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Timestamp: 2019-03-22 04:36:30
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Geomarketing Terms and Conditions | GfK Master
Geomarketing Terms and Conditions
F) Annex 2: Additional Licensed Product Provisions and Details for TomTom Products
General terms and consitions
General Terms of Business of GfK GeoMarketing GmbH (GfK GeoMarketing), Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 9, Building 6508, 76646 Bruchsal, Germany.
These General Terms & Conditions of Business (GTCB) govern the entire business relationship with our customers. They apply only where the customer is a merchant (§ 14 German Civil Code - BGB), a legal entity under public law or a special asset under public law. Our GTCB apply exclusively.
Differing, conflicting or additional GTCB of the customer shall not apply unless explicitly acknowledged in writing as an element of contract in the case in point. That shall apply even if we render a service unconditionally in knowledge of the customers GTCB.
Individual agreements made with the customer in individual cases shall in any event take precedence over these GTCB. With any amendment of the GTCB, the version in force upon conclusion of the contract concerned shall apply.
§ 2 Binding to offers
Our offers and all information on projects and services are always without obligation unless stated by us or identifiable as binding. The sending of a pre-signed contract shall be deemed a binding offer. To the extent no binding period is indicated, we regard ourselves as bound to any binding offer for one month.
We shall be liable towards the customer for statutory or contractual liability situations in the event of malicious intent and gross negligence and for concealment of any fault with intent to deceive. In cases of normal negligence, we shall be liable only
a) for losses due to injury to life, limb or health,
b) for losses ensuing from breach of material contractual duties (duties of which their fulfilment makes proper execution of contract possible in the first place and adherence to which the contract party is entitled to expect). In that case, our liability shall be for reimbursement of the foreseeable losses typically occurring in such cases. The amount of compensation thereby is limited to the total amount of the net fee agreed for the individual order concerned, with contracts over multiple years of the contract year concerned, limited in any event to at most one million Euros. Compensation for missed profits, indirect losses and unforeseeable consequential losses shall be precluded.
We provide no guarantee that the contractual output can be commercially analysed by the customer in a particular manner.
The liability limitations set out above shall not apply to claims under the [German] Product Liability Act (Produkt-haftungsgesetz) or to claims under special guarantee commitments or assumption of risk.
The liability limitations set out above shall also apply to the personal liability of our employees, representatives and boards.
Liability agreements made individually shall remain unaffected by the above provisions.
If the service is rendered against invoice, the invoice amount is due for payment immediately without deduction of cash discount. Invoice amounts are stated exclusive of value-added tax. Payment shall take place without offsetting or deduction of taxes of any kind. The customer shall be deemed in arrears if it does not remit payment within 14 days of the due date and receipt of the invoice.
A payment is deemed made only when we can finally dispose of the amount, i.e.
with bank transfer when credited to our account,
with any delivery of goods or shipment of software against cash on delivery after a credit note from the delivery service entrusted with the delivery,
with payment by cheque upon clearance of the cheque by the customer’s bank.
Bills of exchange or cheques will only be accepted by special agreement and only by way of fulfilment and shall be deemed payment only when cleared, Discount and direct debit fees are for the account of the ordering party. These are due immediately.
§ 5 Subscription contracts
A subscription contract is concluded for the delivery of the product and the subsequent Updates for a defined term.
If a subscription contract has been concluded it shall apply for a period of 36 months unless agreed otherwise. It shall renew for one further year in each case unless terminated with notice of three months for the end of the contract. The subscription includes delivery of the updates appearing during its term (on average max. 1 p.a.). Any INHOUSE License delivered within the subscription shall apply even after termination of the subscription, other licenses lapse upon termination of the subscription.
The price of the subscription is calculated per annum and is due at the beginning of the contract year concerned.
We reserve the right, upon expiry of the minimum contract term, to increase the price of the subscription. Any such increase shall be announced no later than one month before expiry of the notice period with which the contract can ordinarily be terminated before the price increase goes into effect. The price increase shall be effective as long as the customer continues the contract.
§ 6 Right to withhold and offsetting
Any offsetting against our claim shall be precluded unless the customer’s counterclaim is undisputed or legally enforceable, or based upon a claim arising from a non-cash claim entitling us to deny service or based upon claims to damages from the reciprocal relationship.
Any right of the customer to withhold shall be precluded unless the customer’s counterclaim stems from the same contractual relationship.
§ 7 Choice of law, place of jurisdiction
The contractual relationship is subject to German law. Application of UN purchasing law (CISG) shall be precluded.
Exclusive – also international – place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising directly or indirectly from the contractual relationship is the competent court in Karlsruhe, as long as the customer
is a merchant as defined by the German Commercial Code (HGB), or
is a legal entity under public law or a special asset under public law, or
has no general place of jurisdiction in Germany.
We remain entitled at any time to also file suit at the customer’s general place of jurisdiction.
§ 1 Subject of this section
The provisions of this section apply to services, in particular expert opinions, consulting services and projects, resp. project support, in the sense of consulting services (hereinafter “Assignment”) and apply in addition to the provisions of section A.
§ 2 Exclusivity
We remain free at any time to also render the same types of service, analyses or research under the assignment, even concerning the same subjects of research or using the same research methods, for other market participants unless exclusivity has been explicitly agreed on an individual basis
In cases of doubt, our general hourly and daily rates, or where necessary the remuneration usual on the market, shall apply to services agreed and rendered without the level of remuneration having been explicitly agreed.
If the customer cancels services pursuant to § 649 BGB, the fee shall be due pro rata for partial services already rendered, in cases of doubt based upon the expenses or working days already incurred. For services not rendered, the fee shall be due with the proviso that a flat rate of 50% shall be deducted for saved expenses and use elsewhere of the resources except where either party can demonstrate that these are higher or lower.
§ 4 Expenses, travel costs and outlay
In addition to the remuneration, the necessary and reasonable expenses, travel costs and other outlay incurred within the context of carrying out the assignment shall be reimbursed.
Unless agreed otherwise, the travel costs policy enclosed as an attachment to these General Terms & Conditions of business, including the flat rates mentioned there, shall apply. To the extent no provision has been agreed there, the reasonable costs actually incurred and demonstrated shall be reimbursed.
§ 5 Conduct of assignment
We carry out the assignment to the best of our knowledge according to a modern state of knowledge and methodology and the generally accepted technical standards.
Should it transpire after award of the assignment (conclusion of contract) that the service to be rendered by us, to the extent it involves the analysis of an objective situation (e.g. site or market analyses) resp. research for methodological reasons (e.g. determination of data of a target group), for reasons that neither the customer nor we could have foreseen and represented, cannot be carried out, we shall inform the customer forthwith. If neither party can find a methodological solution to the problem, both parties shall be entitle to give the assignment back as infeasible. In this case, services or partial services already rendered shall be paid for.
We shall be allowed to award sub-contracts in fulfilment of our tasks. We affirm that the required confidentiality is assured when awarding sub-contacts.
§ 6 Cooperation
a) Coordination and contact persons
For appropriate coordination of any cooperation (project) required to fulfil the assignment, the customer on the one hand, and we on the other hand, shall appoint at least one firm contact person for the project. The legally relevant communication takes place solely between those contact persons and must be adequately documented. This shall not detract from the possibility to agree technical and organisational details at a clerical level.
b) Assistance by the customer, consequences of delayed assistance or failure to assist
To the extent fulfilment of the assignment requires assistance by the customer, this must take place in the form necessary and on a timely basis. A schedule should be drawn up for assistance and fulfilment of the assignment.
If assistance is not provided or provided too late or poorly, or where an addendum or amendment of the service is ordered, the schedule for the project shall be extended without separate agreement by the time necessary using reasonable resources, also through the replanning. The additional time and the new schedule shall be notified to the customer without undue delay. As long as the customer does not object to the notification forthwith, as a rule within one week, it shall be assumed that the extension determined in the notification represents the objective delay to the project. We may demand the agreed remuneration, and where nothing in particular has been agreed, reasonable remuneration for significant additional expense through the change of the service or additional expense incurred through poor or late assistance or assistance not provided.
If any assistance necessary is not rendered, or the manner in which the assignment is fulfilled is contrary to the customer’s expectations, or other difficulties arise, this shall be notified forthwith to the contact person of the other party. If the problem has nonetheless not been resolved within a reasonable notice period, as a rule one week, after that notification, that shall be reported to the senior management of the other party. The management teams shall have one week’s time to solve the problem.
Any rescission or other dissolution of contract or other legal measures shall be permitted only after these notifications and expiry of the notice periods mentioned except where delay would entail a risk. The statutory conditions for legal measures, in particular the requirement to set notice pursuant to § 281 BGB, shall remain unaffected.
§ 7 Rights of title and use
Except where agreed otherwise, title to the material produced when carrying out the assignment – data media of all kinds, questionnaires, other written documents etc. – and the data produced, shall remain with us. To the extent title is intended to transfer to the customer, that shall take place only after satisfaction of all our claims under the contract relationship concerned. To the extent these documents relate to investigations for the purpose of scientific market and social research, the anonymity of the respondents or test persons may not be put at risk by any such agreement.
Rights of use under copyright law to the output and materials provided shall pass to the customer only to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of contract; the right to publication remains reserved unless explicitly agreed otherwise in the contract concerned or essential to its purpose.
Without our prior permission, the output and materials may not be forwarded, duplicated, printed or stored in documentation and information systems of any kind, processed or disseminated, including in the form of excerpts and/or for purposes of advertising, as information for customers of our customer or for press publications. To the extent the results are provided to the customer in the form of a database, these provisions shall not apply as long as it concerns merely insignificant parts of that database.
§ 8 Retention requirements
Except where explicitly agreed otherwise, we undertake to retain documents for a period of one year and data media for a period of two years after completion of the assignment.
Both parties undertake to treat all information identified or apparent as confidential and exchanged on both sides within the context of the assignment as strictly confidential and to use it only for the purposes of the assignment. Employees shall be obliged accordingly. This obligation applies even beyond the end of the assignment. This shall not apply to such information for which the other party can demonstrate that it was known to it before being received or was in the public domain before being received or came into the public domain after being received without the receiving party having been responsible therefor.
Information for which a legal or official duty of disclosure exists shall be excepted from this provision.
§ 10 Use of the results
With our services we support the customer in its business decisions. We assume, however, neither the responsibility for the decision nor the business risk ensuing. To the extent the results of our service form the direct basis of a business decision that may entail a loss exceeding the liability defined in section A or any individually agreed liability limits, it is a matter for the customer to inform us of and quantify those risks. It may be possible to cover those risks through a special insurance policy.
The results of our services are available to the customer for internal use only unless we have consented to them being forwarded in full or in part to certain third parties or to their publication for defined editorial purposes or for defined advertising purposes. Forwarding may be made contingent upon other requirements being met.
Competitive comparison publications naming our company or using our logo are permitted only with our explicit prior permission and after we have released the specific text to be published.
To the extent statements or individual passages of any research, analysis, expert opinion etc. carried out by us are intended to be used for advertising purposes, the relevant texts, text elements, data, tables, graphics and/or illustrations must be agreed with us beforehand.
Subject to paramount statutory / administrative regulations or court decisions, use of results developed and/or determined by us ahead of procedures of a legal form (e.g. court procedures, arbitration procedures, official procedures) without our prior written consent is forbidden.
If the customer intends to quote, in full or in part, from analysis or research reports or other documents prepared by us within the context of the assignment, those quotes must be identified as such and name us thereby as the author of the research report. To that extent, the generally accepted rules of scientific work and the provisions of copyright law shall be applied.
The customer indemnifies us for all claims asserted against us because the customer has used the results obtained in an orderly fashion deliberately or negligently in an unlawful or misleading manner, especially through unlawful and/or misleading advertising.
The conditions of this section apply to the provision (licensing) of data, in particular geodata (electronic maps) and statistical data, especially in the form of databases, as well as all forms of software and printed materials (e.g. manuals, printed maps etc.).
§ 2 Scope of service, licences
Except where explicitly agreed otherwise, the customer (licensee) by the grant of the license acquires a simple, non-exclusive right of use (licence) to the licensed electronic maps resp. map data or other databases.
The information on the purchase order/confirmation, of the licence certificate issued by us and our General Conditions of Licensing (section D of these General Terms & Conditions of Business) apply to the scope of the licence granted.
The customer acquires no rights of use whatsoever under copyright law, and in particular no right to duplicate (copying permission) unless explicitly agreed to that effect. Use of the printed copies provided, and the copyright authorisations inevitably associated with that, remains unaffected.
With regard to the licensed programs and data, we warrant their suitability for the typical or contractually presupposed use in combination with the hardware and software required in accordance with the product description in the usual or specified configuration.
In the event of serious deficiencies or serious deviations in function from the program description, we reserve the right to first improve them within a reasonable period through subsequent delivery or delivery of a patch or update. If such improvement is not possible, or not within a reasonable period, the customer remains entitled to reduce the price or rescind the contract.
§ 4 Title and reservation of rights
We reserve any and all rights of use and title to the data media and other goods delivered until full satisfaction of all claims from the licence resp. purchase contract. Until passage of the rights, use of the software under the law of obligations in the scope defined in the licence shall be tolerated until revoked.
If we assert our claims from licenses under reservation of title due to the occurrence of a safeguarding case, the customer must provide us with information about the whereabouts of the original data carriers and any copies it has made, as well as return the original data carriers and delete all other copies.
§ 5 Prices, terms of delivery and payment
Prices apply ex our warehouse and are stated exclusive of any taxes, packing and shipping costs.
Unless agreed otherwise, we are entitled to cash in advance. In that case, we shall be obliged to issue an invoice for tax purposes only upon receipt of payment.
Partial deliveries are permitted. To that extent, the contract shall be deemed partially fulfilled except where the customer cannot reasonably be expected to accept a partial delivery.
Delivery dates are stated subject to circumstances and events beyond our control (“force majeure”) including business interruptions arising through no fault of our own, failure of our suppliers to deliver despite sufficient care or sudden strikes. Should the delivery/service be delayed through force majeure for more than 12 weeks, the customer may withdraw from contract. This period shall be shortened accordingly when the customer cannot reasonably be expected to wait for particular reasons.
§ 6 Disputes regarding intellectual property
If the customer is held liable by a third party with the allegation that our product infringes copyright or other industrial property rights, the customer shall be obliged to inform us forthwith. We shall then be entitled to give the customer instructions for any legal dispute as long as we hold the customer harmless in return for all claims arising against it and, at the request of the customer, provide sufficient security for that risk. This shall not apply when the customer cannot reasonably be expected to litigate based on our instructions for particular reasons.
In the event of third parties asserting protective rights, we shall be entitled to hold the customer harmless for any claims of that third party in the future also by delivering a modified version of the product with largely the same functionality or by retroactively procuring the licences required to the extent doing so ensures use in accordance with contract.
If use in accordance with contract cannot be achieved in this manner under acceptable conditions, both parties shall be entitled to withdraw from contract or terminate without notice. This shall not detract from the possibility of mutual severance of the contract.
E) Webshop AGB
Der Kunde kann aus dem Sortiment Daten, insbesondere Geodaten (elektronische Landkarten) und statistische Daten, insbesondere in Form von Datenbanken (angeboten als Download), sowie Software / Landkarten (angeboten auf Datenträgern) auswählen. Nach Auswahl kann der Kunde per Mausklick auf den entsprechenden Begriff in der Menüleiste die gewünschten Eigenschaften des Produkts durch weitere Mausklicks auf die entsprechenden Untermenüpunkte wählen. Zur vorangegangenen Auswahl gelangt der Kunde durch einen Mausklick auf „Bearbeiten“ zurück. Ist das gewünschte Produkt hinreichend bestimmt, kann es durch einen Mausklick auf „Zur Merkliste hinzufügen“ für den Erwerb vorgemerkt werden. Die bisherige Merkliste des Kunden wird dann angezeigt. Mit einem Mausklick auf „weiter einkaufen“ können weitere Produkte ausgewählt und der Merkliste wie soeben beschrieben hinzugefügt werden.
Gegebenenfalls nach einem Mausklick auf „Merkliste“ in der Menüzeile wird die Merkliste mit dem aktuellen Stand angezeigt. Durch einen Mausklick auf „zur Kasse gehen“ gelangt der Kunde zur Abwicklung des Erwerbsvorgangs.
Zur Gewährleistung gelten die Bestimmungen in Abschnitt C § 3 dieser Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen.
Über den Webshop können ausschließlich Einzelplatzlizenzen als In-House-Lizenzen erworben werden. Es gelten die allgemeinen Lizenzbestimmungen (Abschnitt D) sowie die Bestimmungen in Abschnitt C § 2 dieser Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen.
§ 8 Streitigkeiten um Schutzrechte
Wird der Kunde von Dritten mit der Behauptung konfrontiert, unser Produkt verletze Urheberrechte oder sonstige gewerbliche Schutzrechte, so ist der Kunde verpflichtet, uns diesbezüglich unverzüglich zu informieren. Es gelten insofern die Bestimmungen in Abschnitt C § 6 dieser Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen.
1. Rail journeys:
For rail journeys in Germany, the normal 2nd class fare including the reservation charges payable for the journey concerned will be charged, without accounting for any rebates, such as the “Bahncard” or corporate discounts.
2. Journeys with company or rental cars
A flat rate of €0.55 per driven kilometre will be charged for all car journeys, but with a minimum of €80 per day, to the extent the costs actually documented do not exceed that flat rate.
The actual expense will be charged for air travel.
Unless otherwise agreed, Economy Class will be used on nonstop flights with a pure flying time of up to 5 hours. Business Class may be used on nonstop flights with a flying time of more than 5 hours.
The costs for a medium-class hotel for business travellers, including breakfast, will be charged. If the local hotel standard differs significantly from the central European standard, the standard shall apply that comes closest to the central European medium-class standard.
The reasonable costs actually incurred will be charged for other costs (taxis, local public transport).
6. Subsistence allowance
No subsistence allowance is charged.
(vi) Infogroup logo (no text attribution) to be displayed on all pages, except as detailed in Article 10.2 (vii) ZIP codes may be displayed only one record at a time
(ix) End Users with more than five (5) million page views per month are to be authorized by Infogroup. Following restrictions will apply to usage of the POI Licensed Products for Enterprise Data Usage:
“Enterprise Data Usage” means internal usage within corporations for analysis purposes. The Licensed Products will not be incorporated into a Value Added Product and will not be redistributed in any way.
Only employees of the enterprise will have access to the data.
(iii)No ZIP code display in summary view, ZIP codes may be displayed one (1) record at time
1. MultiNet®. As of the Effective Date, the copyright notice is: “Data Source © <current year> TomTom”; and, in addition, “based on”:
7.MultiNet® Administrative Areas: