1. INTERPRETATION

1.1 In these Terms, unless the context requires otherwise, the following expressions have the following meanings:

"Authorized User": (a) every member of staff employed by the Licensee and (b) every student of the Licensee.
"Licensed Material": the material available for access on the Internet at the URL http://www.ycponline.co.uk from time to time together with any additional material that the Licensor makes available to the Licensee.
"Licensee": the school entering into this License Agreement
"Licensor": Hodder Education, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH
"Term": the subscription period for which the Licensee has purchased a license to access the Licensed Material

1.2 The Agreement contains the entire agreement and undertaking between the parties relating to the Licensed Material and supersedes any prior agreement.

1.3 The termination of this Agreement shall not prejudice the rights and remedies of either party against the other in respect of any prior breach of covenant, terms, warranty or condition.

1.4 The failure of any party to enforce any provision of this Agreement on any one occasion shall not affect its right to enforce another provision or the same provision on another occasion.

1.5 Nothing contained in this Agreement shall constitute or shall be construed as constituting a partnership, joint venture, or contract of employment between the parties.

2. DELIVERY AND GRANT OF RIGHTS

2.1 In consideration of the payments made by the Licensee, and subject to the Licensee observing its obligations under this Agreement, the Licensor grants to the Licensee for the Term the following non-exclusive rights ("the Rights"), to:
(a) access and permit Authorised users to access at any time the Licensor's server, or as the case may be any service provided by an agent on its behalf, for the purpose of accessing the Licensed Material, for research, teaching, and private study purposes;
(b) permit Authorized Users to print and/or download individual articles and other individual items from searches of the Licensed Material for research, teaching, and private study purposes;

2.2 The Rights are personal to the Licensee and do not extend to its subsidiary or parent organizations, or to any other related or affiliated organizations. The Licensee may not assign, sub-license, transfer, charge or otherwise dispose of its rights under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Licensor.

2.3 Title to, and ownership of, the Licensed Material (including any copies made by the Licensee) is not transferred to the Licensee and remains vested in the Licensor, subject to the Rights granted in Clause 2.1. The Licensee acknowledges that any rights not expressly granted in this Licence are reserved to the Licensor.

2.4 The Licensee is responsible for the provision of and payment for the computer equipment and telecommunication services necessary for access to the Licensed Material. The Licensor shall not issue credits or refunds against charges incurred by the Licensee in relation to such telecommunication services or those incurred contacting the Licensor. The Licensee accepts that the Licensor has no control over such telecommunication services and that the Licensor shall have no liability to the Licensee for the acts or omissions of providers of telecommunication services or for faults in or failures of their apparatus.

3. USAGE RESTRICTIONS

Except as expressly permitted in Clause 2.1, the Licensee warrants that it will not, nor will it license or permit others to, directly or indirectly, without the Licensor's prior written consent:

(a) sell, distribute, license, rent or otherwise exploit the Licensed Material, or any element of it, for any commercial purpose;

(b) make the Licensed Material, or any element of it, available by any means to persons other than Authorized Users;

(c) make the Licensed Material, or any element of it, available on, or by, electronic bulletin boards, news groups, Web sites, FTP or any other means of posting or transmitting material on the Internet, an on-line service or wide area network;

(d) remove or obscure the Licensor's copyright notice from the Licensed Material including hard-copy print-outs;

(e) use the Licensed Material to create any derivative work, product or service, or merge the Licensed Material with any other product, database, or service;

(f) alter, amend, modify, translate, or change the Licensed Material;

(g) undertake any activity which may have a damaging effect on the Licensor's ability to achieve revenue through selling and marketing the Licensed Material; or

(h) otherwise use the Licensed Material supplied in accordance with this Agreement in a manner that would infringe the copyright or other proprietary rights contained within it.

4. TERM AND TERMINATION

4.1 This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof and continue for an initial period of the Term. The Term may be renewed for additional periods, subject to payment of appropriate fees and acceptance thereof by the Licensor, in accordance with Clause 5.1.

4.2 Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time upon written notice to the other if the other party defaults by failing to perform any obligation on its part. The termination will become effective thirty days after receipt of written notice unless, in the case of a remediable default, during the relevant period of thirty days the defaulting party has remedied the default.

4.3 Licensor may terminate this Agreement at any time upon thirty days' written notice to the Licensee.

4.4 If termination of this Agreement occurs as a result of notice being given by the Licensee under Clause 4.2, 4.7 or 8.2 or by the Licensor under Clause 4.3 or 8.2 the Licensor shall repay the Licensee a rateable proportion of the Licence Fee as represents the paid but unexpired Term at the date of termination.

4.5 On termination of this Agreement, the Licensee agrees to destroy, and will instruct all Authorized Users to destroy, all Licensed Material stored on any digital information storage media, including, but not limited to, system servers, hard disks, diskettes, and back up tapes.

4.6 The Licensor may suspend the provision of the Licensed Material to the Licensee with immediate effect on written notice without liability if the Licensor believes the Licensed Material is being used in a manner that contravenes the provisions of this Agreement.

4.7 Either party may terminate the Agreement forthwith on notice in writing to the other if the other party is unable to pay its debts or ceases or threatens to cease to carry on business, goes into administration, receivership or administrative receivership, or any event analogous to any of the foregoing occurs in any jurisdiction.

5. LICENCE FEE

5.1 The Licensee agrees to pay to the Licensor the Licence Fee within 30 days of the Commencement Date. Provided that the Licensor is satisfied with the manner in which the Licensee has performed its obligations under this Agreement the Licensee will receive no later than 30 days before the end of the Term an invoice for fees for renewal of the Agreement for a further period of three years. If the Licensee does not pay the renewal fees by the end of the Term, the Licensor will assume that the Licensee does not wish to renew the Agreement and the Agreement will terminate.

