These Service Terms of Use apply to your use of the Climate Analytics Service provided by DesignBuilder Software Limited as specified in any invoice we send to you. DesignBuilder Software Ltd is a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 04514127) having its registered office at Stroud House, Russell Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3AN. By using the Service, you (referred to in this Agreement as the “Customer”) agree to be bound by them in relation to all use of the Service.
1. Definitions
The following definitions apply in this document:
Service means any Climate Analytics product made available to the Customer and its Users on and subject to the terms of this Agreement and as specified in any invoice sent to you by DesignBuilder.
Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) on which banks are open for business in England.
Confidential Information means all information (whether or not it is described as confidential) in any form or medium concerning any past, present or future business, operations or affairs of either party, including, without limitation customer data, all technical or non-technical data, formulae, patterns, programs, devices, methods, techniques, plans, drawings, models and processes, source and object code, Service and computer records; all business and marketing plans and projections, details of agreements and arrangements with third parties, and User and supplier information and lists; all financial information, pricing schedules and structures, product margins, remuneration details and investment outlays; all information concerning any employee, customer, contractor, supplier or agent of the relevant party; the party’s policies and procedures, but excludes information that the other party can establish is known by or is in the other party’s possession or control other than through a breach of this document and is not subject to any obligation of confidence; or is in the public domain other than by a breach of this document or any obligations of confidence.; or is independently developed by or on behalf of the receiving party without reference to or use of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information.
Customer Data means any information that the Customer or any of its Users uploads to the Service, including Customer Personal Data.
Customer Personal Data means any Personal Data that the Customer or any of its Users uploads to the Service.
Data Protection Legislation means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, (the General Data Protection Regulation); any other existing or future law, directive or regulation (anywhere in the world) relating to the Processing of Personal Data or privacy, to which DesignBuilder is subject.
Data Controller, Data Processor, Data Subject, Processing and Personal Data have the meanings given to those expressions or any equivalent or corresponding expressions in the Data Protection Legislation.
Force Majeure means an event or cause beyond the reasonable control of the party claiming force majeure. It includes each of the following, to the extent it is beyond the reasonable control of that party: act of God, lightning, storm, flood, fire, earthquake or explosion cyclone, tidal wave, landslide, adverse weather conditions; act of public enemy, war (declared or undeclared), terrorism, sabotage, blockade, revolution, riot, insurrection, civil commotion, epidemic or pandemic; the effect of any change in applicable laws, orders, rules or regulations of any government or other competent authority; and embargo, inability to obtain necessary materials, equipment or facilities, or power or water shortage.
Intellectual Property means all copyright, patents, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, product formulations, designs, circuit layouts, databases, registered or unregistered trade marks, brand names, business names, domain names and other forms of intellectual property;
Intellectual Property Rights means, for the duration of the rights in any part of the world, industrial or intellectual property rights, whether registrable or not, including in respect of Intellectual Property, applications for the registration of any Intellectual Property and any improvements, enhancements or modifications to any Intellectual Property registrations.
Standard Contractual Clauses means the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data from the EU to third countries (controller-to-processor transfers) contained in the Annex to the Commission Decision of 5 February 2010 (Decision 2010/87/EU) amending Decision 2002/16/EC as regards the introduction of an alternative set of standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
User means any employee authorised by the Customer to use an account for the Service purchased by the Customer.
2. The Service
2.1 The Customer agrees and accepts that the Service is hosted by DesignBuilder and its infrastructure providers, and shall only be installed, accessed and maintained by DesignBuilder, and is not available locally from the Customer’s systems. The Customer also acknowledges that the Service is managed and supported exclusively by DesignBuilder and that no ‘back-end’ access to the Service is available to the Customer or its Users unless expressly agreed in writing.
2.2 As a hosted and managed service, DesignBuilder reserves the right to upgrade, maintain, tune, backup, amend, add or remove features, redesign, improve or otherwise alter the Service at its sole discretion. Access to the service may be temporarily unavailable due to issues such as system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control. Where possible we will try to give advance warning of planned maintenance. DesignBuilder shall not amend the Service in a manner that would intentionally cause the Customer to lose access to Customer Data or fundamentally decrease the utility of the Service to the Customer, other than in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
3. Payment of fees
3.1 The Customer shall pay the fees notified to it by DesignBuilder for use of the Service. The fees for the use of the Service are payable annually in advance in full. No refunds are payable for the annual fee under any circumstances.
