GRAPHISOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
BIMx Desktop Viewer
Version 3.1: effective as of September 27, 2023
IMPORTANT
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING THE "GET STARTED" BUTTON, YOU INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRAPHISOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") INCLUDING THE LIMITED WARRANTY, PERSONAL DATA HANDLING AND DISCLAIMERS FOR YOURSELF AS CUSTOMER, YOUR EMPLOYER (IF ANY) AND ANY AUTHORIZED USERS WHETHER OR NOT EACH SUCH AUTHORIZED USER INDICATES THEIR INDIVIDUAL ACCEPTANCE.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PROMPTLY QUIT FROM THE APPLICATION AND UNINSTALL THE SOFTWARE.
Graphisoft SE Private European Company Limited by Shares, Záhony utca 7. Budapest H-1031 Hungary https://graphisoft.com ("Graphisoft") licenses this Software to You, an individual or as the representative of and on behalf of Your employer (collectively referred to as "You" or "User") only upon the condition that You accept all of the terms contained in this Agreement.
The Terms of this Agreement are subject to change by Graphisoft in its sole discretion at any time. When changes are made, Graphisoft will make it available on its website and/or within the Software prior to the effective date of such change.
1. LICENSE
By accepting the terms of this Agreement, You expressly declare and confirm that You have the full power and capacity to represent Yourself, Your employer and/or the entity on behalf of which You are acting (if any). Should this declaration prove to be false, You shall be responsible and liable in person for all obligations under the Agreement. This Agreement constitutes a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited license for You to use the enclosed Software and associated documentation, together with the upgrades, updates, new versions and fixes provided to You by Graphisoft (together referred to as the "Software"). The Software is licensed, not sold, to You exclusively for Your own use under the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
The Software is owned by Graphisoft and protected by all applicable copyright laws. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, Graphisoft reserves all rights to the Software not expressly granted hereunder and to any reproduction of the Software including its documentation, logos, trademarks, icons and interface in whole or in part. If You copy or use all or any portion of the Software without entering into this Agreement or obtaining the prior written permission of Graphisoft or in non-compliance with any of the terms of this Agreement, You are violating copyright or other intellectual property law, and You may be liable to Graphisoft and its licensors in particular for damages, and You may be subject to criminal penalties.
Graphisoft may offer the opportunity to download and try updates which are in 'preview' (non-finalized) status, but this is on Your own discretion and - to the maximum extent permitted by the applicable rules of law - Graphisoft does not take any liability for the damage the update may cause.
2. INTERNET-BASED AND NON-INTERNET BASED SERVICE COMPONENTS
* The Software may contain components that enable and facilitate the use of certain Internet-based and non-Internet based services. You acknowledge and agree that Graphisoft may automatically check the operation mode, version of the Software and/or its components, and the related services that You are utilizing in order to check that You are utilizing the Software according to its purpose, and may provide upgrades, fixes or additional services to the Software in order to advance lawful and improved operation thereof at Graphisoft's sole discretion. Graphisoft shall not be liable for any loss of data or malfunctioning of the Software occurring in connection with Graphisoft's conduct under this paragraph.
* The Software may contain technological measures that are designed to prevent and detect unlicensed use of the Software. Utilizing the Software, You will also install these technical protection measures (hereinafter the "TPM") used by Graphisoft or its suppliers to collect, transmit and use for law enforcement purposes technical data from Your computer (hereinafter the "Technical Data") in order to prevent and detect unlicensed use of the Software and enforce Graphisoft's intellectual property rights.
* You hereby expressly accept that Graphisoft or its assignee will use TPM to confirm that You have a legally licensed copy of the Software and that You use the Software according to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
If Graphisoft finds that You are not using a licensed copy of the Software, or that Your use of the Software infringes the terms and conditions of this Agreement, this qualifies as material breach of this Agreement that gives Graphisoft the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect without notice and You shall be obliged to compensate Graphisoft for its damages and expenses occurring in connection with the unlawful usage and the breach of this Agreement, and Graphisoft shall be entitled to enforce other rights and claims under the governing laws in force, furthermore You will not be allowed to install future updates of the Software.
The use of the Software requires Your sign in with a valid Graphisoft ID.
A Graphisoft ID sign in is not required in the demo model or when using the 'featured models' listed on https://bimx.graphisoft.com. Also, the Graphisoft ID sign in is not required for the very first model opened in the Software, however sign in in is required for all further usage.
