Mainland China App Store Agreement
This agreement is a legally binding contract between the developers or publishers of VR games and other programs and/or works distributed on Questbox App Store (hereinafter referred to as the "App Store") and the App Store operator Nincent Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Nincent" or "us/we/our"). The purpose of this agreement is to stipulate the relevant regulations and systems for the distribution, review, display, sales, collection, remittance, removal, and dispute resolution of works on the App Store. By registering as a developer or submitting a program, you agree to this agreement. If you do not agree to this agreement, please do not register the developer or upload the program.
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Questbox App Store
Questbox App Store provides services for the sale and distribution of VR games and applications to mainland China. After registering as a developer, you can upload and submit VR works that you develop or are responsible for publishing. The App Store will display and sell approved works to App Store users through its various client programs and websites.
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Sale of Your Works
- You have to register a developer account and provide a valid bank account for us to remit your income.
- You are required to upload your works, including but not limited to games, applications and entertainment programs, and provide the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
- The product purchased by the user can be downloaded an unlimited number of times.
- You must ensure that your work and related product information comply with the laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China.
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Pricing and Billing
- You may choose to distribute your work for free. Users can download, install and use your work without paying any fees. Under these conditions, you do not need to pay any App Store fees.
- You may choose to distribute your work for a fee. You can choose a price you agree with from a series of price options that have been set by the App Store as the product pricing. Users can download, install and use your work after paying the same price.
- Gross Revenue = Product Actual Revenue - Refunds - Chargeback Fees - VAT - Sales Tax; App Store Fee = Gross Revenue x 0.3; Your Revenue = Gross Revenue - App Store Fee.
- The standard rate of the App Store fee is 30% of the corresponding gross income after deducting various fees from the sales income of your product.
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Payment
- We will generate a monthly revenue report for you, and you can also check the sales of your works in real time through the developer console. After receiving the payment, we will remit the earnings up to the previous month to the payment account you provided by the end of next month.
- If your monthly payment balance is less than the minimum payment limit we set, we will hold the payment for you until the total balance reaches or exceeds the minimum payment limit before crediting your payment account.
- We will deduct the tax payable from the sales revenue in accordance with the tax laws of the jurisdiction in which the payment occurs and submit it to the local tax authority, and provide you with legal tax receipts upon request.
- We reserve the right to issue refunds at our sole discretion and based on the reasonability of the user's request.
- We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to not make payments to you for income that you have obtained in violation of local regulations, such as fraud or crime.
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Code of Conduct
- You undertake to abide by the laws, regulations and policies of the People's Republic of China.
- You may not offer products for game or app distribution outside the App Store.
- You may not sell or distribute illegal products.
- You shall not disrupt or interfere with the normal operation of the App Store in a manner not authorized by us, including but not limited to any activity on the App Store user's equipment and network or other services, including product sales and distribution.
- You are obligated to provide us with a written description of any government investigation of your product if we request it from you.
- You are solely responsible for any loss or damage arising from your product and we are not responsible.
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Content Policy
If you choose to distribute your work in mainland China, you must ensure that you will not do any of the following. Once any regulations are violated, we reserve the right to remove your work, terminate the App Store service, or transfer the serious case to the relevant judicial authority.
- Flat violation of the basic principles of the Chinese Constitution
- Endanger China's unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity
- Leak Chinese secrets, endanger China's national security, and damage China's honor or interests
- Incite ethnic hatred or racial discrimination, undermine China's unity, or violate its ethnic customs or habits
- Disturb public order or destabilize society
- Promote obscene, gambling, violent or instigate crime
- Insults or defames others, or violates the legal rights and interests of others
- Endangers public morality or folk culture
- Contain other content prohibited by law, government or administrative regulations
- Do not include features like Google/Facebook/Twitter in your product
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Product Rights and Licenses
- Unless there is a special agreement, you own the ownership and related intellectual property rights to your products.
- You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license in mainland China to reproduce, distribute, rent, transmit, display, perform, screen, broadcast, adapt, compile, modify, tune, translate , sell and use of the product (including all intellectual property rights contained therein). When there is an illegal act of infringing the intellectual property rights of the work, you authorize us to act on your behalf to exercise the right to report, complain, sue and report to the local judicial department and agency (such as the public security bureau or court).
- You grant users of purchased products a perpetual right to use your work.
- After the termination of this agreement, we reserve the right to continue to display, download and use the product for users who have purchased the product.
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Trademarks
- The parties shall own all right, title and interest in and to their respective trademarks, including without limitation all intellectual property rights. Except to the limited extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither party is granted or acquired any right, title or interest (including, without limitation, any implied license) in any trademark of the other party.
