Terms of Service

EFFECTIVE: December 1, 2014

THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (“TERMS”) CONSTITUTE A CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND ANEWSTIP AND GOVERN USE OF AND ACCESS TO THE SERVICE AND SITE BY YOU, MEMBERS AND END-USERS WHETHER IN CONNECTION WITH A PAID SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SERVICE OR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SERVICE.

By accepting these Terms, or by accessing or using the Service or Site, or authorizing or permitting any Member or End-User to access or use the Service, You agree to be bound by these Terms. Your agreement with Anewstip is made up of the terms and conditions set out in this document, together with any fair usage policies described in this document. If You are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company, organization or another legal entity (an “Entity”), You are agreeing to these Terms for that Entity and representing to Anewstip that You have the authority to bind such Entity and its affiliates to these Terms, in which case the terms “Subscriber,” “You,” “Your” or related capitalized terms herein shall refer to such Entity and its affiliates. If You do not have such authority, or if You do not agree with these Terms, You must not accept these Terms and may not use the Service.

1. DEFINITIONS

When used in these Terms with the initial letters capitalized, in addition to terms defined elsewhere in these Terms, the following terms have the following meanings:

Account: means all Anewstip accounts created by or on behalf of Subscriber or its Member within the Service.

Member: means an individual authorized to use the Service through Your Account as a team member and/or administrator as identified through a unique login.

Confidential Information: means all information disclosed by You to Anewstip or by Anewstip to You which is in tangible form and labeled “confidential” (or with a similar legend) or which a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given the nature of the information and circumstances of disclosure. For purposes of these Terms, Your Data shall be deemed Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that (a) was already known to the receiving party at the time of disclosure by the disclosing party; (b) was or is obtained by the receiving party by a third party not known by the receiving party to be under an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such information; (c) is or becomes generally available to the public other than by violation of these Terms; or (d) was or is independently developed by the receiving party without use of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information.

Documentation: means any written or electronic documentation, images, video, text or sounds specifying the functionalities of the Service provided or made available by Anewstip to You or Members through the Site or otherwise.

Other Services: means third party products, applications, services, software, products, networks, systems, directories, websites, databases and information which the Service links to, or which You may connect to or enable in conjunction with the Service, including, without limitation, Other Services which may be integrated directly into Your Anewstip Service.

Personal Data: means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

Processing/To Process: means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.

Service: means the Anewstip service solution and tools provided by Anewstip, including, individually and collectively, Software, the API and any Documentation. Any new or modified features added to or augmenting or otherwise modifying the Service or other updates, modifications or enhancements to the Service (“Updates”) are also subject to these Terms and Anewstip reserves the right to deploy Updates at any time.

Service Plan: means the service plan and the functionality and services associated therewith (as detailed on the Site) for which You subscribe with respect to each Member.

Site: means www.anewstip.com and other websites that Anewstip operates.

Software: means software provided by Anewstip (either by download or access through the internet) that allows an Member to use any functionality in connection with the Service.

Subscription Term: means the period during which You have agreed to subscribe to the Service with respect to any individual Member.

Free Trial Term: means a specific period offered to you by Anewstip sales team for you to test out some Anewstip features for free.

Your Data: means all electronic data, text, messages or other materials submitted to the Service by You, Members and End-Users in connection with Your use of the Service, including, without limitation, Personal Data.

Anewstip: means Anewstip, Limited., a Hong Kong corporation or any of its successors or assignees. In these Terms, Anewstip may also be referred to through the use of “We” or “Our.”

Anewstip Group: means Anewstip together with all other entities that control, are controlled by or under common control with Anewstip.

2. GENERAL CONDITIONS; ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE

2.1 During the Subscription Term and subject to compliance by You, and Members with these Terms, You have the limited right to access and use the Service consistent with the Service Plan You subscribe to for Your internal business purposes.

2.2 A high speed Internet connection is required for proper transmission of the Service. You are responsible for procuring and maintaining the network connections that connect Your network to the Service, including, but not limited to, “browser” software that supports protocols used by Anewstip, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol or other protocols accepted by Anewstip, and to follow procedures for accessing services that support such protocols. We are not responsible for notifying You or Members of any upgrades, fixes or enhancements to any such software or for any compromise of data, including Your Data, transmitted across computer networks or telecommunications facilities (including but not limited to the Internet) which are not owned, operated or controlled by Anewstip. We assume no responsibility for the reliability or performance of any connections as described in this section.

