FRING™ BETA SOFTWARE END-USER LICENSE
IMPORTANT - READ CAREFULY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (THESE “TERMS”)
BEFORE INSTALLING OR DOWNLOAD THE FRING™ BETA SOFTWARE FROM THE
WWW.FRING.COM WEBSITE (THE “SITE”). THESE
TERMS ARE AVAILABLE AT
WWW.FRING.COM/LICENSE.HTM. YOU
ALSO AGREE TO BE BOUND BY FRING'S TERM OF USE AVAILABLE AT
WWW.FRING.COM/TERMS.HTM
AND FRING'S PRIVACY POLICY AVAILABLE AT
WWW.FRING.COM/PRIVACY.HTM
BY
SELECTING THE "OK" BUTTON BELOW, OR BY INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE,
YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU SELECT
"Cancel," THE INSTALLATION PROCESS WILL NOT PROCEED. DO NOT SELECT "I
Agree," OR INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE UNTIL YOU HAVE CAREFULLY READ,
UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREED TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO AGREE TO THESE
TERMS DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE.
FURTHERMORE, YOU
HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHTS OR REQUIREMENTS UNDER ANY LAWS OR REGULATIONS IN ANY
JURISDICTION WHICH REQUIRE AN ORIGINAL (NON-ELECTRONIC) SIGNATURE OR DELIVERY OR
RETENTION OF NON-ELECTRONIC RECORDS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE
MANDATORY LAW.
THESE TERMS CONSTITUTE THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN YOU, OR THE COMPANY ON WHOSE BEHALF YOU ARE INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE,
("YOU" AND “YOUR”) AND FRING, LTD. ("FRING"),
WHICH SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT, ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER
COMMUNICATION RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THESE TERMS. THESE TERMS
APPLY TO THE SOFTWARE, FRING’S SERVICES, AND ANY MOBILE APPLICATIONS, SYSTEMS,
SERVERS, DEVICES OR OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO FRING’S SERVICES (COLLECTIVELY, THE
“SOFTWARE”).
Important notice
The Software, as with
most Internet applications, is vulnerable to various security issues and hence
should be considered unsecured. By using the Software and the Internet in
general, you may be subject to various risks, including among others:
- Exposure to objectionable material and/or parties, including without limitation, contaminated files.
- Unauthorized invasion of your privacy during, or as a result of, your use or another's use of the system.
- Spoofing, eavesdropping, sniffing, spamming, breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, forgery, "imposturing", electronic trespassing, tampering, hacking, nuking, system
contamination including without limitation use of viruses, worms and Trojan horses causing unauthorized, damaging or harmful access and/or retrieval of
information and data on your computer and other forms of activity that may even be considered unlawful.
- Unauthorized exposure of information and material you listed or sent, on or through the fring system to other users, the general public or any other specific entities for which
the information and material was not intended by you.
If you do
not wish to be subjected to these risks, you are advised not to use the
Software. Furthermore, please do not use the Software for "Mission Critical" or
"Content Sensitive" applications and purposes. For the purpose of this section
"Mission Critical" applications and purposes shall mean applications and use
that may result in damage; "Content Sensitive" shall mean any information or
data you do not wish to be freely accessible and generally available to Internet
users.
Please note
that in each and every Internet application, the IP address of the sender is an
integral part of the TCP/IP standard protocol of the Internet, and can be
extracted by any party to the communication session using certain software
and/or hardware. Also note that the VeriSign™-approved security services,
designed to allow a fring user to reduce the exposure of his/her information on
fring, is provided to you as a convenience only and does not guarantee the
complete non-exposure of your information and/or IP address.
European
Union fring users understand and consent to the processing of personal
information in the United States and Israel.
IF YOU RESIDE IN A JURISDICTION WHICH RESTRICTS THE USE OF
INTERNET-BASED APPLICATIONS ACCORDING TO AGE, OR WHICH RESTRICTS THE ABILITY TO
ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS SUCH AS THESE TERMS ACCORDING TO AGE AND YOU ARE IN
SUCH A JURISDICTION AND UNDER SUCH AGE LIMIT, YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO THESE TERMS
AND DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE. FURTHERMORE, IF YOU RESIDE IN A
JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS FORBIDDEN BY LAW TO OFFER OR USE SOFTWARE FOR INTERNET
TELEPHONY, YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO THESE TERMS AND YOU MAY NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL
OR USE THE SOFTWARE. BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS YOU EXPLICITLY STATE
THAT YOU HAVE VERIFIED IN YOUR OWN JURISDICTION AND ACCORDING TO YOUR
CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOUR PHONE AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT YOUR
USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ALLOWED.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
fring does not provide
Emergency Services in conjunction with the Software. “Emergency
Services” means services that connect a user to emergency
services personnel or public safety answering points pursuant to applicable
local and or national regulatory requirements.
Neither
fring, its affiliates nor their respective officers, directors, employees or agents may
be held liable for any claim, damage, or loss, and You hereby waive, to the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any and all such claims or causes of
action, arising from or relating to the use of the Software or any other service
provided hereunder to contact Emergency Services personnel. You shall defend,
indemnify, and hold harmless fring,
its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees or agents and
any other service provider who furnishes any services to You in connection with
the Software or any other services provided under these Terms, from any and all
claims, losses, damages, penalties and expenses (including, without limitation,
attorneys fees) by, or on behalf of, You relating to the absence, failure or
outage of the service provided by the Software or any other service provided
hereunder, including specifically any claims arising out of the failure of fring
to offer Emergency Services.
You acknowledge and
accept that fring does not offer Emergency Services. You understand that
additional arrangements must be made to access Emergency Services. To access
Emergency Services, You acknowledge and accept Your responsibility to purchase,
separately from any service provided by the Software, traditional wireless or
wireline telephone service that offers access to Emergency Services.
You recognize and
agree that fring is not required to offer Emergency Services pursuant to any
applicable local and or national rules, regulation or law. You further recognize
that fring is not a replacement for Your primary telephone service.
GRANT OF LICENSE
Subject to these Terms, fring hereby grants You a limited,
personal, non-commercial, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-assignable, free
of charge license to download, install and use the Software on Your computer,
cellphone or PDA for the sole purpose of personally using the Software for
services provided by
fring (the “Service”).
fring is entitled, without any liability, to refuse, restrict, limit, suspend and/or
interfere or interrupt the Service or any part thereof, without any notice to
You for the repair, improvement, and/or upgrade of the Service or for any of the
reasons for termination as mentioned below.
fring may change the technical features of the Service in order to keep pace with the
latest demands and technological developments, at its own discretion and without
any notice to You.
You acknowledge and understand that the Service is not a traditional telephone
service or a replacement for Your primary telephone service. Important
distinctions (some, but not necessarily all, of which are described in this
Terms) exist between the traditional telephone service and the Service provided
by fring.
LICENSE EXCLUSIONS
You may not make any use of the Software in whole or in part that is not
expressly permitted by these Terms. You shall not (i) sell, assign, rent,
lease, distribute, market, disclose, export, import, act as an intermediary or
provider, or otherwise grant rights to third parties with regard to, the
Software or any part thereof, or (ii) undertake, cause, permit or authorize the
modification, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering,
decompiling, disassembling or hacking of the Software or any part thereof.
Any information derived from these activities constitutes FRING E’s confidential information.
You acknowledge and agree to use the Service solely for lawful purposes. In this respect You may not, without
limitation (a) intercept or monitor, damage or modify any communication which is
not intended for You, (b) send any unsolicited commercial communication not
permitted by applicable law, (c) use Your account or Service in any fraudulent way, or (d) expose any other user to material
which is offensive, harmful to minors, indecent or otherwise objectionable.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
fring (or its third party providers) retains all title, right,
copyright (and any other applicable intellectual property right) and interest in
and to the Software, including all documentation, translations, enhancements,
improvements or other modifications made to or derived from the Software.
UPDATES
These Terms apply to
downloading, installing and using the Software. fring may from time to time revise or
update its Software. Such updates and revisions will be supplied according to
fring's
then prevailing policies.
