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Terms of Service
Burraq Solutions. ("The Company") agrees to furnish
services to the Customer, subject to the following
TOS (Terms of Service).
Use of Burraq Solutions’s Service constitutes
acceptance and agreement to Burraq Solutions's AUP
as well as Burraq Solutions's TOS (Terms of
Service).
All provisions of this contract are subject to the
TOS (Terms of Service) of Burraq Solutions and AUP
(Acceptable Use Policy). The AUP may be changed from
time to time at the discretion of the Company.
Customer understands that change to the AUP by the
Company shall not be grounds for early contract
termination or non-payment.
1. Performance : Burraq Solutions. agrees to provide
and customer agrees to purchase the services
requested by customer from the website, in email or
in writing. Customer may add services via any of the
3 methods and agrees to pay in advance for them
whether they be 1 time charges or recurring monthly
fees.
2. Changes : No changes to this agreement shall be
binding except those in writing counter executed by
both parties. Deviations in pricing shall be agreed
to in writing. Email shall confirmed by both parties
shall suffice.
3. Invoices, Payment : Burraq Solutions. will
invoice Customer for Fees and Expenses monthly,
quarterly, semi-anually or anually as agreed by the
customer; provided, however, that Burraq Solutions.
may invoice Customer for Fees and Expenses
associated with Service(s) provided pursuant to a
customer request immediately upon Burraq
Solutions.’s provision of such Service(s). Customer
acknowledges that Burraq Solutions. will invoice
certain Service(s) in advance of the provision of
such Service(s). Payment shall be due immediately
upon the invoice date for recurring services whether
or not the customer has received an invoice or not.
Invoices which remain unpaid fifteen (15) days after
receipt of same by Customer shall accrue interest at
a rate of one and a half percent (1.5%) per month
(or at the maximum interest rate otherwise allowed
by law) until paid in full and service may be
terminated for non payment after 7 days at Burraq
Solutions. option. Expenses shall be included on an
invoice only to the extent that the actual amount of
Expenses is known to Burraq Solutions. at the time
the invoice is issued, and Expenses for which an
actual amount is not known to Burraq Solutions. at
the time an invoice is issued may be included on
subsequent invoices. Unless otherwise agreed in
writing by the Parties, the failure of Burraq
Solutions. to include earned or incurred Fees or
Expenses on a given invoice shall not relieve
Customer of its obligation to pay such Fees or
Expenses. Customer's obligation to pay Fees or
Expenses shall survive the termination of this
Agreement for any reason whatsoever.
4. Security Interest : Customer grants Burraq
Solutions. a blanket security interest in the
customer’s contract with their customers who are
purchasing services from them in the event of
non-payment by customer – customer agrees that
Burraq Solutions. may take these customer contracts
direct without a tortuous interference claim to
protect the credit balance owed Burraq Solutions. by
customer and full ownership of the contracts shall
transfer as well if balance is more than 60 days
old.
5. Term : The term of this Agreement shall begin
upon the date the service is configured and made
available to customer and shall be for 1 month and
shall renew for successive 1 month terms until
terminated by either Party upon the sooner of (i)
thirty (30) days prior written notice to the other
Party, or (ii) the expiration or termination of all
Service(s) set forth in the Statement of Work and
all Work Order(s).
6. Termination Due to Breach : In the event that
Customer commits a material breach of any of its
obligations hereunder, Burraq Solutions. may
terminate this Agreement or (at Burraq Solutions.'s
sole option) suspend, interrupt or terminate one or
more Service(s) to which such breach pertains by
sending written notice of termination to Customer
with termination effective as of the fifth (5th)
calendar day after the date such notice is given.
7. Effects of Termination : Unless the Parties agree
otherwise in writing, termination of the Agreement
shall also serve to terminate all Service(s) and
Statements of Work and to cancel all Work Orders,
and Customer shall pay Burraq Solutions. all Fees
and Expenses earned or incurred by Burraq Solutions.
pursuant to such Service(s), Statements of Work and
Work Orders through the date of termination, less
any payments made hereunder by Customer prior to
said termination. Additionally, all property of each
Party which is in possession of the other Party
shall be returned to its owner. In the event one or
more Service(s) is terminated prior to the
expiration of the Term for such Service(s) (other
than due to a material breach of this Agreement by
Burraq Solutions..
