Terms and conditions

Last updated on 5th March 2022 UTC
  1. Acceptance of terms
    1. Pattern Orchard provides its service to you (either an individual or a legal entity that you represent as an authorized employee or agent) ("You" and the phrase "Your" shall be construed accordingly) subject to the following Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, which may be found at https://www.patternorchard.com/privacyPolicy and which is incorporated herein by reference into these Terms of Service.
    2. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at any time at: https://www.patternorchard.com/termsAndConditions and https://www.patternorchard.com/privacyPolicy
    3. By signing up and creating an account with Pattern Orchard you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and our Privacy Policy (the "Agreement").
  2. Amendment
    1. Pattern Orchard reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time, in its sole discretion, by posting changes at https://www.patternorchard.com/ or such other URL that Pattern Orchard may provide from time to time). Your continued use of any part of the Services (as defined below) following the posting of such changes or modifications will constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications.
  3. Definitions
    1. In this Agreement, the following words have the meanings set out below:
      1. "Account" refers to Your Account for the Service, which You will receive when You create or sign up for a Pattern Orchard account;
      2. "Documentation" means any accompanying proprietary documentation made available to You by Pattern Orchard for use with the Service, including any documentation available online or otherwise;
      3. "Party" means a party to this Agreement and shall be a reference to You or Pattern Orchard, as the context requires and "Parties" shall mean both Pattern Orchard and You collectively;
      4. "Software" means the proprietary Pattern Orchard website and all upgrades to such, which is hosted by Pattern Orchard on the Servers;
      5. "Servers" means the servers controlled by Pattern Orchard (or its wholly owned subsidiaries) or a third party appointed by Pattern Orchard upon which the Processing Software and data are stored;
      6. "Service" shall have the meaning described in section 4.1 below;
  4. Description of service
    1. Pattern Orchard provides services including but not limited to content for entertainment and educational purposes, advertisements and/or sponsored content, sale of goods and merchandise, various software applications and other resources (the "Service").
    2. You understand and agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that Pattern Orchard assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Service.
  5. Fees and services
    1. Pattern Orchard may at its sole discretion change its fees and payment policies for the Service from time to time and Pattern Orchard shall provide You notice of the changes to the fees or payment policies at https://www.patternorchard.com/ (or such other URL as Pattern Orchard may nominate for this use from time to time) and your continued use of the Service following such notification shall be deemed to be acceptance of such change.
  6. Account, password, and security
    1. To register for the Service, You must complete the registration process by providing Pattern Orchard with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the registration form, including Your e-mail address (username) and password. You represent that You are of legal age to form a binding contract.
    2. You shall protect the confidentiality of the passwords and username issued to you by Pattern Orchard and take full responsibility for Your own, and third party, use of Your password or Account. From time to time, Pattern Orchard (or its wholly owned subsidiaries') support staff may log in to the Service under Your password in order to maintain or improve the Service, including to provide You assistance with technical or billing issues. You hereby acknowledge and consent to such access.
  7. Non-exclusive license
    1. Pattern Orchard hereby grants You a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, nontransferable licence (without the right to sublicence) to use the Service for Your own use. Pattern Orchard also grants you the right to remotely access, view and download related resources. Your use of and access to the Service (which includes, without limitation, the Software, Documentation and other resources) is conditional upon Your compliance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement.
    2. You will not, nor will You allow any third party to
      1. copy, modify, adapt, translate or otherwise create derivative works of the Software or the Documentation;
      2. reverse engineer, de-compile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software, except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction;
      3. rent, sublicense, lease, sell, assign or otherwise transfer rights (or purport to do any of the same) in or to the Software, the Documentation or the Service;
      4. remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Software or which are otherwise placed by the Service;
      5. use, post, transmit or introduce any device, software or routine which interferes or attempts to interfere with the operation of the Service or the Software. Subject to Clause 7.3, You will use the Software, Service and resources solely for Your own internal use, and will not make the Software or Service available for time sharing, application service provider or service bureau use. You will comply (and shall ensure that any third parties to whom You grant access to the reporting functions of the Software comply) with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the use of and access to the Documentation, Software, Service and resources
    3. You may not provide access to the Software to third parties. However, You may (at Your own risk) provide access to the reporting functions of the Software to third parties (a "Third Party") as long as You do not directly or indirectly charge a service fee for granting such access and provided that You remain responsible for such Third Parties' use of any information or other material You provide.
    4. The licence granted above and your right of use of the Service will terminate immediately if You fail to comply with the terms of this Agreement and the provisions of Clause 15 will apply.
  8. Confidentiality
    1. For the purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" includes any proprietary data and any other information disclosed by one party to the other in writing and marked "confidential" or disclosed orally and, within five business days, reduced to writing and marked "confidential". However, Confidential Information will not include any information that is or becomes known to the general public, which is already in the receiving party's possession prior to disclosure by a party or which is independently developed by the receiving party without the use of Confidential Information or any allowed usage by Pattern Orchard of information as described in this Agreement.
    2. Neither party will use or disclose the other party's Confidential Information without the other's prior written consent except for the purpose of performing its obligations under this Agreement or if required by law, regulation or court order; in which case, the party being compelled to disclose Confidential Information will give the other party as much notice as is reasonably practicable prior to disclosing the Confidential Information.
  9. Privacy
    1. As a condition of Your access to the Services, you agree that Pattern Orchard has the right, for any purpose, to collect, retain, use, and publish in an aggregate manner, subject to the terms of its Privacy Policy located on https://www.patternorchard.com/privacyPolicy, information collected in Your use of the Services.
