1.1 In these Terms and Conditions, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise:
"Acceptance Criteria" means:
"Acceptance Period" means a period of 5 Business Days following the making available of the Hosted Services to the Client for the purposes of testing in accordance with Clause 4 or any repeated making available of the Hosted Services to the Client for the purposes of testing in accordance with Clause 4, or such other period or periods as the parties may agree in writing;
"Acceptance Tests" means a set of tests designed to establish whether the Hosted Services meet the Acceptance Criteria, providing that the exact form of the tests shall be agreed and documented by the parties acting reasonably in advance of the first Acceptance Period;
"Access Credentials" means the usernames, passwords and other credentials enabling access to the Hosted Services, including both access credentials for the User Interface and access credentials for the API;
"Affiliate" means an entity that Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with the relevant entity;
"Agreement" means a contract between the parties incorporating mainly the Service Order Form and these Terms and Conditions, and any amendments to that contract from time to time;
"Anti-Corruption Laws" means all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws (including the Bribery Act 2010);
"Anti-Slavery Laws" means all applicable anti-slavery and anti-human trafficking laws (including the Modern Slavery Act 2015);
"Anti-Tax Evasion Laws" means all applicable anti-tax evasion laws (including the Criminal Finances Act 2017);
"API" means the application programming interface for the Hosted Services defined by the Provider and made available by the Provider to the Client;
"Business Day" means any weekday other than a bank or public holiday in England;
"Business Hours" means the hours of 08:00 to 16:00 GMT/BST on a Business Day;
"CCN" means a change control notice issued in accordance with Clause 17;
"CCN Consideration Period" means the period of 10 Business Days following the receipt by a party of the relevant CCN from the other party;
"Change" means any change to the scope of the Services;
"Charges" means the following amounts:
(a) the amounts specified in Section 5 of the Services Order Form;
(b) such amounts as may be agreed in writing (email suffices) by the parties from time to time; and
(c) amounts calculated by multiplying the Provider's standard time-based charging rates (as notified by the Provider to the Client before the date of the Agreement) by the time spent by the Provider's personnel performing the Support Services (rounded down by the Provider to the nearest quarter hour).
"Confidential Information" means the Provider Confidential Information and the Client Confidential Information;
"Control" means the legal power to control (directly or indirectly) the management of an entity (and " Controlled" should be construed accordingly);
"Client" means the person or entity identified as such in Section 1 of the Services Order Form;
"Client Confidential Information" means:
(a) any information disclosed by or on behalf of the Client to the Provider during the Term (whether disclosed in writing, orally or otherwise) that at the time of disclosure:
(i) was marked or described as "confidential"; or
(ii) should have been reasonably understood by the Provider to be confidential; and
(b) the Client Data.
"Client Data" means all data, works and materials: uploaded to or stored on the Platform by the Client; transmitted by the Platform at the instigation of the Client; supplied by the Client to the Provider for uploading to, transmission by or storage on the Platform; or generated by the Platform as a result of the use of the Hosted Services by the Client (but excluding analytics data relating to the use of the Platform and server log files);
"Client Indemnity Event" has the meaning given to it in Clause 27.3;
"Client Personal Data" means any Personal Data (if there is such) that is processed by the Provider on behalf of the Client in relation to the Agreement, but excluding personal data with respect to which the Provider is a data controller;
"Client Representatives" means the person or persons identified as such in Section 6 of the Services Order Form, and any additional or replacement persons that may be appointed by the Client giving to the Provider written notice of the appointment;
"Client Systems" means the hardware and software systems of the Client that interact with, or may reasonably be expected to interact with, the Hosted Services;
"Customisation" means a customisation of the Hosted Services, whether made through the development, configuration or integration of software, or otherwise;
"Data Protection Laws" means, without limitation, the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR and all other applicable laws relating to the processing of Personal Data in other jurisdictions as the case may be;
"Documentation" means the documentation for the Hosted Services produced by the Provider and delivered or made available by the Provider to the Client (if any);
"Effective Date" means the date upon which the parties execute a hard-copy Services Order Form; or, following the Client completing and submitting the online Services Order Form published by the Provider on the Provider's website, the date upon which the Provider sends to the Client an order confirmation;
"EU GDPR" means the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and all other EU laws regulating the processing of Personal Data, as such laws may be updated, amended and superseded from time to time;
"Expenses" means the travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses that are reasonably necessary for, and incurred by the Provider exclusively in connection with, the performance of the Provider's obligations under the Agreement;
"Force Majeure Event" means an event, or a series of related events, that is outside the reasonable control of the party affected (including failures of the internet or any public telecommunications network, hacker attacks, denial of service attacks, virus or other malicious software attacks or infections, power failures, industrial disputes affecting any third party, changes to the law, disasters, epidemics, pandemics, explosions, fires, floods, riots, terrorist attacks and wars);
"Hosted Services" means, inter alia, digital assets management services and other related services, as specified in the Hosted Services Specification (Section 3 of the Services Order Form), which will be made available by the Provider to the Client as a service via the internet in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
"Hosted Services Defect" means a defect, error or bug in the Platform having a material adverse effect on the appearance, operation, functionality or performance of the Hosted Services, but excluding any defect, error or bug caused by or arising as a result of:
(a) any act or omission of the Client or any person authorised by the Client to use the Platform or Hosted Services;
(b) any use of the Platform or Hosted Services contrary to the Documentation, whether by the Client or by any person authorised by the Client;
(c) a failure of the Client to perform or observe any of its obligations in the Agreement; and/or
(d) an incompatibility between the Platform or Hosted Services and any other system, network, application, program, hardware or software not specified as compatible in the Hosted Services Specification.
