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PIGCHAMP, INC. VISIONtm TERMS OF SERVICE AND DATA
LICENSE
This PIGCHAMP, INC. VISIONtm TERMS OF SERVICE AND
DATA LICENSE ("Agreement") contain the terms and conditions that apply to
a company and/or user, as applicable ("User", "you" or "your") of the
swine record keeping and statistical analysis tools and services and
related software and programming (collectively, the "Services") provided
by PigCHAMP, Inc. ("PigCHAMP") through its web site at http://www.PigCHAMP.com/vision.
Your use of the Services includes the obligation of you to license data to
PigCHAMP and affilates of PigCHAMP as described below. Please read this
Agreement carefully.
By clicking on the "I ACCEPT" button, you acknowledge that you
have agreed to all of the terms of this Agreement and that you have agreed
to become a party to, and legally bound by, this Agreement. If you do not
agree to all of the terms of this Agreement, click on the "I DECLINE"
button. You will not be able to register for or use the Services if you
click on the "I DECLINE" button.
If you have any questions regarding this Agreement, please contact
vision@PigCHAMP.com. This Agreement was last revised on July 1, 2002.
- Description of Services and Grant of License. The
Services currently allow you to perform swine management and statistical
analysis. PigCHAMP hereby grants to you a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, non-sublicenseable, world-wide license to use the
Services for internal business purposes only subject to the restrictions
in this Agreement. If you require the Vision Upload Utility, you are
hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable,
license to install and use the Services for internal business purposes
only and subject to the restrictions in this Agreement and the related
software license (is and as applicable). For purposes of this Agreement,
the term "Services" shall include the Vision Upload Utility. PigCHAMP
reserves any rights not expressly granted herein. You shall be solely
responsible for hardware and interconnections and telecommunications to
access the Services.
- License Restrictions. You may not: (a) copy the
Services or any software or programming related thereto; (b) permit
other individuals or companies to use the Services; (c) modify,
translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative
works based upon the Services or any software or programming related
thereto; (d) rent, lease, transfer, resell and/or or otherwise transfer
rights to the Services; or (e) delete or write over any portion of any
software relating in any manner to the Services. You also agree that you
shall only use the Services in a manner that complies with all
applicable laws in the jurisdictions in which you use the Services, and
that you shall not violate or infringe the rights of any third party.
Any such forbidden use shall immediately and automatically terminate
your license to use the Services without notice, and all license fees
shall become immediately due and payable.
- Data License from You to PigCHAMP. You hereby agree
to deliver to PigCHAMP the complete farm data and index files as
required by PigCHAMP and in an electronic media usable by PigCHAMP (the
"Data") and as frequently as reasonably requested by
PigCHAMP. You also hereby grant PigCHAMP and affiliates of PigCHAMP (the
"PigCHAMP Companies") an irrevocable, royalty-free,
world-wide, sublicensable (through multiple-tiers), perpetual license to
use the Data for any internal business purpose and for any purpose
whatsoever in aggregated form. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
"affiliates" means any company that has an ownership interest in
PigCHAMP or that is a related entity, including, without limitation,
Farms.com, Ltd. and PigCHAMP LLC. The PigCHAMP Companies will not share
any Data that is personally identifiable to you with any third party
with some exceptions. The PigCHAMP companies may share Data that is
personally identifiable to you with other PigCHAMP Company agents,
contractors or business partners for the purposes of performing services
for PigCHAMP. The PigCHAMP Companies also believe it is necessary to
share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of
the Terms of Access, or as otherwise required by law. Except as provided
above or in the event of a merger, consolidation, or sale of all or
substantially all of the PigCHAMP Company(ies)’ assets or stock,
PigCHAMP will not share any of your personally identifiable information
with any third party without your permission.
- Fees and Payment Terms. All charges shall be at the
then current prices. Upon entering this Agreement, you must choose to
pay either by direct charge to a credit card, debit card, pre-authorized
payment, or by invoice. If you desire to pay by credit card, debit card
or pre-authorized payments, you hereby authorize PigCHAMP to charge for
any charges that may apply to your account as they accrue on a monthly
or yearly recurring basis, as applicable. You must notify PigCHAMP of
any changes to your account (including, without limitation, applicable
account number or cancellation or expiration of the account), your
billing address, or any information that may prohibit PigCHAMP from
charging your account. If you choose to pay by invoice, payment shall be
due within thirty (30) days of receipt. After such thirty (30) day
period late charges of 1 1/2 % per month of the amount of such invoice
remaining unpaid shall also become payable. Failure to make any payment
as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a material breach of this
Agreement and shall be sufficient cause for the immediate termination of
this Agreement by PigCHAMP. In the event of collection enforcement, you
will be liable for any costs associated with such collection, including,
without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs and
collection agency fees. All charges shall be exclusive of any applicable
taxes. You are responsible for the payment of all federal, state, and
local sales, use, value added, excise, duty and any other taxes
assesses, other than taxes based on PigCHAMP's net income.
- Term and Termination. The term of this Agreement
shall be for a period of twelve (12) months after you have agreed to
this Agreement. This Agreement shall automatically renew for consecutive
twelve (12) month periods unless terminated earlier within sixty (60)
days before the expiration of the then current term. Notwithstanding,
PigChamp reserves the right to increase any license fees prior to the
beginning of the next term and PigChamp will give you notice of such fee
increase. This Agreement may be terminated by PigChamp at any time in
its sole and absolute discretion. Furthermore, this Agreement will
automatically terminate if you fail to comply with any term hereof. You
shall not be entitled to any refund for early termination of this
Agreement by either party. No notice shall be required from PigChamp to
effect such termination. Upon any termination of this Agreement, you
shall immediately discontinue use of the Software and shall, within
three (3) calendar days, return to PigChamp, or certify destruction of,
the Software and any related Documentation. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9,
11, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17 shall survive the termination, cancellation,
or discontinuance of this Agreement.
