request for such termination; and 5.) requirement of applicable law, regulation, court or governing agency order.
OSDN's termination of any user's access to OSDN or any Service hereunder may be effected without notice and, on such termination, OSDN may immediately deactivate or delete user's account and/or bar any further access to such files, that Service or OSDN. OSDN shall not be liable to any user or other third party for any termination of that user's access or account hereunder.
OSDN, any Service or a third party may provide links to other websites. OSDN exercises no control whatsoever over such other websites and web-based resources and is not responsible or liable for the availability thereof or the Content, advertising, products or other materials thereon. OSDN shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss incurred or suffered by any user in connection therewith. Your access and use of linked websites, including information, material, products and services therein, is solely at your own risk.
This website’s privacy statement is applicable only when you are on our website. Once you choose to link to another website, you should read that website’s privacy statement before disclosing any personal information.
Each user shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless OSDN, its subsidiaries and affiliates and their respective officers, employees and agents, and each of OSDN's website partners from any and all claims, demands, damages, costs and liabilities, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of that user's acts or omissions, including claims arising out of that user's use of OSDN; his or her submission, posting or transmission of Content or his or her violation of the Terms.
EACH USER'S USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT HIS OR HER SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS AND OSDN ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TIMELINESS, DELETION, MIS-DELIVERY OR FAILURE TO STORE ANY USER COMMUNICATIONS OR PERSONALIZATION SETTINGS. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO HIS OR HER COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. OSDN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SPECIFICALLY, OSDN MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) OSDN OR ANY SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) ANY USER ACCESS WILL BE ININTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE QUALITY OF ANY CONTENT, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED BY ANY USER WILL MEET HIS OR HER EXPECTATIONS, AND (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. EXCLUDING ONLY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OSDN'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OSDN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF OSDN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY USER'S USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO OSDN OR ANY SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL BE DEEMED TO CREATE AN AGENCY, PARTNERSHIP, JOINT VENTURE, EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER OR FRANCHISOR-FRANCHISEE RELATIONSHIP OF ANY KIND BETWEEN OSDN AND ANY USER OR OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY NOR DO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE EXTEND RIGHTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY. AS NOTED ABOVE, OSDN DOES NOT AND CANNOT CONTROL THE ACTIONS OF OSDN USERS, VISITORS OR LINKED THIRD PARTIES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REPORT ANY MALFEASANCE THAT COMES TO OUR ATTENTION TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO OSDN OR ANY SERVICES. OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTERFERENCE FROM NUMEROUS FACTORS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL. FURTHER, SCHEDULED AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AS WELL AS REQUIRED AND EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE WORK MAY TEMPORARILY INTERRUPT SERVICES OR ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE. THE DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF OR USE OF ANY ASSET, WHETHER ARISING OUT OF BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOUR, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER COURSE OF ACTION BY OSDN.
OSDN, the OSDN logo and other OSDN trademarks, service marks, and product and service names are trademarks of Appirits Inc. All other names and designs may be trademarks of their respective owners.
OSDN respects the intellectual property rights of others, and requires that the people who use the OSDN website do the same.
If OSDN receives copyright infringement, OSDN reserves the right to refuse or delete Content, or to terminate a user's account.
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between each user and OSDN and govern each user's use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements. Each user may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when that user uses affiliate services, third party content or third party software. The Terms and the relationship between each user and OSDN shall be governed by the laws of Japanese without regard to its conflict of law provisions and each party shall submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Tokyo, Japan. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect.
Please report any violations of the Terms to the OSDN Support Manager at admin at osdn.net.
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This document describes our policies of the following OSDN Sites (individually "Site" and collectively "Sites") on the collection, use, and disclosure of users' personal information, and describes the choices available to users regarding how to update and correct their personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to OSDN Corporation (hereafter referred to as OSDN) and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
We are committed to good privacy practices regarding personal data, and we aim to give the users of our Sites as much rights as possible to control their own personal information including registration information. Under strict control, we safely accumulate and store personal information that we collect or submitted to us, and take appropriate preventive and corrective actions against improper access to, loss, destruction, falsification, and leaking of personal information.
