NOODLE
END USER LICENCE
AGREEMENT
SOFTWARE (c) CONFABULATE
LIMITED 2006. [PATENT PENDING.]
IMPORTANT: READ THIS
LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE "NOODLE" SOFTWARE
PRODUCT!
THIS END USER LICENCE
AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND CONFABULATE
LIMITED TRADING AS NOODLE ("NOODLE") FOR THE EVALUATION AND/OR USE
OF THE "NOODLE" COMPUTER SOFTWARE (INCLUDING ANY UPDATES WHICH MAY
BE ISSUED BY NOODLE IN NOODLE’S SOLE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME)
AND NOODLE USER DOCUMENTATION AND OTHER DOCUMENTATION OR PRINTED
MATERIAL WHETHER PROVIDED TO YOU ON PHYSICAL MEDIA OR RECEIVED BY
YOU VIA ANY FORM OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION (TOGETHER REFERRED TO
AS THE "SOFTWARE").
BY EITHER (A) CLICKING
ON THE "YES" BUTTON ON INSTALLATION OF THE SOFTWARE AND/OR (B) INSTALLING,
COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT
IN ITS ENTIRETY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OF THIS
AGREEMENT, CLICK ON THE "NO" BUTTON AND/OR DO NOT CONTINUE TO DOWNLOAD,
INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU ARE ACCEPTING
THIS LICENSE ON BEHALF OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE YOU REPRESENT THAT
YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO DO SO. IF YOU ARE NOT SO AUTHORISED, NOR DEEMED
IN LAW TO HAVE SUCH AUTHORITY, YOU ASSUME SOLE PERSONAL LIABILITY
FOR THE OBLIGATIONS SET OUT IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Noodle is the owner
of and retains the copyright and all other intellectual property
rights in the Software and any copies of the Software that you are
entitled to make in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
All applicable laws including copyright and other intellectual property
laws of various jurisdictions, as well as international treaties,
protect the Software. Your use of the Software does not give you
ownership of any intellectual property rights in the Software. The
Software represents the confidential information of Noodle that
you agree to keep strictly confidential. You must not remove any
confidential or proprietary notices on, or comprised in, the Software.
The Software is licensed not sold. Your use of the Software is subject
always to the terms of this Agreement.
- LicenCe
Noodle grants you
a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Software
in accordance with the Noodle Terms of Use and any user documentation
supplied with the Software. You may only load or install or use
the Software on a single workstation under your direct control
unless you have purchased a server version(s) of the Software.
If you have purchased a server version(s) of the Software you
may install the Software on the number of servers under your direct
control for which you have purchased licences. Any copy of the
Software is subject to the terms of this Agreement.
- Restrictions
You may not:
* load the Software
into two or more computers at the same time and if you want to
transfer the Software from one computer to another you must erase
the Software from the first computer before you install it onto
a second computer;
* install or load
or use the Software onto a server or other networked device or
take other steps to make the Software available via any form of
"bulletin board", on-line service, remote dial-in or network to
any other person unless you have purchased a server version(s)
of the Software;
* run the Software
on more workstation(s) and/or server(s) than you have purchased
licences for;
* sub-license,
assign, rent, lease or transfer your licence of the Software or
make or distribute copies of the Software;
* translate, reverse
engineer, de-compile, disassemble, modify, create derivative works
based on, or otherwise modify the Software except as permitted
by law;
* make copies of
the Software except as permitted under this Agreement or by applicable
law. You may make one copy of the Software for backup purposes
only;
* use the Software
in breach of any applicable law or regulation, whether that law
or regulation originates in the UK, any other jurisdiction or
internationally;
* use any back-up
copy of the Software (or allow anyone else to use such back-up
copies) for any purpose other than to replace the original copy
in the event that such original copy is destroyed or becomes defective;
or
* download, install
or otherwise use the Software if you reside in a jurisdiction
where it is unlawful to do so.
- Third Parties
You agree that
you will not use the Software for the purposes of sending or transmitting
any data or other material (a) in a manner that constitutes a
violation or infringement of the rights of any third party (including
but not limited to intellectual property rights) or (b) that has
harmful or destructive or damaging properties or (c) which is
likely to cause harm or damage to the computer systems, network
or equipment of any third party. You agree to indemnify Noodle
against all and any losses, costs, claims, liabilities, expenses
or damages arising out of your breach of this paragraph.
- Equipment
You are responsible
for obtaining and maintaining at your own expense all computer
hardware, software and communication equipment necessary to access
and/or use the Software.
- Limited Warranty
Noodle warrants
for a period of 60 days from the date of distribution of the Software
to you ("the Warranty Period") that the Software will materially
conform to the Noodle user documentation that is supplied with
the Software.
Your sole and exclusive
remedy for any breach of this warranty is to obtain (at your option)
either a replacement copy of the Software free of charge provided
that you provide evidence of the problem causing the breach of
this warranty. Any replacement Software or media is subject to
the above warranty for either (i) a period of 30 days from receipt
of the replacement Software by you or (ii) the remainder of the
original 60-day period (whichever is the longer). This limited
warranty gives you specific legal rights. Outside of the United
Kingdom, you may also have other rights, which will vary depending
on your jurisdiction.