5.2 All amounts payable by the Licensee under this Agreement shall be exclusive of any sales, use, value added or similar taxes.

6. LICENSEE'S UNDERTAKINGS

6.1 The Licensee will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Licensed Material is used only in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and shall inform Authorized Users of the permitted use restrictions and other provisions set out in this Agreement.

6.2 The Licensee will notify the Licensor immediately of infringements that come to the Licensee's notice and the Licensee agrees to co-operate with the Licensor as appropriate to stop further abuse should it occur.

6.3 Subject to Clause 4.5, nothing in this Agreement shall make the Licensee liable for breach of the terms and conditions of this Agreement by any Authorized User as long as the Licensee complied with the terms of Clauses 6.1 and 6.2 and did not cause, intentionally assist in or encourage such breach nor allowed it to continue after having received notice of such breach whether from the Licensor or otherwise. However, in the event of continuing abuse the Licensor shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement.

6.4 The Licensor shall be entitled to monitor the use of the Licensed Material through the Licensor’s servers so as to monitor compliance with this Agreement.

7. WARRANTIES, UNDERTAKINGS AND INDEMNITIES

7.1 The Licensor warrants to the Licensee that it has full rights and authority to grant the Rights to the Licensee and that the use by the Licensee of the Licensed Material in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the rights of any third party.

7.2 The Licensor shall indemnify the Licensee for the amount of any award of damages against the Licensee by a court of competent jurisdiction as a result of any claim arising from a breach of the warranty in Clause 7.1 provided that the Licensor shall be entitled to assume sole conduct of any defence and shall have the right at its option:

(a) to procure the right for the Licensee to continue using the Licensed Material;

(b) to make such alterations, modifications or adjustments to the Licensed Material that it becomes non-infringing without incurring a material reduction in performance or function; or

(c) to replace the Licensed Material with non-infringing substitutes provided that such substitutes do not entail a material reduction in performance or function.

7.3 The Licensor shall not be liable to the Licensee for any loss or damage whatsoever resulting from omissions or inaccuracies in the Licensed Material regardless of how caused. The Licensor does not warrant that access to the Licensed Material will be free from errors or faults.

7.4 Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Licensor shall not be liable for any claim arising from:

(a) any failure or malfunction resulting wholly or to any material extent from the Licensee's negligence, operator error, use other than in accordance with the User Documentation or any other misuse or abuse of the Licensed Product;

(b) the failure by the Licensee to implement recommendations previously advised by the Licensor in respect of, or solutions for, faults in the Licensed Material;

(c) the decompilation or modification of the Licensed Material or its merger with any other program or any maintenance repair adjustment alteration or enhancement of the Licensed Material by any person other than the Licensor or its authorized agent; or

(d) the Licensee or any Authorized User being unable to exercise the Rights due to the Licensed Material being unavailable as a result of any act or omission of the Licensor provided that the period for which the Licensed Material is not available shall not exceed a period of 100 hours (in aggregate) in any continuous period of 1000 hours.

7.5 The Licensee shall use its best efforts to safeguard the intellectual property, confidential information including without limitation the terms of this License, and proprietary rights of the Licensor.

7.6 THE LICENSED MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS." NEITHER THE LICENSOR NOR ANYONE ELSE MAKES ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS CLAUSE 7, ALL CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES, TERMS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND UNDERTAKINGS EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE IN RESPECT OF THE LICENSED MATERIAL ARE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED.

NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY ANY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LICENSOR OR BY ANYONE ELSE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER LEGAL RIGHTS THAT VARY BY JURISDICTION.

7.7 The content of the Licensed Material is subject to change without notice.

8. FORCE MAJEURE

8.1 Either party's failure to perform any term or condition of this Agreement as a result of conditions beyond its control such as, but not limited to, war, strikes, floods, governmental restrictions, power failures, or damage or destruction of any network facilities or services, shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement.

8.2 If any event set out in Clause 8.1 shall continue for a period in excess of 30 days either party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement forthwith by written notice to the other.

9. NOTICE

Any notice to be served on either party by the other made under this Agreement shall be in writing sent by prepaid recorded delivery or registered post to the address of the addressee as set out in the Schedule or to such other address as notified by either party to the other as its address for service of notices and all such notices shall be deemed to have been received within 48 hours after posting.

10. LIABILITY

10.1 Neither party excludes or limits liability to the other party for death or personal injury caused by its own negligence or any other liability the exclusion or limitation of which is expressly prohibited by law.

10.2 Except as provided for in Clause 10.1 above, the liability of the Licensor in respect of any and all claims (whether in contract or in tort) arising out of or in connection with this Agreement is limited in respect of each event or series of connected events to the lesser of £1,000 or an amount equal to the fees paid under this Agreement.

10.3 Except as provided for in Clause 10.1, notwithstanding anything else contained in this Agreement, in no event shall the Licensor be liable to the Licensee for:
(a) loss of profits, business, revenue, goodwill, anticipated savings; and/or
(b) indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss or damage.
(c) any inaccuracy in the Licensed Material.

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11. GOVERNING LAW

The Agreement is governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

12. SEVERABILITY

In the event that any provision of this Agreement is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.

13. WAIVERS

No provision of this Agreement or breach thereof may be waived except in a writing signed by the party against whom the waiver is sought to be enforced.