TRUAUDIENCE
PLATFORM AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BY AND
BETWEEN YOU (you or User) AND TRUSIGNAL, INC. (TruSignal). By using the TruAudience
Platform and services, in whole or in party (the Platform) and/or providing
data to TruSignal, you agree to be bound by the terms
and conditions of this agreement (Agreement). This Agreement is effective as of the
date you click the I Accept button below (the Effective Date) (herein TruSignal
or You/User is also referred to individually as a Party or together as the
Parties).
TRUSIGNAL
IS WILLING TO LICENSE AND ALLOW THE USE OF THIS PLATFORM ONLY ON THE CONDITION
THAT YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS AGREEMENT,
YOU ARE NOT GRANTED PERMISSION TO ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE PLATFORM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT, EXIT THE PLATFORM IMMEDIATELY.
YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM OR SERVICES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPETANCE OF THE
TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. FOR
AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO CONDUCT TRANSACTIONS ELECTRONICALLY.
THIS
AGREEMENT GOVERNS YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE PLATFORM, WHICH INCLUDES, BUT
IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE WEBSITE, ANY SERVICES, MATERIALS, DATA, INFORMATION, AND
OUTPUTS, AVAILABLE VIA THE PLATFORM OR USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. TRUSIGNAL IS ONLY WILLING TO LICENSE AND
ALLOW THE USE OF THE PLATFORM, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU
ACCEPT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
1.
USER
ELIGIBILITY. The Platform
is solely for use by Users. By
clicking I Accept and thereby entering or using the Platform, you represent
and warrant that: (a) you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into
this Agreement on behalf of yourself, your client or your employer; (b) you
have read and understand this Agreement; (c) you will abide by all of the terms and conditions of the Agreement, including
as may be amended; and (d) you are not a consumer nor intend to use the
Platform as a consumer. You may not
access or use the Platform if you are a person barred from using the products
and/or services provided by TruSignal under the laws
of any country in which you are resident or from which you use services. Even if you are an authorized
representative of an entity that has entered into a DaaS
Agreement or Master Services Agreement with TruSignal
that allows for access to this Platform (Client Agreement), your use of this Platform
is governed by the terms of this Agreement.
Additionally,
by accessing or using the Platform,
in whole or in part, you: (a) represent and warrant that you are at least the
legal age of majority and will at all times provide true, accurate, complete
and current information when submitting information or materials to the Platform;
(b) will comply with TruSignals technical
specifications concerning the Platform, and any applicable advertising
requirements found at www.tru-signal.com/requirements; (c) provide a timely response to TruSignals inquiries or concerns; (d) determine, in your
sole discretion, the best and proper use of the materials or other Platform
outputs; and (e) will at all times use the Platform,
including its outputs, in compliance with all applicable international,
national, federal, state and local laws, including regulations and agency
guidance (Laws). You understand
and agree that TruSignal is not making any
representations or covenants concerning the Platforms compliance with
Laws. You also acknowledge
and agree that the Platform and any TruSignal
services and deliverables are limited to U.S. adult residents. You will only provide data to TruSignal concerning U.S. adult residents.
2.
MODIFICATIONS. TruSignal
reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the
Platform is offered in our sole discretion, including
but not limited to the changes associated with the Platform, at any time. Your continued use of the Platform following
the posting of a revised Agreement means that you accept and agree to the
changes.
3.
NO
UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE. As
a condition of your use of the Platform, you represent and warrant to TruSignal that you will not use the Platform: (a) for any purpose
that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement, including the promotion of
credit repair services and determination of eligibility for employment,
insurance, or credit; and (b) in any manner, which could damage, disable,
overburden, or impair the Platform or interfere with any other party's use and
enjoyment. You will not obtain or
attempt to obtain any materials, data, information, or outputs, through any
means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Platform,
including, but not limited to, data mining, robots, or similar data gathering
and extraction tools. You shall not knowingly use the Platform to assist in selling
or advertising for the restricted industries, as listed below (Restricted
Industries), and that you are strictly prohibited from using, and will not
use, the Platform, in whole or in part, for any activities involving these
Restricted Industries:
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Adult Entertainment, Sexually-oriented Products/Services
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Bail Bondsman (unless licensed by the state in which
they are operating)
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Child location services (missing children)
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For profit or non-profit credit counseling
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Credit Repair
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Dating Services
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Financial Consulting (unless as a registered securities
broker dealer)
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Foreign transactions (any company or agency not based in
the United States)
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Genealogical or heir research
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Massage Services
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News agencies or journalists
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Pawn Shop
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Private detective, detective agency, or investigative
company
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Asset location services (repossession)
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Subscriptions (magazines, books, record clubs, etc.)
