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Client Services Agreement
EVERYONE.NET'S SERVICES ("SERVICES") INCLUDE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL,
THE USE OF WHICH IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS
CLIENT SERVICES AGREEMENT AND EXHIBIT A HERETO, AS AMENDED FROM
TIME TO TIME UPON NOTICE FROM EVERYONE.NET. PROCEEDING WITH THE
USE OF THE SERVICES, OR THE CONTINUED USE OF THE SERVICES AFTER
RECEIVING NOTICE OF ANY CHANGES, CONSTITUTES YOUR ASSENT TO AND
ACCEPTANCE OF THE CLIENT SERVICES AGREEMENT AND EXHIBIT
A HERETO. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL THE TERMS, PLEASE RETURN
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EVERYONE.NET® INCORPORATED CLIENT SERVICES AGREEMENT
This Client Services Agreement ("Agreement") is an agreement
between you, an individual or an individual acting on behalf of your
employer, a corporation, partnership, or other legal entity that will
be using Everyone.net's services ("Client") and Everyone.net
Incorporated, a California corporation located at 2635 N. First St.,
Suite 128, San Jose, CA 95134-2041 ("Company"). Everyone.net's
services, as set forth in this Agreement and Exhibit A hereto, and
as Client has elected to obtain through Client's Control Center account
(the "Services"), include proprietary materials, the use
of which is subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
Exhibit A hereto, Company's support agreements and any related amendments.
1. General Terms and Conditions for Use of Services.
a. Provision of Services. Company agrees to use reasonable
commercial efforts to provide to Client, and Client accepts,
the Services which may be modified or updated by Company from
time to time, for use exclusively by users of the Web site owned
and operated by Client ("Client Site"), in accordance
with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In the event
that Client subscribes to Company's Publisher Mail service (formerly
referred to as Plug-in-EmailT), Client shall obtain either the
Publisher Email Service or a Paid Email Service, including Mail
Plus, Personal Mail, Group Mail or Business Mail.
b. Branding. All interface components within the Services,
including the meta-search query box which may appear on Web
pages not hosted by Company, may be Client-branded and may display
Client's name, logo, trademarks and service marks within the
designated area of the Web pages hosted by Company as Client
shall specify from time to time using the automated features
included in the Services (collectively, the "Services Pages").
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company may prominently display
on all Services Pages Company's name, logo, trademarks, service
marks and a phrase substantially similar to "powered by
Everyone.net," or such other phrase as Company may specify
from time to time, as well as any names, logos, trademarks,
or services marks of third party co-branding clients of Company,
unless Client subscribes to a Paid Email Service.
c. Domain Name. Client shall be solely responsible
for: (i) registering a domain name for the Client Site, located
at the URL provided by Client to Company in the text input box
named "Site URL," with an ICANN approved domain name registrar, reseller, New.net reseller, or any successor organization;
(ii) keeping such domain name registration, and the associated
Web site, current and active; and (iii) paying all costs associated
with such domain name registration. Such domain name shall be
the sole property of Client.
d. Prohibited Client Site Content. Client Site shall not contain any
content which is defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing,
threatening or which violates any federal, state or local law. The
following types of content are inconsistent with Company's corporate
policies: (i) pornography or links to any pornographic materials;
(ii) content that focuses on alcohol, tobacco, or firearms; (iii)
pirated software or other content that violates third party intellectual
property rights; (iv) links to sites that violate third party ownership
rights; (v) hacking, phreaking, or other methods that violate the
rights of computer users; (vi) subject matter advocating illegal
activity or content that is collected or distributed illegally;
(vii) any content which Company determines to be inconsistent with
its corporate policies; (viii) any subject matter, visual or audio
content, language or graphics specifically directed toward children
under the age of thirteen (13) or made available to users known
to be under the age of thirteen (13), unless Client Site complies
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; and (ix) publicly
available information which personally identifies any children under
the age of thirteen (13).
e. Access to Client Site. Client agrees to provide Company full access
to all parts of Client Site upon request for the purpose of determining
whether Client Site complies with Section 1.d. of this Agreement.
