You get a revocable, personal, non-commercial license to the services, licensed not sold
Subject to the Agreement, Nintendo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Nintendo Account Services solely for your personal and non-commercial use. The services are licensed, not sold, to you, and you may not use them except as the Agreement expressly authorizes.
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Nintendo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Nintendo Account Services solely for your personal and non-commercial use.
the Nintendo Account Services are licensed, not sold, to you
you may not make use of the Nintendo Account Services except as expressly authorized by this Agreement
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is revocable and limited to personal, non-commercial use.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not copy, reverse engineer, circumvent protections or misuse the services, or Nintendo may disable them
Without limitation, you agree not to publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with or otherwise circumvent their functions or protections, including with hardware or software that makes them operate other than as documented and intended; obtain, install or use unauthorized copies; or exploit them other than as documented and intended. These restrictions apply without Nintendo's written consent or express authorization, or unless applicable law expressly permits otherwise. If you do not comply, Nintendo may render the services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.
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(a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services
(b) bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo Account Services, including through the use of any hardware or software that would cause the Nintendo Account Services to operate other than in accordance with its documentation and intended use
(c) obtain, install or use any unauthorized copies of Nintendo Account Services
(d) exploit the Nintendo Account Services in any manner other than to use them in accordance with the applicable documentation and intended use
written consent or express authorization, or unless otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law
Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part
Qualifications & exceptions
The restrictions yield to Nintendo's written consent or express authorization, or to what applicable law expressly permits.
Nintendo may disable the services or the device permanently, in whole or in part.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Some services contain open-source software under separate licenses listed at a linked page
The Nintendo Account Services may contain software licensed under open-source licenses. Information about any open-source software distributed to you, including its licenses, is said to be at a linked web page that is not supplied here.
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The Nintendo Account Services may contain software licensed under the terms of open-source licenses.
Information regarding any such open-source software that is distributed to you, including the licenses under which such open-source software is distributed, can be found at
Not stated here
The open-source licenses and software list are on a linked page that is not supplied here.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
User-Generated Content is what you create and share; it must follow Nintendo's guidelines and avoid personal information
The services may let you create and share User-Generated Content: text, images, audio, video, experiences or other content you create within the services and can share with the public or other users. By accepting the Agreement you also agree to adhere to the Nintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video and Image Sharing Platforms. User-Generated Content must comply with the Nintendo of America Community Guidelines (Section 11), under which you agree to adhere to those guidelines and the Community Tournament Guidelines. Nintendo says you should not include personal information such as your name, email address, address or telephone number in User-Generated Content.
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The Nintendo Account Services may allow you to create and share User-Generated Content.
means text, images, audio, video, experiences, or other content that you create within the Nintendo Account Services and are able to share with the public or other users of the Nintendo Account Services
By accepting this Agreement you also agree to adhere to the Nintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platforms found
User-Generated Content that you make available through the Nintendo Account Services must comply with the Nintendo of America Community Guidelines (see Section 11).
You should not include personal information such as your name, your email address, your address or your telephone number or any other personal information in User-Generated Content.
you agree that you will adhere to the Nintendo of America Community Guidelines found
Qualifications & exceptions
The advice not to include personal information is stated as "should not".
Not stated here
The Nintendo Game Content Guidelines, Community Guidelines and Community Tournament Guidelines are linked but not supplied here.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You own your User-Generated Content, but Nintendo keeps its own intellectual property inside it
You own your User-Generated Content, but Nintendo retains ownership of any Nintendo Intellectual Property contained in it. Nintendo Intellectual Property is defined broadly in Section 12 (trademarks, logos, designs, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary rights), and Nintendo retains all right, title and interest in the services and that intellectual property other than your right to use the services. Because you own and control your User-Generated Content, you are responsible for it. The license you also grant Nintendo to that content is explained in the User-Generated Content license card.
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You own your User-Generated Content.
However, Nintendo retains ownership of any Nintendo Intellectual Property (as defined in Section 12) that is contained in your User-Generated Content.
Since you own and control your User-Generated Content, you are responsible for it.
we retain and reserve all right, title, and interest in and to the Nintendo Account Services, including without limitation, to all Nintendo Intellectual Property
Qualifications & exceptions
Ownership stays with you, but Nintendo's own intellectual property inside your content stays Nintendo's.
You also grant Nintendo a broad license to your content (see the license card).
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Nintendo is not responsible or liable for User-Generated Content, including offensive content you may meet
Nintendo says it is not responsible or liable for any User-Generated Content, for any loss or damages associated with it, or for any incorrect, defamatory, libelous, false, obscene or offensive content you may encounter in connection with it. User-Generated Content is the sole responsibility of the user who made it available.
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Nintendo is not responsible or liable for any User-Generated Content.
We are not responsible for any loss or damages associated with any User-Generated Content, nor are we liable for any incorrect, defamatory, libelous, false, obscene, or offensive content you may encounter in connection with User-Generated Content.
