1. Definitions and Interpretation
- The following definitions and rules of interpretation apply to this Agreement: “Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday in England when banks in London are open for business.
- “Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday in England when banks in London are open for business.
- “Confidential Information” means all confidential or proprietary information (however recorded or preserved) disclosed by one party or its employees, officers, subcontractors, representatives or advisers (together “Representatives”) to the other party and the other party’s Representatives, including the terms of this Agreement, the business, affairs, customers, clients, suppliers, plans, intentions, market opportunities, operations, processes, products, services, data, know-how, or trade secrets of the disclosing party, including anything specified as being Confidential Information in clauses 10.4 and 10.5.
- “Controller, Processor, Data Subject, Personal Data, personal data breach, Processing and appropriate technical and organisational measures” shall each have the meaning given to it in the Data Protection Legislation.
- "Customer Data" means any commercial or proprietary data which is uploaded or otherwise submitted to Trudy directly by the Customer, or by Creator Tech on the Customer's behalf, including any data submitted into Trudy indirectly via any third party application used by the Customer excluding any Derived Data.
- “Personal Data” means any Personal Data contained in the Customer Data.
- “Confidential Information” means all confidential or proprietary information (however recorded or preserved) disclosed by one party or its employees, officers, subcontractors, representatives or advisers (together “Representatives”) to the other party and the other party’s Representatives, including the terms of this Agreement, the business, affairs, customers, clients, suppliers, plans, intentions, market opportunities, operations, processes, products, services, data, know-how, or trade secrets of the disclosing party, including anything specified as being Confidential Information in clauses 10.4 and 10.5.
- “Data Protection Legislation” means all applicable privacy and data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) ("GDPR"), the GDPR as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("UK GDPR"), the Data Protection Act 2018, and any applicable national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation in England and Wales relating to the processing of personal data and the privacy of electronic communications, as amended, replaced or updated from time to time, including the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (2002/58/EC) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426)).
- “Derived Data” means any data which is derived from the Customer’s use of Trudy or the processing by Creator Tech of Customer Data, which shall include: (i) any data which is processed and stored as mathematical constructs; and (ii) statistical or aggregated data, but shall exclude any Personal Data.
- “Documentation” means those printed or online instructions, manuals, screens, and diagrams distributed or otherwise provided by Creator Tech that pertain to Trudy, including the functional specification of Trudy.
- “Effective Date” means the date set out in the Order.
- "Extended Term" has the meaning given to it in clause 12.1.
- “Fees” means the Fees payable by the Customer to Creator Tech for use of Trudy (as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement).
- “Force Majeure Event” has the meaning set out in clause 13.3.
- "Initial Term" has the meaning given to it in clause 12.1.
- “Insolvency Event” means, with respect to a Party, (a) entering into a composition or arrangement with its creditors other than for the sole purpose of a solvent reconstruction; (b) an inability to pay its debts as they become due; (c) a person becoming entitled to appoint or appointing a receiver or an administrative receiver over that Party’s assets; (d) a creditor or encumbrancer attaches or takes possession of the whole or any part of that Party's assets which is not discharged within 14 days; or (e) any event occurs, or proceeding is taken, in any jurisdiction that has an effect equivalent or similar to any of the events mentioned in (a) to (d) above.
- “Intellectual Property Rights” means patents, rights to inventions, copyright and neighbouring and related rights, trade marks, goodwill and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
- "Order" means the IO entered into between the Parties relating to the provision of Trudy by Creator Tech to the Customer in such form as Creator Tech may require, which is executed by the Customer and Creator Tech.
- “Party” means a party to this Agreement, being either Creator Tech or the Customer, and “Parties” means both of them.
- "Term" means both the Initial Term and each Extended Term.
- "Trudy" means Creator Tech's software program known as 'Trudy', made available as a Google Chrome plug-in extension (including any related API, API Key or Website from time to time) to which the Customer is granted access pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- “Virus” means any thing or device (including any software, code, file or programme) which may: prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware, network, data, or the user experience, including worms, Trojan horses, viruses and other similar things or devices.
