These terms of service outline the rules and regulations for the sales of Key Area Co. Ltd.’s Website.

1. General Conditions

By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms of service in full. Do not continue to use Key Area Co. Ltd.’s website if you do not accept all of the terms of service stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms of Service, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Company’s terms of service. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Company, Key Area Co. Ltd. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves, or either the Client or ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner, whether by formal meetings of a fixed duration, or any other means, for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services/products, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing Japanese law. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Key Area Co. Ltd. designs and develops Online Coaching and Tutoring Services for music producers and songwriters, sound samples and musical loops. Subject to the Customer’s acceptance of these terms and conditions of sales, these services and products are accessible through orders placed on the website. Any Order implies the prior express and unreserved acceptance by the Client of these General Conditions.

The General Conditions applicable are those in force on the date on which the order is validated by the Customer.

However, Key Area Co. Ltd. may modify the present General Conditions at any time, without prior notice, subject to informing the Customers by publishing the said modifications on the Site. Key Area Co. Ltd. will update the General Conditions by indicating the date of the last update in the upper right-hand corner of the present document.

2. Payment Methods

Key Area Co. Ltd. currently accepts your payment via PayPal and Stripe. We DO NOT accept cash, bank transfers, cheques, gift cards or any credits. The customer agrees to pay all applicable fees and charges (including any applicable taxes). All prices are unit prices.

3. Currency

All payments are made in United States dollers. You may find our Japanese website key-area.com/jp prices displayed in Japanese yen are only for our domestic customers. All customers who access from foreign countries can purchase services and products from key-area.com shop page in English.

4. Termination of Rights by Key Area Co. Ltd.

Key Area Co. Ltd. may at any time lose the right to distribute and sell selected products. Should such a case occur you will no longer be able to access and download such products from your account and they will no longer be listed in the Key Area Co. Ltd. catalogue.

5. Limitation on Sales

The Key Area Co. Ltd. online shop sells services and products to end customers only. Music dealers, distributors, wholesalers and any other businesses purchasing products in the Key Area Co. Ltd. online shop with an intent to resell them may be refused access and sale of products. Key Area Co. Ltd. may discontinue its offers on free products at any time and without notice.
Coupon codes can be used on specific items, not on sale items.

6. Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated, we own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all our intellectual property rights are reserved.

7. License to use website

You may view or download selected products for demo/trial or for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website provided that:

(a) you must not republish material from this website (including republication on another website), or reproduce or store material from this website in any public or private electronic retrieval system;

(b) you must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit our website or material on our website for a commercial purpose, without our express written consent;

(c) you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on the website.

The Key Area Co. Ltd.’s websites contains information, advice, text, and other materials that are provided for your convenience and enjoyment. You should be aware that the information might contain errors, omissions, inaccuracies, or outdated information. Our websites makes no representations or warranties as to the completeness, accuracy, adequacy, currency, or reliability of any information and shall not be liable for any lack of the foregoing. Descriptions of, or references to, products within this site does not imply endorsement of that product.

8. Limitations of liability

To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Key Area Co. Ltd. disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Our websites will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental punitive and consequential damages.

Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of this site is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from our websites or through or from Key Area Co. Ltd. will create any warranty not expressly stated in the terms.

9. The right to challenge a transaction

Key Area Co. Ltd. reserves the right to challenge the legal standing of a transaction under sufficient circumstances. In such case, the user will be contacted by Key Area Co. Ltd. staff individually to confirm his/her identity. Failure to verify a user’s identity will result in cancelling the challenged order. A challenged order is open for validation for 30 days after the transaction.

10. Creation of user account

To order services or products, the Customer must create an user account on the website. The Customer is entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of his / her password. The Customer agrees not to use the user account, name, email or password of another person and agrees not to disclose his / her password to a third party.

Under no circumstances can Key Area Co. Ltd. be held responsible for the use of an user account by a third party who has a Customer’s password. The Customer agrees to immediately notify Key Area Co. Ltd. in the event that he suspects unauthorized use and / or theft of his password. In such a situation, the Customer must change his / her password.

11. Restricted access

Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion. If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential. You accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your user ID or password.

We may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion or if you breach any of the policies or terms governing your use of our website or any other contractual obligation you owe to us.

12. Variation

We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

13. Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

14. Law and jurisdiction

This notice will be governed by and construed in accordance with Japanese law, and any disputes relating to this notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Japan.

15. Brand names at Key Area Co. Ltd.

Any references to any brands on this site/page, including reference to brands and instruments, are provided for description purposes only. For example, references to instrument brands are provided to describe the sound of the instrument and/or the instrument used in the sample. Key Area Co. Ltd. do not have (nor do they claim) any association with or endorsement by these brands. Any goodwill attached to those brands rests with the brand owner. Key Area Co. Ltd. or its Suppliers do not accept any liability in relation to the content of the sample or the accuracy of the description.

16. Acceptable Use Policy

1. You agree and undertake that you will not post, communicate, employ, transmit or make available to or through our website or in the course of using Key Area Co. Ltd. any statement, material, communication or other content which:

1.1.1 is unlawful or which gives rise to civil or criminal liability;

1.1.2 infringes the intellectual property or other rights of any third party;

1.1.3 in the case of uploading material using Key Area Co. Ltd. services, comprises any content other than audiovisual material related to music

1.1.4 involves exploitative behaviour, through but not limited to, third-party programs, bots, scripts or other means which are reasonably prohibited by us from time to time, or which take advantage of bugs, unintended errors, or features that have not been documented, to access restricted parts of our website or services;

1.1.5 is technically harmful such as computer viruses, worms, logic bombs or other malicious software or harmful data;

1.1.6 is aimed at persons under the age of 18 or which seeks or attempts to make any arrangement to meet a person under the age of 18;

1.1.7 is abusive, seditious, sexist, pornographic, homophobic, defamatory, libellous, discriminatory, obscene or racist;

1.1.8 harasses any person;

1.1.9 may be deemed a marketing or commercial communication or promotes the products or services of any person;

1.1.10 contains any restricted material, including but not limited to passwords, medical information or confidential information of any person; or1.1.11 solicits, promotes, invites, encourages, advocates, incites or provokes any or all of the foregoing.

1.2 You authorise us to remove, restrict, suspend or alter any of the material which you supply to us through our website or services, in our sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to content which conflicts with the terms of this acceptable use policy.

1.3 If you discover material which you believe contravenes this acceptable use policy or is otherwise objectionable please notify us at mail@key-area.com

17. Refund Policy

If you purchased as a consumer, haven’t started attending to any online classes, downloading the product and it’s been less than 14 days since Key Area Co. Ltd. accepted your order, you can get a refund for any reason. Let us know by contacting mail@key-area.com. If you decide to participate or download the product within 14 days of purchase then you waive your right to a refund.

Beyond the 14 day period from purchase, if you have not started participating a class, downloading the product then Key Area Co. Ltd. may offer a refund at its discretion.

In there cases Key Area Co. Ltd. does not refund

– Services and Products that were purchased in an incorrect format for your system. At key-area.com we clearly state on all product pages the relevant information, in regards to a product’s system requirements. Customers bear the responsibility to have the correct knowledge of the minimum system requirements.
– Individual products that have been purchased within a Bundle+ product. Any products purchased within a Bundle+ cannot be refunded individually. A refund on the full Bundle+ will be possible within 14 days of purchase if none of the products in the Bundle have been downloaded.

All refund requests must be received within 30 days of purchase.

If you believe that you qualify for a refund, please submit a request provide us with the following information:

Your order number and your Key Area Co. Ltd. registered email address.
Any reasons for your refund request.

18. Our contact details

Key Area Co. Ltd.
email: mail@key-area.com