GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
- SCOPE
These terms and conditions (“Terms”), which supersede all previous commitments and/or agreements of the parties regarding the subject matter hereof and may only be amended by a written agreement executed by both parties, constitute, pursuant to Article L441- 1 III of the Commercial Code, the unique grounds of the business relationship between PostProcess Technologies, an SAS with share capital of €300,000 having its registered office at 49 Impasse du Hameau 06250 Mougins, FRANCE, registered under number 841 565 211 RCS Grasse (“PostProcess”) and the purchaser of its Products or user of its Software or Services (“Customer”). PostProcess agrees to sell to Customer, and Customer commits to purchase, the Products, Software and/or Services set forth in any purchase order accepted by PostProcess (which acceptance forms a contract of sale between the Parties) or any other PostProcess-approved written mutual purchase agreement. Customer’s terms and conditions shall be inapplicable and unenforceable against PostProcess. By sending a purchase order (“Purchase Order”) to PostProcess, Customer acknowledges to have read and to accept the present Terms previously communicated to Customer.
Definitions:
- Products: machines, parts for machines, and consumables for use in the machines (“Products”).
- Services: benchmarking of Customer’s parts (or Customer’s customers’ parts) using our products, installation and testing of products, training and support for use of products, maintenance and repair of products, and warranty and extended warranty services (“Services”). Certain Services may be offered under additional terms and conditions.
- Software and Documentation: Products may include software, including but not limited to program code, technical documentation, instructions, and updates to any of the foregoing that PostProcess may provide from time to time (collectively “Software”). PostProcess hereby grants Customer a non-exclusive, nontransferable, revocable, and limited license to use the Software for internal purposes and solely in conjunction with the use of the product to which it relates. Customer acknowledges that the Software may also be subject to additional terms and conditions set forth in executable or electronic license agreements, which shall control and govern all such licensed software use to the extent necessary to resolve any conflict with these Terms. All rights not expressly granted herein or in such additional license agreements are reserved. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, any use herein of the terms “sale” or “purchase” or a similar term in connection with Software shall only mean a license of such software in accordance with these Terms.
- RESTRICTIONS
Customer agrees that Customer shall not directly or indirectly:
- Reverse engineer the Products, any part thereof, or any composition made using the Products;
- Modify, enhance, adapt, translate, make improvements to, create derivative works based upon, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, reduce to any human or machine perceivable form, or circumvent any technological measure that controls access to or permits derivation of the source code of, the Software or any part thereof;
- Copy any part of the Software except for one (1) complete copy thereof for archival and/or back-up purposes, or as otherwise expressly authorized by PostProcess in writing;
- Change, distort, or delete any patent, copyright or other proprietary notices which appear in writing on or in a Product (or in any copies of Software);
- Operate or make use of the Products or Software in any way violative of applicable laws and regulations; and/or
- Rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, or sublicense the rights granted hereunder, except in connection with the rental, lease, sale or transfer of the entire Product. In the event Customer rents, leases, sells or otherwise transfers a Product to a third party, Customer agrees that Customer will require such third party to be bound by the provisions of the Terms relating to Software, restrictions and intellectual property rights.
- MACHINE DATA
Products and/or Software may generate data concerning testing, installation, operation, servicing and maintenance of the Products and Software as well as the efficiency and efficacy of the Products and Software, including with respect to Customer’s use thereof including without limitation to benchmark or otherwise process Customer (or Customer’s customer) parts (collectively “Data”). PostProcess shall have the right to access, analyze, use and retain copies of the Data in any manner, including without limitation to improve its products and Software.
- PRICE AND PAYMENT
Customer shall pay for the Products, Software and/or Services as and within the time frames, or by the due dates specified, in the Purchase Order. All prices are exclusive of all applicable taxes. Late payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1% per month, in addition to the lump sum of €40 for recovery costs incurred under Articles L.441-6 and D.441-5 of the Commercial Code. Customer may not cancel a Purchase Order. PostProcess may cancel or postpone any Purchase Order in the case of late payment, without prejudice of any other action.
- DELIVERY, TITLE AND RISK OF LOSS
Delivery is made Ex Works at PostProcess’ designated facility, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties in the Purchase Order, with respect to shipping costs, risk of loss and title transfer; provided, however, that title transfer shall never occur for any software. PostProcess will attempt to meet Customer’s requested delivery date but cannot and does not warrant quoted shipment or delivery dates or time frames.
Title further shall not pass to Customer until PostProcess has received full payment of any and all amounts due.
- INSTALLATION AND TRAINING
To the extent specified in the Purchase Order, PostProcess or its authorized representative will install the Products (including Software) at Customer’s designated facility and provide training to Customer’s designated personnel on the use of the Products, provided that: (a) PostProcess has received all payments due by then; and (b) Customer has completed all applicable site preparations for installation as specified by applicable product documentation, or as otherwise specified by PostProcess, and as required by law (including but not limited to health and safety laws). Where applicable and required by PostProcess, PostProcess or its authorized representative will perform standard testing of the Products and, upon successful testing, will present Customer with a certificate of acceptable testing which Customer agrees to sign and constitutes Customer’s acceptance of the Products to the extent not previously established.
- WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The warranties set forth in this Article 7 are the only ones granted to the Customer, and are exclusive and in lieu of all other warranties, any and all of which are expressly disclaimed. The remedies provided in this Article 7 shall be the Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy hereunder, and except for such remedies, PostProcess shall not be liable to the Customer. PostProcess does not warrant that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free.