- DISCLAIMER
THE SOFTWARE AND
MEDIA ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OTHER THAN THOSE
EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THIS AGREEMENT. NOODLE EXCLUDES ALL OTHER
WARRANTIES, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY, AND ENFORCEABLE
UNDER, APPLICABLE LAW INCLUDING, (WITHOUT LIMITATION), ANY WARRANTY
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY
WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE NON-INFRINGING OR MEET YOUR
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OR THAT ITS OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR FREE. YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER (IE; A PURCHASER
FOR PRIVATE AS OPPOSED TO BUSINESS, GOVERNMENTAL OR ACADEMIC USE)
ARE NOT AFFECTED.
NOODLE’S
LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSSES ARISING FROM YOUR USE
OF THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ORIGINALLY PAID
FOR THE SOFTWARE OR THE SUM OF £1,000 (IF GREATER). NOODLE ACCEPTS
NO LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA OR, SOFTWARE
OR OTHER COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF SAVINGS,
BUSINESS OR REVENUE OR LOSS OF USE HOWEVER ARISING. NOODLE ACCEPTS
NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY FORM OF INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
LOSS EVEN IF NOODLE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
INCURRING SUCH LOSS. NOODLE ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY
LOSS THAT IS CAUSED BY EVENTS BEYOND NOODLE’S REASONABLE CONTROL.
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT LIMITS NOODLE’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES RELATING TO DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NOODLE’S
NEGLIGENCE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS
SUCH AS THOSE ABOVE; IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED THE SOFTWARE IN SUCH
A JURISDICTION, THEN THE ABOVE LIMITATION AND EXCLUSIONS WILL
ONLY APPLY TO THE EXTENT THEY ARE PERMITTED UNDER THAT JURISDICTION.
- Termination
This Agreement
and your rights to use and/or possess the Software automatically
terminates if (a) you have breached any of its terms and failed
to correct your breach within a reasonable time or (b) you destroy
the copies of the Software in your possession or (c) you voluntarily
return the Software to us. On termination of this Agreement you
must destroy or delete all copies of the Software and any documentation
supplied with it from all computers and/or storage media under
your possession, custody, power or control.
- General
You may not transfer
your rights under this Agreement without the prior written approval
of Noodle. You hereby agree that Noodle may assign any of Noodle’s
rights and/or novate or otherwise transfer any of Noodle’s obligations
under this Agreement. Noodle does not waive any of its rights
under this Agreement by delaying to exercise such rights or by
exercising only a part of them at any time. If a court of competent
jurisdiction rules that a provision of this Agreement is unenforceable,
Noodle shall amend that provision in such reasonable manner as
achieves the intention of the parties without illegality or (at
Noodle’s discretion) such provision may be severed from this Agreement
and the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect. You acknowledge and agree that any violation
by you of the provisions of this Agreement would cause Noodle
irreparable harm for which Noodle would have no adequate remedy
at law; and that, in addition to other remedies which may be available
to Noodle under this Agreement, Noodle will be entitled to seek
injunctive relief against any such violation.
Nothing in this
agreement shall affect your statutory rights as a consumer.
- Law
This Agreement
and all matters arising from it are governed by and construed
in accordance with English law. The courts of England and Wales
shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes arising out
of, or in connection with, this Agreement.
- Export Restrictions
This Agreement
is expressly made subject to any regulations, orders, or other
restrictions on the export from the UK/EU/USA or any other relevant
territory of the Software or information about the Software that
may be imposed from time to time by the relevant authorities.
You agree that you will not (directly or indirectly) export or
re-export the Software without first obtaining all such consents,
permissions or authorisations that may be required under any applicable
export control laws and the prior written consent of Noodle. You
agree to indemnify Noodle against all and any losses, costs, claims,
liabilities, expenses or damages arising out of your breach of
this paragraph.
- Contact Details
The Software is
provided by Noodle. Noodle is a UK limited company (as Confabulate
Ltd) with registration number 5605939 with registered offices
at 9 Market Row, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HB. VAT Registration
Number [ ]. If you have any questions or problems relating to
the Software or this Agreement (including refunds or replacements
or complaints) then please contact Noodle at the address above.
- No Waiver
The failure of
either party at any time to enforce any provision of this Agreement
shall in no way affects its rights thereafter to require complete
performance by the other party, nor shall the waiver of any breach
of any provision be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision
itself. Any waiver to be effective must be in writing.
- Whole Agreement
This Agreement
constitutes the entire agreement between Noodle and you as to
the subject matter hereof and supersedes all previous communications,
representations and arrangements, either written or oral, and
you hereby acknowledge that no reliance is placed on any representation
made but not embodied in this Agreement.
- Third Party Rights
The Contracts (Rights
of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to this Agreement.
No person who is not a party to this Agreement (including any
employee, officer, agent, representative or subcontractor of either
party) shall have the right (whether under the Contracts (Rights
of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise) to enforce any term of
this Agreement which expressly or by implication confers a benefit
on that person without the express prior agreement in writing
of the parties which agreement must refer to this clause.
NOODLE
PRIVACY POLICY
When you register with Noodle you
may be required to answer certain questions and provide certain
personal information about yourself. In addition, such personal
information may be disclosed to us during or as a consequence
of our providing services to you. The Data Protection Act 1998
sets out your rights as a consumer in respect of information held
about you by businesses.
These terms and conditions are
provided to set out clearly the relationship between us. By registering
with us and/or using this website and our services you consent
to these terms and conditions. However, this shall not effect
your rights in relation to your personal data.
- Who will hold your information?
