TERMS & CONDITIONS (“T&Cs”)

These terms and conditions (the “T&Cs”) create a contract between you and Yamaha. Please read the T&Cs carefully.

 

1. Publisher

This website is owned and operated by Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese corporation having its registered office at 10-1, Nakazawa-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, 430-8650, Japan ("Yamaha",“we” or “us”).

 

2. Subject

Yamaha provides an innovation platform service accessible at https://yamaha-music.agorize.com/ (“Website”), which allows businesses and organizations looking for innovative ideas for problems and challenges to connect with innovators.

These T&Cs govern your access to and use of the Website and its Services.

By creating an account on the Website, you will be required to confirm your acceptance of these T&Cs, including by ticking the applicable acceptance box. By doing so, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these T&Cs and agree to be bound by them. These T&Cs constitute a legally binding contract between you and Yamaha. Your access to the Website and use of Services is also subject to our Privacy Notice, the terms of which can be found directly on the Website. If you wish to participate in a specific Challenge, you will be required to review and accept the additional rules applicable to the specific Challenge which is made by Sponsor.

If you do not accept these T&Cs, do not use the Website. Additionally, we may amend these T&Cs at any time to reflect changes to our Services, legal or regulatory requirements, or our business practices by posting an updated version to this web page and notifying you before the amended T&Cs take effect. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the amended T&Cs.

To improve user experience, maintain Website security, or for other business or compliance reasons, we may also amend or modify, from time to time, the structure and design of our Website, as well as some Services or content. Where such changes may have materially negative affect to your use of the Services, we will provide notice to you.

 

3. Definitions

In this document,

“Account” means the account that must be created to become a Member and access the Services offered by the Website;

"Brief" means the concise statement of the instructions and guidelines for a Challenge prepared by a Sponsor;

"Challenge" means an invitation for co-creation proposals to solve a specific problem or challenge issued by a Sponsor, who may offer an award for the winning Deliverables submitted via the Website by a Member registered to participate in the Challenge, and in accordance with the Challenge Rules;

“Challenge Rules” refers to the rules applicable to a Challenge as amended, supplemented, or otherwise updated from time to time, which are binding between the Sponsor, Partner and each Challenge participant. In the event of discrepancies or contradictions with the T&Cs, the Challenge Rules shall apply;

“Community” refers to all Members of the Website and Services;

“Deliverables” refers to all submissions, original ideas, documents or other materials (such as presentations, videos, etc.) uploaded to the Website by Members in response and as a solution to a specific Challenge;

“Member” means any individual having an Account on the Website;

"Partner" means a company or organization that provides financial and/or operational support for a Challenge.

“Services” means all products, services, content, features, technologies or functions delivered by us via the Website; and

"Sponsor" means the company or organization that sponsors a Challenge and submits a Brief and Challenge to Members via the Website. Yamaha may designate itself as a Sponsor in a certain Challenge.

 

4. Creating an Account

Using the Website and its Services may require an account.

A. Conditions

You must be eighteen (18) years or older to use our Services, and by creating an Account you declare that you meet this condition.

By using our Services on behalf of a business or entity, you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative with the authority to bind that entity to these T&Cs, and that the entity agrees to be fully bound by and responsible for your actions.


B. Creating an Account

The Website allows Members to view and enroll in Challenges and to interact with other Members, Sponsors or Yamaha through message boards, chat, email and messaging. You can view the Briefs and Challenges if you are not registered, but you cannot enroll in or participate in a Challenge without first creating an Account and becoming a Member.

To create your Account, you shall complete the mandatory fields in the registration form (e.g., name, email and password and information regarding your profile, if applicable). An Account activation link will be emailed to you; your Account is activated once you click on the link.

To create an Account, you must have read and accepted these T&Cs and our Privacy Notice.


C. Accuracy of Account Information

You agree that your profile Account contains accurate, complete and true information, and that you will update it, as needed.


D. Password

You are responsible for keeping security and confidentiality of your account. Yamaha is not responsible for any losses arising from the unauthorized use of your account. Please inform us if there is any unauthorized use of your Account or a suspected security breach, such as loss or theft of your login information.


E. Account Suspension

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if we reasonably believe that you have breached these T&Cs, or if your account activities violate or might violate applicable laws, infringe third-party rights, or threaten the security or integrity of our Website or Services. We shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from such suspension or termination.

