Terms of Service

Introduction

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS CAREFULLY BECAUSE, BY ACCESSING CONNECTAVEC.COM OR DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING AND USING SERVICES AVAILABLE ON CONNECTAVEC.COM YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THEM. PLEASE ALSO READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY TO LEARN HOW WE COLLECT AND USE INFORMATION.

Welcome to Avec!

These Avec Service Terms (these “Terms”) explain the relationship between abiento, Inc. (“abiento”, “we” or “us”) and you when you (i) access and use connectavec.com and its related domains (together, the “Site”) and/or (ii) download, install, use and in some cases purchase abiento’s proprietary software applications (including all related documentation, updates and upgrades) and any other services offered through the Site (the “abiento Services”).

These Terms govern visitors’ access to and use of the public areas of the Site, as well as access to and use of the abiento Services. Unless otherwise indicated, “abiento Services” as used throughout these Terms includes the public areas and the abiento Services. For the purposes of these Terms, “you” or “your” refers to you as a visitor to or registered user of the abiento Services.

THESE TERMS, TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY, FORM AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND ABIENTO. BY AGREEING TO THESE TERMS OR USING THE ABIENTO SERVICES, YOU REPRESENT TO US THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY COMPETENT TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.

IF YOU ARE AGREEING TO THESE TERMS OR USING THE ABIENTO SERVICES ON BEHALF OF YOUR EMPLOYER, YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS IS DEEMED AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOUR EMPLOYER AND ABIENTO AND YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE AUTHORITY TO BIND YOUR EMPLOYER TO THESE TERMS.

License Grant. The abiento Services are owned by abiento and are licensed, not sold, to you. Subject to your payment of all applicable fees, abiento grants to you a personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license (without the right to sublicense) to access and use the Site and to access, download, install and use the abiento Services subject to the limitations set forth in these Terms, any relevant purchase order or ordering document related to the abiento Services (“Order Form”) and any and all other terms and policies set forth in the abiento Services. You acknowledge that the source code for the abiento Services and other trade secrets embodied in the abiento Services have not been and will not be licensed or otherwise disclosed to you. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by abiento.

Use of abiento Services.

Registration: Unless you are visiting only the public areas of the Site, you are required to register and create an account to use the abiento Services (“Account”). You agree that you will maintain and update your registration and account information to ensure it is current, complete and accurate and that we have the right to terminate your Account and use of the abiento Service if you provide untrue, incomplete or inaccurate information.

Your Responsibilities: You are responsible for providing the equipment and services that you need to access, download, install and use the abiento Services. abiento does not guarantee that the abiento Services are accessible on any particular equipment or device or with any particular software or service plan.

You are responsible for all activities that occur through your Account, whether or not authorized by you. Please do not share your Account or any of its information with any other person.

You must at all times when using the abiento Services comply with abiento’s Acceptable Use Policy.

You will use the abiento Services only for your individual or business purposes and in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. You are responsible for all of your activities that occur within, through or as a result of your use of the abiento Services. You agree that you will not use the abiento Services for unlawful purposes or to engage in any illegal, offensive, indecent or objectionable conduct, including violation of any third party privacy or other rights. You agree that you will not use the abiento Services if you are under the age of majority in your place of residence or otherwise not fully able and competent to agree to these Terms.

If you use the abiento Services on your mobile device, you are solely responsible for all message and data fees charged by your wireless service provider. Please contact your mobile service provider for pricing plans and details. abiento is not liable for any delays, interruptions or other transmission errors related to your device, service or wireless service provider.

Except as specifically permitted in these Terms or expressly authorized in writing by abiento, you agree that you will not directly or indirectly: (a) distribute, sell, assign, encumber, transfer, rent, lease, sublicense, modify or time-share the abiento Services; (b) use any of the abiento Services in any service bureau arrangement or on behalf of any third party; (c) reproduce, adapt, create derivative works of, translate, localize, port or otherwise modify any of the abiento Services; or (d) permit any third party to engage in any of the acts described in clauses (a) through (c).

You are not permitted to: (a) remove or alter any copyright or other proprietary rights’ notice or restrictive rights legend contained or included in any of the abiento Services; (b) decompile, disassemble, reverse compile, reverse assemble, reverse translate or otherwise reverse engineer any of the abiento Services; (c) use any means to discover the source code of the abiento Services or to discover the trade secrets in the abiento Services; or (d) otherwise circumvent any functionality that controls access to or otherwise protects the abiento Services.

You are responsible for complying with all laws, rules and regulations (including those relating to internet, data and email privacy) that apply to your use of the abiento Services.