    2. You must not circumvent any privacy features (e.g., an opt-out) that are part of the Service.
    3. The data collected by Pattern Orchard may without limitation be used for the purposes of carrying out our Service. The data may however not be used for marketing purposes including direct marketing towards the end user or/and device owner.
  10. Indemnification
    1. You agree to indemnify Pattern Orchard and, its agents, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and partners against any loss, liability or cost arising out of:
      1. Your violations of any applicable laws, rules or regulations in connection with Your use of the Service;
      2. any breach of the provisions of this Agreement by any third party to whom You provide access to Your Account or the reporting functions of the Software;
      3. any claim against Pattern Orchard made by any such third party in connection with the third party's access to Your Account or the Service.
  11. Use by third parties
    1. If You provide access to Your Account or any portion thereof to any third party or use the Service to collect information on behalf of any third party, whether or not You are authorized to do so by Pattern Orchard or its wholly owned subsidiaries, the terms of this Clause 11 shall apply.
    2. If You use the Service on behalf of any third party, you hereby represent and warrant to Pattern Orchard that You are fully authorised to act on behalf of such third party and to bind such third party to this Agreement.
    3. Without prejudice to Clause 11.2, You shall ensure that each such third party complies with the terms of this Agreement as if it were a party hereto in substitution for You. Any information of any such third party that is considered confidential shall be treated as confidential by You and shall not be disclosed to any other third party.
  12. Disclaimer of warranties
    1. Pattern Orchard may make improvements and/or changes in the Service or Software at any time, with or without notice. The Service, the Software and resources are provided "AS IS" and Pattern Orchard gives no warranties with respect to any of them. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Pattern Orchard does not represent or warrant that:
      1. the use of the Service or the Software will meet your requirements or be uninterrupted, secure or error-free;
      2. that defects will be corrected;
      3. that the Service, the Software or any other software on the Server are free of viruses or other harmful components;
      4. that the use of the Service and any information available through the Service (including the resources) will be correct, accurate, timely or otherwise reliable.
  13. Limitation of liability
    1. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit either Party's liability for:
      1. death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of either Party or their servants, agents or employees;
      2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
      3. breach of any implied condition as to title or quiet enjoyment;
      4. misuse of confidential information.
    2. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit either Party's liability: for breach of Clause 8 (Confidentiality) or for infringement of the other Party's intellectual property rights.
    3. Subject to Clauses 13.1 and 13.2, neither Party shall be liable in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise arising out of or in connection with this Agreement for:
      1. any economic losses (including, without limitation, loss of revenues, profits, contracts, data, business, anticipated savings or cost of substitute services);
      2. any loss of goodwill or reputation;
      3. any special, indirect or consequential losses; whether or not such losses were within the contemplation of the Parties at the date of this Agreement.
    4. Subject to Clauses 13.1 and 13.2, You agree that Pattern Orchard and its wholly owned subsidiaries shall not be responsible for or have any liability in relation to unauthorised access to or alteration of Your data.
    5. Pattern Orchard shall have no liability for any error, defect, failure or delay in the Services. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, Pattern Orchard shall have no liability for any failure or delay in the Services; any special, indirect or consequential losses; whether or not such losses were within the contemplation of the Parties at the date of this Agreement; caused by outages to any public internet backbones, networks or servers; any special, indirect or consequential losses; whether or not such losses were within the contemplation of the Parties at the date of this Agreement; caused by any failures of Your equipment, systems or local access services; due to previously scheduled maintenance.
    6. Subject to Clauses 13.1 and 13.2, Pattern Orchard's (and its wholly owned subsidiaries') total cumulative liability (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) to You under or in connection with this Agreement shall not exceed EUR 100.
  14. Proprietary rights notice
    1. Pattern Orchard shall own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all intellectual property rights in the Service, (and any derivative works or enhancements thereof) which includes but is not limited to the Software and the Documentation, all rights in and to the Service (including the Software and the Documentation) not expressly granted to You in this Agreement are hereby expressly reserved and retained by Pattern Orchard and its licensors.
    2. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You agree not to (and to not allow any third party to)
      1. use the trademarks, service marks, trade or business names, logos, domain names, other distinctive brand features or any other copyrighted material or other proprietary rights owned by Pattern Orchard and which are associated with the Service without the express written consent of Pattern Orchard;
      2. register, attempt to register or assist any third party to register or attempt to register any trade mark, service mark, trade or business name, logo, domain name, other distinctive brand feature or any other copyrighted material or proprietary right associated with the Service or with Pattern Orchard, otherwise than in the name of Pattern Orchard and with Pattern Orchard express prior written consent;
      3. remove, obscure or alter any notice of copyright, trademark or other proprietary right notice appearing in or on any item included with the Service.
  15. Term and termination
    1. This Agreement shall commence on the date when you accept these terms and conditions as specified above and shall remain in force unless terminated by either Party at any time, for any reason.
    2. Upon any termination or expiration of this Agreement:
      1. any outstanding balance for any part of the Service rendered through the date of termination, and other unpaid payment obligations during the remainder of the term of this Agreement will be immediately due and payable in full.
      2. all of Your historical report data will no longer be available to You unless You and Pattern Orchard enter into a written agreement for the exchange and transfer of such data.
  16. Miscellaneous; applicable law and venue
    1. This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the Laws of Malta, without regard to or application of conflict of laws rules or principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including any disputes regarding the existence, validity or termination thereof, shall be settled by simplified arbitration in accordance with the rules of simplified arbitration in force at the time when such proceedings are commenced.
    2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you agree that Pattern Orchard shall have the right to seek injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any court of competent jurisdiction.