Amazon Community Fund in Japan

Syarat & Ketentuan Dana

By submitting an application, you are deemed to have read and accepted the fund guidelines and these terms and conditions. ChangeX.org reserves the right to disqualify any entries which do not comply with the Fund Guidelines and Terms and Conditions.
In the event that circumstances beyond the reasonable control of ChangeX affect, or could affect, the proper operation of this fund, ChangeX reserves the right to cancel or amend the fund or these terms and conditions at any time but will make every effort to avoid causing undue disappointment to applicants where such action is deemed necessary.
If you are a successful fund awardee, by accepting this funding, you confirm that your receipt is neither prohibited nor inconsistent with any applicable laws, regulations, or binding orders, including applicable ethics or procurement rules or policies, your receipt will not create a conflict of interest for Amazon or its affiliates, and there are no ongoing competitive cloud infrastructure procurements for which your receipt of this benefit could conflict Amazon or its affiliates from participating in the competition. By offering you this funding, neither Amazon nor its affiliates have any expectation of favorable or otherwise beneficial treatment, and our support is not intended to reward or influence any business activity or competitive bid and is offered independently of any past, current or prospective commercial transaction.
Your fund application and any accompanying material submitted to ChangeX (such as motivation statements, group or impact photos, action plans) will become the property of ChangeX on receipt, and may be used for any reasonable and related promotional purposes.
Funding provided for your project through ChangeX can be used to cover direct costs for the set-up or maintenance of the project. Funding can not be used to cover any of the following:
- Cost of work that has already been carried out or anything that is not related to the setup and maintenance of the community project.
- Promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events.
- Promotion of or engagement in criminal acts of violence, terrorism, hate crimes, discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, religion, military and veteran status, disability, sex, age, gender identity or sexual orientation, destruction of any state, or support of any entity that engages in these activities.
Any images or videos shared on ChangeX must meet our criteria:
- Parental/guardian consent must be secured for any images or videos featuring children, and any images uploaded to ChangeX will be presumed by ChangeX to have parental/guardian consent. Individual children should not be identified by name on the ChangeX site.
- You have permission from all people featured in an image or video to share their image or feature them in the video.
- You own the image/video OR you have secured the photographer’s permission/videographer's permission to share it with ChangeX and our partners.
- You have the rights/appropriate permissions for any music used in your video.
- In the event that we need to check any of the above, you will be able to provide evidence that the necessary permissions are in place.
ChangeX shall not be held liable to reimburse any costs that are incurred by applicants, prior to the release of funds by ChangeX. In exceptional circumstances, applicants may seek written approval from ChangeX to incur costs ahead of the release of funds. Written approval will be granted at the sole discretion of ChangeX. Payments will only be made if ChangeX finds that all relevant requirements are met.
If you are successful in receiving funding, you are required to comply with all applicable laws including those governing the use, accounting, management and maintaining records of the grants received from ChangeX. Any potential tax consequences, reporting requirements, and consents from third parties are solely the responsibility and liability of the recipient of the funding.
ChangeX, at its sole discretion, decides which applicants will be accepted, what the funds can be used for, documentation requirements, and whether the relevant criteria for payment have been met, prior to the approval of a project. ChangeX may request further information and documentation as it reasonably deems necessary, and can set further reasonable requirements or criteria during the application process or throughout the project. ChangeX has no commitment to extending grants to applicants, as the applications are subject to the review and unilateral decision of ChangeX for approval.
Employees of ChangeX or the funding partner, as well as their family members and close relatives, are not eligible to apply for funding.
Sanctioned Persons and Anti-Social Forces.

No Anti-Social Force and no sanctioned person, as designated by [the United Nations, United States, European Union, or] Japan is eligible to apply for funding.

"Anti-Social Forces" means any entity or individual that qualifies as or falls within any of the following: (a) an organised crime group (boryokudan); (b) a member of any organised crime group (boryokudan-in); (c) a person who was a member of any organised crime group (boryokudan) who left the group less than five (5) years ago; (d) an associate member of any organised crime group (boryokudan); (e) an entity affiliated with any organised crime group (boryokudan); (f) a corporate racketeer (sokaiya-to); (g) a blackmailer pretending to be a social movement activist (shakai-undo-to hyobo goro); (h) an organised crime group specialising in intellectual crime (tokushu-chino boryoku-shudan-to); (i) any entity or individual similar to any of items (a) to (h) above (any person falling within any of items (a) to (i) is referred to hereinafter as an “Organised Crime Group Member”), (j) any entity or individual: (a) having a relationship with any Organised Crime Group Member who is regarded as controlling the management thereof; (b) having a relationship with any Organised Crime Group Member who is regarded as being substantially involved in the management thereof; (c) having a relationship that is regarded as the unfair utilization of the services of any Organised Crime Group Member, such as for the purpose of seeking unlawful profit for it/him/herself or a third party, or for the purpose of inflicting damage on a third party; (d) having a relationship that is regarded as being involved with any Organised Crime Group Member, such as providing funds or the like, or providing convenience to them; or (e) an officer of which or a person who is substantially involved in the management of which having a socially condemnable relationship with any Organised Crime Group Member; or (k) any entity or individual: (a) engaging in violent demands; (b) engaging in unjust demands beyond legal responsibility; (c) using coercive language or violence in transactions; (d) spreading rumors, using deception, or using force to damage the credibility or hinder the business of others; or (e) engaging in any of the acts equivalent to those listed in (a) to (d) above, either by it/his/herself or through a third party.
ChangeX is solely responsible for the management of the fund, including the selection of applicants, starter support, fund distribution and impact tracking.
It is very important that you keep all receipts and records of how any funding you might receive is spent as ChangeX will collect and review these receipts before releasing the second instalment of funding. If receipts cannot be shown, if the funds are found to have been spent on costs other than those relating to the set-up or maintenance of the new community project, or if the project has not met the requirements of the initial project plan, no further funds will be allocated to this project and ChangeX reserves the right to retrieve the funds that have already been distributed. In these situations, the applicant will also be indefinitely ineligible to apply for any subsequent grants through ChangeX.
By applying to this fund, you:
- If applying on behalf of an organisation, confirm that you represent the organisation that you are applying on behalf of and warrant that you have the necessary authorisations to act on behalf of the entity, including the ability to provide the required documents to support such approval if required during the process.
- Agree that any personal information provided by you with the fund application may be held and used only by ChangeX and to administer the fund and for any other purposes to which you have expressly consented;
- Understand that you may withdraw such consent at any time by contacting ChangeX at [email protected]
- Are deemed to have read, understood and accepted the ChangeX privacy policy, a copy of which can be found at https://www.changex.org/ie/sites/privacy.
Insofar as is permitted by law, ChangeX will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate applicants or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking part in the fund except where it is caused by the negligence of ChangeX or its employees.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to limit or exclude its liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud (including, but not limited to, fraudulent misrepresentation) or for that which cannot lawfully be excluded.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall impact the awardee’s statutory rights.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions will not be affected and will remain valid.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall confer any rights on any third person owing to the rule of privity of contract.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions (whether such disputes or issues are contractual or non-contractual in nature, such as claims in tort, for breach of statute or regulation or otherwise) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Ireland.