General Terms and Conditions
Cleverbooks may change these General Terms
from time to time at its absolute
discretion without prior notice to the
Customer. The Customer agrees that such
changes will be binding on it. Any changes
will be posted on Cleverbooks's website
and will amend and form part of these
General Terms. The Customer is responsible
for reviewing the Cleverbooks website on a
regular basis to obtain timely notice of
any such changes. This Agreement and any
new Agreement entered into after such
changes have been posted will include
those changes.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 In this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires, the following words
and expressions shall have the following
meanings:
| "Cleverbooks" |
means Cleverbooks Pty Ltd, a
limited company registered in
South Australia. |
| "Agreement" |
means this agreement between Cleverbooks
and the Customer;
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"Effective Date"
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means the date on which the
Customer accepts the terms and
conditions of this Agreement;
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"Fee"
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means fee as posted on Cleverbooks's
website in respect of subscription
to Cleverbooks's services.
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"Intellectual Property
Rights"
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means all patents, unpatented
inventions, design rights,
copyrights (including, without
limitation, rights in computer
software), rights in databases,
trade marks, trade names, rights
in trade secrets, know-how and all
other intellectual property rights
of any nature whatsoever, and all
rights of a similar nature or
having similar effect, throughout
the world whether registered or
unregistered and including all
applications and rights to apply
for any of the same;
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"Service"
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means the Service to be
provided to the Customer by Cleverbooks.
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1.2 All references to clauses are,
unless otherwise expressly stated,
references to the clauses of this
Agreement.
1.3 The headings in this Agreement are
inserted for convenience only and shall be
ignored in construing this Agreement.
1.4 References to statutory provisions
shall be construed as references to those
provisions as amended, consolidated,
extended or re-enacted from time to time.
2. SERVICE
2.1 In consideration of the performance by
the Customer of all of its obligations set
out in this Agreement, Cleverbooks agrees
to provide the Service to the Customer
subject to and in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement.
2.2 Cleverbooks agrees to use reasonable
skill and care in the provision of the
Service.
3. TERM
3.1 This Agreement shall take effect on
the Effective Date and (subject to clauses
6.5, 7 and 12.3 below) shall continue
unless and until terminated by the
Customer. The customer shall be deemed to
have terminated the agreement if he does
not elect to subscribe to the service at
the end of the Trial Period. The customer
shall be deemed to have terminated this
agreement if they cancel their
subscription to the Service or fail to pay
for a renewal. Cleverbooks may terminate
this agreement at any time by giving the
Customer not less than one (1) month prior
notice by email.
4. CUSTOMER'S OBLIGATIONS
4.1 The Customer hereby undertakes to and
agrees with Cleverbooks that the Customer
shall:
4.1.1 comply with any and all instructions
provided to the Customer by Cleverbooks
relating to the Service;
4.1.2 not use the Service for any immoral
or illegal purpose;
4.1.3 to make available free of charge to Cleverbooks
such accurate information, documentation,
data and programs and such other
assistance as Cleverbooks may reasonably
require to enable the Services to be
carried out;
4.1.4 procure that its officers and
employees co-operate with Cleverbooks, its
agents and sub-contractors in carrying out
the Services; and
4.1.5 be responsible for any and all
applicable sales, excise, goods and
services or other taxes and duties and any
other fees, charges or payments payable to
any governmental or regulatory authority,
body or organisation incurred as a result
of or in connection with the use by the
Customer of the Service.
5. PRICING AND PAYMENT
5.1 In consideration of the supply of the
Service, the Customer agrees to pay Cleverbooks
the Fee. Unless otherwise expressly
stated, all prices are exclusive of goods
and services tax.
5.2 The Customer shall pay to Cleverbooks
the Fee for the Service either monthly or
annually in advance. In the case of
monthly subscriptions the first Fee
payment shall be made on the Effective
Date and each subsequent payment shall be
made on the same day of each subsequent
month which corresponds to the day on
which the first payment was made. If in
any such month there is no such
corresponding day then the payment shall
be made on the last day of the relevant
month. Cleverbooks shall send a receipted
invoice to the Customer upon receipt by Cleverbooks
of the relevant payment. Cleverbooks
reserves the right to send receipts to the
Customer by electronic means only.
5.3 Without prejudice to any other right
or remedy it may have, Cleverbooks
reserves the right to set off any amount
owing to it at any time from the Customer
against any amount payable by Cleverbooks
to the Customer under or in connection
with this Agreement.