8. Warranties of Burraq Solutions. (99.8%
connectivity and 99.9% network uptime) : Burraq
Solutions. warrants that the Service(s) shall be
provided in a workmanlike and professional manner.
Upon Burraq Solutions Inc.’s breach of the foregoing
warranty, Customer's sole and exclusive remedy shall
be to require Burraq Solutions. to exercise
commercially reasonable efforts to repair or replace
the nonconforming Service(s); provided, however,
that, with respect to any Service(s) which are
interrupted or rendered inoperable due solely to
Burraq Solutions.’s breach of the foregoing warranty
for any time period, Customer shall also be entitled
to a pro-rata refund of any Fees attributable to the
interrupted or inoperable Service(s) in an amount
determined by multiplying the fixed monthly,
recurring Fees (if any) for the interrupted or
inoperable Service(s) by the ratio that the number
of consecutive hours of inoperability bears to 720
hours (for the purpose of this computation, each
month is deemed to have 720 hours). Burraq
Solutions. will not be liable to any extent
whatsoever for interruption, restriction,
inoperability or malfunction of any Service(s) which
is not caused solely by a breach of the warranty set
forth in this Section 8 Burraq Solutions. expressly
reserves the right to suspend, interfere with,
impair or terminate Service(s) as necessary for
purposes of maintenance, upgrades or repair (either
by Burraq Solutions. or by any supplier, partner or
independent contractor of Burraq Solutions..) or in
the event of any circumstance which Burraq
Solutions., in its sole discretion, deems necessary
or desirable to prevent or remedy an impairment of,
or harm to, the integrity or functionality of any
Service(s) or any plant, services or facilities of
any Indemnitees (as defined in Section 11) or of any
third party, and neither the exercise nor the
non-exercise of the foregoing rights or discretion
shall constitute a breach of any provision of this
Agreement.
EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 8, Burraq Solutions.
MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, CONTRACTUAL
OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION
AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO
THE SERVICE(S) OR ANY ASPECT THEREOF, AND ALL
WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT THERETO ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMED.
Customer expressly acknowledges and agrees that
proper provision of the Service(s) is dependent upon
the provision to Burraq Solutions.. by Customer of
timely and accurate information regarding
(i) Customer's needs and expectations regarding the
Service(s), and
(ii) all operational, technological or other data
which Customer knows or should know is relevant to
the provision of the Service(s) (collectively
"Information").
Customer shall provide the Information to Burraq Solutions
Inc. in a timely manner and the Information shall be
accurate. Customer agrees that, in the event of
Customer's breach of its obligations in this Section
8, the warranty set forth in Section 8 shall be null
and void.
9. Warranties of Customer : Customer hereby
covenants, represents and warrants that:
a. Customer will not, and will not permit others to
use Service(s)
i. for any unlawful or illegal purpose or in
connection with or in furtherance of any unlawful or
illegal activity,
ii. in violation of any applicable law or
regulation,
iii. in a manner that will, or is likely to,
infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or
other intellectual property rights of others or
violate the right of privacy, publicity or other
personal rights of others, or
iv. in connection with any conduct or activity that
is, in the sole opinion of Burraq Solutions.,
defamatory, indecent, obscene, offensive,
threatening, abusive, hateful, tortuous or violative
of the rights of any other person or entity;
b. Customer will not, and will not permit others to,
do any act which may interfere with or compromise
the security or functionality of any Service(s),
including without limitation attempting to probe or
test the vulnerability of any system or network
connected to or accessible by the Service(s);
No equipment owned, leased, maintained by or
controlled by Customer or any kind of services or by
any third party which is connected to or utilized
the Service(s) with the consent of Customer will
i. interfere with or impair any Service(s) or any
plant, services or facilities of any Indemnitees or
of any third party,
ii. unlawfully interfere with or impair the
transmission of privacy of any data or
communications transmitted over the Service(s) or
over any plant, services or facilities of any
Indemnitees or of any third party, or
iii. create, cause or contribute to the creation or
causing of a hazard to any Indemnitees or to any
third party.
10. Refund and Disputes: All payments to Burraq Solutions
Inc. which have been serviced are nonrefundable.
This includes all the subsequent charges regardless
of usage. All overcharges or billing disputes must
be reported within 60 days of the time the dispute
occurred and refunds will be given at the discretion
of the Company Management. If you dispute a charge
to your credit card issuer that, in Burraq
Solutions.'s sole discretion is a valid charge under
the provisions of the TOS and/or AUP, you agree to
pay Burraq Solutions. an "Administrative Fee" of not
less than $50 and not more than $150.
11. Indemnification : Burraq Solutions. reserves the
right to suspend, interrupt or terminate any
Service(s) or this Agreement immediately without
further notice in the event of a breach by Customer
of Section 9. Burraq Solutions. reserves the right
to remove, delete, disable or block transmission of
any data or materials which Burraq Solutions.
reasonably believes constitute, either alone or in
conjunction with other acts, omissions or data or
materials, a breach or potential breach by Customer
of Section 9. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify
and hold harmless Burraq Solutions., its successors
or assigns, subsidiaries, officers, directors,
employees, agents, independent contractors,
licensees, licensors, suppliers and customers
(excluding Customer) (collectively "Indemnitees")
against any and all claims, liability, loss, damage,
or harm (including without limitation reasonable
legal and accounting fees) suffered by such
Indemnitees (including without limitation claims,
liability, loss, damage, or harm in connection with
death, bodily injury or injury to real or personal
property) arising from or in connection with
(i) Customer's purchase or use of any Service(s),
including without limitation any claims, liability,
loss, damage, harm suffered by such Indemnitees
arising from or in connection with the use by any
third party of any Service(s) purchased by Customer
regardless of whether such use was authorized by
Customer, or
(ii) Customer's breach of any provision of this
Agreement.
12. Limitation of Liability : Any other provision of
this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the
aggregate liability of all Indemnitees for any
losses or damage, whether direct or indirect,
arising out of or in connection with the Service(s),
including without limitation any cause of action
sounding in contract, tort or strict liability,
shall be limited to actual, direct damages incurred
but in no event shall exceed the greater of
i. One Thousand Dollars, or
ii. The Fees paid by Customer to Burraq Solutions.
during the two (2) months preceding the month in
which liability arose for the Service(s) in
connection with which such liability arose. Burraq Solutions
Inc. shall not be liable for lost profits or other
consequential damages, cover damages, or for any
claims against Customer by any third party, even if
Burraq Solutions. was advised of the possibility of
same. Under no circumstances shall Burraq Solutions.
be liable hereunder for special damages,
consequential damages, general damages, incidental
damages, indirect damages, or exemplary or punitive
damages. No action arising out of this Agreement,
regardless of form, may be brought by Customer
against Burraq Solutions Inc. more than one (1) year after
the cause of action arose. Without limiting the
foregoing:
Customer acknowledges that Burraq Solutions. is not
responsible for controlling or monitoring any
content, information, data or other materials stored
on, transmitted via, or accessible through use of,
the Service(s), and Burraq Solutions. will have no
liability to Customer whatsoever in connection with
such content, information, data or other materials
(including without limitation the accuracy or
suitability thereof or unauthorized access or damage
to, alteration, theft, corruption destruction or
loss of, Customer’s data or other materials); Burraq
Solutions. will have no liability to Customer
whatsoever in connection with any harm or loss
arising from or in connection with unauthorized
access to the Service(s); and all Indemnitees are
expressly made third party beneficiaries of this
Section 12.
This Section 12 shall survive expiration or
termination of this Agreement for any reason
whatsoever.
13. Proprietary/Confidential Information : Burraq Solutions
Inc. and Customer acknowledge that proprietary and
confidential information (including without
limitation trade secrets) (collectively "Proprietary
Information") of each Party may be disclosed to the
other Party throughout the term of this Agreement.
Each Party agrees to not reverse engineer,
decompile, disclose to any third party, or to use
for any purpose not strictly required for such
Party's performance hereunder, such Proprietary
Information except to the extent that such
Proprietary Information was:
i. made publicly available by the owner of the
Proprietary Information or lawfully disclosed by a
non-party to this Agreement;
ii. lawfully obtained from any source other than the
owner of the Proprietary Information;
iii. independently developed by personnel of the
receiving Party to whom Proprietary Information had
not been previously disclosed and not based on or
derived from such Proprietary Information; or
iv. previously known to the receiving Party without
an obligation to keep it confidential. Customer will
not contract directly with any subcontractor
relationships that Burraq Solutions. has under this
agreement or are connected to future services
related to this agreement or that are of the same
nature. Anything to the contrary herein
notwithstanding, Burraq Solutions. may disclose such
information to its successors or assigns,
subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees,
agents, independent contractors, licensees,
licensors and suppliers which have signed and are
bound by a suitable non-disclosure agreement with
Burraq Solutions. in order for Burraq Solutions. to
perform the service in this contract. The
obligations set forth in this Section 13 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement for any
reason whatsoever for a period of three (3) years;
provided, however, that, with respect to Proprietary
Information which constitutes a trade secret, the
obligations set forth in this Section 13 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement for any
reason whatsoever for so long as such Proprietary
Information constitutes a trade secret under
applicable law.
14. Force Majeure : If either Party shall be
prevented from performing any portion of this
Agreement (except the payment of money) by causes
beyond its control, including labor disputes, civil
commotion, war, governmental regulations or
controls, casualty, inability to obtain materials or
Service(s) or acts of God, such Party shall be
excused from performance for the period of the delay
and the time for such Party's performance shall be
extended for a period of time equal to the duration
of such delay.
15. Construction, Venue, Jurisdiction : This
Agreement and any claim, action, suit, proceeding or
dispute arising out of or in connection with this
Agreement shall in all respects be governed by, and
interpreted in accordance with, the substantive laws
of the State of Georgia or United Kingdom. Venue for
any actions arising under this Agreement shall vest
exclusively in courts located in the State of
Georgia or United Kingdom. Customer hereby submits
to the jurisdiction of the aforementioned courts,
and agrees that it will not assert lack of personal
jurisdiction as a defense to any such action.
Customer acknowledges that their attorney has
reviewed and participated in the construction of
this document and nothing herein shall be viewed as
to have favorable construction.
16. Waiver : No waiver of any right or remedy shall
be valid unless in writing and delivered to the
other Party, and waiver of a right or remedy on one
occasion by a Party shall not be deemed a waiver of
such right or remedy on any other occasion.
17. Integration : This Agreement, including all
referenced or attached exhibits, schedules,
attachments or documents, sets forth the entire
agreement and understanding between the Parties
pertaining to their subject matter and supersedes
all prior or contemporaneous discussions,
agreements, promises or understandings between the
Parties. Neither Party shall be bound by any
conditions, definitions, warranties, understandings
nor representations with respect to such subject
matter other than as expressly provided in this
Agreement.
18. Superior Agreement : This Agreement shall not be
supplemented or modified by any course of dealing or
trade usage. Addition to or variance from the terms
and conditions of the Agreement by Customer,
including without limitation any additional or
varying terms contained in Customer's preprinted
forms, correspondence or other documents transmitted
to Burraq Solutions., shall be of no effect, unless
otherwise expressly provided in the Agreement.
19. Assignment : This Agreement is not assignable by
Customer, in whole or in part, voluntarily or
involuntarily, including by operation of law or by
merger in which Customer does not survive, without
Burraq Solutions.'s prior written consent. Any
attempted assignment without Burraq Solutions.'s
written consent shall be null and void.
20. Notice : Unless otherwise agreed to by the
Parties, all notices required under the Agreement
shall be delivered in writing, addressed and sent to
the address provided herein and to the attention of
the Party executing the Agreement or the person's
successor, by either
i. registered mail,
ii. certified mail, return receipt requested, or
iii. overnight mail, or
iv. by telephone facsimile transfer
v. email that is replied to as accepted -
appropriately directed to the attention of the Party
executing the Agreement or that person's successor.
Unless otherwise agreed to by the Parties, all
notices required under the Agreement shall be deemed
effective when received.
21. Severability : If any provision of the Agreement
is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall remain in full force and
effect.
22. Counterparts : This Agreement may be executed in
multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed
an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same Agreement.
Payment from customer of the first month’s fees
shall constitute acceptance of this agreement. This
agreement shall be modified from time to time by
Burraq Solutions. and the then current version shall
be posted on the Burraq Solutions. website. If
customer does not agree to the new terms – customer
should cease utilizing the services at the next
term.
Revision 1.1 - 01/01/2005 |
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