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This Terms of Service document is effective as of Dec 10, 2015.
Welcome to Aikidesk.com!
Please read these terms of service and Our Cookie Policy (together, these “Terms”) carefully as they form a contract between You and Aikidesk and govern use of and access to the Service and Websites by You, Your Affiliates, Agents and End-Customers whether in connection with a paid subscription to the Service or a free trial of the Service. In the event of a conflict between these terms of service and Our Cookie Policy, these terms of service shall prevail.
By accessing or using the Service or Websites, or authorizing or permitting any Agent or End-User to access or use the Service or Websites, You agree to be bound by these Terms. If You are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company, organization or another legal entity (an “Entity”), You are agreeing to these Terms for that Entity and representing to Aikidesk that You have the authority to bind such Entity and its Affiliates to these Terms, in which case the terms “Aikidesk User” “You,” “Your” or related capitalized terms herein shall refer to such Entity and its Affiliates. If You do not have such authority, or if You do not agree with these Terms, You must not accept these Terms and may not use the Service or Websites.
We may update the Service and Our Websites from time to time and may change content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on Our Websites may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
1.1 Subject to compliance by You, the Agents and End-Customers with these Terms and solely during the Subscription Term, You have the limited right to access and use the Service in accordance with the Service Plan(s) that You subscribe to for Your internal business purposes. You may not allow third parties to use your Account to provide customer service or support without prior notification to Aikidesk. Without limiting the foregoing, Your right to access and use the API is also subject to the restrictions and policies implemented by Aikidesk from time to time with respect to the API as set forth on our websites or otherwise communicated to You in writing. You must be 18 years or older to use the Service.
1.2 In addition to complying with the other terms, conditions and restrictions set forth below in these Terms, You agree not to (a) license, sublicense, sell, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, time share or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Services available to any third party, other than Agents and End-Customers in furtherance of Your internal business purposes as expressly permitted by these Terms; (b) use the Service To Process data on behalf of any third party other than Agents or End-Customers; (c) modify, adapt, or hack the Service or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or related systems or networks; (d) falsely imply any sponsorship or association with Aikidesk; (e) use the Service in any unlawful manner, including but not limited to violation of any person’s privacy rights; (f) use the Service to send unsolicited or unauthorized junk mail, spam, pyramid schemes or other forms of duplicative or unsolicited messages; (g) use the Service to store or transmit files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringes on any person’s intellectual property rights; (h) use the Service in any manner that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Service and its components; (i) attempt to decipher, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise discover the source code of any Software making up the Service; (j) use the Service to knowingly post, transmit, upload, link to, send or store any content that is unlawful, racist, hateful, abusive, libelous, obscene, or discriminatory; (k) use the Service to store or transmit any “protected health information” unless expressly agreed to otherwise in writing by Aikidesk; (l) use the Service to knowingly post transmit, upload, link to, send or store any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, time bombs, or any other similar harmful software (“Malicious Software”); or (m) try to use, or use the Service in violation of these Terms.
1.3 You are responsible for compliance with the provisions of these Terms by Agents and End-Customers and for any and all activities that occur under Your Account, as well as for all Your Data. Without limiting the foregoing, You are solely responsible for ensuring that Your use of the Service to store and transmit Your Data is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations. You also maintain all responsibility for determining whether the Service or the information generated thereby is accurate or sufficient for Your purposes. Subject to any limitation on the number of individual Agents available under the Service Plan for which You subscribed, access to and use of the Service is restricted to the specified number of individual Agents permitted under Your subscription to the Service. You agree and acknowledge that each Agent will be identified by a unique username and password (“Login”) and that an Agent Login may only be used by one (1) individual. You will not share an Agent Login among multiple individuals. You and Your Agents are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all Login information for Your Account. Aikidesk Ltd will not be held liable for any damage or loss that may result from Your failure to protect Your login information, including Your password.
1.4 In addition to Our rights as set forth in Section 7.4, Aikidesk reserves the right, in Aikidesk’s reasonable discretion, to temporarily suspend Your access to and use of the Service: (a) during planned downtime for upgrades and maintenance to the Service (of which Aikidesk will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify You in advance through our Service) (“Planned Downtime”); (b) during any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, such as, but not limited to, acts of God, acts of government, acts of terror or civil unrest, technical failures beyond Our reasonable control (including, without limitation, inability to access the Internet), or acts undertaken by third parties, including without limitation, distributed denial of service attacks; or (c) if We suspect or detect any Malicious Software connected to Your Account or use of the Service by You, Agents, Your Affiliates or End-Customers. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to schedule Planned Downtime for weekends and other off-peak hours.
1.5 You will need a high speed Internet connection in order for the Service to function as intended. You are responsible for procuring and maintaining the network connections that connect Your network to the Service, including, but not limited to, “browser” software that supports protocols used by Aikidesk, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol or other protocols accepted by Aikidesk, and to follow procedures for accessing services that support such protocols. We are not responsible for notifying You, Agents, Your Affiliates or End-Customers of any upgrades, fixes or enhancements to any such software or for any compromise of data, including Your Data, transmitted across computer networks or telecommunications facilities (including but not limited to the Internet) which are not owned, operated or controlled by Aikidesk. We assume no responsibility for the reliability or performance of any connections as described in this section.
1.6 We do not guarantee that Our Websites, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We reserve the right to suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of Our Websites, excluding the Service, without notice. We will not be liable to You if for any reason Our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for You to have access to Our Websites.
1.7 You may link to our Websites provided You do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage Our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on Our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to Our Websites in any website that is not owned by You. Our Websites must not be framed on any other website, nor may You create a link to any part of Our Websites other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
1.8 Where Our Websites contain links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for Your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.
2.1 Each of us shall maintain all rights, title and interest in and to all our respective patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and/or proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”). The rights granted to You, Your Affiliates, Agents and End-Customers to use the Service and the Websites under these Terms do not convey any additional rights in the Service or Websites, or in any Intellectual Property Rights associated therewith. Subject only to limited rights to access and use the Service and Websites as expressly stated herein, all rights, title and interest in and to the Service, the Websites and all hardware, Software and other components of or used to provide the Service and Websites, including all related Intellectual Property Rights, will remain with and belong exclusively to Aikidesk. Aikidesk shall have a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to incorporate into the Service and/or Websites or otherwise use any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback We receive from You, Agents or End-Customers. Aikidesk, and Aikidesk’s other product and service names, and logos used or displayed on the Service or Websites are registered or unregistered trademarks of Aikidesk (collectively, “Marks”), and You may only use such Marks to identify You as an Aikidesk User; provided You do not attempt, now or in the future, to claim any rights in the Marks, degrade the distinctiveness of the Marks, or use the Marks to disparage or misrepresent Aikidesk, its services or products.
2.2 You must not use any part of the content on Our Websites for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or Our licensors. We are the owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property Rights in Our Websites, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
2.3 Aikidesk claims no intellectual property rights over the content You upload or provide to the Service.
2.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you agree that Aikidesk may obtain and aggregate technical and other data about your use of the Service that is non-personally identifiable with respect to you, including without limitation, ticket source, time stamps, number of responses, times of responses, ticket states (open/resolved/etc.) (“Aggregated Anonymous Data”), and Aikidesk may use the Aggregated Anonymous Data to improve, support and operate the Service and otherwise for any business purpose during and after your use of the Service. For clarity, this Section 2.4 does not give Aikidesk the right to identify you as the source of any Aggregated Anonymous Data.
3.1 If You decide to enable, access or use Other Services, be advised that Your access and use of such Other Services is governed solely by the terms and conditions of such Other Services, and We do not endorse, are not responsible or liable for, and make no representations as to any aspect of such Other Services, including, without limitation, their content or the manner in which they handle data (including Your Data) or any interaction between You and the provider of such Other Services. You irrevocably waive any claim against Aikidesk with respect to such Other Services. Aikidesk is not liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your enablement, access or use of any such Other Services, or Your reliance on the privacy practices, data security processes or other policies of such Other Services. You may be required to register for or log into such Other Services on their respective websites. By enabling any Other Services, You are expressly permitting Aikidesk to disclose Your Data as necessary to facilitate the use or enablement of such Other Service.
4.1 Unless otherwise indicated on a Form referencing these Terms and subject to Section 5.2, all charges associated with Your access to and use of the Service (“Subscription Charges”) are due in full upon commencement of Your Subscription Term, and You hereby authorize Aikidesk or its authorized agents, as applicable, to bill Your credit card or other accepted payment method beginning upon the commencement of Your Subscription Term (and any renewal thereof) in accordance with the terms of the Service Plan until You terminate Your Subscription as provided in these Terms or a Form. You acknowledge and agree that Aikidesk may use a third party service provider to manage credit card and other payment processing; provided, that such service provider is not permitted to store, retain or use Your payment account information except to process Your credit card and other payment information for Aikidesk. In order to ensure that we are able to process Your Subscription Charges without interruption, You must notify us of any change in Your credit card or other payment account information, either by updating Your Account on Our Website or otherwise. You will receive a receipt upon each receipt of payment by Aikidesk, and You may obtain a receipt from within the Service. Any update made by You on the Service Plans shall authorize Aikidesk to issue recurring transactions for subsequent terms until cancellation of the account.
4.2 Unless otherwise indicated on a Form referencing these Terms or required by applicable laws and subject to Section 5.2, all Subscription Charges are non-refundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of the Service or if You do not use the Service during a period of time when Your Account is open. Unless otherwise indicated on any Form, if You fail to pay Your Subscription Charges or charges for other services indicated on any Form referencing these Terms within a maximum of five (5) business days of Our notice to You that payment is due or delinquent, or if You do not update payment information upon Our request, in addition to Our other remedies, We may suspend or terminate access to and use of the Service by You, Agents, Your Affiliates and End-Customers.
4.3 If You upgrade or downgrade Your Service Plan, Your credit card or other designated payment method will be charged Your new billing rate immediately (on a pro-rated basis) upon your election to upgrade or downgrade, - unless You cancel Your Account as provided in these Terms or a Form. If You upgrade Your Service Plan or increase the number of Agents during Your Subscription Term (a “Subscription Upgrade”), any incremental Subscription Charges associated with such Subscription Upgrade will be prorated over the remaining period of Your then-current Subscription Term, charged to Your Account and due and payable upon implementation of such Subscription Upgrade. Your Subscription Charges will reflect any such Subscription Upgrades. in any subsequent Subscription Terms, unless You cancel [the Subscription Upgrade] as provided in these Terms or a Form.
4.4 Other than a credit for downgrade of an annual Service Plan, no refunds or credits for Subscription Charges or other fees or payments will be provided to You if You elect to downgrade Your Service Plan. Downgrading Your Service Plan may cause loss of content, features, or capacity of the Service as available to You under Your Account, and Aikidesk does not accept any liability for such loss. Aikidesk reserves the right to contact You if You maintain an exceptionally high number of End-Customers, an unusually high monthly ticket ratio per Agent, an unusually high level of open tickets or other excessive stress on the Service.
4.5 Unless otherwise stated, the Subscription Charges do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments, including value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes assessable by any local, state, provincial or foreign jurisdiction (collectively “Taxes”). You are responsible for paying Taxes except those assessable against Aikidesk based on its income. We will invoice You for such Taxes if We believe We have a legal obligation to do so and You agree to pay such Taxes if so invoiced.
5.1 Aikidesk may choose to offer credits in regards to some or all of the Service. Aikidesk reserves the right to award credits at its sole discretion. Credits have no monetary or cash value and can only be used by You to offset Your subsequent payments of Subscription Charges. Credits may only be applied to Subscription Charges due for the Service specifically identified by Aikidesk when issuing the credit. Credits can only be used by You and are non-transferable.
5.2 To the extent that You have been awarded credits, unless the instrument (including any coupon) states an earlier expiration date, these credits shall expire and no longer be redeemable twelve (12) months from the date the credit was issued.
6.1 If You choose, or You are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of Our security procedures, You must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by You or allocated by us, at any time, if in Our reasonable opinion You have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
6.2 Subject to the express permissions of these Terms, You and Aikidesk will protect each other’s Confidential Information from unauthorized use, access or disclosure in the same manner as each protects its own Confidential Information, but with no less than reasonable care. Except as otherwise expressly permitted pursuant to these Terms, each of us may use each other’s Confidential Information solely to exercise our respective rights and perform our respective obligations under these Terms and shall disclose such Confidential Information solely to those of our respective employees, representatives and agents who have a need to know such Confidential Information for such purposes and who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of, and not misuse, such Confidential Information. The provisions of this Section 6 shall supersede any non-disclosure agreement by and between You and Aikidesk entered prior to these Terms that would purport to address the confidentiality of Your Data and such agreement shall have no further force or effect with respect to Your Data, except to the extent any provisions thereof are intended or expressly stated to survive.
6.3 Aikidesk will maintain commercially reasonable administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your Data. These safeguards may include encryption of Your Data in transmission (using SSL or similar technologies) as described further in Our Privacy Policy.
6.4 You agree that Aikidesk and the service providers it utilizes to assist in providing the Service to You shall have the right to access Your Account and to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, display and disclose Your Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Service, including, without limitation, in response to Your support requests. Any third party service providers We utilize will only be given access to Your Account and Your Data as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service and will be subject to confidentiality obligations. Aikidesk Ltd may also access or disclose information about You, Your Account, Agents or End-Customers, including Your Data, in order to (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect Aikidesk Ltd’s or its customers’ or partners’ rights or property, including enforcement of these Terms or other policies associated with the Services; (c) act on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to protect personal safety or avoid violation of applicable law or regulation.
6.5 We collect certain information about You, Your Affiliates, Agents and End-Customers as well as Your and their respective devices, computers and use of the Service. We use, disclose, and protect this information as described in Our Cookie Policy, the then-current version of which is available at our websites and is incorporated into these Terms.
6.6 To the extent Aikidesk Processes any Personal Data on Your behalf in connection with use of the Service by You, Your Agents and/or End-Customers, Aikidesk and You hereby agree that You shall be deemed to be the data controller and Aikidesk shall be deemed to be the data processor as those terms are understood under the Directive (and any applicable national legislation implementing the Directive). By utilizing the Service, You consent, on behalf of You and Your Agents and End-Customers (and represent that You have the authority to consent on behalf of Your Agents and End-Customers) to the Processing of Your Data, including, without limitation, any Personal Data, within Aikidesk Ltd and to other authorized service providers pursuant to these Terms and Our Privacy Policy within the European Economic Area, the United States and in other countries and territories.
7.1 You may elect to terminate Your Account and subscription to the Services at any time, but You will remain liable for all charges accrued up to that time, including full monthly charges for the month in which You discontinued the Service. Unless Your Account and subscription to the Service is so terminated, Your subscription to the Service will renew for a Subscription Term equivalent in length to the then expiring Subscription Term. Unless otherwise provided for in any Form, the Subscription Charges applicable to Your subscription to the Service for any such subsequent Subscription Term shall be Our standard Subscription Charges for the Service Plan to which You have subscribed as of the time such subsequent Subscription Term commences.
7.2 No refunds or credits for Subscription Charges or other fees or payments will be provided to You if You elect to terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then effective Subscription Term.
7.3 Following the termination or cancellation of Your subscription to the Service and/or Your Account, We reserve the right to delete all Your Data in the normal course of operation any time after the expiry of 14 days after the cancellation or termination of Your Account. Your Data cannot be recovered once it is deleted.
7.4 If You terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then-effective Subscription Term or We effect such termination or cancellation, in addition to other amounts You may owe Aikidesk, You must immediately pay any then unpaid Subscription Charges associated with the remainder of such Subscription Term. This amount will not be payable by You in the event You terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account as a result of a material breach of these Terms by Aikidesk, provided that You provide advance notice of such breach to Aikidesk and afford Aikidesk not less than thirty (30) days to reasonably cure such breach.
7.5 Aikidesk reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Service (or any part thereof), Your Account or Your and/or Agents’ or End-Customers’ rights to access and use the Service, and remove, disable and discard any of Your Data if We believe that You, Your Affiliates, Agents or End-Customers have violated these Terms. You will be liable to pay Aikidesk any fees outstanding or due until the date of termination. Unless legally prohibited from doing so, Aikidesk will use commercially reasonable efforts to contact You directly via email to notify You when taking any of the foregoing actions, and provide You with an opportunity to cure such breach within 15 days from notification by Aikidesk to You. Aikidesk shall not be liable to You, Agents, End-Customers or any other third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuation of Your rights to access and use the Service. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity by You, Agents or End-Customers may be referred to law enforcement authorities at Our sole discretion. Aikidesk shall not be liable to You or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuation of the Service.
THE WEBSITES AND THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL SERVER AND NETWORK COMPONENTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AND AIKIDESK EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AIKIDESK DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OR WEBSITES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED BY YOU FROM AIKIDESK OR THROUGH THE SERVICE OR WEBSITES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.
THE CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITES IS PROVIDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO AMOUNT TO ADVICE ON WHICH YOU SHOULD RELY. YOU MUST OBTAIN PROFESSIONAL OR SPECIALIST ADVICE BEFORE TAKING, OR REFRAINING FROM, ANY ACTION ON THE BASIS OF THE CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITES.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL AIKIDESK, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR (A): ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, COVER OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, SALES, GOODWILL, USE OR CONTENT, IMPACT ON BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY) HOWEVER CAUSED, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY,NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF AIKIDESK HAS BEEN ADVISED AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF AIKIDESK AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS, RELATING TO THE SERVICES WILL BE LIMITED TO AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO TWELVE MONTHS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION FEE FOR THE SERVICE PRIOR TO THE FIRST EVENT OR OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY. THE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS ALSO APPLY IF THIS REMEDY DOES NOT FULLY COMPENSATE YOU FOR ANY LOSSES OR FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
10.1 Aikidesk will indemnify and hold You harmless, from and against any claim against You by reason of Your use of the Service as permitted hereunder, brought by a third party alleging that the Service infringes or misappropriates a third party’s valid patent, copyright, or trademark (an “IP Claim”). If use of the Services by You, Your Affiliates, Agents or End-Customers has become, or in Aikidesk’s opinion is likely to become, the subject of any such IP Claim, Aikidesk may at its option and expense (a) procure for You the right to continue using the Service as set forth hereunder; (b) replace or modify the Service to make it non-infringing; or (c) if options (a) or (b) are not commercially and reasonably practicable as determined by Aikidesk, terminate Your subscription to the Services and repay You, on a pro-rated basis, any Subscription Charges previously paid to Aikidesk for the corresponding unused portion of Your Subscription Term. Aikidesk will have no liability or obligation under this Section 10.1 with respect to any IP Claim if such claim is caused in whole or in part by (i) compliance with designs, data, instructions or specifications provided by You; (ii) modification of the Service by anyone other than Aikidesk; or (iii) the combination, operation or use of the Services with other hardware or software where the Services would not by itself be infringing.
The provisions of this Section 10.1 state the sole, exclusive and entire liability of Aikidesk to You and constitute Your sole remedy with respect to an IP Claim brought by reason of access to or use of the Service by You, Your Affiliates, Agents or End-Customers.
10.2 You will indemnify and hold Aikidesk harmless against any claim brought by a third party against Aikidesk Ltd, and their respective employees, officers, directors and agents arising from or related to use of the Service by You, Your Affiliates, Agents or End-Customers in breach of these Terms or matters which You have expressly agreed to be responsible pursuant to these Terms; provided that Aikidesk promptly notifies You of the threat or notice of such a claim.
11.1 You may not, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, assign all or any part of these Terms or Your rights under these Terms or delegate performance of Your duties under these Terms without Aikidesk’s prior consent. We may, without Your consent, assign Our agreement with You to any member of Aikidesk Ltd or in connection with any merger or change of control of Aikidesk or the sale of all or substantially all of Our assets provided that any such successor agrees to fulfill its obligations pursuant to these Terms. Subject to the foregoing restrictions, these Terms will be fully binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
11.2 These Terms, together with any Form(s), constitute the entire agreement, and supersede any and all prior agreements between You and Aikidesk with regard to the subject matter hereof. These Terms and any Form(s) shall prevail over the terms or conditions in any purchase order or other order documentation You or any Entity which You represent provides (all such terms or conditions being null and void), and, except as expressly stated herein, there are no other agreements, representations, warranties, or commitments which may be relied upon by either party with respect to the subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, additional terms may apply to certain features or functionality Aikidesk offers through the Services (the “Additional Terms”). In those instances, Aikidesk will notify You of such Additional Terms prior to the activation of these features or functionality and the activation of these features or functionality in Your Account will be considered acceptance of the Additional Terms. All such Additional Terms will be considered incorporated into these Terms when You or any Agent authorized as an administrator in Your Account activate the feature or functionality. Where there is a conflict between these Terms and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will control.
11.3 We may amend these Terms from time to time, in which case the new Terms will supersede prior versions. Please read these Terms of use carefully before You start to use our Service or Websites, as these will apply to Your use of the Service and our Websites. Please check these Terms from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they will be binding on You. We will notify You not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of any such amendment and Your continued use of the Service following the effective date of any such amendment may be relied upon by Aikidesk as Your consent to any such amendment. Aikidesk’s failure to enforce at any time any provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that provision or of any other provision of the Terms.
If any provision in these Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified by the court and interpreted so as to best accomplish the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in effect. The failure of Aikidesk to exercise any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any right hereunder.
The parties are independent contractors. These Terms do not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship among the parties.
Sections 1.2, 2 (Intellectual Property Rights), 4 (Billing, Plan Modification and Payments), 6 (Data Privacy and Security; Confidentiality), 7 (Cancellation and Termination), 8 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 9 (Limitation of Liability) and 14 (Survival) shall survive any termination of our agreement with respect to use of the Service by You, Agents or End-Customers. Termination of such agreement shall not limit Your or Aikidesk's ability for obligations accrued as of or prior to such termination or for any breach of these Terms.
You agree that we may send You communications or data regarding Your Account and the Service, including but not limited to: (a) notices about Your use of the Services, including any notices concerning violations of use; (b) updates; and (c) any other issues related to Your Account, via electronic mail.
When used in these Terms with the initial letters capitalized, in addition to terms defined elsewhere in these Terms, the following terms have the following meanings:
Account: means any Aikidesk accounts or instances created by or on behalf of Aikidesk User or its Agents within the Service.
Affiliate: means, with respect to a party, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such party, whereby “control” (including, with correlative meaning, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct, or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
Agent: means an individual authorized to use the Service through Your Account for such Service as an agent and/or administrator as identified through a unique login.
API: means the application programming interfaces developed and enabled by Aikidesk that permits an Aikidesk User to access certain functionality provided by the Service.
Confidential Information: means all information disclosed by You to Aikidesk or by Aikidesk to You which is in tangible form and labeled “confidential” (or with a similar legend) or which a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given the nature of the information and circumstances of disclosure. For purposes of these Terms, Your Data shall be deemed Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that (a) was already known to the receiving party at the time of disclosure by the disclosing party; (b) was or is obtained by the receiving party by a third party not known by the receiving party to be under an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such information; (c) is or becomes generally available to the public other than by violation of these Terms; or (d) was or is independently developed by the receiving party without use of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information.
Directive: means Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data.
Documentation: means any written or electronic documentation, images, video, text or sounds specifying the functionalities of the Service provided or made available by Aikidesk to You, Your Affiliates, Agents or End-Customers through the Service or otherwise.
End-Customer: means any person or entity other than Aikidesk User or Agents with whom Aikidesk User or its Agents interact using the Service.
Form: means any service order form executed or approved by You and Aikidesk with respect to Your subscription to the Service, which form may detail, among other things, the number of Agents authorized to use the Service under Your subscription to the Service and the Service Plan(s) applicable to Your subscription to the Services.
Aikidesk: means Aikidesk Ltd., a company registered in Bulgaria, or any of its successors or assignees. In these Terms, Aikidesk may also be referred to as “We” and “Our.””
Other Services: means third-party products, applications, services, software, products, networks, systems, directories, websites, databases and information that the Service links to, or which You may connect to or enable in conjunction with the Services, including, without limitation, Other Services which may be integrated directly into Your Account.
Personal Data: means data relating to a living individual who is or can be identified either from the data or from the data in conjunction with other information that is in, or is likely to come into, the possession of the data controller (as defined in the Directive).
Processing/To Process: means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.
Service: means the on-demand Aikidesk customer service solution and tools provided by Aikidesk, including, individually and collectively, Software, the API and any Documentation. Any new or modified features added to or augmenting or otherwise modifying the Service or other updates, modifications or enhancements to the Service (“Updates”) are also subject to these Terms and Aikidesk reserves the right to deploy Updates at any time. You understand and agree that the Services may be sold separately or as a bundle; and, that individual Services may be subject to separate and distinct Service Plans.
Service Plan(s): means the service plan(s) and the functionality and services associated therewith (as detailed on the Websites) for which You subscribe with respect to any Agent.
Software: means software provided by Aikidesk (either by download or access through the internet) that allows an Agent, Your Affiliates or End-Customer to use any functionality in connection with the Service.
Subscription Term: means the period during which You have agreed to subscribe to the Service with respect to any individual Agent.
Websites: means www.aikidesk.com and other websites that Aikidesk operates, including, but not limited to, www.aikidesk.co.uk and www.aikidesk.bg.
Your Data: means all electronic data, text, messages or other materials submitted to the Service by You, Your Affiliates, Agents and End-Customers in connection with Your use of the Service, including, without limitation, Personal Data.