BY CONTACTING
STARFLOW FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT THROUGH THE TELEPHONE NUMBER
OR URL ADDRESS PROVIDED WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR BY DOWNLOADING
ANY UPGRADES PROVIDED WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE INDIVIDUAL
OR ENTITY WHO PURCHASED THE MAINTENANCE PLAN ("LICENSEE")
IS CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY AND IS BECOMING A PARTY TO THIS
AGREEMENT. IF LICENSEE DOES NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS
OF THIS AGREEMENT, LICENSEE SHOULD NOT CONTACT STARFLOW FOR
SUPPORT OR DOWNLOAD UPGRADES AND PROMPTLY CONTACT LICENSEE'S
PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR CANCELLATION OF MAINTENANCE. LICENSEE
WILL RECEIVE A REFUND OF ANY MONEY PAID ONLY IF LICENSEE CONTACTS
THE PLACE OF PURCHASE TO CANCEL LICENSEE'S MAINTENANCE ORDER
WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF PURCHASE. THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE VALID
FOR ONE YEAR FROM LICENSEE'S DATE OF PURCHASE ("MAINTENANCE
PERIOD"). 1.
AGREEMENT. As a participant in STARFLOW's Maintenance
Plan, Licensee is subject to these terms and conditions ("Agreement")
and entitled to receive the technical support and upgrades
("Services") associated with such Maintenance Plan
for the Maintenance Period. As used in this Agreement, for
residents of Americas, Europe, the Middle East or Africa,
"STARFLOW" shall mean STARFLOW SOFTWARE SA.. Therefore,
in consideration for such participation, Licensee agrees to
be bound by the terms and conditions set forth herein. 2.
DEFINITIONS. "End User" means any user
of the STARFLOW software ("Product") authorized
by Licensee pursuant to Licensee's license agreement for the
Product. "Maintenance Plan" means the applicable
STARFLOW Silver, Gold or Bronze Maintenance Plan. "Maintenance
Release" means a product revision or patch that improves
the functionality of a product that does not contain any new
features or enhancements. A Maintenance Release is not an
upgrade. "Program Errors" means one or more reproducible
deviations in the standard, unmodified Product from the applicable
specifications shown in the documentation. "Upgrades"
means both major and minor upgrades to the Product, if any,
provided that Upgrades shall exclude any software release
that is reasonably designated by STARFLOW as a separate product.
"Major Upgrades" are designated by a change in the
number to the left of the decimal point of the number appearing
after the product name while "Minor Upgrades" are
designated by a change in such number to the right of the
decimal point. STARFLOW is the sole determiner of the availability
and designation of a software release as a Major Upgrade or
Minor Upgrade. "Working Hours" are defined by the
STARFLOW office delivering the Services, excluding STARFLOW
holidays.
3. TECHNICAL SUPPORT.
STARFLOW will provide back-end support to Licensee for Program
Errors not resolved by Licensee pursuant to Licensee's support
policies and in accordance herewith. This support includes
efforts to identify defective source code and to provide corrections,
workarounds and/or patches to correct Program Errors. STARFLOW
will provide Licensee with a telephone number and a URL address
that Licensee may use to report Program Errors during Working
Hours. For priority 1, Licensee agrees to notify STARFLOW
via both telephone and URL address. STARFLOW will make reasonable
efforts to correct significant Program Errors that Licensee
identifies, classifies and reports to STARFLOW and that STARFLOW
substantiates. STARFLOW may reclassify Program Errors if it
reasonably believes that Licensee's classification is incorrect.
