USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
inSORS Reference: USLA - August 2006
© 2001-2006 inSORS
IMPORTANT--READ
CAREFULLY: This User Software License Agreement ("Agreement")
is a legal contract between (1) both you and your business entity (Licensee)
and (2) inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
(Licensor).
If you (Licensee) accept
this Agreement, you will receive a limited license for the inSORS ÒLicensed
Software.Ó The Licensed Software
allows you to engage in collaboration sessions.
BY CLICKING THE [ACCEPTED]
ICON BELOW, OR BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE LICENSED
SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE
WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND TERMINATION PROVISIONS
BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL
OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, AND
EXIT NOW. You and your business
entity will not be charged for your copy of the Licensed Software if you do not
download it.
INTRODUCTION
Licensee
desires to acquire from Licensor, and Licensor desires to grant to Licensee, a
non-exclusive, non-transferable license to utilize certain Licensed Software on
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
In
consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth in this Agreement
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, sufficiency and
adequacy of which are mutually acknowledged by each Party, the Parties agree as
follows:
LICENSE TERMS
1.
Generally
Following acceptance of this
Agreement, you may install and execute use one copy of the Licensed Software
for use on your personal computer or other computer for which you are
responsible.
You may install the single
copy on one hard disk or other storage device for one computer, and you may
access and use the Licensed Software at that location. You may make a second copy (or the
minimum number required by law) for use exclusively as a backup, archival copy.
Licensor and Licensee have
reached agreement as to payment terms, as set out in an associated Purchase
Order or Invoice. The Purchase
Order or Invoice is an integral part of this Agreement. A Licensee shall pay to Licensor the
fees set forth in the relevant Purchase Order or Invoice within thirty days
after the Effective Date of this Agreement.
2.
Termination and Deactivation
Without prejudice to any other
rights, Licensor may terminate this Agreement if Licensee fails to comply with
the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In such an event: you must destroy all copies of the
Licensed Software and Licensed Material and all of their component parts, and
the Licensed Software may be deactivated or otherwise disabled, with or without
notice. If the Licensed Software is deactivated or otherwise
disabled, you will lose the ability to utilize the Licensed Software.
3.
Definitions and Interpretation
In this Agreement, the words
and expressions set out below shall have the following meanings.
ÒAnniversary
DateÓ means the date one year after the initial acceptance
of the User Software License Agreement by Licensee.
"Business
Day" means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday, or U.S. public holiday,
that commercial banks in Chicago, Illinois, are open for business.
"Competitor
of Licensor" means any corporation, partnership, business unit, person or
other entity that develops, markets, sells or imports collaboration software.
"Confidential
Information" means all information (whether in written, oral, electronic
or other format) that relates to the technical, financial and business affairs,
customers, suppliers, products, developments, operations, processes, data,
trade secrets, design rights, know-how and personnel of each Party which is
disclosed to, or otherwise ascertained by, the other Party (whether directly or
indirectly) in connection with this Agreement and that should reasonably have
been understood by the recipient, because of legends or other markings, the
circumstances of disclosure, or the nature of the information itself, to be
confidential.
ÒEffective
DateÓ means the date of the initial acceptance of the User Software License
Agreement by Licensee.
ÒInitial
Period of MaintenanceÓ means the time from the Effective date to the earlier of
(1) one year following the Effective Date or (2) termination of the Agreement.
"Intellectual
Property Right" means all rights in inventions, patents, trademarks,
designs, copyrights, know-how, and confidential information, including trade
secrets, and moral rights and all rights or forms of protection of a similar
nature or having equivalent or similar effect to any of these, which may
subsist anywhere in the world.
"Licensed
Material" means any and all user and programmer material, including
documentation in hard copy and electronic format (if available), provided by
Licensor to assist Licensee in the understanding, application, maintenance, or
use of the Licensed Software.
"Licensed
Software" means any and all computer programs, in machine-readable object
code, that are delivered or deliverable by Licensor to Licensee pursuant to
this Agreement. This Agreement
creates no obligation on the part of Licensor to provide Updates. Nonetheless, in the event that Updates
are provided, such Updates shall constitute "Licensed Software" for
purposes of this Agreement and shall be subject to all the terms and conditions
of this Agreement.
