MY GARDEN PAL PTY LTD
CLICKWRAP LICENCE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
These are the terms on
which My Garden Pal Pty Ltd ABN 49 126 285 023 (My Garden Pal), Level 1,
1 Queens Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia (the Licensor)
licenses you (the Licensee) to use the software product titled
"My Garden Pal Desktop" (the Software). By installing
and using the Software you agree to the following terms and conditions.
If you do not agree, you may NOT USE OR INSTALL the Software but may
return it to the Licensor and obtain a refund of the licence fees paid
in the month prior to receiving the Software.
- Grant of Licence
- Upon payment of the Licence
Fee specified in clause 8, the
Licensor grants to the Licensee a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable
revocable licence to use the Software (in executable code) as modified
or updated from time to time by any patches or maintenance releases
for the Licensee’s internal business purposes subject to the terms
and conditions of this Agreement.
- In the event that the Licensor
releases a new version of the Software, the Licensor will make available
to the Licensee the new version and updated user documentation at a
further cost to be notified by the Licensor to the Licensee at the time
of release of that Software.
- The Licensee is entitled to
install and use the Software on one personal computer only, for the
sole purpose of processing information relating to plant data and gardening
tasks.
- The Licensee must not, except
to the extent permitted by any law that cannot be excluded by the parties,
copy, modify, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Software
nor merge it with any other software nor directly or indirectly permit
any third party to do any of the foregoing.
- It may not be possible to
operate Software provided under this Agreement without an activation
key which will be immediately supplied by the Licensor following the
request of the Licensee.
- Where a demonstration
version of the Software has been provided, for the shorter of a period
of 30 days from first installation of the Software by the Licensee or
trigger of the requested activation key (Demonstration Period),
the Licensee may use the Software either without payment of the Licence
Fee specified in clause 8 to the Licensor or payment of the Licence
Fee but subject to refund within the Demonstration Period if the Software
is not accepted by the Licensee, subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement and the following:
- on expiry of the Demonstration
Period:
- the Licensee must immediately
pay the Licence Fee specified in clause 8 to the Licensor; or
- if the Licence Fee has been
paid, it becomes non-refundable; or
- return the
Software and user documentation (and all copies of them) to the Licensor
(and where such Software and/or user documentation is incapable of return,
the Licensee must permanently delete the Software and user documentation
and provide a declaration to the Licensor that the Licensee has complied
with this clause 1.6(b)) and this Agreement terminates.
- Software provided under clause 1.6 may
cease operating on expiry of the Demonstration Period without an activation
key supplied by the Licensor.
- Confidentiality
- The Licensee acknowledges
that the ideas and expressions contained in the Software and any modifications
or particulars of them that may be provided to the Licensee by the Licensor
are confidential (except to the extent that they have entered the public
domain other than through a breach of this Agreement by the Licensee).
The Licensee undertakes not to disclose such confidential information
to any person other than its agents and employees and then only to enable
the Software to be used in accordance with and for the purposes of this
Agreement. The Licensee undertakes to ensure that such persons
maintain that confidentiality.
- The Licensee undertakes not
to remove, delete or obscure any copyright notices or confidentiality
notices on or in the Software.
- Intellectual property
rights
- For the purposes of this Agreement,
the term “Intellectual Property Rights” means all copyright,
patents, registered and unregistered design rights, trademarks and service
marks and applications for any of the foregoing, together with all trade
secrets, know-how, rights to confidentiality and other intellectual
and industrial property rights in all parts of the world.
- The Licensee acknowledges
that it obtains no Intellectual Property Rights whatsoever in the Software
or any associated documentation. As between the parties all Intellectual
Property Rights vest in the Licensor.
3.1 If the Licensee
becomes aware of any infringements or suspected infringements by any
third party of any Intellectual Property Rights in the Software, it
must immediately notify the Licensor and must at the request and expense
of the Licensor take such action as the Licensor may reasonably deem
appropriate to protect its Intellectual Property Rights.
3.2 If the Licensee
becomes aware of any actual or potential claim which may be made against
the Licensor or the Licensee alleging that the Software infringes any
third party's Intellectual Property Rights, it must immediately notify
the Licensor of that claim.
3.3 Subject to clauses
4.4, 4.5 and 4.6, the Licensor will indemnify the Licensee against liability
arising out of any claim brought by a third party against the Licensee
which determines that the Licensee’s use of the Software constitutes
an infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights in Australia.
3.4 In the event that
proceedings are brought or threatened by a third party against the Licensee
alleging that the Licensee’s use of the Software constitutes an infringement
of Intellectual Property Rights in Australia, the Licensor or its nominee
may at its option and at its own expense conduct the defence of such
proceedings. The Licensee must provide all necessary co-operation, information
and assistance to the Licensor in the conduct of the defence and/or
settlement of such proceedings.
3.5 The Licensor will
not be required to indemnify the Licensee under clause 3.3 unless the
Licensee:
- complies with clause 3.4;
and
- permits the Licensor, at the
Licensor's option and expense, to modify, alter or substitute the infringing
part of the Software in order to avoid continuing infringement, or to
procure for the Licensee the authority to continue the use and possession
of the infringing Software.
3.6 The Licensor will
not indemnify the Licensee to the extent that an infringement, suspected
infringement or alleged infringement arises from:
- use of the Software in breach
of this Agreement or in a manner or for a purpose not reasonably contemplated
or not authorised by the Licensor; or
- modification or alteration
of the Software without the prior written consent of the Licensor.
3.7 The Licensee will
indemnify the Licensor against any loss, costs, expenses, demands
or liability, whether direct or indirect, arising out of a claim by
a third party alleging infringement if the claim arises from an event
specified in clause 3.6, or if the Licensee has failed to comply with
any requirements of clauses 3.4 or 3.5.
- Warranty
- The Software has not been
written to meet the individual requirements of the Licensee and is supplied
on an “as is” basis. A failure of any part or the whole of the Software
to be suitable for the Licensee’s requirements will not give rise
to any right or claim against the Licensor.
- The sole warranty
given by the Licensor in connection with the Software is that
the Software will perform substantially in accordance with the accompanying
user documentation for a period of 30 days from the day of first installation
of the Software.
- The Licensee’s sole remedy
for any breach of the warranty contained in clause 5.2 is
that the Licensor will, at its option, correct the identified
defect in the Software or replace the Software with software of substantially
similar functionality, to be determined by the Licensor.
The Licensee must provide sufficient information about the defect to
enable the Licensor to reproduce it in the Licensor’s systems.
- Nothing in this Agreement
excludes, restricts or modifies any condition, warranty, right or remedy
which is conferred on the Licensee by the Trade Practices Act 1974
(Cth) or any other consumer protection legislation that cannot be excluded
by mutual agreement (the Acts). Where the Licensor breaches
a condition or warranty which has been implied by the Acts, its liability
for breach will be limited to (where permissible by the Acts):
- in the case of the supply
of goods:
- replacement of the goods;
- supply of equivalent goods;
- repair of the goods; or
- payment of the cost of replacing
the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods, or the payment of the cost
of having the goods repaired; and
- in the case of the provision
of services:
- the supplying of the services
again; or
- payment of the cost of having
the services supplied again;
- Liability
- Unless this Agreement expressly
provides otherwise:
- to the maximum extent permitted
by law, all express and implied conditions, warranties or liabilities
(including liability as to negligence) regarding the condition, accuracy,
suitability, quality or title to the Software are negated and excluded;
and
- the Licensor gives no condition,
warranty, undertaking or representation in relation to the condition,
accuracy, suitability, quality of or title to the Software (including
any data contained in or supplied in relation to it or reports generated
or produced by or with the aid of any of them).