 

5. Services

The Website is an online innovation platform on which Sponsors can create and post Briefs and Challenges in which Members can participate, subject to the specific conditions of each Challenge as set out in the Challenge Rules.


As a Member:

  • you may access a personalized space on the Website that contains your profile, allows you to view the Challenges in which you have enrolled, and to communicate and exchange messages, by email or chat, with Members, Sponsors, mentors, and Yamaha;
  • you may register for Challenges, provided you meet the conditions of and agree to be bound by the Challenge Rules;
  • you may participate in a Challenge, individually, as a representative of a business entity, or by creating or joining a team, as specified in the Challenge Rules;
  • you may upload Deliverables in response to a Challenge, as specified in the Challenge Rules;
  • subject to technical limitations, applicable law and the rights of third parties, you may access or retrieve the data and Deliverables that you submitted during your participation in a specific Challenge, as specified in the Challenge Rules. We are not obliged to maintain or retain any data for any specific period unless required by applicable law.

Sponsors may offer awards for the winning Deliverables submitted by Members registered to participate in a Challenge, in accordance with the Challenge Rules.


Sponsors are solely responsible for assessing all Deliverables and independently decide, in accordance with their own criteria, on the winner(s) of a Challenge. Decisions made by Sponsors are considered final.

 

6. Content posted by you on the Website

You may communicate with other Members, mentors, Yamaha or Sponsors via the Website. Any information and materials you provide on the Website, both during registration and use of the Services (such as, public message board postings, emails, chats, Deliverables, etc.) is subject to the following:

  • You agree that content posted by you will be accurate and will not: (i) infringe any third party’s copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy, or (ii) violate any law (including export control, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising).
  • Regarding Deliverables, you guarantee that (i) you are the owner or authorized user of the intellectual property contained in your Deliverable and that (ii) you are not required to transfer your rights over the Deliverable to a third party pursuant to an employment relationship or other contract; or that (iii) you have obtained any necessary authorizations from your employer, co-contracting party or any other third-party before submitting the Deliverables. At any time, you may be asked to make legally binding warranties and representations to the Sponsor in relation to a Deliverable or any specific information and materials that you submit.
  • You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or upload to the Website, and for the transfer of technologies or information with which you are involved. Yamaha expressly disclaim any liability or responsibility thereto.

You warrant that any such information and materials do comply with these standards, and you will be liable and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer because of your breach of the warranty.

The information and materials provided by you or other users have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on the Services do not represent our views or values. We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users.

 

7. Member Rules of Conduct on the Website

There are certain rules that apply to Members. When using our Website, you agree:

  • to not submit to us or other Members, mentors, the jury, or Sponsors false, misleading, malicious or fraudulent information;
  • to not post content of a defamatory, injurious, obscene, pornographic, vulgar, offensive, aggressive, uncalled-for, violent, threatening, harassing, racist or xenophobic nature, or with sexual connotations, inciting violence, discrimination or hatred, encouraging illegal activities, or more generally content that is contrary to good morals or the purposes of the Website;
  • to not infringe the rights and image of Yamaha, including but not limited to its intellectual property rights;
  • to not create more than one Account on the Website or create an Account in the name of a third party;
  • to not transfer your Account, include sell, lease, rent, gift, or otherwise allow any third party to use your Account, password, or any rights associated with your Account under any circumstances.
  • to not use the Account of another Member;
  • to not bypass the Website without Yamaha's request or approval, such as by contacting a Sponsor or sending a Sponsor your Deliverables;
  • to not transfer data that contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any computer file or program that could interrupt, destroy or limit the functioning of any computer or network linked directly or indirectly to the Website;
  • to not use any device, software or routine that could interfere with the proper working of the Website or which is intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
  • to not take any action (such as, spamming, bots or any other automated, mechanical, or deceptive means) that imposes an unreasonable load or other negative effect on our Website;
  • to not access, harvest, index-mining, or scrap any part of the Services or any user generated content posted by other users, whether through automated scripts or manual extraction, for any purpose (including training artificial intelligence or machine learning models) without our prior written consent;
  • to not violate the principle of confidentiality, which may exist within the framework of a Challenge; and
  • to, more generally, not to act in a way that violates the law or breaches these T&Cs.