- Registration and Your Information. You agree to (i)
provide true, accurate, current and complete transactional information
and any information about yourself as prompted by the registration form
and (ii) maintain and promptly update such information to keep it true,
accurate, current and complete, which may be done by sending an e-mail
to vision@PigCHAMP.com.
- Account, Password and Security. You will receive a
password and an account identifier upon completing the registration
process. You are fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your password and account and all activities that occur under your
password or account. Your password and account are for your use only,
and you are prohibited from allowing any third parties to use your
password or account. You agree to immediately notify PigCHAMP of any
unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of
security.
- Modification Discontinuation of Services. PigCHAMP
may, in its sole discretion and at any time, modify the Services, or any
part thereof. In such event, you may be requested to accept a
modification or new Agreement when you login to your account. If you do
not accept the amended Agreement, you will not have access to the
modified Services.
- Proprietary Rights. The Services, including,
without limitation, any of PigCHAMP’s Internet operations, design,
content, hardware designs, algorithms, software (in source and object
forms), user interface designs, other templates and designs,
architecture, class libraries, and documentation (both printed and
electronic), know-how, good will, moral rights, trade secrets and any
related intellectual property rights throughout the world, and any
derivative works, improvements, enhancements or extensions thereof used
in connection with the Services are and shall remain the sole and
exclusive property of PigCHAMP.
- Incorporation of Terms of Access. You agree to
follow and be bound by all of the terms and conditions contained in the
Terms of Access, which bind all users of PigCHAMP web site and are
incorporated into and made a part of this Agreement by this reference.
You may view the Terms of Access by clicking
here.
- User Conduct. You are solely responsible for the
contents of your transmissions through the Services. Your use of the
Services is subject to all applicable local, state, national and
international laws and regulations.
- Indemnification. You agree to immediately notify
PigCHAMP of and indemnify and hold PigCHAMP, its parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand,
including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or
arising out of your use of the Services, (including the unauthorized use
of your account or any other breach of security known to you), the
violation of this Agreement by you, or the infringement by you, or
another User using your computer, on any intellectual property or other
right of any person or entity.
- Disclaimer of Warranties. You agree that use of the Services
is at your sole risk. The Services are provided on an "as is" and "as
available" basis, and PigCHAMP assumes no responsibility for the
timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any of your
communications, data, or personalization settings.
PigCHAMP
hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied,
including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, quiet enjoyment,
title, merchantability of computer programs and informational content.
PigCHAMP makes no warranty that the Services will meet your
requirements, or that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely,
secure, error or virus free; nor does PigCHAMP make any warranty as to
the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services or as to
the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through the
Services or that defects in the software driving the Services will be
corrected.
User understands and agrees that any material and/or
data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Services is
done at User’s own discretion and risk and that User will be solely
responsible for any damage to User’s computer system or loss of data
that results from the download of such material and/or data.
No
advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by User from
PigCHAMP or through the Services shall create any warranty not expressly
made herein.
- Limitation of Liability. Neither PigCHAMP, nor its parents,
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, shall be liable for
any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, resulting
from or concerning the use or the inability to use the Services or your
failure to comply with this Agreement, including but not limited to,
damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangibles, even if
PigCHAMP has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no
event shall the total, aggregate liability of the PigCHAMP Companies
exceed the amounts paid by you for the Services provided hereunder. Any
claim or cause of action made by you under this Agreement must be within
one (1) year from the date of the alleged injury.
- Notices. Unless otherwise provided herein, notices
given by PigCHAMP to you will be given by e-mail or by conventional
mail. Notices will be sent to the e-mail address or mailing address you
provide to PigCHAMP as part of the registration process, or to updated
addresses which you provide to PigCHAMP via notice consistent with this
paragraph. Notices given by you to PigCHAMP must be given by e-mail to
vision@PigCHAMP.com, by
conventional mail sent to PigCHAMP, Inc. 1601 Golden Aspen Drive, Suite
109, Ames, IA 50010, or by telecopied letter sent to (515) 233-7187, or
such updated address and number as PigCHAMP may provide you consistently
with this notice provision. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, it is your sole responsibility to update your address for
notices hereunder, and notice sent to the e-mail or conventional mailing
address last provided by you to PigCHAMP shall be valid and binding on
you regardless of whether such address has been changed, canceled, has
expired, has been terminated, or otherwise becomes inoperative.
- Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware
notwithstanding any conflict of laws provisions. You irrevocably and
unconditionally (i) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the courts of Iowa in the City of Ames or in the next closest federal
court (the "Iowa Courts") for any litigation arising
out of or relating to this Agreement, (ii) agree not to commence any
litigation arising out of or relating to this Agreement except in the
Iowa Courts and (iii) agree not to plead or claim that such litigation
brought therein has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
- General. If any provision(s) of this Agreement is
held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then
such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect
the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in
full force and effect. PigCHAMP’s failure to exercise or enforce any
right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of
such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by PigCHAMP in
writing. The section titles in this Agreement are solely used for the
convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual
significance. This Agreement may be assigned in whole or in part by the
PigCHAMP Companies. This Agreement may not be assigned in any manner by
you without the express, prior written permission of the PigCHAMP
Companies.
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