2.3 You agree not to (a) license, sublicense, sell, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, time share or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party, other than authorized Members in furtherance of Your internal business purposes as expressly permitted by these Terms; (b) use the Service to Process data on behalf of any third party other than Members; (c) modify, adapt, or hack the Service or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or related systems or networks; (d) falsely imply any sponsorship or association with Anewstip, (e) use the Service in any unlawful manner, including but not limited to violation of any person’s privacy rights; (f) use the Service to send unsolicited or unauthorized junk mail, spam, pyramid schemes or other forms of duplicative or unsolicited messages; (g) use the Service to store or transmit files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringes on any person’s intellectual property rights; (h) use the Service in any manner that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Service and its components; (i) attempt to decipher, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise discover the source code of any software making up the Service; (j) use the Service to knowingly post, transmit, upload, link to, send or store any content that is unlawful, racist, hateful, abusive, libelous, obscene, or discriminatory; (K) use the Service to knowingly post transmit, upload, link to, send or store any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, time bombs, or any other similar harmful software (“Malicious Software”); or (L) try to use, or use the Service in violation of these Terms.

2.4 You are responsible for compliance with the provisions of these Terms by Members and for any and all activities that occur under Your Account, as well as for all Your Data. Without limiting the foregoing, You are solely responsible for ensuring that use of the Service to store and transmit Your Data is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations. You also maintain all responsibility for determining whether the Service or the information generated thereby is accurate or sufficient for Your purposes. Subject to any limitation on the number of individual Members available under the Service Plan for which You subscribed, access to and use of the Service is restricted to the specified number of individual Members permitted under Your subscription to the Service. You agree and acknowledge that each Member will be identified by a unique username and password (“Login”) and that an Member Login may only be used by one (1) individual. You will not share an Member Login among multiple individuals. You and Your Members are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all Login information for Your Account.

2.5 In addition to Our rights as set forth in Section 7.4, Anewstip reserves the right, in Anewstip’s reasonable discretion, to temporarily suspend Your access to and use of the Service: (a) during planned downtime for upgrades and maintenance to the Service (of which Anewstip will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify You in advance both through Our forum page and a notice to Your Account owner and Members) (“Planned Downtime”); (b) during any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, such as, but not limited to, acts of God, acts of government, acts of terror or civil unrest, technical failures beyond Our reasonable control (including, without limitation, inability to access the Internet), or acts undertaken by third parties, including without limitation, distributed denial of service attacks; or (c) if We suspect or detect any Malicious Software connected to Your Account or use of the Service by You or Members. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to schedule Planned Downtime for weekends (Pacific time zone) and other off-peak hours.

2.6 Fair Usage Policy. At Anewstip, we want all of our customers to get the best plans, known as ‘subscriptions’, at the lowest possible price. This Fair Usage Policy ("FUP") is designed to prevent fraud and abuse of our subscriptions by a small number of users.

Anewstip’s subscriptions are for individual use only (personal or business communications) in accordance with our Terms of Use and this FUP (“Legitimate Use”). The following is a non-exhaustive list of practices that would not be considered Legitimate Use:

  • (i) Using subscriptions for sending out spam emails;
  • (ii) Re-selling the contact data in Anewstip database;
  • (iii) Sharing subscriptions between users; and
  • (iv) Unusual browsing patterns inconsistent with normal, individual subscription use, for example, frequent searches or browsing of profile pages.

Account behaviors will be considered in violation of This Fair Usage Policy ("FUP") at our sole discretion.

3. DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY

3.1 Subject to the express permissions of these Terms, You and Anewstip will protect each other’s Confidential Information from unauthorized use, access or disclosure in the same manner as each protects its own Confidential Information, but with no less than reasonable care. Except as otherwise expressly permitted pursuant to these Terms, each of us may use each other’s Confidential Information solely to exercise our respective rights and perform our respective obligations under these Terms and shall disclose such Confidential Information solely to those of our respective employees, representatives and Members who have a need to know such Confidential Information for such purposes and who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of, and not misuse, such Confidential Information. The provisions of this Section 3 shall supersede any non-disclosure agreement by and between You and Anewstip entered prior to these Terms that would purport to address the confidentiality of Your Data and such agreement shall have no further force or effect with respect to Your Data.

3.2 Anewstip will maintain commercially reasonable administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your Data. These safeguards include encryption of Your Data in transmission (using SSL or similar technologies), except for certain Other Services that do not support encryption, which You may link to through Service at Your election. Our compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.2 shall be deemed compliance with Our obligations to protect Your Data as set forth in Section 3.1.

3.3 You agree that Anewstip and the service providers We use to assist in providing the Service to You shall have the right to access Your Account and to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, display and disclose Your Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Service, including, without limitation, in response to Your support requests. Any third party service providers We utilize will only be given access to Your Account and Your Data as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service and will be subject to confidentiality obligations.
Anewstip may also access or disclose information about You, Your Account, or Members, including Your Data, in order to (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect Anewstip’s or its customers’ or partners’ rights or property, including enforcement of these Terms or other policies associated with the Service; (c) act on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to protect personal safety or avoid violation of applicable law or regulation.