5.4 If the Customer fails to pay any
amount payable by it under this Agreement
then access to the Service will be
severely restricted until payment is made.
5.5 No refund of any subscription fees
shall be given under any circumstances.
6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
6.1 The Customer acknowledges and agrees
that all Intellectual Property Rights
existing or arising in any materials,
know-how, specifications, inventions,
processes, data or information supplied by
Cleverbooks under or in connection with
this Agreement shall at all times belong
to and remain vested in Cleverbooks or its
licensors and, save as expressly provided
hereunder, no proprietary rights or any
other rights whatsoever are assigned,
granted or otherwise pass to the Customer.
The Customer undertakes not to take any
action which might invalidate the title of
Cleverbooks or its licensors to the
Intellectual Property Rights mentioned
aforesaid. Any goodwill arising from the
use of such rights shall accrue to Cleverbooks
and its relevant licensors.
6.2 As and when required by Cleverbooks,
the Customer hereby agrees to do all such
things and execute all such documents as
may be required for absolutely vesting Cleverbooks's
and/or its relevant licensor's full right,
title and interest in and to the
Intellectual Property Rights referred to
in clause 6.1.
6.3 The Customer acknowledges that civil
and criminal penalties may be incurred in
the event of any infringement of any
Intellectual Property Rights referred to
in clause 6.1, and that any such
infringement by the Customer may result in
incalculable damage and/or loss to Cleverbooks
and/or its licensors, and accordingly, the
Customer agrees that, in addition to any
other right or remedy of Cleverbooks, Cleverbooks
shall be entitled to immediate injunctive
relief to restrain any actual or
anticipated infringement thereof and the
Customer undertakes to indemnify Cleverbooks
in full against all losses, damages,
costs, expenses and liabilities (including
loss of profit) which may be incurred by Cleverbooks
by reason of any such infringement by the
Customer.
6.4 Save as provided in clause 6.5, Cleverbooks
shall indemnify the Customer against any
claim (including, without limitation, any
losses and liabilities arising out of such
claim but excluding any indirect, special
or consequential loss or loss of profits,
revenue or goodwill) that the Customer's
use of the Service in accordance with this
Agreement infringes the Intellectual
Property Rights of any third party,
conditional upon the Customer :
6.4.1 promptly notifying Cleverbooks in
writing of any such claim and not making
any admissions of liability or settling
any such claim without Cleverbooks's prior
written consent;
6.4.2 allowing Cleverbooks at Cleverbooks's
request and expense sole conduct of all
negotiations and litigation resulting from
any such claim; and
6.4.3 at the request and expense of Cleverbooks,
giving all reasonable assistance with such
negotiations or litigation.
The foregoing states Cleverbooks's entire
liability to the Customer in respect of
the infringement of the Intellectual
Property Rights of any third party.
6.5 If any claim is made as described in
clause 6.4 based on the Customer's use of
the Service other than in accordance with
this Agreement, Cleverbooks shall not be
responsible and shall be entitled (a) to
require the Customer to cease using the
Service until otherwise notified by Cleverbooks
in writing, and/or (b) to terminate this
Agreement immediately by written notice
and/or (c) to require the Customer to
indemnify Cleverbooks against any
consequential claim which may be brought
against Cleverbooks.
6.6 The Customer undertakes to notify Cleverbooks
promptly of any infringement of the
Intellectual Property Rights referred to
in clause 6.1 above of which the Customer
is or becomes aware and to render to Cleverbooks
and/or Cleverbooks's relevant licensors
all reasonable assistance in relation to
any action, suit or proceeding taken by Cleverbooks
and/or its relevant licensors in respect
of such infringement. Subject to the
foregoing, the Customer shall not be
entitled to take any steps or proceedings
in relation to any infringement by any
person of such Intellectual Property
Rights without the prior written consent
of Cleverbooks.
7. TERMINATION
7.1 Without prejudice to its other rights
and remedies, either party may, by written
notice to the other, terminate this
Agreement with immediate effect if the
other party:
7.1.1 commits a material breach of this
Agreement and shall, in the case of any
remediable breach, fail to remedy the same
within 14 days of receipt of a written
notice from the non-breaching party
requiring such remedy; or
7.1.2 is unable to pay its debts or
otherwise becomes insolvent or an order is
made or a resolution passed for the
administration, winding-up or dissolution
of the other party (other than for the
purposes of a solvent amalgamation or
reconstruction) or an administrative or
other receiver, manager, liquidator,
administrator, trustee or similar officer
is appointed over all or any substantial
part of the other party's assets or the
other party enters into or proposes any
composition or arrangement with its
creditors generally or anything analogous
to the foregoing occurs in any applicable
jurisdiction or if it ceases to trade or
threatens to cease to trade.
7.2 For the avoidance of doubt, failure by
the Customer to pay any prices to Cleverbooks
in full in cleared funds by the due date
shall constitute a material breach of this
Agreement. Failure by the Customer to pay
the prices to Cleverbooks in cleared funds
by the due date on more than two occasions
shall entitle Cleverbooks to terminate
this Agreement forthwith on giving written
notice to the Customer.
7.3 Upon termination of this Agreement, Cleverbooks
shall cease to make the Service available
to the Customer.
7.4 Cleverbooks shall at any time without
incurring any liability be entitled to
terminate the Service or to temporarily
suspend the Service if Cleverbooks
reasonably considers that such action is
necessary to comply with any governmental,
legal or other regulatory requirement or
request (whether or not having the force
of law).
7.5 All clauses intended by their nature
to survive termination including clauses 9
and 10 shall survive the termination of
this Agreement.
7.6 Upon termination of this Agreement for
any reason, the Customer shall promptly
return (or at Cleverbooks's request
destroy) all copies in any form (including
in any human or machine readable form) of
any materials relating to this Agreement
which have been provided to the Customer
by Cleverbooks which are in the
possession, custody or control of the
Customer or its officers, employees or
agents.
8. WARRANTIES
8.1 Cleverbooks warrants that it has all
requisite power and authority to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under
this Agreement.
8.2 Cleverbooks does not warrant that the
Service will meet the Customer's
requirements nor that, in the case of
internet-based Services, the operation of
the Service will be error-free or
uninterrupted.
8.3 The Customer warrants that:
8.3.1 it shall comply with all applicable
laws and regulations relating to the
Service and with all applicable rules,
regulations and guidelines (whether or not
having the force of law) of any regulatory
organisations or bodies of which it is a
member or by which it is bound;
8.3.2 it has all requisite power and
authority to execute, deliver and perform
its obligations under this Agreement.
8.4 Save as expressly set out in this
Agreement, all conditions,
representations, warranties, undertakings
or terms whether express or implied,
statutory or otherwise, including in
particular any implied warranty of
satisfactory quality or fitness for any
particular purpose or use are excluded
from this Agreement to the fullest extent
permitted by law.
9. LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY
9.1 Save in respect of liability for death
or personal injury arising as a result of Cleverbooks's
negligence, the total aggregate of Cleverbooks's
liability howsoever arising under or in
connection with this Agreement, whether in
respect of a single occurrence or a series
of occurrences, shall not exceed in any
year the sum of the Fees payable by the
Customer in respect of that year. For the
avoidance of doubt a "year" is a
period of twelve (12) months from the
Effective Date and thereafter each
subsequent period of twelve (12) months
from anniversary of the Effective Date
during the term of this Agreement.
9.2 The Customer acknowledges that in some
instances the Service is Internet based.
Owing to the nature of the Internet and
its interconnected systems, problems such
as, but not constrained to, outages, link
failures, power difficulties, telephone
outages, network overload etc. may have an
adverse affect on the Service. While Cleverbooks
will generally strive to mitigate, if
possible, the negative effect of such
problems, Cleverbooks will in no way be
held liable in any manner for loss(es)
suffered as a result of any such problems.
9.3 Save in respect of liability for death
or personal injury arising as a result of Cleverbooks's
negligence, Cleverbooks shall not be
liable to the Customer for any loss of
profits or goodwill or any other type of
special, indirect or consequential loss or
revenue of any nature whatsoever
(including loss or damages suffered as a
result of an action brought by a third
party) whether arising from negligence,
breach of contract or otherwise, even if
such loss was reasonably foreseeable or Cleverbooks
had been advised of the possibility of the
Customer incurring the same, and such
liability is hereby excluded to the
fullest extent permitted by law.
9.4 The Customer hereby undertakes and
agrees to indemnify Cleverbooks and keep
it fully indemnified from and against any
costs, losses, damages, expenses and/or
liabilities (including without limitation
any legal fees and expenses) which may be
suffered or incurred by Cleverbooks
arising out of or in connection with (i)
any claims, proceedings, demands or
actions by third parties arising out of or
in connection with Cleverbooks's supply of
and/or the Customer's use of the Service
and/or any breach of the Customer's
undertakings or obligations set out in
this Agreement, and/or (ii) any breach by
the Customer of its obligations under this
Agreement, and/or (iii) the Customer's
negligence or wilful misconduct.