- The liability of the Licensor
to the Licensee for all loss, damage, costs, expenses, claims, demands,
actions and proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Agreement,
whether arising under common law (including negligence) or under statute,
will be limited to the following extent:
- Notwithstanding anything in
this clause 5.2 or in any other provision of this Agreement, the Licensor
will not be liable for any direct or indirect lost profit or revenue,
exemplary damages, loss of goodwill, deletion or corruption of electronically
or digitally stored information, or without limiting the foregoing,
any indirect or consequential loss or damage howsoever described or
claimed;
- The Licensor’s liability
to the Licensee for any proven loss or damage suffered by the Licensee
relating to death or personal injury or damage to any real property
or chattels caused by an act or omission of the Licensor will be limited
for an aggregate of all claims to $300; and
- Otherwise in respect to all
other claims the Licensor’s liability to the Licensee for all other
proven loss and damage is limited for an aggregate of all claims to
the amounts paid by the Licensee to the Licensor in relation to the
Licence Fee for the Software.
- Termination
The Licensor
may terminate this Agreement immediately by notice to the Licensee if
the Licensee breaches this Agreement and fails to remedy the breach
within 14 days of becoming aware of it. Upon termination of this Agreement,
the Licensee must immediately cease to use the Software and return the
Software and all user documentation (and all copies of either of them)
to the Licensor (and where such Software and/or user documentation is
incapable of return, the Licensee must permanently delete the Software
and user documentation and provide a declaration to the Licensor that
the Licensee has complied with this clause 7). This
requirement is without prejudice to any other rights and remedies that
the Licensor may have in respect of the breach.
- Payment
- GST
9.1 In this clause
the expressions Consideration and GST have the meanings
given to those expressions in A New Tax System (Goods and Services
Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
9.2 Unless otherwise
expressly stated, all prices or other sums payable or Consideration
to be provided under or in accordance with this Agreement are exclusive
of GST.
- General
- This written Agreement constitutes
the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter
of this Agreement and supersedes all prior communications and agreements
between the parties as to its subject matter, and each party agrees
that unless expressly stated in this Agreement, that party has not relied
on any representation, warranty or undertaking of any kind in relation
to the subject matter of this Agreement.
- If any provision of this Agreement
or any part of it is unenforceable or void for any reason, then:
- where such provision can be
read down so as to give it a valid and enforceable operation of a partial
nature it must be read down to the extent necessary to achieve that
result; and
- in any other case, such provision
must be severed from this Agreement in which event the remaining provisions
will continue in full force and effect as if the severed provision had
not been included.
- The Licensee must not, without
prior written consent of the Licensor assign, lease, charge, sub-license,
or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement
in whole or in part.
- Any notice given pursuant
to this Agreement may be served personally or sent by pre-paid letter
to the address of the relevant party given above. Such notice will be
deemed to have been served upon and received by the addressee, when
served personally at the time of such service, or when posted, 48 hours
in the case of local mail and 10 days in the case of international mail,
after the same has been put into the post correctly addressed and pre-paid.
- Money amounts are stated in
Australian currency unless otherwise specified.
- Neither Party will be liable
to the other for any delay or failure to perform its obligations under
this Agreement as a result of a cause beyond its reasonable control
(Force Majeure). If the Force Majeure continues for a period
of more than 60 days, the party not affected by the Force Majeure may
terminate this Agreement by written notice to the affected party.
- Any delay or forbearance by
either party in enforcing any provisions of this Agreement or any of
its rights hereunder will not be construed as a waiver of such provision
or right to subsequently enforce the same.
- Clauses 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
and 8 and this clause 10 survive termination of this Agreement and inure
to the benefit of the relevant party.
- Clause headings have been
included in this Agreement for convenience only and must not be considered
part of, or be used in interpreting, this Agreement.
- This Agreement is governed
by the laws of Victoria, Australia and the parties submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Courts of Victoria, Australia and the Commonwealth
of Australia.
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