Beta Test Agreement

Information

This Beta Tester Agreement (this "Agreement") is entered into between evispire ("evispire") and you ("Tester"). This Agreement governs your access to and use of certain software and related services (the "Beta Services") offered by evispire solely for testing and evaluation purposes within your own business operations. Further description and related details of the Beta Services may be provided to you at the time you access or engage with the Beta Services. By accessing or using the Beta Services and clicking "I Agree," you accept and agree to be bound by this Agreement and all of its terms. If you do not accept all the terms of this Agreement, you may not use the Beta Services.


1. Terms of Use

1.1 Incorporation of Terms

You acknowledge and agree that your access and use of the Beta Services will be subject to evispire's Terms of Use (accessible at https://www.evispire.com/terms) ("ToU") and Privacy Policy (accessible at https://www.evispire.com/privacy) ("Privacy Policy"), both of which are incorporated herein by reference.

1.2 Definition of Services

The Beta Services are considered part of the "Services" as defined in the ToU for purposes of the ToU and Privacy Policy.

1.3 Conflict of Terms

In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the ToU, the terms of this Agreement shall supersede the ToU with respect to your access and use of the Beta Services.


2. Acknowledgment of Beta Services Limitations

2.1 Acknowledgments

You acknowledge that:

  • a) The Beta Services have not been made commercially available by evispire;
  • b) The Beta Services may not operate properly, be in final form, or fully functional;
  • c) The Beta Services may contain errors, design flaws, or other problems;
  • d) It may not be possible to make the Beta Services fully functional;
  • e) Use of the Beta Services may result in unexpected results, loss of data, or other unpredictable damage or loss;
  • f) evispire has no obligation to release a commercial version of the Beta Services or otherwise make the Beta Services available;
  • g) The platform's insights and recommendations are powered by advanced analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") to help inform your business decisions. While these insights are based on your business data:
    • i) Final business decisions remain your sole responsibility;
    • ii) Insights should be considered alongside your own business expertise, judgment, and other information sources;
    • iii) Results may vary based on the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the data you provide;
    • iv) AI technologies may produce unexpected or unintended outputs, and you should verify any critical results before relying on them.

2.2 Assumption of Risk

You assume all risks arising from the use of the Beta Services as further stated in this Agreement.


3. Obligations under Third-Party Agreements

3.1 Your Responsibilities

If you have obligations to any third party, such as under the terms, conditions, or policies of a software or service provider that you use (e.g., QuickBooks) or through which you purchase data services, you, and not evispire, are solely responsible for your compliance with those requirements.

3.2 No Warranty of Compliance

By providing you with access to the Beta Services, evispire does not warrant or guarantee that your use of the Beta Services is allowed by any particular service provider, nor that your use complies with any laws or regulations that may apply to your use or purchase of any other services.

3.3 Limitation of Liability

evispire is not liable for your failure to comply with any applicable local, provincial, national, or international laws, treaties, and regulations or any contracts, rules, policies, or procedures applicable to your activities.


4. License

4.1 License Grant

Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, evispire hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license, during the term of this Agreement, to access and use the Beta Services within your own business operations for the purpose of testing and evaluation. This includes limited commercial use necessary to assess the functionality and performance of the Beta Services in a real-world environment.

4.2 Restrictions

You acknowledge that the Beta Services contain trade secrets of evispire and its licensors, and, to protect such trade secrets and other interests that evispire and its licensors may have in the Beta Services, you agree not to:

  • a) Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Beta Services or authorize a third party to do any of the foregoing;
  • b) Modify the Beta Services without prior written consent from evispire;
  • c) Distribute, sell, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the Beta Services to any third party; or
  • d) Copy the Beta Services, except as necessary for backup or archival purposes consistent with the terms of Section 4.1.

5. Feedback

5.1 Testing and Cooperation

You agree to:

  • a) Test the Beta Services and cooperate with evispire in evaluating the Beta Services; and
  • b) Provide evispire with feedback as reasonably requested from time to time.

5.2 Feedback License

All feedback, comments, and suggestions for improvements that you provide to evispire hereunder are referred to collectively as "Feedback." You hereby grant evispire a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license under any and all intellectual property rights that you own or control to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, and otherwise exploit the Feedback for any purpose.


6. Ownership

6.1 Rights Retained by evispire

As between the parties, evispire retains all rights, title, and interest in and to the Beta Services, including all intellectual property rights therein.

6.2 No Additional Rights

You will not acquire any rights or licenses in the Beta Services or evispire’s Confidential Information, except as expressly provided in Section 4.1 of this Agreement.


7. Confidentiality

7.1 Definition

For purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" means the Beta Services and any information or materials disclosed by or on behalf of evispire to you that:

  • a) Are marked "confidential," "proprietary," or with a similar designation at the time of disclosure; or
  • b) Due to their nature or the circumstances of their disclosure, a person exercising reasonable business judgment would understand to be confidential or proprietary.

7.2 Obligations

You agree to:

  • a) Maintain all Confidential Information in strict confidence;
  • b) Not disclose Confidential Information to any third parties; and
  • c) Not use any Confidential Information for any purpose except for testing and evaluating the Beta Services in accordance with this Agreement and the ToU.

7.3 Exceptions

The obligations and restrictions in Section 7.2 will not apply to any information or materials that:

  • a) Were, at the date of disclosure, or have subsequently become, generally known or available to the public through no act or failure to act by you;
  • b) Were rightfully known by you prior to the disclosure of such information or materials from evispire;
  • c) Are rightfully acquired by you from a third party who has the right to disclose such information or materials without breach of any obligation of confidentiality or restricted use to evispire; or
  • d) Are independently developed by you without access to any Confidential Information.

