Terms of Use

WEM hereby grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service, solely for Your own internal business purposes, subject to these Terms of Use. All rights not expressly granted to You are reserved by WEM and its licensors. You may not use the Service for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes, or disclose the results of any such benchmark to any third party. You shall not (i) license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute or otherwise commercially exploit the Service in any way; (ii) modify or make derivative works based upon the Service; (iii) remove or modify any markings or notices of proprietary rights in the Service; (iv) reverse engineer the Service; (v) send spam or otherwise duplicative or unsolicited messages in violation of applicable laws; (vi) send or store infringing, obscene, threatening, libelous, or otherwise unlawful or tortious material, including material harmful to children or violative of third party privacy rights; (vii) send or store material containing software viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful computer code, files, scripts, agents or programs; (viii) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or the data contained therein; or (ix) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks. You consent to use the Service in accordance with any technical- and usage limitations, including but not limited to the number of users, number of applications, disk storage, RAM, number and type of integrations, geography and traffic. During the term of the Agreement and for a period of three years following its termination, WEM may, after 30 days advance written notice, inspect and audit Your records to verify compliance with the Agreement, these Terms of Use and other terms and conditions. You agree to cooperate with the audit, provide us with reasonable assistance and access to information.

You are responsible for all activity occurring under Your accounts. You shall abide by all applicable laws, treaties and regulations in connection with Your use of the Service, including, without limitation, those related to data privacy, international communications and the transmission of technical or personal data. You shall treat the account information, access and identification codes as confidential and with due care. You shall: (i) notify WEM immediately of any unauthorized use of any password or account or any other known or suspected breach of security; (ii) report to WEM immediately and use reasonable efforts to stop immediately any copying or distribution of (parts of) Services that is known or suspected by You (iii) not impersonate another WEM User or provide false identity information to gain access to or use the Service.

As between WEM and You, You own all rights, title and interest, including all related intellectual or industrial property rights, in and to any Customer Data & Customer Deliverables and WEM hereby assigns and transfers to You any rights, title or interest WEM may acquire in any Customer Deliverables upon receipt of payment in full from You. Subject to these Terms of Use, and during the term for which You have a right to use the Service, WEM hereby grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and terminable license to use any Content incorporated in the Customer Deliverables, solely in connection with Your authorized use of the Service.

WEM alone, and its licensors where applicable, shall own all right, title and interest, including all related intellectual or industrial property rights, in and to all Services of WEM (including all its algorithms, user interfaces, know-how, techniques, designs and other tangible or intangible technical material or information) and any Feedback. These Terms of Use are not a sale and does not convey to You any rights of ownership in or related to the Service or the intellectual property rights owned by WEM. The WEM name, the WEM logo, and the product names associated with the Service are trademarks of WEM or third parties, and no right or license is granted to use them. WEM may use Your logos and reference Your name and the nature of the Services provided hereunder in WEM marketing efforts, including on the WEM web site.

WEM’s privacy and security policies may be viewed at the Privacy Policy Page. WEM reserves the right to modify its privacy and security policies in its discretion from time to time. By providing WEM Your email address You consent to our using the email address to send You Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, changes to features of the Service and special offers. WEM’s implementation, development and operations teams shall have the right to access and use Your account information, and Customer Data for the purpose of delivery of the Service, respond to service or technical problems, on Your request, or to provide Professional Services. WEM shall be entitled to change the account, access- and identification codes assigned.

WEM may offer a portion or specific editions of the Service free of use. It is under sole discretion of WEM to specify the conditions for free use and WEM deems the right to modify these conditions of free use at any time. For non-free portions or features of the service, the Service may be made available to You for an initial free trial period of up to thirty days from Your acceptance of these Terms of Use. If You do not purchase a paid subscription for the Service from WEM prior to the conclusion of the free trial period, Your access to these non-free portions of the Service may be suspended and any Customer Data that is uploaded to these non-free portions of the Service may be deleted. If You wish to continue using the Service, You must contact WEM and purchase a paid subscription for Your continued use of such Service.

