MASTER SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT GOVERNS YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES.
IF YOU REGISTER FOR A FREE TRIAL FOR OUR SERVICES, THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT WILL ALSO GOVERN THAT FREE TRIAL.
BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT, EITHER BY CLICKING A BOX INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OR BY EXECUTING AN ORDER FORM THAT REFERENCES THIS AGREEMENT OR BY EXECUTING A PRINTED VERSION OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU ARE ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF A COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH ENTITY AND ITS AFFILIATES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, IN WHICH CASE THE TERMS “YOU” OR “YOUR” SHALL REFER TO SUCH ENTITY AND ITS AFFILIATES. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SUCH AUTHORITY, OR IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MUST NOT ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND MAY NOT USE THE SERVICES.
THIS AGREEMENT INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN OUR TERMS OF USE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF USE.
You may not access the Services if you are our direct competitor, except with our prior written consent. In addition, you may not access the Services for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes.
This Agreement was last updated on February 26, 2018. It is effective between you and us as of the date of you accepting this Agreement.
DEFINITIONS
“Affiliate” means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the subject entity.
“Control” for purposes of this definition, means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50% of the voting interests of the subject entity.
“Agreement” means this Master Subscription Agreement.
“Beta Services” means Services or functionality that may be made available to Customer to try at its option at no additional charge which is clearly designated as beta, pilot, limited release, developer preview, non-production, evaluation, or by a similar description.
“Documentation” means the help documentation, our usage guides and policies, as updated from time to time, accessible via login to the applicable Service.
“Malicious Code” means code, files, scripts, agents or programs intended to do harm, including, for example, viruses, worms, time bombs and Trojan horses.
“Non-QC Application” means a Web-based, mobile, offline or other software application functionality that is provided by you or a third party and interoperates with a Service, including, for example, an application that is developed by or for you.
“Order Form” means an ordering document or online order specifying the Services to be provided hereunder that is entered into between you and us or any of Our Affiliates, including any addenda and supplements thereto. By entering into an Order Form hereunder, an Affiliate agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement as if it were an original party hereto.
“Purchased Services” means Services that you or Your Affiliate purchase under an Order Form, as distinguished from those provided pursuant to a free trial.
“Services” means the products and services that are ordered by you under an Order Form or provided to you under a free trial, and made available online by us, including associated offline or mobile components, as described in the Documentation and all of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
“Standard Support” means 24/7 email support, where responses generally occur within one business day, but may take up to two business days.
“Terms of Use” means the then applicable Terms of Use as amended from time to time and located on our website located at www.qdrocounsel.com/terms-of-use.
“User” means an individual who is authorized by you to use our Service, for whom you have purchased a subscription (or in the case of any Services provided by us without charge, for whom a Service has been provisioned), and to whom you (or, when applicable, us at your request) have supplied a user identification and password (for Services utilizing authentication). Users may include, for example, your employees, consultants, contractors and agents, and third parties with which you transact business.
“we,” “us” or “our” means QDRO Counsel, Inc., A Nevada Corporation
“you” or “your” means the company or other legal entity on whose behalf you are accepting this Agreement, including any Affiliates of that company or entity which have signed Order Forms.
“your Data” means electronic data and information submitted by or for Customer to the Services.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES
2.1. Provision of Purchased Services. We will (a) make the Services available to you pursuant to this Agreement and the applicable Order Forms, (b) provide applicable standard support for the Services to you at no additional charge, and/or upgraded support if purchased, (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to make the online Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for: (i) planned downtime (of which we shall give advance electronic notice as provided in the Documentation), and (ii) any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including, for example, an act of God, act of government, flood, fire, earthquake, civil unrest, act of terror, strike or other labor problem (other than one involving our employees), Internet service provider failure or delay, or denial of service attack.
2.2. Protection of Your Data. We will maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of your Data, as described in the Documentation. Those safeguards will include, but will not be limited to, measures for preventing access, use, modification or disclosure of your Data by our personnel except (a) as necessary to provide the Purchased Services and prevent or address service or technical problems, (b) as compelled by law in accordance with Section 8.3 (Compelled Disclosure) below, or (c) as you expressly permit in writing.
2.3. Our Personnel. We will be responsible for the performance of our personnel (including our employees and contractors) and their compliance with our obligations under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein.
2.4. Beta Services. From time to time, we may make Beta Services available to you at no charge. You may choose to try such Beta Services or not in your sole discretion. Beta Services are intended for evaluation purposes and not for production use, are not supported, and may be subject to additional terms. Beta Services are not considered “Services” under this Agreement, however, all restrictions, our reservation of rights, and obligations regarding your data. and your obligations concerning the Services, and use of any related Applications, shall apply equally to your use of Beta Services. Unless otherwise stated, any Beta Services trial period will expire upon the earlier of one year from the trial start date or the date that a version of the Beta Services becomes generally available without the applicable Beta Services designation. We may discontinue Beta Services at any time in our sole discretion and may never make them generally available. We will have no liability for any harm or damage arising out of or in connection with a Beta Service.
USE OF SERVICES
3.1. Subscriptions. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Order Form or Documentation, (a) Services are purchased as subscriptions, (b) subscriptions may be added during a subscription term at the same pricing as the underlying subscription pricing, prorated for the portion of that subscription term remaining at the time the subscriptions are added, and (c) any added subscriptions will terminate on the same date as the underlying subscriptions.
3.2. Usage Limits. Services are subject to usage limits, including, for example, the quantities specified in Order Forms and Documentation. Unless otherwise specified, (a) a quantity in an Order Form refers to Users, and the Service may not be accessed by more than that number of Users, (b) a User’s password may not be shared with any other individual, and (c) except as set forth in an Order Form, a User identification may only be reassigned to a new individual replacing one who will no longer use the Service. If you exceed a contractual usage limit, we may work with you to seek to reduce your usage so that it conforms to that limit. If, notwithstanding our efforts, you are unable or unwilling to abide by a contractual usage limit, you will execute an Order Form for additional quantities of the applicable Services promptly upon our request, and/or pay any invoice for excess usage in accordance with Section 6.2 (Invoicing and Payment).
3.3. Your Responsibilities. You will (a) be responsible for Users’ compliance with this Agreement, Documentation and Order Forms, (b) be responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of your Data and the means by which you acquired your Data, (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of Services, and notify us promptly of any such unauthorized access or use, and (d) use Services only in accordance with this Agreement, Documentation, Order Forms and applicable laws and government regulations.
3.4. Usage Restrictions. You will not (a) make any Service available to, or use any Service for the benefit of, anyone other than you or Users, unless expressly stated otherwise in an Order Form or the Documentation, (b) sell, resell, license, sublicense, distribute, make available, rent or lease any Service, or include any Service in a service bureau or outsourcing offering, (c) use a Service to store or transmit infringing, libelous, or otherwise unlawful or tortious material, or to store or transmit material in violation of third-party privacy rights, (d) use a Service to store or transmit Malicious Code, (e) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of any Service or third-party data contained therein, (f) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Service or its related systems or networks, (g) permit direct or indirect access to or use of any Service in a way that circumvents a contractual usage limit, or use any of our Services to access or use any of our intellectual property except as permitted under this Agreement, an Order Form, or the Documentation, (h) copy a Service or any part, feature, function or user interface thereof, (i) frame or mirror any part of any Service, other than framing on Your own intranets or otherwise for Your own internal business purposes or as permitted in the Documentation, (j) access any Service in order to build a competitive product or service or to benchmark a service, or (k) reverse engineer any Service (to the extent such restriction is permitted by law). Any use of the Services in breach of this Agreement, Documentation or Order Forms, by you or Users that in our judgment threatens the security, integrity or availability of our services, may result in our immediate suspension of the Services, however we will use commercially reasonable efforts under the circumstances to provide you with notice and an opportunity to remedy such violation or threat prior to such suspension.