7.4 Duration of Obligations

The confidentiality obligations set forth in this Agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement and remain in effect for a period of two (2) years thereafter.

7.5 Return of Confidential Information

Upon termination of this Agreement, or earlier upon evispire’s request, you will promptly return to evispire, or, at evispire’s option, destroy, all tangible items and embodiments containing or consisting of Confidential Information and all copies thereof. All Confidential Information remains the sole and exclusive property of evispire.

7.6 Injunctive Relief

You acknowledge that any breach of this Agreement by you may result in irreparable harm to evispire, for which monetary damages would be an inadequate remedy. Therefore, evispire shall be entitled to seek equitable relief, including injunctions and specific performance, in the event of such breach, in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.


8. Data Protection and Privacy

8.1 Compliance with Privacy Laws

evispire agrees to handle any personal information collected, used, or disclosed in connection with the Beta Services in compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and any other applicable provincial privacy legislation.

8.2 Data Handling

Any data you provide or that is collected during your use of the Beta Services may be used by evispire to operate, maintain, improve, and develop the Beta Services and other evispire products and services. This includes using data for analytics, research, and marketing purposes, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8.3 Data Security

evispire shall implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data processed through the Beta Services.

8.4 Consent to Data Processing

You consent to the collection, use, and processing of your business data by evispire solely for the purposes of providing and improving the Beta Services, in accordance with evispire's Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

8.5 Data Retention and Deletion

Upon termination of this Agreement or upon your request, evispire will take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize personal data associated with your use of the Beta Services, except where retention is required for legal, regulatory, or legitimate business purposes. If you request deletion of your data, evispire will delete your personal data to the extent permitted by law and will cease further use of it.

8.6 Aggregated and Anonymized Data

evispire may use aggregated or anonymized data derived from your use of the Beta Services for any purpose, including analytics, research, and development.


9. Termination

9.1 Termination by evispire

evispire reserves the right to modify or terminate the Beta Services, this Agreement, or your use of the Beta Services, or to limit or deny access to the Beta Services at any time, in its sole discretion, for any reason, with or without notice and without liability to you.

9.2 Termination by You

You may discontinue your use of the Beta Services at any time.

9.3 Effect of Termination

Upon termination of this Agreement, you shall immediately cease all use of the Beta Services in your business operations, delete or destroy any copies of the Beta Services in your possession, and certify to evispire that you have done so. The following sections of this Agreement will survive termination: Sections 2, 3, 4.2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, and 16.


10. Warranty Disclaimers

10.1 "As Is" Provision

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BETA SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND MAY BE USED IN A LIVE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT.

10.2 Disclaimer of Warranties

evispire DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

10.3 No Guarantee of Performance

evispire MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE BETA SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE BETA SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE BETA SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

10.4 Assumption of Risk

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE BETA SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.


11. Limitation of Liability

11.1 Exclusion of Certain Damages

IN NO EVENT SHALL evispire BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF evispire HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE BETA SERVICES.

11.2 Limitation of Liability Amount

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, evispire'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE BETA SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $500).


12. Dispute Resolution

12.1 Negotiation

In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the parties shall first attempt to resolve the dispute through good faith negotiations within forty-five (45) days of written notice of the dispute.

12.2 Mediation

If the dispute is not resolved through negotiation, the parties agree to submit the dispute to mediation, which may be conducted remotely or in person, administered by the ADR Institute of Canada or another agreed-upon mediation service.

12.3 Arbitration

If mediation fails to resolve the dispute within sixty (60) days of the mediator's appointment, the dispute shall be finally resolved by binding arbitration, which may be conducted remotely or in person, under the National Arbitration Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada.

12.4 Governing Law and Language

The arbitration shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, and the language of the arbitration shall be English. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.


13. Notices

13.1 Method of Notice

All notices, requests, consents, claims, demands, waivers, and other communications (collectively, "Notices") under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered by email, direct messaging, or other electronic communication methods agreed upon by the parties.

13.2 Contact Information

Notices to evispire shall be sent to contact@evispire.com, and notices to you shall be sent to the contact information you provided during registration.

13.3 Receipt of Notice

Notices shall be deemed to have been received when sent, provided that no delivery failure message is received.


14. Miscellaneous

14.1 Governing Law

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

14.2 Assignment

You shall not assign this Agreement, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of evispire.

14.3 Compliance with Export Laws

You shall comply in all respects with all applicable Canadian export and import laws and regulations.

14.4 Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between the parties relating to its subject matter and supersedes all prior agreements, discussions, and understandings.

14.5 Waiver and Modification

No waiver or modification of this Agreement shall be valid unless in writing and signed by both parties.

14.6 Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

14.7 Independent Contractors

The relationship of the parties is that of independent contractors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to establish any partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship between you and evispire. Neither party has the authority to bind the other or incur obligations on the other's behalf.

14.8 Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performing its obligations under this Agreement (except for payment obligations) if such failure or delay is due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, government actions, civil disturbances, or acts of terrorism.


15. Indemnification

15.1 Your Indemnification Obligations

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless evispire, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from:

  • a) Your use of the Beta Services in your business operations;
  • b) Your violation of this Agreement;
  • c) Your violation of any law or regulation; or
  • d) Your violation of any third-party rights, including intellectual property rights.

16. Tester's Obligations

16.1 Compliance with Laws

You agree to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and third-party agreements (such as QuickBooks terms of service) when using the Beta Services.

16.2 Notification of Issues

You agree to promptly notify evispire of any security breaches, vulnerabilities, or other issues encountered during the use of the Beta Services.

16.3 Backup of Data

You are responsible for backing up your data. evispire is not liable for any loss of data resulting from your use of the Beta Services.


Acceptance

By clicking "I Agree," you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Beta Tester Agreement and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions.


Contact Information

Email: contact@evispire.com