PRIVACY; PASSWORD AND USERID; INDEMNIFICATION
fring is committed to respecting Your privacy and the
confidentiality of Your personal data. For more information on fring’s privacy
policy, see
www.fring.com/privacy.htm. In order to operate the Service, you receive a
User ID and password. You agree to notify fring in writing of any unauthorized
and/or fraudulent use of Your User ID or password. You agree to indemnify,
defend and hold harmless fring, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates
and agents and any other service provider who furnishes services to you in
connection with the Service, from any and all claims, losses, damages and
expenses (including attorneys fees) by, or on behalf of, you or any third party
user of the Service, relating to the Service, including use of Your UserID or
password. Fring will not be liable for any unauthorized or fraudulent use of
Your UserID or password.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED
BY LAW, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE
ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY YOU.
FRING AND ITS THIRD PARTY LICENSORS, IF ANY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE
SOFTWARE. IN NO EVENT SHALL FRING OR ITS THIRD PARTY LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT,
DIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS
PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY
LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF FRING
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
The Software is being provided to You free of charge.
ACCORDINGLY, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT FRING,
ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS
WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE
SOFTWARE.
YOUR ONLY RIGHT OR REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO ANY PROBLEMS OR
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SOFTWARE IS TO DEINSTALL AND CEASE USE OF SUCH
SOFTWARE.
EXPORT RESTRICTIONS
You acknowledge that the Software may be subject to international
rules that govern the export of software. You agree to comply with all
applicable international and national laws that apply to the Software as well as
end-user, end-use and destination restrictions issued by national governments.
TERMINATION
These Terms are effective until terminated. You may terminate these Terms at any
time by removing the Software from Your system and destroying all copies of the
Software. Unauthorized copying of the Software or otherwise failing to comply
with these Terms will result in automatic immediate termination of these Terms
and will make available to fring legal remedies. Upon termination of these
Terms, the license granted herein will terminate and You: (i) will cease any and
all rights to use the Software, and (ii) will remove the Software from all hard
drives, cellphones, networks and other storage media and destroy all copies of
the Software in Your possession or under Your control.
The provisions in the paragraphs above labeled PROPRIETARY RIGHTS and LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY AND WARRANTY will survive any termination of these Terms.
YOUR SUBMISSIONS
You agree that any content provided by You in connection with the Site are provided on a non-proprietary,
non-exclusive and non-confidential basis. fring shall be free to use or
disseminate such content on an unrestricted basis for any purpose. You
acknowledge that You are responsible for such content, including its legality,
and You waive any “moral rights” in such content. You may not submit or
publish through fring any content that is libelous, defamatory, pornographic, an
invasion of privacy, obscene, abusive, illegal, racist, offensive, harmful to a
minor or an infringement on any intellectual property rights of a third party or
would otherwise violate the rights of any third party. You agree to indemnify
and hold fring,
its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents
harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by
any third party due to or arising out of content You submit, post to or transmit
through the Website, your use of the Website, or Your violation of any rights of
another person or entity.
MISCELLANEOUS
This Software uses the Skype API but is not endorsed or certified by Skype.
fring reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time by
providing such revised terms to You or by publishing the revised terms on the
Website. The revised Terms shall become effective within seven (7) days of such
publishing or provision to You, unless You expressly accept the revised Terms
earlier by clicking on the accept button. The express acceptance by You, or Your
continued use of the Software after expiry of the notice period of seven (7)
days, shall constitute Your acceptance to be bound by the terms and conditions
of the revised Terms. You can find the latest version of these Terms at the
Site. The waiver of a breach of any term hereof shall in no way be construed as a waiver of any
other term or breach hereof. If any provision of these Terms shall be held
by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the remaining
provisions of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect. The laws of the
State of Israel, excluding its choice of law provisions, govern these Terms.
All disputes arising out of these Terms shall be subject to the sole and
exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Tel-Aviv-Yafo, except that parties may bring
actions for injunctive relief only in any court of competent jurisdiction.
YOU EXPRESSLY
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS AND UNDERSTAND THE RIGHTS,
OBLIGATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN. BY CLICKING ON THE AGREE
BUTTON AND/OR CONTINUING TO INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE, YOU EXPRESSLY
CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS.
Last revised: January 3rd, 2007.
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