Our Responsibilities: abiento is responsible for providing the abiento Services in accordance with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

We will maintain commercially reasonable administrative, physical and technical safeguards intended to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of information that you provide to or through the abiento Services (including Your Content as defined in Section 3 below).

abiento reserves the right but is not obligated to improve, enhance or modify the abiento Services. We will notify you in advance of changes to the abiento Services that may significantly adversely affect the manner in which you use the abiento Services or the manner in which the abiento Services perform.

abiento is not responsible for the content of Other Services or for losses, liabilities, actual or pending claims, actions, damages, expenses, costs of defense and reasonable attorneys’ fees (“Claims”) arising from your use of content, information, web sites, software, services and other materials of third parties with which you may interact when you use the abiento Services (collectively, “Other Services”). YOU ACCESS OTHER SERVICES ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF OTHER SERVICES.

Availability: We use commercially reasonable efforts to make the abiento Services available to you 24 hours per day, seven (7) days per week, excluding scheduled maintenance time, unavailability caused by you or any software, hardware or service not provided by us, emergency maintenance and/or any cause beyond our reasonable control (including without limitation nature disasters, wars, terrorist act, civil disturbances, acts of any government or agency thereof, strikes or other labor problems, Internet service or other third party service providers’ failures or delays and systemic electrical, telecommunications or other utility outages or failures).

Limitations: abiento Services are subject to reasonable limitations and other limitations, as specified within the abiento Services or the applicable Order Form(s).

Your Content. The abiento Services allow you to upload, transmit and use information and other content to and through the abiento Services (collectively, “Your Content”). You are solely responsible for the accuracy, quality, legality and means by which you acquired Your Content. You understand that abiento will use Your Content to provide the abiento Services to you. You have or will obtain all rights necessary to provide Your Content to abiento. You grant abiento license to use, reproduce, transmit, display and adapt your Content as necessary for abiento to provide the abiento Services to you in accordance with these Terms.

Without limiting the terms of our Privacy Policy, you understand that (i) we do not guarantee that your use of the abiento Services and/or Your Content will be private or secure and we are not responsible or liable to you for any lack of privacy or security that you may experience and (ii) we may use Your Content, including personally identifiable information to provide the abiento Services, which may include any and all the features available at https://www.connectavec.com. We may also analyze Your Content and derive insights from such analysis (collectively, “Analytical Data”). abiento may use and distribute such Analytical Data for purposes of product development, product insights and for improving its products and services provided that such Analytical Data is in an aggregated, de-identified (anonymized) form that would not permit a third party to identify the data as associated with you or Your Content. abiento may share this Analytical Data in the abiento Service, with our email subscribers and in marketing material. For sake of clarity, the Analytical Data will not contain any personally identifiable information. abiento retains all Intellectual Property Rights in such Analytical Data. Information collected by your internet or mobile service provider and other third parties is used, stored, transferred and disclosed pursuant to your internet or mobile service provider’s or the third party’s terms, policies and practices.

We encourage you to carefully consider disclosure of any information that might be accessible to others. You are fully responsible for taking precautions and providing security measures best suited for your situation and intended use of the abiento Services.

 

THE ABIENTO SERVICES ARE LICENSED "AS-IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND "AS AVAILABLE." YOU BEAR ALL RISK OF USING IT. ABIENTO, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, MICROSOFT, WIRELESS CARRIERS OVER WHOSE NETWORK THE ABIENTO SERVICES ARE DISTRIBUTED, AND ITS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, VENDORS, AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS (“DISTRIBUTORS”), GIVES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, OR CONDITIONS UNDER OR IN RELATION TO THE ABIENTO SERVICES. YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL CONSUMER RIGHTS UNDER YOUR LOCAL LAWS WHICH THIS AGREEMENT CANNOT CHANGE. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER YOUR LOCAL LAWS, ABIENTO AND ALL DISTRIBUTORS EXCLUDE ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. ABIENTO DOES NOT WARRANT THAT (A) THE ABIENTO SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) OPERATION OF THE ABIENTO SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR VIRUS- OR ERROR-FREE, (C) THAT THE ABIENTO SERVICES WILL OPERATE OR BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANY OTHER APPLICATIONS OR ANY PARTICULAR SYSTEMS OR DEVICES, (D) DEFECTS IN THE ABIENTO SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED OR (E) THAT THE ABIENTO SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR REINSTALLS ON THE SAME OR MULTIPLE DEVICES. ANY ORAL OR WRITTEN ADVICE PROVIDED BY ABIENTO OR ITS AUTHORIZED AGENTS WILL NOT BE DEEMED TO CREATE ANY WARRANTY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of Liability

ABIENTO’S LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANY SINGLE INCIDENT ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE DELIVERY, USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE ABIENTO SERVICES OR THESE TERMS (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY) WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU HEREUNDER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE INCIDENT; PROVIDED THAT IN NO EVENT SHALL abiento’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY) EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU HEREUNDER. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION WILL NOT LIMIT YOUR PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS.

IN NO EVENT WILL ABIENTO BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION), HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER UNDER THESE TERMS OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABIENTO SERVICES OR THESE TERMS AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) EVEN IF ABIENTO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. YOU AGREE NOT TO SEEK TO RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES FROM ANY DISTRIBUTOR.

You agree that the above limitations of liability, together with the other provisions in these Terms that limit liability, are essential terms of these Terms and that abiento would not be willing to grant you the rights set forth in these Terms but for your agreement to these limitations of liability.

Ownership. The abiento Services, including the "look and feel" (e.g., text, graphics, images, logos), content and other material, are protected under copyright, trademark and other laws. You acknowledge and agree that abiento owns all right, title and interest in and to the abiento Services (including without limitation any and all patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, show-how, know-how and any and all other intellectual property rights therein or related thereto) and you agree not to take any action(s) inconsistent with such ownership interests. You do not acquire any rights or licenses under any of abiento’s copyrights, patents, patent applications, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks or other intellectual property rights on account of these Terms. Any and all (a) suggestions for correction, change and modification to the abiento Services, evaluation data, evaluations and other feedback (including but not limited to quotations of written or oral feedback, information and reports provided to abiento by you (collectively, “Feedback”)), and all (b) improvements, updates, modifications or enhancements, whether made, created or developed by abiento or otherwise relating to the abiento Services (collectively, “Revisions”), are and will remain the property of abiento. You acknowledge and expressly agree that any contribution of Feedback or Revisions does not and will not give or grant you any right, title or interest in the abiento Services or in any such Feedback or Revisions. All Feedback and Revisions become the sole and exclusive property of abiento and abiento may use and disclose Feedback and Revisions in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. You hereby assign to abiento any and all right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, any patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, show-how, know-how, moral rights, and any and all other intellectual property rights) that you may have in and to any and all Feedback and Revisions. Upon request by abiento, you will execute any document, registration or filing required to give effect to the foregoing assignment. In addition, abiento shall have the right to copy, use, distribute, and display any information, analysis, statistics and other data generated by the abiento Services (or derived from your use of the abiento Services), including compilation of aggregated statistics about the abiento Services; provided, however, that abiento shall not publicly disclose or distribute any such data unless such data is in an aggregated form that would not permit a third party to identify the data as associated with you.

Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and defend abiento and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all Claims brought against abiento by any third party arising from your use of the abiento Services or any violation of these Terms, the rights of a third party or applicable law. Your indemnification obligations set forth in this Section 8 apply to any applicable actions taken under your Account. abiento reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification hereunder. In any event, no settlement that affects the rights or obligations of abiento may be made without abiento’s prior written approval.

Modifications to Terms. We may modify these Terms at any time. Modifications become effective immediately upon your first access to or use of the abiento Services after the “Last modified” date at the top of this page. Your continued access or use of the abiento Services after the modifications become effective is deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms.

Termination. These Terms will automatically terminate when you fail to comply with any term or condition of these Terms. Upon termination, you will cease all use of the abiento Services and will destroy any copy (full or partial) of any and all parts of the abiento Services in your possession or control. Termination will not limit any of abiento’s other rights or remedies at law or in equity. This Section 10 along with Sections 6, 7, 8, 13 and 18 and any other Section that by its nature is reasonably intended to survive the termination or expiration of these Terms, will survive any termination or expiration of these Terms.

Export Laws. You agree that you will not export or re-export, directly or indirectly, the abiento Services and/or other information or materials provided by abiento hereunder, to any country for which the United States or any other relevant jurisdiction requires any export license or other governmental approval at the time of export without first obtaining such license or approval. You are responsible for and hereby agree to comply at your sole expense, with all applicable United States export laws and regulations. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

U.S. Government Restricted Rights. The abiento Services are “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” as such terms are used in United States Federal Acquisition Regulations Section 12.212. Any use, duplication or disclosure of the abiento Services by or on behalf of the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in these Terms.

Taxes. You are solely responsible for any and all duties, taxes, levies or fees (including any sales, use or withholding taxes) imposed on or in connection with these Terms or the abiento Services by any authority (excluding taxes based on abiento’s net income).

Remedies. You agree that a breach or a threatened breach of these Terms will cause injury to abiento for which money damages will not provide an adequate remedy and abiento will be entitled to seek equitable relief in addition to any remedies it may have hereunder or at law without a bond, other security or proof of damages.

Questions

Please direct questions regarding these Terms to our support team by submitting a request via email to hello@connectavec.com with subject of “Terms of Service”.