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IVI Technologies, Inc. Scope of Support
SUPPORTNOW SERVICES TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This SupportNow Terms and Conditions
(the “SupportNow Terms and Conditions”) sets forth the terms and conditions
applicable to the provision by IVI Technologies, Inc. (“IVI TECHNOLOGIES”) of
maintenance and support services for the IVI TECHNOLOGIES products separately
licensed to you by IVI Technologies (the “Software”) and for which you have
paid the applicable annual maintenance fee (“SupportNow Services”). All
software, documentation and media provided to you under the terms and
conditions of this SupportNow Terms and Conditions are also subject to the terms
and conditions of the applicable IVI TECHNOLOGIES End User Software License
Agreement and applicable order letter relating to the Software.
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DEFINITIONS.
When used in these SupportNow Term and
Conditions, the underlined phrases in this Section shall have the
following meanings:
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Corrections
. The term “Corrections” includes, but is not
limited to, fixes, workarounds, component replacements, patches and/or
documentation changes made generally available by IVI TECHNOLOGIES to its
SupportNow customers.
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Defects
. The term “Defects” shall mean defects in the
distribution media or material differences between the operation of the
Software and the description of the operation of the Software as provided
in the applicable end-user documentation.
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Latest Release
. The term “Latest Release” shall mean the most
current release of the Software generally available at the time a support
request is submitted by you.
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Release or Update
. The term “Release” or “Update” are terms that
refer to a revision of software that contains defect corrections, minor
enhancements or improvements of the software’s functionality. This is
usually designated by a change in the number to the right of the decimal
point (e.g., from Release 5.3 to 5.4).
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SupportNow Online
. The term “SupportNow Online” IVI
TECHNOLOGIES’s global online service network which provides access to
Knowledgebase, problem reporting, Corrections, tools and documentation.
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Version or Upgrade
. The term “Version” or “Upgrade” are terms that
refer to a revision of software that contains new or improved
functionality. This is usually designated by a change in the number to
the left of the decimal point (e.g., from Version 5.4 to 6).
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE
AS A IVI TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTNOW SERVICES CUSTOMER.
You will receive the following: (i) SupportNow
support for twelve (12) months from the date of your purchase or the
initial term specified in an order letter or other document in written or
electronic form provided by IVI TECHNOLOGIES or its authorized reseller
(the “Initial Term”); (ii) Corrections for twelve (12) months from your
date of purchase or the Initial Term, as applicable; (iii) online web
support (including a subscription to SupportNow Online) for twelve (12)
months from your date of purchase or the Initial Term, as applicable; (iv)
Releases for twelve (12) months from your date of purchase or the Initial
Term, as applicable; and (v) Versions for twelve (12) months from your
date of purchase or the Initial Term, as applicable.
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REPORTED DEFECTS:
Our SupportNow staff will, with your assistance
in providing sufficient information and the minimum length source code
sufficient for IVI TECHNOLOGIES to reproduce the suspected Defect,
investigate a suspected Defect in the Latest Release or immediately prior
Release of the Software by attempting to reproduce it. If the Defect is
confirmed, IVI TECHNOLOGIES will use commercially reasonable efforts to
provide a Correction in a future Release. When provided under this
SupportNow Terms and Conditions, such Correction will be provided without
additional charge. IVI TECHNOLOGIES reserves the right to discontinue
SupportNow Services without notice on a past Correction for any Software
after you receive or are given access to a new Release or new Version (as
applicable) of the Software containing that Correction.
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ADDITIONAL
SERVICES AND CHARGES:
IVI
TECHNOLOGIES reserves the right to charge for services which are not the
result of Defects in the Software. Examples of potentially billable
services include:
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Debugging application coding
errors in a customer’s application; and
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Debugging problems in
non-maintained Software, or in combinations of Software and non-supported
products, where the problem occurs in the non-supported product.
IVI TECHNOLOGIES may offer under
separate agreements additional maintenance-related services, such as training,
consulting and support for an older Release or Version that has been withdrawn
by IVI TECHNOLOGIES from the market or is otherwise not generally available.
Such services can be performed at a site and time mutually agreeable. These
services are normally charged on a time and materials basis plus expenses and
are subject to availability.
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ITEMS NOT
COVERED BY THESE SUPPORTNOW TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
The following are excluded from the SupportNow
Services:
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Altered or modified Software
unless altered or modified pursuant to these SupportNow Terms and
Conditions;
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Any combination of the Software
and other software not covered by these SupportNow Terms and Conditions;
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A Release or Version of the
Software for which maintenance services have been discontinued by IVI
TECHNOLOGIES;
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A Release or Version that has
been withdrawn by IVI TECHNOLOGIES from the market or is otherwise not
generally available;
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Defects caused by your
negligence or fault;
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Defects resulting from hardware
malfunction or malfunction of software not covered by these SupportNow
Terms and Conditions;
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Defects that do not
significantly impair or affect the operation of the Software;
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Software used on an unsupported
computer or operating system;
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Other software products sold
separately by IVI TECHNOLOGIES;
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Options, extensions, Releases,
Versions, Updates or Upgrades to the Software sold separately by IVI
TECHNOLOGIES, unless generally made available to SupportNow customers for
the applicable Software at no additional charge; and
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Charges associated with your
accessing the internet.
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TERM AND
TERMINATION:
These
SupportNow Terms and Conditions will become effective and SupportNow
Services provided hereunder will commence when IVI TECHNOLOGIES receives
your order for SupportNow Services, and may be terminated by IVI
TECHNOLOGIES in the event your payment of the applicable annual
maintenance fee for such order is not received within thirty (30) days of
the date of invoice. Unless terminated earlier in accordance with the
terms of these SupportNow Terms and Conditions, the SupportNow Services
provided hereunder will cease on the last day of the maintenance period
which is twelve (12) months from the commencement of SupportNow Services
under these SupportNow Terms and Conditions or the end of the Initial
Term, as applicable. These SupportNow Terms and Conditions may be
terminated at any time upon fifteen (15) days written notice by either
party to the other party for any violation of any material terms and
conditions of these SupportNow Terms and Conditions and failure to cure
such violation.
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MAINTENANCE
RENEWAL:
The first annual
maintenance fee shall be paid in accordance with Item 6 above. Annual
maintenance fees for new annual maintenance periods must be paid in
advance on or prior to each anniversary of the commencement of SupportNow
Services. Approximately forty-five (45) days prior to the termination of
the then current annual support period, IVI TECHNOLOGIES will invoice you
for the next year’s renewal of the SupportNow Services. If you elect to
renew the SupportNow Services, the annual maintenance fee due for the next
maintenance period shall be, at the date of invoice, the amount paid for
in the previous year, plus standard price increase if any.
IVI TECHNOLOGIES reserves the right to
withdraw SupportNow Services on any or all Software, and to alter the prices,
terms and conditions for the SupportNow Services in advance of any renewal of
SupportNow Services. Any such withdrawal or alterations will amend these
SupportNow Terms and Conditions between you and IVI TECHNOLOGIES as of such
renewal date.
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MAINTENANCE
RE-INSTATEMENT:
If you
allow the SupportNow Services to expire, in order to reinstate SupportNow
Services for a 12-month term for the applicable Software you must pay the
following to IVI TECHNOLOGIES:
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if you are licensing the Latest
Release of such Software, a fee equal to the then current annual
maintenance fee for the applicable copy of the Software, plus 20% of the
then current annual maintenance fee to bring the Software up to date with
any new Corrections, enhancements and/or improvements thereto provided to
SupportNow customers, plus the then current annual maintenance fee
prorated for the period extending back to the date of expiration of
SupportNow Services; or
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if you are not licensing the
Latest Release of such Software, a fee equal to the then current annual
maintenance fee for the applicable copy of Software, plus the then
current upgrade fee for the Latest Release of the Software.
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EXCLUSION OF
DAMAGES.
NEITHER IVI
TECHNOLOGIES NOR ANY OF ITS THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY
INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGE, WHETHER INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL, ARISING OUT OF THE SUPPORTNOW SERVICES OR THE USE OR
INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS,
DATA OR PROGRAMS, AND THE COST OF RECOVERING SUCH DATA OR PROGRAMS, EVEN
IF INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE.
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LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY.
ANY LIABILITY OF
IVI TECHNOLOGIES SHALL BE LIMITED IN THE AGGREGATE TO THE AMOUNTS PAID BY
YOU FOR THE SupportNow fees paid for the then-current SupportNow term.
THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATION AND OTHER TORTS. IVI TECHNOLOGIES’S THIRD
PARTY SUPPLIERS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY
YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY AS A RESULT OF USING THE PRODUCTS. THESE SUPPORTNOW
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, HOWEVER, SHALL NOT PURPORT TO EXCLUDE OR RESTRICT
THE LIABILITY OF IVI TECHNOLOGIES OR ITS THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS TO ANY
EXTENT NOT PERMITTED BY LAW.