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Tattoo Services
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Time Share activities (except for financers of time
share properties)
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Firearms, weapons dealers, sellers, distributers
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Other resellers or licensees
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Tobacco Products
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Illegal Gambling Products/Services
4.
USER
ID AND PASSWORD. Use
of the Platform requires the creation of a User ID, which is a series of
characters unique to you used to identify you as a User and allows access to
the Platform. Your User ID may not
be shared or transferred. You are
solely responsible and liable for all use of the Platform accessed through any
User ID assigned to or created by you.
You should immediately report any unauthorized use of your User ID or
its accompanying password or your account to TruSignal
at support@tru-signal.com.
5.
THE PLATFORM
AND ITS USE. Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, TruSignal will provide you with
access to and use of the Platform as set forth in the Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, the Platform
includes all technology, software, website, services, materials, data,
information, outputs, models, business rules, data processing mechanisms,
information, intellectual property, and know-how in whatever format or media it
may be presented available within or via the Platform or used in connection
therewith. The Platform may only be
used for its intended purposes as set forth in this Section 5 and in accordance
with this Agreement. You
acknowledge that we may engage third parties to provide or enable the Platform,
in whole or in part. It is entirely
within TruSignals discretion to cease supporting
certain aspects of the Platform.
While TruSignal does backup the Platform,
there is no guarantee that the backup will work properly and that the
materials, data, or information will be completely recovered or formatted
properly. You are solely
responsible for keeping a backup of any information or data that you do not
want to lose.
You
may use the Platform for the following purposes: (i)
upload your proprietary or licensed offline data or source data onto the
Platform and create audiences for delivery to your selected providers; (ii) after
an audience is created, access and view TruSignals
proprietary interactive audience insights; and (iii) share the link to the
audience insights you have created subject to the confidentiality provisions
set forth in this Agreement. You
will input or provide data on U.S.
adult residents only. You are
strictly prohibited from providing data on European Union data subjects.
6.
OWNERSHIP AND PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. TruSignal and its affiliates, licensors and providers
are the sole owners of the Platform and any Confidential Information, and as
such they retain all Intellectual Property Rights in the Platform, including
any audiences, and its Confidential Information. For purposes of this Agreement,
Intellectual Property Rights is defined as all rights, title and interests in
and to the Platform, including, without limitation, all copyright, patent,
trade secret, trademark, and other intellectual property and proprietary and
moral rights related thereto, and these and other similar rights in any
jurisdiction relating to the Platform as broadly defined herein, and any
improvements, modifications, or derivative works to any of the foregoing. TruSignals
provision of the Platform, in whole or in part, does not transfer to you or any
third party any Intellectual Property Rights. The Platform is protected by law,
including intellectual property laws and international treaty provisions. ANY RIGHTS NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED HEREIN
ARE EXPRESSLY RESERVED FOR TRUSIGNAL.
7.
LICENSE.
A.
User.
You hereby grant to TruSignal a nonexclusive,
fully-paid, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, transferrable, worldwide
license and right to use, modify, perform, display, reproduce, create
derivative works, and distribute your information and data for
the purpose of providing TruSignal services
and developing the Platform.
B.
TruSignal. TruSignal
provides you with a personal, revocable, limited, non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty free license to use the Platform internally in the
United States for the Term for the sole purpose(s) set forth in Section 5
herein (Purpose) and subject to the terms of this Agreement, including the restrictions
set forth in this Section 7.
C.
TruSignal
License Restrictions. The foregoing license is limited, and
requires your compliance with all posted TruSignal
instructions and technical specifications.
You may not use, copy, store, reproduce, decompile, disassemble, create
derivative works, reverse engineer, transmit, distribute, display, rent, lease,
sell, modify, alter, license, sublicense, grant any rights to a third party, or
commercially exploit any data or materials provided by TruSignal
through the Platform in any manner not expressly permitted by this
Agreement. Except as otherwise
expressly permitted under this Agreement, you will not sublicense, resell,
reuse, or otherwise grant any rights in the Platform to any third party,
including any service bureau use.
You will not (a) use any deep link, page scrape, robot, spider
or other automatic device, program, script, algorithm, or methodology, or any
similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any
portion of the Platform or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational
structure or presentation of the Platform to obtain or attempt to obtain any
materials, data, documents, or information through any means not purposely made
available through the Platform, (b) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any
portion or feature of the Platform, including, without limitation, the account
of any other authorized user(s), or any other systems or networks connected to
the Platform or TruSignal server or to any of the
services offered on or through the Platform, by hacking, password mining, or
any other illegitimate or prohibited means, (c) probe, scan, or test the
vulnerability of the Platform or any network connected to the Platform nor
breach the security or authentication measures on the Platform or any network
connected to the Platform, (d) reverse look-up, trace, or seek to trace any
information on any other authorized user or visitor to the Platform, (e) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Platform or TruSignals systems or networks or any systems or networks
connected to the Platform, (f) use any device, software, or routine to
interfere with the proper working of the Platform or any transaction conducted
on the Platform, or with any other persons use of the Platform, (g) forge
headers, impersonate a person, or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise your identity or the origin of any message or transmittal you send to TruSignal on or through the Platform, (h) use the Platform
to harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information, (i) market, co-brand, private label, separately distribute,
resell, or otherwise permit third parties to access and use the Platform or any
part thereof without TruSignals express, separate,
and prior written permission, or (j) use the Platform in an unlawful manner or
in a manner that could damage, disparage, or otherwise negatively impact TruSignal.
