Terms of Service
- Scope
- Acceptance of terms
- User content/license to avendata
- Permissible use of avendata websites and content
- Termination of use
- Avendata contact
- Confidential information
- Your information, privacy and data protection
- Intellectual property rights
- Responsibility for content and links
- Use of avendata and third party software
- Indemnity
- Exclusion of warranties
- Limitation of liability
- Applicable law
- Survival
- Waiver and severability
- Entire agreement
- Export control
1.Scope
2. Acceptance of terms
Your access and use of the AvenDATA Websites is subjected to and governed by these Terms of Use, also referred to as “TOU”, including any additional or different disclaimers, legal notices, agreements, or terms and conditions that may apply to Your use of or access to any specific AvenDATA Website, AvenDATA Materials, or User Content. If there is a conflict between the terms in this TOU and any additional legal terms, the additional legal terms shall control. This TOU forms a legally binding agreement between You and AvenDATA. By clicking the “I Accept” button as part of a registration process, or otherwise demonstrating your consent to this TOU through a process established by AvenDATA, You accept and agree to abide by the terms of this TOU. If You do not agree to the terms of this TOU, You should not click the “I Accept” button (or equivalent) or attempt to access or use any AvenDATA Website, AvenDATA Materials, or User Content. Please note that this TOU does not govern the use of any cloud solutions (for example, AvenDATA HANA Cloud Platform, AvenDATA HANA Enterprise Cloud, AvenDATA SuccessFactors, AvenDATA Fieldglass, AvenDATA Ariba, etc.) provided by AvenDATA and for which You are required to enter into a separate agreement.
3. User content/license to AvenDATA
4. Permissible use of avendata websites and content
- publish, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that: (a) You do not have the right to make available (b) is unlawful, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (c) infringes any Intellectual Property Rights of any party, (d) includes any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, surveys, junk mail(s), spamming, chain letter(s), or any other form of solicitation, commercial or otherwise, or (e) contains a software virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot, corrupted file, or any other computer file or software designed to interrupt, destroy, damage or limit the functionality of any computer hardware, software or other property.
- defame, harass, abuse, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others such as rights of privacy and publicity or business integrity;
- impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an AvenDATA official, AvenDATA employee, or any other third party, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity;
- forge email headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the AvenDATA Websites;
- download any file or User Content posted by another user that You know, or reasonably should know, should not be legally reproduced, displayed, performed and/or distributed in such a manner;
- interfere with or disrupt the servers, or networks which support the AvenDATA Websites, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the AvenDATA Websites;
- violate any applicable local, state, national or international law and any regulations;
- harvest, collect, or store personal information or data of other users.
5. Termination of use
6. AvenDATA contact
Upon termination, Your right to use the Service will cease immediately.
7. Confidential information
ALL USER CONTENT POSTED BY YOU TO THE AvenDATA WEBSITE, WHETHER INTO A PUBLIC FORUM OR NON-PUBLIC FORUM, SHALL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND AvenDATA TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OR MISUSE OF ANY SUCH UPLOADED INFORMATION BY ANY OTHER USER OF THE AvenDATA WEBSITE.
8. Your information, privacy, and data protection
You are responsible for and agree to provide AvenDATA with complete, true, and current information, including Personal Data, and to keep Your Personal Data accurate and up to date. You can always correct or update Your Personal Data. Further, You may request information about Your Personal Data stored with AvenDATA, or the correction (in case the relevant Website is not allowing You to correct or update your information), or deletion of Your Personal Data by contacting at support@staging.avendata.com. Please note that if You request the deletion of your account or Personal Data, You might not be able to access and use the AvenDATA Websites and your User Content.
You are solely responsible about the usage and security of Your password and any activities that occur under Your account. You shall not use the account of anyone else at any time. You understand and agree that AvenDATA collects, uses, stores, and otherwise processes Your personal information and utilization data and may share such data with the third party service providers for the purposes of improving or providing the AvenDATA Websites subject to AvenDATA’s Privacy Statement. YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THE AvenDATA PRIVACY STATEMENT, WHICH CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING THE ‘PRIVACY’ LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH WEB PAGE ON THE AvenDATA WEBSITES.
9. Intellectual property rights
10. Responsibility for content and links
AvenDATA IS ONLY RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR THE CONTENT POSTED ON THE AvenDATA WEBSITE TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY THE GERMAN TELEMEDIA ACT (TELEMEDIENGESETZ, TMG). TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR USE OF CONTENT SHALL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Any Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person or entity providing the Content. AvenDATA does not represent or endorse the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usefulness, non-infringement of intellectual property rights, or quality of any Content provided by the third parties on the AvenDATA Website. AvenDATA may remove any Content posted on the AvenDATA Website at AvenDATA’s sole discretion, but, if You believe that the copyright material You hold is being infringed upon on any AvenDATA web site, please notify AvenDATA’s Copyright Agent in accordance with the procedure set forth at the following mail: support@staging.avendata.com
AvenDATA Websites may contain links to external websites. AvenDATA shall not be responsible for the contents of any linked website, or any changes or updates to such websites. Additionally, AvenDATA shall not be directly or indirectly responsible or liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your use of or reliance on any software, content, goods or services available on or through any such linked website. AvenDATA does not control and/or review the linked webpages and the information provided by the third parties.
11. Use of avendata and third party software
12. Indemnity
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from outside the European Union:
You agree to indemnify and hold AvenDATA, its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, agents, partners, employees, and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Your User Content or Your usage of the AvenDATA Website, Your breach of this TOU, any additional legal terms, or AvenDATA’s Privacy Statement, Your unauthorized use of any AvenDATA-owned Intellectual Property, or Your alleged violation of any other rights of a third party.
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from within the European Union::
You agree to indemnify and hold AvenDATA, its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, agents, partners, employees, and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party against any of the aforesaid entities or persons due to or arising out of Your culpable breach of this TOU, any additional legal terms or AvenDATA’s Copyright or Privacy Statements.
13. Exclusion of warranties
AvenDATA Websites and Content are being provided to You “AS IS”. To the fullest extent allowable by the law, AvenDATA does not guarantee or warrant any features or qualities of any AvenDATA Website or Content or give any undertaking regarding any other quality. Statements and explanations on AvenDATA Websites and Content in promotional material or on AvenDATA Website and/or documentation are made for explanatory purposes only; they are not meant to constitute any guarantee or warranty of certain features. No warranty or undertaking shall be implied by a User from any published AvenDATA description of or advertisement, except to the extent AvenDATA has expressly confirmed such warranty or undertaking in writing. Warranties are validly given only with the express written confirmation of AvenDATA’s management.
14. Limitation of liability
Avendata will not be liable or responsible in any way for any User Content posted on or linked from an Avendata AvenDATA will not be liable or responsible in any way for any User Content posted on or linked from the AvenDATA Website, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in Content, or for any losses or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of or reliance on any Content or other material accessed on or through any AvenDATA Website and made available by a third party.
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from outside the European Union:
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, AvenDATA AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS, AND LICENSORS ARE NOT LIABLE TO ANY USER FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF AvenDATA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), HOWEVER CAUSED, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE AvenDATA WEBSITE, AvenDATA SOFTWARE, OR AvenDATA MATERIALS; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY AvenDATA SOFTWARE, AvenDATA MATERIALS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED DURING TRANSACTIONS CONDUCTED ON THE AvenDATA WEBSITE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS, MESSAGES, OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE AvenDATA WEBSITE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATED TO THE AvenDATA WEBSITE OR AvenDATA MATERIALS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY IN CASE OF INTENT OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE BY AvenDATA AND IN CASE OF AvenDATA’s STATUTORY LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY AND DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS.
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from within the European Union:
IRRESPECTIVE OF THE LEGAL REASONS, AvenDATA AND AvenDATA’s AFFIALIATES AND SUBSIDIARIES SHALL ONLY BE LIABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CASES:
- ANY MANDATORY LIABILITY UNDER APPLICABLE PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWS;
- GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND WILFUL MISCON
- PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH RESULTING FROM AvenDATA’s OR ITS AFFILIATES’ OR SUBSIDIARIES NEGLIGENCE OR WILFUL MISCONDUCT.
- SLIGHT NEGLIGENT BREACH OF A SIGNIFICANT CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION (AN OBLIGATION WHOSE COMPLETION ALLOWS FOR A PROPER PERFORMANCE OF THIS TOU AND IN WHOSE COMPLIANCE WITH YOU CAN GENERALLY TRUST). IN THIS CASE, AvenDATA’s OR ITS AFFILIATES’ OR SUBSIDIARIES’ LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO SUCH DAMAGES, WHICH ARE TYPICAL FOR THIS TYPE OF AGREEMENT AND PREDICTABLE AT THE POINT IN TIME OF THESE TO ENTERING INTO FORCE.
15. Applicable law
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from outside the European Union:
The New York law will govern this TOU without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. You also agree to comply with all the applicable export control laws as set forth under the ‘EXPORT CONTROL’ Section below, which are applicable to the transmission of data on the Internet, including, but not limited to the laws governing the use of encryption and laws governing the transmission of data across international boundaries, into prohibited countries, and containing personally identifiable information.
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from within the European Union:
The laws of Germany will govern this TOU without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. To the extent possible under the applicable law, venue for all the disputes in connection with this TOU shall be Karlsruhe, Germany.
16. Survival
Your confidentiality obligations hereunder shall survive termination of Your account. Upon any termination of Your account, or AvenDATA’s written request, You must cease use of Confidential Information, and/or AvenDATA Websites, and return or destroy all Confidential Information in Your possession or control.
17. Waiver and severability
The failure of AvenDATA to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. To the extent that any provision in this TOU shall be found to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be modified in such a manner to make this TOU as modified, legal, and enforceable under the applicable laws and the balance of the provisions of this TOU shall not be affected thereby.
18. Entire agreement
19. Export control
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from outside the United States and European Union:
You are doing so at Your own risk, and You remain fully responsible and liable for familiarity and compliance with these Terms of Use as well as with the laws, regulations, directives, codes, and rules of the United States, European Union, and the country within which you reside, including applicable import and export compliance laws and regulations, as well those of the jurisdiction from which You are accessing the AvenDATA Website, and any other applicable jurisdiction, which may be involved in the access, transmission, route, receipt, disclosure, storage or use of information on the AvenDATA Website.
The following applies if You access the AvenDATA Website from within the United States:
You agree that Your use of the AvenDATA Website, or any Content will always be compliant with the U.S. export control laws and executive orders. The information provided on and through the AvenDATA Website may be deemed in some cases to be controlled technology and subject to the export control restrictions of the United States and other jurisdictions.
IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION TO VERIFY AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE COUNTRY FROM WHICH YOU ARE ACCESSING THE AvenDATA WEBSITE.