TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS)
General Terms
This GRID365 Customer Agreement (this “Agreement”) contains the terms and conditions that govern your access to and use of the Service Offerings (as defined below) and is an agreement between GRID365, Inc. (“GRID365,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) and you or the entity you represent (“you”). This Agreement takes effect when you click an “I Accept” button or check box presented with these terms or, if earlier, when you use any of the Service Offerings (the “Effective Date”). You represent to us that you are lawfully able to enter into contracts (e.g., you are not a minor). If you are entering into this Agreement for an entity, such as the company you work for, you represent to us that you have legal authority to bind that entity. By using the services you agree to be bound by these Terms in their entirety.
In addition to this agreement, your use of some specific Grid365 services is governed by the policies or guidelines specific to those services and which are specifically incorporated into this agreement.
You agree to comply with your company’s data usage and privacy policies.
Users outside of the United States agree to comply with their own local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data to and from the United States or your country of residence.
To the Service Level Agreements. We may change, discontinue or add Service Level Agreements from time to time.
To be clear, aside from the rare exceptions we identify in our Privacy Policy, no matter how the Services change, we won’t share your content with others, including law enforcement, for any purpose unless you direct us to. How we collect and use your information generally is also explained in our Privacy Policy.
You are solely responsible for your conduct, the content of your files and folders, and your communications with others while using the Services. For example, it’s your responsibility to ensure that you have the rights or permission needed to comply with these Terms.
We may choose to review public content for compliance with our community guidelines, but you acknowledge that Grid365 has no obligation to monitor any information on the Services. We are not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, or legality of files, user posts, or any other information you may be able to access using the Services.
Security. Without limiting Section 10 or your obligations under Section 5, we will implement reasonable and appropriate measures designed to help you secure Your Content against accidental or unlawful loss, access or disclosure.
Data Privacy. We participate in the safe harbor programs described in the Privacy Policy. We will not move Your Content without notifying you, unless there is a possibility of service disruption, required to comply with the law or requests of governmental entities. You consent to our collection, use and disclosure of information associated with the Service Offerings in accordance with our Privacy Policy, and to the processing of Your Content in, and the transfer of Your Content into, Grid365.
For information about our data protection practices, please see our Privacy Policy at http://www.Grid365.com/privacy-policy. By using Grid365 services, you acknowledge and agree that Grid365 may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and any Content associated with that account if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (including, without limitation, the filtering of spam), or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Grid365, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission of Grid365 services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks, devices or services.
You also understand and agree that your domain administrator may have access to your account and its content, and may suspend or terminate your account access and your ability to modify your account.
(b) compliance of Your Content with the Acceptable Use Policy, the other Policies, and the law;
(c) any claims relating to Your Content; and
(d) properly handling and processing notices sent to you (or any of your affiliates) by any person claiming that Your Content violate such person’s rights, including notices pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Other Security and Backup. Although we may offer daily/weekly backup of your data for some services, in the end, You are responsible for properly configuring and using the Service Offerings and taking your own steps to maintain appropriate security, protection and backup of Your Content, which may include the use of encryption technology to protect Your Content from unauthorized access and routine archiving Your Content. Grid365 log-in credentials and private keys generated by the Services are for your internal use only and you may not sell, transfer or sublicense them to any other entity or person, except that you may disclose your private key to your agents and subcontractors performing work on your behalf.
End User Violations. You will be deemed to have taken any action that you permit, assist or facilitate any person or entity to take related to this Agreement, Your Content or use of the Service Offerings. You are responsible for End Users’ use of Your Content and the Service Offerings. You will ensure that all End Users comply with your obligations under this Agreement and that the terms of your agreement with each End User are consistent with this Agreement. If you become aware of any violation of your obligations under this Agreement by an End User, you will immediately terminate such End User’s access to Your Content and the Service Offerings.
End User Support. You are responsible for providing customer service (if any) to End Users. We do not provide any support or services to End Users unless we have a separate agreement with you or an End User obligating us to provide support or services.
As part of the Services, we may provide you a sample website which may be populated with sample content provided by us to illustrate how your final site might look (“Sample Content”). You agree that you will not make this Sample Content publicly available and that you will remove all Sample Content from your site before permitting any third party users to access or view your site.
License Restrictions
Neither you nor any End User may use the Service Offerings in any manner or for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement. Neither you nor any End User may, or may attempt to, (a) modify, alter, tamper with, repair, or otherwise create derivative works of any software included in the Service Offerings (except to the extent software included in the Service Offerings are provided to you under a separate license that expressly permits the creation of derivative works), (b) reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the Service Offerings or apply any other process or procedure to derive the source code of any software included in the Service Offerings, (c) access or use the Service Offerings in a way intended to avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas, or (d) resell or sublicense the Service Offerings. All licenses granted to you in this Agreement are conditional on your continued compliance this Agreement, and will immediately and automatically terminate if you do not comply with any term or condition of this Agreement. During and after the Term, you will not assert, nor will you authorize, assist, or encourage any third party to assert, against us or any of our affiliates, customers, vendors, business partners, or licensors, any patent infringement or other intellectual property infringement claim regarding any Service Offerings you have used. You may only use the Grid365 Marks in accordance with the Trademark Use Guidelines.
