Section 1. Introduction
mono solutions a/s (“mono”) provides digital advertising products, services and solutions (the “mono Services”) for small and local businesses. These fulfillment general terms and conditions (“Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions”) apply to all mono Services and to all websites, videos, advertising materials and other content created or supported as a result of or through the mono Services (collectively, “Materials.”) These General Terms and Conditions incorporate by reference mono’s Website Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Section 2. Proposals; Agreements
From time to time mono shall propose orally or in writing specific fees and other material terms relating to particular mono Services (a “Proposal.”) Each Proposal shall incorporate by reference these Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions. Acceptance by you of a Proposal, orally or in writing, shall give rise to a binding agreement (an “Agreement”) by you to purchase and pay for, and for mono to provide, the mono Services specified in the Proposal. The Proposal and these Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions shall constitute the Agreement and shall govern the relationship between you and mono. Unless stated otherwise in a Proposal, the term of the Agreement shall commence on the date of acceptance and shall continue until the Agreement is terminated by you or mono in accordance with Section 5 below.
Section 3. Responsibilities and Service Level Agreements
mono is responsible for collecting and clearing all rights and permits which are required for audio (including music,) video, text, images, software and any other content protected by intellectual property law that is provided by mono and used in the mono Services including the Materials (“mono Content.”) mono does not control, actively monitor or review the information and materials provided by you in connection with the fulfillment of the mono Services or uploaded, posted, transmitted or made available on or through the mono Services or in the Materials (collectively, “Client Content,”) and mono shall not be responsible for any Client Content and does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of Client Content. Unless a Proposal provides otherwise, mono’s obligation to commence with fulfillment of the mono Services you have purchased (“Your Services”) shall be subject to payment by you of any upfront or initial period fees specified in your Proposal (“Upfront or Initial Fees.”)
Within 2 business days after receipt of applicable Upfront or Initial Fees (or the date of acceptance if no Upfront or Initial Fees apply,) mono shall contact you by email or text message to commence fulfillment of Your Services. After the initial contact, mono shall call you at least three times (each time leaving a message if the call is not answered) and shall send at least one additional email or text message, all within 10 business days of the initial contact, in order to gather your Client Content and other inputs regarding Your Services.
Where you fail to respond to mono’s repeated contact efforts or otherwise fail to deliver the Client Content required for Your Services, then at the expiration of the applicable 10 business day period, mono shall have no further responsibility to contact you for the purpose of gathering Client Content and Your Services (or the portion that depends on such Client Content) shall be suspended without further notice required, until such time as you shall contact mono or provide the required Client Content. You shall not be entitled to any refund or credit as a result of any such suspension or the resulting delay in the fulfillment of Your Services.
You shall generally be requested to approve any Materials created or prepared for you through the mono Services before such Materials shall be publicly released or otherwise utilized in advertising activities conducted on your behalf. mono shall request your approval by email which shall specify the period of time during which you must request changes or reject the Material. In the event you do not contact mono within the specified period, mono shall be entitled to assume you approve the Materials.
In the event Material is not approved, then mono shall take reasonable efforts to improve or correct the Material to the extent the quality of the Material is sub- standard or the Material is deficient in some respect for which mono is at fault (“Defects.”) mono shall not be responsible for the performance or presentation of you or your representatives in any Material or for mistakes or quality problems attributable to any Client Content. Unless the Agreement provides otherwise, website and mobile website products, and similar “destination” products such as customized Facebook pages, are provided with up to two rounds of discretionary revisions without additional charges, so long as the revision requests are reasonable under the circumstances and in the context of your initial inputs and prior revision requests.
mono Services are supported by account managers during normal business hours. To the extent Your Services include on-going support for edits and updates to any Materials, then you shall be entitled to the same degree of service and support that apply to the initial development of your Materials for the amount of hours per period specified in your Agreement.
If mono receives a reasonable claim from you based on a Defect, mono shall, subject to the limitations set forth below, pay such claim. However, mono shall not be liable for such Defect if you do not file a written complaint (e-mail is accepted) with mono within 30 business days from the delivery of the defective Material.
mono shall not be held responsible for server outages or for any sort of software, hardware or internet connection failure.
You are responsible for ensuring that all advertising (including Materials) created and published through Your Services complies with national and local laws and regulations, standards and practices of media outlets on which they depend, Internet standards and laws, and other applicable guidelines for advertising (collectively, “Advertising Guidelines.”)
Section 4. Payments
Once you accept a Proposal, orally or in writing, you are responsible for payment in full of the fees set forth therein. All payments due hereunder are in the currency indicated in the Proposal and are exclusive of any sales, use or similar applicable taxes, which shall be your sole responsibility.
You shall pay all amounts payable hereunder, including Upfront or Initial Fees, recurring monthly fees (“Monthly Fees”) and other one-time fees (“One Time Fees”) by credit card.
If you authorize mono, orally or in writing, to charge your credit card, in respect of Upfront or Initial Fees, Monthly Fees or One Time Fees, then mono shall be entitled to rely on such authorization and process such payments on or up to 5 business days before each applicable due date. For the purpose of effectuating the forgoing, you authorize mono to store your credit card information to the full extent permitted by applicable laws.
You understand and acknowledge that, in addition to being in breach of contract, you may be subject to having Your Services paused or terminated if timely payment is not made.
Section 5. Termination
You may terminate an Agreement (and thus cancel mono Services) with respect to all or any part of Your Services at any time and for any reason after any applicable binding period and with 30 days advance written notice. You may also terminate an Agreement immediately with respect to all or any part of Your Services if mono is in material breach of the Agreement and such breach is not cured within 30 days of notice to mono of said breach.
mono may terminate an Agreement with respect to all or any part of Your Services if you are in material breach of the Agreement and such breach is not cured within 30 days of notice to you of said breach. In addition, mono may terminate an Agreement for any reason after the first anniversary of the acceptance date or at any time with respect to any mono Services that mono in its absolute discretion decides to discontinue; provided, however, that in either case mono provides 60 days prior written notice of termination.
You shall remain liable for any amounts due to mono as of the effective date of termination. You shall not be entitled to any refund or credit as a result of any termination.
To be effective, termination notices must be sent to mono by email to support@mono.net and indicate the number of the confirmation that mono sent you following your acceptance of the Proposal (“Confirmation”) as well as the mono account number specified in said Confirmation. In the event you are terminating some but not all of the mono Services described in said Confirmation, then you also need to specify the products, services or solutions you want to cancel. mono shall use its best efforts to terminate, remove or takedown any cancelled products, services or solutions as soon as possible. Websites and other Materials hosted by mono shall be removed promptly and without giving rise to any additional charges. In respect of online profiles and Materials uploaded or posted to third party sites, mono shall have no obligation to track down or eliminate prior postings or take down Materials. With respect to advertising campaigns underway or pending, mono shall use reasonable efforts to terminate the campaigns as soon as possible, subject to the terms and conditions imposed by third party media vendors. Sections 4, 5, 6, 8 and 11 hereof shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 6. Rights and Ownership
Unless otherwise agreed in an Agreement, you will own any Materials produced through the mono Services, subject to the limitations set forth below.
To the extent any Materials contain mono Content (including, without limitation, copy, images (including logos, photos or video,) or any other content or material from mono’s libraries, then you shall have only a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, sub-licensable and transferrable license to use said mono Content for commercial advertising purposes.
Ownership of all mono Content shall remain at all times with mono. You shall have the right to use derivatives of any Materials that include mono Content only in connection with advertising activities related to you (including your affiliates and related companies.) You shall have no other rights to use (or sublicense or transfer) derivatives that include mono Material. Subject to the payment of applicable delivery fees, you shall have the right to receive a physical copy of your Materials provided you have paid or pre-pay all applicable Upfront and Initial Fees and Monthly Fees for at least one year (unless indicated otherwise in an Agreement.)
You shall remain the owner of any Client Content including, without limitation, data, logos, pictures, videos, slogans, art, and other materials provided by or produced for you in connection with creating Materials or uploaded/added by you directly or indirectly to the Materials or through the mono Services. By participating in the creation of Materials through the mono Services, including transmitting, uploading, posting or submitting any Client Content to mono or through the mono Services, you irrevocably grant mono a worldwide, royalty free, non-exclusive perpetual, worldwide license to use, display, perform, distribute, modify, reproduce and publish your Client Content in any form anywhere. In addition, you authorize mono to create derivatives of your Client Content and Materials and on your behalf to post online, expose to search engines and syndicate to directories and other websites and services, whether under control or affiliated with mono or not, said Client Content, Materials and derivatives, in all cases to such extent as mono deems advisable in its absolute discretion in order to deliver the mono Services.
mono reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse or remove any Client Content available on or through the mono Services. Without limiting the foregoing,
mono shall have the right to remove any Client Content that violates these General Terms and Conditions or is otherwise objectionable in mono's sole opinion.
Where an Agreement specifies that mono Content shall be provided with “Exclusivity Rights,” then mono agrees not to grant concurrent rights to any Core Element (as defined below) of said mono Content to any other person or entity based in your Region (as defined below.) “Core Elements” means any unique slogan, and independently copyrightable elements (such as the photographs and video images) that are deemed by mono in its reasonable discretion to be material to creating the unique look and feel of your Materials. Notwithstanding the above, a third party (such as a photographer, composer, illustrator, etc.) may retain rights in one or more Core Elements and will have the right to use, and to grant others the right to use, one or more of the Core Elements anywhere and at any time, including in the Region. “Region” refers to provincial areas or other areas demarcated by postal codes as mono shall reasonably define in order to divide a market into areas within which local businesses would typically expect the majority of their competitors to be based.