- Your information will be held
by Confabulate Limited (a company registered in England under
number 05605939) doing business as Noodle (“Noodle”). Noodle
is called the “Data Controller” because it has control over
and responsibility for your personal information.
- Noodle is the owner of this
website and the Noodle voice over IP service and other services
described on this website (the “Service”).
- If the business of Noodle is
sold or integrated with another business your details may be
disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchasers and
their advisors and will be passed on to the new owners of the
business.
- The information about you which
we COLLECT
- The information about you which
we will collect may include:
- Personal contact details such
as name, address, contact telephone numbers and email address;
and
- Details about the services
offered by Noodle which you have expressed an interest and
your preferences for the use of the Service;
- [Details of conversations
recorded by us (see 3.2 below) and] any image of yourself
submitted for your Noodle Suit.
- Information that is necessary
in order to enable or assist the operation of the Service
such as Cookie data (see below) and addressing information.
- Source of the information we
hold about you
- We may receive information about
you directly from you when you submit information to us by registering
for and or using the Noodle Service or ask to join our mailing
list.
- [We may monitor or record communications
in which you take part:
- [to assist us with the development
of the Service];
- [to train our staff];
- [if we have reason to believe
monitoring that you are using the Service in breach of our
Terms of Use]; <insert link to Terms> or
- [if so requested by order
of the Court, regulatory body or law enforcement organisation].
- Purposes for which we hold
and use your information
- We may use your information
for a number of purposes which are outlined below:
- The provision of the Service
to you:
- To administer and maintain
our records;
- To ensure that the Service
continues to be the most appropriate service for your needs;
- To verify your identity;
- To respond to any query
that you may raise with us; and
- To update our systems to
provide an enhanced service to you.
- We may share your data with
third party companies and organisations contracted to us
to help supply, maintain or facilitate the Service. These
third parties may include (without limitation) carriers,
technology providers or partners and providers of payment
or banking services.
- Marketing, selling, and trading
in personal information purposes:
- We do not currently trade
or sell personal information. However, in the future, your
information may be sold to suppliers of other goods and
services which we feel may be of interest to you. These
third parties may contact you directly or indirectly and
offer their goods and services to you. If you would rather
not receive this information, please send an email to [dataprotection@noodle.com]
with the subject line “no third parties” or write to the
data controller at the address below.
- Your personal data may be
used to keep you informed about other products and services
offered by Noodle and our group companies. If you would
rather not receive this information, please send a blank
email to
[dataprotection@noodle.com]
with the subject line “no marketing” or write to the data
controller at the address below.
- Other purposes:
- Your information may be
used by Noodle for the purpose of research and statistical
analysis;
- Noodle may disclose information
to other companies within the same group of companies as
Noodle or to law enforcement agencies; and
- Noodle may use information
about your registration for our internal customer service
monitoring.
- The period of use of the personal
data supplied by you will not be longer than we deem necessary
but may, subject to clause 7.1.4, be unlimited.
- Keeping information up to date
- In order to help the Data Controller
keep your information up to date registered users may be asked
to provide details of any changes in their information at regular
intervals.
- If any of the information that
you have provided to Noodle changes, for example if you change
your email address, name or payment details or if you wish to
cancel your registration, please let us know the correct details
by sending an email to [dataprotection@noodle.com] or writing
to us at the address below.
- Security for your information
- We have in place a level of
security appropriate to the nature of the data and the harm
that might result from a breach of security. However, all publicly
accessible websites are susceptible to malicious practices,
and we accept no liability if security is breached.
- We further undertake that we
will not hold information about you which is excessive in respect
of the purposes for which it is processed.
- COOKIES
- The Service uses “cookies”.
Cookies are small pieces of information which are sent by a
website to your web browser and remain on your computer until
they are deleted. Cookies are sent by the Service to ensure
that it does not unnecessarily show you information that you
have already seen. Cookies therefore enable Noodle to offer
you a more personalised service. You agree to our use of cookies
and/or any other data tracking or gathering technologies we
employ in the future. However, if you do not wish to receive
cookies from us, please adjust your browser’s settings accordingly.
Most browsers including Internet Explorer and Firefox can be
set to reject cookies. Please note however that this may restrict
your use of our Service.
- Your Rights
- You have certain rights under
the Data Protection Act in relation to the information that
we hold about you. These rights include the rights set out below:
- You are entitled to have access
to your personal data. You may request by writing to Noodle
(at the address given in Clause 8 below), details of your
information which we hold and the purposes for which it is
held. We will provide this information within 40 days of your
request, subject to any routine processing continuing between
that time and the time of response. You may be charged a reasonable
fee (as permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998) for this
information.
- You are entitled, by writing
to Noodle, to require that Noodle not commence using the information
and request that Noodle stop using information about you for
the purpose of direct marketing i.e. the communication to
you (by whatever means) of any advertising or marketing material;
- You are entitled, by writing
to Noodle, to require us to ensure that no decision taken
by or on behalf of Noodle and which significantly affects
you is based solely on the automated processing of your information,
for the purpose of evaluating such matters as, for example,
your creditworthiness, reliability or conduct; and
- if it is held by a court that
the personal information held is inaccurate, you are entitled
to apply to ask the court for an order that such inaccurate
information be rectified, blocked, destroyed, or erased.
- YOUR CONSENT
By submitting your
information you consent to the use of that information as set
out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will post
the changes on this page and may place notices on other pages
of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we
collect and how we use it at all times.
