General Terms and Conditions

1. Content and Conclusion

Parties and Subject Matter.
This contract regulates the legal relationship between cleverQ Inc., 851 Ne 1st Ave #1807, Miami, FL 33132/United States. (“I.C.“) and its customers (“the customer“) with respect to the provision of a waiting-time-management system consisting of an app for customers of the customer (“end customers“, e.g. those waiting, or seeking an appointment) and software for use by the customers on the Internet (Software as a Service). cleverQ Inc. does not provide its services for consumers, but solely for purposes of commercial or self-employed business activities of the
No Deviating Regulations.
The validity of deviating regulations or of regulations that extend beyond these provisions is excluded. This applies in particular to the standard terms of business of the customer, even if I.C. accepts an order from the customer in which the customer draws attention to his/her/its standard terms of business and/or the standard terms of business of the customer accompany the order and cleverQ Inc. does not contradict these.
Conclusion of the Contract.
The contract comes into force when the customer and I.C. sign a Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS.
Duties in Electronic Business Transactions.
Section 312g, paragraph 1, nos. 1, 2 and 3, as well as section § 312g, paragraph 1, sentence 2 of German Civil Code »Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB)«, which foresee certain obligations on the part of the businessman in cases of contracts in electronic business transactions, are excluded by contract.

2. Services of cleverQ Inc.

Right of Use.
cleverQ Inc. provides the customer with the performance specifications indicated on the Service Slip and with the software product (“software“) described for use via the Internet (“service“). The software is used on the computers of a computer center utilized by I.C. The customer receives, for the period of this contract, the non-exclusive and non-transferable right to access the software by means of a browser and an Internet connection for his/her/its own business purposes solely in the context of his/her/its commercial or self-employed business activities. This includes the right, to the extent required for this, to store function code (e.g. JavaScript) on the user’s computer temporarily (e.g. in the working memory or browser cache) and to execute it there. The right of use is limited to the maximum number of locations booked by the customer, in accordance with the License usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS. Assignment of use or preparation of the service to a third party is prohibited. During a free test phase, the customer is not permitted to use the facilities for productive purposes.
cleverQ App and End-Customer Relationship. cleverQ Inc. provides the end customer with a free app for utilization of the waiting-time-management system for appointment-making and for the waiting-tag function. The rights of use required for this are granted to the end customer directly by I.C. The same applies to the contractual relationship with the end customer, as regards use of the app. To this extent, the cleverQ app is not part of the services provided to the customer, but merely delivers the corresponding data. The app is distributed by cleverQ Inc. via the app stores of Google and Apple. For this, the end customer must accept the respective app-store conditions.
Availability.
cleverQ Inc. makes the service available to the customer in accordance with the performance specifications on the License usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS (contract column 2). The customer is responsible for the Internet connection between the customer and the computer center, and for the hardware and software required for this (e.g. PC, network connection, browser). I.C. provides its services at the connection point of the computer center utilized by cleverQ Inc. with the Internet.
Setup.
The customer undertakes the first-time setup of the services (individual settings or input/import of data). A change in the services, particularly reprogramming to meet the wishes of the customer, is not envisaged. Such performance must be separately agreed on and must be paid for.
I.C. provides free telephone and e-mail support as a help in using the service. This support does not include general know-how transfer, training, configuration, implementation, customer-specific documentation or adaptation of the software. The support service is provided by cleverQ on weekdays, from Monday to Friday, between 9.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Exceptions here are made for local public holidays at the location of cleverQ Inc., and for the 24thand 31st of December of each year. The time required for a first-time reaction to e-mail inquiries is 48 hours. Inquiries received outside the support times are regarded as having arrived during the next-following workday.
Unless some other agreement has been reached, cleverQ Inc. is not required to provide user documentation. Other documentation, training or introductory services must be separately agreed on and must be paid for.
Changes in services.
The customer knows that the software is a standard software product delivered as a software-as-a-service service, where numerous customers have access to a centralized system. The economies of scale of such a multi-tenancy model can only be exploited if it is a standardized software product that can also be further developed. The parties therefore agree that cleverQ Inc. may change the Service (including the system requirements) for good cause. Such a reason exists in particular if the change is necessary due to (i) a necessary adaptation to a new legal situation or jurisdiction, (ii) changed technical conditions (new browser versions or technical standards) or (iii) maintaining system security. In addition, cleverQ Inc. may make appropriate changes to the service as part of the further development of the software (e.g. switching off old functions that have been largely replaced by new ones). cleverQ Inc. shall inform the Customer by e-mail of all changes that are not only of minor inconvenience to the Customer. The customer’s consent to such a change shall be deemed to have been given if the customer does not object to the change in writing or by e-mail before the time of the change. cleverQ Inc. shall again refer separately to this legal consequence when notifying the change. If the change jeopardized the contractual balance between the parties

