Last updated: 24th November 2022
Please read these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”, “Terms of Service”) carefully before using the Flow Mobile Software online app, mobile app or related services (the “Service”), operated by Flow Software Solutions (“us”, “we”, or “our”).
All contracts that the Provider may enter into from time to time for the provision of the Hosted Services and related services shall be governed by these Terms and Conditions, and the Provider will ask for the Customer's express written acceptance of these Terms and Conditions before providing any such services to the Customer.
Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.
By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.
1.1 In these Terms and Conditions, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise:
"Access Credentials" means the usernames, passwords and other credentials enabling access to the Hosted Services, including both access credentials for the User Interface and access credentials for the API;
"Affiliate" means an entity that Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with the relevant entity;
"Agreement" means a contract between the parties incorporating these Terms and Conditions, and any amendments to that contract from time to time;
"API" means the application programming interface for the Hosted Services defined by the Provider and made available by the Provider to the Customer;
"Business Day" means any weekday other than a bank or public holiday in England;
"Charges" means the following amounts:
(a) such amounts as may be agreed in writing by the parties from time to time; and
(b) amounts calculated by multiplying the Provider's standard time-based charging rates (as notified by the Provider to the Customer before the date of the Agreement) by the time spent by the Provider's personnel performing the Support Services (rounded down by the Provider to the nearest quarter hour);
"Confidential Information" means the Provider Confidential Information and the Customer Confidential Information;
"Control" means the legal power to control (directly or indirectly) the management of an entity (and "Controlled" should be construed accordingly);
"Customer" means in the case of an individual accepting this Agreement on his or her own behalf, such individual, or in the case of an individual accepting this Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, the company or other legal entity for which such individual is accepting this Agreement, and Affiliates of that company or entity (for so long as they remain Affiliates) which have entered into Order Forms
"Customer Confidential Information" means:
(a) any information disclosed by or on behalf of the Customer to the Provider at any time before the termination of the Agreement (whether disclosed in writing, orally or otherwise) that at the time of disclosure:
(i) was marked or described as "confidential"; or
(ii) should have been reasonably understood by the Provider to be confidential; and
(b) the Customer Data;
"Customer Data" means all data, works and materials: uploaded to or stored on the Platform by the Customer; transmitted by the Platform at the instigation of the Customer; supplied by the Customer to the Provider for uploading to, transmission by or storage on the Platform; or generated by the Platform as a result of the use of the Hosted Services by the Customer (but excluding analytics data relating to the use of the Platform and server log files);
"Customer Personal Data" means any Personal Data that is processed by the Provider on behalf of the Customer in relation to the Agreement, but excluding [personal data] with respect to which the Provider is a data controller;
"Customisation" means a customisation of the Hosted Services, whether made through the development, configuration or integration of software, or otherwise;
"Data Protection Laws" means all applicable laws relating to the processing of Personal Data including, while they are in force and applicable, the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679);
"Documentation" means the documentation for the Hosted Services produced by the Provider and delivered or made available by the Provider to the Customer;
"Effective Date" means the date upon which the Customer requests access to the services; or the date upon which the Provider sends to the Customer an order confirmation;
"Expenses" means the travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses that are reasonably necessary for, and incurred by the Provider exclusively in connection with, the performance of the Provider's obligations under the Agreement;
"Force Majeure Event" means an event, or a series of related events, that is outside the reasonable control of the party affected (including failures of the internet or any public telecommunications network, hacker attacks, denial of service attacks, virus or other malicious software attacks or infections, power failures, industrial disputes affecting any third party, changes to the law, disasters, explosions, fires, floods, riots, terrorist attacks and wars);
"Hosted Services" means the Flow Mobile Surveying App and Dashboard, which will be made available by the Provider to the Customer as a service via the internet or app stores, in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
"Hosted Services Defect" means a defect, error or bug in the Platform having an adverse effect on  the appearance, operation, functionality or performance of the Hosted Services, but excluding any defect, error or bug caused by or arising as a result of:
(a) any act or omission of the Customer or any person authorised by the Customer to use the Platform or Hosted Services;
(b) any use of the Platform or Hosted Services contrary to the Documentation, whether by the Customer or by any person authorised by the Customer;
(c) a failure of the Customer to perform or observe any of its obligations in the Agreement; and/or
(d) an incompatibility between the Platform or Hosted Services and any other system, network, application, program, hardware or software not specified as compatible by the Provider.
"Intellectual Property Rights" means all intellectual property rights wherever in the world, whether registrable or unregistrable, registered or unregistered, including any application or right of application for such rights (and these "intellectual property rights" include copyright and related rights, database rights, confidential information, trade secrets, know-how, business names, trade names, trade marks, service marks, passing off rights, unfair competition rights, patents, petty patents, utility models, semi-conductor topography rights and rights in designs);
"Maintenance Services" means the general maintenance of the Platform and Hosted Services, and the application of Updates and Upgrades;
"Mobile App" means the mobile application known as Flow Mobile Surveying that is made available by the Provider through the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store;
"Personal Data" has the meaning given to it in the Data Protection Laws applicable in the United Kingdom from time to time;
"Platform" means the platform managed by the Provider and used by the Provider to provide the Hosted Services, including the application and database software for the Hosted Services, the system and server software used to provide the Hosted Services, and the computer hardware on which that application, database, system and server software is installed;
"Provider" means Flow Software Solutions, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 12025693) having its registered office at 60 Rothbury Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE6 5XJ;
"Provider Confidential Information" means:
(a) any information disclosed by or on behalf of the Provider to the Customer at any time before the termination of the Agreement (whether disclosed in writing, orally or otherwise) that at the time of disclosure was marked or described as "confidential" or should have been understood by the Customer (acting reasonably) to be confidential; and
(b) the terms of the Agreement;
"Services" means any services that the Provider provides to the Customer, or has an obligation to provide to the Customer, under these Terms and Conditions.
"Set Up Services" means the configuration, implementation and integration of the Hosted Services;
"Support Services" means support in relation to the use of, and the identification and resolution of errors in, the Hosted Services, but shall not include the provision of training services;
"Supported Web Browser" means the current release from time to time of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Apple Safari, or any other web browser that the Provider agrees in writing shall be supported;
"Term" means the term of the Agreement, commencing in accordance with Clause 2.1 and ending in accordance with Clause 2.2;
"Terms and Conditions" means all the documentation containing the provisions of the Agreement, the main body of these Terms and Conditions and Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use Policy), including any amendments to that documentation from time to time;
"Third Party Services" means any hosted, cloud or software-based services provided by any third party that are or may be integrated with the Hosted Services by the Provider from time to time in circumstances where the Customer must, in order to activate the integration, have an account with the relevant services provider or obtain activation or access credentials from the relevant services provider;
"Update" means a hotfix, patch or minor version update to any Platform software;
"Upgrade" means a major version upgrade of any Platform software; and
"User Interface" means the interface for the Hosted Services designed to allow individual human users to access and use the Hosted Services.
2.1 The Agreement shall come into force upon the Effective Date.
2.2 The Agreement shall continue in force indefinitely, subject to termination in accordance with any provision of these Terms and Conditions.
3.1 The Provider shall provide the Set Up Services to the Customer.
3.2 The Provider shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Set Up Services are provided upon or promptly following the Effective Date.
3.3 The Customer acknowledges that a delay in the Customer performing its obligations in the Agreement may result in a delay in the performance of the Set Up Services; and the Provider will not be liable to the Customer in respect of any failure to meet the Set Up Services timetable to the extent that that failure arises out of a delay in the Customer performing its obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
3.4 Subject to any written agreement of the parties to the contrary, any Intellectual Property Rights that may arise out of the performance of the Set Up Services by the Provider shall be the exclusive property of the Provider.
3.5 The Customer shall be given access to various resources for surveying and reporting purposes, including but not limited to; Templates, Layouts, and Written Documentation. It is the Customers responsibility to check that any resources provided during set up meet their requirements, and those of the local Health and Safety, and regulatory bodies. The Provider will, to the best of our knowledge, set templates up with local regulations in mind, but it is the Customers responsibility to make sure the templates are fully compliant.
3.6 Â It is the Customers responsibility to inform the Provider of any template or calculation changes required to make their template compliant with local regulations. The Provider can then make these changes prior to go-live.
4.1 The Provider shall provide, or shall ensure that the Platform will provide, to the Customer upon the acceptance or deemed acceptance of the Hosted Services by the Customer the Access Credentials necessary to enable the Customer to access and use the Hosted Services.
4.2 The Provider hereby grants to the Customer a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use the Hosted Services by means of the User Interface and the API for the internal business purposes of the Customer in accordance with the Documentation during the Term.
4.3 The licence granted by the Provider to the Customer under Clause 4.2 is subject to the following limitations:
(a) the User Interface may only be used through a Supported Web Browser or the Mobile App;
(b) the User Interface may only be used by the officers, employees, agents and subcontractors of either the Customer or an Affiliate of the Customer;
(c) the User Interface may only be used by the named users identified in writing between the Customer and the Provider, providing that the Customer may change, add or remove a designated named user in accordance with the user change procedure defined by the Hosted Services;
(d) the User Interface must not be used at any point in time by more than the number of concurrent users specified in writing between the Customer and the Provider, providing that the Customer may add or remove concurrent user licences in accordance with the licence change procedure defined by the Hosted Services; and
(e) the API may only be used by an application or applications approved by the Provider in writing and controlled by the Customer.
4.4 Except to the extent expressly permitted in these Terms and Conditions or required by law on a non-excludable basis, the licence granted by the Provider to the Customer under Clause 4.2 is subject to the following prohibitions:
(a) the Customer must not sub-license its right to access and use the Hosted Services;
(b) the Customer must not permit any unauthorised person or application to access or use the Hosted Services;
(c) the Customer must not use the Hosted Services to provide services to third parties;
(d) the Customer must not republish or redistribute any content or material from the Hosted Services;
(e) the Customer must not make any alteration to the Platform, except as permitted by the Documentation; and
(f) the Customer must not conduct or request that any other person conduct any load testing or penetration testing on the Platform or Hosted Services without the prior written consent of the Provider.
4.5 The Customer shall implement and maintain reasonable security measures relating to the Access Credentials to ensure that no unauthorised person or application may gain access to the Hosted Services by means of the Access Credentials.
4.6 The Customer must comply with Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use Policy), and must ensure that all persons using the Hosted Services with the authority of the Customer or by means of the Access Credentials comply with Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use Policy).
4.7 The Customer must not use the Hosted Services in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Hosted Services or Platform or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Hosted Services.
4.8 The Customer must not use the Hosted Services in any way that uses excessive Platform resources and as a result is liable to cause a material degradation in the services provided by the Provider to its other customers using the Platform; and the Customer acknowledges that the Provider may use reasonable technical measures to limit the use of Platform resources by the Customer for the purpose of assuring services to its customers generally.
4.9 The Customer must not use the Hosted Services:
(a) in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful; or
(b) in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
4.10 For the avoidance of doubt, the Customer has no right to access the software code (including object code, intermediate code and source code) of the Platform, either during or after the Term.
5.1 The Provider and the Customer may agree that the Provider shall design, develop and implement a Customisation or Customisations in accordance with a specification agreed in writing by the parties.
5.2 All Intellectual Property Rights in the Customisations shall, as between the parties, be the exclusive property of the Provider (unless the parties agree otherwise in writing).
5.3 From the time and date when a Customisation is first delivered or made available by the Provider to the Customer, the Customisation shall form part of the Platform, and accordingly from that time and date the Customer's rights to use the Customisation shall be governed by Clause 4 and any other relevant provision of these Terms and Conditions.
5.4 The Customer acknowledges that the Provider may make any Customisation available to any of its other customers or any other third party at any time after the Customisation is made available to the Customer.
6.1 The Provider shall provide the Maintenance Services to the Customer during the Term.
6.2 The Provider shall provide the Maintenance Services with reasonable skill and care.
6.3 The Provider may suspend the provision of the Maintenance Services if any amount due to be paid by the Customer to the Provider under the Agreement is overdue, and the Provider has given to the Customer at least 30 days' written notice, following the amount becoming overdue, of its intention to suspend the Maintenance Services on this basis.
7.1 The Provider shall provide the Support Services to the Customer during the Term.
7.2 The Provider shall provide the Support Services with reasonable skill and care.
7.3 The Provider may suspend the provision of the Support Services if any amount due to be paid by the Customer to the Provider under the Agreement is overdue, and the Provider has given to the Customer at least 30 days' written notice, following the amount becoming overdue, of its intention to suspend the Support Services on this basis.
8.1 Save to the extent that the parties have agreed otherwise in writing, the Customer must provide to the Provider, or procure for the Provider, such:
(a) co-operation, support and advice;
(b) information and documentation; and
(c) governmental, legal and regulatory licences, consents and permits, as are reasonably necessary to enable the Provider to perform its obligations under the Agreement.
8.2 The Customer must provide to the Provider, or procure for the Provider, such access to the Customer's computer hardware, software, networks and systems as may be reasonably required by the Provider to enable the Provider to perform its obligations under the Agreement.
83. The Customer is responsible for checking that the templates provided to them, comply with their local regulations for the type of survey being completed. By agreeing to use the Services, the customer acknowledges that any provided templates are fit for purpose, and takes full responsibility for their use.
9.1 The Customer hereby grants to the Provider a non-exclusive licence to copy, reproduce, store, distribute, publish, export, adapt, edit and translate the Customer Data to the extent reasonably required for the performance of the Provider's obligations and the exercise of the Provider's rights under the Agreement. The Customer also grants to the Provider the right to sub-license these rights to its hosting, connectivity and telecommunications service providers, subject to any express restrictions elsewhere in the Agreement.
9.2 The Customer warrants to the Provider that the Customer Data will not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or other legal rights of any person, and will not breach the provisions of any law, statute or regulation, in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law.
9.3 The Provider shall create a back-up copy of the Customer Data at least daily, shall ensure that each such copy is sufficient to enable the Provider to restore the Hosted Services to the state they were in at the time the back-up was taken, and shall retain and securely store each such copy for a minimum period of 30 days.
9.4 Following receipt of a written request from the Customer, the Provider shall use all reasonable endeavours to provide the Customer Data to the Customer in a reasonable format.
10.1 The Hosted Services are integrated with certain Third Party Services; and the Provider may integrate the Hosted Services with additional Third Party Services at any time.
10.2 Notwithstanding the presence of any Third Party Services integration, particular Third Party Services shall only be activated with respect to the Hosted Services account of the Customer by:
(a) the Customer; or
(b) the Provider with the prior written agreement of the Customer.
10.3 The Provider shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain any integration with Third Party Services that has been activated with respect to the Hosted Services account of the Customer. Subject to this, the Provider may remove, suspend, deactivate or limit any Third Party Services integration at any time in its sole discretion.
10.4 The supply of Third Party Services shall be under a separate contract or arrangement between the Customer and the relevant third party. The Provider does not contract to supply the Third Party Services and is not a party to any contract for, or otherwise responsible in respect of, the provision of any Third Party Services. Fees may be payable by the Customer to the relevant third party in respect of the use of Third Party Services.
10.5 The Customer acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) the activation of Third Party Services with respect to the Hosted Services account of the Customer may result in the transfer of Customer Data and/or Customer Personal Data from the Hosted Services to the relevant Third Party Services and vice versa;
(b) the Provider has no control over, or responsibility for, any disclosure, modification, deletion or other use of Customer Data and/or Customer Personal Data by any provider of Third Party Services;
(c) the Customer must ensure that it has in place the necessary contractual safeguards to ensure that the transfer of Customer Personal Data to, and use of Customer Personal Data by, a provider of Third Party Services is lawful; and
(d) the Customer shall ensure that the transfer of Customer Data to a provider of Third Party Services does not infringe any person's Intellectual Property Rights or other legal rights and will not put the Provider in breach of any applicable laws.
10.6 Additional Charges may be payable by the Customer to the Provider in respect of the activation and/or use of a Third Party Services integration, as set out in writing between the Customer and the Provider.
10.7 The Provider gives no guarantees, warranties or representations in respect of any Third Party Services; and
10.8 Â The Provider shall not be liable to the Customer in respect of any loss or damage that may be caused by Third Party Services or any provider of Third Party Services.
11.1 The Provider will release new versions of the Mobile App onto the app stores periodically. These releases will contain fixes and improvements, so it is recommended that the Customer keep their version of the app up to date.
11.2 The Provider shall endeavour to keep the Customer informed of new app releases, but it is recommended that the Customer periodically checks the app store for new releases.
12.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall operate to assign or transfer any Intellectual Property Rights from the Provider to the Customer, or from the Customer to the Provider.
13.1 The Customer shall pay the Charges to the Provider in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
13.2 If the Charges are based in whole or part upon the time spent by the Provider performing the Services, the Provider must obtain the Customer's written consent before performing Services that result in any estimate of time-based Charges given to the Customer being exceeded or any budget for time-based Charges agreed by the parties being exceeded; and unless the Customer agrees otherwise in writing, the Customer shall not be liable to pay to the Provider any Charges in respect of Services performed in breach of this Clause 13.2.
13.3 All amounts stated in or in relation to these Terms and Conditions are, unless the context requires otherwise, stated exclusive of any applicable value added taxes, which will be added to those amounts and payable by the Customer to the Provider.
13.4 The Provider may elect to vary any element of the Charges by giving to the Customer not less than 30 days' written notice of the variation expiring on any anniversary of the date of execution of the Agreement, providing that no such variation shall constitute a percentage increase in the relevant element of the Charges that exceeds 2% over the percentage increase, since the date of the most recent variation of the relevant element of the Charges under this Clause 13.4 (or, if no such variation has occurred, since the date of execution of the Agreement), in the Retail Prices Index (all items) published by the UK Office for National Statistics.
14.1 The Customer shall reimburse the Provider in respect of any Expenses, providing that the Provider must obtain the prior written authorisation of the Customer before incurring any Expenses exceeding such limitations as may be agreed in writing by the parties from time to time.
14.2 The Provider must collect and collate evidence of all Expenses, and must retain such evidence during the Term and for a period of 90 days following the end of the Term.
14.3 Within 10 Business Days following receipt of a written request from the Customer to do so, the Provider must supply to the Customer such copies of the evidence for the Expenses in the possession or control of the Provider as the Customer may specify in that written request.
15.1 Some parts of the Service are billed on a subscription basis (“Subscription(s)"). You will be billed in advance on a recurring and periodic basis (“Billing Cycle”). Billing cycles are set on a monthly basis.
15.2 At the end of each Billing Cycle, your Subscription will automatically renew under the exact same conditions, unless you cancel it or we cancel it. You may cancel your Subscription renewal by contacting the customer support team at support@flowmobile.app
15.3 A valid payment method is required to process the payment for your Subscription. You need to provide the Provider with accurate and complete billing information including full name, address, postal code, telephone number, and a valid payment method information. By submitting such payment information, you automatically authorise the Provider to charge all Subscription fees incurred through your account to any such payment instruments.
15.4 Â Should automatic billing fail to occur for any reason, the Provider will issue an electronic invoice indicating that you must proceed manually, within a certain deadline date, with the full payment corresponding to the billing period as indicated on the invoice.
15.5 Â A free trial of the Service is available prior to purchase. No payment details are required during this period. Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply at all times during the trial period. At any point during or after the trial period, you may upgrade your account on a subscription basis, as described above. Trials are strictly limited to one per individual, although they may be extended at our discretion. Action may be taken (e.g. account deletion) in any instance where multiple accounts are created by an individual, or a number of individuals in the same business.
15.6 If the Customer does not pay any amount properly due to the Provider under these Terms and Conditions, the Provider may:
(a) charge the Customer interest on the overdue amount at the rate of 8% per annum above the Bank of England base rate from time to time (which interest will accrue daily until the date of actual payment and be compounded at the end of each calendar month); or
(b) claim interest and statutory compensation from the Customer pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
16.1 Â Single month subscriptions are non-refundable. Partial refunds for quarterly (or longer) subscriptions may be considered by Flow Software Solutions Ltd on a case-by-case basis and granted at our discretion, and may only be applicable to monthly periods where the Service has not been used. In all instances, any discounts received as a result of subscribing for longer periods will be deducted from any refund offered.
17.1 The Provider must:
(a) keep the Customer Confidential Information strictly confidential;
(b) not disclose the Customer Confidential Information to any person without the Customer's prior written consent, and then only under conditions of confidentiality approved in writing by the Customer;
(c) use the same degree of care to protect the confidentiality of the Customer Confidential Information as the Provider uses to protect the Provider's own confidential information of a similar nature, being at least a reasonable degree of care; and
(d) act in good faith at all times in relation to the Customer Confidential Information.
17.2 The Customer must:
(a) keep the Provider Confidential Information strictly confidential;
(b) not disclose the Provider Confidential Information to any person without the Provider's prior written consent, and then only under conditions of confidentiality approved in writing by the Provider;
(c) use the same degree of care to protect the confidentiality of the Provider Confidential Information as the Customer uses to protect the Customer's own confidential information of a similar nature, being at least a reasonable degree of care; and
(d) act in good faith at all times in relation to the Provider Confidential Information.
17.3 Notwithstanding Clauses 17.1 and 17.2, a party's Confidential Information may be disclosed by the other party to that other party's officers, employees, professional advisers, insurers, agents and subcontractors who have a need to access the Confidential Information that is disclosed for the performance of their work with respect to the Agreement and who are bound by a written agreement or professional obligation to protect the confidentiality of the Confidential Information that is disclosed.
17.4 No obligations are imposed by this Clause 17 with respect to a party's Confidential Information if that Confidential Information:
(a) is known to the other party before disclosure under these Terms and Conditions and is not subject to any other obligation of confidentiality;
(b) is or becomes publicly known through no act or default of the other party; or
(c) is obtained by the other party from a third party in circumstances where the other party has no reason to believe that there has been a breach of an obligation of confidentiality.
17.5 The restrictions in this Clause 17 do not apply to the extent that any Confidential Information is required to be disclosed by any law or regulation, by any judicial or governmental order or request, or pursuant to disclosure requirements relating to the listing of the stock of either party on any recognised stock exchange.
17.6 Upon the termination of the Agreement, each party must immediately cease to use the other party's Confidential Information.
17.7 Following the date of effective termination of the Agreement, and within 5 Business Days following the date of receipt of a written request from the other party, the relevant party must:
(a) irreversibly delete from its media and computer systems all copies of the other party's Confidential Information (and ensure that the other party's Confidential Information is irreversibly deleted from the media and computer systems of all persons to whom the relevant party has directly or indirectly disclosed that Confidential Information);
(b) ensure that no other copies of the other party's Confidential Information remain in the relevant party’s possession or control (or the possession of control of any person to whom the relevant party has directly or indirectly disclosed the other party's Confidential Information);
(c) certify in writing to the other party that it has complied with the requirements of this Clause 17.7, subject in each case to any obligations that the relevant party has under the Agreement to supply or make available to the other party any data or information, and providing that the relevant party shall have no obligation under this Clause 17.7 to delete or to cease to possess or control any of the other party's Confidential Information to the extent that the relevant party is required by applicable law to retain that Confidential Information.
17.8 The provisions of this Clause 17 shall continue in force for a period of 5 years following the termination of the Agreement, at the end of which period they will cease to have effect.
18.1 The Customer acknowledges that complex software is never wholly free from defects, errors and bugs; and subject to the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions, the Provider gives no warranty or representation that the Hosted Services will be wholly free from defects, errors and bugs.
18.2 The Customer acknowledges that complex software is never entirely free from security vulnerabilities; and subject to the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions, the Provider gives no warranty or representation that the Hosted Services will be entirely secure.
18.3 The Customer acknowledges that the Provider will not provide any legal, financial, accountancy or taxation advice under these Terms and Conditions or in relation to the Hosted Services; and, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these Terms and Conditions, the Provider does not warrant or represent that the Hosted Services or the use of the Hosted Services by the Customer will not give rise to any legal liability on the part of the Customer or any other person.
19.1 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Provider and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Service, by you or any person using your account and password, or b) a breach of these Terms.
20.1 In no event shall the Provider, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Service; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the Service; (iii) any content obtained from the Service; and (iv) unauthorised access, use or alteration of your transmissions or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or any other legal theory, whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damage, and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.
20.2 Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and notwithstanding any other provision of these terms, under no circumstances will the Provider ever be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary loss or damage arising from, connected with, or relating to your use of the Service, these Terms, the subject matter of these Terms, the termination of these Terms or otherwise, including but not limited to personal injury, loss of data, business, markets, savings, income, profits, use, production, reputation or goodwill, anticipated or otherwise, or economic loss, under any theory of liability (whether in contract, tort, strict liability or any other theory or law or equity), regardless of any negligence or other fault or wrongdoing (including without limitation gross negligence and fundamental breach) by the Provider or any person for whom the Provider is responsible, and even if the Provider has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage being incurred.
21.1 If a Force Majeure Event gives rise to a failure or delay in either party performing any obligation under the Agreement (other than any obligation to make a payment), that obligation will be suspended for the duration of the Force Majeure Event.
21.2 A party that becomes aware of a Force Majeure Event which gives rise to, or which is likely to give rise to, any failure or delay in that party performing any obligation under the Agreement, must:
(a) promptly notify the other; and
(b) inform the other of the period for which it is estimated that such failure or delay will continue.
21.3 A party whose performance of its obligations under the Agreement is affected by a Force Majeure Event must take reasonable steps to mitigate the effects of the Force Majeure Event.
22.1 Either party may terminate the Agreement by giving to the other party not less than 30 days' written notice of termination, expiring at the end of any calendar month.
22.2 Either party may terminate the Agreement immediately by giving written notice of termination to the other party if:
(a) the other party commits any breach of the Agreement, and the breach is not remediable;
(b) the other party commits a breach of the Agreement, and the breach is remediable but the other party fails to remedy the breach within the period of 30 days following the giving of a written notice to the other party requiring the breach to be remedied; or
(c) the other party persistently breaches the Agreement (irrespective of whether such breaches collectively constitute a material breach).
22.3 Either party may terminate the Agreement immediately by giving written notice of termination to the other party if:
(a) the other party:
(i) is dissolved;
(ii) ceases to conduct all (or substantially all) of its business;
(iii) is or becomes unable to pay its debts as they fall due;
(iv) is or becomes insolvent or is declared insolvent; or
(v) convenes a meeting or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors;
(b) an administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator, receiver, trustee, manager or similar is appointed over any of the assets of the other party;
(c) an order is made for the winding up of the other party, or the other party passes a resolution for its winding up (other than for the purpose of a solvent company reorganisation where the resulting entity will assume all the obligations of the other party under the Agreement); or
(d) if that other party is an individual:
(i) that other party dies;
(ii) as a result of illness or incapacity, that other party becomes incapable of managing his or her own affairs; or
(iii) that other party is the subject of a bankruptcy petition or order.
22.4 The Provider may terminate the Agreement immediately by giving written notice to the Customer if:
(a) any amount due to be paid by the Customer to the Provider under the Agreement is unpaid by the due date and remains unpaid upon the date that that written notice of termination is given; and
(b) the Provider has given to the Customer at least 30 days' written notice, following the failure to pay, of its intention to terminate the Agreement in accordance with this Clause 22.4.
22.5 The rights of termination set out in the Agreement shall not exclude any rights of termination available at law.
23.1 Upon the termination of the Agreement, all provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
23.2 Except to the extent that these Terms and Conditions expressly provides otherwise, the termination of the Agreement shall not affect the accrued rights of either party.
23.3 Within 30 days following the termination of the Agreement for any reason:
(a) the Customer must pay to the Provider any Charges in respect of Services provided to the Customer before the termination of the Agreement; and
(b) the Provider must refund to the Customer any Charges paid by the Customer to the Provider in respect of Services that were to be provided to the Customer after the termination of the Agreement, without prejudice to the parties' other legal rights.
24.1 The Customer must not, without the prior written consent of the Provider, either during the Term or within the period of 6 months following the end of the Term, engage, employ or solicit for engagement or employment any employee or subcontractor of the Provider who has been involved in any way in the negotiation or performance of the Agreement.
24.2 The Provider must not, without the prior written consent of the Customer, either during the Term or within the period of 6 months following the end of the Term, engage, employ or solicit for engagement or employment any employee or subcontractor of the Customer who has been involved in any way in the negotiation or performance of the Agreement.
25.1 Subject to any express restrictions elsewhere in these Terms and Conditions, the Provider may subcontract any of its obligations under the Agreement, providing that the Provider must give to the Customer, promptly following the appointment of a subcontractor, a written notice specifying the subcontracted obligations and identifying the subcontractor in question.
25.2 The Provider shall remain responsible to the Customer for the performance of any subcontracted obligations.
25.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of this Clause 25 but subject to any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, the Customer acknowledges and agrees that the Provider may subcontract to any reputable third party hosting business the hosting of the Platform and the provision of services in relation to the support and maintenance of elements of the Platform.
26.1 The Customer hereby agrees that the Provider may assign, transfer or otherwise deal with the Provider's contractual rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
26.2 The Provider hereby agrees that the Customer may assign, transfer or otherwise deal with the Customer's contractual rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
27.1 No breach of any provision of the Agreement will be waived except with the express written consent of the party not in breach.
27.2 No waiver of any breach of any provision of the Agreement shall be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any other breach of that provision or any breach of any other provision of the Agreement.
28.1 If a provision of these Terms and Conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
28.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these Terms and Conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
29.1 The Agreement is for the benefit of the parties, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
29.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under the Agreement is not subject to the consent of any third party.
30.1 The Agreement may not be varied except by means of a written document signed by or on behalf of each party.
31.1 The main body of these Terms and Conditions and Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use Policy) shall constitute the entire agreement between the parties in relation to the subject matter of the Agreement, and shall supersede all previous agreements, arrangements and understandings between the parties in respect of that subject matter.
31.2 Neither party will have any remedy in respect of any misrepresentation (whether written or oral) made to it upon which it relied in entering into the Agreement.
32.1 These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
32.2 Any disputes relating to the Agreement shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
33.1 In these Terms and Conditions, a reference to a statute or statutory provision includes a reference to:
(a) that statute or statutory provision as modified, consolidated and/or re-enacted from time to time; and
(b) any subordinate legislation made under that statute or statutory provision.
33.2 The Clause headings do not affect the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions.
33.3 References in these Terms and Conditions to "calendar months" are to the 12 named periods (January, February and so on) into which a year is divided.
33.4 In these Terms and Conditions, general words shall not be given a restrictive interpretation by reason of being preceded or followed by words indicating a particular class of acts, matters or things.
34.1 Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.
34.2 Â The Provider and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that a) the Service will function uninterrupted, secure or available at any particular time or location; b) any errors or defects will be corrected; c) the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components; or d) the results of using the Service will meet your requirements.