User-Generated Content is the sole responsibility of the user that made it available in connection with the Nintendo Account Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content you encounter as well as content you post.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You give Nintendo a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to your content, surviving termination
By accepting the Agreement you give Nintendo permission to use and change your User-Generated Content in any way and for any purpose for free. More specifically, you grant Nintendo and its affiliates and subsidiaries a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive and sublicenseable license, including after termination of the Agreement, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform and display all or any portion of your User-Generated Content, and to incorporate it in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes, without any payment to you.
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By accepting this Agreement, you give Nintendo permission to use and change your User Generated Content in any way and for any purpose for free.
you grant Nintendo and its affiliates and subsidiaries a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, and sublicenseable license to, including after termination of this Agreement, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, and display all or any portion of your User Generated Content, and to incorporate your User-Generated Content in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes, without any payment to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is irrevocable and perpetual and continues after the Agreement ends.
It extends to Nintendo's affiliates and subsidiaries and can be sublicensed.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You say you may post your content; Nintendo has no duty to protect your rights but may enforce them
By making User-Generated Content available you represent that you are entitled to do so and agree that Nintendo is not obligated to monitor or protect your rights in it. However, you give Nintendo the option and right to enforce your rights in that content, including, for example, the right to take legal action at Nintendo's cost on your behalf.
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you represent that you are entitled to do so and agree that Nintendo is not obligated to monitor or protect your rights in any User-Generated Content
you give Nintendo the option and right to enforce your rights in such User-Generated Content, including, for example, the right to take legal action (at our cost) on your behalf
Qualifications & exceptions
Nintendo's enforcement is an option, not an obligation.
Legal action under this right is at Nintendo's cost.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may share your content only as the services allow, and not for commercial gain
The services may include tools to share your User-Generated Content directly to third-party platforms (Authorized Platforms). You agree to use and share User-Generated Content only through the functionality Nintendo provides, any functionality inherent in an Authorized Platform, or as Nintendo otherwise authorizes, and not to use or share it, or let any third party use or share it, for any other purpose. Except as Nintendo authorizes, you also agree not to create or use User-Generated Content for any commercial purpose, including to receive payment or other consideration in exchange for access to it, whether through an Authorized Platform or otherwise.
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The Nintendo Account Services may include tools that allow you to share your User-Generated Content directly to third party platforms and services
You agree to only use and share User-Generated Content pursuant to the functionality provided by Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Account Services or any functionality inherent in any Authorized Platform, or as otherwise authorized by Nintendo
you will not (and will not permit any third party to) create or use any User-Generated Content for any commercial purpose, including to receive payment or other consideration in exchange for access to such User-Generated Content
Qualifications & exceptions
The commercial-purpose ban has an exception where Nintendo authorizes.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Digital Items are only licensed to you: no ownership, no resale, no cash value
Nintendo or third parties may make digital content or items available (Digital Items). If you buy or acquire any, you obtain a limited license, as set out in Section 2, to use them in connection with the services, and you have no other right or title in them. Digital Items cannot be sold or transferred to a third party, unless a transfer is permitted within the services, and cannot be exchanged for or converted to cash or legal tender or for goods or services outside the services.
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Nintendo or third parties may make certain digital content or items available to you
you obtain a limited license (as set forth in Section 2) to use such Digital Items in connection with the Nintendo Account Services
Other than this limited license, you have no right or title in or to Digital Items.
Nintendo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Nintendo Account Services solely for your personal and non-commercial use.
Digital Items cannot be sold or transferred to a third party (unless a transfer is permitted within the Nintendo Account Services) and cannot be exchanged for or converted to cash or legal tender or for any goods or services outside of the Nintendo Account Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Transfers are possible only where the services permit them.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Nintendo keeps all rights in the services and its intellectual property, apart from your right to use them
Other than your right to use the Nintendo Account Services as the Agreement describes, and as between you and Nintendo, Nintendo retains and reserves all right, title and interest in the services, including all Nintendo Intellectual Property. Nintendo Intellectual Property means all registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, logos, designs, copyrights, database rights, inventions, patents, trade secrets, know-how, technological protection measures and other confidential and proprietary information of Nintendo, including all other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any kind in any country.
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Other than your right to use the Nintendo Account Services as described in this Agreement
we retain and reserve all right, title, and interest in and to the Nintendo Account Services, including without limitation, to all Nintendo Intellectual Property
means all registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, logos, registered and unregistered designs, copyrights, database rights, inventions, patents, trade secrets, know-how, technological protection measures, and other confidential and proprietary information of Nintendo
Qualifications & exceptions
The reservation is as between you and Nintendo.
The definition is introduced by "including without limitation", so it is not closed.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Services downloaded from Apple: your license is non-transferable and limited to Apple products you own or control
In addition to other restrictions in the Agreement, the license Nintendo grants for Nintendo Account Services downloaded from Apple is non-transferable and may only be used to download and use the services on Apple-branded products that you own or control, and only as the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions usage rules permit. Such services may, however, be accessed and used by other accounts associated with yours through family sharing or volume purchasing.
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is non-transferable and may only be exercised to download and use the Nintendo Account Services on Apple-branded products that you own or control
only as permitted by the usage rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions
may, however, be accessed and used by other accounts associated with yours via family sharing or volume purchasing
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to Apple-branded products you own or control.
Family sharing and volume purchasing are expressly allowed.
Not stated here
The Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions are referenced but not supplied here.