3.2 All invoices for the use of the Service must be paid within 30 days of receipt. If full payment is not received by such date, DesignBuilder may suspend or withhold access for all Users until such payment is received. DesignBuilder reserves the right to charge interest for any late payments at 4% above the prevailing Bank of England base rate.
3.3 All prices are exclusive of applicable local, state, federal and international sales, value-added, withholding and other taxes and duties of any kind unless otherwise stated.
3.4 The Customer shall pay all invoices for the use of the Service in full, and shall have no right of set off for any liability it may claim to be owed to it by DesignBuilder at any time.
3.5 DesignBuilder may make the Service available to you for a limited trial period at no charge. All the terms and conditions of this Agreement apply to your use of the Service during any such trial period. If you choose to use the Service at cost following the end of the trial period, the terms and conditions of this Agreement will automatically continue to apply to your use of the Service.
4. Use of the Service
4.1 Subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Customer and its Users are granted a limited, non-exclusive and revocable license to access and use the Service for the duration of this Agreement.
4.2 The Customer shall only permit access to the Service to the number of Users for which it has purchased valid licences. Account access details must not be shared, and must only be used by one named individual.
4.3 The Customer is solely responsible for the security of user names and passwords issued to it for access to the Service.
4.4 The customer agrees not to copy, re-sell, sublicense, rent out, share or otherwise distribute any Climate Analytics data, whether modified or not, to any third party.
4.5 The Customer agrees not to conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the Service.
4.6 DesignBuilder may revoke or suspend access to the Service at any time if the Customer or any User is in breach of this Agreement and has failed to comply with DesignBuilder’s reasonable request to remedy such breach within a reasonable time period.
4.7 The Customer shall ensure that each of its Users is aware of and complies with the terms of this Agreement, and the Customer shall remain liable to DesignBuilder for any breach of this Agreement by its Users, and any losses or damages that DesignBuilder may suffer as a result of any such breach.
4.8 The Customer agrees that it shall only use the Service for legal purposes and shall not use it to engage in any conduct that is unlawful, immoral, threatening, abusive or in a way that is deemed unreasonable by DesignBuilder in its sole discretion.
4.9 DesignBuilder provides user support for the Service via a dedicated support desk available on the DesignBuilder website.
4.10 DesignBuilder shall endeavour to respond to all support requests within 1 Business Day.
4.11 DesignBuilder reserves the right to require the payment of reasonable fees for non-standard support requests prior to the provision of such support.
5. Customer Data
5.1 DesignBuilder obtains no right, title or interest in Customer Data including any Intellectual Property found within it. The Customer grants DesignBuilder a licence to use the Customer Data solely for the purposes of providing the Service in accordance with this Agreement.
5.2 DesignBuilder accepts no liability for the content of Customer Data.
5.3 The Customer and its Users are responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of Customer Data and the User’s acquisition of it, and the Users that create, access and/or use Customer Data. The Customer shall ensure that it is has an appropriate legal basis (including consents where required by law) for uploading and Personal Data the Service. The Customer hereby indemnifies DesignBuilder in relation to any claims, losses, damages and costs that DesignBuilder or its related parties may suffer as a result of any claim that DesignBuilder’s possession or use of the Customer Data to provide the Service in accordance with this Agreement infringes any applicable Data Protection Legislation or the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party.
5.4 Notwithstanding section 5.1, DesignBuilder shall be entitled to permanently delete Customer Data where any outstanding payments due to DesignBuilder by Customer remain unpaid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.5 DesignBuilder shall not access, use, modify or otherwise deal with Customer Data except where required by compulsion of law, or upon the Customer or any User’s authority (such as to provide technical support for the Service), or as part of internal testing and troubleshooting.
