American Water Chemicals Proton

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Web Name: American Water Chemicals Proton

WebSite: http://www.awcproton.com

ID:309241

Keywords:

Water,American,Proton,Chemicals

Description:

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THE FOLLOWING IS A LICENSE AGREEMENT (HEREINAFTER THE “AGREEMENT”) BETWEEN YOU, THE END-USER LICENSEE (HEREINAFTER “YOU”), AND THE LICENSOR, American Water Chemicals, INC., (HEREINAFTER THE “COMPANY”). AS USED IN THIS AGREEMENT, “APPLICATION” MEANS, COLLECTIVELY, ANY AND ALL WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS AND MODULES OF THE COMPANY FOUND ON www.awcproton.com including, but not limited to, the proton software, THAT ARE USED TO DETERMINE OPTIMUM DOSAGES OF WATER CHEMICALS TO BE ADDED TO FEED WATER IN THE TREATMENT OF REVERSE OSMOSIS EQUIPMENT. BY ACCESSING OR OTHERWISE USING THIS WEBSITE AND RELATED APPLICATION, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THIS WEBSITE AND RELATED APPLICATION.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

WHEREAS, you acknowledge that if you are acting on behalf of your employer, you are authorized to accept these terms and conditions on its behalf (such employer being hereinafter referred to as “you”); and

WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in a highly competitive business; and

WHEREAS, the Company has made a significant investment to create a set of formulas and calculations to determine the optimum dosage of their water chemical products; and

WHEREAS, the dosages are based on proprietary and confidential modeling calculations that take water quality, temperature and system configuration into account; and

WHEREAS, the Company’s formulas and calculations used to determine the optimum dosage of water chemical products are closely guarded by the Company and are considered trade secrets; and

WHEREAS, the Company recognizes that information that is input into the Application by you may represent confidential information and/or trade secrets; and

WHEREAS, the Company and you wish to utilize the Application to facilitate business between each; and

WHEREAS, in using the Application the Company and you will have access to and become familiar with information that is considered to be confidential and trade secrets; and

WHEREAS, in order to induce the Company to allow access to the Application and to induce you to use the Application, you are willing to enter into this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, you agree that you have read and understand this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Company is only willing to allow you to use this Application if you enter into this Agreement.

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and your use of the Application, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, covenant and agree as follows:

1.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The acknowledgements contained in this Agreement are true and correct and are incorporated herein by reference.

2.MEANING OF YOU. If the person accessing the Application is an individual using it for his or her own purposes, “you” means the person using this Application. If the person accessing the Application is doing so in furtherance of the purposes of another person, including an organization (whether or not the employer or the person) then “you” means both the person accessing this Application and the other person, including an organization. No person accessing the Application for another may do so unless the person accessing the Application is authorized to bind the other person, including an organization. The definition of “you” and the possessive “your” are interchangeable.

3.SCOPE OF PERMITTED USE. The Application is for your individual use, solely for internal use by you for your business, or for your own personal use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, sublicense, transfer, assign, rent, sell or otherwise convey any information, software, products or services obtained from the Application without the prior written consent from the Company. You may not disassemble, decompile or otherwise reverse engineer all or any portion of the Application.

4.LICENSE. Company hereby grants to you a nontransferable and nonexclusive license to use the Application in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The license authorizes you to use the Application in connection with the input of feed water data for determining the type and concentration of water chemicals to be added to the feed water necessary to keep the reverse osmosis equipment operating efficiently. You agree that you are licensing the Application for this stated purpose, and not for any other use, including, but not limited to, determination of the proprietary formulations, and calculations of the Company.

5.CURRENT AND SUBSEQUENT VERSIONS. You acknowledge that the Application, including the related documentation and any new releases, modifications, and enhancements thereto, belong to the Company, and that the Company retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Application. You further acknowledge that the Application and information related thereto constitute valuable trade secrets of the Company. You agree to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and agree to treat the Application as the confidential and proprietary information of the Company.

