Purchase and licencing agreement

1. BINDING EFFECT

This is a binding agreement with Grand View Research, Inc. (“Company”). By purchasing research reports or other materials (collectively, “Materials”) provided by Company with a website at www.grandviewresearch.com (“Site”), you (“you,” “User,” or “Purchaser”) agree to abide by this Purchase and Licensing Agreement (“Agreement”), the Company’s Privacy Policy, and the Company’s Terms of Use, respectively, which are incorporated by reference herein. It is your responsibility to review this Agreement and understand its terms. Please be advised that the terms of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are subject to change at any time at the Company’s sole discretion without any notice to you beyond the publication of the updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Use on the Company’s website.

If you do not wish to be bound in full by these terms, including but not limited to the License restrictions in Section 3 below, please do not access or use the Site, access, review, download, purchase, obtain, and/or otherwise use any Materials as the aforementioned actions indicate your consent to the terms of this Agreement.

If you are placing an order on behalf of your Company, you represent and warrant that you have the capacity and authority to purchase the Materials on behalf of your company or organization and you consent to the terms of this Agreement on behalf of the company or organization for which you are either a director, officer, employee, contractor, or agent.

2. MATERIALS

2.1 Purchased Materials.

Purchaser is purchasing a license to use certain Materials from Company. A description of the Materials and the Purchase Price shall be provided to you in an invoice to be sent via email or through your Grand View Research account.

2.2 Customization

The Company provides a certain level of customization in market reports tailored to the Purchaser’s requirements. The time required to accommodate customization is determined by our analysts based on anticipated complexity, time deadlines, and the details concerning the requested customization. All deliverables related to requests for customized Materials and estimated times of completion for those requests are stated in “Exhibit A.” These estimates are merely projections, and are subject to revision based on factors such as changes in instructions from Purchaser, Purchaser agrees to pay all fees and costs actually incurred by the Company

3. LICENSE

All Materials provided by Company are the exclusive copyright of Grand View Research, Inc. Materials will be made available to you for access and/or download upon submitting payment. When accessed and/or downloaded, the Materials, including all files and images contained therein or generated by the Company, and accompanying data are deemed to be licensed to you by the Company. You may purchase any one of three license levels for the Materials. The terms of each license level is detailed in this section. The license level you purchase shall be indicated on the invoice received from the Company. Purchaser shall not receive transfer of either the title or the intellectual property rights to the Materials upon purchase, and Company retains full and complete title to the Materials as well as all intellectual property rights therein. Purchaser shall comply with the Intellectual Property provisions stated in Section 6.

Purchaser may not share, distribute, and/or otherwise make available any Materials, access credentials, or other content or information provided by the Company except as expressly authorized by this Agreement.

Purchaser is receiving the Materials subject to all licensing and use restrictions applicable to the category of license purchased by Purchaser and as set forth in the invoice received from Company. The terms of all categories of license available for purchase from Company are set forth as follows:

Individual License

The purchase of the electronic copy of all or part of this type of report constitutes a contractual agreement between Grand View Research and the Purchaser. You may access and download the Materials only as required to view the Materials on your computer/workstation for your individual use, keeping all copyright and other notices on the Materials. You may print a single copy of the Materials for your use. You may not republish or distribute any Materials or do anything else with the Materials that is not specifically permitted in this Agreement.

Team License

The purchase of the electronic copy of all or part of this type of report constitutes a contractual agreement between Grand View Research and the Purchaser. Two (2) to five (5) Users may access and download the Materials only as required to view the Materials at your location. All copyright and other notices on the Materials must be kept on the Materials. The Purchaser may print up to five (5) copies of the Materials. The Purchaser may not republish or distribute any Materials or do anything else with the Materials that is not specifically permitted in this Agreement.

Enterprise License

The purchase of the electronic copy of all or part of this type of report constitutes a contractual agreement between Grand View Research and the Purchaser. Unlimited Users from your organization may access and download the Materials only as required to view the Materials at your business location. All copyright and other notices on the Materials must be kept on the Materials. The Purchaser may print copies of the Materials for internal use within its organization. The Purchaser may not republish or distribute any Materials or do anything else with the Materials that is not specifically permitted in this Agreement.