3.4 We collect certain information about You and Members as well as Your and their respective devices, computers and use of the Service. We use, disclose, and protect this information as described in Our Privacy Policy, the then-current version of which is available at www.anewstip.com/privacy and is incorporated into the Terms.

4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Each of us shall maintain all rights, title and interest in and to all our respective patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and/or proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”). The rights granted to You, and Members to use the Service under these Terms do not convey any additional rights in the Service, or in any Intellectual Property Rights associated therewith. Subject only to limited rights to access and use the Service as expressly herein, all rights, title and interest in and to the Service and all hardware, software and other components of or used to provide the Service, including all related intellectual property rights, will remain with and belong exclusively to Anewstip. Anewstip shall have a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to incorporate into the Service or otherwise use any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback We receive from You or Members.

5. THIRD PARTY SERVICES

If You decide to enable, access or use Other Services, be advised that Your access and use of such Other Services is governed solely by the terms and conditions of such Other Services, and We do not endorse, are not responsible or liable for, and make no representations as to any aspect of such Other Services, including, without limitation, their content or the manner in which they handle data (including Your Data) or any interaction between You and the provider of such Other Services. You irrevocably waive any claim against Anewstip with respect to such Other Services. Anewstip is not liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your enablement, access or use of any such Other Services, or Your reliance on the privacy practices, data security processes or other policies of such Other Services. You may be required to register for or log into such Other Services on their respective websites. By enabling any Other Services, You are expressly permitting Anewstip to disclose Your Login as well as Your Data as necessary to facilitate the use or enablement of such Other Service.

6. BILLING, PLAN MODIFICATIONS AND PAYMENTS

6.1 Unless otherwise indicated on a Form referencing these Terms, all charges associated with Your access to and use of the Service (“Subscription Charges”) are due in full upon commencement of Your Subscription Term. If You fail to pay Your Subscription Charges or charges for other services indicated on any Form referencing these Terms within 7 days of Our notice to You that payment is due or delinquent, or if You do not update payment information upon Our request, in addition to Our other remedies, We may suspend or terminate access to and use of the Service by You and Members.

6.2 If You choose to upgrade Your Service Plan or increase the number of authorized Members during Your Subscription Term (a “Subscription Upgrade”), any incremental Subscription Charges associated with such Subscription Upgrade will be prorated over the remaining period of Your then current Subscription Term, charged to Your Account and due and payable upon implementation of such Subscription Upgrade. In any future Subscription Term, Your Subscription Charges will reflect any such Subscription Upgrades.

6.3 Unless otherwise stated, refunds for Subscription Charges will not be provided to You if You elect to cancel a paid Service Plan. Refunds for Subscription Charges will not be provided to You if You elect to downgrade a paid Service Plan. Downgrading or canceling Your Service Plan may cause loss of content, features, or capacity of the Service as available to You under Your Account, and Anewstip does not accept any liability for such loss. Anewstip reserves the right to contact You about special pricing if You make excessive stress on the Service.

6.4 Unless otherwise stated, Our charges do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments, including value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes assessable by any local, state, provincial or foreign jurisdiction (collectively “Taxes”). You are responsible for paying Taxes except those assessable against Anewstip based on its income. We will invoice You for such Taxes if We believe We have a legal obligation to do so and You agree to pay such Taxes if so invoiced.

6.5 If You pay by PayPal, the Account owner will receive an invoice upon each invoice of payment by Anewstip, or they may obtain an invoice from within the Service to track subscription status. You hereby authorize Anewstip to bill Your credit card or other payment instrument in advance on a periodic basis in accordance with the terms of the Service Plan until you terminate your Subscription, and you further agree to pay any Subscription Charges so incurred.

7. CANCELLATION AND TERMINATION

7.1 Either You or Anewstip may elect to terminate Your Account and subscription to the Service as of the end of your then current Subscription Term by providing notice, in accordance with these Terms, on or prior to the date thirty (30) days preceding the end of such Subscription Term. Unless Your Account and subscription to the Service is so terminated, Your subscription to the Service will renew for a Subscription Term equivalent in length to the then expiring Subscription Term. Unless otherwise provided for in any Form, the Subscription Charges applicable to Your subscription to the Service for any such subsequent Subscription Term shall be Our standard Subscription Charges for the Service Plan to which You have subscribed as of the time such subsequent Subscription Term commences.

7.2 No refunds or credits for Subscription Charges or other fees or payments will be provided to You if You elect to terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then effective Subscription Term. Following the termination or cancellation of Your subscription to the Service and/or Account, We reserve the right to delete all Your Data in the normal course of operation. Your Data cannot be recovered once Your Account is cancelled.