Client agrees and acknowledges that if Client Site, in Company's
sole discretion, violates the terms of Section 1.d., Company shall
be entitled, and reserves the right, to immediately terminate this
Agreement and the Services provided to Client.
f. Registration.
(i) Client's Registration.
Client agrees to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete
information about Client as prompted by Company's signup form; and
(b) maintain and update this information to keep it true, accurate,
current and complete. If any information provided by Client is untrue,
inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Company has the right to
terminate this Agreement immediately and refuse any and all current
and/or future uses of the Services. Client must be age thirteen
(13) or older to use the Services. Client will receive a password
and account upon completing the signup process. Client is responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account,
and is fully responsible for all activities that occur under Client's
account. Client agrees to immediately notify Company of any unauthorized
use of Client's password or account, or of any other breach of security.
(ii) User's Registration.
All persons using the Services provided by Company on behalf
of Client pursuant to this Agreement ("Users") may
be required to sign up and provide personal identifying information,
including, without limitation: name and contact information,
gender, birth date, occupation and industry, shipping and billing
information, credit card numbers and other payment information,
behavior patterns, purchase history, and other information.
Company may modify the required information fields on the User
signup form from time to time. In addition, Company may request
Users to fill in optional information fields. Users have the
ability to edit the foregoing information at any time. All of
the foregoing information is collectively referred to as "Registration
Data."
(iii) Use of Registration Data. All Registration
Data and other data generated from the Services shall be the sole
and exclusive property of Company, provided that if Client: (a)
subscribes to support services under the Support Services Agreement,
then Company shall license and provide Client with aggregated Registration
Data on a periodic basis upon request through Client's Control Center
account; or (b) subscribes to a Paid Email Service, then Company
shall license and provide Client with aggregated Registration Data
from the Paid Email Service upon termination or expiration of such
Paid Email Service at no additional cost to Client if Client requests
such information in writing within thirty (30) days from such termination
or expiration. Company shall not be obligated to provide aggregated
Registration Data if Client does not subscribe to support services
or Paid Email Services. In no event shall Company be obligated to
provide Client with Users' passwords or any information that is
in violation of Company's End-User Services Agreement or Privacy
Policy or applicable law. Client agrees: not to contact any User
who Company identifies as having stated a preference not to be contacted
by Client; not to provide or disclose to third parties the Registration
Data of any User regardless of that User's stated contact preference;
and not to use the Registration Data or the Services to transmit
or enable a third party to transmit "junk mail", "spam",
"chain letters" or large-scale solicitations. Client agrees
to provide to Users a clear and complete statement describing its
use and disclosure of Registration Data, which shall be consistent
with, and is at least as restrictive as, the terms of this Agreement
and Exhibit A hereto as limited by Company's End-User
Agreement and Privacy Policy. Client
agrees that it shall not use or disclose, directly or indirectly,
Registration Data or other information arising from a User's use
of the Services, in a manner that violates the terms and conditions
of Client's privacy policy or site usage agreement or Company's
End-User Services Agreement or Privacy Policy.
(iv) End-User Services Agreement.
Company shall provide the Services on behalf of Client pursuant
to Company's End-User Services Agreement and Privacy Policy, which
may be modified from time to time, and the terms and conditions
of which shall be accessible by hyperlink from one or more pages
within the Company's Services user interface. Each User shall be
required to agree to such End-User Services Agreement as a condition
to using the Services.
g. Restrictions. Except as expressly set forth above,
Client shall not transmit, display or otherwise make available
(or allow Users or any other third party to transmit or make
available) the Services or the content thereof to any third
party (other than registered users). Except as expressly permitted
by Company, Client shall not alter, delete or modify any attributions
included within the Services. Client shall not indicate that
it owns or powers the Services, in any manner, on any Web page
of Client Site, whether those pages are hosted by Client or
by Company.
h. Ownership. Company and its licensors and third party
content providers retain all rights and title to, and interest
in, all of the information, content, data, designs, software,
business methods, materials, and all copyrights, patent rights,
trademark rights, service mark rights and other proprietary
rights thereto provided pursuant to this Agreement. Except as
expressly provided herein, no right or license, with respect
to any copyrights, patent rights, trademark rights, service
mark rights or other proprietary rights, is granted under this
Agreement. All rights not expressly granted hereunder by Company
are expressly reserved to Company and its licensors and information
and content providers. Under no circumstances shall: any part
of the Services be physically transferred to Client; or Client
be entitled to a license to the underlying software.
