Terms of Use
1. About This Site
NPO Digital Kodomo BASE (hereinafter "we") operates this website (digitalkodomo.jp) and the following free learning sites with the goal of closing the digital education gap for children:
- Kids Study Lab (/kids-study/) — middle-school subject explanations and practice problems
- Kids' Future Notes (/kids-life_en.html) — short essays for life in the digital age
- Kids' IT Lab (/kids-tech_en.html) — IT explainers for junior and senior high students
- Skill-Up Dojo (/kids-skillup/) — practical PC, typing, and software exercises
- Manga to Learn AI & Digital Literacy (/kids-manga/) — 4-panel manga learning content
- Q&A (/qa-archive_en.html), Blog, News, and other published pages
These Terms of Use ("Terms") apply to all of the learning content above and to the website as a whole.
2. What You May Freely Do
All learning content on this site is available free of charge, with no registration required. The following uses are permitted without seeking prior permission:
- Personal browsing and home study
- Printing or saving as PDF for personal/household use
- Use in schools, after-school programs, free schools, and child-support organizations as supplemental classroom material
- Use in libraries, public facilities, and welfare facilities serving children
- Sharing or linking to our pages on social media or blogs (please credit digitalkodomo.jp)
- Quoting portions of our articles with attribution, within the scope of fair quotation under copyright law
3. Uses That Require Prior Contact
For the following uses, please reach out to admin@digitalkodomo.jp in advance. We generally grant permission free of charge, but want to confirm alignment with our mission first.
- Coverage or republication by newspapers, magazines, books, TV, or online media (beyond brief quotation)
- Use in paid seminars, paid courses, or paid teaching materials
- Use in product or service promotion or advertising
- Republishing or redistributing modified versions of our content
- Large-scale printing or distribution (roughly more than 100 copies)
- Citation in research or studies (please include proper attribution)
4. What We Ask You Not To Do
Please refrain from the following actions, which would undermine the trust of children and families and put the continued free publication of this site at risk.
- Republishing or selling our content as if it were your own organization's work
- Modifying our content and spreading it as if it were accurate (e.g., falsifying citations)
- Using our content to deceive children or parents, including phishing or impersonation
- Deliberately removing our copyright notices or source attributions
- Excessive automated access or scraping, including bulk collection as a training dataset
- Defaming this site or our organization
5. Copyright
The text, diagrams, illustrations, manga, photographs, problems, and commentary published on this site are copyrighted by NPO Digital Kodomo BASE or the original authors.
Where we cite government bodies, public institutions, universities, or learned societies as sources, those rights belong to the respective rights holders, and our use complies with fair quotation under copyright law.
6. Personal Information
We handle any personal information collected through your use of this site in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
7. Disclaimer
We take care to make our content educationally useful and accurate, but we do not warrant its completeness, accuracy, currency, or fitness for any particular purpose.
- We do not guarantee any examination, entrance test, or certification result
- We are not liable for any damages arising from use of this site
- Content may be added, modified, or removed without prior notice
- The content of external sites linked from this site is the responsibility of those external sites
8. Changes to These Terms
These Terms may be revised as needed. When important changes are made, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, when appropriate, announce the change in our News section.
9. Contact
For questions or requests regarding these Terms or use of our content, please contact us at: