Terms of Service

These Terms of Service apply to all BidUnity users.

1. Your relationship with BidUnity

1.1 Your use of software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the "Services" in this document and excluding any services provided to you by BidUnity under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and BidUnity. "BidUnity" means APM Technologies, LLC, whose principal place of business is at 4739 Old Farm Rd, Sarasota, FL 34233, United States. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.

1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with BidUnity, your agreement with BidUnity will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. These are referred to below as the "Universal Terms". To the limited extent that the open source software licenses expressly supersede these Universal Terms, the open source licenses govern your agreement with BidUnity for the use of BidUnity or specific included components of BidUnity.

1.3 Your agreement with BidUnity will also include the terms set forth below in the BidUnity Additional Terms of Service and terms of any Legal Notices applicable to the Services, in addition to the Universal Terms. All of these are referred to below as the "Additional Terms". Where Additional Terms apply to a Service, these will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your use of, that Service.

1.4 The Universal Terms, together with the Additional Terms, form a legally binding agreement between you and BidUnity in relation to your use of the Services. It is important that you take the time to read them carefully. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the "Terms".

1.5 If there is any contradiction between what the Additional Terms say and what the Universal Terms say, then the Additional Terms shall take precedence in relation to that Service.

2. Accepting the Terms

2.1 In order to use the Services, you must first agree to the Terms. You may not use the Services if you do not accept the Terms.

2.2 You can accept the Terms by:

(A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by BidUnity in the user interface for any Service; or

(B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that BidUnity will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

3. Language of the Terms

3.1 Where BidUnity has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with BidUnity.

3.2 If there is any contradiction between what the English language version of the Terms says and what a translation says, then the English language version shall take precedence.

4. Provision of the Services by BidUnity

4.1 BidUnity and affiliated legal entities ("Subsidiaries and Affiliates"). Sometimes, these companies will be providing the Services to you on behalf of BidUnity itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Services to you.

4.2 BidUnity is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the Services which BidUnity provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you.

4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that BidUnity may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally at BidUnity's sole discretion, without prior notice to you. You may stop using the Services at any time. You do not need to specifically inform BidUnity when you stop using the Services.

4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if BidUnity disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your account details or any files or other content which is contained in your account.

4.5 You authorize BidUnity to charge your credit card or other payment information, as submitted to BidUnity by you, for the Services you request (the "Charges"). Some Services may be billed on a recurring, subscription basis until cancelled by you. You authorize BidUnity to process charges for subscription payments you have selected.

4.6 BidUnity does not offer any refunds or credits for Charges. All sales are final.

5. Use of the Services by you

5.1 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries).

5.2 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).

5.3 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with BidUnity, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.

5.4 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that BidUnity has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which BidUnity may suffer) of any such breach.

6. Privacy and your personal information

6.1 For information about BidUnity's data protection practices, please read BidUnity's privacy policy at https://bidunity.com/privacy. This policy explains how BidUnity treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Services.

6.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with BidUnity' privacy policies.

7. Content in the Services

7.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Services are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the "Content."

7.2 You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to BidUnity (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by BidUnity or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement.

7.3 BidUnity reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service.

7.4 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that BidUnity has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which BidUnity may suffer) by doing so.

8. Proprietary rights

8.1 You acknowledge and agree that BidUnity (or BidUnity's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).

8.2 Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with BidUnity, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of BidUnity's trade names, trade marks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.

8.3 If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with BidUnity, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and BidUnity's brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to time.

8.4 You acknowledge and agrees that BidUnity has the non-exclusive right to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including the right to create derivative works based on the Content which you submit, post, transmit, or display on, or through the services.

8.5 You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trade mark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.

8.6 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by BidUnity, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.

9. License from BidUnity

9.1 BidUnity gives you a personal, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by BidUnity as part of the Services as provided to you by BidUnity (referred to as the "Software" below). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by BidUnity, in the manner permitted by the Terms.

9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by BidUnity, in writing.

9.3 Subject to section 1.2, unless BidUnity has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.

10. Content license from you

10.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

11. Software updates

11.1 The Software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from BidUnity. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit BidUnity to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.

12. Ending your relationship with BidUnity

12.1 The Terms will survive your use of BidUnity's services.

12.2 BidUnity may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if:

(A) you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of the Terms); or

(B) BidUnity is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or

(C) the partner with whom BidUnity offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with BidUnity or ceased to offer the Services to you; or

(D) BidUnity is transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service; or

(E) the provision of the Services to you by BidUnity is, in BidUnity' opinion, no longer commercially viable.

12.3 Nothing in this Section shall affect BidUnity's rights regarding provision of Services under Section 4 of the Terms.

12.4 When these Terms come to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and BidUnity have benefited from, been subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the Terms have been in force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the provisions of paragraph 19.7 shall continue to apply to such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.

13. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

13.1 NOTHING IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING SECTIONS 13 AND 14, SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT BidUnity'S WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

13.2 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."

13.3 IN PARTICULAR, BidUnity, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:

(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,

(B) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM ERROR,

(C) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND

(D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

13.4 ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

13.5 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM BidUnity OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.

13.6 BidUnity FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

14.1 SUBJECT TO OVERALL PROVISION IN PARAGRAPH 13.1 ABOVE, YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT BidUnity, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:

(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS;

(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:

(I) ANY RELIANCE PLACED BY YOU ON THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY ADVERTISING, OR AS A RESULT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP OR TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR WHOSE ADVERTISING APPEARS ON THE SERVICES;

(II) ANY CHANGES WHICH BidUnity MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);

(III) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;

(IV) YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE BidUnity WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION;

(V) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL;

14.2 THE LIMITATIONS ON BidUnity'S LIABILITY TO YOU IN PARAGRAPH 14.1 ABOVE SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT BidUnity HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.

15. Copyright and trade mark policies

15.1 It is BidUnity's policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable international intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.

16. Advertisements

16.1 Some of the Services are or may be supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may be targeted to the content of information stored on the Services, queries made through the Services or other information.

16.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising by BidUnity on the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you.

16.3 In consideration for BidUnity granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that BidUnity may place such advertising on the Services.

17. Other content

17.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. BidUnity may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than BidUnity.

17.2 You acknowledge and agree that BidUnity is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.

17.3 You acknowledge and agree that BidUnity is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.

18. Changes to the Terms

18.1 BidUnity may make changes to the Universal Terms or Additional Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, BidUnity will make a new copy of the Universal Terms available at https://bidunity.com/terms and any new Additional Terms will be made available to you from within, or through, the affected Services.

18.2 You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the Universal Terms or Additional Terms have changed, BidUnity will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Universal Terms or Additional Terms.

19. General legal terms

19.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or in connection with your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, the Terms do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.

19.2 The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and BidUnity and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any services which BidUnity may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and BidUnity in relation to the Services.

19.3 You agree that BidUnity may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services.

19.4 You agree that if BidUnity does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which BidUnity has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of BidUnity's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to BidUnity.

19.5 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

19.6 You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of companies of which BidUnity is the parent shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and that such other companies shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the Terms which confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) them. Other than this, no other person or company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms.

19.7 The Terms, and your relationship with BidUnity under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of the State of Florida without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and BidUnity agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Hillsborough, Florida to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms. Notwithstanding this, you agree that BidUnity shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.

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21. Additional Terms for Enterprise Use

21.1 If you are a business entity, then the individual accepting on behalf of the entity (for the avoidance of doubt, for business entities, in these Terms, "you" means the entity) represents and warrants that he or she has the authority to act on your behalf, that you represent that you are duly authorized to do business in the country or countries where you operate, and that your employees, officers, representatives, and other agents accessing the Service are duly authorized to access BidUnity and to legally bind you to these Terms.

21.2 Subject to the Terms, and in addition to the license grant in Section 9, BidUnity grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to reproduce, distribute, install, and use BidUnity solely on machines intended for use by your employees, officers, representatives, and agents in connection with your business entity, and provided that their use of BidUnity will be subject to the Terms.

22. License Restrictions

22.1 Your right to exercise the licenses with respect to the BidUnity's services is subject to the following additional restrictions and obligations. You will ensure that your customers comply with these restrictions and obligations to the same extent imposed on you with respect to the services; any failure by your customers to comply with these additional restrictions and obligations shall be treated as a material breach by you.

22.2 You shall not circumvent the Content Protection Functions of either the BidUnity Software or any related Software that is used to encrypt or decrypt digital content for authorized consumption by users of BidUnity, or develop or distribute products that are designed to circumvent the Content Protection Functions of BidUnity.

23. Injunctive Relief

23.1 You agree that a breach of this Agreement may compromise the Content Protection Functions of BidUnity and may cause unique and lasting harm to the interests of BidUnity and that monetary damages may be inadequate to compensate fully for such harm. Therefore, you further agree that BidUnity may be entitled to seek injunctive relief to prevent or limit the harm caused by any such breach, in addition to any other remedies available at law or equity.

Last edited on August 14, 2017.