2. Terms and Conditions for Specific Services. Client
agrees to abide by the service-specific terms and conditions
specified by Company, attached as Exhibit A.
3. Licenses.
a. License Grant of Marks. Subject to all the terms
and conditions of this Agreement, each party ("Licensor")
hereby grants the other party ("Licensee") a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use the Licensor
Marks solely for furthering the purpose of this Agreement and
as provided herein. "Licensor Marks" refer solely
to the names, trademarks, service marks and logos as provided
by Licensor in writing specifically for use under this Agreement
and which are incorporated herein by this reference. However,
Licensor, in its sole discretion from time to time may, upon
written notice to Licensee, change the appearance and/or style
of any Licensor Mark, or add to or subtract from the Licensor
Marks previously licensed. Unless required earlier by a court
order or to avoid potential infringement liability, Licensee
will have fourteen (14) days from its receipt of notice to implement
any such changes. Licensee hereby acknowledges and agrees that:
(i) the Licensor Marks are owned solely and exclusively by Licensor
or its affiliates; (ii) the Licensee has no rights, title or
interest in or to the Licensor Marks, except as set forth herein;
and (iii) all use of the Licensor Marks by Licensee will inure
to the benefit of Licensor and its affiliates. Licensee agrees
not to apply for registration of any of the Licensor Marks (or
any mark confusingly similar thereto) anywhere in the world.
Licensee agrees that it will not engage, participate or otherwise
become involved in any activity or course of action that diminishes
and/or tarnishes the image and/or reputation of Licensor or
of any Licensor Mark.
b. Use and Display of Marks. Licensee acknowledges
and agrees that the presentation and image of the Licensor Marks
should be uniform and consistent with this Agreement and with
respect to all services, activities and products associated
with the Licensor Marks. Accordingly, Licensee agrees to use
the Licensor Marks solely in the manner in which Licensor will
specify from time to time, and the Licensee agrees to cooperate
in facilitating the Licensor's monitoring of the Licensee's
use of the Licensor Marks, including but not limited to the
nature and quality of the services and products offered by the
Licensee in connection with the Licensor Marks.
c. License Grant of Content. Subject to all the terms
and conditions of this Agreement, Licensor hereby grants Licensee
a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license
to use the Content as defined herein. "Content" refers
solely to the content or other materials provided by Licensor
to Licensee specifically for use under this Agreement and incorporated
herein by this reference.
4. Term; Termination.
a. Unless expressly provided otherwise in a written agreement
between Company and Client, this Agreement shall commence on
the date of acceptance by Client and shall remain in full force
and effect unless and until terminated as provided below, unless
Client subscribes to a Paid Email Service in which case this
Agreement shall commence by the next business day upon Company's
approval of Client's payment to Company and shall continue on
a month-to-month basis in full force and effect unless and until
terminated as provided below.
b. Unless expressly provided otherwise in a written agreement
between Company and Client, either Company or Client may terminate
this Agreement at any time without cause by providing thirty
(30) days' written notice to the other party. Client may cancel
any of the individual Services at any time; however, this Agreement
shall remain in effect with respect to the Services which Client
continues to use. Clients who subscribe to a Paid Email Service
must send a cancellation request via email to emailcancellation@everyone.net,
with such notice and termination date effective upon the close
of the calendar month. Partners who cancel a Paid Email Service within fourteen (14) days of signup will be provided with a full refund.
c. This Agreement may be terminated by a party for cause
immediately by written notice upon the occurrence of any of
the following events: (i) the other ceases to do business or
otherwise terminates its business operations, except as a result
of an assignment permitted under Section 12.a. below; (ii) the
other fails to promptly secure or renew any license, registration,
permit, authorization or approval for the conduct of its business
in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, or if any such
license, registration, permit, authorization, or approval is
revoked or suspended and not reinstated; or (iii) the other
becomes insolvent or seeks protection under any bankruptcy,
receivership, trust deed, creditors arrangement, composition,
or comparable proceeding, or if any such proceeding is instituted
against the other.
