License Agreement

Last Updated: July 17, 2022

This License Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and between Placer Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Placer”), and the customer (“Customer”) listed on the order form (the “Order Form”) entered into by and between Placer and Customer, effective as of the last signature date set forth on the Order Form (the “Effective Date”).  Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, capitalized terms herein have the same meaning as in the Order Form.

  1. LICENSE
    Subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Order Form (including, without limitation, the payment of fees by Customer), Placer hereby grants to Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Services (as set forth in the Order Form) solely for the Permitted Uses (as set forth in the Order Form).
  2. RESTRICTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
    2.a  Customer will not, directly or indirectly, or allow any third party to (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas, know-how or algorithms relevant to the Services or Placer Data or any software, documentation or data related to the Services or Placer Data; (b) attempt to re-identify any anonymized, aggregated, deidentified, obfuscated, or statistical Placer Data, (c) modify, translate, or create derivative works based on Placer Data (except to the extent expressly set forth as Permitted Use in the Order Form), (d) share Placer Data with, or disclose Placer Data to, or use Placer Data for the benefit of, a third party (except to the extent expressly set forth as Permitted Use in the Order Form), (e) remove any proprietary notices or labels, (f) circumvent any security control or access mechanism for the Services or Placer Data, (g) perform systematic and/or bulk downloads of Placer Data, or web scraping of Placer Data/from the Services, or systematic API calling beyond the minimal amount needed for Permitted Uses, or attempt to reconstruct any portion of Placer Data or, (h) use the Services or Placer Data in connection with any products, services, or activities that compete with Placer., or (i) attempt to build a user profile for a given individual or device based on Placer Data, or attempt, facilitate, or encourage others to identify a given individual or user or reconstruct user profiles based on Placer Data. Customer shall not, directly or indirectly, resell, distribute, sublicense, display, or otherwise provide to third parties the Services or any Placer Data or any derivatives of Placer Data, except that Customer may display Placer Data as part of Research Data during the Term. For the avoidance of doubt, and without limiting any other restrictions or obligations set forth in this Agreement, Customer shall not use, license, sub-license or distribute Placer Data or any data derived from Placer Data, for any of the following purposes: (I) in connection with establishing eligibility for employment, health care, credit or insurance; (II) for making decisions solely by automatic means where the decision has a significant effect on the individual to whom the data relates; (III) for any unlawful tracking or unlawful surveillance purposes; or (IV) to market or sell to law enforcement agencies or to any governmental agency to be used for a law enforcement purpose.

    2.b  Customer represents, covenants, and warrants that Customer will use the Services and Placer Data and only in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.  Furthermore, Customer will ensure all access to Placer (“log in”) shall be done using email addresses of Customer’s email domain, and never any personal email addresses.  Although Placer has no obligation to monitor Customer’s access to and use of the Services or Placer Data Placer may do so and may prohibit any access or use it believes may be (or alleged to be) in violation of the foregoing.

    2.c  Customer shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining any equipment and ancillary services needed to connect to, access or otherwise use the Services and Placer Data, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, servers, software, operating systems, networking, web servers and the like (collectively, “Access Equipment”).  Customer shall also be responsible for maintaining the security of the Access Equipment, Customer account, passwords (including but not limited to administrative and user passwords) and files, and for all uses of Customer account or the Access Equipment with or without Customer’s knowledge or consent.

    2.d  Customer shall maintain information security measures to safeguard Customer’s Access Equipment and Placer Data in Customer’s possession, including appropriate physical, technical, and organizational measures to ensure the security of such data.  Such measures shall include, but not be limited to, the highest degree of care that Customer utilizes to safeguard its own sensitive data, which shall be no less than industry standard security measures in any event.

    2.e  Customer shall maintain accurate and complete records relating to its use of Placer Data during the Term and for a period of one (1) year thereafter.  Placer or its designee(s) may, at any time upon not less than ten (10) business days’ notice to Customer, examine such records of Customer (and its affiliates and contractors, if any are permitted to use Placer Data) related to Customer’s and any such parties’ use of Placer Data (“Audit”).  Customer will cooperate fully, and cause its affiliates and contractors to cooperate fully, with any such Audit(s) and will provide all records, data, documentation, and other information reasonably requested by Placer.  The Audit(s) will be conducted during normal business hours, and at Placer’s expense; provided however if such Audit reveals misuse of Placer Data by Customer, then Customer will bear the cost of such Audit, without limiting any other rights or remedies that Placer may have with respect to any such misuse of Placer Data.
  3. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
    3.a  Placer shall own and retain all right, title and interest in and to (a) the Services and Placer Data, and all improvements, enhancements or modifications thereto, (b) any software, applications, inventions or other technology developed in connection with supporting the foregoing, and (c) all intellectual
    property rights related to any of the foregoing.  No licenses are granted by estoppel or by implication.

    3.b  Customer may provide feedback to Placer in respect of the Services or Placer Data.  Feedback may include, without limitation, updates to or corrections of Placer Data (e.g., a retail store may have moved or may have been closed).  Placer may use any such feedback to improve the Services or for other purposes, without any obligation to Customer.