9.5 The Customer agrees that all the
limitations and exclusions of liability in
favour of Cleverbooks in this Agreement
are reasonable in the circumstances under
which the Service is to be performed.
9.6 The Customer confirms that neither Cleverbooks
nor any of its representatives has made
any claims or representations of
guaranteed or anticipated profits that may
result from the use of the Service and Cleverbooks
expressly disclaims liability for any
profit projections which may have been
provided to the Customer.
10. CONFIDENTIALITY
10.1 Neither party shall disclose or
communicate to any person (other than as
permitted by this Agreement or with the
prior written consent of the other party)
any information in whatever form relating
to the other party or its affairs,
business, clients or property (the
"Confidential Information")
irrespective of whether such information
is marked as confidential, of which it may
become aware during the term of this
Agreement and it shall use its reasonable
endeavors to prevent the unauthorised
publication or disclosure of any
Confidential Information and shall treat
the other party's Confidential Information
as secret and proprietary.
10.2 The provisions of this clause 10
shall survive the termination of this
Agreement but the restrictions in clause
10.1 shall not prevent the party receiving
the Confidential Information ("the
Receiving Party") from divulging any
part of the Confidential Information:
10.2.1 to such of its employees as
strictly need to receive and consider the
Confidential Information in connection
with the provision of the Service,
provided that it shall procure that each
such "need to know" employee
having access to the Confidential
Information is made aware of the
obligations of secrecy attached thereto
and shall procure that any of its
employees to whom disclosure of the
Confidential Information is made shall
adhere to the terms of this Agreement as
if it were a party thereto;
10.2.2 to the extent necessary to enable
it to exercise any rights or obligations
expressly granted to it by this Agreement;
10.2.3 to its auditors, and any other
persons or bodies having a right, duty or
obligation to know the business of the
Receiving Party and then only in pursuance
of such right, duty or obligation;
10.2.4 to the extent that it is obliged to
divulge such Confidential Information by
any laws or regulations, taxation
authority or by any recognised stock
exchange or by any order of a court of
competent jurisdiction or in the course of
any legal proceedings provided that in
such circumstances the Receiving Party
shall have, so far as it is legally able
to do so, immediately notified the
disclosing party of its obligation to
disclose to enable the disclosing party to
seek appropriate means to prevent the
disclosure or waive compliance with this
clause 11 and taken such steps as the
disclosing party may reasonably require
for that purpose.
10.3 The Receiving Party undertakes to
ensure that the persons and bodies
mentioned in clause 10.2 are made aware
prior to the disclosure of any part of the
Confidential Information that the same is
confidential and that they owe a duty of
confidence to the other party.
10.4 The restrictions in clause 10.1 shall
not apply to Confidential Information:
10.4.1 which at the time of acquisition by
the Receiving Party is already in the
possession of the Receiving Party and at
its free disposal, or in the public
domain;
10.4.2 which enters the public domain at
any time hereafter through no fault of the
Receiving Party;
10.4.3 which is acquired by the Receiving
Party in good faith from third party
sources unconnected with and owing no duty
of confidentiality to Cleverbooks; or
10.4.4 which is acquired by the Recipient
through its own independent research.
10.5 The Receiving Party shall promptly
notify the other party if it becomes aware
of any breach of confidence by any person
to whom the Receiving Party divulges all
or any part of the Confidential
Information and shall give the other party
all reasonable assistance in connection
with any proceedings which the other party
may institute against such person for
breach of confidence.
10.6 The Receiving Party hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally
indemnifies and shall hold fully
indemnified the other party from and
against any and all actions, proceedings,
losses, damages, liabilities, obligations,
costs, claims, charges and expenses
suffered or incurred by the other party of
whatsoever nature arising out of or in
connection with any breach of this clause
10 by the Receiving Party.
11. CUSTOMER'S TRADE MARKS
11.1 Subject to clauses 11.2 and 11.3
below, neither party may use the other's
logo, name and/or trade marks without the
other party's prior written consent.
11.2 The Customer agrees that Cleverbooks
may use the Customer's logo, name and
trade marks in connection with Cleverbooks's
advertising and marketing materials but
only in accordance with clause 11.3 below.
