Terms of Use

The service

HOKORA lets you build a personal page at an address like hokora.page/your_name, made of blocks (links, music, photos, games…), and share it. The service is published by Baptiste Bourut EI (Studio Baoul); contact details are in the legal notice.

HOKORA is free. Paid plans (HOKORA+ and Founder) add options; they’re governed by the Terms of Sale, shown before any payment. A feature that is free today won’t become paid for a page that already uses it.

Your account

• You must be at least 15 to create an account.
• You use an email address that is yours and keep your password to yourself. What happens from your account is your responsibility.
• An account is you, or an organisation you’re entitled to represent.
• You can delete your account at any time from the studio (Account). Deletion is immediate and permanent: your page, blocks, images, stats and username history are erased. A running subscription is cancelled with it (see the Terms of Sale).

Your username

• 3–20 characters: lowercase letters, numbers and underscores. Some names are reserved (the site’s own addresses, the demo pages).
• You can change it once every 30 days. Your old name stays yours for 30 days and points to your page, as long as it’s public.
• We may withdraw a name that passes its holder off as another person, brand or organisation, or infringes their rights. You’ll be told, with the reason.

Your content

What you publish (words, images, links) stays yours. So that HOKORA can host and show it, you grant it a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence, limited to what running the service needs: storing your content, reproducing and displaying it on your page and in its preview (the card shown when a link to your page is shared), and adapting it to those formats. It ends when you delete the content or your account.

You confirm you have the right to publish what you publish — especially photos, music and videos that aren’t yours — and that your page respects the law and other people’s rights.

Music and background videos (paid plans): only upload them if you hold the rights for this use — your own music, a track licensed for online use, or an open licence whose terms you follow (such as the credit). A licence to play music in a shop (SACEM, in France) covers playing it on the premises; it doesn’t necessarily cover a web page, so check first. A track reported by its rights holder is removed from the page, with the reason (see Reports and moderation).

A published page is public: anyone can see and share it, and search engines can index it. Whatever you write in the Contact block becomes public.

Shared templates

From the studio (Templates), you can save your page as a template. A template keeps only its look — the scene, colours, fonts, and the shape and order of its blocks — with example text: never your words, links, uploaded photos or IDs, which are removed when it’s saved. The studio shows you beforehand what stays with you.

• A link. Every template has its own address (hokora.page/t/…), which you can share. You can delete it whenever you like: its link then stops working.
• The gallery. You can submit a template to the template gallery. A person reviews it before it appears there. We turn down a copy of someone else’s template, characters, logos or visuals from a protected work, a template that passes itself off as a brand or a person, and anything these terms forbid. A refusal comes with its reason; the template stays a link.
• The order. The gallery shows templates newest first, in the order they were approved, and the most used over 30 days apart. Nobody pays for a place.
• What you allow. By sharing a template, you allow anyone with a HOKORA account to use it for free for their own page, to adapt it, and to keep what they made: a page built from your template keeps its look even if you delete the template later. You confirm that this look is yours to share.
• Your numbers. You see how many people viewed or tried your template, and how many pages used it — totals, never who.
• Free. Templates aren’t sold on HOKORA, or by HOKORA. If selling ever opens, it will come with its own terms, shown beforehand; nothing shared for free will become paid.

A reported template is reviewed like a page (see Reports and moderation). Once taken down, its link leads nowhere and it leaves the gallery; you see the reason in your studio.

What doesn’t belong on HOKORA

• Pretending to be someone else: a person, a brand, an organisation.
• Harassing, threatening, or inciting hatred or violence against a person or a group.
• Any sexual content involving a minor, and any sexual content published without the consent of the people shown.
• Gratuitous violence, or glorifying terrorism or a crime.
• Spam, scams, phishing, malware, and links leading to them.
• Using someone’s work without their permission: photos, music, videos, writing.
• And, more broadly, any unlawful content.

Misusing the service is also forbidden: getting around its limits, automating it to create pages in bulk, or trying to access what isn’t yours.

Third-party links and services

A page can link to other sites and show information from other services: Discord presence (through Lanyard), Steam games, an AniList list, a YouTube or Twitch player. Those services have their own terms; HOKORA isn’t responsible for their content or availability. A video player only loads after the visitor clicks.

A platform logo says where a link goes, a rank emblem illustrates the rank entered: neither implies any partnership. Emblems belong to the games’ publishers. Game ranks are entered by each person and shown as self-reported.

Reports and moderation

HOKORA hosts its users’ pages without monitoring them in advance. When unlawful content, or content against these rules, is reported to us, we review it and act promptly.

• Report. Every public page has a “Report this page” link, every shared template a “Report this template” link. No account needed. You can leave your name and email to get an acknowledgement, then the decision. You can also write to [email protected].
• Review. Every report is read by a person. No decision is made by an algorithm.
• Decision. We leave the page up, or remove what’s at issue: the page’s music or background video, a shared template, or the whole page, which then shows for no one. Its owner sees the reason in their studio.
• Appeal. If you disagree with a decision (as the page’s owner, or after your report), write to [email protected]: a person reviews it again. You can also go to the competent courts.
• Authorities. If content suggests a threat to someone’s life or safety, we inform the authorities.

Reporting in bad faith, or repeatedly without grounds, can lead us to stop handling reports from the same source.

Taking down a page or an account

If these rules are seriously or repeatedly broken, we can take a page down or delete an account. Unless it’s urgent or the law requires otherwise, we tell you first and explain why; a takedown always comes with its reason.

Availability and liability

HOKORA is provided as is. We work to keep it running, but an outage, maintenance or the end of a third-party integration can interrupt all or part of the service. Keep a copy of what matters: the studio’s export gives you your whole page, whenever you want.

As far as the law allows, HOKORA isn’t liable for indirect damage or for content published by its users. Nothing in these terms limits the rights the law gives you as a consumer.

Changes

These terms can change. A significant change is announced in advance, with the date it takes effect; the date of the current version is at the top of this page. If you don’t agree, you can delete your account before it applies.

Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by French law. If there’s a disagreement, write to us first: most problems get solved that way. Otherwise, the French courts have jurisdiction; if you’re a consumer, you keep the right to go to the court where you live.

Single point of contact, for users and for authorities (Digital Services Act, articles 11 and 12): [email protected], in English or French.

This is a translation: the French version of these terms is the one that applies.