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Terms of Service
Last updated: May 2025
Scope and Purpose
These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the Station Flow Grid website and the documentation and analytical services offered through it. By accessing this website, you agree to be bound by these terms.
Station Flow Grid provides structured reference documentation and analytical reports relating to Japanese railway and transit systems. These services are intended for researchers, operators, journalists, and designers who require methodical, professionally produced written outputs.
Acceptable Use
You may access this website for lawful purposes related to reviewing our services and initiating an enquiry. You may not use this website to collect data about other users, conduct automated scraping, or distribute malicious content.
Documents and reports delivered as part of a service engagement are licensed for the specific use agreed in the scoping note. Redistribution, resale, or commercial reuse without written authorisation from Station Flow Grid is not permitted.
Submitted enquiries should be genuine. We reserve the right to decline to engage with requests that are abusive, misleading, or outside the stated scope of our services.
This website is intended for users aged 18 and over. By using it, you confirm you meet this requirement.
Access and Engagements
This website does not require account creation for general browsing. Service engagements are initiated through the contact form and formalised via a written scoping note exchanged by email.
Each service engagement is a separate agreement with its own defined scope, timeline, and fee. The terms of that agreement are set out in the scoping note and take precedence over any general statements on this page regarding service specifics.
Station Flow Grid reserves the right to decline any enquiry or terminate an engagement where a client acts in bad faith, fails to meet agreed payment obligations, or engages in conduct inconsistent with these terms.
Service Availability and Modifications
We aim to keep this website available and up to date, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. Maintenance, hosting issues, or circumstances outside our control may result in temporary unavailability.
The services described on this website represent our current offering. Station Flow Grid may modify, withdraw, or add services at any time. Existing engagements already formalised in a scoping note will be honoured on the terms agreed at that point.
Pricing and timelines shown on the website are indicative. Final figures are confirmed in the scoping note for each engagement.
Geographic access to our services is not formally restricted, but the subject matter — Japanese railway and transit infrastructure — means practical delivery may be limited by site access availability in certain cases.
Intellectual Property
All content on this website — including text, layout, structural elements, and visual design — is the property of Station Flow Grid unless otherwise indicated.
Delivered documents and reports are produced by Station Flow Grid and licensed to the client for the agreed use only. Ownership of the underlying intellectual property in those documents remains with Station Flow Grid unless explicitly transferred in writing.
Photographs or documents supplied by a client as part of an engagement remain the client's property. We will not use them for any purpose other than the agreed deliverable.
Station Flow Grid respects third-party intellectual property. Where publicly available materials are cited in a report, they are attributed and referenced appropriately.
Changes to These Terms
Station Flow Grid may update these Terms of Service periodically. The date at the top of this page indicates when the most recent revision was made. Continued use of the website following any update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.