"Hosted Services Specification" means the specification for the Platform and Hosted Services set out in Section 3 of the Services Order Form and in the Documentation;
"Intellectual Property Rights" means all intellectual property rights wherever in the world, whether registrable or unregistrable, registered or unregistered, including any application or right of application for such rights (and these "intellectual property rights" include copyright and related rights, database rights, confidential information, trade secrets, know-how, business names, trade names, trade marks, service marks, passing off rights, unfair competition rights, patents, petty patents, utility models, semi-conductor topography rights and rights in designs);
"Maintenance Services" means the general maintenance of the Platform and Hosted Services, and the application of Updates and Upgrades;
"Minimum Term" means, in respect of the Agreement, the period of 12 months beginning on the Effective Date;
"Mobile App" means the mobile application (if and as available) that is made available by the Provider through the Google Play Store and/or the Apple App Store;
"Personal Data" means personal data under any of the Data Protection Laws;
"Platform" means the platform managed by the Provider and used by the Provider to provide the Hosted Services, including the application and database software for the Hosted Services, the system and server software used to provide the Hosted Services, and the computer hardware on which that application, database, system and server software is installed;
"Provider" means Zent Labs Ltd, a company incorporated and registered in the British Virgin Islands, registered in the British Virgin Islands under registration number registration number 2133272 at the BVI Registrar of Corporate Affairs, having its registered office at c/o Quijano & Associates; Quijano Chambers P.O. Box 3159; Road Town; Tortola; British Virgin Islands;
"Provider Confidential Information" means:
(a) any information disclosed by or on behalf of the Provider to the Client at any time before the termination of the Agreement (whether disclosed in writing, orally or otherwise) that at the time of disclosure was marked or described as "confidential" or should have been understood by the Client (acting reasonably) to be confidential; and
(b) the financial terms of the Agreement.
"Provider Indemnity Event" has the meaning given to it in Clause 27.1;
"Provider Representatives" means the person or persons identified as such in Section 6 of the Services Order Form, and any additional or replacement persons that may be appointed by the Provider giving to the Client written notice of the appointment;
"Remedy Period" means a period of 30 Business Days following the Client giving to the Provider a notice that the Hosted Services have failed the Acceptance Tests, or such other period as the parties may agree in writing;
"Services" means any services that the Provider provides to the Client, or has an obligation to provide to the Client, under these Terms and Conditions;
"Services Order Form" means an online order form published by the Provider and completed and submitted by the Client, or a hard-copy order form signed or otherwise agreed by or on behalf of each party, in each case incorporating these Terms and Conditions by reference;
"Set Up Services" means the configuration, implementation and integration of the Hosted Services in accordance with Section 2 of the Services Order Form;
"Support Services" means support in relation to the use of, and the identification and resolution of errors in, the Hosted Services, but shall not include the provision of training services;
"Supported Web Browser" means the current release from time to time of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or any other web browser that the Provider agrees in writing shall be supported;
"Term" means the term of the Agreement, commencing in accordance with Clause 2.1 and ending in accordance with Clause 2.2;
"Terms and Conditions" means all the documentation containing the provisions of the Agreement, namely the Services Order Form, the main body of these Terms and Conditions and the Schedules (if any), including any amendments to that documentation from time to time;
"Third Party Services" means any hosted, cloud or software-based services provided by any third party that are or may be integrated with the Hosted Services by the Provider from time to time in circumstances where the Client must, in order to activate the integration, have an account with the relevant services provider or obtain activation or access credentials from the relevant services provider;
"UK GDPR" means the EU GDPR as transposed into UK law (including by the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019) and all other UK laws regulating the processing of Personal Data, as such laws may be updated, amended and superseded from time to time;
"Update" means a hotfix, patch or minor version update to any Platform software;
"Upgrade" means a major version upgrade of any Platform software; and
"User Interface" means the interface for the Hosted Services designed to allow individual human users to access and use the Hosted Services.