 

8. Confidentiality

Within the framework of a Challenge, you may be required to maintain certain information confidential.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Yamaha harmless, from and against all claims, actions or demands, liabilities, and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees, arising from your unauthorized or prohibited disclosure of confidential information.

 

9. Intellectual Property Rights

A. Member grant of license to Yamaha

By submitting Deliverables via the Websites , you grant Yamaha a non-exclusive, unconditional, and irrevocable license, free of charge, for the entire world and for the duration of your contractual relationship with us, to use the content and data that you submit on the Website. Specifically, you authorize us to display, distribute, publish, reproduce, represent, adapt, modify, use and translate the whole or any content you provide, and to broadcast it via the Website or any other communication protocol and to share it with the public, Community, Sponsors and Partners, in any format and on any platform, and authorize such Community, Sponsors and Partners to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your Deliverables.

 

B. Yamaha’s IP Rights / Limited License

This Website is controlled and operated by Yamaha. Our proprietary software, and our materials on the Website, including logos, trademarks, trade names, images, text, illustrations files and the selection, coordination and arrangement of such materials, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, or other proprietary rights which are either owned by us or owned by other parties who have licensed their intellectual property to us, and all other trademarks, service marks, and trade names used on the Website are the property of their respective owners.

 

Subject to being a Member, Yamaha grants you a non-exclusive, revocable, personal and non-transferable license, to use the Website, for your personal and private use, on a non-commercial basis and in compliance with the purposes of the Website.

 

You are prohibited from any other use or exploitation of the Website and Services, and their content, without the prior written permission of Yamaha. Notably, you are prohibited from:

  • reproducing, adapting, distributing, publicly representing and disseminating the Website, the Services, Briefs, Challenges and the content of the Website;
  • extracting or attempting to extract (notably using data mining robots or any other similar data collection tool) a substantial part of the data of the Website;
  • copying, modifying, creating a derivative work of, reverse engineering, reverse assembling or otherwise attempting to discover any source code;
  • modifying or attempting to modify the Website in any manner or form, except that you have the right to modify your self-generated content on the Website;
  • framing or utilizing framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including Challenge descriptions, images, text, page layout, or form);
  • using any meta tags or any other "hidden text" with Yamaha’s name or trademarks.

Any unauthorized use by you which contravenes the above terminates the license granted by us.

All new versions, updates or changes to our Website, Services or related content shall be subject to these T&Cs. Yamaha reserves all rights not expressly granted by the present T&Cs.

 

C. Remedies

If you believe that your legitimate intellectual property rights have been violated by the introduction of certain content on the Website, you must notify Yamaha and provide us with the following:

  • Your contact information. If the claim is on behalf of a third party, please include proof of your right to represent the third party;
  • Identification of the specific Website content that you consider is protected by intellectual property rights as well as its location on the Website (indicating the URL link);
  • Accreditation of the aforementioned intellectual property rights; and reasons for the supposed violation.

 

10. Role of Yamaha/ Limitation of liability

In its capacity as an intermediary, ​​ Yamaha has no control over the behavior of Members, Sponsors (except where Yamaha is a Sponsor in a certain Challenge), mentors or other users. We do not control, pre-screen, monitor, review the information or Deliverables provided by you or others that is made available through the Website or during the Services; we do not make any representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, other user’s information or Deliverables is accurate or complete.

By accepting these T&Cs, you acknowledge that Yamaha does not control in any manner the nature, rule, quality, accuracy, legality or timing of Challenges where Yamaha is not a Sponsor. You acknowledge and agree that Yamaha, in its capacity only as an intermediary, does not provide any Challenges and is not a party to any agreement entered into by you and the Sponsor with respect to a Challenge.

In its capacity as an intermediary, Yamaha has no control over, and is not responsible for the acts or omissions of Sponsors, or the quality, accuracy or legality of the Briefs or Challenges. We do not endorse or guarantee any Sponsors.

You acknowledge and agree that by participating in the Challenge, Members act under their sole and full responsibility.