7.3 If You terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then effective Subscription Term or We effect such termination or cancellation pursuant to Section 2.5(c) or 7.4, in addition to other amounts You may owe Anewstip, You must immediately pay any then unpaid Subscription Charges associated with the remainder of such Subscription Term. This amount will not be payable by You in the event You terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account as a result of a material breach of these Terms by Anewstip, provided that You provide advance notice of such breach to Anewstip and afford Anewstip not less than thirty (30) days to reasonably cure such breach.

7.4 Anewstip reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Service (or any part thereof), Your Account or Your and/or Members’’ rights to access and use the Service, and remove, disable and discard any of Your Data if We believe that You, or Members have violated these Terms. Unless legally prohibited from doing so, Anewstip will use commercially reasonable efforts to contact You directly via email to notify You when taking any of the foregoing actions. Anewstip shall not be liable to You, Members, or any other third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuation of Your rights to access and use the Service. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity by You, or Members may be referred to law enforcement authorities at Our sole discretion.

8. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE SITE AND THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL SERVER AND NETWORK COMPONENTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AND ANEWSTIP EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANEWSTIP DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED BY YOU FROM ANEWSTIP OR THROUGH THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

9.1 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) WILL EITHER PARTY TO THESE TERMS, OR THEIR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, MEMBERS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES OR BUSINESS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER LOSS INCURRED BY SUCH PARTY OR THIRD PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH DAMAGES.

9.2 Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply to You. IN THESE JURISDICTIONS, ANEWSTIP LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

10. INDEMNIFICATION

You will indemnify and hold Anewstip harmless against any claim brought by a third party against Anewstip arising from or related to use of the Service by You, or Members in breach of these Terms or matters which You have expressly agreed to be responsible pursuant to these Terms; provided that Anewstip promptly notifies You of the threat or notice of such a claim.

11. ASSIGNMENT; ENTIRE AGREEMENT; REVISIONS

11.1 You may not, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, assign all or any part of these Terms or Your rights under these Terms or delegate performance of Your duties under these Terms without Anewstip’s prior consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. We may, without Your consent, assign Our agreement with You to any member of the Anewstip Group or in connection with any merger or change of control of Anewstip or the sale of all or substantially all of Our assets provided that any such successor agrees to fulfill its obligations pursuant to these Terms. Subject to the foregoing restrictions, these Terms will be fully binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties and their respective successors and assigns.

11.2 These Terms, together with any Form(s), constitute the entire agreement, and supersede any and all prior agreements between You and Anewstip with regard to the subject matter hereof. These Terms and any Form(s) shall apply in lieu of the terms or conditions in any purchase order or other order documentation You or any Entity which you represent provides (all such terms or conditions being null and void), and, except as expressly stated herein, there are no other agreements, representations, warranties, or commitments which may be relied upon by either party with respect to the subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, additional terms may apply to certain features or functionality Anewstip offers through the Service (the “Additional Terms”). In those instances, We will notify You of such Additional Terms prior to the activation of these features or functionality and the activation of these features or functionality in Your Account will be considered acceptance of the Additional Terms. All such Additional Terms will be considered incorporated into these Terms when You or any Member designated as an administrator on your Account activates the feature or functionality. Where there’s a conflict between these Terms and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will control.

11.3 We may amend these Terms from time to time, in which case the new Terms will supersede prior versions. We will notify You not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of any such amendment and Your continued use of the Service following the effective date of any such amendment may be relied upon by Anewstip as Your consent to any such amendment. Anewstip’'s failure to enforce at any time any provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that provision or of any other provision of the Terms.

12. SEVERABILITY

If any provision in these Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified by the court and interpreted so as to best accomplish the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in effect.

13. RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES

The parties are independent contractors. These Terms do not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship among the parties.

14. SURVIVAL

Sections 1, 3, 4 and 8-18 shall survive any termination of our agreement with respect to use of the Service by You, or Members. Termination of such agreement shall not limit Your or Anewstip’s liability for obligations accrued as of or prior to such termination or for any breach of these Terms.

17. NOTICE

All notices to be provided by Anewstip to You under these Terms may be delivered in writing (i) by nationally recognized overnight delivery service (“Courier”) to the contact mailing address provided by You on any Form; or (ii) electronic mail to the electronic mail address provided for Your Account owner. You must give notice to us in writing by electronic mail to the electronic mail address of support@anewstip.com. All notices shall be deemed to have been given immediately upon delivery by electronic mail, or if otherwise delivered upon receipt or, if earlier, two (2) business days after being deposited in the mail or with a Courier as permitted above.

18. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to conflict of laws principles. You hereby expressly agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the federal and state courts of the State of California, San Francisco County, for the purpose of resolving any dispute relating to the Terms or access to or use of the Service by You or Members.