Attention: This Agreement is supplemented
by and includes, by incorporation by reference, the terms and conditions
of the MSN Network Agreement
(“MSN Addendum”). Capitalized terms used below will have
the same meanings ascribed to such terms under the MSN Addendum,
unless specifically provided otherwise.
By accepting the terms and conditions of this Trial Hosting Agreement
(“Agreement”) you are agreeing to be legally bound
to perform and adhere them, and IM Interactive Corp. (the “Company”)
shall have all legal rights and remedies available to it to enforce
the terms. This document concerns your use of the Messenger BOT
Access Service provided to you by IM Interactive Corp., a Connecticut
company (the “Company”).
1. Right to Use MSN Messenger Network and IMProv Products and Services.
1.1 Your right to use the Microsoft Service(s)
is subject to your agreement with the Company, and to your understanding
of, compliance
with and consent to the following terms as set forth in the MSN Addendum,
which form a part of your Agreement with the Company, and which Company
does not have authority to vary, alter or amend. In addition, your
rights to use the Microsoft Messenger Service, the Bot Server and
the SDK and other available development tools and utilities (collectively,
the “IMProv Services and Products”) are subject to the
following restrictions and limitations:
a) Use of the IMProv Services and Products
is limited to the Trial Period. The Trial Period shall be for such
period of time specified
in the program acceptance and confirmation notice specified by the
Company (“Company Confirmation”), from time to time.
b) For each Bot, you will be limited to the
permitted number of sessions and/or alerts per month to Opted-in
End Users as specified
by the Company in the Company Confirmation. Opted-in End Users means
End user Messenger client users that initiate an instant messaging
session with the Bot through their own volition, include the Bot’s
Microsoft Messenger service identity into their buddy list or directory,
or otherwise provided advance and currently valid permission at the
time of use to send solicitations or initiate sessions with End User.
In the case of pre-approved lists, by submitting or using any such
list, you hereby represent and warrant that the End Users of such
identities have specifically provided approval for solicitation.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion,
to terminate your access to the IMprov Services and Products at any
time, with or without notice.
(d) You understand that the Company makes NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES regarding any of the IMProv Services or Products, including,
but not limited to, suitability for a particular purpose, defects,
infringement or merchantability or any other matter. All IMProv Services
and Products are provided on an AS IS, ALL FAULTS BASIS.
1.2 In regards to any IMProv Service or Product
manufactured, sold, distributed, leased or licensed by a third
party, such as, but not
limited to, third party SDKs, software, utilities or the like (“Third
Party Services and Products”), you understand and agree to
any terms and conditions of use and licensure that they shall impose
as specified in the accompanying documentation, or software, such
as an End-User License (or EULA).
1.3 you understand and agree to receive from
the Company, up to and subject to the extent of the Company’s
rights and authority to redistribute and re-license the same a
personal, non-transferable
and non-exclusive, revocable and conditional license to use the Products
and Services, subject to the following conditions:
(i) You agree to use the IMProv Products and Services under and
pursuant to the Trial Hosting program solely for your own personal
use and not for any commercial use strictly for the purposes of developing
instant messaging applications and Bots that will operate on the
MSN Messenger Service in accordance with the limitations and restrictions
of use imposed by the Company under this Agreement and the MSN Addendum;
(ii) You agree the you will not reverse engineer, copy, or decompile
any of the IMProv Products, including software programs, for any
purpose whatsoever;
(iii) You covenant and agree that you will not attempt to patent,
or otherwise impair or contest the Company’s rights to patent,
any inventions, discoveries, novelties or improvements that are dependent
upon or are derived from any of the IMProv products and services,
except that nothing herein shall impair your rights to patent inventions
on any subject matter that does not relate to IM Prov Products and
Services licensed, used, accessed or disclosed to you.
(iv) The Company may, at ay time, with our without notice, terminate
your license to use the any or all of the IMProv Services or
Products. Without limiting the foregoing, in the event the
Company’s
rights with respect to any Third Party service or Product is terminate,
your license as granted hereunder shall; automatically terminate
commensurate with such termination without notice.
2. BOT Server and Hosting. You acknowledge
and agree that performance or other problems associated with one
or more of the IMProv Products
or Services may impact your use of the Microsoft Messenger Service.
You also acknowledge and agree that the Company makes no representations,
guarantee or warranties, express or implied, regarding operational
uptime, equipment, connectivity, communications or power reliability,
virus protection, security or any other protections or safekeeping
from third party malicious acts,. or any other forms the BOT Server
is only authorized for use with the Messenger BOT Access Service
pursuant to the terms of this agreement, and may not be used as simply
a conduit to connect with the Microsoft Messenger Service. You understand
that the Company makes no guarantee regarding the availability or
suitability of bandwidth, processing resources, or other matters
within or connecting to the Company’s hosting environment and/or
services, and in the vent of any failure or interruption of service
for any reason whatsoever, the Company will have no liability to
you.