8.
CONFIDENTIALITY.
Confidential Information means any information disclosed by or to TruSignal, either directly or indirectly, in any form or means
that we identify as confidential or proprietary or by its very nature
reasonably appears to be or should be confidential or proprietary, with or
without notice, legends or other markings.
Any information, materials, comments, and ideas provided by User to TruSignal shall upon receipt become Confidential
Information. For avoidance of
doubt, the Platform, in whole or in part, and including any outputs is
Confidential Information. All
Confidential Information is or becomes proprietary to TruSignal,
therefore TruSignal may use, copy, distribute, modify
and create derivative works from such Confidential Information. You agree to hold all Confidential
Information in confidence and not disclose to any third party or otherwise without
TruSignals prior written consent.
9.
USER WARRANTIES.
A.
Information
and Materials. You represent and warrant that: (i) any information or materials, including seed data, that
you provide to TruSignal have been legally obtained;
(ii) you have a license for such information and materials necessary to make
the license grant to TruSignal herein and TruSignals use of such information and materials will not
violate any Laws; (iii) any information on persons has been formatted and
cleansed in compliance with TruSignals technical
specifications and other requirements, including the removal of data regarding
any individuals health or medical condition, sexual orientation, religion or
status as a person under the age of 18 years of age; or (iv) with the exception
of nonpublic personal information (PII) used to enable the Platform
audiences, you will not provide information that permits re-identification of
specific individuals, specific households or groups smaller than 25
individuals.
B.
General. You represent and warrant that: (i) you are at least eighteen years of age; (ii) you have
the power, authority and legal right to enter into this Agreement and perform
the obligations and satisfy the terms and conditions set forth herein; and (iii)your
performance under this Agreement will be in compliance with
Laws.
10.
DISCLAIMER. TO
THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, THE PLATFORM AND ANY CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS-IS, AS AVAILABLE, AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TRUSIGNAL MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND, AND TRUSIGNAL, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND
PROVIDERS, EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE SERVICE, ERROR CORRECTION, COMPLIANCE
WITH LAWS, AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY AND ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING
FROM STATUTE, COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE. TRUSIGNAL, ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND
PROVIDERS DO NOT GUARANTEE AND DO NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM THE USE
OF THE PLATFORM. YOUR USE OF THE
PLATFORM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
11.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY AND REMEDY. IN
NO EVENT SHALL TRUSIGNAL AND/OR ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR PROVIDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE
USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE PLATFORM, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM
OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR
ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED
THROUGH THE PLATFORM, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE PLATFORM,
WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE,
EVEN IF TRUSIGNAL (OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR PROVIDERS) HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT
ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION
OF THE PLATFORM, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE
REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE PLATFORM.
12.
INDEMNIFICATION. User
will indemnify, defend and hold harmless TruSignal
and all of its direct and indirect officers, affiliates, and its and their
directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns from any and all losses,
liabilities, damages (including taxes), and all related costs and expenses,
including reasonable legal fees and disbursements and costs of investigation,
litigation, settlement, judgment, interest and penalties (collectively, Losses),
and threatened Losses due to, arising from or relating to claims, demands,
actions or threat of action (whether in law, equity or in an alternative
proceeding) arising from or relating to:
(a) your actual or alleged breach of any representations and
warranties in this Agreement; (b) any actual or alleged infringement,
violation or misappropriation of the intellectual property rights of any third
person by you, any information or materials provided by you, and TruSignals use of those Deliverables; (c) your actual
or alleged breach of any of the confidentiality, security or privacy provisions
in this Agreement; (d) negligent, willful or reckless acts or omissions of
or by you; and/or (e) your violation of Laws.
13.
SECURITY. TruSignal will
maintain commercially reasonable safeguards designed to help ensure the
security of TruSignals Platform and its internal
networks from malicious activity and to provide for the privacy,
confidentiality and integrity thereof.
You represent and warrant that you will use best efforts to maintain the
security of our Platform and networks, and that any information or materials
you upload or provide to TruSignal shall be passive
data files, not containing any viruses, malicious code, adware, spyware or
similar programming. You
will immediately notify TruSignal if you determine
that you have experienced an actual or threatened breach of security that may
in any way whatsoever negatively affect TruSignal or
its Platform.