WEM shall implement commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure availability, confidentiality and integrity with respect to the Services, the Customer Data and personal information. However, unless explicitly otherwise agreed in writing between Parties, the Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind and the Services are accessed or used by You at Your own risk and without any right to support, maintenance, updates or any other services. WEM and its licensors make no representation, warranty, or guaranty as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy or completeness of the Service. WEM and its licensors do not represent or warrant that (a) the use of the Service will be secure, timely, uninterrupted or error-free or operate in combination with any hardware, software, system or data (b) the Service will meet Your requirements or expectations, (c) any stored data will be accurate or reliable, (d) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by You through the Service will meet Your Requirements or expectations, (e) errors or defects will be corrected, or (f) the Service or the server(s) that make the Service available are free of viruses or other harmful components. All conditions, representations and warranties, whether express, implied statutory or otherwise, including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third party rights, are hereby disclaimed to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law by WEM and its licensors. The Service may be subject to limitations, delays, and other problems inherent in the use of the internet and electronic communications. WEM is not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or other damage resulting from such problems.

WEM shall not be responsible for any Customer Data. You, not WEM, shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all Customer Data, and WEM shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any Customer Data. WEM reserves the right to establish or modify its general practices and limits relating to storage of Customer Data. You represent and warrant that You have not falsely identified yourself nor provided any false information to gain access to the Service.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WEM’S LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE AND/OR THESE TERMS OF USE AND/OR ANY AGREEMENT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO WEM TO USE THE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE CLAIM. IN NO EVENT SHALL WEM AND/OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES OR COSTS OF ANY TYPE OR KIND (INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE, PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE OR OTHER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE) ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE SERVICE AND/OR THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, ANY INTERRUPTION, INACCURACY, ERROR OR OMISSION, EVEN IF WEM AND/OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR COULD HAVE REASONABLY FORESEEN THEM. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SECTION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS.

You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless WEM, its licensors and each such party’s parent organizations, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents from and against any and all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of or in connection with: (i) a (alleged) claim that You violate any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity rights or intellectual property rights; (ii) a claim arising from the breach by You or Your Users of the Agreement or these Terms of Use or any law, rule, regulation or treaty; (iv) third-party claims on account of product liability due to a deficiency in a Service delivered by You to a third party that consisted in part of hardware, software, websites, databases or other materials supplied by WEM.

WEM may give notice by means of a general notice on the Service, electronic mail to Your e-mail address on record in WEM’s account information, or by written communication sent by first class mail or pre-paid post to Your address on record in WEM’s account information. Such notice shall be deemed to have been given upon the expiration of 48 hours after mailing or posting (if sent by first class mail or pre-paid post) or 12 hours after sending (if sent by email). You may give notice to WEM (such notice shall be deemed given when received by WEM) at any time by any of the following: letter delivered by nationally recognized overnight delivery service or first class postage prepaid mail to WEM at the following address: WEM, Hogehilweg 8, 1101CC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, addressed to the attention of: Chief Executive Officer.

Neither Agreements nor (the rights delivered from) these Terms of Use may be transferred or assigned by You without the prior written approval of WEM. The obligations arising from these Terms of Use and/or Agreements may be assigned by WEM without notice to You and without Your consent. Any transfer or assignment in violation of this section shall be null and void. Any actual or proposed change in control of You that results or would result in a direct competitor of WEM directly or indirectly owning or controlling 50% or more of You shall entitle WEM to terminate the Agreement or (any rights delivered from) these Terms of Use for cause immediately upon written notice.

WEM shall not be bound to fulfill any obligation if prevented from doing so by force majeure. Insofar as not already included, force majeure shall further mean instances of strikes, company sit-ins, blockades, embargoes, government measures, war, revolution and/or any similar state, power failures, faults in electronic communication lines, cable breaks, fires, explosions, water damage, lightning damage, natural disasters, flooding and/or earthquake, shortage of and/or sickness of personnel and non-fulfillment by suppliers of WEM or force majeure on the part of suppliers of WEM.

All agreed prices and rates may be increased on 1 January each in accordance with the most recently published price index published by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) for collectively bargained wages in the business services sector. These price increases give You no right to cancel the Agreement. WEM reserves the right to increase the agreed prices and rates once a year over and above the annual price index-linking subject to notification of You at least four weeks in advance. All delivery times, cost estimates and budgets issued by the WEM shall be merely indicative, unless explicitly otherwise agreed in writing between the Parties.