Licensee will provide sufficient information for STARFLOW
to enable STARFLOW to duplicate the Program Error before STARFLOW's
response obligations will commence. Unless otherwise authorized
in writing by STARFLOW, STARFLOW will not be required to correct
any Program Error caused by (a) incorporation, attachment
of a feature, program, or device to the Product, or any part
thereof; (b) any nonconformance caused by accident, transportation,
neglect, misuse, alteration, modification, or enhancement
of the Product; (c) the failure to provide an installation
environment recommended for the Product; (d) use of the Product
for other than the specific purpose for which the Product
is intended; (e) use of the Product on any systems other than
the specified hardware platform for such Product; (f) if applicable,
use of defective media or defective duplication of the Product;
or (g) failure to incorporate any Maintenance Releases previously
released by STARFLOW which corrects such Program Error. Provided
Program Error reports are received by STARFLOW during Working
Hours, STARFLOW will use reasonable commercial efforts to
communicate with Licensee about the Program Error, via telephone
or e-mail within the following targeted response times:
For
Preferred Maintenance Plan:
| Priority
Failure
Description |
Initial
Response Time |
1 |
Enterprise
Critical (Product is not functioning) |
6
Working Hours |
2 |
Severe Impact (Product
inconsistency causes significantly decreased Licensee
productivity, such as periodic work stoppages or feature
crashes) |
Next Working
Day |
3 |
Degraded Operations (Product
inconsistency causes slightly impaired Licensee productivity,
but Licensee can work around problem) |
2 Working Days |
4 |
Minimal Impact (Requests
for minor changes in Product such as documentation updates,
cosmetic defects or enhancements) |
4 Working Days |
For the Preferred Maintenance
Plan, Licensee may designate one (1) liaison authorized to
contact STARFLOW for technical support. M-F,
9 AM-7 PM
For Advanced
Maintenance Plan:
| Priority
Failure
Description |
Initial
Response Time |
1
Enterprise
Critical (Product is not functioning) |
4 Working
Hours |
2
Severe
Impact (Product inconsistency causes significantly decreased
Licensee productivity, such as periodic work stoppages
or feature crashes) |
8 Working
Hours |
3
Degraded
Operations (Product inconsistency causes slightly impaired
Licensee productivity, but Licensee can work around problem) |
Next
Working Day |
4
Minimal
Impact (Requests for minor changes in Product such as
documentation updates, cosmetic defects or enhancements) |
2 Working
Days |
For the
Advanced Maintenance Plan, Licensee may designate two (2)
liaisons authorized to contact STARFLOW for technical support.
M-F, 9 AM-7 PM
For Premium
Maintenance Plan:
| Priority
Failure
Description |
Initial
Response Time |
1
Enterprise
Critical (Product is not functioning) |
1 Working
Hour |
2
Severe
Impact (Product inconsistency causes significantly decreased
Licensee productivity, such as periodic work stoppages
or feature crashes) |
4 Working
Hours |
3
Degraded
Operations (Product inconsistency causes slightly impaired
Licensee productivity, but Licensee can work around problem) |
Next
Working Day |
4
Minimal
Impact (Requests for minor changes in Product such as
documentation updates, cosmetic defects or enhancements) |
Next
Working Day |
For the
Premium Maintenance Plan, Licensee may designate four (4)
liaisons authorized to contact STARFLOW for technical support.
STARFLOW will also provide Licensee with a telephone number
to use in order to submit Priority 1 problems only, M-F,
9 AM-7 PM
STARFLOW
will use reasonable commercial efforts to resolve each significant
Program Error by providing either a reasonable workaround,
an object code patch or a specific action plan for how STARFLOW
will address the problem and an estimate of how long it will
take to rectify the defect. STARFLOW agrees to support a given
revision of the Product for the shorter of (i) 12 months from
the date such revision is superseded by the next sequential
Minor and/or Major Upgrade; or (ii) until such revision is
superseded by 2 sequential Minor and/or Major Upgrades. (For
example, STARFLOW will support version 2.1 for the shorter
of 12 months from the date version 2.2 or 3.0 (if 3.0 is the
next sequential release), is released by STARFLOW, or until
version 2.1 is superseded by 2 sequential releases (2.2 and
2.3 or 2.2 and 3.0, as the case may be.)
4. ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL
SUPPORT FEES. STARFLOW reserves the right to charge
Licensee additional technical support fees at its then standard
rates for technical support services performed in connection
with reported Program Errors which are later determined to
have been due to hardware or software not supplied by STARFLOW.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, STARFLOW has no obligation
to perform technical support services in connection with Program
Errors resulting from hardware or software not supplied by
STARFLOW. 5. LICENSEE OBLIGATIONS. Licensee,
and not STARFLOW, will be responsible for, and will bear all
expenses associated with, providing front-line technical support,
Maintenance Releases, and Upgrades to its End Users. Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, Licensee
shall not be entitled to provide Maintenance Releases and/or
Upgrades to any End User or use any back-end support received
from STARFLOW to provide front-line technical support to any
End User prior to the payment by Licensee to STARFLOW of the
annual Services fee for such End User. Licensee agrees to
use reasonable commercial efforts to answer its End User's
support questions. For the Preferred Maintenance
Plan, Licensee will identify 1 member of its customer support
staff responsible for all communications with STARFLOW's technical
support representatives. For the Advanced Maintenance
Plan, Licensee will identify 1 member of its customer support
staff and 1 alternate to act as the primary technical liaisons
responsible for all communications with STARFLOW's technical
support representatives. For the Premium Maintenance
Plan, Licensee will identify 1 member of its customer support
staff and 3 alternates to act as the primary technical liaisons
responsible for all communications with STARFLOW's technical
support representatives. Such liaisons will have sufficient
technical expertise, training and/or experience, for Licensee
to perform its obligations hereunder. Licensee will designate,
in writing and/or e-mail to STARFLOW, its list of liaisons
within 1 week after STARFLOW's receipt of Licensee's purchase
order, and may substitute contacts at any time by providing
1 week's prior written and/or electronic notice thereof to
STARFLOW. Licensee, and not STARFLOW, will provide front-line
technical support to its End Users. Such support includes
but is not limited to, call receipt, entitlement verification,
call screening, installation assistance, problem identification
and diagnosis, product defect determination, efforts to create
a repeatable demonstration of the Program Error and, if applicable,
the distribution of any replacements for defective media or
Upgrades. Licensee agrees that any documentation distributed
by Licensee to its End Users will clearly and conspicuously
state that End Users should call Licensee for technical support
for the Product. STARFLOW will have no obligation to furnish
any assistance, information or documentation with respect
to the Product, directly to End Users. If STARFLOW customer
support representatives are being contacted by a significant
number of Licensee's End Users then, upon STARFLOW's request,
Licensee and STARFLOW will cooperate to minimize such contact.
6. MAINTENANCE RELEASES AND UPGRADES. Provided
that Licensee has paid the applicable Maintenance Plan fees,
Licensee will be entitled to receive any Maintenance Releases
and/or Upgrades made generally available during the Maintenance
Period for those Products licensed from STARFLOW by Licensee
and covered under a Maintenance Plan. STARFLOW Client products
are excluded from coverage under any Maintenance Plan. Any
Upgrades released during the Maintenance Period shall be made
available for electronic download by Licensee. STARFLOW shall
provide Licensee with instructions regarding registration
for such electronic downloads. When a Maintenance Release
or Upgrade is available for download, Licensee will receive
an electronic communication from STARFLOW indicating such
availability. Use of each Upgrade is subject to the terms
of the license agreement for such Upgrade. 7.
INSURANCE. If the Maintenance Plan Licensee has
purchased includes provision of onsite support by STARFLOW
at Licensee's location, STARFLOW shall be responsible, at
STARFLOW's expense, for securing and maintaining adequate
Worker's Compensation insurance in accordance with the laws
of the state or country in which such onsite support is performed.
If STARFLOW is permitted by state law to be a self-insurer,
STARFLOW may maintain the equivalent of such insurance. STARFLOW
further agrees to be responsible, at STARFLOW's expense, for
securing and maintaining adequate Comprehensive General Liability
insurance for claims for damages based on bodily injury (including
death) and property damage caused by or arising from acts
or omissions of STARFLOW's employees. 8. REINSTATEMENT
OF SERVICES. Reinstatement of lapsed Services is
subject to STARFLOW's then-current Services reinstatement
fees in effect on the date the reinstatement of Services is
ordered. 9. RENEWAL OF SERVICES. Prior
to the expiration of the current Maintenance Period, STARFLOW
reserves the right to send Licensee an invoice for annual
renewal of the Services pursuant to the terms, conditions,
and pricing then in effect. If Licensee does not wish to renew
the Services, Licensee must contact STARFLOW prior to the
expiration of the current Maintenance Period in order to decline
acceptance of the renewed Services. 10. PURCHASE
ORDERS. Licensee may place written purchase orders
for renewal or change in level of Services provided that each
purchase order contains the following (i) reference to the
Agreement number; (ii) the level of Service, fees and charges
therefor, and bill to address (if different). No terms and
conditions set forth in any purchase order or instrument issued
by Licensee in connection with the Services shall be binding
upon STARFLOW. 11. NOTICE. Any notice required
or permitted hereunder shall be in English, in writing and
shall be deemed to be properly given upon the earlier of (a)
actual receipt by the addressee (including facsimile or e-mail)
or (b) 5 business days after deposit in the mail, postage
prepaid, when mailed by registered or certified airmail, return
receipt requested, or (c) 2 business days after being sent
via private industry courier to the respective parties at
the addresses set forth in the Agreement or to such other
person or address as the parties may from time to time designate
in a writing. Notices to STARFLOW shall be to the attention
of the Legal Department, STARFLOW SOFTWARE SA. 100 Rue Albert
Caquot, Espace Berlioz, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 France 12.
MISCELLANEOUS. . (a) Licensee shall comply with
all applicable laws, rules and regulations for the export
of Product and technical data covered under this Agreement.
(b) Licensee may not assign any of its rights or delegate
any of its duties under this Agreement without the express
written consent of STARFLOW which will not be unreasonably
withheld, and any attempt to assign without such consent shall
be null and void. (c) Neither party's waiver of a breach or
delay or omission to exercise any right or remedy shall be
construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach or as a waiver
of such right or remedy. (d) This Agreement may be amended
only by a writing signed by both parties. (e) This Agreement
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of France without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.
(f) Any dispute regarding this Agreement shall be subject
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the applicable court in the
commerce tribunal of Grasse in France and each party submits
to the jurisdiction of such courts. (g) This Agreement will
not be governed by the United Nations Convention of Contracts
for the International Sale of Goods. (h) If the application
of any provision hereof to any particular facts shall be held
to be unenforceable by any competent court, then (x) the enforceability
of such provision as applied to any other facts and the validity
of other provisions hereof shall not be affected and (y) such
provision shall be reformed without further action by the
parties hereto only to the extent necessary to make such provision
valid and enforceable when applied to the particular facts.
(i) Each party shall be excused from any delay or failure
in performance hereunder, except the obligation for payment
of monies by Licensee to STARFLOW, caused by reason of any
occurrence beyond its reasonable control for so long as the
occurrence persists. (j) This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the parties concerning the subject matter
hereof and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements
and communications, whether oral or written, between the parties
relating to the subject matter hereof, and all past courses
of dealing or industry custom. The terms and conditions hereof
shall prevail over any conflicting purchase order or other
written instrument submitted by Licensee. (k) This Agreement
is written in the English language only, which language shall
be controlling in all respects. (l) This Agreement may be
executed in counterparts or by facsimile, each of which shall
be an original, and all of which together shall constitute
one and the same agreement. (m) If any dispute arises under
this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be reimbursed by
the other party for any and all legal fees and costs associated
therewith. (n) All fees are exclusive of taxes, withholdings,
duties or levies, however designated or computed and Licensee
shall be responsible therefor except for taxes based on STARFLOW's
net income. In lieu thereof, Licensee shall provide to STARFLOW
a valid tax or other levy exemption certificate acceptable
to the taxing or other levying authority.
13. LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY. TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT,
OR OTHERWISE, SHALL STARFLOW BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY
OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES
FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION,
OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES. IN NO EVENT
WILL STARFLOW BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF THE AMOUNT
STARFLOW RECEIVED FROM LICENSEE HEREUNDER, EVEN IF STARFLOW
SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES,
OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY THIRD PARTY. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY
RESULTING FROM STARFLOW'S NEGLIGENCE TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE
LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION. |