- You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, and royalty-free license in mainland China to display only in the course of marketing, promoting, distributing or selling your products, and performing our obligations under this Agreement Trademarks you submit to us.
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Works removed
- You can request the removal of your work by selecting it in the console and selecting "Stop Publishing".
- We reserve the right to suspend and/or block your use of the App Store for reasonable reasons.
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Termination of Agreement
- This agreement takes effect immediately after you register as a developer.
- You may terminate this agreement by ceasing to publish all games and/or applications.
- We may terminate this Agreement at any time without prior notice to you.
- If the agreement is terminated, we will no longer display your products, except as applicable to 2(c) and 6(d).
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Warranty and Disclaimer
- You must ensure that you have sufficient rights to the product you upload and publish (for example, you own the intellectual property rights to the work or you have obtained distribution authorization from the title owner) for distribution.
- You must ensure that your product does not contain any malicious functions, including but not limited to damage to computer hardware, software and network equipment and functions.
- You must solely bear the risks that may arise from using the App Store, and we do not provide any guarantee of the App Store's merchantability, saleable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, ownership, confidentiality.
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Limitations of Liability
In any case, we are not responsible for any damage to your related interests caused by the use of App Store services.
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Indemnification
You agree to be liable for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses related to or arising out of any work you post, your breach of any term of this Agreement, your breach of any rights of a third party, your breach of any applicable law, rule or regulation (including reasonable attorneys' fees), indemnify, defend and hold harmless Nincent, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties.
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Applicable Law
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China.
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Protocol changes
We reserve the right to revise the agreement and publish revised versions at any time. Modified versions will take effect on the specified date after publication. If you do not agree to the modified version, you must terminate your use of the App Store. Your continued use of the App Store constitutes your agreement to the revised agreement. The App Store Agreement is always subject to the latest released version.
Effective February 1, 2022
中国大陆地区应用商店协议
本协议为快斯特应用商店(以下简称“应用商店”)上所分销VR游戏及其他程序和/或作品的开发者或发行商与应用商店运营商宁讯信息技术有限公司(以下简称“宁讯”或“我们/我们的”)之间订立的具有法律约束力的合同。本协议旨在约定有关应用商店上的作品发行、审核、展示、销售、收款、汇款、下架、争议解决等相关规定和制度。注册成为开发者或提交程序即表示您已同意本协议。如果您不同意本协议,请不要注册开发者或上传程序。
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快斯特应用商店