3. Remuneration and Default on Payment

Fee Structure. During the contract period the customer owes I.C. the remuneration agreed to in the License usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS for use of the remuneration can be in the form of a one-time setup charge, a fixed monthly basic charge and a monthly user fee determined on the basis of the number of user units booked.
When the Basic Charge and the User Fee are incurred. The basic charge and the user fee are due with the commencement of the contract and then, in each case, on the same calendar day of the following months. An increase in the number of locations booked (or a change to a higher service package) is possible at any time. A reduction (or a change to a lower service package) is only possible with effect as from the end of the basic period, or an extension period, or earlier with the consent of I.C. In the case of an increase in the booked locations within the basic period, or an extension period, the additional charges will be invoiced proportionately. For the additional user units the prices apply in accordance with the valid cleverQ Inc. price list at the time of ordering of the additional user units.
I.C. invoices the charges at the commencement of the contract and then every month, quarter or year in advance. The sum invoiced is to be paid within 10 days. The invoicing takes place online by placement of the invoice in the customer menu as a downloadable and printable PDF file, or as a dispatch by e-mail (“online invoice“). In the case of the online invoice, this is regarded as having been received by the customer if it is available for calling up by him/her/it in the customer menu and is thus within his/her/its disposal, or with the receipt of the e-mail. cleverQ Inc. reserves the right to send an online invoice.
Payment by Direct Debit. Payment of the invoice amounts is made by bank transfer, ACH direct debit or PayPal transfer.
Commencement of Use. The use of the service is first permissible and possible – except for use in the context of a free test phase – as from the time of receipt of the invoice amount by I.C.
Net Prices. Fees do not include applicable taxes or import duties. Customer shall pay such taxes or duties either directly or when invoiced by I.C., or shall supply appropriate tax exemption certificates in a form satisfactory to cleverQ Inc. .
Default on Payment. If the customer defaults on payment of the remuneration, or a non-insignificant part of the remuneration, for two calendar months, or defaults during a period lasting longer than two months on payment of remunerations amounting to a sum reaching twice that of a monthly basic charge plus user fee, I.C. is entitled, after sending a corresponding warning by e-mail or by letter, to block the customer’s access to the service or to terminate the contract for exceptional reasons. During such blockage the customer has no access to the data stored in the service. In the event of such termination, point 9.4 applies.

4. Duties and Obligations of the Customer

Backup Copies.
The customer is obliged to keep copies of the data input by him/her/it and to regularly make backup copies (e.g. transfer of appointments to the internal system). If the customer violates this obligatory duty to ensure proper data security, I.C. is liable, in the event of loss of data, only to the extent of the liability for damage that would also have been suffered in the case of proper and regular securing of data by the customer.
Lawful Utilization.
The customer must use the service solely within the framework of the contractual and statutory provisions and must not violate, by such use, any rights of third parties. In using the service the customer must observe in particular the regulations on data protection, competition law and copyright and must not input defective or illegal data, or misuse the service in any other way.
System Requirements and Obligation to Assist.
Hardware and software requirements placed on the customer, as well as organizational demands and obligations of the customer to assist are regulated in the Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS. Unless some other stipulation has been made, the customer must use a current browser version of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
Tax-Relevant Data.
The customer is obliged to keep data in accordance with the statutory requirements (particularly the regulations of commercial law and tax law). The customer is aware that the service does not satisfy the demands of Principles of Data Access and Audibility of Digital Documents

5. Customer Data and Data Protection

5.1 Customer Data

The customer shall be exclusively entitled to the data inserted by the end customer in the course of using the services (e.g. name, dates, comments) and the data generated in the course thereof and attributable to the customer (e.g. number tickets) (jointly referred to as “customer data”). cleverQ Inc. shall use the customer data in a confidential manner.

5.2 Use of the customer data

Hereby, the customer grants to cleverQ Inc. the non-exclusive, global, cost-free right limited to the term of this contract to use the customer data for the purposes of providing the service, in particular to store such data in a data centre operated by cleverQ Inc.. In addition, cleverQ Inc. shall remain entitled to use the customer data in aggregated or statistical form for error analyses and further development of the functions of the software as well as for anonymised evaluations and benchmarks.

