AT&T BusinessDirect®
AT&T BUSINESS CUSTOMER PORTAL
SERVICE APPLICATION AGREEMENT
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
AT&T
Corp. ("AT&T") and you, the "Customer" agree that the
following terms and conditions will apply to Customer's use of any AT&T network
management or information service application (collectively
"Applications") provided pursuant to this Agreement. These terms and
conditions shall govern all Applications provided by AT&T under this
Agreement notwithstanding the existence of different and/or conflicting terms
and conditions in any other ordering and acknowledgment forms of Customer and
AT&T.
1.
APPLICABILITY
2. DEFINITIONS
A. "Affiliate" of a party means any entity
that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such party,
and, in the case of AT&T, it also means any entity which AT&T has
authorized to offer any Application or part of any Application.
B. "Content" means information made
available, displayed or transmitted in connection with an Application
(including, without limitation, information made available by means of an HTML
"hot link", a third party posting or similar means) including all
trademarks, service marks and domain names contained therein as well as the
contents of any bulletin boards or chat forums, and, all updates, upgrades,
modifications and other versions of any of the foregoing.
C. "User" means the Customer and anyone whom Customer allows,
by action or omission, to use or access any Application including, without
limitation, Customer's Affiliates.
3. CONTRACT PERIOD
This
Agreement shall be effective from the date of CustomerĘs acceptance and shall
continue on a month-to-month basis until terminated as set forth in this
Agreement.
4. PRICE AND PAYMENT
AT&T may change the charges in the
Pricing Tables from time to time; notice of such changes will be posted at the
Internet log-in site for the Applications at least thirty (30) days before the
effective date of the price change.
B.
Payment is due from
Customer within thirty (30) days from the date of the invoice.
C.
Restrictive endorsements
or other statements on checks accepted by AT&T will not apply.
D.
Customer agrees to
reimburse AT&T for attorneys' fees and any other costs associated with
collecting delinquent payments.
E.
Customer shall pay any
taxes that may be levied upon the sale, transfer of ownership, installation,
license or use of the Applications unless Customer provides a tax exemption
certificate to AT&T. Excluded are taxes on AT&T's net income.
5. WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS
A.
THE SERVICES PROVIDED
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE APPLICATIONS ARE
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. AT&T AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES,
AFFILIATES, SUBCONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.į AT&T DOES
NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE TRANSFER OF DATA OR FILES THROUGH THE
APPLICATIONS WILL BE FREE OF INFECTION OR VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE THAT MANIFEST
CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES. CUSTOMER ASSUMES TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY
AND RISK OF USE OF THE APPLICATIONS AND THE INTERNET.
B.
AT&T MAKES NO GUARANTEES,
PROMISES OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE APPLICATIONS OR THE DATE OR TIME OF DELIVERY
OF THE APPLICATIONS.
6. EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES AND
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITIES
A.
For purpose of the limitations of liability set forth in this section, "AT&T" shall be deemed to include AT&T, its subsidiaries and their affiliates, and the directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, subcontractors and suppliers of all of them. The term "damages" will refer collectively to all injury, damage, loss or expenses incurred.
B.
Except as provided in subsection 6.C., AT&T shall not be responsible for any damages, whether or not foreseeable, that are sustained by Customer or Users and arise from AT&T's performance or non-performance of any work or service (including the provision or non-provision of the Applications), regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise.
AT&T also shall not be liable for any damages arising out of or relating to: interoperability, access or interconnection of the Applications with applications, equipment, services, content or networks provided by Customer or third parties; service interruptions or lost or altered messages or transmissions; or, unauthorized access to or theft, alteration, loss or destruction of CustomerĘs, Users' or third parties' applications, content, data, programs, information, network or systems.į AT&T shall not be liable for any incidental, indirect, special or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, lost profits or revenues or increased cost of operations), whether or not AT&T has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
C.
Nothing in this Section
6 shall limit AT&T's liability for damages to real or tangible personal
property or for bodily injury or death proximately caused by AT&T's
negligence.
D.
This Agreement does not
expressly or implicitly provide any third party (including Users) with any
remedy, claim, liability, reimbursement, cause of action or other right or
privilege.
7. FORCE MAJEURE
AT&T
shall have no liability for any loss or damage caused by any of the following
force majeure conditions: fires, floods, explosions, strikes, embargoes, power
blackouts, earthquakes, volcanic actions, wars, water, the elements, labor
disputes, riots, thefts, acts of the public enemy, accidents, acts of God, acts
of government, acts or omissions of Customer, acts or omissions of third
parties, changes in work practices, inability to obtain necessary labor or
materials, acts or omissions of any communications carriers or any other cause
beyond the reasonable control of AT&T, whether or not similar to the
foregoing.
8.
INDEMNIFICATION
AT&T
grants to Customer the right to permit Users to access and use the
Applications, provided that Customer shall remain solely responsible for such
access and use and shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless AT&T from and
against all Damages (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney fees),
whether or not arising out of third-party claims and regardless of the form of
action, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, concerning or
relating to: any noncompliance by Customer or Users with any provision of this
Agreement; negligent acts or omissions by Customer or Users; Customer's or
Users' Content or use of the Applications; and, claims by any User relating to
any Application failure, defect or outage.
9. TERMINATION
A.
This Agreement may be
terminated by either party upon thirty (30) days' prior written notice to the
other party.
B.
If Customer fails to
perform or observe any material term or condition of this Agreement, including,
but not limited to, failure to pay any charges when due, AT&T may
immediately terminate this Agreement and exercise any and all available
rights.į Upon termination by AT&T,
Customer shall be liable for any and all applicable charges.
10. ASSIGNMENT
Neither
party may assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other
party. Consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. AT&T, without CustomerĘs
consent, may assign this Agreement to a present or future affiliate, subsidiary
or successor or assign its right to receive payments.
11. SUBCONTRACTING
AT&T
may subcontract any or all of the work to be performed by it under this
Agreement but shall retain responsibility for the work subcontracted.
12. GENERAL
Version
6.0, July 2007