3.5. External-Facing Services. If you subscribe to a Service for sending electronic messages or for the creation and hosting of, or for posting content on, external-facing websites, such use is subject to Our External-Facing Services Policy at http://www.qdrocounsel.com/legal as may be applicable to a Service, and you are solely responsible for complying with applicable law in your use of any cookies or other tracking technologies.
NON-QC PROVIDERS
4.1. We or third parties may make available (for example, through a marketplace, referral service or otherwise) third-party products or services, including, for example, Non-QC Applications and implementation and other consulting services. Any acquisition by you of such products or services, and any exchange of data between you and any Non-QC provider, product or service is solely between you and the applicable Non-QC provider. We do not warrant or support Non-QC Applications or other Non-QC products or services, whether or not they are designated by us as “certified” or otherwise, unless expressly provided otherwise in an Order Form.
4.2. Non-QC Applications and Your Data. If you choose to use a Non-QC Application with a Service, You grant us permission to allow the Non-QC Application and its provider to access your Data as required for the interoperation of that Non-QC Application with the Service. We are not responsible for any disclosure, modification or deletion of your Data resulting from access by such Non-QC Application or its provider.
4.3. Integration with Non-QC Applications. The Services may contain features designed to interoperate with Non-QC Applications. To use such features, you may be required to obtain access to such Non-QC Applications from their providers, and may be required to grant us access to your account(s) on such Non-QC Applications. We cannot guarantee the continued availability of such Service features, and may cease providing them without entitling you to any refund, credit, or other compensation, if for example and without limitation, the provider of a Non-QC Application ceases to make the Non-QC Application available for interoperation with the corresponding Service features in a manner acceptable to Us. We do not guarantee that the Services will operate in the same manner depending on the Non-QC Applications interface and nor do we guarantee that the Services will operate if changes are made to the Non-QC Application that otherwise interfere with normal operation of the Services.
FEES AND PAYMENT FOR PURCHASED SERVICES
5.1. Fees. You will pay all fees specified in Order Form(s). Except as otherwise specified herein or in an Order Form,(i) all fees are based on Services subscriptions purchased and not actual usage of the Services, (ii) payment obligations are non-cancelable and fees paid are non-refundable and earned in advance, and (iii) quantities purchased cannot be decreased during the relevant subscription term. See Section 12.4 for further details regarding payment upon termination.
5.2. Invoicing and Payment. You will provide us at all times with valid and updated credit card information, or with a valid purchase order, automatic check authorization, or alternative payment document(s) reasonably acceptable to us. If you provide credit card information to us, you authorize us to charge such credit card for all Purchased Services listed in the Order Form for the initial subscription term and any renewal subscription term(s) as set forth in Section 12.2 (Term of Purchased Subscriptions). Such charges shall be made in advance, either annually or in accordance with any different billing frequency stated in the applicable Order Form. If the Order Form specifies that payment will be by a method other than a credit card, we will invoice you in advance and otherwise in accordance with the relevant Order Form. Unless otherwise stated in the Order Form, invoiced charges are due net 30 days from the invoice date. You are responsible for providing complete and accurate billing and contact information to us and notifying us of any changes to such information.
5.3. Overdue Charges. If any invoiced amount is not received by us by the due date, then without limiting our rights and/or remedies, (a) those unpaid charges may accrue late interest at the rate of 1.5% of the outstanding balance per month, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower, and/or (b) we may condition future subscription renewals and Order Forms on payment terms shorter than those specified in Section 6.2 (Invoicing and Payment).
5.4. Suspension of Service and Acceleration. If any amount owing by you under this Agreement or any other agreement for our Services is 30 or more days overdue (or 10 or more days overdue in the case of amounts you have authorized us to charge to your credit card), We may, without limiting our other rights and remedies, accelerate your unpaid fee obligations under such agreements so that all such obligations become immediately due and payable, and suspend our services to you until such amounts are paid in full. Other than for Customers paying by credit card or direct debit whose payment has been declined, we will give you at least 10 days’ prior notice that your account is overdue, in accordance with Section 13.2 (Manner of Giving Notice) for billing notices, before suspending services to you.
