TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
Definitions:
“acceptance”: action by which the Buyer accepts the terms and conditions of sale in their entirety. It is done by signing the purchase order which mentions “I hereby accept TEMATYS’s terms and Conditions of sale”.
“Buyer”: any business user (i.e. any person acting in the course of its business activities, for its business needs) entering into the following general conditions to the exclusion of consumers acting in their personal interests.
“Seller”: Based in Paris (France headquarters), TEMATYS is a market research and business development consultancy company, facilitating market access for advanced technology industrial projects. TEMATYS works worldwide with the key industrial companies, r&d institutes and investors to help them understand the markets and technology trends.
“Contracting Parties” or “Parties”: the Seller on the one hand and the Buyer on the other hand.
“Intellectual Property rights” (“IPr”) means any rights held by the Seller in its Products, including any patents, trademarks, registered models, designs, copyrights, inventions, commercial secrets and know-how, technical information, company or trading names and any other intellectual property rights or similar in any part of the world, notwithstanding the fact that they have been registered or not and including any pending registration of one of the above-mentioned rights.
“License”: For the reports and databases, different licenses are proposed. The Buyer has to choose one license:
1. Corporate license: the report can be used by unlimited users within the company regardless of location. Subsidiaries are not included.
2. Clusters & professional association license: allows clusters & professional associations to provide the reports and databases to their members without extra payment. When purchasing a report with this license, Clusters & Professional Associations can add the reports and databases in their Extranet and let their members download it for free.
“Products”: depending on the purchase order, reports or database on optics, photonics, sensors, material engineering,… and their applications, to be bought either on a unit basis or as an annual subscription. (i.e. subscription for a period of 12 calendar months). The annual subscription to a package (i.e. a global discount based on the number of reports that the Buyer orders and/or a consulting approach), is defined in the order. Reports are established in PowerPoint and delivered on a PdF format and the database may include excel files. The products are produced either by TEMATYS itself, either by publishers for which TEMATYS acts as a reseller.
1. Scope
1.1 The Contracting Parties undertake to observe the following general conditions when agreed by the Buyer and the Seller. Any additional, different, or conflicting terms and conditions in any other document issued by the buyer at any time are hereby objected to by the seller, shall be wholly inapplicable to any sale made hereunder and shall not be binding in any way on the seller.
1.2 This agreement becomes valid and enforceable between the Contracting Parties after clear and non-equivocal consent by any duly authorized person representing the Buyer. For these purposes, the Buyer accepts these conditions of sales when signing the purchase order which mentions “I hereby accept TEMATYS’s terms and Conditions of sale”. This results in acceptance by the Buyer.
1.3 Orders are deemed to be accepted only upon written acceptance and confirmation by the Seller, within [7 days] from the date of order, to be sent either by email or to the Buyer’s address. In the absence of any confirmation in writing, orders shall be deemed to have been accepted.
2. Delivery of the products
2.1 Products are sent by email to the Buyer or downloaded from TEMATYS' website. After receipt of the payment the delivery is made:
- within [1] month from the order for Products already released; or
- within a reasonable time for Products ordered prior to their effective release. In this case, the Seller shall use its best endeavours to inform the Buyer of an indicative release date and the evolution of the work in progress.
2.2 Come weeks prior to the release date the Seller can propose a pre-release discount to the Buyer
The Seller shall by no means be responsible for any delay in respect of article 2.2 above, and including in cases where a new event or access to new contradictory information would require for the analyst extra time to compute or compare the data in order to enable the Seller to deliver a high quality Products.
2.3 The mailing of the Product will occur only upon payment by the Buyer, in accordance with the conditions contained in article 3.
2.4. The mailing is operated through electronic means either by email via the sales department or automatically online via an email/password. If the Product’s electronic delivery format is defective, the Seller undertakes to replace it at no charge to the Buyer provided that it is informed of the defective formatting within 90 days from the date of the original download or receipt of the Product.
