TC Academy / Treasure Castle Sales Program Terms

Established: September 7, 2026

Revised: October 2, 2026

These Terms set out the basic conditions that apply when instructors, makers, artists and other registered persons ("Makers") wish to sell, consign, sell outright to the Company or produce to order products, works and similar items through TC Academy / Treasure Castle, operated by Style Free LLC (the "Company").

1. A program separate from the instructor agreement

Registration as a TC Academy instructor and this Sales Program are separate programs. Being active as an instructor does not by itself require acceptance of these Terms. Only Makers who use this Sales Program additionally review these Terms and the individual conditions that apply.

2. Transaction methods

After reviewing each product, the Company may offer one of the following:

Consignment sale: the Maker keeps ownership of the product and the Company sells it as the sales counter.

Outright purchase: the Company buys the product directly.

Made to order: the product is produced after the buyer's order and specifications are confirmed.

Not handled: the Company does not handle the product for reasons of profitability, law, rights, shipping, returns or otherwise.

Makers may state their preference, but the transaction method and conditions the Company can actually offer are decided with regard to product characteristics, demand, resale potential, shipping costs, sales fees, return and refund risk, sales territory and other factors. If the Maker does not accept the offered conditions, that transaction is not concluded.

3. Consignment sales

In a consignment sale, the sale of the product alone does not finalise the settlement owed to the Maker.

The reference settlement amount and other necessary conditions are agreed individually for each product.

Buyer support, product pages, selling prices, shipping management, returns handling and other sales-counter functions are in principle handled by the Company.

Even after delivery to the buyer, return, refund, buyer-protection and payment-dispute periods of the sales channel may remain open.

The sale confirmation date is the day on which the ordinary return and refund period has ended, no return, refund, cancellation, dispute, chargeback or other issue remains unresolved, and the Company is able to finalise the sale.

Unless different lawful conditions are agreed individually, settlement is closed at the end of the month containing the sale confirmation date and paid on the 15th of the following month.

For domestic JPY bank-transfer payouts in Japan, the only bank accounts that may be registered as receiving accounts are (1) a PayPay Bank account, or (2) an account at Mizuho Bank, Hibarigaoka Branch (bank code 0001, branch code 262). The Company does not transfer domestic JPY payouts to any other bank or to any other Mizuho Bank branch. To transact with the Company and receive such payouts, the Maker must open and register one of these two permitted receiving accounts before a payout can be scheduled.

No transfer fee is deducted from the Maker's receipt for either permitted domestic receiving account. The Company bears the transfer fee, so the amount deducted from the Maker is JPY 0. No individually approved exception bank is available.

For Makers outside Japan, Payoneer is the primary intended service. If Payoneer cannot be used, or the Company otherwise determines it is necessary, PayPal or another Company-designated cross-border payment service, or an individually agreed method, may be used.

4. Outright purchase

The Company may offer a purchase price for each product.

The purchase price is normally lower than the reference settlement amount for a consignment sale, because after purchase the Company bears the risks of unsold stock, price reductions, ordinary returns and refunds and other sales risks.

As an internal guide, the purchase price may be around 50% of the consignment reference settlement amount for ordinary products and around 55–60% for products with a high probability of sale. These figures are guidance only and do not guarantee a minimum purchase rate or any purchase.

A purchase is concluded when the Maker accepts the price offered by the Company and the Company has received and inspected the product and confirmed that there is no material discrepancy from the declaration.

The purchase price is in principle paid on the bank business day following the day the purchase is concluded.

After a purchase is concluded, ownership, ordinary selling-price decisions, unsold stock, price reductions, choice of sales channel and ordinary return and refund risk pass to the Company unless restricted by individual agreement.

This does not release the Maker from liability arising before the purchase, such as deliberately concealed defects, absence of rights or counterfeiting.

5. Made to order

This includes flower lettering, made-to-measure clothing, personalised items and other products produced after ordering to the buyer's specifications.