- Contact Details for the Data
Controller at Noodle
If you would like
to contact us with any queries or comments regarding our privacy
policy, please send an email or write to:
[dataprotection@noodle.com]
Confabulate Limited
trading as Noodle
9 Market Row
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 1HB
DATED
2006 |
|
CONFABULATE
LIMITED (1)
- and
-
[ ] (2)
|
LICENCE
FOR NOODLE
SOFTWARE
AND DEVELOPMENT KIT
|
|
THIS
AGREEMENT is made on 2006
BETWEEN:-
- CONFABULATE LIMITED, a
company incorporated in England under number 05605939) whose registered
office is at 9 Market Row, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HB (“Confabulate”);
and
- [ ], a company incorporated
in England under number [ ], whose registered office is at [ ]
("the Licensee'')
WHEREAS:
Confabulate has agreed
to grant the Licensee a non-exclusive licence to use certain software
and associated documentation upon the terms and conditions hereinafter
contained.
NOW
IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:
- Definitions
- In this Agreement, unless the
context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the
following meanings:
Affiliate
|
means
any company, partnership or other entity which directly
or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by or is under
common Control with either party as a Subsidiary or
Holding Company
|
Agreement |
means
the terms and conditions of this agreement including
the Clauses and Schedules
|
Commencement
Date |
means
the date of this Agreement
|
Control |
means
the ownership of more than 50% of the issued share capital
or the legal power to direct or cause the direction
of the general management and policies of the Party
in question
|
the
Delivery Date |
means
7 days from the Commencement Date or such extended date
as may be agreed between the parties
|
Development
Software |
means
the SDK (Software Development Kit) software package
details of which are set out in Schedule 2
|
End
Users |
means
the employees or users of the person who uses the services
and or products of the Licensee
|
End
User Licence |
means
a licence by an End User of the use of the Licensed
Programs as set out in Schedule 4 |
the
Licence |
means
the licences granted by Confabulate pursuant to Clause
2.1.1 and 2.1.3 |
the
Licence Fee |
means
the fee for the Licence and the services to be provided
under this Agreement as specified in Schedule 3 |
the
Licensed Programs |
means
[name of Noodle software and version number]
software programs for voice over internet protocol applications
with the specification and functionality set out in
Schedule 1 |
the Licensed Program
Materials |
means
the Licensed Programs, the Program Documentation and
the Media |
the
Media |
means
the media on which the Licensed Programs and Development
Software is recorded as provided to the Licensee by
Confabulate |
the
Permitted Purpose |
means
to distribute to End Users via electronic distribution
as a combined or standalone product, and in each case
using Licensee branding |
the
Program Documentation |
means
the documentation supplied to the Licensee by Confabulate
for aiding the use of the Licensed Programs and Development
Software |
the
Specification |
means
the specification of the Licensed Programs, a copy of
which is set out in the Schedule 1 |
Subsidiary
or Holding Company |
means
that this term shall have the meaning ascribed to it
by Section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 |
Initial
Term |
means
a period of [two] years from the Commencement Date |
Use
the Licensed Programs |
means
to use and sub-licence the use of the Licensed Programs
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement |
- all references to Clauses and
Schedules are reference to clauses and schedules to this Agreement
unless the context otherwise requires;
- all references to statutory
provisions shall, except where the context requires otherwise,
be construed as references to those provisions as respectively
amended or re-enacted or as their application is modified by
other provisions (whether before or after the date of this Agreement
from time to time);
- unless the context otherwise
requires, references to the singular include the plural and
vice versa; references to any gender include all other genders,
and references to "persons" shall include individuals, bodies
corporate, unincorporated associations, businesses and partnerships;
- the headings shall be ignored
in construing this Agreement; and
- references to the words "includes"
or "including" shall be construed without limitation to the
generality of the preceding words.
- Products and services to be
provided
- Subject to the terms of this
Agreement Confabulate hereby agrees to:
- grant to the Licensee a non-exclusive
[world wide] licence to Use the Licensed Program Materials
in accordance with the Permitted Purpose;
- deliver the Licensed Programs
to the Licensee on the Delivery Date;
- grant the Licensee a non-exclusive,
non-transferable personal licence to use and copy the Development
Software for the sole purpose of developing, maintaining and
supporting the Licensed Programs;
- provide the Program Documentation
to the Licensee on the Delivery Date;
- provide the other services
hereinafter described;
upon the terms
and conditions hereinafter contained.
- Licence Fee
- Subject to the payment by the
Licensee of the amounts set out in Clause 3.2, the Licensee
shall be free to determine the price at which they licence the
Licensed Programs to End Users.
- In consideration of Confabulate
granting the Licensee the Licence, the Licensee shall pay to
Confabulate the Licence Fee.
- The Licensee shall only grant
licenses of the Licensed Programs to End Users subject to the
End User Licence Agreement.
- Payment
- The Licence Fee shall be paid
by the Licensee.
- The Licensee undertakes to pay
the relevant Licence Fee to Confabulate in respect of any use
of the Licensed Programs by any End Users. Monies shall accrue
on the date on which the Licensee invoices the Net Invoice Value
in respect of such End User Licence, and the Licensee shall
within thirty days (30) days of the end of each Month submit
to Confabulate an account setting out in reasonable detail the
amount of Licence Fee accruing during such Month and the calculation
thereof (a "Monthly Account") payable in respect of each End
User Licence.
- The Licence Fee and any additional
charges payable under this Agreement are exclusive of Value
Added Tax which shall be paid by the Licensee at the rate and
in the manner for the time being prescribed by law.