6.NO WARRANTY; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

6.1.The Company does not guarantee service results or represent or warrant that the Application will be completely error free. THE APPLICATION IS PROVIDED BY COMPANY “AS IS.” THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY NATURE, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, OR ARISING FROM TRADE OR CUSTOM, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

6.2.You shall be responsible for the supervision, management and control of your use of the Application. You hereby indemnify and hold harmless Company and its affiliates (the “Indemnified Parties”) against any loss, liability, damages, costs, fines or expenses suffered or incurred by the Indemnified Parties at any time as a result of any claim, action or proceeding arising out of or related to your use, operation or implementation of the Application or its output. For purposes of this Agreement, “affiliate” means any Company division or subsidiary or any other affiliated entity involved in the manufacture or wholesale distribution of the Company’s products.

6.3.The Indemnified Parties shall not be responsible, and you shall have no recourse against the Indemnified Parties, for any loss, liability, damages, costs or expenses that may be suffered or incurred at any time by you as a result of your reliance upon or use of the Application, or as a result of any claim, action or proceeding against you arising out of or relating to the use of the Application, or as a result of your defense of any such claim, action or proceeding.

6.4.COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING GENERAL, DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION. YOU VOLUNTARILY WAIVE AND RELEASE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, INDEMNITY, OR REIMBURSEMENT AGAINST THE COMPANY RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION.

7.TERMINATION. Company may immediately terminate your license at any time, without notice to you, whereupon you shall destroy all output results in your actual or construction possession that were obtained through the use of the Application.

8.ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION. You and the Company acknowledge that:

8.1.the Company has a proprietary interest in the Application in that it contains confidential business information and trade secrets in the form of formulas and calculations created by the Company that are used to determine the optimum dosage of water chemical products in the maintenance of reverse osmosis equipment; and

8.2.feed water data input into the Application by you may constitute confidential information or a trade secret; and

8.3.both parties to this Agreement have an interest in maintaining their respective confidential business information and trade secrets; and

8.4.access to and use of the Application results in disclosure by both parties to this Agreement of valuable information, the disclosure of which to non-parties would cause the non-disclosing party to suffer significant monetary losses and to incur other significant damages.

9.CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Any information shared between the parties through use of the Application shall be deemed “Confidential Information”, unless either party gives prior written notice to the other party to the contrary. “Confidential Information” shall include, but is not limited to, calculations and output from the Application, and any dosages, pricing, and/or printouts related thereto.

10.Excepted Confidential Information. The parties agree that information shall not be deemed to be Confidential Information, and the parties shall have no obligation with respect to such information which: (i) was in the public domain at the time it was disclosed or subsequently becomes in the public domain without breach by the receiving party of this Agreement or its agents; (ii) was known to the receiving party at the time of disclosure as substantiated by contemporaneous written documentation, with the burden on the receiving party to show by clear and convincing evidence that it knew such information at the time of disclosure; (iii) is disclosed on a non-confidential basis with prior written approval of the other party hereto; (iv) was independently developed by the receiving party as substantiated by contemporaneous written documentation, with the burden on the receiving party to show by clear and convincing evidence that it independently developed such information, or; (v) becomes known to the receiving party, on a non-confidential basis, from a source other than the other party hereto that is not prohibited from disclosing the same by legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation.

11.Purpose of Disclosure. Use of the Application requires you to input your feed water data to the Application, which in turn applies the Company’s confidential and proprietary formulas and calculations used to determine the optimum dosage of water chemical products to be added to your feed water to maintain the efficiency of your reverse osmosis equipment. The determination of the optimum dosage of water chemicals is the “Purpose of Disclosure” between the parties to this Agreement.

12.Non-Disclosure and Use. The parties to this Agreement agree that:

12.1.the Proton software shall only be used by you in purchasing products from the Company, and shall not be used to purchase similar products from third-parties or otherwise determine the Company’s pricing or dosage calculations; and

12.2.neither receiving party shall disclose to any third party or use any Confidential Information disclosed to it by the other except as necessary in the fulfillment of the Purpose of Disclosure; and

12.3.both parties will take all reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential Information of the other party in its possession or control, which will in no event be less than highest degree of care it uses to maintain the confidentiality of its own information of similar importance; and

12.4.each receiving party shall have license to use a disclosure in furtherance of Purpose of Disclosure; and

12.5.the parties agree that the Application is not to be used by any individual or third party that is in commercial competition with the Company and that such use would constitute a breach of this Agreement and a misappropriation under Florida’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act; and

12.6.the Purpose of Disclosure shall only be used by you in purchasing products from the Company, and shall not be used to purchase similar products from third-parties or otherwise determine the Company’s pricing or dosage calculations; and

12.7.you agree that you are not in commercial competition with the Company; and

12.8.neither a receiving party nor its agents may use Confidential Information in a manner that constitutes direct or indirect commercial competition with the disclosing party; and

12.9.parties agree not to use any Confidential Information as a basis upon which to develop or have a third party develop a competing or similar product; and

12.10.disclosure of Confidential Information shall not be construed as evidencing any intent by a party to purchase or sell any products or services of the other party nor as an encouragement to expend funds in development or research efforts; and

12.11.the obligations of the parties herein shall be effective without limitation in time and, the obligation not to disclose shall not be affected by bankruptcy, receivership, assignment, attachment or seizure procedures, whether initiated by or against the parties, nor by the rejection of any agreement between the parties, by a trustee of either party in bankruptcy, or by either party as a debtor-in-possession or the equivalent of any of the foregoing under local law; and

12.12.you will not provide access to the Application to any third party; and

12.13.nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as granting any rights, by license or otherwise, to the receiving party to any of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information except as expressly set forth in this Agreement; and

12.14.the parties understand that the continued confidentiality of the Confidential Information is critical to the disclosing party and essential to the continued good will and ultimate success and profitability of the disclosing party and that such confidential disclosures of Confidential Information in a manner inconsistent with this Agreement will cause the disclosing party irreparable harm and that the remedy at law of the disclosing party for any actual or threatened breach of this Agreement will be inadequate and that the disclosure party shall be entitled, as a matter of right, to specific performance hereof or injunctive relief, by temporary injunction or other appropriate judicial remedy, writ or order, in addition to any damages that the disclosing party may be legal entitled to recover.

13.DAMAGES. In the event that damages sustained by the Company are the result of a wrongful breach of this Agreement by you, it is agreed that the amount of $500,000.00 will be paid by you as liquidated damages, and not as a penalty or forfeiture, where the actual amount of damage cannot be or would be difficult to determine with reasonable certainty. It is also provided that this provision as to liquidated damages will be cumulative and therefore supplementary to any other remedy existing by law, equity or statute.

14.MISCELLANEOUS

14.1.No modification, waiver, amendment, discharge, or change of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same is in writing and signed by the parties against whom the enforcement of such modification, waiver, amendment, discharge, or change is sought.

14.2.This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida.

14.3.Any and all litigation arising in connection with this Agreement shall be heard in a state court of competent jurisdiction in Lee County, Florida.

14.4.All pronouns and any variations thereof shall be deemed to refer to the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular or plural as the identity of the persons or entity may require.

14.5.In the event of any dispute as to the precise meaning of any term contained herein, the principals of construction and interpretation that written documents be construed against the party preparing the same shall not be applicable.

14.6.If any provision or any portion of any provision of this Agreement, or the application of any such provision or portion thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portion of such provision and the remaining provisions of this Agreement or the application of such provision held invalid or unenforceable to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid or unenforceable, shall not be affected thereby

14.7.In connection with any litigation arising out of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover all costs incurred, including a reasonable attorney=s fee.

14.8.The parties hereto shall, at any time and from time to time following the execution hereof, execute and deliver all such further instruments and take all such further action as may be reasonably necessary or appropriate in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement.

14.9.Every covenant, term, and provision of this Agreement shall be construed simply according to its fair meaning and shall not be strictly construed for or against any party.

14.10.All titles or captions contained in this Agreement and in any exhibit annexed hereto are for convenience only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

Nothing contained in this Agreement shall create a contractual relationship with, or a cause of action in favor of, a third party against either you or the Company.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOREGOING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, LOG OFF THIS APPLICATION NOW. YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT, FOR YOU AND YOUR COMPANY, TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

PRIVACY POLICY:

American Water Chemicals, Inc ("AWC", "we", "us") is committed to respecting your privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you share with us. AWC has established this Privacy Policy to let you know what information we may collect from you on the publicly available portion of membranechemicals.com (the "Site") and through various other interactions with you, and how we may use and share that information. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the Site and/or providing us with Personal Information, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or provide us with any Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect on the Site and to information which we may collect by other "offline" means, including, without limitation, sales calls and other business transactions.