Before production begins, the content, quantity, deadline, delivery method, compensation or receipt amount, specific payment date, sales channel, allocation of responsibility for returns and refunds and other matters are confirmed individually.

Made-to-order work is not treated under the same settlement rules as consignment sales of finished goods.

Where the arrangement constitutes a service or manufacturing subcontract under applicable law, the statutory disclosure of transaction terms, payment deadlines and other legal requirements take precedence.

6. Sales channels

Makers may review the channel-specific key information provided by the Company and choose the scope of channels in which they permit their products to be sold.

Permission to sell does not oblige the Company to list the product on every permitted channel.

The Company may decide the actual sales channels with regard to profitability, return schemes, law, shipping, buyer protection and other factors.

For consignment and made-to-order arrangements, where a new channel or similar change would materially increase the Maker's burden, the Company will seek additional confirmation as necessary.

For products the Company has formally purchased, the Company may choose domestic and overseas sales channels at its discretion unless individually restricted.

7. Returns, refunds and complaints

The Company is in principle the first point of contact for buyers. Internal allocation of costs is decided according to the cause.

Production errors by the Maker, material discrepancies from the description, undeclared material defects and similar: the Maker's responsibility.

Order-transmission errors, description errors, mis-shipments, packaging faults under the Company's control and similar: the Company's responsibility.

Shipping accidents: the carrier, insurance and sales-platform compensation are used first.

Buyer's own reasons: the sales channel's and buyer-facing return conditions apply.

Payment fraud and chargebacks: the sales platform's dispute procedures, seller protection and similar are used first, then the matter is decided according to the cause.

The Company does not pass every return and refund loss on to the Maker regardless of cause.

8. Display of payment and settlement status

The Company will, as far as practicable, provide a facility in the instructor / maker My Page and similar areas to check, for each product, the sales status, shipping status, return and refund review period, sale confirmation status, planned settlement amount, next scheduled payment date, payment history and similar. Only implemented functions are shown as real data; sample displays are clearly marked as samples.

9. Individual product agreements

For each product, the transaction method, product name, selling price or pricing method, reference settlement amount, purchase price, production compensation, payment date, sales channels, sales territory, return and refund conditions, allocation of responsibility, use of intellectual property and other necessary matters are confirmed individually.

10. Intellectual property and promotional use

Transfer of ownership of a product and transfer of copyright and similar rights are separate.

The Maker permits the Company to use product photographs, product descriptions, the Maker's name, brand name and other agreed information to the extent necessary for selling, advertising, social-media posting, product descriptions, translation and other promotion of the product.

Any assignment of copyright itself is agreed separately and expressly.

11. Consent and records

Consent to these Terms, the channel-specific key information and product-specific conditions may be obtained through web screens, checkboxes, electronic signatures, e-mail, recordable messages or other methods. The Company keeps the necessary records, including the version of the Terms, the product concerned, the transaction method and the date and time of confirmation.

12. Changes to these Terms

The Company may amend these Terms for future transactions in response to changes in law, sales-platform terms or other circumstances. For changes that materially increase the Maker's burden, the Company will seek renewed confirmation as necessary, and new disadvantageous conditions will not, in principle, be applied retroactively to transactions already concluded.

13. Relationship between these Terms and Individual Payment Conditions

For consignment sales, outright purchases and made-to-order transactions under this Sales Program, these Terms form the common conditions and the Individual Payment Conditions personally accepted by the Maker for each product form the product-specific conditions. Where the Individual Payment Conditions are more specific than these Terms, the product-specific conditions prevail to the extent permitted by law.

14. Precedence of law and governing law

Where mandatory law or other applicable legal rules prevail over these Terms, those rules apply. These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan.

15. Contact

Style Free LLC / TC Academy / Treasure Castle

2-2-17 Baba, Niiza-shi, Saitama 352-0016, Japan

Phone: 080-7612-1108

Email: academy@treasurecastle.online