Comments, Suggestions or Feedback
Any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information provided by you to us or our partners, affiliates (“Comments”) are not confidential and you hereby grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, publish, modify, edit or otherwise use such Comments as we deem appropriate, for any and all commercial and/or non-commercial purposes, in our sole discretion.
Your Rights & What You Provide to Us
Grid365 claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Grid365 services. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Grid365 services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. You are legally responsible for all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials uploaded, posted or stored in connection with your use of the Services (“Content”). Grid365 is not responsible for your Content. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Grid365 services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Grid365 a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such Content on Grid365 services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Grid365 services and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant us such license. You are responsible for any Content that may be lost or unrecoverable through your use of the Services. You are encouraged to keep a backup copy of your Content separately. Grid365 reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Grid365 services and use that Content in connection with any service offered by Grid365. Grid365 furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion.
Giving Us Access to Other Accounts and Services
Some of our Services may require you to give us access to or require you to provide login information and password information for accounts or services you may have with third party providers. When you provide this information to us or give us access to these third party accounts you agree that you have read all contracts and written agreements governing such access, login information and passwords and that you have all the necessary contractual and legal rights to give us such access, login information and passwords.
b. You can opt to upgrade or downgrade your service agreement to any other contract agreement that Grid365 is currently offering for sale at any time during your contract term. In the event of a contract downgrade, a discount credit will be issued to your Grid365 account for the difference in the cost of the two contracts over the remainder of your original contract term. This credit can be applied to future months of service with Grid365, and is in no way transferable to a cash refund.
Gridweb – Downgrading your account may cause the loss of content, features, or capacity of your account. We do not accept any liability for such loss. Additional fees may be applicable on an upgrade. There will be no refunds on a downgrade for the custom development charge. However the custom development fees paid can be applied towards a downgrade, provided the downgrade is within the term of the contract (1 year).
c. At the end of the contract term, your contract will automatically renew for an additional contract term until explicitly cancelled by you. Cancellation must be issued via your website manager interface or via Grid365’s support addresses. Any cancellation issued via your website manager interface must be done at least one (7) days prior to the end of the contract term. Any cancellation not issued via the website manager interface must be done three (15) days prior to the end of the contract term to allow for adequate processing time.
d. Only Services and features clearly indicated as “free” or “no charge” are free or without charge. It is not the responsibility of Grid365 to provide free support for you in the use and operation of Grid365. All other applications, features, functionality and support provided by Grid365 and its partners are provided for the fees described for each service on the Site (“Fees”) and you are liable for such Fees.
e. If you registered for a trial use of the Services (“Trial Period”), you must decide to purchase the Services within the Trial Period in order to retain any Content that you have posted or uploaded during the Trial Period. If you do not purchase the Services by the end of the Trial Period, your Content will no longer be available to you. To be very clear, after using the Services during the Trial Period, if you decide not to purchase the full version of the Services, you will not be able to access or retrieve any of the data you added/created during the Trial Period
If you purchase any Services that we offer for a Fee, you agree to Grid365, or our third party service providers, storing your payment card information. You expressly agree that we are authorized to charge you (i) a monthly,quarterly, bi-annually, annual Fee chosen during signup, for any applicable Services billed on a monthly basis, (ii) any other Fees for Services you may purchase, and (iii) any applicable taxes in connection with your use of the Services to the payment card you provide and to reimburse us for all collection costs and interest for any overdue amounts. If the payment card you provide expires and you do not provide new payment card information or cancel your account, you authorize us to continue billing you and you agree to remain responsible for any uncollected Fees.
Refunds
Grid365 does not provide any refunds except for Gridweb and Gridweb Lite, only for the ‘Custom Development’ portion of the product and under the following condtions. All refunds will be in the form of a credit to the account, unless there is a material breach by Grid365 and will only apply to the remaining time on the current billing cycle.
Gridweb – Please view the Gridweb product details to see what is included and not included in ‘Custom Development’. Any refund if applicable will only apply to the custom development of the site and only under the following conditions, and only during the development phase. Once launched (Live), there will be no refunds of any kind:
1. If Grid365 failed to deliver the requested changes within 15 days of the request..
2. If during the development Phase, the account is cancelled, then 50% of the amount will be refunded and will go towards the work already completed by Grid365. All contract terms will be binding.