2.5 The person receiving the Products on behalf of the Buyer shall immediately verify the quality of the Products and their conformity to the order. Any claim for apparent defects or for non-conformity shall be sent in writing to the Seller within 8 days of receipt of the Products. For this purpose, the Buyer agrees to produce sufficient evidence of such defects.
2.6 No return of Products shall be accepted without prior information to the Seller, even in case of delayed delivery. Any Product returned to the Seller without providing prior information to the Seller as required under article 2.5 shall remain at the Buyer’s risk.
3. Price, invoicing and payment
3.1 Prices are given in the orders corresponding to each Product sold on a unit basis or corresponding to annual subscriptions. They are expressed to be inclusive of all taxes. The prices may be reevaluated from time to time. The effective price is deemed to be the one applicable at the time of the order.
3.2 TEMATYS may offer a pre-release discount for the companies willing to acquire in the future the specific report and agreeing on the fact that the report may be release later than the anticipated release date. In exchange to this uncertainty, the company will get a discount that can vary from 15% to 10%.
3.3 Payments due by the Buyer shall be sent by cheque payable to TEMATYS, credit card or by electronic transfer to the following account:
SOCIETE GENERALE – PARIS VOLTAIRE, 166, boulevard Voltaire, 75011 PARIS France - SWIFT or BIC code: SOGEFRPP
IBAN : IBAN FR76 3000 3033 1000 0205 6073 946
To ensure the payments, the Seller reserves the right to request down payments from the Buyer. In this case, the need of down payments will be mentioned on the order.
3.4 Payment is due by the Buyer to the Seller before the delivery of the report or upon receipt of the invoice for other any services or custom study, except in the case of a particular written agreement. If the Buyer fails to pay within this time and fails to contact the Seller, the latter shall be entitled to invoice interest in arrears based on the annual rate refi of the «BCe» + 7 points, in accordance with article L. 441-6 of the French Commercial Code. Our publications (report, database, tool...) are delivered only after reception of the payment.
3.5 In the event of termination of the contract, or of misconduct, during the contract, the Seller will have the right to invoice at the stage in progress, and to take legal action for damages.
4. Liabilities
4.1 The Buyer or any other individual or legal person acting on its behalf, being a business user buying the Products for its business activities, shall be solely responsible for choosing the Products and for the use and interpretations he makes of the documents it purchases, of the results he obtains, and of the advice and acts it deduces thereof.
4.2 The Seller shall only be liable for (i) direct and (ii) foreseeable pecuniary loss, caused by the Products or arising from a material breach of this agreement
4.3 In no event shall the Seller be liable for:
a) damages of any kind, including without limitation, incidental or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, business interruption and loss of programs or information) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Seller’s website or the Products, or any information provided on the website, or in the Products;
b) any claim attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in the Product or interpretations thereof.
4.4 All the information contained in the Products has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. The Seller does not warrant the accuracy, completeness adequacy or reliability of such information, which cannot be guaranteed to be free from errors.
4.5 All the Products that the Seller sells may, upon prior notice to the Buyer from time to time be modified by or substituted with similar Products meeting the needs of the Buyer. This modification shall not lead to the liability of the Seller, provided that the Seller ensures the substituted Product is similar to the Product initially ordered.
4.6 In the case where, after inspection, it is acknowledged that the Products contain defects, the Seller undertakes to replace the defective products as far as the supplies allow and without indemnities or compensation of any kind for labor costs, delays, loss caused or any other reason. The replacement is guaranteed for a maximum of two months starting from the delivery date. Any replacement is excluded for any event as set out in article 5 below.
4.7 The deadlines that the Seller is asked to state for the mailing of the Products are given for information only and are not guaranteed. If such deadlines are not met, it shall not lead to any damages or cancellation of the orders, except for non-acceptable delays exceeding [4] months from the stated deadline, without information from the Seller. In such case only, the Buyer shall be entitled to ask for a reimbursement of its first down payment to the exclusion of any further damages.