- Warranty Period
The standard limited warranty period for machine Products and Software is one (1) year or, if sooner, upon two thousand (2,000) hours of cumulative use of the Product. The aforesaid warranty period commences upon delivery of the Products or, if later and applicable, PostProcess’ proffer of a certificate of acceptable testing. The standard warranty period for consumable Products shall be (if any) as expressly identified in the product literature current as of the time of order or on the product label. The standard warranty for Services shall be (if any) as expressly identified in the applicable services agreement. The parties may agree in signed writing to a shorter or longer warranty period.
- Enforcement of the warranty
For the applicable warranty period, PostProcess warrants that:
- Products shall be free from defects in materials and workmanship;
- Software shall perform substantially in accordance with its published documentation; and
- Services shall be performed in a professional and workmanlike manner.
PostProcess’ sole obligation and Customer’s sole remedy under a valid warranty claim shall be: (a) in the case of Products, to repair or replace, at its sole option, the Product; (b) in the case of Software, to use commercially reasonable efforts to resolves inconsistencies between the functionality of such Software and its published specifications; and (c) in the case of Services, as (and if) expressly set out in the applicable agreement.
- Exclusions – Limitation of liability
PostProcess’ limited warranty obligations hereunder shall terminate and shall not apply in any case where the Product, Software or Service fails to meet its warranty due in whole or in part to any one or more of: (i) Customer’s fault or negligence; (ii) improper or unauthorized use or use in violation of applicable laws or regulations; (iii) use of any parts or consumable materials in machine products other than those pre-authorized by PostProcess; (iv) installation, modification or repair other than by PostProcess or its authorized representative; and (v) deviation from maintenance procedures, operating environments or other conditions recommended by PostProcess, including as specified in applicable product instructions and documentation. PostProcess’s liability hereunder shall be limited to the amount paid by the Client to PostProcess for the Product, Software or Service giving rise to the Customer’s claim. Any action for liability against PostProcess on the basis of the warranty or defect of the Products, Software or Services must be brought within twelve (12) months from the date on which the Customer has noticed or should have noticed the existence of the breach invoked.
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
PostProcess and/or its affiliated companies and suppliers (collectively “PostProcess Group”) is the sole owner of all Intellectual Property that relates to the Products, Software and Services and the use thereof. No right or license in Intellectual Property other than those provided in these Terms or required by law is granted to Customer. “Intellectual Property” shall mean any and all PostProcess and, as relevant, PostProcess Group, copyrights and similar rights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, software, documentation, technical and manufacturing techniques, concepts, methods, designs, specifications and other proprietary information relating to the Products, Software or Services of PostProcess and/or of the PostProcess Group.
- CONFIDENTIALITY
Customer agrees to hold all confidential or proprietary information (including, without limitation, technology, software, ideas, know-how, processes, specifications, technical data, configurations, algorithms and trade secrets) that is disclosed by PostProcess (collectively, “Confidential Information“) in strictest confidence, and agrees not to use any Confidential Information for any purpose outside the purchase, sale and use of Products, Software and Services, and not to disclose the Confidential Information to any third party, except to those employees of Customer who are bound by written restrictions at least as protective of PostProcess’ Confidential Information as those provided herein, and who must be given access to the Confidential Information solely to use the Products, Software or Services in accordance with these Terms. Upon execution of a non-disclosure agreement satisfactory to PostProcess, its Confidential Information may also be disclosed to Customer’s consultants who have been retained to perform services in connection with the Products, Software or Services, provided that Customer shall remain liable for any breach of such agreement, or damage or loss incurred as a result of such breach, by any such consultants. In the event that Customer and PostProcess enter into a confidentiality agreement before or after the date upon which these Terms become applicable with respect to the same subject matter covered by these Terms, Customer’s obligations under these Terms and such separate agreement shall be cumulative.
- CUSTOMER IDENTITY
Customer hereby permits PostProcess to use the name and logo of Customer publicly to identify Customer as a customer.
- NOTICES
All notices and other communications under or relating to these Terms shall be deemed effectively made at the address mentioned at the top, or at any other address later communicated to Customer by PostProcess by any means of communication (email, facsimile, registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt) where there is delivery receipt.
- GENERAL
The parties hereto are independent contractors.
Customer may not assign or transfer these Terms or the rights granted hereunder without PostProcess’ prior written consent. Subject to the foregoing, Customer’s rights or obligations under these Terms shall be binding upon each party’s respective permitted successors and assigns.
PostProcess reserves the rights to terminate and revoke these Terms and terminate its relationship with Customer at any time following Customer’s breach of any of these Terms, and such termination shall be effective immediately upon written notice thereof to Customer. Upon termination for any reason, Customer shall immediately cease use of any Software not embedded within the Products, delete or destroy all copies in its possession, including that which may have been provided to contractors or consultants, and execute and deliver to PostProcess a certification evidencing same.
The unenforceability of any provision of these Terms adjudged by a court shall in no way affect the enforceability of any other provision hereof. Any provision so adjudged to be unenforceable shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to render it enforceable, preserving most fully permissible the intent of the parties set forth herein.
Any modification or amendment by PostProcess of any provision of these Terms must be in writing and signed the Parties.
The provisions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 13 shall survive termination of the parties’ business relationship.
These Terms are drafted in French and in English. The French text shall prevail in case of litigation.
- APPLICABLE LAW – COMPETENCE
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of France, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof and/or to the United Nations Convention for the Sale of Goods of April 11, 1980. ANY DISPUTE IN RELATION TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF PARIS, AND POSTPROCESS SHALL NOT BE SUMMONED BEFORE ANY OTHER COURT, EVEN WHERE SEVERAL DEFENDANTS ARE INVOLVED OR IN CASE OF IMPLEADING; AND THE JURISDICTIONAL CLAUSES CONTAINED IN CUSTOMER’S BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTATION SHALL NOT BE ENFORCEABLE AGAINST THIS CLAUSE.