3. INFORMATION AND CONSENT TO USE OF PERSONAL DATA
* Pursuant to the applicable law in force concerning the protection of personal data, by entering into this Agreement You accept that Your personal data (including those Technical Data collected and used by the TPM system) will be collected and processed by Graphisoft for the purposes related to the conclusion and performance of this Agreement, including the fulfillment of Your obligations, such as those related to Graphisoft's intellectual property rights. In line with the above in particular the following data processing take place related to this Agreement under the respective terms and conditions:
Customer Experience Improvement Program ("CEIP")
- The Software collects data on the time, frequency of use of each BIMx Desktop Viewer Software function; hardware, software, product information and some personal identification data (such as Graphisoft ID, ) and sends it to Google Analytics (Google Inc) .
- Data sent to Google Analytics are accessed by Graphisoft and collected for the purpose of collecting feedback and assessing on how You use the Software, its functionalities, new features, malfunctions in order to improve the Software and create solutions to common problems.
- The report is pseudonymous; Graphisoft has no interest in knowing who exactly provided the data, but only to interconnect the data coming from the same User to make statistically correct conclusions about Software usage.
- Graphisoft has implemented certain technical and organizational measures where the source information and encryption key, as well as their accesses are segregated ensuring that the collected data remain unidentified.
- CEIP runs automatically in the background. You can object to the data processing by emailing to privacy@graphisoft.com, however due to the fact that the data collected is pseudonymous, in order to complete Your request, You need to provide Your identification to Graphisoft for Graphisoft to be able to identify You. Legal base of the data processing: the legitimate interest of Graphisoft under point f. of Article 6(1) GDPR, which is to improve the Software according to User needs, increasing User satisfaction and consequently the number of Users. Duration of the data processing: as long as Graphisoft provides technical support for the respective version of BIMx Desktop Viewer, but maximum for five (5) years period of time from the data collection date.
4. LICENSE PARAMETERS
The license granted by this Agreement is subject to the License Parameters defined hereinafter:
* The Software consists of a computer program that can be directly installed either from Microsoft Store (https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/bimx/9PCQMBW7H8J9) or Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/bimx/id6446137693).
5. RESTRICTIONS
* You shall not sell, loan, distribute, cede, sublicense, rent or lease or otherwise transfer or assign the right to use the Software, nor transfer or provide access to it by network for commercial use, either in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Graphisoft.
* You are expressly prohibited from decompiling, disassembling, reverse engineering, or reducing the Software for any purpose whatsoever.
* You shall not unlock or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying algorithms of the Software or attempt to do any of the foregoing in relation to the object code of the Software.
* You shall not use the Software for development, compilation, debugging and similar design-time purposes.
* You are expressly prohibited from adapting, modifying, translating or creating any derivative works based in whole or in part on the Software, and from merging the Software into any other software.
* You shall not copy any written materials accompanying the Software.
* You are expressly prohibited from dividing Your License and reselling part(s) of it.
* You shall use all elements of the Software as integral components thereof exclusively for the purposes of performing the Software's functionalities set forth by Graphisoft.
* Unless You have a separate Service Provider License Agreement in force, You are expressly prohibited from providing 'Software as a Service' for third parties or other similar services which involve the reassignment of our software licenses to third parties e.g.: remarketing, reselling services or cloud services.
* You are prohibited from circumventing or supplying a system in order to circumvent the TPM of the Software and using the Software in any other unauthorized manner.
In case of infringement of any provisions of this chapter, You expressly acknowledge that it constitutes material breach of this Agreement giving the right to Graphisoft to immediately terminate this Agreement, and Graphisoft will take the necessary measures in order that the infringement be terminated and to enforce Your compliance with the above provisions. In addition, Graphisoft shall be entitled to enforce payment for its damages as well as other rights and claims under the governing laws in force resulting from Your breach of this Agreement.
* You shall not transfer the Software to any other computer or person. You are expressly prohibited from distributing, providing access to or commercializing the Software or any of its components either alone or as part of another product or service. Any attempt to do so will be void and may also disable Your continued use of the Software.
6. TERMINATION
* This Agreement remains in effect until it is terminated.
* Graphisoft may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect without notice following breach of any part of the Agreement. The actual or attempted violation of any of the provisions of the LICENSE PARAMETERS or RESTRICTIONS, as set out above, shall be a material breach of this Agreement giving the right to Graphisoft to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect.