ÒLicensee
ImprovementÓ means any change to or modification of the Licensed Software
(including, by way of example, a derivative work based upon the Licensed
Software), or any method or apparatus (whether patentable or not) that (1)
necessarily relies upon the Licensed Software, or a derivation thereof and (2)
is conceived, made, discovered, written or created by Licensee or its agents,
whether alone or jointly with someone else. A Licensee Improvement shall not include any change to or
modification of the Licensed software, or any method or apparatus, that was
developed by Licensee or its agents prior to the Effective Date of this
Agreement or that was wholly developed by a third party.
"Maintenance
Services" means those services provided by Licensor for the Licensed
Software, as described within the Maintenance Policy found at http://www.insors.com/support/downloads/Maintenance_Policy.pdf. As set forth in section 2.4, the
Maintenance Policy may be changed or retracted without advance notice,
ÒPeriod
of Maintenance" means the time during which Licensor will supply
Maintenance Services to Licensee.
As long as the Agreement has not been terminated, the Period of
Maintenance shall extent at least until the Anniversary Date. Thereafter, assuming that Licensee has
timely renewed the Maintenance Services Agreement and paid the amount charged
by Licensor for further Maintenance Services, the Period of Maintenance shall
continue. In all events, the
Period of Maintenance shall end upon the termination of the Agreement.
"Update"
means a revised version, or subset, of the Licensed Software containing one or
more corrections, upgrades, modifications, fixes, patches, or enhancements.
Unless otherwise specified,
words importing the singular include the plural, words importing any gender
include every gender, words importing persons include bodies corporate and
unincorporated, and references to the whole include the part; and in each case
vice versa.
4.
License Grants
Subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, with effect from the Effective Date of this
Agreement, Licensor grants to such Licensee, for the term of this Agreement, a
nonexclusive, world-wide license: (1) to use the Licensed Software, in
machine-readable object code only, solely for Licensee's internal business
purposes; and (2) to use the Licensed Material solely for Licensee's internal
business purposes.
Nothing in this Agreement
shall be construed to grant to Licensee any right, title, ownership or license in
the Licensed Software or Licensed Materials, except as expressly set out in
this Agreement. The Parties agree
that Licensor, and its licensors (if any) will retain all right, title,
interest and ownership in and to the Licensed Software and Licensed Materials
and any copies, improvements, derivations and Updates thereof,
Licensee hereby agrees to,
and does, grant to Licensor a fully paid and royalty-free, non-exclusive,
irrevocable, worldwide license on any and all Licensee Improvements conceived,
made, discovered, written or created during the time that Licensor owns
intellectual property rights covering all or part of the Licensed Software
(including, by way of example, a patent or copyright) such that Licensor has
the right to exclude others from using the Licensed Software Licensee agrees promptly to disclose to
Licensor all Licensee Improvements.
Licensor shall have the unrestricted right to sublicense Licensee
Improvements for all uses with no further obligation to Licensee.
5.
Confidentiality
Each Party agrees as to any
Confidential Information disclosed by one Party (the "Discloser") to
the other Party to this Agreement (the "Recipient"):
The Parties acknowledge that
the Licensed Software contains Confidential Information of Licensor, regardless
of whether or not any portion thereof is the subject of a patent or
copyright. Licensee shall maintain
the Licensed Software and Licensed Material, and any portion thereof, in
strictest confidence and shall not permit such information to be communicated,
directly or indirectly, to any third party.
In particular, Licensee
shall not take the following actions, nor allow others to take such actions:
modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Licensed
Software, or make any copies of the Licensed Software or Licensed Material,
other than to the extent Licensor is required by law to permit Licensee to do
so; or allow a Competitor of Licensor to have access, directly or indirectly,
to the source code or object code for the Licensed Software. The Parties acknowledge that any of
such actions would result in substantial, immediate, irreparable harm to
Licensor. If such actions are taken,
Licensee shall be liable for any and all resulting damages, concluding
consequential damages, incurred by Licensor.