- Any charges payable by the Licensee
hereunder in addition to the Licence Fee shall be paid within
30 days after the receipt by the Licensee of Confabulate's invoice
therefore.
- If any sum payable under this
Agreement is not paid within 7 days after the due date then
(without prejudice to Confabulate's other rights and remedies)
Confabulate reserves the right to charge interest on such sum
on a day to day basis (as well after as before any judgment)
from the date or last date for payment thereof to the date of
actual payment (both dates inclusive) at the rate of 3 per cent
above the base rate of Barclays Bank pic (or such other London
clearing bank as Confabulate may nominate) from time to time
in force compounded quarterly. Such interest shall be paid on
demand by the Licensee.
- The Licensee shall throughout
the duration of this Agreement:
- keep complete and accurate
books and records of accounts relating all End Users to which
it distributes or licenses the Licensed Programs; and
- permit Confabulate or an accountant
appointed by Confabulate upon reasonable notice and not more
than once every six months to inspect and make and retain
copies of the books and records for the purposes of verifying
any amount due under Clauses 3.1 and 4.1 (provided the accountant
is bound by equivalent obligations of confidentiality to those
contained in Clause 13).
- The Licensee shall be responsible
for collecting any amounts due and payable to Confabulate from
the third parities that it contracts with through End User Licences.
- Confabulate shall bear the costs
of any investigation as described in Clause 4.6 except that
in the event that the amount paid by the Licensee has understated
the Licence Fee properly due under this agreement for the relevant
period by more than five percent (5%) then the Licensee shall
(in addition to making good such shortfall together with the
interest accruing thereto) refund Confabulate costs incurred
in undertaking such investigation.
- Delivery and installation
- On the Delivery Date Confabulate
shall deliver the Licensed Programs and Development Software
to the Licensee and will work with them to integrate the Licensed
Programs and Development Software into the licensee's software.
The Licensed Programs shall consist of one copy of the object
code of the Licensed Programs in machine-readable form only,
on the storage media specified in Schedule 1.
- Risk
- Risk in the Media shall pass
to the Licensee on delivery. If any part of the Media shall
thereafter be lost, destroyed or damaged Confabulate shall at
the request of the Licensee replace the same promptly (embodying
the relevant part of the Licensed Programs Development Software)
subject to the Licensee paying the cost of such replacement.
Confabulate shall not make any further or additional charge
for such replacement.
- Warranty
- Confabulate warrants that the
Licensed Programs Materials will provide the facilities and
functions set out in the Specification.
- If Confabulate receives written
notice from the Licensee after the Commencement Date of any
breach of the said warranty in Clause 7.1 then Confabulate shall
at its own expense and within a reasonable time after receiving
such notice remedy the defect or error in question provided
that Confabulate shall have no liability or obligations under
the said warranty in Clause 7.1 unless it shall have received
written notice of the defect or error in question no later than
the expiry of 12 months after the Commencement Date.
- The said warranty in Clause
7.1 shall be subject to the Licensee complying with its obligations
hereunder and to there having been made no alterations to the
Licensed Programs, other than those permitted by this Agreement,
by any person other than Confabulate or a person authorised
by Confabulate. When notifying a defect or error the Licensee
shall (so far as it is able) provide Confabulate with a documented
example of such defect or error.
- Confabulate shall have no liability
or obligations under the said warranty in Clause 7.1 other than
to remedy breaches thereof by the provision of materials and
services within a reasonable time and without charge to the
Licensee.
- If Confabulate shall fail to
comply with such obligations under Clause 7.1 (but subject to
Clauses 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4) its liability for such failure shall
be limited to a sum equal to the Licence Fee. The foregoing
Clause 7 states the entire liability of Confabulate, whether
in contract or tort (including negligence), for defects and
errors in the Licensed Program Materials.
- The Licensee acknowledges that
neither the Licensed Programs nor the Development Software have
been prepared to meet the Licensee's individual requirements
and that it is therefore the responsibility of the Licensee
to ensure that the facilities and functions described in the
Specification meet its requirements. Confabulate shall not be
liable for any failure of the Licensed Programs and or the Development
Software to provide any facility or function not specified in
the Specification or Schedule 2.
- Licence
- The Licensee shall only Use
the Licensed Program Materials for the Permitted Purpose and
shall not use the Development Software other than as permitted
in accordance with Clause 2.1.3 and the Licensee shall not otherwise
permit any third party to use the Licensed Program Materials
or Development Software nor use the Licensed Program Materials
or Development Software on behalf of or for the benefit of any
third party in any way whatever.
- The Licence shall not be deemed
to extend to any other programs or materials of Confabulate
other than the Licensed Program Materials and Development Software
unless specifically agreed to in writing by Confabulate.
- The Licensee hereby acknowledges
that it is licensed to use the Licensed Program Materials and
Development Software only in accordance with the express terms
of this Agreement and not further or otherwise.
- Duration of Licence
- The Licence shall commence on
the Commencement Date and shall continue for the Initial Term
unless terminated earlier in accordance with Clause 22, and
thereafter shall continue for successive periods of twelve (12)
months unless and until terminated by either party on not less
than 90 days notice prior to the expiry of the Initial Term
or subsequent twelve (12) month period or as otherwise provided
in this Agreement.