5.5. Payment Disputes. We will not exercise our rights under Section 6.3 (Overdue Charges) or 6.4 (Suspension of Service and Acceleration) above if you pay all amounts you are not disputing and to those charges and amounts you dispute you have a reasonable basis in fact for disputing the amounts, are acting in good faith and are cooperating diligently with us to resolve the dispute.
5.6. Taxes. Our fees do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any jurisdiction whatsoever (collectively, “Taxes”). You are responsible for paying all Taxes associated with your purchases hereunder. If we have the legal obligation to pay or collect Taxes for which you are responsible under this Section 6.6, we will invoice you and you will pay that amount unless you provide us with a valid tax exemption certificate authorized by the appropriate taxing authority. For clarity, we are solely responsible for taxes assessable against us based on our income, property and employees.
5.7. Future Functionality. You agree that your purchases are not contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features, or dependent on any oral or written public comments made by us regarding future functionality or features.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND LICENSES
6.1. Reservation of Rights. Subject to the limited rights expressly granted hereunder, we and our licensors reserve all of our/their right, title and interest in and to the Services, including all of our/their related intellectual property rights. No rights are granted to you hereunder other than as expressly set forth herein.
6.2. License to Host Your Data and Applications. You grant us, our Affiliates and applicable contractors a worldwide, non-exclusive, limited-term license to host, copy, transmit and display your Data for use by you with the Services, as reasonably necessary for us to provide the Services in accordance with this Agreement. Subject to the limited licenses granted herein, we acquire no right, title or interest from you under this Agreement in or to any of your Data.
6.3. License to Use Feedback. You grant to us and our Affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use and incorporate into our and/or our Affiliates’ services any suggestion, enhancement request, recommendation, correction or other feedback provided by you or Users relating to the operation of our or our Affiliates’ services.
CONFIDENTIALITY
7.1. Definition of Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” means all information disclosed by a party (“Disclosing Party”) to the other party (“Receiving Party”), whether orally or in writing, that is designated as confidential or that reasonably should be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure. Your Confidential Information includes your Data; our Confidential Information includes the Services, Documentation, Intellectual Property and other proprietary information including any marketing, client information, or features of any software or services provided in connection with the Services; and Confidential Information of each party includes the terms and conditions of this Agreement and all Order Forms (including pricing), as well as business and marketing plans, technology and technical information, product plans and designs, and business processes disclosed by such party. However, Confidential Information does not include any information that (i) is or becomes generally known to the public without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party, (ii) was known to the Receiving Party prior to its disclosure by the Disclosing Party without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party, (iii) is received from a third party without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party, or (iv) was independently developed by the Receiving Party.
7.2. The Receiving Party will use the same degree of care that it uses to protect the confidentiality of its own confidential information of like kind (but not less than reasonable care) to (i) not use any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for any purpose outside the scope of this Agreement and (ii) except as otherwise authorized by the Disclosing Party in writing, limit access to Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party to those of its and its Affiliates’ employees and contractors who need that access for purposes consistent with this Agreement and who have signed confidentiality agreements with the Receiving Party containing protections not materially less protective of the Confidential Information than those herein. Neither party will disclose the terms of this Agreement or any Order Form to any third party other than its Affiliates, legal counsel and accountants without the other party’s prior written consent, provided that a party that makes any such disclosure to its Affiliate, legal counsel or accountants will remain responsible for such Affiliate’s, legal counsel’s or accountant’s compliance with this “Confidentiality” section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may disclose the terms of this Agreement and any applicable Order Form, and your Data to a subcontractor to the extent necessary to perform our obligations to you under this Agreement, under terms of confidentiality materially as protective as set forth herein.
7.3. Compelled Disclosure. The Receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party to the extent compelled by law to do so, provided the Receiving Party gives the Disclosing Party prompt prior notice of the compelled disclosure (to the extent legally permitted) and reasonable assistance, at the Disclosing Party’s cost, if the Disclosing Party wishes to contest the disclosure. If the Receiving Party is compelled by law to disclose the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information as part of a civil proceeding to which the Disclosing Party is a party, and the Disclosing Party is not contesting the disclosure, the Disclosing Party will reimburse the Receiving Party for its reasonable cost of compiling and providing secure access to that Confidential Information.
7.4. Survival. The provisions of this Section 7 shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement.
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, INCORPORATION OF TERMS CONTAINED IN TERMS OF USE
8.1. Representations. Each party represents that it has validly entered into this Agreement and has the legal power to do so.
8.2. Our Warranties. We warrant that during an applicable subscription term (a) this Agreement, the Order Forms and the Documentation will accurately describe the applicable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of your Data, (b) we will not materially decrease the overall security of the Services, (c) the Services will perform materially in accordance with the applicable Documentation, and (d) subject to the “Integration with Non-QC Applications” section above, we will not materially decrease the overall functionality of the Services provided to you. For any breach of a warranty above or any other breach of the terms of the Agreement by us, your exclusive remedies are those described in the “Termination” and “Refund or Payment upon Termination” sections below.
8.3. Terms of Use. The following specific provisions contained in the Terms of Use are expressly incorporated herein by this reference: Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Exclusion of Consequential and Related Damages, No Liability for Injury to Third Party, Choice of Law, Jurisdiction, Venue, and Service of Process, Waiver of Jury Trial, Time For Filing.
MUTUAL INDEMNIFICATION
9.1. Indemnification by Us. We will indemnify and defend you against any claim, demand, suit or proceeding made or brought against you by a third party alleging that any Service infringes or misappropriates such third party’s intellectual property rights (a “Claim Against You”), and will indemnify you from any damages, attorney fees and costs finally awarded against you as a result of, or for amounts paid by you under a settlement approved by us in writing of, a Claim Against You, provided you (a) promptly give us written notice of the Claim Against You, (b) give us sole control of the defense and settlement of the Claim Against You (except that we may not settle any Claim Against You unless it unconditionally releases you of all liability with written consent), and (c) give us all reasonable assistance, at our expense. If we receive information about an infringement or misappropriation claim related to a Service, we may, in our sole discretion and at no cost to you (i) modify the Services so that they are no longer claimed to infringe or misappropriate, without breaching our warranties above, (ii) obtain a license for your continued use of that Service in accordance with this Agreement, or (iii) terminate your subscriptions for that Service upon 30 days’ written notice and refund you any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the term of the terminated subscriptions. The above defense and indemnification obligations do not apply to the extent a Claim Against You arises from your use of the Services in violation of this Agreement, the Documentation or applicable Order Forms.
9.2. Indemnification by You. You will indemnify and defend us against any claim, demand, suit or proceeding made or brought against us by a third party alleging that any of your Data infringes or misappropriates such third party’s intellectual property rights, or arising from your use of the Services in violation of the Agreement, the Documentation, Order Form or applicable law (each a “Claim Against Us”), and you will indemnify us from any damages, attorneys’ fees and costs finally awarded against us as a result of, or for any amounts paid by us under a settlement approved by you in writing of, a Claim Against Us, provided we (a) promptly give you written notice of the Claim Against Us, (b) give you sole control of the defense and settlement of the Claim Against Us (except that you may not settle any Claim Against us unless it unconditionally releases us of all liability with written consent), and (c) give you all reasonable assistance, at your expense.
9.3. Exclusive Remedy. This Section 10 states the indemnifying party’s sole liability to, and the indemnified party’s exclusive remedy against, the other party for any type of claim described in this Section 9.
9.4. Survival. The provisions of this Section 9 shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement.
TERM AND TERMINATION
10.1. Term of Agreement. This Agreement commences on the date you first accept it and continues until all subscriptions as set forth in your Order Form(s) have expired or have been terminated.