3. Suitability, Compliance, and Infringement. You are solely
responsible for determining the suitability of the IMProv Products and services
for use for your development and testing and for your business purposes,
and for compliance with any legal, regulatory and/or other requirements
applicable to you. You represent and warrant to the Company that
your IM applications and Bot programs or the use thereof do not infringe
upon the patent, copyright or other intellectual property rights
of any person or party, and you agree to hold harmless, defend and
indemnify the Company and its Third Party Suppliers against any and
all claims, causes of action, losses, expenses, injuries, damages
and awards suffered as a result of your infringing upon the patents,
copyrights or other intellectual property rights of any third party.
You understand and agree that we may respond to any request for information
regarding your identity made by a party claiming infringement, and
furnish such information to them without liability to you.
4. General Privacy Requirements. Beginning on the date that
The Company begins to provide the Microsoft BOT Access Service to you, you will
have a privacy policy in place governing your use of End Users’ personal
information that meets or exceeds all applicable laws, rules or regulations
governing the use of such information. You will post or cause to
be posted your privacy policy on the web pages associated with the
Hosted Service(s) in a manner that makes the privacy policy conspicuous
and readily accessible to End Users including, ready accessibility
from portions of the Hosted Service(s) where personal information
is actually collected. In addition, you will comply with industry-standard
privacy guidelines and practices including, all guidelines and practices
recommended by the Online Privacy Alliance and/or TRUSTe.
5. Collection of Service User Information.
You shall not collect, retain or otherwise use any End User Information
through use of any IMProv Services or Product without (i) obtaining express consent
from such End User outside the Microsoft Messenger Service through
an “opt-in” mechanism; and (ii) providing notice to the
End User in each instant messaging session regarding the nature of
Company’s retention, collection or use of the Service User
Information.. Nothing in these Terms restricts you from collecting,
saving and using any data you independently collect directly from
an End User in accordance with your own privacy policy and applicable
law, regardless of whether such information is duplicative of Service
User Information.
6. Restrictions on Use of Service User Information.
(a) To enable you to deliver products and services requested by
End Users, the Microsoft may need to transmit certain End-- User
Information to the Company from time-to-time. You understand that the Company
will comply with the certain privacy policies that are consistent
with those of the instant messaging network provider. To ensure
these commitments are kept, unless you have obtained rights to
collect, save and use End User data as provided above, or have
obtained End User consent, you will: (1) Only use End-User Information
to deliver the products and services requested or authorized
by an End User, and not use such information for any purpose
beyond
providing the specific product or service authorized by the End
User (i.e., secondary use); and (2) Not assign, transfer, share,
transmit or publicly disclose End User Information or any identifiable
information derived from the IMprov Service or Products to any
third party except as expressly permitted by Section 6(b) below.
(b) You may transmit End User Information to third parties (e.g.,
shipping service providers), but only for the purpose of allowing
such third parties to participate in the delivery of a product
or service requested by an End User. You will only transmit such
End user Information as is reasonably necessary for such third parties
to receive in order to deliver the product or service requested
by the End User. You will make commercially reasonable efforts
to ensure any such third party receiving the information will: (1) use it
solely for the purpose of delivering the product or service requested
by the End User; and (2) protect the privacy and security of End User
Information according to standards at least as protective as the
terms set forth in this Section 6.
(c) You will protect End User Information in a manner consistent
with your privacy policy and any applicable law, rule or regulation.
7. Security. You will take all commercially reasonable security
and other measures to protect End-User Information from unauthorized
access, use, disclosure, alteration and destruction. In addition,
you agree that you shall not attempt to access any system, equipment
or data or information maintained by the Company through any means
other than through means specifically authorized by the Company.
In the case of inadvertent access or disclosure to any information
or data which is not owned or permitted to be disclosed by you, you
agree not copy or use the information for any purpose whatsoever
and agree to notify the Company of any such breach. You agree that
you will introduce and software programs, executables, or other agents
into the IMProv system, servers, equipment or environment that will
result in such systems, servers, equipment being impaired, degraded,
injured, or compromised in any way. You agree that you will follow
and adhere to the security policies and procedures imposed by the
Company from time to time, and you understand that they may change
from time to time. You agree that you will not share any pass keys,
security codes or other security information with any person other
than employees or your agents that have been specifically authorized
for bona-fide purposes within your business, and have agree to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement. You also agree that you will
promptly apply and/or install all hot fixes, updates, and patches
that may be issued for any of the IMProv Services or Products.
8. No Illegal or Adverse Use. You may not use the IMProv Services
or Products to plan, facilitate, solicit, aid or engage in any act
or conduct which is unlawful in any jurisdiction in which you, any
End Users, or the Company or any of its employee, agents, assets
or properties are located or its business or communications are conduct
in, by or through..