4. DELIVERY OF THE MATERIALS

4.1 Online Delivery

Published report will be delivered to you by email within 24 to 48 working hours of receipt of payment in the form of a PDF to your email address. Orders for reports requiring customization will be delivered in the time frame specified in the SOW.

4.2 Physical Delivery

Upon request, a printed copy of the published report shall be sent by courier to your address within three (3) to five (5) working days from the date of receipt of payment.

Sales tax and printing charges are applied to orders of printed reports. Delivery charges of printed copies will be applied depending on the location of the client. Purchaser is solely responsible for the payment of all applicable charges and taxes.

Grand View Research does not guarantee that Materials received in a printed hard copy format will be in perfect condition upon delivery, and is not liable for any damage incurred during transit of the Materials. The Company may reserve the right to determine in its sole discretion whether a replacement will be provided with no extra cost.

5. CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY

Due to the easily transferable nature of the Materials, we maintain a strict "no return/no refund” policy. ALL PURCHASES OF MATERIALSARE FINAL. Purchaser is responsible for reading all of the information about the Materials prior to ordering. The contents of the various Materials are extensively described on the Site in terms of the Materials’ chapters, subchapters, lists of tables and figures. Upon payment, the Company will not accept the cancellation of an order. Purchaser shall contact Grand View Research with any questions about the Materials prior to executing this Agreement.

All purchases of Materials are final. Considering the electronic format of the Materials sold, Grand View Research cannot accept return of products once they have been dispatched. Company reserves the right in its sole discretion to provide a refund of the purchase price or provide customization of the Materials to the Purchaser at no additional cost to the Purchaser.

If Purchaser feels that an error has occurred in any transaction, Purchaser should contact the Company to discuss the problem with a member of the Company’s customer service team at [email protected].

6. TERMINATION OF LICENSE

Company reserves the right to terminate Purchaser’s receipt, transmission, or other distribution of any such Materials, and, if applicable, to delete any such Materials from its servers for violation of the Company’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Purchase and Licensing Agreement, or at its sole discretion. Company intends to cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials or agencies in the investigation of any violation of this Agreement or of any applicable laws.

7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

7.1. Compliance with Intellectual Property Laws

When accessing the Materials through the Site or when using the Materials, Purchaser agrees to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of Company and others. Purchaser’s use of the Site and Materials is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. Purchaser agrees not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of this Purchase and Licensing Agreement, any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. Purchaser agrees to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and Purchaser shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third-party rights caused by any Materials improperly provided or transmitted, or that are improperly provided or transmitted using Purchaser’s User ID. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or third-party rights rests solely with the Purchaser.

7.2. Protection of Intellectual Property.

The Site and Materials in their entirety, the domain name, the contents, and any information contained therein are owned by the Company, and protected under the relevant copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws, unless otherwise specified herein. The content of the Site and Materials includes, but is not limited to, logos, trade names, word marks, design marks, trademarks, designs, text, images, graphics, pictures, information, data, charts, graphs, sound files, other files, and the arrangement thereof (“Intellectual Property”) all of which is the property of Grand View Research, or our licensors or suppliers.

7.3. Prior Written Consent.

Purchaser may not use any name (including a product or service name) logo, slogan, image, trademark, or any other Intellectual Property included in the Materials for any purpose other than those purposes permitted under the license purchased as described herein in Section 3 without express written permission from the Company.

7.4. Prohibited Uses.

(a) Purchaser shall not, whether directly or indirectly, alone or in conjunction with any third party, appropriate, copy, publicly display, reproduce, modify, republish, upload, post, transmit, scrape, collect, distribute, reverse engineer, or use the Intellectual Property from the Site or Materials on any other site or network computer environment without prior written consent obtained from the Company. Any such unauthorized use may violate copyright, patent, trademark, and any other applicable laws and could result in criminal or civil penalties. In addition, the look and feel of our Materials, including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts, is the service mark, trademark and/or trade dress of Grand View Research and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without prior written consent.

(b) Copying and/or distributing any or all portions of the Site, Materials, or password or other credentials to access the foregoing without prior written consent of the Company is forbidden. No part of the document should be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise without the permission of the Company.