10.2. Term of Purchased Subscriptions. The term of each subscription shall be as specified in the applicable Order Form. Except as otherwise specified in an Order Form, subscriptions will automatically renew for additional periods equal to the expiring subscription term or one year (whichever is shorter), unless either party gives the other notice of non-renewal at least 30 days before the end of the relevant subscription term. Except as expressly provided in the applicable Order Form, renewal of promotional or one-time priced subscriptions will be at our applicable list price in effect at the time of the applicable renewal. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any renewal in which subscription volume for any Services has decreased or increased from the prior term will result in re-pricing at renewal without regard to the prior term’s per-unit pricing.
10.3. Termination. A party may terminate this Agreement for cause (i) upon 30 days written notice to the other party of a material breach if such breach remains uncured at the expiration of such period, or (ii) if the other party becomes the subject of a petition in bankruptcy or any other proceeding relating to insolvency, receivership, liquidation or assignment for the benefit of creditors.
10.4. Refund or Payment upon Termination. If this Agreement is terminated by you in accordance with Section 10.3 (Termination), we will refund you any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the term of all Order Forms after the effective date of termination. If this Agreement is terminated by us in accordance with Section 10.3, you will pay any unpaid amounts covering the remainder of the term of all Order Forms. In no event will termination relieve you of your obligation to pay any fees payable to us for the period prior to the effective date of termination.
10.5. Your Data Portability and Deletion. Upon request by you made within 30 days after the effective date of termination or expiration of this Agreement, we will make your Data available to you for export or download as provided in the Documentation. After such 30-day period, we will have no obligation to maintain or provide any your Data, and as provided in the Documentation will thereafter delete or destroy all copies of your Data in our systems or otherwise in our possession or control, unless legally prohibited.
10.6. Surviving Provisions. The sections titled “Fees and Payment,” “Proprietary Rights and Licenses,” “Confidentiality,” “Disclaimers,” “Mutual Indemnification,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Refund or Payment upon Termination,” “Customer Data Portability and Deletion,” “Removal of Applications,” “Surviving Provisions” and “General Provisions” will survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
NOTICES
11.1. Manner of Giving Notice. Except as otherwise specified in this Agreement, all notices related to this Agreement will be in writing and will be effective upon (a) personal delivery, (b) the second business day after mailing, or (c), except for notices of termination or an indemnifiable claim (“Legal Notices”), which shall clearly be identifiable as Legal Notices, the day of sending by email. Billing-related notices to you will be addressed to the relevant billing contact designated by you. All other notices to you will be addressed to the relevant Services system administrator designated by you.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
12.1. Entire Agreement and Order of Precedence. This Agreement including the Terms of Use is the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of Services and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, proposals or representations, written or oral, concerning its subject matter. Except as otherwise provided herein, no modification, amendment, or waiver of any provision of this Agreement will be effective unless in writing and signed by the party against whom the modification, amendment or waiver is to be asserted. The parties agree that any term or condition stated in your purchase order or in any other of your order documentation (excluding Order Forms) is void. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency among the following documents, the order of precedence shall be: (1) the applicable Order Form, (2) this Agreement, (3) The Terms of Use, and (4) the Documentation.
12.2. Assignment. Neither party may assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the other party’s prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld); provided, however, either party may assign this Agreement in its entirety (together with all Order Forms), without the other party’s consent to its Affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a party is acquired by, sells substantially all of its assets to, or undergoes a change of control in favor of, a direct competitor of the other party, then such other party may terminate this Agreement upon written notice. In the event of such a termination, we will refund to you any prepaid fees allocable to the remainder of the term of all subscriptions for the period after the effective date of such termination. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their respective successors and permitted assigns.
12.3. Relationship of the Parties. The parties are independent contractors. This Agreement does not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship between the parties.
12.4. Third-Party Beneficiaries. There are no third-party beneficiaries under this Agreement.
12.5. Waiver. No failure or delay by either party in exercising any right under this Agreement will constitute a waiver of that right.
12.6. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the provision will be deemed null and void, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in effect.
12.7. Pricing exceptions. Pricing does not apply to certain calculation suite transactions and/or complex QDRO matters referred to independent attorneys and/or valuation experts (e.g. DROs for nonqualified plans that are not automated, DROs for certain complex QDROs, complex judgment language).