This Privacy Policy applies to all activities or behaviors of our users during the registering and using of the Sites owned by OSDN. Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement, we do not release personal data about our users and visitors without their permission. By proceeding to use the OSDN Services, you consent that we may process the personal data that we collect from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We gather the following types of personal information.
In certain areas of the Sites, we may request a user to provide us with certain personal information. For example, it applies to information such as username, social media services, email address, and self introduction provided in order to complete the profile on the registered account. However, for most of the information, beside username, it is left to the user's discretion to register.
We may request the users to provide us with personal information when they post contents (such as source code, release files, articles, journal, photos, comments, or reviews), create a new account, subscribe to any of our mailing lists, or participate in certain services. That could include personal information such as phone number, name, zip code, age, or profession.
When a user uses the Sites, we may automatically collect technical information about the user’s visit including pages the user visited, the order in which they were visited, page interaction information, the type of device the user is using, IP address, operating system, header information and browser software.
We may receive information about our users from various business partners including advertising networks. We may work with third parties to collect information that allows us to associate our users with their accounts they have on social media or other websites.
We may aggregate the data we collect from our users (including IP addresses, operating system, and browser software types). In the course of aggregating the data, we anonymize and de-identify it so each piece of data cannot be associated with the user. We may disclose Aggregated Data to advertisers to inform them the number of people who have seen and/or clicked through their advertisements.
When faced with business necessity to transfer users' personal data to third parties including advertisers and other business partners, we require them to comply with our Privacy Policy. In accordance with data security and privacy laws, we strive to implement measures designed to ensure the security of your personal data. In the event you encounter any third party associated with us, who you feel is improperly collecting or using information about you, please contact us at the contact information provided at the end of the document.
We use Aggregated Data to build higher quality, more useful sites by performing statistical analysis of collective characteristics and behaviors of our users, and by measuring demographics and interests. We may use statistical information based on this data for commercial purposes, such as to sell, rent, or lease to advertisers and other business partners.
We may use personal data a user submits for the following purposes.
When we send certain communications such as a news letter to subscribers, we always include a link to the webpage where they can click to "unsubscribe".
User names, email addresses, and information posted by other users may be publicly available on a Site when a user voluntarily and publicly discloses personal data, such as when a user posts personal data in conjunction with content subject to an open source license, uses features to send a message to another user, or as part of a message posted to a public forum. We are not responsible for any consequences which may occur from the use of personal data that a user chooses to submit to public pages.
We may share your personal data in the following ways:
On OSDN Sites, there are pages that use technology called "web beacons". It is a technology also known as clear GIF, in which small graphic files are used to track the accesses to certain pages. With this technology, it is possible to track a specific individual, but on our Sites, we do not use it for such purpose to obtain personal data, except that we may use it as a part of the mechanism to make sure that the downloading of contents occurs at a server that is geographically close to the user.
Certain browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that allows you to tell websites or applications that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Please note that at this time our Sites generally do not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals.
We also use cookies on our Sites to provide our users with information that meets their needs. Cookie is a data file that is sent to the browser from a site that a user visited, which could be stored in the user's environment by the browser. It is user's responsibility to turn off cookies or delete existing cookies from the user’s environment. Please note that by opting out of cookies, you may encounter a situation where a part of or the entire OSDN Site may not function properly.
We may also participate in advertising networks that use interest-based advertising methods relying on cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies. This means that a user may see advertising on our Sites tailored to the user’s browsing behavior, or the user may see our advertising on other websites based on their behavior on our Sites.
Some internet browsers, websites, and mobile devices offer opt-outs for interest-based advertising. For additional information, please refer to the website that you are visiting, your browser and/or your device settings, and our "Policy and Procedures Regarding Advertisement Agents". From the document, you can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads individually from external service providers.
You can also opt-out of interest-based ads from the the links below.
On our Sites, in order to conduct a research on the users’ trends or to deliver the most relevant advertising, we acquire statistical information regarding Site usage by using third party access analysis service. Like the aforementioned interest-based advertising, this access analysis service uses technologies such as cookies. With this access analysis tool, data obtained by advertising network may be statistically processed in conjunction with the user attribute data obtained by advertising networks, and this information does not identify any specific individual and will be treated in a form of anonymous data. It will not be used for any other purposes.