6. Compliance with data privacy laws
6.1 DesignBuilder and the Customer will comply with all applicable requirements of the Data Protection Legislation.
6.2 To the extent that DesignBuilder acts as a Data Processor of Customer Personal Data in the course of making the Service available to the Customer, DesignBuilder shall:
6.2.1 Process the Customer Personal Data only in accordance with the written instructions of Customer from time to time unless required to do so by law and subject to notifying the Customer (save whereby law DesignBuilder is prohibited from so notifying the Customer);
6.2.2 take reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of its employees, staff, officers and agents who may have access to, or be involved in, the Processing of the Customer Personal Data and that such employees, staff, officers and agents only process the Customer Personal Data in accordance with this Agreement;
6.2.3 ensure that DesignBuilder personnel who have access to and/or Process the Customer Personal Data are obliged to keep it confidential or are under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality;
6.2.4 ensure that it has in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized or unlawful Processing of Customer Personal Data and against loss or destruction of, or damage to, Customer Personal Data, appropriate to the harm that might result from unauthorized or unlawful Processing or accidental loss, destruction or damage and the nature of the Customer Personal Data to be protected, having regard to the state of technological development and the cost of implementing any measures;
6.2.5 notify Customer promptly of any Customer Personal Data breaches so that Customer can notify the supervisory authorities, as appropriate; DesignBuilder shall take all such measures and actions as are necessary to remedy or mitigate the effects of the breach and shall keep the Customer informed of all developments in connection with the breach;
6.2.6 conduct data protection impact assessments as appropriate;
6.2.7 support Customer’s interaction with supervisory authorities or regulators where the data protection risk assessment indicates that there is a high risk to the Processing;
6.2.8 at the written direction of Customer, delete or return Customer Personal Data and copies thereof to Customer on termination or expiry of this Agreement unless DesignBuilder is required to store the Customer Personal Data by law or if such Customer Personal Data is retained only in backups which are inaccessible in normal use;
6.2.9 maintain complete and accurate records and information to demonstrate its compliance with these data protection obligations and shall allow at reasonable times and from time to time to audit and review DesignBuilder’s compliance with these data protection obligations and the Data Protection Legislation;
6.2.10 Inform Customer immediately if (in DesignBuilder’s opinion) an instruction for the Processing of Customer Personal Data given by the Customer infringes Data Protection Legislation;
6.2.11 only transfer or process Customer Personal Data outside the European Economic Area on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses, which the Customer hereby accepts as being a valid and appropriate basis for such transfers and processing;
6.2.12 not subcontract any processing of the Customer Personal Data to a third party subprocessor unless that third party is subject to contractual obligations no less onerous than those provided in this Agreement in relation to the processing of the Customer Personal Data.
6.3 DesignBuilder shall be entitled to make any reasonable amendment to this section 5 necessary to bring DesignBuilder’s obligations in respect of the Processing of Personal Data into line with the Data Protection Legislation; or allow the Customer to comply with the Data Protection Legislation and the requirements and recommendations of any appropriate data protection supervisory authority or regulator.
7. Security
7.1 DesignBuilder takes the security of the Service and the privacy of its Customers and Users very seriously. DesignBuilder shall use industry-standard systems and processes to protect the security of Customer Data.
7.2 The Customer agrees that its Users shall not do anything to prejudice the security or privacy of DesignBuilder’s systems (and the systems of DesignBuilder’s infrastructure providers) or the information on them.
7.3 DesignBuilder may limit the amount of data that the Customer stores in the Service, and shall advise the Customer of any such limits from time to time. Customer Data that is stored in the Service shall be stored according to accepted industry standards.
8. Intellectual Property
8.1 The Customer shall not copy, alter, or use the Service name without the prior written consent of DesignBuilder.
8.2 The Service may incorporate Software and other proprietary systems and Intellectual Property owned by DesignBuilder or which DesignBuilder has appropriate authority to use, and the Customer agrees that such is protected by copyright, trademarks, patents, proprietary rights and other laws, both domestically and internationally.
8.3 The Customer warrants that it shall not infringe on any third-party rights through the use of the Service.
8.4 The Customer agrees and accepts that the Service is the Intellectual Property of DesignBuilder and the Customer further warrants that by using the Service the Customer and its Users will not:
8.4.1 copy the Service or the services that it provides for their own commercial purposes; and
8.4.2 directly or indirectly copy, recreate, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain, modify or use any source or object code, architecture, or algorithms contained in the Service or any documentation associated with it.
8.5 All content (with the exception of Customer Data) remains the Intellectual Property of DesignBuilder, including (without limitation) any source code, ideas, enhancements, feature requests, suggestions or other information provided by the Customer or any other party with respect to the Service.
8.6 DesignBuilder hereby indemnifies the Customer in relation to any claims, losses, damages and costs that the Customer may suffer as a result of any claim that the Customer’s use of the Service in accordance with this Agreement and any instructions provided by DesignBuilder to the Customer infringes the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party. This indemnity shall not apply to any use of the Service by the Customer or any User otherwise than in accordance with DesignBuilder’s reasonable instructions.
9. Confidentiality
9.1 DesignBuilder agrees to keep all Customer Data in the strictest confidence, and to the extent Customer Data is accessed and/or received by the Service it shall be deemed as Confidential Information for the purposes of this Agreement.
9.2 Each party acknowledges and agrees that:
9.2.1 the Confidential Information is secret, confidential and valuable to the disclosing party (Discloser);
9.2.2 it owes an obligation of confidence to the Discloser concerning the Confidential Information;
9.2.3 it must not disclose the Confidential Information to a third party except as permitted in this Agreement;
9.2.4 all Intellectual Property rights remain vested in the Discloser but disclosure of Confidential Information does not in any way transfer or assign any rights or interests in the Intellectual Property to the receiving party; and
9.2.5 any breach or threatened breach by the receiving party of an obligation under this Agreement may cause the Discloser immediate and irreparable harm for which damages alone may not be an adequate remedy. Consequently the Discloser has the right, in addition to other remedies available at law or in equity, to seek injunctive relief against the receiving party (and its agents, assigns, employees, officers and directors, personally) or to compel specific performance of this clause.
9.3 A party must notify the Discloser in writing, giving full details known to it immediately, when it becomes aware of:
9.3.1 any actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach by it of any obligations it has in relation to the Confidential Information.
9.3.2 any actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach by any person of any obligation in relation to the Confidential Information; or
9.3.3 any actual, suspected, likely or threatened theft, loss, damage, or unauthorized access, use or disclosure of or to any Confidential Information.
9.4 The receiving party must promptly take all steps that the Discloser may reasonably require and must co-operate with any investigation, litigation or other action of the Discloser or of a related body corporate if there is:
9.4.1 any actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach of a term of this Agreement; or
9.4.2 any theft, loss, damage or unauthorized access, use or disclosure of or to any Confidential Information that is or was in its possession or control.
10. Warranties
10.1 DesignBuilder warrants that the Service will conform to all representations and descriptions of functionality and service made available to the Customer and that the Service will operate to a 99.5% uptime availability level, excluding downtime for scheduled and emergency maintenance, which shall be notified in advance to Customer wherever possible, and scheduled to minimize disruption to Customer’s operations.
10.2 DesignBuilder warrants that it will use industry standard measures to maintain the security of the Service as described in this Agreement, and that it will fix defects in the Service in a prompt manner.
10.3 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Customer acknowledges and agrees that the Service (including all content, function, and services) is provided “as is,” without additional warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including any additional warranty for information, data, data processing services or uninterrupted access, any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy, completeness, usefulness, or content of information, and any warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
10.4 DesignBuilder does not warrant that the Service (or the function, content or services made available within it) will be timely, secure, uninterrupted or error free. DesignBuilder makes no warranty that the Service will meet the Customer’s expectations or requirements. No advice, results or information, or data whether oral or written, obtained through the Service shall create any warranty not expressly made herein. If a Customer is dissatisfied with the Service, the sole remedy is to discontinue using the Service.
10.5 The Customer acknowledges that the Service is hosted on third party infrastructure, and DesignBuilder shall not be liable to Customer for any costs, losses, damages, downtime, or other liability arising from the use of or reliance upon such third party infrastructure.
10.6 DesignBuilder does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any products or services offered or provided by or on behalf of third parties on or through the Service. DesignBuilder is not a party to, and does not monitor, any transaction between Customers and third parties.
10.7 Each party acknowledges that it has not relied on any representation, warranty or statement made by any other party, other than as set out in this Agreement.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11.1 To enable the Licensor to provide the Service under this Licence for the respective price, the Licensor excludes liability for certain types of loss or damage and places a limit on its liability to the Licensee. Further, the Licensor shall have no liability unless the Licensee has issued proceedings against the Licensor within 90 days of the Licensee becoming aware of the circumstances giving rise to the cause of action, or the date when it ought reasonably to have become aware.
11.2 Subject to the remaining provisions of clause 6 the Licensee agrees that the Licensor's total aggregate liability in respect of all breaches and claims either in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the Service or the provision of technical support, consultancy or training in connection with the Service, shall not exceed the Licence Fee paid by Licensee for the Service (where the Licence Fee has been paid in full) or (at the Licensor's option) replacement of the Service.
11.3 The Licensor shall not be liable in any event for:
11.3.1 loss of use or corruption of the Service in whole or part; or
11.3.2 loss or corruption of data or information; or
11.3.3 loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; or
11.3.4 business interruption; or
11.3.5 loss of anticipated savings; or
11.3.6 loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
11.3.7 loss arising directly or indirectly from the designs, specifications and information generated from use of the Service or the provision of technical support, consultancy or training in connection with the Service or the output or consequences of any of the foregoing; or
11.3.8 for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential or economic loss or damage.