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OWNERSHIP
. IVI TECHNOLOGIES and its third-party suppliers
have and will retain all ownership rights to the Software, including all
patent rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, related goodwill,
trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information relating
thereto. You have no rights in the Software except as explicitly stated in
these SupportNow Terms and Conditions or the applicable IVI TECHNOLOGIES
End User Software License Agreement.
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MISCELLANEOUS:
You may not assign these SupportNow Terms and
Conditions to a third party without the prior written consent of IVI
TECHNOLOGIES. IVI TECHNOLOGIES shall not be liable for failure or delay in
performing its obligations due to circumstances outside its reasonable
control (“Force Majeure”). Unless otherwise agreed in a mutually-executed
writing by the parties, these SupportNow Terms and Conditions and the
applicable IVI TECHNOLOGIES End User Software License are the only
agreements between IVI TECHNOLOGIES and you with respect to the Software.
These SupportNow Terms and Conditions supersede all prior agreements, oral
or written, relating to SupportNow Services for the Software. If you
acquired the Software in North America these SupportNow Terms and
Conditions are governed by the laws of the state of Florida. The United
Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall
not apply to this Agreement. These SupportNow Terms and Conditions may be
performed by and/or assigned to the IVI TECHNOLOGIES related company or
third party which IVI TECHNOLOGIES allocates from time to time to provide
such SupportNow Services to customers in your country.
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SupportNow
Contacts:
For all products:
Phone: (786) 788-6930
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SupportNow Sales
Contact:
For All Products:
Phone: (786) 788-6930
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SUPPORTNOW
DEFINITIONS
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15.1.1 Licensee and Licensor will
jointly use the following definitions to document and respond to errors or
deficiencies that may exist. If Licensee determines that an error or
deficiency exists in the programs supported by the maintenance fees under
this Agreement, Licensee will provide written notification to Licensor of
such error or deficiency, along with supporting data and programs that
document such error or deficiency. Licensor shall respond as indicated.
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15.1.1.1
Critical – Severity 1 Error
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15.1.1.1.1 A “Severity 1 Error”
shall mean that the Software is non-operational and no users can access
the system, or the functionality is significantly decreased, or back-up
or other security of data can no longer be performed. The defect affects
mission-critical systems or information in the production environment.
This may include any defect related to customer or personal safety,
system availability, overall data integrity or ability to serve the
customer.
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15.1.1.1.2 “Severity 1 Error”
events shall require immediate resolution by Licensor. Licensor shall
initiate a remedy immediately following notification by Licensee.
Licensor support personnel as well as Licensee’s personnel may be
required to sustain a twenty-four (24) hour per day effort to determine
the root cause of the problem or until circumvention or resolution is
provided. Licensor will provide regular updates informing Licensee of
the progress to remedy the reported problem.
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15.1.1.2 High –
Severity 2 Error:
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15.1.1.2.1 A “Severity 2 Error”
shall mean that the System is operational with functional limitations or
restrictions but there is minimal business impact. Defect has a large
impact on the functionality of the application, but does not require
immediate release into the production environment.
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15.1.1.2.2 For “Severity 2
Error” events Licensor must start the error correction not later than 4
hours following notification by Licensee. The error correction must
commence by the start of the next business day following notification,
if such notification has been received at a time two hours before end of
a business day. Licensor shall work to correct Severity 2 Errors during
normal business hours. Licensor will provide regular updates informing
Licensee of the progress to remedy the reported problem. Licensor shall
use reasonable efforts to correct such errors within ten (10) business
days.
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15.1.1.3
Medium – Severity 3 Error
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15.1.1.3.1 A “Severity 3 Error”
shall mean the System is operational with functional limitations or
restrictions that are not critical to the overall system operation.
Defect has a moderate impact on the functionality of the application;
however the application remains usable by all groups.
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15.1.1.3.2 For “Severity 3
Error” events Licensor shall work to correct Severity 3 Errors during
normal business hours. Licensor shall use reasonable efforts to correct
such errors within sixty (60) business days.
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15.1.1.4 Low
– Severity 4 Error
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15.1.1.4.1 A “Severity 4
Error” shall mean the System is operational with problems or errors,
which have little impact on system operations. Severity 4 Errors shall
include, but not be limited to, documentation errors. Defect has a minor
impact on the functionality of the application.
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“Severity 4 Error” events are
normally corrected in the next maintenance release of the System
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