4.8 The Seller does not make any warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, those of saleability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to the Products. Although the Seller shall take reasonable steps to screen Products for infection of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other codes containing contaminating or destructive properties before making the Products available, the Seller cannot guarantee that any Product will be free from infection.
5. Force majeure
The Seller shall not be liable for any delay in performance directly or indirectly caused by or resulting from acts of nature, fire, flood, accident, riot, war, government intervention, embargoes, strikes, labor difficulties, equipment failure, late deliveries by suppliers or other difficulties which are beyond the control, and not the fault of the Seller.
6. Protection of the Seller’s Intellectual Property right (IPr)
6.1 All the IPr attached to the Products are and remain the property of the Seller or the publisher of the Product for which the Seller acts as a reseller and are protected under French and international copyright law and conventions.
6.2 Except specific written agreement, the Buyer agreed not to disclose copy, reproduce, redistribute, resell or publish the Product, or any part of it to any other party other than employees of its company. The Buyer shall have the right to use the Products solely for its own internal information purposes. This includes the right to:
- store the Product in electronic format on the drive of one hardware device; and
- print out one copy of the Product;
- incorporate 10% or less of a report or article contained within the Product (a "Limited Extract") within material developed by you or an Other Registrant ("New Material") and use the Limited Extract together with the New Material for your internal business purposes only and not for resale, distribution or disclosure to third partie, provided that all and any copyright and proprietary notices on and within the Product are kept intact and such New Material is accurate, fair and reasonable.
With the Purchased Product, the Buyer may not:
- offer the Product for resale or sublicense;
- scan, photocopy, fax, or in any other way reproduce or copy the Product other than as permitted;
- distribute or disclose the Product to any third party, whether by electronic mail or over a network or otherwise;
- upload the Product to any database or server or display or make available the Product to any third party or unregistered parties;
6.3 The Buyer shall be solely responsible towards the Seller of all infringements of this obligation, whether this infringement comes from its employees or any person to whom the Buyer has sent the Products and shall personally take care of any related proceedings, and the Buyer shall bear related financial consequences in their entirety.
6.4 The Buyer shall define within its company point of contact for the needs of the contract. This person will be the recipient of each new report in PdF format. This person shall also be responsible for respect of the copyrights and will guaranty that the Products are not disseminated out of the company.
6.5 In the case of a corporate license, only the employee of the Buyer can access the report or the employee of the companies in which the Buyer have 100% shares. As a matter of fact the investor of a company, the joint venture done with a third party etc. cannot access the report and should pay a full license price.
7. Termination
7.1 If the Buyer cancels the order in whole or in part or postpones the date of mailing, the Buyer shall indemnify the Seller for the entire costs that have been incurred as at the date of notification by the Buyer of such delay or cancellation. This may also apply for any other direct or indirect consequential loss that may be borne by the Seller, following this decision.
7.2 In the event of breach by one Party under these conditions or the order, the non-breaching Party may send a notification to the other by recorded delivery letter upon which, after a period of thirty (30) days without solving the problem, the non-breaching Party shall be entitled to terminate all the pending orders, without being liable for any compensation.
8. Miscellaneous
All the provisions of these terms and Conditions are for the benefit of the Seller itself, but also for its licensors, employees and agents. Each of them is entitled to assert and enforce those provisions against the Buyer.
Any notices under these terms and Conditions shall be given in writing. They shall be effective upon receipt by the other Party.
The Seller may, from time to time, update these Terms and Conditions and the Buyer, is deemed to have accepted the latest version of these terms and conditions, provided they have been communicated to him in due time.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
9.1 Any dispute arising out or linked to these terms and Conditions or to any contract (orders) entered into in application of these terms and Conditions shall be settled by the French Commercial Courts of Paris, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction upon such issues.
9.2 French law shall govern the relation between the Buyer and the Seller, in accordance with these terms and Conditions.