5.3. Commissioned processing.

To the extent the customer data are personal data, the following shall apply: cleverQ Inc. shall process the customer data as processor under “FIPA” means the Florida Information Protection Act.Enacted in 2014 / “FDBR” means the Florida Digital Bill of Rights Effective July 1, 2024 / General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (for companies with EU clients)

5.4. Data protection information.

Details on the collection, processing and use of personal data by cleverQ Inc. are described in the data protection information of the app. Such information is available at https://www.cleverq.de/en/data-protection/. However, the customer is obliged to create its own additional data protection information and to provide it to the end customer if the customer collects personal data such as name, customer number or e-mail address via the service.

5.5 FDPR/GDPR

The contractual parties agree that their personal data are stored and processed for the purpose of performing a contract as defined under “FIPA” means the Florida Information Protection Act.Enacted in 2014 / “FDBR” means the Florida Digital Bill of Rights Effective July 1, 2024 / General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (for companies with EU clients). For the purpose of providing further offers, we use the option of sending to you new offers on a regular basis.

5.5.1 Right of access.

The contractual parties shall be entitled to obtain information on their data stored (e-mail address) upon request and free of charge.

5.5.2 Right to rectification, erasure and restriction.

The contractual parties shall have the right to rectification, erasure or blocking of inaccurate data. The request can be filed informally, even in oral form. In case of oral requests by phone, however, there will generally be doubts about your identity, as opposed to personal visits.

5.5.2.a | Right to erasure. The right to erasure is subject to one of the following grounds being applicable:

The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject has withdrawn their consent to data processing (and there is no other legal basis).
The data subject has filed an objection to the processing (and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for processing).
The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law.
The data were collected about a child in connection with an information society service.

5.5.2.b | Right to restriction of processing. The right to restriction is subject to one of the following grounds being applicable:

The data subject denied accuracy of the personal data as long as the controller examines the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject has opposed the erasure of the personal data and requested the restriction of its use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to the processing as long as it is not clear whether the legitimate reasons of the controller override those of the data subject.

5.5.2.c Rectification of the data.

The controller rectifies the data subject’s data. Taking into account the purposes of processing, the data subject further has the right to have incomplete personal data completed.

5.5.3 Your right to object

Insofar as your personal data are processed pursuant to as defined under “FIPA” means the Florida Information Protection Act.Enacted in 2014 / “FDBR” means the Florida Digital Bill of Rights Effective July 1, 2024 / General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (for companies with EU clients), to submit an objection to the processing of your personal data insofar as appropriate reasons exist which arise from your particular situation or if the objection is aimed at direct advertisement. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which we will implement without indication of any particular situation.
If you wish to make use of your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to info@cleverq.us

6. Claims Based on Defects

Freedom from Defects, and Characteristic Properties.
cleverQ Inc. will provide the service free of material defects and legal shortcomings and will maintain the software, during the contract period, in a condition appropriate for contractual use. As regards the contractually agreed characteristic properties of the software, the performance specifications contained in the Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS are exclusively determinative, not however information on the website, verbal or written statements of I.C. made in advance of the conclusion of contract, or information contained in cleverQ Inc. marketing material. The duty to upkeep the software does not embrace the adaptation of the software to altered operating conditions or to technical or functional developments such as changes in the IT environment, particularly changes in hardware or in operating systems, adaptations in the scope of functioning of competing products or establishing compatibility to new data formats.
Correction of Defects.
The customer must report defects in the service to I.C. immediately and must explain in detail the circumstances in which these arise. cleverQ Inc. will eliminate the defect within a reasonable cleverQ Inc. is entitled to show the customer temporary error-avoidance possibilities and to eliminate the defect later by adaptation of the software, provided this approach is not unreasonable for the customer.
Period of Limitation.
Claims based on defects fall under the statute of limitations within 12 months. This does not apply in the case of compensation claims based on defects, if I.C. is compellingly liable by virtue of law (cf. point8.1, sentence 2).
Statutory Regulation.
Otherwise, the statutory regulations for claims based on liability for defects apply.
Charge-Free Use.
If I.C. provides services free of charge (e.g. during a test phase) priority is given to the regulations on the lending, i.e. in particular, claims based on liability for defects are limited to cleverQ Inc.

7. Release Obligations

Obligation to Release.
If third parties (including public bodies) raise claims against I.C., or cite infringements of the law, based on violations of the customer against his/her/its contractual duties, particularly as regards the input of illegal data to the service or use of the service in a way that is anti-competitive or is otherwise unlawful, the following applies: the customer must immediately release cleverQ Inc. from such claims, must provide cleverQ Inc. with appropriate support in its legal defence, and must exempt cleverQ Inc. from the costs of legal defence.
Prerequisites for the Obligation to Release.
Prerequisites for the obligation to release, in keeping with point 1, are that cleverQ Inc. immediately informs the customer in writing about the claims raised, makes no admission of fault or equivalent declarations, and enables the customer, at the costs of the customer – where possible – to engage in all negotiations, in court and out of court, relating to the claims.

8. Limitations on Liability

Exclusion in Certain
cleverQ Inc. is liable for damage that is
a) caused by I.C. deliberately or due to gross negligence, or
b) caused by I.C. due to slight negligence and relates to significant breach of duty, that endangers the achievement of the for purposes of this contract, or that relates to violation of duties the fulfilment of which first enable the proper and orderly implementation of this contract and on the compliance of which the customer is entitled to relay (e.g. that customer data has been fully lost and that even old data is not reconstructible).
Otherwise, liability on the part of cleverQ Inc. is excluded, regardless of the legal argument, unless cleverQ Inc. is compellingly liable by virtue of law, particularly in cases of injury to a person’s life, limb or health, acceptance of an explicit guarantee, fraudulent concealment of a defect, or in keeping with the Product Liability Act. Guarantees by cleverQ Inc. are given in written form only and, in cases of any doubt, are only to be regarded as such if they are designated as a “guarantee”.

Limitations on Liability Payments.
In the event of point1, sentence 1, letter b), cleverQ Inc. is liable only to an extent limited to damage that is typically foreseeable for a contract of this type.
Level of the Typically Foreseeable Damage.
The parties assume, for cases such as those referred to under point1, sentence 1, letter b), that the “typically foreseeable damage” amounts, for all cases of damage incurred in a calendar year, to a maximum of the net payment received by cleverQ Inc. as a net payment for software-as-a-service performance that, in keeping with the agreement, was foreseen or was incurred for this calendar year (depending on which of these two amounts is the higher).
Free Test Phase.
The liability of I.C. for damage that is caused during a free test phase or during other free provision of the service is limited to malintent and to gross negligence.
Employees and Representatives of I.C. The limitation of liability of points 8.1 to 8.4 also apply to claims raised against employees and representatives of cleverQ Inc.

9. Period of Contract and Termination of Contract

Free Test Phase.
If a free test phase has been agreed to with the customer, the following applies to the period of the Upon conclusion of the contract a 90-day test phase first begins. For the test phase no setup charges, basic charges or user fees are incurred. With the expiry of the test phase the basic period, in accordance with point 9.2, begins automatically, provided the customer has not terminated the contract subject to a period of notice of 5 workdays to the end of the test phase.
Contract Period.
Depending on the customer’s order, the contract is concluded for a certain period (“basic period“) and subsequently extends automatically by the same period (“extension period“), if the contract has not be terminated by one of the parties subject to a period of notice of four (4) weeks (“period of contractual notice“) to the end of the basic period or of an extension period. Unless some other agreement is reached, the basic period and the extension period amount in each case to twelve (12) months. The right to termination for good cause remains unaffected. Point 3.2 applies to the reduction of locations.
Form. Notice must be given in writing.
Dataat the End of the Contract.
At the end of the contract period the customer can no longer access his/her/its customer data (e.g. still open, non-expired dates). Before the end of the contract period the customer must therefore export such data, with the help of the service’s export function, and must store this data on his/her/its own equipment for further utilization. I.C. is only obliged to undertake an additional issue of the customer data (e.g. preparation as an SQL dump, or in a specific format) if this has been separately agreed to and will be paid for. At the end of the contract cleverQ Inc. will delete the customer data, unless cleverQ Inc. is legally obliged to ensure safekeeping. If deletion is only possible with excessive cost or effort (e.g. in backups), cleverQ Inc. is entitled to block the data.

10. Final Provisions

Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS.
The Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS is a component of the contract. In the event of a contradiction between these General Terms & Conditions (GTC) and the Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS, the conditions of the Licence usage agreement for cleverQ SaaS have priority.
Offsetting.
With respect to other claims than those of his/her/its contractual counterclaims arising from the respective legal transaction, the customer can only offset or exercise a right of retention if the claim is uncontested by I.C. or has been legally established.
Written Form.
Amendments to this agreement require the written form. This also applies to any exclusion of the written-form requirement.
Applicable Law.
This contract and all disputes in connection with it (whether contractual or constituting an offence) are solely subject to Florida law.
Place of Jurisdiction.
If the customer is a businessman, a public-law corporate body or public special assets, the sole place of jurisdiction is that of I.C.. cleverQ Inc. remains entitled to raise suit at the place of registration of the
Partial Ineffectiveness.
Should one of the provisions of this contract prove to be ineffective, whether now or at some future date, this shall not detract from the effectiveness of the remaining provisions. In place of the ineffective provision a provision that the parties would have agreed to, in keeping with the originally intended purpose, as seen from an economic standpoint, shall be adopted. The same applies in the case of a contract omission.

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