- Proprietary rights
- The Licensed Programs and the
Development Software and the copyright and other intellectual
property rights of whatever nature in the Licensed Programs
and Development Software, which are owned by Confabulate, are
and shall remain the property of Confabulate and Confabulate
reserves the right to grant licences to use the licensed Programs
or Development Software to third parties.
- The Licensee shall notify Confabulate
immediately if the Licensee becomes aware of any unauthorised
use of the whole or any part of the licensed Programs or Development
Software by any unauthorised person.
- The Licensee will permit Confabulate
to check the use of the Licensed Programs and/or Development
Software by the Licensee at all reasonable times and for that
purpose Confabulate shall be entitled to enter any of the Licensee's
premises (and so that the Licensee hereby irrevocably licenses
Confabulate, its employees and agents to enter any such premises
for such purpose).
- Technical Support
- Confabulate shall provide the
following assistance in respect of Use of the Licensed Programs
and Development Software:
- advice by telephone and email
on the Use of the Licensed Programs and Development Software;
- information and advice by
telephone and email on forthcoming upgrades of the Licensed
Programs and Development Software;
- upgrades to the Licensed Program
Materials and Development Software as and when made available
by Confabulate to its licensees; and
- upon request by the Licensee
the diagnosis of faults in the Licensed Programs and Development
Software and the rectification of such faults remotely by
the issue of fixes in respect of the Licensed Programs and
the making of all necessary consequential amendments (if any)
to the Program Documentation.
- Licensee shall only use the
current release of the Licensed Programs.
- Intellectual property rights
indemnity
- Confabulate shall indemnify
and hold harmless the Licensee from and against any and all
losses, liabilities, demands, claims, costs and expenses (including
reasonable legal costs and disbursements) and damages incurred
or suffered by the Licensee, and any damages awarded against
Licensee, arising directly or indirectly (and whether in contract
or tort, including negligence, or otherwise) as a result of
or in connection with a claim that the use or possession of
the Licensed Program Materials in compliance with this Agreement
infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party
provided that the claim does not arise as a result of the use
of the Licensed Program Materials in combination with any other
equipment or programs not supplied or approved by Confabulate
(“a Relevant Claim”).
- Confabulate shall be given immediate
and complete control of such claim.
- The Licensee shall not prejudice
Confabulate's defence of such claim.
- The Licensee shall give Confabulate
all reasonable assistance with such claim.
- The Licensee shall promptly
notify Confabulate of any claim, demand or action for infringement
or alleged infringement of any intellectual property rights
of any third party by the Licensed Program Materials and Confabulate
shall have the right to either:
- procure the right for the
Licensee to continue to Use the Licensed Program Materials;
- make such alterations, modifications,
or adjustments to the Licensed Program Materials so that they
become non-infringing without incurring a material change
to the specification; or
- replace the Licensed Program
Materials (or relevant part thereof) with non-infringing substitutes
provided that such substitutes materially conform to the specification.
- If Confabulate is not able to
exercise any of the options set out in Clauses 12.5.1- 12.5.3
above within 14 days of the date it receives notice of intellectual
property infringement or alleged infringement then (without
prejudice to 12.1) the Licensee shall be entitled to terminate
this Agreement.
- The foregoing states the entire
liability of Confabulate to the Licensee in respect of the infringement
of the intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Confidentiality of Licensed
Program Materials
- The Licensee undertakes to treat
as confidential and keep secret all information contained or
embodied in the Licensed Programs and/or the Development Software,
Program Documentation, Pricing and the Specification and all
information conveyed to the Licensee by training (hereinafter
collectively referred to as 'the Information').
- The Licensee shall not without
the prior written consent of Confabulate divulge any part of
the Information to any person except:
- the Licensee's own employees
and then only to those employees who need to know the same;
- the Licensee's auditors, Tax
Authorities, HM Inspector of Taxes, HM Customs & Excise
and any other persons or bodies having a right duty or obligation
to know the business of the Licensee and then only in pursuance
of such right duty or obligation;
- any person who is from time
to time appointed by the Licensee to maintain any equipment
on which the Licensed Programs are being used (in accordance
with the terms of the Licence) and then only to the extent
necessary to enable such person properly to maintain such
equipment.
- The Licensee undertakes to ensure
that the persons and bodies mentioned in Clause 13.2 are made
aware prior to the disclosure of any part of the Information
that the same is confidential and that they owe a duty of confidence
to Confabulate. The Licensee shall indemnify Confabulate against
any loss or damage which Confabulate might sustain or incur
as a result of the Licensee failing to comply with such undertaking.
Confabulate shall comply with equivalent obligations to those
contained in Clauses 12.2 to 12.4 in relation to the indemnity
in this Clause.
- The Licensee shall promptly
notify Confabulate if it becomes aware of any breach of confidence
by any person to whom the Licensee divulges all or any part
of the Information and shall give Confabulate all reasonable
assistance in connection with any proceedings which Confabulate
may institute against such person for breach of confidence.
- Confabulate shall treat as confidential
all information supplied by the Licensee under this Agreement
which is designated as confidential by the Licensee or which
is by its nature clearly confidential.
- The obligations in Clauses 13.1
to 13.5 shall not extend to any information which was rightfully
in the possession of either party prior to the commencement
of the negotiations leading to this Commencement Date or which
is already public knowledge or becomes so at a future date (otherwise
than as a result of a breach of this Clause). Confabulate shall
not divulge any confidential information to any person except
to its own employees and then only to those employees who need
to know the same. Confabulate shall ensure that its employees
are aware of and comply with the provisions of this Clause.