快斯特应用商店提供面向中国大陆地区销售和发行VR游戏和应用的服务。注册成为开发者后,您便可以上传并提交由您开发或负责发行的VR作品。应用商店会通过其下辖的各类客户端程序和网站向应用商店用户展示和销售已审核通过的作品。
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出售作品
- 您必须首先注册成为开发者,其次您需要提供一个有效的支付账户以便我们向您提供收入汇款。
- 您需要上传您的作品并提供《使用条款》和《隐私政策》,作品类型包括但不限于游戏、应用和娱乐程序。
- 用户已购买产品不受下载次数限制。
- 您必须确保您的作品以及相关产品信息符合中华人民共和国的法律法规。
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定价和计费
- 您可以选择免费发行您的作品。用户可以无需支付任何费用下载、安装和使用您的作品。在此等条件下,您无需支付任何应用商店平台费用。
- 您可以选择收费发行您的作品。您可以从应用商店已经设定好的一系列价格选项中选择一个您认可的价格作为产品定价。用户在支付同等价款后可以下载安装并使用您的作品。
- 毛收入 = 产品实际收入 - 退款 - 退单费用 - 增值税 - 销售税;应用商店平台费 = 毛收入 x 0.3;您的收入 = 毛收入 - 应用商店平台费。
- 应用商店平台费的标准费率为您的产品的销售收入扣除各项费用后对应的毛收入的30%。
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支付收入
- 我们会在每月为您生成收入报告,同时您也可以通过开发者控制台实时查询作品销售情况。在收到款项后,我们会在下月底前将截止到上个月的收入汇入您提供的付款账户。
- 如果您的某月款项余额小于我们设定的最低付款限额,我们将为您保留此款项,直到余款总额累计达到或超过最低付款限额之后,才将将此款项汇入您的支付账户。
- 我们会根据付款发生地所属司法管辖区的税法规定从销售收入中扣除应缴税款并上交给当地税务主管部门,并且根据要求向您提供依法纳税凭据。
- 我们保留根据用户请求的合理性自行判断并决定发放退款的权利。
- 对于您因违反当地法规(如诈骗或犯罪)而获取的收入,我们保留自行决定是否向您支付款项的权利。
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行为准则
- 您承诺遵守中华人民共和国的法律法规以及政策规定。
- 您不得提供在应用商店之外进行游戏或应用分销的产品。
- 您不得出售或发行违法的产品。
- 您不得以未经我们授权的方式破坏、干扰应用商店的正常运行,包括但不限于应用商店用户的设备和网络或其他服务的任何活动,包括产品出售和发行。
- 如果我们对您提出要求,您有义务向我们提供有关政府对您的产品进行的任何调查的书面说明。
- 您必须对因您的产品产生的任何损失或损害负全责,我们不承担相关责任。
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内容规定
如果您选择在中国大陆地区分发您的作品,您必须保证您不会有以下任何行为。一旦违反任何规定,我们保留对您的作品进行下架处理、终止应用商店服务或对严重者移交有关司法机构的权利。
- 公然违反中国宪法的基本原则
- 危害中国的统一、主权或领土完整
- 泄露中国机密,危害中国国家安全,损害中国荣誉或利益
- 煽动民族仇恨或种族歧视,破坏中国团结,或侵犯其民族风俗或习惯
- 扰乱公共秩序或破坏社会稳定
- 传播淫秽、赌博、暴力内容或教唆犯罪
- 侮辱或诽谤他人,或侵犯他人的合法权利及权益
- 危害公共道德或民俗文化
- 包含法律、政府或行政规章禁止的其他内容
- 不得在您的产品中包含Google/Facebook/Twitter等功能
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产品权利和许可
- 除有特殊约定,您对您的产品拥有所有权及相关知识产权。
- 您授予我们在中国大陆地区使用、以及免特许权使用费的非排他性许可,赋予我们复制、发行、出租、传播、展示、表演、放映、广播、改编、汇编、修改、调整、翻译、分销和使用产品(包括所含的一切知识产权)的权利。当侵犯作品知识产权的违法行为出现时,您授予我们代理您行使向当地司法部门和机构(如公安局或法院)进行举报、投诉、起诉和报案的权力。
- 您授予已购产品用户对您的作品的永久使用权。
- 本协议终止后,我们保留为已购产品用户继续展示和下载使用产品的权利。
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商标
- 各方应拥有关于各自的商标的所有权利、所有权和权益,包括但不限于所有的知识产权。除了本协议中明确规定的有限范围之外,任一方均不被授予或取得另一方的任何商标的任何权利、所有权或权益(包括但不限于任何默示许可)。
- 您授予我们有限的、非排他性、可转让、可再许可和免版税的中国大陆地区许可,仅允许我们在营销、推广、分销或销售您的产品、履行我们在本协议下的义务过程中展示您向我们提交的商标。
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作品下架
- 您可以要求下架您的作品,方法是在控制台内选中作品,选择“停止发布”。
- 我们保留因合理原因中止和/或阻止您使用应用商店的权利。
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终止协议
- 您注册成为开发者后,此协议立即生效。
- 您可以通过停止发布全部游戏和/或应用的方式来终止本协议。
- 我们可以随时终止本协议,且可不提前通知您。
- 如果协议终止,我们将不再展示您的产品,但适用于2(c)和6(d)的情况除外。
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保证和免责声明
- 您必须保证您对您所上传和发布的产品拥有足够的权利(例如您拥有作品的知识产权或者您已获得所有权拥有者的分发授权)进行分销。
- 您必须保证您的产品不包含任何恶意功能,包括但不限于破坏计算机硬件、软件以及网络设备及功能。
- 您必须独自承担使用应用商店所可能产生的风险,我们不对应用商店的适销性、可销售品质、针对特定用途的适用性、所有权、保密权提供任何保障。
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责任限制
在任何情况下,您因使用应用商店服务导致您的任何有关利益遭到损害,我们不承担责任。
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赔偿
您同意就与您发布的任何作品、您违反本协议的任何条款、您违反第三方的任何权利、您违反任何适用的法律、规则或法规相关或由此产生的任何损失、成本、负债和费用(包括合理的律师费),对宁讯、其管理人员、董事、员工、代理人和第三方进行赔偿、辩护并使其免受损害。
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适用法律
本协议适用中华人民共和国法律,并受其管辖。
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协议更改
我们保留随时修改协议并发布修改版本的权利。修改版本在发布后会在指定日期生效。如果您不同意修改后的版本,您必须终止使用应用商店。您继续使用应用商店即表示您同意修改后的协议。应用商店协议始终以最新发布的版本为准。
自2022年2月1日起生效