Terms and Conditions
These general terms and conditions are part of the contract to which they are attached (the “Agreement”) and apply to your use of any marketing or email data or services provided by ARS innovations Limited Inc. or its affiliated companies (“ARS innovations Limited”), which data or services are referred to collectively as the “Data.”
1. Ownership
(a) The term “ARS innovations Limited Property” means all programs, files, systems, documentation, information, content, graphics, page layouts, site designs, user interfaces utilized or provided by ARS innovations Limited, work product produced by ARS innovations Limited, and derivative works of any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, the website or websites made available to you by ARS innovations Limited, any HTML programming performed as part of providing you with Data and any other special programs, functionalities, interfaces, and other work product, ideas, concepts or techniques which ARS innovations Limited may develop, use or rely upon in providing the Data to you.
(b) All ARS innovations Limited Property shall be and will remain the property of ARS innovations Limited.
(c) As between you and ARS innovations Limited, ARS innovations Limited shall be the sole and exclusive owner of all patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights in and to the ARS innovations Limited Property and the Data.
2. Limited License
Upon your execution of the Agreement and the payment of all amounts due ARS innovations Limited, you are granted a personal, nontransferable, and nonexclusive license to use the Data solely for your direct marketing, market research, and customer prospecting purposes, in strict accordance with the terms of the Agreement. If no usage period is selected, the license’s term shall be for a period of one
year. Company shall retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Production/Services and all intellectual property contained therein. Upon expiration or termination of the Agreement, you shall discontinue use of the Data and, as requested by ARS innovations Limited, either (a) return the Data to ARS innovations Limited without retaining any copies thereof or any notes or other information thereon or (b) provide a certificate, executed by you, in form and substance satisfactory to ARS innovations Limited, that the Data has been destroyed in such a manner to render the Data permanently unreadable and unrecoverable
3. Limitations on Use
(a) Unless specifically authorized in advance and in writing by ARS innovations Limited, you will not share, sell, transfer or otherwise make the Data available to any third person or entity and you will use your best efforts to prevent the misuse or unauthorized use of the Data by any third person or entity.
(b) You will not name or refer to ARS innovations Limited or your use of the Data in any of your advertisements or promotional or marketing materials.
(c) You will not use the Data for consumer credit purposes, underwriting consumer insurance, employment purposes, tenant screening purposes, for any other purpose covered by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, or for any other purpose not expressly authorized by the Agreement.
4. Your Responsibilities Use of Email Data Review and Audit by ARS innovations Limited
5. Disclaimer of Warranties Limited Warranty
"The data is provided on a strictly “as is” basis. ARS innovations Limited does not assure or warrant the correctness, comprehensiveness or completeness of the data and, except as provided in the next sentence, ARS innovations Limited disclaims any and all warranties of any nature, express or implied, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. You have 14 days from your receipt of the data to inspect it and notify ARS innovations Limited of any problems or mistakes in the data and if you so notify ARS innovations Limited within that 14-day period, the problem or mistake will be corrected at no additional charge to you."
6. Limitation of Liability
Except as provided in the last sentence of Section 5, ARS innovations Limited will not be liable for any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, injuries, cost or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal costs), whether general, direct, special, incidental, consequential or other damage caused in whole or in part or directly or indirectly by any use of the Data or any alleged or actual failure by ARS innovations Limited to comply with the terms of the Agreement, whether or not any such damages were foreseeable or whether ARS innovations Limited was advised of the possibility of such damages. ARS innovations Limited’s maximum liability under the last sentence of Section 5 will not exceed the amount you paid ARS innovations Limited under the Agreement within the 12 months preceding the event which gave rise to ARS innovations Limited’s liability.
7. Your Indemnification of ARS innovations Limited
You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless ARS innovations Limited, its stockholders, directors, officers, employees, independent contractors and agents against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, injury cost or expense (including attorneys’ fees and legal costs) which arises, directly or indirectly, out of your act or omission with respect to the Data or any violation of the Agreement or any violation of Laws.