11.3 Cleverbooks shall submit all
advertising and marketing materials which
incorporate the Customer's logo, name
and/or trade marks to the Customer before
publication. The Customer shall have a
period of seven (7) business days
commencing on the date on which Cleverbooks
sends the materials in which to notify Cleverbooks
as to whether the Customer approves or
disapproves the materials, such approval
not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. If the Customer does not
communicate its approval or disapproval to
Cleverbooks within such seven day period,
the Customer shall be deemed to have
approved the materials.
12. FORCE MAJEURE
12.1 Cleverbooks shall not be liable to
the Customer for any breach or
non-performance of its obligations under
this Agreement resulting from causes
beyond its reasonable control (an
"Event of Force Majeure")
including, but not limited to, Acts of
God, governmental act, war, fire, drought,
failure of power supply, lock out, strike,
explosion, accident, civil commotion,
refusal of any licence by any
telecommunications body, impossibility or
delay in obtaining materials or telephone
lines.
12.2 Cleverbooks agrees to notify the
Customer immediately upon becoming aware
of an Event of Force Majeure and to use
all reasonable endeavors to overcome the
circumstances affecting its performance
and fulfil all outstanding obligations as
soon as practicable.
12.3 Either party may terminate this
Agreement if Cleverbooks is prevented from
performing its obligations because of an
Event of Force Majeure for more than
thirty (30) consecutive days.
13. ASSIGNMENT
13.1 The Customer shall not, without the
prior written consent of Cleverbooks,
sub-licence, assign or otherwise transfer
or dispose of all or any part of its
rights or obligations under this
Agreement.
13.2 Cleverbooks shall be entitled to
delegate or sub-contract the performance
of all or any part of its obligations
under or in connection with this Agreement
to any third parties.
14. SEVERABILITY
14.1 If at any time any provision of this
Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid
or unenforceable in any respect under the
law of any jurisdiction, that shall not
affect or impair: -
14.1.1 the legality, validity or
enforceability in that jurisdiction of any
other provision of this Agreement; or
14.1.2 the legality, validity or
enforceability under the law of any other
jurisdiction of that or any other
provision of this Agreement.
15. WAIVER
No delay, omission or forbearance by
either party to exercise or enforce any
right, power or remedy arising under or in
connection with this Agreement shall
operate as a waiver thereof, and any
single or partial exercise or enforcement
thereof shall not preclude any other or
further exercise or enforcement thereof or
the exercise or enforcement of any other
right, power or other remedy.
16. DATA PROTECTION
The Customer consents to Cleverbooks using
their personal information in accordance
with Cleverbooks's Privacy Policy.
17. NOTICES
All notices shall be made in writing and
sent by prepaid first class post, by
facsimile, e-mail or delivered by hand to,
in the case of Cleverbooks, it's
registered address, in the case of the
Customer, to the address notified to Cleverbooks
by the Customer (or to such other address
as each party may from time to time notify
in writing to the other party). Any notice
served by facsimile or e-mail shall be
deemed served at the time of transmission
provided the sender can show satisfactory
transmission and posts a hard copy of the
notice within 24 hours of service provided
that if any such notice would otherwise be
deemed to be served outside working hours,
such notice shall be deemed to be served
at the start of working hours on the next
business day. Any notice served by post
shall be deemed served two business days
after the date of posting and any notice
delivered by hand, upon delivery.
18. MISCELLANEOUS
18.1 This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement and understanding between the
parties relating to the subject matter
hereof and supersedes all prior
agreements, arrangements and undertakings
between the parties relating to such
subject matter. The Customer acknowledges
that by entering into this Agreement it
has not relied on any representations,
promises or warranties (written or oral)
which are not expressly set out in this
Agreement and accordingly, any implied
conditions, representations, warranties or
other terms are, save as to fraud, hereby
excluded to the fullest extent permitted
by law.
18.2 It is acknowledged and agreed by both
parties that neither the entry into nor
the performance of the terms of this
Agreement constitutes or shall constitute
a partnership or joint venture between the
parties.
18.3 Nothing in this Agreement shall be
deemed or construed to constitute either
party or any of its officers or employees,
the agent or the legal representative of
the other party for any reason whatsoever
except only as and to the extent
specifically stated in this Agreement and,
except as so stated, neither party is
hereby granted any right or authority to
act for, or to incur, assume or create any
obligation, responsibility or liability,
express or implied, in the name of or on
behalf of the other party or to bind the
other party in any manner whatsoever.
19. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
No person other than the parties to this
Agreement shall have any rights to enforce
any provision of this Agreement.
20. LAW
This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with Australian
law and the parties hereto agree to submit
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the South
Australian courts.