The foregoing obligations as to confidentiality shall remain
in full force and effect notwithstanding any termination of
the Licence or this Agreement.
- Copying
- The Licensee may make only so
many copies of the Licensed Programs and Development Software
as are reasonably necessary for operational security and use
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Such copies
and the media on which they are stored shall be the property
of Confabulate and the Licensee shall ensure that all such copies
bear Confabulate's proprietary notices. The Licence shall apply
to all such copies as it applies to the Licensed Programs and/or
the Development Software as appropriate.
- No copies may be made of the
Program Documentation without the prior written consent of Confabulate.
- Security and control
- The Licensee shall during the
continuance of the Licence:
- effect and maintain adequate
security measures to safeguard the Licensed Program Materials
and Development Software from access or use by any unauthorised
person;
- retain the Licensed Program
Materials and the Development Software and all copies thereof
under the Licensee's effective control; and
- maintain a full and accurate
record of the Licensee's copying and disclosure of the Licensed
Program Materials and Development Software and shall produce
such record to Confabulate on request from time to time.
- Alterations
- Licensee may modify the Licensed
Programs at its own expense and responsibility. Licensee shall
indemnify and hold harmless Confabulate from and against any
and all losses, liabilities, demands, claims, costs and expenses
(including reasonable legal costs and disbursements) and damages
incurred or suffered by Confabulate and any damages awarded
against Confabulate, arising directly or indirectly (and whether
in contract or tort including negligence or otherwise) as a
result of or in connection with a claim that the use or possession
of such modifications infringe the intellectual property rights
of any third party.
- The Licensee shall promptly
notify Confabulate of all such modifications and shall supply
to Confabulate without charge copies of all documentation relating
to such modifications including specifications and source codes
with a right for Confabulate to use such modifications. For
the avoidance of doubt, the combination of the Licensed Programs
with other programs shall not be a 'modification' unless the
Licensee has access to, and has modified, the source code to
the Licensed Program.
- The Licensee may combine, at
its own expense and responsibility, the Licensed Programs with
other programs to form a combined work. Any of the Licensed
Programs included in the combined work shall continue to be
subject to the terms and conditions contained herein. Where
such other programs are the property of a third party the Licensee
shall be responsible for obtaining all necessary consents to
their use with the Licensed Programs. Subject to the compliance
by Confabulate with equivalent obligations to those contained
in Clauses 12.2 to 12.4 licensee shall indemnify and hold Confabulate
harmless from and against any and all losses, liabilities, demands,
claims, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal costs
and disbursements) and damages incurred or suffered by Confabulate
and any damages awarded against Confabulate, arising directly
or indirectly (and whether in contract or in tort or otherwise)
as a result of or in connection with any claim that the use
of the licensed Programs in combination with such other programs
infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party.
Upon termination of the Licence the Licensee shall completely
remove the Licensed Programs from such combined work before
returning or destroying it together with the Development Software
in accordance with Clause 22.5.
- Confabulate shall not be responsible
for any error in the Licensed Programs or failure of the licensed
Programs to fulfil the Specification insofar as such error or
failure occurs in or is caused by any part of the Licensed Programs
being modified or combined by Licensee (save where the modification
or combination is properly in accordance with Confabulate's
written instructions).
- Marketing
- The Licensee will use its reasonable
efforts to actively and properly market and promote the use
of the Licensed Programs. Such efforts shall include promotion
through the Licensee's press releases, brochures, catalogues,
website(s), and other appropriate advertising and marketing
media calculated to increase the use of the Licensed Programs
by the End Users.
- The Licensee shall provide Confabulate
with a tentative projection of the quantity of customers that
the Licensee reasonably expects to become End Users, which projection
shall be in the form of a report on a quarterly basis.
- The Licensee shall ensure that
its staff are properly trained in accordance with the recommendations
of Confabulate. The Licensee shall make available adequate demonstration
libraries, equipment and facilities for the marketing of the
Licensed Programs.
- The Licensee shall ensure that
in any marketing or promotion of the Licensed Programs or other
press relations relating to it, Confabulate is mentioned as
being the developer of the voice over internet protocol software.
- Announcements
- Any public announcement, communication,
circular or other publicity concerning the signing of this Agreement
shall be made or despatched at any time by either party with
the consent of the other party.
- 0perating manuals
- Confabulate shall provide the
Licensee with two copies of a set of operating manuals for the
Licensed Programs containing sufficient information to enable
proper use of all the facilities and functions set out in the
Specification. If the Licensee requires further copies of such
operating manuals then these may be obtained under licence from
Confabulate in accordance with its standard scale of charges
from time to time in force.
- Training
- Confabulate undertakes to provide
basic training in the use of the Licensed Programs and Development
Software for the staff of the Licensee.
- Any additional training required
by the Licensee shall be provided by Confabulate in accordance
with its standard scale of charges from time to time in force.
- Limitation of Liability
- Nothing in the Agreement shall
be taken to exclude or limit any party's liability for death
or personal injury caused by negligence or any liability for
fraudulent misrepresentation or the tort of deceit.
- Except as otherwise expressly
provided in the Agreement, all warranties, conditions and other
terms implied by statute or common law, custom, trade usage
course of dealing or otherwise are, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, excluded from the Agreement.