* Upon termination by Graphisoft You are obliged to compensate Graphisoft for its damages and expenses occurring in connection with the breach of this Agreement and Graphisoft shall be entitled to enforce other rights and claims under the governing laws in force.
* Your license to the Software terminates if Graphisoft, at any time and for any reason, including to address competitive demands, respond to a government regulation, order or law, or to advance innovation in its offerings, terminates in whole or in part the Software or ceases to provide by sale or other means. On the designated date for a product End-of-Life, Graphisoft will no longer provide: (i) Technical Support; (ii) Updates; and/or (iii) support services ("End-of-Life"). For any Software subject to an End-of-Life designation, Graphisoft will post relevant dates on its website at least ninety (90) days prior to the End-of-Life effective date and will use commercially reasonable efforts to assist You in such transition.
* In case of termination for any reason, under no circumstances will Graphisoft be liable for reimbursing the price of the Software (if any) or for compensation of any other damages.
* You may terminate this Agreement by destroying the Software and all copies of it.
7. LIMITED WARRANTY
* No advice or information given by Graphisoft employees, its Partners or consultants shall constitute a warranty by Graphisoft or extend the warranty in this Agreement. This Agreement and the warranty provided herein may only be modified by a written amendment signed by a duly authorized executive officer of Graphisoft.
* In no event shall Graphisoft be liable for any loss or damages whatsoever, including but not limited to loss of data, damages for lost income, business interruption, loss of business information, or other special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, multiple, or indirect damages or other pecuniary loss, arising from the use or misuse of the Software, or otherwise under this Agreement, even if Graphisoft or its employees or Partners have been advised or should have known of the possibility of such damages. In no event will Graphisoft's aggregate liability for any breach of this Agreement, use of the Software or otherwise, exceed the amounts actually paid by You to Graphisoft for this copy of the Software, except as otherwise required by applicable statutory law.
* You accept and confirm that the free of charge provision of the Software and the conditions of this Agreement advantageous to You hereof have been determined in consideration of the above provisions on limited warranty.
* TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY THE RELEVANT RULES OF LAW THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO ITS CONFORMITY TO OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL PERFORM UNINTERRUPTED AND WITHOUT ERRORS. GRAPHISOFT DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUALITY, COMPLETENESS, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR PRECISION OF THE SOFTWARE'S FUNCTIONS OR COOPERATION WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE DEVICE.
8. OWNERSHIP OF LOADED CONTENT, THIRD-PARTY MATERIALS, SERVICES
* All title, ownership rights, and proprietary rights in and to the information and other content (e.g. commercial and third-party add-ons) loaded into the Software from any electronic media or Internet by operation of the Software (collectively, "Content") is the property of the applicable Content owner, including, without limitation, Supplier, its affiliates, and any Internet Content providers ("Content Providers"). This Agreement does not give You ownership or any other rights with respect to any such Content and Graphisoft does not undertake any liability for any such Content.
* You accept that the use of some Graphisoft products and some third-party materials and services included in or accessed through the Software are subject to other terms and conditions found in separate license agreement(s) located at https://graphisoft.com/legal/license-agreements/third-party-software-licenses which You also accept by accepting the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
* You accept that the use of some Graphisoft and some third-party materials, software and services accessed, used with the help of the Software, may be subject to other terms and conditions found in separate license agreement(s) not appearing at the link indicated above, for which Graphisoft does not assume any liability. Graphisoft also does not assume any liability for the co-operation of the Software with third-party materials, software and services or for the operation and use of third-party materials, software and services.
9. GENERAL AND CLOSING CONDITIONS
9.1. General provisions.
* This Agreement DOES NOT give You the right to any technical support for, or upgrades to, the Software which Graphisoft may offer from time to time. Graphisoft may, at its option and as part of its sales and marketing policy, make such technical support and upgrades available to registered users of the Software under terms to be determined from time to time by Graphisoft.
* You accept that the Software may have time/functionality limited components, which may be used in their full functionality in case of purchase of the relevant license(s).
9.2. Intellectual Property, Branding. The Software offered to You under this Agreement are proprietary of Graphisoft and its licensors. For the detailed rules on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, BRANDING, please read Graphisoft's Intellectual Property Notice available at https://graphisoft.com/legal.