14.
SUSPENSION
AND TERMINATION. TruSignal reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to edit, refuse to process, or remove any information or materials,
in whole or in part, or terminate your access to the Platform, in any way, at
any time, without notice.
15.
FEES. TruSignal charges fees for each license to use each
Audience you create in the platform and distribute to your selected
distribution partners, and for its services, including modeling and
customization. You agree to pay such fees as described herein. Fees
will be due and owing when you elect to distribute the Audiences.
The fees applicable to Audiences will be calculated on usage. Your
selected distribution partners will reported usage,
collect fees, and forward such fee payments to TruSignal.
In the event you fail to pay your selected
distribution partners for usage of the Audiences or the partners fail to pay TruSignal, you will pay TruSignal
such fees directly. Additionally, you agree to use commercially best
efforts to provide monthly reporting at the Audience level in
the event that your selected distribution partner fails provide Audience
level usage reporting on your behalf to TruSignal.
Fees applicable to other TruSignal services will be
mutually agreed to by you and TruSignal prior to the
delivery of services, and paid directly to TruSignal
within thirty (30) days following your receipt of an invoice.
16.
ADDITIONAL
TERMS.
A.
International Users. The Platform is of U.S.
origin. TruSignal
makes no claims regarding access or use of the Platform outside of the United
States. If you use or access the Platform
outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all Laws
that apply to the Platform, in whole or in part, as the information, data and
materials contained therein. You
must comply with the applicable laws and regulations of your jurisdiction, the
U.S. Export Administration regulations, and this Agreement.
B.
Electronic Communications. The communications between you and TruSignal use electronic means, whether you visit the Platform
or send TruSignal emails, or whether TruSignal posts notices on the Platform or communicates
with you via email. For contractual
purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications, including advertisements,
from TruSignal in any electronic form; and (b) agree
that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other
communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal
requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable
rights. Additionally, you
acknowledge and agree that the Platform is not configured for use on a mobile
device and your use of the Platform via the mobile device may not produce the
results or provide the information intended.
C.
Entire Agreement. This Agreement and any order forms, amendment
or addenda set forth the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties
as to its subject matter and merges and supersedes all prior discussions,
agreements and understandings between the Parties with respect thereto, and it
may not be changed, modified, or amended except by a writing signed by the
Parties hereto. If any provision of
this Agreement is held by a court to violate any law or is otherwise not
enforceable, the remainder of this Agreement will nevertheless remain in full
force and effect insofar as legally possible.
D.
Headings. Section headings are included for
convenience or reference only and are not intended to define or limit the scope
of any provision of this Agreement and should not be used to construe or
interpret this Agreement.
E.
Waiver. No delay, failure or waiver of either
Party's exercise or partial exercise of any right or remedy under this
Agreement shall operate to limit, impair, preclude, cancel, waive or otherwise
affect such right or remedy. Any
waiver by either Party of any provision of this Agreement shall not imply a
subsequent waiver of that or any other provision of this Agreement.
F.
Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall in no
way be affected or impaired thereby.
G.
Survival. The Parties agree that the terms of this
Agreement that expressly, or by their nature, contemplate performance after the
Agreement terminates or expires will survive and continue in full force and
effect, including but not limited to compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act.
H.
Governing
Law and Venue. This Agreement will be governed and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its
conflict of laws provisions or those of any other
state, and any controversy arising in connection with this Agreement will be
adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Minnesota, and
both Parties agree to waive any right to have a jury participate in the
resolution of a dispute or claim between the Parties arising out of or
connected to this Agreement. For
avoidance of doubt, the Services and their outputs, in whole or in part, are
limited to U.S. residents. This
Agreement does not contemplate delivery of services or data concerning European
Union data subjects and activities.
I.
Audit
and Records. Upon
reasonable notice to Client, TruSignal may audit
Client regarding its compliance with the terms of this Agreement. Audits will be conducted by mail
whenever practicable and will require Client to provide reasonable
documentation as to its compliance.
Before providing any such documentation, the other Party may redact
certain financial and other proprietary information that it deems reasonably
necessary to protect its confidentiality obligations. Failure to cooperate properly in such
audits represents a material breach of this Agreement. You are encouraged to keep a record of
this Agreement.
J.
Force
Majeure. To the
extent that either Partys performance is prevented, hindered, or delayed by
acts of God or any other similar cause beyond the reasonable control or
anticipation of a Party, and such non_performance could not have been prevented
by reasonable precautions, then the non_performing Party shall be excused from
any further performance. Such event
does not affect a Partys obligation to provide any other disaster recovery
services required pursuant to this Agreement.