9. Disclaimer of Warranties. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY
SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, ALL LOGOS, INFORMATION, MATERIALS,
SOFTWARE OR SERVICES
ARE PROVIDED BY COMPANY AND ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING
MICROSOFT CORPORATION) (COLLECTIVELY, “COMPANY DELIVERABLES”)
ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND COMPANY AND ITS SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING
MICROSOFT CORPORATION) EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED
OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPANY DELIVERABLES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR RESULTS
TO BE OBTAINED BY YOU AND END USERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF
THE MESSENGER BOT ACCESS SERVICE.
10. Limitation of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY OR ITS THRID PARTY SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING
MICROSOFT CORPORATION, AKONIX CORPORATION) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL,
INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS,
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY
LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE ANY OF THE IMPROV
SERVICES OR PRODUCTS, EVEN IF THE COMPANY OR ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS
(INCLUDING MICROSOFT CORPORATION) HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
11. Microsoft is a Third Party Beneficiary; Liability for Breach.
You agree that any and all Third Party Suppliers for which you have
used or accessed their IMPROV Services or Products are third party
beneficiaries to this Agreement. In addition to any liability you
may have to the Company, you will also be legally responsible directly
to such Third Party Suppliers for any breach of this agreement.
12. Governing Law, Etc. This Agreement shall be governed by the
substantive laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to its
choice of law provisions. You agree that any claims or disputes between
the Company and you arising out of the subject matter of this Agreement
or IMProv Services or Products shall be exclusively adjudicated by
a federal or state court located within Connecticut, irrespective
of convenience of forum, and you irrevocably submit to the personal
jurisdiction of such courts. You agree that if you commence any action
or proceedings in any jurisdiction other than Connecticut, the Company
shall have the right, upon motion therefor, to have such matter dismissed
without prejudice to the parties.
13. No Assignment. This Agreement may not be directly or indirectly
assigned by you to any other party without the Company’s
consent.
14. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is adjudged
to be unenforceable, voud or invalid, such unenforceability
shall not render any of the other provisions of this Agreement
unenforceable,
void or invalid, and the provision so effect shall be construed
in such a manner as to render the provision enforceable while
retaining
to the greatest extent legally possible the original intended
effect of such provision.
15. Amendment and Merger. Any written
or oral representations, whether express or implied, made by the
Company regarding
the subject matter
of this Agreement shall be of no force or effect and is
deemed superseded by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Except as specifically
provided in this Agreement, you agree there are no other
agreements, promises, or arrangements n effect, and the
terms
and conditions
of this Agreement may not be modified or changed except
by means of a written agreement made and delivered by the parties.
16. Notices. You agree that the Company may deliver notice
to you by means of e-mail, postal services, facsimile
or overnight carrier
using such addressing information furnished by to the
Company from time to time. You agree that it is your responsibility
to notify
and correct your address and contact information. You
agree
that you will be deemed to receive notice once the Company
send the notice
via a communication facility that enables that delivery
of the notice, including over telephonic or other public
or
private communications
systems, or is deposited with a post carrier or carrier
service responsible for its delivery. You agree that
you will send
any notices to the
Company by means of written notice, sent by US Mail or
Foreign Mail Service (if out of the nited States), postage
pre-paid,
return receipt
requested, to the following address:
IM Interactive Corp.
11 Asylum Street, 4th Floor
Hartford, Connecticut 06103
Attention: Legal Department
You agreed that notice to the Company
will be deemed delivered upon the Company’s actual physical
receipt of such written notice.
17. Means of Acceptance. You agree that your acceptance and
agreement to be bound by the terms of this Agreement may
be evidenced by
an electronic signature or other electronic event that
indicates your
voluntary acceptance and agreement. This may include checking
an electronic acceptance box on a web page that states
you are agreeing
to the terms of this Agreement and submitting the data
to the Company by means of executing one or more control functions
such a “submit” data
button control operated or initiated from the web page, or other
similar means. You agree that the Company’s routine collection
and storage of such information is prima facia evidence of
your acceptance and agreement to be bound, that the use of
your pass
code or other
uniquely identifying information submitted in connection therewith
or prior thereto is sufficient to establish your identity and
you waive any and all defense to the validity, existence or
enforceability of this Agreement as between the Company and
you on the grounds
of
improper or fraudulent identity, or legally insufficient signatures.
You also agree that facsimile signatures are sufficient and
good evidence of acceptance and shall have the same legal import
as
original signatures.
18. Use of Company Logos and Trademarks. For
so long as this Agreement is in effect and provided you use the
same in accordance with the
terms hereof, you shall have the limited, non-exclusive right to
use the Company’s Logos and Trademark’s on your web site
and in advertising literature solely for the purposes of identity
the source and origin of your goods and services. You agree that
we shall have the right to require you to prominently display an
html link “Powered by the MSN IMProv Center” In your
Bot sessions, and you agree not to remove or obscure such links or
attributions. You agree that you will adhere to any trademark or
logo advertising use policies and rules that the Company may disseminate
from time to time.
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