    3.c  In the course of using the Services, Customer may upload data (e.g., Customer’s customer data) to the Services.  Such uploaded data is referred to herein as “Customer Data”.  Customer hereby grants Placer a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and transferable right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform Customer Data (including all related intellectual property rights) in an aggregated and de-identified format (“Anonymized Customer Data”) in connection with the Services.  Customer also hereby grants each user of the Services a non-exclusive license to access Anonymized Customer Data through the Services, and to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such Anonymized Customer Data as permitted through the functionality of the Services.  For clarity, the foregoing license grant to Placer and users of the Services does not affect Customer’s ownership of Customer Data.  Placer reserves the right to remove any Customer Data and/or Anonymized Customer Data from the Services at any time for any reason.  Customer, not Placer, remains solely responsible for all Customer Data that Customer uploads, posts, emails, transmits, or otherwise disseminates using, or in connection with, the Services, and Customer represents and warrants that Customer possesses all rights necessary to provide such Customer Data to Placer and to grant the rights to use such Customer Data as provided herein.
  4. WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER
    4.a  Placer shall use reasonable efforts consistent with prevailing industry standards to provide access to the Services and Placer Data.  Access may be temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance or for unscheduled emergency maintenance, either by Placer or by third-party providers, or because of other causes beyond Placer’s reasonable control, but Placer shall use reasonable efforts to provide advance notice, by posting in the Services, email, or otherwise, of any scheduled service disruption.  PLACER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ACCESS TO THE SERVICES OR PLACER DATA WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES IT MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICES OR PLACER DATA.

    4.b  Placer Data shall not include (i) any personally identifiable data, including but not limited to, name, email address, address or any other personal identifier (“Personal Data”), nor (ii) any sensitive data, including but not limited to Personal Data relating to social security numbers and other government identifiers, information relating to health or medical conditions, and information relating to sex life or sexual orientation, political opinions, and financial account numbers (“Sensitive Data”).

    4.c  Placer represents and warrants that to its knowledge the Services and Placer Data do not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and comply with applicable laws and regulations. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION 4, THE SERVICES AND PLACER DATA ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND PLACER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. PLACER DATA ARE COMPILED BASED ON PROPRIETARY ALGORITHMS, AND PLACER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ALL DATA SHALL BE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE. FURTHER, PLACER MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICES OR PLACER DATA. Without limiting the foregoing disclaimer, Customer acknowledges and agrees that Placer Data consist of and represent the result of statistical inferences. Placer is not a backup service, and Customer is solely responsible for creating any backups of data provided by Placer. Placer is not responsible for decisions made by Customer based on Placer Data.
  5. INDEMNITY
    5.a  Placer shall defend, indemnify and hold Customer harmless from liability to third parties resulting from infringement by Placer’s provision of Placer Data of any United States patent or any copyright or misappropriation of any trade secret. The foregoing obligations do not apply with respect to any portions or components of Placer Data (i) that are created, compiled, or modified by any party other than Placer, (ii) combined with other products, processes, data, or materials where the alleged infringement relates to such combination, (iii) where Customer continues allegedly infringing activity after being notified thereof or after being informed of alternatives that would have avoided the alleged infringement, or (iv) where Customer’s use of Placer Data is not strictly in accordance with this Agreement. If, due to a claim of infringement, Placer Data are held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be or are believed by Placer to be infringing, Placer may, at its option (a) obtain for Customer a license to continue using Placer Data or (b) terminate the Order Form and Customer’s rights thereunder and provide Customer a refund of any prepaid, unused fees for Placer Data.

    5.b  Customer shall defend, indemnify and hold Placer harmless from liability to third parties, including any claims of government agencies or regulators, resulting from or arising out of either (a) the provision of any data by Customer not in compliance with applicable law, or (b) the use by or on behalf of Customer of any Placer Data not in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

    5.c  The obligations of either party to provide indemnification hereunder is subject to the party seeking indemnification (a) providing the indemnifying party with prompt written notice of any claim, (b) providing the indemnifying party with sole control over the defense and settlement of the applicable claim and (c) reasonably cooperating with the indemnifying party in defending such claim.  Subject to the foregoing, the indemnified party may be represented in any proceeding by counsel of its own choosing at its own expense.
  6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF USE, DATA, BUSINESS, OR PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORDER FORM, THIS AGREEMENT, THE SERVICES OR PLACER DATA, HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  EXCEPT FOR NON-PAYMENT OF FEES, EACH PARTY’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORDER FORM, THIS AGREEMENT, THE SERVICES OR PLACER DATA OR FROM ALL CAUSES OF ACTION AND ALL THEORIES OF LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE FEES PAID TO PLACER UNDER THE ORDER FORM DURING THE PREVIOUS TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING ANY CLAIM GIVING RISE TO ANY LIABILITY HEREUNDER.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISIONS, THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL NOT APPLY TO BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY OBLIGATIONS OR BREACH OF LICENSING RESTRICTIONS.
  7. EXPORT CONTROL
    Customer may not remove or export from the United States or allow the export or re-export of Placer Data, or any direct product thereof in violation of any restrictions, laws or regulations of the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control, or any other United States or foreign agency or authority.
  8. MISCELLANEOUS
    This Agreement includes and incorporates Placer’s privacy policy located at https://placer.kinsta.cloud/privacy-policy/platform-services-privacy-policy/ (the “Privacy Policy”). The Order Form, the Privacy Policy, and all other referenced documents, if any, are integral parts of this Agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. This Agreement is not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by Customer except with Placer’s prior written consent. Placer may transfer and assign any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without consent. This Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, and that all waivers and modifications must be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement and Customer does not have any authority of any kind to bind Placer in any respect whatsoever. In any action or proceeding to enforce rights under this Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover costs and attorneys’ fees. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. This Agreement shall have the same Term as, and shall terminate or expire concurrently with, the Order Form. The following will survive any termination of this Agreement and Order Form: Sections 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 4 through 8 of this Agreement.