1.Introduction
1.1 This acceptable use policy (the "Policy") sets out the rules governing:
(a) the use of the website at [https://flowmobile.app], any successor website, and the services available on that website or any successor website (the "Services"); and
(b) the transmission, storage and processing of content by you, or by any person on your behalf, using the Services ("Content").
1.2 References in this Policy to "you" are to any customer for the Services and any individual user of the Services (and "your" should be construed accordingly); and references in this Policy to "us" are to Flow Software Solutions (and "we" and "our" should be construed accordingly).
1.3 By using the Services, you agree to the rules set out in this Policy.
1.4 We will ask for your express agreement to the terms of this Policy before you upload or submit any Content or otherwise use the Services.
1.5 You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Services; and by using the Services, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.
2.General usage rules
2.1 You must not use the Services in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Services or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Services.
2.2 You must not use the Services:
(a) in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, deceptive or harmful; or
(b) in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, deceptive or harmful purpose or activity.
2.3 You must ensure that all Content complies with the provisions of this Policy.
3.Unlawful Content
3.1 Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
3.2 Content, and the use of Content by us in any manner licensed or otherwise authorised by you, must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
(h) constitute a breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) constitute a breach of official secrets legislation; or
(k) constitute a breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person.
3.3 You must ensure that Content is not and has never been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
4.Factual accuracy
4.1 Content must not be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading.
4.2 Statements of fact contained in Content and relating to persons (legal or natural) must be true; and statements of opinion contained in Content and relating to persons (legal or natural) must be reasonable, be honestly held and indicate the basis of the opinion.
5.Negligent advice
5.1 Content must not consist of or contain any legal, financial, investment, taxation, accountancy, medical or other professional advice, and you must not use the Services to provide any legal, financial, investment, taxation, accountancy, medical or other professional advisory services.
5.2 Content must not consist of or contain any advice, instructions or other information that may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause death, illness or personal injury, damage to property, or any other loss or damage.
6.Etiquette
6.1 Content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
6.2 Content must not be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory.
6.3 Content must not be liable to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
6.4 You must not use the Services to send any hostile communication or any communication intended to insult, including such communications directed at a particular person or group of people.
6.5 You must not use the Services for the purpose of deliberately upsetting or offending others.
6.6 You must not unnecessarily flood the Services with material relating to a particular subject or subject area, whether alone or in conjunction with others.
6.7 You must ensure that Content does not duplicate other content available through the Services.
6.8 You must ensure that Content is appropriately categorised.
6.9 You should use appropriate and informative titles for all Content.
6.10 You must at all times be courteous and polite to other users of the Services.
7.Marketing and spam
7.1 You must not without our written permission use the Services for any purpose relating to the marketing, advertising, promotion, sale or supply of any product, service or commercial offering.
7.2 Content must not constitute or contain spam, and you must not use the Services to store or transmit spam - which for these purposes shall include all unlawful marketing communications and unsolicited commercial communications.
7.3 You must not send any spam or other marketing communications to any person using any email address or other contact details made available through the Services or that you find using the Services.
7.4 You must not use the Services to promote, host or operate any chain letters, Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, matrix programs, multi-level marketing schemes, "get rich quick" schemes or similar letters, schemes or programs.
7.5 You must not use the Services in any way which is liable to result in the blacklisting of any of our IP addresses.
8.Regulated businesses
8.1 You must not use the Services for any purpose relating to gambling, gaming, betting, lotteries, sweepstakes, prize competitions or any gambling-related activity.
8.2 You must not use the Services for any purpose relating to the offering for sale, sale or distribution of drugs or pharmaceuticals.
8.3 You must not use the Services for any purpose relating to the offering for sale, sale or distribution of knives, guns or other weapons.
9.Monitoring
9.1 You acknowledge that we may actively monitor the Content and the use of the Services.
10.Data mining
10.1 You must not conduct any systematic or automated data scraping, data mining, data extraction or data harvesting, or other systematic or automated data collection activity, by means of or in relation to the Services.
11.Hyperlinks
11.1 You must not link to any material using or by means of the Services that would, if it were made available through the Services, breach the provisions of this Policy.
12.Harmful software
12.1 The Content must not contain or consist of, and you must not promote, distribute or execute by means of the Services, any viruses, worms, spyware, adware or other harmful or malicious software, programs, routines, applications or technologies.
12.2 The Content must not contain or consist of, and you must not promote, distribute or execute by means of the Services, any software, programs, routines, applications or technologies that will or may have a material negative effect upon the performance of a computer or introduce material security risks to a computer.
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