9.3. Legal documents. This Agreement is to be construed and applied together with other Graphisoft legal documents such as, in particular but not limited to, Graphisoft's Privacy Policy and the Graphisoft ID Terms of Use (https://graphisoft.com/legal/terms-of-use-graphisoft-id), constituting inseparable part of this Agreement, which are available at https://graphisoft.com/legal. Any terms and conditions of this Agreement and all other applicable legal documents may be modified unilaterally by Graphisoft without prior notice to You without any legal or financial consequences for Graphisoft. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions. Any amendments made by Graphisoft cannot be unreasonable or significantly detrimental for You.
9.4. Acceptance. By entering this Agreement, You expressly declare and confirm that the person accepting this Agreement on behalf of You has the full power and capacity to represent the entity on behalf of which the person is acting. Should this declaration prove to be false, the person accepting this Agreement shall be responsible and liable in person for all obligations under this Agreement.
9.5. Anti-Bribery. Both Graphisoft and You represent and covenant that they have not, and will not offer, give, solicit, or accept any bribe from any person, organization, or company with the intent to coerce or induce the other party or an employee or agent of the other party to act improperly in the course of their duties. If either party is found guilty of failing to prevent an act of bribery, or makes, offers, or solicits a bribe from the other party, then that party's rights under this Agreement will be terminated immediately. Such termination will not affect Graphisoft's rights and remedies surviving termination of this Agreement. You will use reasonable efforts to promptly notify Graphisoft if You become aware of any circumstances that are contrary to this acknowledgment.
9.6. Trade and Sanctions. In the context of this Agreement:
9.6.1. both You and Graphisoft shall comply with all economic, trade and financial sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes and/or restrictive measures administered ("Sanctions"), as well as all export and import control laws and regulations ("Trade Controls") enacted or enforced by the governments of Hungary, the European Union, and any other relevant country;
9.6.2. You represent and covenant on a continuing basis that neither You nor Your subsidiaries, affiliates, parties which directly or indirectly own or control it, directors, employees nor Your users are or will be designated on any applicable Sanctions and/or Trade Controls restricted parties list;
9.6.3. Graphisoft represents and covenants on a continuing basis that neither it nor its subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, nor the parties which directly or indirectly own or control it are or will be designated on any applicable Sanctions and/or Trade Controls restricted parties list;
9.6.4. The license and Graphisoft’s Software are made available on conditions that they shall not be sold, transferred, released, exported, provided or used by You and/or Your users (i) for any purpose or any activity which is prohibited or restricted by Sanctions and/or Trade Controls and (ii) to any country or territory subject to jurisdiction wide Sanctions including without limitation at the date of this Agreement North Korea, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, Crimea & Sevastopol and other Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia. You and Your users are solely liable for any content in compliance with applicable Sanctions and/or Trade Controls;
9.6.5. both You and Graphisoft undertake to immediately notify the other party in writing if it receives any notice of, or becomes aware of, any violation of this Section 9.6.;
9.6.6. notwithstanding anything to the contrary, either You or Graphisoft shall have the right to (i) suspend the use of the licensed software; or (ii) terminate this Agreement immediately if any of the provisions of this Section 9.6 are breached and in both (i) and (ii) cases (iii) seek indemnities from the party which has breached the relevant provisions for any direct losses incurred.
9.7. Audit. You hereby agree that - in addition to any other license compliance checking set forth in this Agreement or elsewhere - Graphisoft has the right to carry out remote, electronic audit and/or physical audit by visiting You at the premises where You use the Software upon 7 (seven) days prior written notice in order to check Your records, systems, facilities to verify that Your use of the Software is fully in line with the provisions of this Agreement and with the applicable rules of law. Graphisoft may also appoint a third party to exercise its audit rights. You hereby agree to fully cooperate with Graphisoft in order to successfully perform the audit among others by providing Graphisoft with all requested information and documents. You also ensure to bring your use of the Software in line with this Agreement (including but not limited to due payment of the applicable fees, acceptance of license terms, etc.) as contained in the result of the audit. In case of any non-compliances revealed by the audit related to Your use of the Software You shall reimburse the fees to Graphisoft arising from the performance of the audit at Graphisoft.