In its capacity as an intermediary, Yamaha cannot be held liable for any reason that a Challenge fails to occur as intended, such as because of:

  • erroneous information communicated by the Sponsor in its Brief or Challenge, or by any other means, with regard to the Challenge and its terms;
  • cancellation or modification of a Challenge by a Sponsor;
  • non-payment of the prize or award by a Sponsor;
  • the behavior of its Members during, before or after a Challenge or at any other time.

We are not responsible for the content or use of any Deliverables, for the Member’s lack of success in a Challenge, for any damage caused to a Member by Sponsors, for any indirect damage such as financial loss, loss of business or moral damage that a Member may suffer through its use of the Website or by participating in a Challenge.

You acknowledge and agree to look solely to the Sponsor for any claims you may have regarding information provided by the Sponsor. If you have a dispute with another Member, you hereby release Yamaha from all claims of any kind arising out of such dispute.

Yamaha shall not be liable to you for any damages, claims, expenses or other costs you incur, directly or indirectly, as a result of third party claims related to your use of the Services. Under no circumstances, shall Yamaha be liable for any indirect damages, or for any damages totaling more than one hundred (100) United States Dollars, assuming that such damages have been duly proven. You agree that you will be responsible for, and at Yamaha’s request, defend Yamaha from third party claims arising out of information you provide to Yamaha for publication or any breach by you of these T&Cs.

You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action related to your use of the Services must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arises, or be forever barred.

 

11. Account suspension, restrictions of access and termination

You can terminate your contractual relations with Yamaha and close your Account at any time by clicking on the “Delete your profile” tab on your profile page or by contacting Yamaha. The termination takes effect immediately.

If you breach your undertakings as set out in these T&Cs or if we have genuine reason to believe that the security and integrity of Yamaha, its Members, Sponsors, or third parties are at risk, we reserve the right to:

  • immediately terminate these T&Cs binding you and Yamaha; and
  • temporarily or permanently suspend your Account.

When this is necessary, you will be notified of such measure to enable you to respond. Yamaha will decide, at their sole discretion, whether to lift the measures put in place.

 

12. Personal Data We collect and process some of your personal data

In using the Website and registering as a Member, you acknowledge and accept the processing of your personal data by us as set out in our Privacy Notice.

 

13. Operation, availability and functionalities of the Platform

We shall try as far as possible to maintain the Website continually accessible. But access to the Website or the use of certain features may be suspended or disrupted without notice, due to technical maintenance, migration, or updates, or owing to outages or constraints linked to the network or for other technical reasons.

We reserve the right to modify or suspend all or part of your access to the Website or its features, at our sole discretion, temporarily or permanently.

 

14. Hyperlinks

Our Website contains links to other websites, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or control those websites and are not responsible for their content. By including these links, we are not endorsing the material on those websites or implying any association with their operators.

 

15. Modification of the T&Cs

These T&Cs and the documents integrated by reference express the entire agreement between you and Yamaha relative to your use of the Website and the Services.

Yamaha may modify these T&Cs to adapt to its technological and commercial environment, and to comply with the law. Any modification to these T&Cs will be published on the Website with mention of the effective date, and you will be notified by Yamaha before the changes take effect.

 

16. Applicable law and dispute resolution

These T&Cs are governed and construed in accordance with the Japanese laws, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

Subject to Yamaha's right set out below, you irrevocably agree to submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the competent court of Tokyo, Japan.
For the exclusive benefit of Yamaha, Yamaha shall also retain the right to bring proceedings as to the substance of the matter in the courts of the country of your residence or, where these T&Cs are entered into in the course of your trade or profession, in the country of your principal place of business.

 

17. Miscellaneous Terms

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and shall not be construed to affect the meaning, construction, or interpretation of any provision of this T&Cs.

Governing Language. The Japanese version of T&Cs is provided for convenience of reference only; the English version shall be the legally binding text. In the event of any conflict, contradiction, or ambiguity between the Japanese version and English version thereof, the English version shall prevail in all respects.

 

18. Webhosting AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Region of operations (i.e. servers location) :

eu-west-3 (Paris, France)

Headquarters:

Amazon Web Services,

Inc. P.O. Box 81226 Seattle,

WA 98108-1226

https://aws.amazon.com

 

19. Credit for Website design and Publisher Contact

AGORIZE
10 Rue Mabillon, 75006 Paris

[email protected]
Tel.: (+33) 0 1 55 43 79 45

 

20. Effective Date

August 1, 2026