- Subject to Clause 21.1 neither
party shall be liable for:
- loss of revenue, loss of business,
loss of profits; loss of sales or turnover; loss of or damage
to reputation; loss of production; loss of anticipated savings;
loss of goodwill or business opportunities; loss of customers;
loss of, or loss of use of, any software or data; loss under
or in relation to any other contract; and
- any sort of consequential,
special or indirect loss or damage, costs, expenses or other
claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever
caused);
which arise out
of or in connection with the Agreement.
- Each party's total liability
in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory
duty, misrepresentation or otherwise, arising under or in connection
with the Agreement shall not exceed an amount equal to the amount
of the Licence Fee Confabulate has received from the Licensee
in the 12 months proceeding the event (or series of events)
giving rise to liability.
- The exclusions and limitations
of liability in this Clause 21 shall not apply to any failure
of the Licensee to pay the Licence Fee due to Confabulate under
this Agreement.
- Termination
- Either party may terminate this
Agreement forthwith on giving 90 days notice in writing if the
other party commits any material breach of any term of this
Agreement and (in the case of a breach capable of being remedied)
shall have failed, within 30 days after the receipt of a request
in writing to do, to remedy the breach (such request to contain
a warning the intention to terminate);
- Confabulate may terminate this
Agreement forthwith on giving 90 days notice in writing to the
Licensee if the Licensee permanently discontinues the use of
the Licensed Program Materials.
- Either party may terminate this
Agreement if the other party shall have a receiver or administrative
receiver appointed of it or over any part of its undertaking
or assets or shall pass a resolution for winding up (otherwise
than for the purpose of a bona fide scheme of solvent amalgamation
or reconstruction) or a court of competent jurisdiction shall
make an order to that effect or if that party enters into any
voluntary arrangement with its creditors or shall become subject
to an administration order or shall cease to carry on business.
- Save as expressly provided in
Clauses 22.1 to 22.3, or elsewhere in this Agreement this Agreement
may not be terminated.
- Forthwith upon the termination
of the Licence the Licensee shall return to Confabulate the
Licensed Program Materials and Development Software including
any modifications thereof made by the Licensee and all copies
of the whole or any part thereof or, if requested by Confabulate,
shall destroy the same (in the case of the Licensed Programs
and Development Software by erasing them from the media on which
they are stored or destroying such media) and certify in writing
to Confabulate that they have been destroyed. The Licensee shall
also cause the Licensed Programs and Development Software to
be erased and shall certify to Confabulate that the same has
been done.
- Any termination of the Licence
or this Agreement (howsoever occasioned) shall not affect any
accrued rights or liabilities of either party nor shall it affect
the coming into force or the continuance in force of any provision
hereof which is expressly or by implication intended to come
into or continue in force on or after such termination.
- Assignment
- The Licensee shall not be entitled
to assign, sub-license, sub-contract or otherwise transfer the
Licence or this Agreement whether in whole or in part unless
with prior written agreement which will not be unreasonably
withheld.
- Confabulate shall be permitted
to assign the whole or any part of the benefit of this Agreement
to an Affiliate.
- Each party shall be excused
non-performance or late performance of its obligations under
this Agreement (and the other party shall have no right or remedy
in respect thereof) to the extent the same is caused by any
circumstances beyond the reasonable control of such party, including
without limitation, acts of God, floods, fires, exceptionally
inclement weather conditions and natural disasters, strikes,
lockouts and other industrial action (other than by the affected
party's employees), failure of power, water and other supplies
and failures of telecommunications services or other means of
communication.
- Waiver of remedies
- No forbearance, delay or indulgence
by either party in enforcing the provisions of this Agreement
shall prejudice or restrict the rights of that party nor shall
any waiver of its rights operate as a waiver of any subsequent
breach and no right, power or remedy herein conferred upon or
reserved for either party is exclusive of any other right, power
or remedy available to that party and each such right, power
or remedy shall be cumulative
- Entire agreement
- This Agreement supersedes all
prior agreements, arrangements and understandings between the
parties and constitutes the entire agreement between the parties
relating to the subject matter hereof. No addition to or modification
of any provision of this Agreement shall be binding upon the
parties unless made by a written instrument signed by a duly
authorised representative of each of the parties.
- Notices
- Any notice or warning affecting
this Agreement and any invoices (together, "Notices") will unless
otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement be in writing
signed by or on behalf of the party giving it and may be served
by hand delivery during normal office hours at, or sending it
by fax, prepaid recorded delivery or registered post to the
address set out above or such other address as the relevant
party may from time to time notify in writing to the other party
on no less that five business day's notice.
- Proof of posting or dispatch
of any Notice will be deemed to be proof of receipt in the case
of a fax, the business day after dispatch and in the case of
recorded delivery or registered post, 48 hours from the date
of posting.
- Law and jurisdiction
- This Agreement shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of England.
- Any dispute which may arise
between the parties concerning this Agreement shall be determined
by the English Courts and the parties hereby irrevocably submit
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts for such
purpose.
- Severability
- Notwithstanding that the whole
or any part of any provision of this Agreement may prove to
be illegal or unenforceable the other provisions of this Agreement
and the remainder of the provision in question shall remain
in full force and effect.
- Third Party Rights
- Nothing in this Agreement shall
confer on any third party any right to enforce any term of this
Agreement under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
AS WITNESS
the hands of the authorised representatives of the parties the day
month and year first above written:
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for and on behalf
of )
CONFABULATE
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of )
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SCHEDULE 1
THE SPECIFICATION
SCHEDULE 2
DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
SCHEDULE 3
LICENCE FEES
SCHEDULE 4
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