7.5. Ownership.

License to use the Site or Materials under no circumstances shall be construed as the acquisition by a Purchaser of ownership, title, right, or interest of any kind in or to the Purchaser, its Contents, and any information on it. The Site, Materials, and Intellectual Property shall at all times remain the exclusive property of the Company.

7.6. Authorized Use.

Purchaser is authorized to use of the Intellectual Property on the Materials as long as the Purchaser holds a valid license and restricts use of the Intellectual Property solely to those uses expressly authorized by the terms of that license as set forth in Section 3 above. Upon the termination of a license to the Materials, Purchaser is no longer authorized to use the Intellectual Property contained in the Materials. Use of any Intellectual Property contained in the Materials after the expiration or termination of a license shall be considered a violation of this Agreement.

8. DISCLAIMER AND WARRANTIES

COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES. COMPANY IS MAKING THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGE OR LOSS FROM USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE MATERIALS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE MATERIALS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE MATERIALS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

The Materials provide informative material of a professional nature. The information contained therein do not constitute managerial, legal, or accounting advice, nor should it serve as a corporate policy guide, laboratory manual, or an endorsement of any product. The Materials are intended to be as accurate as possible at the time of publication, but Grand View Research confirms no representations or warranties with regard to the correctness of the information in the documents or its suitability for any purpose whatsoever.

9. LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY’S LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA, REGARDLESS OF THE FORESEEABILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES AND/OR THE COMPANY’S ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY COMPANY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES IN SUCH MATERIALS OR SERVICES. THIS LIMITATION SHALL APPLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE OUT OF BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY OR FORM OF ACTION.

10. REFERENCES IN MARKETING MATERIALS

The Company may reference Purchaser’s company name and/or logos in its promotional or marketing materials including but not limited to on the Company’s website or marketing documents. By executing this Agreement, Purchaser indicates its consent to have its logo, or the logo owned by his or her company “Purchaser’s Logo”), used for the foregoing purposes. Additionally, execution of this Agreement indicates Purchaser’s consent to be subscribed to Company’s email list and to receive Company’s marketing emails. Purchaser may revoke in writing his, her, or its consent for the Company to use Purchaser’s Logo for the Company’s marketing purposes, and/or Purchaser’s consent to be subscribed to Company’s email list only by contacting [email protected]. Any such revocations will be implemented within a reasonable amount of time.

11. INDEMNITY

Purchaser agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from or relating to Purchaser’s access to or use of the Site, Purchaser’s violation of this Agreement, or Purchaser’s infringement, or infringement by any other user of Purchaser’s account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, to the fullest extent allowed by law. Company will notify Purchaser promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide Purchaser with reasonable assistance, at his, her, or its expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost. Grand View Research shall not be liable for any damages incurred by or arising as a result of reliance upon Grand View Research Information to the extent allowed by law. Purchaser’s obligations under this Section survive this Agreement and Purchaser’s use of the Service.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1. Capacity and Authority of Subscriber.

Purchaser represents and warrants that Purchaser has the capacity and authority to purchase the Materials on behalf of its company or organization and consents to the terms of this Agreement on behalf of the company or organization for which Purchaser is either a director, officer, employee, contractor, or agent.

12.2. Entire Agreement.

This Agreement, and all materials incorporated by reference herein, including but not limited to, the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and any invoices received from Company, sets forth the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous writings, negotiations, and discussions with respect to its subject matter. You expressly disclaim both the existence of and any reasonable reliance upon any statement, representation, claim, promise, commitment, understanding, agreement, or other condition other than those expressly set forth herein.

12.3. Governing Law

This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in San Francisco, California, USA in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Materials.

12.4. Severability; Waiver

If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in this Purchase and Licensing Agreement to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.

12.5. Modifications

The terms of this Agreement are subject to revision upon posting to the Site, with or without additional notice to the Purchaser. Continued use of the Site or Materials constitutes the User’s consent to the terms as modified. You are encouraged to visit the site often to check for updates to this Agreement and to any other terms or policies as referenced herein.

12.6. Acknowledgement.

By using this Site or accessing the Materials, you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this Purchase and Licensing Agreement and Agree to be bound by them.