d. This Agreement may be terminated by Company immediately
by written notice if Client: (i) contacts any User who Company
identifies as having stated a preference not to be contacted
by Client; (ii) uses or discloses Registration Data, or other
information arising from Users' use of the Services, in breach
of the terms of this Agreement; (iii) violates any term of Section
1.d. of this Agreement; or (iv) violates the terms and conditions
of this Agreement as determined by Company in Company's sole
discretion. Company shall have no obligation to refund any of
Client's fees due to early termination of the Paid Email Service.
e. Upon termination of this Agreement, Company will maintain
User accounts, and email messages for thirty (30) days. Users shall
have access to their accounts and Client shall have access to the
names and email addresses of its Users during this thirty (30) day
period. However, Company shall have no obligation to provide Client
with Users' names and email addresses after this thirty (30) day
period.
f. Survival. Sections 1(f)(iii), 1(g), 4(e), and 5 through
and including 12, and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
any right of action for breach of this Agreement prior to termination,
shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
5. Warranty Disclaimer. COMPANY AND ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS
MAKE NO WARRANTIES TO YOU OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WITH RESPECT
TO ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIALS OR SERVICES PROVIDED
OR MADE AVAILABLE BY THEM HEREUNDER, AND DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND SUCH ARE PROVIDED
ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.
FURTHERMORE, COMPANY AND ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS DO NOT GUARANTEE
THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY DATA INFORMATION
OR DATA SUPPLIED, AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS, LOSS OF DATA OR DELAYS THEREIN OR FOR THE RESULTS
OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF SUCH DATA OR INFORMATION OR FOR ANY
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF THE DATA
OR INFORMATION BY CLIENT OR ITS USERS.
6. Compliance with Applicable Law. Client represents
and warrants that Client's use of the Services shall comply
with any and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations of
any governmental body, agency, or other competent authority.
7. Indemnification.
a. Client shall defend (or settle, if desired and authorized
by Company) at Client's expense any claim or suit against Company,
its affiliates or their officers, directors, employees, contractors,
agents or other representatives arising out of or relating to:
(i) any assertion that the information, content, domain name
or other materials or services provided or made available by
or under the authority of Client, or the use thereof as specifically
authorized by Client, infringe any copyright, trademark or other
intellectual property rights of any third party, or are a misappropriation
of any third party's trade secrets, or contain any libelous,
defamatory, disparaging, pornographic or obscene materials;
(ii) the use of the Services by Client or its Users; (iii) any
assertion that Client has misused the Registration Data of Users
who Company identifies as having stated a preference not to
be contacted by Client; or (iv) Client's use of User information
not in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
or (v) any assertion that Client has not complied with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act.
b. Client shall indemnify and hold harmless Company against
and from damages, costs and attorneys' fees, if any, incurred
in defending and/or resolving such claim or suit, provided that:
(i) Client is promptly notified in writing of such claim or
suit; and (ii) Company furnishes to Client, on request, information
available to Company for such defense.
8. Waiver of Damages; Limited Liability.
a. CLIENT AGREES THAT NEITHER COMPANY NOR COMPANY'S AFFILIATES
SHALL BE LIABLE OR OBLIGATED (EXCEPT AS SET FORTH HEREIN) UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT OR UNDER PRINCIPLES OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE,
STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, FOR ANY
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS OR COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
GOODS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO COMPANY'S SERVICES,
EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
b. Client acknowledges that Pursuant to Section 512 of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Company has a policy providing
for termination of account holders who are repeat offenders.
However, CLIENT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IN NO EVENT SHALL
COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS OR COST OR PROCUREMENT
OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF COMPLIANCE OR
REASONABLE ATTEMPTS TO: (i) COMPLY WITH UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT
ACT; OR (ii) SATISFY REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY FOR THE SAFE HARBORS
DESIGNATED IN SECTION 512 OF THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT
ACT.
c. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY AND ALL MATTERS
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN EXCESS
OF $500.00 U.S.
d. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN
WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN LIABILITIES,
THEREFORE SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO SOME
USERS.
e. If you have chosen the virus scanner, please be advised that this virus scanner may not be able to detect or repair all viruses and variants, as new viruses and variants frequently appear. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever downloading email attachments to your computer or sending email attachments to others and that, as provided in the Terms of Service, neither Everyone.net nor its licensors are responsible for any damages caused by your decision to do so.
9. Relationship of Parties. The parties hereto expressly
understand and agree that each party is an independent contractor
in the performance of each and every part of this Agreement,
and is solely responsible for all of its employees and agents
and its labor costs and expenses arising in connection therewith.
Neither party nor its agents or employees are the representatives
of the other party for any purpose, and neither party has the
power or authority as agent, employee, or any other capacity
to represent, act for, bind, or otherwise create or assume any
obligation on behalf of the other party for any purpose whatsoever.
The parties agree that the use of the term "Client"
herein is not intended to have any legal significance and is
merely used as a matter of convenience.
10. Notices. Notices under this Agreement shall be sufficient
only if: (i) personally delivered; (ii) delivered by a major
commercial rapid delivery courier service; (iii) mailed, postage
or charges prepaid, by certified or registered mail, return
receipt requested; (iv) successfully mailed electronically;
or (v) successfully faxed or emailed to a party at its fax or
email address last provided to the other party. If not received
sooner, notice by mail shall be deemed received five (5) business
days after deposit in the U.S. mails.
11. Amendment. Company may modify this Agreement at any
time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately
upon posting or other notification to Client. Client's continued
access or use of the Services shall be deemed its conclusive
acceptance of the modified Agreement.
12. Miscellaneous.
a. Prohibition Against Assignment. Neither this Agreement
nor any rights, licenses or obligations hereunder, may be assigned
by Client, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent
of Company. Any attempted assignment in violation of this section
will be void and without effect. Subject to the foregoing, this
Agreement will benefit and bind the parties' successors and
assigns.
b. Applicable Law; Attorneys' Fees. Unless expressly
provided otherwise in a written agreement between Company and
Client: (i) this Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of California without
reference to conflict of law principles; (ii) in any action
to enforce this Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled
to costs and attorneys' fees; and (iii) the sole jurisdiction
and venue for any legal actions arising under this Agreement
shall be in either the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California or the Superior Court of California for
San Francisco County.
c. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with
all Exhibits, constitute the entire agreement between the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all
prior discussions, documents, agreements and prior course of
dealing.
d. Waiver. The failure of either party to enforce
its rights under this Agreement at any time for any period shall
not be construed as a waiver of such rights.
e. Severability. In the event that any of the provisions
of this Agreement shall be held by a court or other tribunal
of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision(s)
shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary
so that the provision and this Agreement shall otherwise remain
in full force and effect and enforceable.
f. Force Majeure. Company shall not be liable, nor in
breach of this Agreement, by reason of any failure or delay
in the performance of its obligations hereunder on account of
strikes, shortages, fires, earthquakes, power shortages, acts
of God, or any other cause which is beyond the reasonable control
of the parties.
g. Publicity. Client acknowledges and agrees that
during and after the term of this Agreement, Company shall have
the right to use Client's name, logo, URL, Web site screen captures,
and description in Company's marketing, publicity, and promotional
activities and materials, including, but not limited to, press
releases, marketing collateral, and print, radio and television
advertisements, without further consent or approval of Client.
The parties understand and agree, however, that nothing in this
Agreement shall obligate Company to actually use Client's name,
statements or testimonials in connection with Company's marketing.
h. Third Party Beneficiaries. Company's third party
licensors and information providers are intended beneficiaries
of this Agreement.
i. Headings. Headings and captions are for convenience
only and are not to be used in the interpretation of this Agreement.
THE PERSON ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS
THAT HE OR SHE IS AUTHORIZED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT ON
BEHALF OF CLIENT.
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