On OSDN Sites, links to third party websites are provided solely as a convenience to the user. When a user uses these links, the user leaves the Sites. Please note that our Privacy Policy do not apply to these third party websites. We do not review and control these third party sites, and are not responsible for any of the third party sites, their content, or their privacy practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about the third party websites and products.
With respect to OSDN.net, we deliver the following services via subdomains (except language subdomains or country subdomains).
Any personal data a user provides through the use of any third party web contents, software, and services is subject to that third party’s policies governing privacy and security.
On our Sites, we encrypt most of the transmission of information, including when users enter personal information on our web forms. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us.
However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. It is users' responsibility to protect the security of their login information, and we advise that users do not make any confidential information publicly available through our Sites.
Occasionally, we may conduct sweepstakes, contests, and polls on our Sites in order to better deliver advertisements and contents and to better understand the users' needs.
Participation in these sweepstakes or contests is completely voluntary, and a user who decides to participate may be requested to submit information which typically includes contact information. Any personal data that users submit in connection with these activities will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, for certain sweepstakes, we may individually provide additional terms. We may use a third party service providers to conduct these polls or contests. These third party service providers will be prohibited from using our users’ personal data for any other purposes.
OSDN Sites include widgets provided by generally well-known social media, such as the Facebook "Like" button. Using sign-in services of these social media networks, you may be able to login to OSDN Sites or post contents on social media sites either manually or automatically. Please note that your interactions with these features are subject to privacy policy of the company providing it, and not by this Privacy Policy.
This section describes the rights granted to users regarding their access to personal data they submit, and the choices available to them for updating, correcting, and deleting their personal data.
Upon request, OSDN will provide a user with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of the user’s personal information. To request this information, contact us at the contact information provided at the end of the document. If the a user's personal data changes, the user may correct, update, or delete the personal data by making the change on the user information page or by contacting us at the contact information provided at the end of the document.
We retain user’s personal data for as long as the user's account is active or as needed to provide the user OSDN Site Services, or as otherwise required by applicable law or related legal purposes. If a user wishes to cancel his/her account or request that we no longer use his/her identifiable personal data, the user can contact us at the contact information provided at the end of the document.
The Sites may offer publicly accessible blogs, journals, community forums, and mailing lists. Users should be aware that any information they provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of one’s personal data from these areas, users can contact us at the contact information provided at the end of the document. However, in some cases, we may not be able to completely remove the user’s personal data. This might be the case where the user have added comments to a project discussion or made a contribution to a mailing list, where removing his/her personal data could disrupt the function of the underlying system. In these cases, we may comply with the request by anonymizing the data so that it can not be associated with a specific user.
At any time, users can opt-out of receiving email notifications for promotional or marketing purposes. Please note that opting out of these emails will not end our transmission of important information as long as the user’s account exists.
Minors under 18 years of age require the consent from their parent or other legal guardian. Their proceeding to use the OSDN Services shall be deemed that they are given the parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from minors. If you have reason to believe that a minor has provided Personal Information to our Sites, please contact us. Upon confirming that we possess the minor’s personally identifiable information, we may delete that information from our databases.
We do not intentionally collect any personal data that is considered "special" or "sensitive" under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), including racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, biometric, or health data, or data concerning anything to do with a person's sexuality.
Because OSDN and most of the servers for our Sites are located in Japan, our Privacy Policy has been prepared to comply with applicable Japanese law. Users located in the European Economic Area may have additional rights arising under GDPR.
We provide our Sites and related services from Japan. We may outsource the handling of your personal information to a third party service provider located outside of the user’s residential country, and we may share the information. Since it is not possible for users to use our Sites and services without these data transfers, we require their consent to the transfer of their personal data to Japan or countries where the third party service providers are located.
In these cases, the user’s personal information will be subject to personal information protection law that may be different from the law of the user's residential country, and in those areas the user may have less legal rights in relation to the user’s personal information. We treat users' personal data in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy expressed in this document.
We may update a part of or the entire Privacy Policy expressed in this document in the future. If we make any material changes we will notify our users by means of a prominent notice on our Sites.
Note that, by using the OSDN Services, users signify their agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please terminate the use of the OSDN Services. Therefore, users are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Questions, complaints, request, and other inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to privacy@osdn.net. You may also contact us at the address below.
OSDN Corporation