8. Interruption of Service
You acknowledge that, given the technical nature of resources ARS innovations Limited requires to provide the Data to you, temporary interruptions may occur in the provision of Data and that any such interruptions shall not result in ARS innovations Limited having any liability to you or others and shall not suspend or eliminate your payment obligations to ARS innovations Limited or provide you with any refund rights for amounts previously paid to ARS innovations Limited
9. No Assignment by You
You may not assign your rights or obligations under the Agreement to any other person or entity without the prior written consent of ARS innovations Limited, whether by operation of law or otherwise, and any attempt to do so shall be void.
10. Additional Remedy of Termination
In addition to all other legal rights and remedies available to ARS innovations Limited for any apparent, threatened or actual breach or violation of the Agreement by you, ARS innovations Limited has the right to terminate the Agreement and demand immediate return or destruction of the Data at any time if ARS innovations Limited believes you are not complying in full with the Agreement.
11. Governing Law; Jurisdiction
The Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, without regard for the principles of conflicts of law of that State or any other state. Any litigation or other dispute relating to or arising under the Agreement shall only be brought in the state or federal courts located in Douglas County, Nebraska and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objections to the venue of any such proceeding in those courts.
12. Payment for Non-Invoiced Products
(a) Payment: You agree to pay ARS innovations Limited a fee in accordance with the fees, charges, and billing terms in effect at the time a fee or charge is due and payable. Fees charged are nonrefundable. In the case of subscription products, the subscription term shall be effective for the agreed-upon period, after which the subscription term shall automatically renew for the specified renewal period (if any) at the then-current subscription price.
(b) Recurring Billing: Your acceptance of these terms constitutes your authorization to ARS innovations Limited to automatically charge the credit/debit card provided by you, and in the case of subscription products, to continue charging the credit/debit card at the agreed-upon intervals during the term of the subscription. You agree to provide ARS innovations Limited with complete and accurate billing and contact information and to update that information with thirty (30) days of any change to the billing information. Failure of the recurring payment process does not absolve your payment obligations.
(c) Interest Charges: There will be interest charges on any amounts which you fail to pay when due at the rate of 1.5% a month, or such lower rate as may be equal to the maximum rate allowed by applicable law, on the unpaid amount.
13. Entire Agreement; Amendment or Waiver
The Agreement contains the entire understanding between you and ARS innovations Limited and supersedes any prior understandings or agreements, oral or written, relating to the subject matter of the Agreement. The Agreement may only be amended by a document signed by you and ARS innovations Limited. No waiver of any breach of the Agreement shall be deemed a waiver of a future breach, whether of a similar or different nature, and no waiver shall be effective unless in writing signed by the waiving party.
14. File Management Library
Certain services, including ARS innovations Limited.com, may include a file management library allowing you to store and access certain marketing creative (e.g. your logos, email creative, images) and other documents (collectively, “Marketing Content”) for your internal use. Any such Marketing Content and art will remain your property; however, you give ARS innovations Limited permission to host, store, and to allow access to your users. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have all necessary rights and license to the Marketing Content and to use that Marketing Content in connection with the services. ARS innovations Limited is not responsible for actions you take with respect to your Marketing Content. You agree to not upload Marketing Content that, or otherwise use the services, to: (i) violate the intellectual property rights of any third party; (ii) engage in or promote illegal activity; or (iii) distribute viruses, worms, or other malware or malicious software. We reserve the right to delete or disable content alleged to violate the foregoing; however, ARS innovations Limited has no obligation to monitor or review your Marketing Content. You acknowledge that any file management library is made available for your convenience and is not intended to be used as a data backup service or in connection with disaster recovery. You are responsible for maintaining independent copies of all Marketing Content, including backup copies. Marketing Content is subject to deletion upon termination.
15. Execution Counterparts
The Agreement may be executed in its original, by facsimile, or in electronically transmitted portable document format and it may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original of the same document.