1.Personal Information We May Collect. Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home, business, or other physical address, a phone number, and an email address. We collect Personal Information from our Site users and customers only when such information is voluntarily provided to us, including, without limitation, in connection with inquiries about our services through the "Contact Us" page, as part of signing up for our email subscriptions, or in the process of your business transactions with us. To make our content more relevant to you, we may also ask for information about your present place of employment, such as company name, size, and industry sector. Of course, if you send us an email in connection with an inquiry about a job listed on the "Careers" page, we may also store the Personal Information provided in connection with that inquiry.We also offer a variety of email subscriptions where you can get information about upcoming technical training classes, new products and/or new services. You can subscribe to these emails and you can manage your email preferences. If you become a customer of AWC, we will always retain the right to email you regarding the Site or services that we’re providing to you.

2.GPDR. As part of the GDPR you have the following rights:

2.1.To be informed regarding the way we process your personal data

2.1.To have access to your personal data that we might have (you can request directly what data we keep)

2.1.To rectify or update your personal data

2.1.To erase any personal data

2.1.To restrict and / or object the way we process your personal data

2.1.Data portability (supply the data in transferrable format)

2.1.To withdraw consent, whenever the consent was given

2.1.The right to complain to the supervisory authority

3.How We May Use Your Information. If you provide us with Personal Information, we may retain and use that information for several purposes, including facilitating and otherwise addressing your inquiry, request, subscriptions, or business transactions and relationship with AWC. For example, we may use your Personal Information in order to respond to your questions or requests for information about AWC. We may also use Personal Information to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law.

4.Who We May Share Your Information With. We may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining the Site and our e-mail services and processing inquiries. We may provide Personal Information to those businesses when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested transaction or otherwise perform their duties. AWC will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on AWC’s behalf. AWC will not sell or share your Personal Information with any unaffiliated third parties for marketing purposes. In the event that AWC or all of its assets are acquired, all of the data collected by AWC through the Site and through other means and services provided by AWC would be among the transferred assets. We reserve the right to disclose such information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to disclose such information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

5.Non-Personal Information. From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Site, such as what sites visitors are coming from when they visit our Site, when they first visited our Site, their IP address, how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We may use the IP address to infer information about such visitor, including its company, city and state. We collect this information through the use of "cookies" and other tracking technologies, which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information in order to determine which areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance the Site for visitors. We may group this information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of the Site to our existing or potential business partners, or other third parties, or in response to a government request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors to the Site.

6.Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to an individual’s web browser and is stored on the device. Cookies and other tracking technologies may record information such as URL and domain requests, referral URL, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser software and operating system types, clickstream patterns, and dates and times that our Site gets accessed. We, and/or our third-party advertising service providers, may place cookies or similar files on your computer for security purposes (such as authentication), to facilitate site navigation and to personalize your experience while visiting our Site. Cookies allow us to collect technical and navigational information, such as browser type, time spent on our Site and pages visited (these types of cookies are typically referred to as "Session Cookies"). We also use cookies that enable us to serve advertisements of our products and services, including special offers, when you visit other websites (these cookies may be referred to as "Advertising Cookies").

We do not obtain, store or maintain any Personal Information about you through our use of cookies (either the Session Cookies or the Advertising Cookies). Also, we do not link the information we store in cookies to any Personal Information you may submit while on the Site. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses and other tracking technologies to identify a visitor only when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the Site’s policies, to protect the Site, our customers, or others, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser. However, please be aware that some features of the Site may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies. Our Site does not currently respond to ’Do Not Track’ signals submitted by your browser. To find out more about your ’Do Not Track’ options, please visit http://www.allaboutDNT.com.

If you have any questions regarding AWC privacy practices, you are encouraged to contact AWC at info@membranechemicals.com.

Links to Other Sites; Public Venues test. Please be aware that when you are on the Site, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control via hyperlinks. These other websites may send their own cookies to visitors, collect data, or solicit Personal Information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your Personal Information collected there.

7.Security. The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to AWC employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

8.Children’s Privacy. This Site is not intended for use by children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

9.Changes to Our Privacy Policy. The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on the homepage of the Site for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made that this Privacy Policy has been updated and by changing the "Last Modified" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

10.Governing Law. AWC makes no representation that this Privacy Policy and such practices comply with the laws of any other country. Visitors who use the Site and reside outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent that local laws are applicable. If you reside outside of the United States, by using our Site, you consent to the transfer and use of your information outside your country.

11.Contacting Us. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@membranechemicals.com.

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