9.8. Privacy. You expressly acknowledge that You and Your authorized users' personal data processed under this Agreement will be processed, either manually or with the help of electronic or automated means, in such a way as to minimize, by means of suitable security measures, the risk of unauthorized access or disclosure of Your data. Your personal data will be processed during the term of this Agreement in relation to its purposes, also in order to prevent unlicensed use of the Software. For the above purposes Your personal data can be disclosed to third parties (service providers, consultants, collaborators, a list of which is available from within the Privacy Policy), either to other EEA or third countries, pursuant to the scope of this Agreement and any applicable law. In the event of any data transfers to third countries, Graphisoft always uses suitable safeguards (such as the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission) to ensure the adequate protection of personal data. Graphisoft reserves the right to disclose Your personal data to the competent legal authority if required to do so to enforce or defend its rights or legitimate interests before civil and criminal courts, regulatory bodies, or to execute an order of the competent judicial or regulatory authority. As user of the Software, You have the right to access the personal data processed by Graphisoft, to obtain the updating or rectification of such data. You also have the right to obtain the erasure of any personal data if, for instance, such data have either been processed unlawfully or are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed. In certain cases, such as when the processing is unlawful and You oppose the erasure of Your data, You have the right to obtain from Graphisoft the restriction of processing. You also have the right to receive the personal data concerning You, which You provided to Graphisoft, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller. If You consider that the processing of Your personal data by Graphisoft infringed the GDPR, please contact us first at privacy@graphisoft.com; Graphisoft SE Business Compliance Manager; Záhony utca 7. Budapest, H-1031 Hungary so we can remedy the issue. Of course, in such cases You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Hungarian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (http://naih.hu/general-information.html) or another data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union Member State of Your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
If applicable, You ensure and warrant to us that Your authorized users' has been duly informed of the collection, processing, transfer and usage of his/her personal information by Graphisoft as per the above, and shall indemnify and hold Graphisoft harmless from and against any related third-party claims.
The detailed rules regarding the various rights and obligations related to Graphisoft's data collection, use, transfer, handling, processing, including Your subject access rights and rights to legal redress, are set forth in the Privacy Policy constituting an inseparable part of this Agreement available at https://graphisoft.com/legal/privacy-policy.
9.9. Modifications. You accept that Graphisoft may unilaterally modify any term of this Agreement with or without notice to You. You agree that Graphisoft shall not be liable to You or anyone else for any negative effect deriving from such modifications.
9.10. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with any applicable appendices (including any other terms referenced in any of those documents), constitutes the full, complete agreement between You and Graphisoft concerning the Software and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, either written or oral. Unless otherwise communicated to You by Graphisoft in writing, the conditions of this Agreement shall apply to the installation and use of additional functions of the Software and to the repair of the Software's installation.
9.11. Invalidity. If any part or provision of this Agreement is found to be contrary to law by a competent jurisdiction, that part or provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent allowed, and the remaining Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
9.12. Governing Law. This Agreement and any dispute or claim (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of or in connection with it, its subject matter or formation shall be governed by the laws of Hungary without regard to the conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction. All provisions of this Agreement are subject to the mandatory rules of applicable law.
9.13. Dispute resolution. In the event of any dispute arising from or in connection with the present contract, so especially with its breach, termination, validity or interpretation, the parties (except for consumers) exclude the state court procedure and agree to submit the matter to the exclusive and final decision of the Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Commercial Arbitration Court Budapest). The Arbitration Court proceeds in accordance with its own Rules of Proceedings (supplemented with the provisions of the Sub-Rules of Expedited Proceedings). The number of arbitrators shall be 3 (three) and the language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English. The parties exclude the possibility of the retrial of the proceedings as regulated in Section IX of Act no. LX of 2017 on Arbitration.
9.14. Language and Notices. The English version of this Agreement will be the governing version used when interpreting or construing this Agreement. Any translations thereof shall exclusively be provided for information purposes without any binding force and in no event shall Graphisoft be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or damages whatsoever resulting from any incorrect, incomplete translations. With respect to all notices, You and Graphisoft communicate with each other in English language through their contact persons via email to the email address indicated at Graphisoft ID Company for You and to information@graphisoft.com related to this Agreement for Graphisoft, respectively.
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10. INQUIRIES
All inquiries regarding this Agreement should be directed to
Graphisoft SE Private European Company Limited by Shares
Záhony utca 7.
H-1031 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (+36.1) 437-3000
Fax: (+36.1) 437-3099
E-mail: mail@graphisoft.com