Section 7. Third Party Media
Where a Proposal references third party media and or services related to third party media, mono will use its best efforts to acquire the media on your behalf and provide the services as specified in the Proposal. mono does not guarantee that the media will be available on the terms and conditions contemplated by mono in making the Proposal or at all. So long as mono has acted in good faith in purchasing media on your behalf or otherwise providing the services specified in the Proposal, you will not be entitled to any refund because the media purchased or accessed on your behalf fails to meet any or all of the specifications set forth in the Proposal provided that mono has acted reasonably in providing comparable or replacement media or services. mono will act as an agent in purchasing and using third party media for you and you authorize mono to so act on your behalf and to represent itself to media outlets, when appropriate in mono’s sole discretion, as your agent of record for the purpose of carrying out the mono Services. Any use or purchase of third party media will be subject to the media outlet’s terms, rules and policies, all of which are completely out of the control of mono and are subject to change at any time. The act of registering and uploading of information and content to certain third party media may require your active confirmation of proper registration and/or your authorization of mono to act as your agent. Where an Agreement specifies the purchase of third party media, a set-up and administration fee may be assessed provided it is stated in your Proposal. In some cases mono will not provide you with the login details of accounts with third party media outlets as mono will manage these accounts on your behalf as part of the mono Services. mono reserves the right to benefit from any commissions, concessions or rebates provided by third party media outlets to agencies provided such arrangements are commercially reasonable and in accord with industry norms with respect to media agencies serving small and local businesses.
Section 8. Debtor Policy
Without prejudice to any other remedies mono may have, if at any time you are in breach of any obligation (including those relating to payment,) mono may suspend or terminate the supply of the mono Services and any of our other obligations under the Agreement. mono will not be liable to you for any loss or damage you suffer because it exercised our rights under this clause. In connection with suspending or terminating the supply of mono Services, your Client Content, Materials, account history or other valuable information may be removed, damaged, lost or destroyed and mono shall have no responsibility to restore or recover the same.
Section 9. Representations and Warranties.
You represent and warrant that: (i) you have full rights to use, broadcast and distribute your Client Content and documentary substantiation for all the claims made therein, (ii) your Client Content is truthful and not misrepresentative or misleading and does not plagiarize, libel, defame or harm any party, (iii) your use of the mono Services and the Materials created thereby will not invade the rights of privacy of any third party or otherwise infringe upon or violate the rights or property interests of any third party, and the same shall not violate any applicable Advertising Guidelines, and (v) you will not use the mono Services or Materials created thereby or any part thereof except as permitted hereby.
Section 10. Disclaimer And Limited Liability.
THE MONO SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE” AND “BEST EFFORTS” BASIS. MONO AND ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, AGENTS, PARTNERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, RELATING TO THE MONO SERVICES AND THE MATERIALS CREATED THEREBY. IN NO EVENT WILL MONO AND ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, AGENTS, PARTNERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. DAMAGES WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE MONO SERVICES THAT ARE THE BASIS FOR SUCH LIABILITY.
MONO SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOSSES THAT RESULT FROM THE FAILURE OF MEDIA OUTLETS, COMPUTER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS OR OTHER SUPPLIERS. FURTHER, MONO SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OR DELAY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER ON ACCOUNT OF EVENTS BEYOND ITS REASONABLE CONTROL, WHICH MAY INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FIRES, FLOOD, STORM, EXPLOSIONS, ACTS
OF GOD, WAR, TERRORISM, GOVERNMENTAL ACTION, MATERIAL SHORTAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY INTERNET CONGESTION.
Section 11. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless mono and its affiliates and their respective officers, agents, partners, directors, shareholders, suppliers, and employees from and against any loss, damages, liabilities, claims, demands, suits, expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, which any such party may incur arising out of or relating to: (i) your Client Content or your modification, display and use of any Material created through the mono Services (ii) claims that your products or services are defective, injurious or harmful or violate the rights of any third parties and (iii) claims predicated on a breach of your Agreement (including these General Terms and Conditions) by you.
Section 12. Miscellaneous.
Agreements (including these General Terms and Conditions) will be interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of the country in which your business is based without regard to conflict of law principles.
mono may amend these General Terms and Conditions at any time unilaterally by posting amended Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions on its website. Such amended Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions shall apply to all Agreements entered into subsequent to such posting and to all renewals periods under valid Agreements. You are responsible for reviewing the Fulfillment General Terms and Conditions that relate to each Agreement you enter into and all renewal periods thereunder.
Except as provided in the preceding paragraphs, Agreements between you and mono can only be amended by the mutual agreement, made orally or in writing, by both parties.