An Agreement concluded for a fixed term shall be tacitly renewed on expiry of the contractual term by one year, unless a Party has terminated the Agreement by giving written notice two months prior to expiry of the initial contractual term or renewal period. An Agreement concluded for an open-ended term may be terminated by either Party, subject to prior consultation, through written notice that states the reasons for termination. Termination will take place on the first day of the month following the written notice and cannot take place until after expiry of the minimum term if one has been agreed. If You cancel a service prior to expiry of the contractual term (minimum or otherwise), WEM shall be entitled to the remaining charges that would have been owed if the Agreement had not been cancelled in the interim. WEM shall be entitled to terminate any Agreement and/or the providing of Services in part or in full, with immediate effect, in writing, without notice of default if (i) You are granted a moratorium of payments, provisionally or otherwise, (ii) a winding-up petition is filed in respect of You, (iii) Your company is wound up or terminated for reasons other than reconstruction or the merger of companies (iv) You are violating these Terms of Use, any Agreement or any other applicable terms or conditions. WEM shall under no circumstances be obliged to reimburse any sums of money that have already been received or to pay any compensation in the event of such termination. You agree that WEM may terminate the providing of any gratuitous Services at any time, for any reason and without prior notice. You agree that WEM shall not be liable to You and/or any third party for any modification, suspension, or termination of the Service. The following Sections shall survive the termination and/or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 3 (Your Intellectual Property Rights); 4 (WEM’s Intellectual Property Rights); 7 (Representations & Warranties); 8 (Limitation of Liability); 9 (Indemnification); and 16 (Final Provisions).

WEM reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use and its policies relating to the Service at any time and without notice, effective upon posting of an updated version of these Terms of Use on the Service. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms of Use. Continued use of the Service after any such changes shall constitute Your consent to such changes.

Dutch law shall govern Agreements and these Terms of Use. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 is excluded under all circumstances. Any disputes between Parties arising from or related to Agreements or these Terms of Use shall be exclusively submitted to a court of law with jurisdiction in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. These Terms of Use, together with any other legal notices and Agreements shall constitute the entire Agreement between You and WEM concerning the delivery of Services. If (parts of) provisions in these Terms of Use, Agreements or annexes are or become unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, the surviving provisions or the valid part of the invalid provision shall remain fully in force and enforceable, without any consequences for the other obligations of Parties. The unlawful, invalid or unenforceable provision shall be deemed replaced by a provision that as far as possible has the same legal and commercial purport.

“Agreement”, “Contract”: the arrangements agreed in a form or a document or in some other way, under which WEM will deliver the Services or any other products or services defined therein.

“Content”: the audio and visual information, documents, software, products, services, proprietary tools, source code samples, generic templates and reusable components, App Store content, libraries, know-how, techniques and expertise, (i) contained or made available to you in the course of using the Service, or (ii) used or developed by WEM in the course of developing or delivering Customer Deliverables.

“Customer Data”: any data, information or material, including posts, comments, documents, project information, models, applications, templates, code, widgets, themes, application data, user information and account information, provided, submitted, created, saved, added, uploaded or made available by You to the Service in the course of using or accessing the Service, except Services (or parts thereof) and Feedback.

“Customer Deliverables”: means deliverables that are provided by WEM as part of Professional Services that: (i) constitute Customer Data, or a modification, translation, abridgment or adaptation of Customer Data, or (ii) are expressly identified as being owned by You in the applicable Order Form or SOW, the term “Customer Deliverable(s)” does not include Content.

“Feedback”: any suggestions, ideas, enhancement (requests), recommendations or other feedback provided by You or any other party relating to the Services.

“WEM”, “Us”, “Our”, “We”: (a corporation under the law of the Netherlands) and/or any affiliated or subsidiary company.

“Party”, “Parties”: You or WEM individually (‘Party’) or together (‘Parties’).

“Professional Services”: fee-based consulting, quality assurance or training services WEM may perform pursuant to a statement of work (“SOW”) or Order Form issued pursuant to these Terms of Use. Each SOW or Order Form shall be deemed part of and subject to these Terms of Use.

“Service”, “Services”: means all products, services of WEM, including but not limited to websites, Modeler, Content (as defined above), applications, other software, My WEM Portal, platform as a service, documentation and manuals, except Customer Data.

“Terms of Use”: these Terms of Use, together with the documents referred to in these Terms of Use.

“You”, “User(s)”: anyone who entered into an Agreement with WEM or uses or accesses a Service of WEM, including Your employees, representatives, consultants, contractors or agents who are authorized to use or access the Service of WEM or have been supplied user identifications and passwords by You (or by WEM at Your request), even if no charge is due or registration is needed.