- “Website” means any website operated Creator Tech through which Trudy is delivered to or accessed by the Customer.
- 1.2 In this Agreement: (a) clause, schedule and paragraph headings shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement; (b) unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular shall include the plural and in the plural shall include the singular; (c) a reference to writing or written includes e-mail; (d) references to clauses and schedules are to the clauses and schedules of this Agreement; references to paragraphs are to paragraphs of the relevant schedule to this Agreement; (e) any words following the terms including, include, in particular for example or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.
- 1.3 The Order shall be entered into on the Effective Date, subject to and in accordance with these Trudy Licence Terms, which are incorporated into the Order by reference. The Order and these Trudy Licence Terms together are referred to as the "Agreement".
- 1.4 This Agreement takes precedence over any agreement provided by the Customer and in the event of any conflict between the provisions of the Order and these Trudy Licence Terms, the Order takes precedence,
1.5 By (i) creating an account, (ii) using the Platform, or (iii) accepting any of our Services, including Services agreed via email or other forms of communication, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Trudy.
2. Access to Trudy
- 2.1 Subject to the Customer paying the Fees and complying with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Creator Tech hereby grants to the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to permit the Customer to access and use Trudy during the Term.
- 2.2 This Agreement permits the Customer to use Trudy on Google Chrome enabled devices with relevant Chrome software version(s) and no other devices.
- 2.3 The Customer shall not access, store, distribute or transmit any Viruses or any material during its use of Trudy that is unlawful, harmful, infringing, offensive, discriminatory, or which facilitates illegal activity or depicts sexually explicit images or causes damage or injury to any person or property. Creator Tech reserves the right, without liability or prejudice to its other rights to the Customer, to disable the Customer's access to any material that breaches the provisions of this clause 2.3.
- 2.4 Except as may be allowed by any applicable law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between the parties, and except to the extent expressly permitted under this Agreement, the Customer shall not, and shall not attempt to, copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of Trudy in any form or media or by any means, or attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of Trudy (including its object code and source code).
- 2.5 The Customer shall not, and shall not attempt to: (a) access all or any part of Trudy in order to build a product or service which competes with it; (b) make Trudy available to any third party; or (c) attempt to obtain, or assist any third party in obtaining, access to Trudy, other than as provided under this clause 2.
- 2.6 The rights provided under this clause 2 are granted to the Customer only and shall not be considered granted to any affiliate, subsidiary or holding company of the Customer.
2.7 The Customer shall only use Trudy in accordance with their assigned brand profile and authorised scope of use. Any unauthorised use of Trudy, including but not limited to:
(a) use outside the assigned brand profile;
(b) sharing access credentials with unauthorised users; or
(c) attempting to access data or functionality beyond the authorised scope shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement.
In such cases:
(i) Creator Tech may immediately terminate access to Trudy;
(ii) the Customer shall be liable for any direct and indirect damages resulting from such unauthorised use;
(iii) Creator Tech reserves the right to seek compensation for lost revenue, reputational damage, and any other losses arising from such unauthorised use; and
(iv) the Customer shall indemnify Creator Tech against any claims, losses, or damages arising from such unauthorised use.
2.8 The Customer must select one of the following subscription terms:(a) Monthly rolling(b) 3-month rolling(c) 12-month rolling(d) 24-month rolling
2.9 Access to Trudy is granted only after:(a) Customer selects a subscription plan(b) Customer receives and pays the corresponding invoice via the provided payment link(c) Payment is confirmed by Creator Tech
2.9 Creator Tech accepts payment via:(a) Credit/debit card(b) Bank transfer(c) Direct debitthrough its authorized payment processor Stripe.
2.10 A legally binding contract under these Terms is formed when:(a) Customer selects a subscription plan and submits payment information(b) Payment is successfully processed(c) Creator Tech confirms receipt of payment