All Confidential
Information, in tangible or electronic form, under the control of the Recipient
shall be destroyed, erased or returned to the Discloser promptly upon the
earlier of: the written request of the Discloser; or the termination of this
Agreement.
The restrictions of this
section shall not apply to Confidential Information that:
For the avoidance of doubt,
the Parties explicitly agree that the provisions of this section shall survive
any termination of this Agreement.
Except for the fact that
Licensor and Licensee have entered into this Agreement for the Licensed
Software or as otherwise provided by the Agreement, the provisions of this
Agreement are and shall remain Confidential Information of both Parties.
6.
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY
REMEDY PROVIDED FOR HEREIN FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OR OTHERWISE,
LICENSEE AGREES THAT NEITHER LICENSOR NOR ITS LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE TO
LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR DAMAGES IN THE FORM OF INDIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, LOSS
OF GOODWILL OR OTHERWISE, OR FOR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED
IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW: LICENSOR PROVIDES NO WARRANTIES
TO LICENSEE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED; LICENSOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR OF MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, OR OF
FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE, SPECIFIC OR OTHERWISE, OR OF NONINFRINGEMENT OF ANY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; AND DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING BY
STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF
DOUBT, LICENSEE SHALL MAKE NO CLAIM AGAINST LICENSOR ON ACCOUNT OF ANY CLAIM OF
INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT.
LICENSEE ACKNOWLEDGES AND
AGREES THAT IT HAS INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED THAT THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS
APPROPRIATE FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH LICENSEE INTENDS TO USE THE LICENSED
SOFTWARE, AND THAT LICENSEE DID NOT RELY UPON ANY SKILL OR JUDGMENT OF LICENSOR
IN SUCH SELECTION. LICENSEE
ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK RELATED TO THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. LICENSEE UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES THAT
THE LICENSED SOFTWARE (AND ANY LICENSOR-SUPPLIED HARDWARE) HAS NOT BEEN TESTED
FOR, NOR HAS LICENSOR CERTIFIED ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES FOR USE IN, HIGH RISK
APPLICATIONS.
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF
DOUBT, LICENSOR MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE
MAINTENCES SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTY RELATING OR OF
ANY CONSEQUENCES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY SERVICES OR
RECOMMENDATION LICENSOR MAY PROVIDE.
THE LICENSED SOFTWARE MAY
RUN ON THIRD-PARTY HARDWARE, IN MULTI-LICENSOR ENVIRONMENTS. LICENSOR DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT
THAT THE CAPACITY OF THE THIRD-PARTY-SUPPLIED HARDWARE WILL SUPPORT ALL FUTURE
FEATURES OF UPDATES OR THAT ALL UPDATES WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE THIRD-PARTY-SUPPLIED
HARDWARE.
THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF
LICENSOR TO LICENSEE FOR ANY CAUSE OF ACTION RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE
ACTIONS OF THE PARTIES THEREUNDER (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION AND
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE ACTION IS IN CONTRACT (INCLUDING WARRANTY) OR IN TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE GROUNDS)) SHALL BE
LIMITED TO AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT PAID TO LICENSOR BY LICENSEE UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT. SUCH LIMITATIONS
OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO DAMAGES FOR: BODILY INJURY (INCLUDING DEATH),
DAMAGE TO REAL PROPERTY AND TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY, OR FRAUDULENT CONDUCT.
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SECTION STATE THE EXCLUSIVE LIABILITY OF LICENSOR AND THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF
LICENSEE.
Some states or
jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental,
consequential or special damages, or the exclusion of implied warranties, so
the above limitations may not apply to you.
7.
Maintenance Services
For the Initial Period of
Maintenance, Licensor will provide Maintenance Services to License at no charge
in addition to the license fees for the Licensed Software, plus any further
charges that Licensee may have accrued.
During the Period of
Maintenance, Licensor may send to Licensee a Notification of when Period of
Maintenance for the Licensed Software is scheduled to expire (ÒExpiration
Date.Ó) The Notification may be
sent approximately 90 days prior to the Expiration Date. Licensee shall respond within 14 days
only if Licensee does not want Licensor to continue providing Maintenance
Services after the Expiration Date.
Absent such a response by Licensee, Licensor will send an invoice to
Licensee for the Maintenance Fees due for the continuation of the Maintenance
Services. Provided that this
Agreement has not been terminated and the amount invoiced by Licensor for the
Maintenance Services has been paid, Licensor will continue to provide
Maintenance Services to Licensee.
8.
Force Majuere
None of the Parties shall be
responsible for any failure to perform or delay in performing any of its
obligations under this Agreement where and to the extent that such failure or
delay results from causes outside the reasonable control of the party. Such causes shall include, without
limitation, Acts of God or of the public enemy, acts of the government in its
sovereign or contractual capacity, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions,
terrorist actions, freight embargoes, civil commotions, or the like.
Nothing
in this Agreement shall be construed as establishing or implying any agency,
partnership or joint venture between the Parties. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to constitute any
Party as the agent of any other Party or authorizes either Party (i) to incur
any expenses on behalf of the other Party, (ii) to enter into any engagement or make any
representation or warranty on behalf of the other Party, (iii) to pledge the
credit of or otherwise bind or oblige the other Party, or (iv) to commit the
other Party in any way whatsoever without in each case obtaining the other
Party's prior written consent.
Any
notice or other document which may be given by either Party under this
Agreement shall be given in writing in person or by pre-paid postal service or
by facsimile transmission. Any such notice or other document for
Licensor shall be addressed to Licensor at the following address:
inSORS
Integrated Communications, Inc.
111
West Jackson Boulevard
Suite
1412
Chicago,
IL 60604 USA
Tel:
(312) 786-9169
Fax: (312) 786-9139
Contact: President or Chief Executive Officer
Either Party to this
Agreement may change its contact information for notification purposes by
giving the other reasonable prior written notice of the new information and its
effective date.
No failure to exercise or enforce and no delay in
exercising or enforcing on the part of either Party to this Agreement of any
right, remedy or provision of this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of such
right, remedy or provision. No
single or partial exercise or enforcement of any right, remedy or provision
shall preclude any other or further exercise or enforcement of such right,
remedy or provision or the exercise or enforcement of any other right, remedy
or provision.
This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties hereto with
respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings, oral and written, between the Parties hereto with respect to
the subject matter hereof.
13. Survivability
14.
Dispute Resolution
Any controversy or claim
arising out of, relating to or connected with this Agreement or the breach
hereof must be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial
Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon
the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having
jurisdiction thereof. Any
arbitration under this Agreement must be administered exclusively by the
Chicago Regional Office of the American Arbitration Association, or, in the
event that office is unable to act, by the closest available regional office to
Chicago, Illinois. The arbitration
must be held in Cook County, Illinois.
This provision for arbitration shall be specifically enforceable by the
Parties and, except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the decision of
the arbitrator(s) in accordance herewith shall be final and binding. The arbitrator(s) shall have the power
to issue and grant permanent injunctive relief and other equitable orders and
remedies. To the extent authorized
by applicable law or rule, any such arbitration shall be conducted in
confidence and in accordance with the confidentiality provisions of this
Agreement. Each Party shall pay
its own expenses of arbitration(s) and the expenses of the arbitrator shall be
equally shared, subject to reimbursement to the prevailing party as described
above.
This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of Illinois without regard to the conflicts of laws principles
thereof. To the extent that this Agreement contemplates and
permits a Party to bring an action in court of competent jurisdiction, the
Parties agree to submit irrevocably to the state and federal courts located in
Cook County, Illinois, and that such courts shall be the venue of choice in any
such proceedings.
The Parties agree that in
the event of any suit or proceeding brought by one Party against the other, the
Party prevailing therein shall be entitled to payment from the other Party
hereto of its reasonable counsel fees and disbursements in an amount judicially
determined.
Nothing shall prevent a
Party from applying to a court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary
restraining order, a preliminary injunction or other equitable relief to
preserve the status quo or prevent irreparable harm pending the selection and
confirmation of the arbitrator(s).
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