11.4 The Licensee hereby agrees to afford the Licensor not less than 60 days (following written notification thereof by the Licensee) in which to remedy any breach of warranty hereunder.
11.5 The above limitations shall not apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
11.6 Each of the foregoing provisions is a separate limitation which shall apply and survive even if, for any reason, one or other of them is held inapplicable or unreasonable in any circumstances.
11.7 The restrictions on liability in this clause 11 apply to every liability arising under or in connection with the Licence including liability in contract, tort (including negligence), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise.
12. Termination
12.1 DesignBuilder may terminate this Agreement on no less than 14 days' written notice to the Customer. DesignBuilder shall only provide a pro-rata refund to a Customer if DesignBuilder terminates this Agreement without cause; or the Agreement is terminated as the result of a breach by DesignBuilder.
12.2 Where a party is in material breach of this Agreement, and has failed to remedy such breach within 28 days of notification by the other party, the other party may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice of termination, which shall become effective 5 Business Days after the date of the notice.
12.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement immediately by notice, if either party:
12.3.1 stops or suspends or threatens to stop or suspend payment of all or a class of its debts;
12.3.2 is insolvent under company law;
12.3.3 has an administrator appointed in respect of it;
12.3.4 has an order made or a resolution passed for its winding up or dissolution or it enters into an arrangement, compromise or composition with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or a class of them;
12.3.5 has any security enforced over, or a distress, execution or other similar process levied or served against, the whole or a substantial part of its assets or undertaking; or
12.3.6 is subject to any event which, under the law of any relevant jurisdiction, has an analogous or equivalent effect to any of the events listed above.
12.4 Expiry or termination of this Agreement is without prejudice to and does not affect the accrued rights or remedies of any of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement up to the date of expiry or termination.
12.5 Rights and obligations under this Agreement shall survive termination of this Agreement where reasonably required to give commercial effect to such rights and obligations.
13. Force Majeure
13.1 If a party is prevented in whole or in part from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure, it will promptly notify the other party accordingly. The notice must:
13.1.1 specify the obligations and the extent to which it cannot perform those obligations;
13.1.2 fully describe the event of Force Majeure;
13.1.3 estimate the time during which the Force Majeure will continue; and
13.1.4 specify the measures proposed to be adopted to remedy or abate the Force Majeure.
13.2 Following a notice of Force Majeure in accordance with section 12.1 and while the Force Majeure continues, the obligations which cannot be performed because of the Force Majeure will be suspended, other than obligations to pay money that is due and payable.
13.3 The party that is prevented from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure must remedy the Force Majeure to the extent reasonably practicable and resume performance of its obligations as soon as reasonably possible.
13.4 The party that is prevented from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure must take all action reasonably practicable to mitigate any loss suffered by the other party as a result of the party’s failure to carry out its obligations under this Agreement.
13.5 The term of this Agreement will not be extended by the period of Force Majeure.
14. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
14.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
14.2 Each Party expressly agrees that exclusive jurisdiction for resolving any claim or dispute between the Customer and DesignBuilder relating in any way to use of the Service shall be with the courts of England and Wales.
15. Other provisions
15.1 The Customer may not assign or otherwise license or transfer any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement.
15.2 Each party acknowledges that it has not relied on any representation, warranty or statement made by any other party, other than as set out in this Agreement.
15.3 The relationship of the parties to this Agreement does not form a joint venture or partnership.
15.4 The Customer agrees that DesignBuilder may reference the Customer’s use of the Service in its promotional materials.
15.5 No clause of this Agreement will be deemed waived and no breach excused unless such waiver or consent is provided in writing.
15.6 Any clause of this Agreement, which is invalid or unenforceable is ineffective to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability without affecting the remaining clauses of this Agreement.
15.7 Any part of this Agreement may be amended by DesignBuilder at any time, and any aspect of the Service may be updated or discontinued at any time, provided that the core functionality of the Service will not be varied in a way that materially affects the Customer’s use of the Service. Any changes to this Agreement or to the Service which will significantly affect the rights and obligations of the Customer will be notified to the Customer in advance of such changes taking effect.
DesignBuilder Software Ltd, Climate Analytics Service - Terms of Use - Last updated: 14 Sept 2022