Money Back Guarantee
Some services may beadvertised as including a money back guarantee. To receive a refund under the guarantee you must inform us in writing before the end of the advertised money back guarantee period. If you do not claim a refund of fees during this period then no refund will be due. Money back guarantee is not available in combination with a free trial. If you pay for our services during or at the end of a free trial period then no money back guarantee will be available.
Taxes
All fees and charges payable by you are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. You will provide us any information we reasonably request to determine whether we are obligated to collect VAT from you, including your VAT identification number. If you are legally entitled to an exemption from any sales, use, or similar transaction tax, you are responsible for providing us with legally-sufficient tax exemption certificates for each taxing jurisdiction. We will apply the tax exemption certificates to charges under your account occurring after the date we receive the tax exemption certificates. If any deduction or withholding is required by law, you will notify us and will pay us any additional amounts necessary to ensure that the net amount that we receive, after any deduction and withholding, equals the amount we would have received if no deduction or withholding had been required. Additionally, you will provide us with documentation showing that the withheld and deducted amounts have been paid to the relevant taxing authority.
Temporary Suspension
Generally. We may suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine:
(a) your or an End User’s use of or registration for the Service Offerings (i) poses a security risk to the Service Offerings or any third party, (ii) may adversely impact the Service Offerings or the systems or Content of any other Grid365 customer, (iii) may subject us, our affiliates, or any third party to liability, or (iv) may be fraudulent;
(b) you are, or any End User is, in breach of this Agreement, including if you are delinquent on your payment obligations for more than 15 days; or
(c) you have ceased to operate in the ordinary course, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors or similar disposition of your assets, or become the subject of any bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution or similar proceeding.
Effect of Suspension. If we suspend your right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings:
(a) you remain responsible for all fees and charges you have incurred through the date of suspension or per the terms of the service contract;
(b) you remain responsible for any applicable fees and charges for any Service Offerings to which you continue to have access, as well as applicable data storage fees and charges, and fees and charges for in-process tasks completed after the date of suspension;
(c) you will not be entitled to any service credits under the Service Level Agreements for any period of suspension; and
(d) we will not erase any of Your Content as a result of your suspension, except as specified elsewhere in this Agreement.
Our right to suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use the Service Offerings is in addition to our right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 11.
(a) Termination for Convenience. You may terminate this Agreement for any reason by: (i) providing us notice and (ii) closing your account for all Services for which we provide an account closing mechanism. We may terminate this Agreement for any reason by providing you 30 days advance notice.
(b) Termination for Cause.
(i) By Either Party. Either party may terminate this Agreement for cause upon 30 days advance notice to the other party if there is any material default or breach of this Agreement by the other party, unless the defaulting party has cured the material default or breach within the 30 day notice period.
(ii) By Us. We may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you (A) for cause, if any act or omission by you or any End User results in a suspension described in Section 6.1, (B) if our relationship with a third party partner who provides software or other technology we use to provide the Service Offerings expires, terminates or requires us to change the way we provide the software or other technology as part of the Services, (c) if we believe providing the Services could create a substantial economic or technical burden or material security risk for us, (D) in order to comply with the law or requests of governmental entities, or (E) if we determine use of the Service Offerings by you or any End Users or our provision of any of the Services to you or any End Users has become impractical or unfeasible for any legal or regulatory reason.
Effect of Termination
(a) Generally. Upon any termination of this Agreement:
(i) all your rights under this Agreement immediately terminate;
(ii) you remain responsible for all fees and charges you have incurred through the date of termination, including fees and charges for in-process tasks completed after the date of termination;
(iii) you will immediately return or, if instructed by us, destroy all Grid365 Content in your possession; and
(iv) Except ‘Your Content’, all sections will continue to apply in accordance with their terms.
(b) Post-Termination Assistance. Unless we terminate your use of the Service Offerings pursuant to Section 11(b), during the 30 days following termination:
(i) we will not erase any of Your Content as a result of the termination;
(ii) you may retrieve Your Content from the Services only if you have paid any charges for any post-termination use of the Service Offerings and all other amounts due; and
(iii) we will provide you with the same post-termination data retrieval assistance that we generally make available to all customers.
Any additional post-termination assistance from us is subject to mutual agreement by you and us.
b. You may not offer or sell Commercial Products that infringe or have the potential to infringe the intellectual property rights or proprietary rights of another.
c. You may not offer or sell any Commercial Products that we, in our discretion, determine are inappropriate, offensive, pornographic, sexually explicit or violent.
d. You may not offer or sell any Commercial Products that are manufactured as, or primarily intended to be used as, weapons, including firearms, restricted devices or ammunition. We reserve the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether Commercial Products constitutes “weapons” for purposes of this Agreement.
e. You may not offer or sell any Commercial Products that infringe upon or have the potential to infringe upon an individual’s privacy or that may be libelous, slanderous or otherwise defamatory.
f. You may not use images or names of any third party (including notable personalities or celebrities) when offering or selling Commercial Products without first obtaining that third party’s permission.
Without limiting anything else in this Agreement, we may immediately remove Content related to the offer or sale of Commercial Products in violation of this Agreement. If you sell a Commercial Product using our Services, then you must, upon our request, (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to stop the delivery of the Commercial Products to the buyer, or (ii) pay a refund for such Commercial Products to the buyer.
Independent Contractors; Non-Exclusive Rights. We and you are independent contractors, and neither party, nor any of their respective affiliates, is an agent of the other for any purpose or has the authority to bind the other. Both parties reserve the right (a) to develop or have developed for it products, services, concepts, systems, or techniques that are similar to or compete with the products, services, concepts, systems, or techniques developed or contemplated by the other party and (b) to assist third party developers or systems integrators who may offer products or services which compete with the other party’s products or services.
No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement does not create any third party beneficiary rights in any individual or entity that is not a party to this Agreement.
U.S. Government Rights. The Service Offerings are provided to the U.S. Government as “commercial items,” “commercial computer software,” “commercial computer software documentation,” and “technical data” with the same rights and restrictions generally applicable to the Service Offerings. If you are using the Service Offerings on behalf of the U.S. Government and these terms fail to meet the U.S. Government’s needs or are inconsistent in any respect with federal law, you will immediately discontinue your use of the Service Offerings. The terms “commercial item” “commercial computer software,” “commercial computer software documentation,” and “technical data” are defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.
Import and Export Compliance. In connection with this Agreement, each party will comply with all applicable import, re-import, export, and re-export control lGrid365 and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and country-specific economic sanctions programs implemented by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. For clarity, you are solely responsible for compliance related to the manner in which you choose to use the Service Offerings, including your transfer and processing of Your Content, the provision of Your Content to End Users, and the Grid365 region in which any of the foregoing occur.
Notice.
(a) To You. We may provide any notice to you under this Agreement by: (i) posting a notice on the Grid365 Site; or (ii) sending a message to the email address then associated with your account. Notices we provide by posting on the Grid365 Site will be effective upon posting and notices we provide by email will be effective when we send the email. It is your responsibility to keep your email address current. You will be deemed to have received any email sent to the email address then associated with your account when we send the email, whether or not you actually receive the email.
(b) To Us. To give us notice under this Agreement, you must contact Grid365 as follows: (i) by facsimile transmission to 214.666.4110; or (ii) by personal delivery, overnight courier or registered or certified mail to Grid365, Inc., 1623 Central Ave Ste 145, Cheyenne, WY 82001. We may update the facsimile number or address for notices to us by posting a notice on the Grid365 Site. Notices provided by personal delivery will be effective immediately. Notices provided by facsimile transmission or overnight courier will be effective one business day after they are sent. Notices provided registered or certified mail will be effective three business days after they are sent.
(c) Language. All communications and notices to be made or given pursuant to this Agreement must be in the English language.
Assignment. You will not assign this Agreement, or delegate or sublicense any of your rights under this Agreement, without our prior written consent. Any assignment or transfer in violation of this Section 13.8 will be void. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
No Waivers. The failure by us to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a present or future waiver of such provision nor limit our right to enforce such provision at a later time. All waivers by us must be in writing to be effective.
Severability. If any portion of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any invalid or unenforceable portions will be interpreted to effect and intent of the original portion. If such construction is not possible, the invalid or unenforceable portion will be severed from this Agreement but the rest of the Agreement will remain in full force and effect.
Governing Law; Venue. The laws of the state of Wyoming. without reference to conflict of law rules, govern this Agreement and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and us. Any dispute relating in any way to the Service Offerings or this Agreement will be adjudicated in any state or federal court in Laramie County, Wyoming. You consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in those courts. We may seek injunctive or other relief in any state, federal, or national court of competent jurisdiction for any actual or alleged infringement of our, our affiliates, or any third party’s intellectual property or other proprietary rights. The United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this Agreement.
Entire Agreement; English Language. This Agreement includes the Policies and is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement supersedes all prior or contemporaneous representations, understandings, agreements, or communications between you and us, whether written or verbal, regarding the subject matter of this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other agreement between you and us, the files and privacy provisions in Section 4 of this Agreement contain our and our affiliates’ entire obligation regarding the security, privacy and confidentiality of Your Content. We will not be bound by, and specifically object to, any term, condition or other provision which is different from or in addition to the provisions of this Agreement (whether or not it would materially alter this Agreement) and which is submitted by you in any order, receipt, acceptance, confirmation, correspondence or other document. If the terms of this document are inconsistent with the terms contained in any Policy, the terms contained in this document will control, except that the Service Terms will control over this document. If we provide a translation of the English language version of this Agreement, the English language version of the Agreement will control if there is any conflict.
Updated: January 1st, 2014