Terms Of Service

General terms and conditions for the “Tech Upstairs” Service

WHEN SUBSCRIBING TO THE SERVICE, THE CLIENT ACCEPTS THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS (HEREINAFTER THE “CONTRACT”) TO RULE THE USE OF THE ONLINE SERVICE WWW.TECHUPSTAIRS.COM, INCLUDING THE OFFLINE COMPONENTS (COLLECTIVELY THE “SERVICE”). IF THE CLIENT SUBSCRIBES TO THIS CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF A CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, HE WARRANTS HAVING FULL RIGHT AND TITLE TO ENGAGE THIS ENTITY FOR THE HEREINAFTER PROVISIONS, IN WHICH CASE “CLIENT” REFERS TO THIS ENTITY. IF THE CLIENT DOESN’T HAVE SUCH POWER OR IF HE REFUSES THESE PROVISIONS, THEN HE SHALL GIVE UP THE REGISTRATION PROCEDURE AND WON’T BE ABLE TO USE THE SERVICE.

 

  1. ARTICLE 1 – DEFINITIONS

In these terms and conditions, the parties agree on the definition of the following terms, whether in singular or in plural: “Application”: service created by the Client through Tech Upstairs and made available to the public for download from a platform such as Appstore®, GooglePlay® and its derivative or any intranet platform. “Author”: any person drafting or publishing on the Internet, more specifically on the Application. “Blog”: Internet Web site enabling the publishing of content and the drafting of commentaries by the readers with an Internet diffusion. “Client”: any corporate body or physical person subscribing to the present Contract. “Access codes”: username/password used together or separately to identify oneself and access the Tech Upstairs Service. The access codes are part of the user account. “Order”: online subscription of the Service. “Data”: files and information of any kind (text, picture, sound, video, etc.) under the Client’s responsibility and dropped on the servers operated by Venture Enterprises, LLC or any subcontractor as applicable. “Tech Upstairs”: refers to Venture Enterprises, LLC, the owner and editor of the website www.techupstairs.com and service provider as defined in the legal notice. “Guest”: any person being invited by a User of the Tech Upstairs Service to drop comments or publish as an Author, under the Client’s responsibility. “Service”: aggregate of services made available by Tech Upstairs and consisting mainly in the release of tools (depending on the offer aimed at creating mobile applications for smartphones. “User”: any physical person having an account allowing to access, even for free, to an application powered by Tech Upstairs, under the Client’s responsibility.

 

  1. ARTICLE 2 – PURPOSE – PRECEDENCE

The Client acknowledges having checked that the Service matches its needs and having received from Tech Upstairs any necessary information or advice to subscribe to this Contract. The purpose of the Contract is to define the technical and financial conditions in which Tech Upstairs commits itself with the Client. The present terms and conditions, along with appendices if necessary, apply on any Order. Tech Upstairs provides a service composed of tools enabling the User to create its own Applications whether from an existing blog, website or from scratch. The Application allows for publishing content. The use of the Service is submitted to the present general terms and conditions which apply to the Users, Authors and Guests as well. The Services made available by Tech Upstairs for free, in particular during the free 30 day trial period or during any other period of time depending on a promotional offer, are likewise submitted to the hereunder Contract. Tech Upstairs may modify or update these general terms and conditions. The Client, the User must regularly check the page “Terms of Services” where the latest applicable version is published. The Users must be of age or legally recognized as such.

 

  1. ARTICLE 3 – DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE

Tech Upstairs provides an online Service of Applications and content’s publication. The Tech Upstairs Service enables the Client to create its Application and publish it through any relevant online store. The Service includes as well, functionalities enabling the Users to update the Application and the related content. The Guests can also update their data as much as they want to. These Applications must not only meet the Tech Upstairs pre-requisites, but also the ones of the relevant Application store. The period of time required for the publication of an Application on such store may vary from one store to another. The Client is warned that a store, and especially Apple® or Google® and its derivative, may not publish an Application not meeting its own technical criteria or violating its own applicable general terms and conditions. Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for such mishap. The Client is warned he or she has to comply with such applicable conditions that may regulate the type of disclosed content as well. Tech Upstairs does not warrant the lifespan or the optimization of the Service for a said Internet browser nor for an operating system. Tech Upstairs doesn’t warrant the compatibility between an Application when such operating system and/or browser is upgraded. The number, the type, the accessibility of the proposed functionalities depends on the chosen offer and the status of the User (administrator, Author or Guest). A detailed description of the offers is available at this address: https://www.techupstairs.com/pricing/. The Services do not include the training of the Client to the tools made available.  The Client must have a minimum of technical skills.  Any new functionality, whatever kind, related to an offer will be automatically submitted to the hereunder general terms and conditions, except if stated otherwise. The use of the Service requires the Client/User to subscribe to an internet connection with proper hardware whose costs are independent from the Tech Upstairs Service. Besides, in order to build an Application with Tech Upstairs, the Client may have to open at his own expense an account in an online Application store and subscribe to the developer account. As part of the use of the Service, Tech Upstairs may send the User a certain amount of information (newsletters, administrative mail, etc.). This information is part of the subscription to the Service; a User cannot refuse it. The User undertakes not to access the Service other than using the appropriate interfaces designed for it. The Service being basically an online application, Tech Upstairs may occasionally need to send to the Users important announcements concerning its operating conditions.

 

  1. ARTICLE 4 – SUBSCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE

To become a User, the subscription process must be fully completed. The setup fee must first be paid and is non-refundable.  Valid billing information, a permanent and valid E-mail address and a certain number of other subscription information must be communicated. The User must define a username, a password and a name for the Application. Each Guest shall likewise fill in such identification form to be able to act on the Application. By using the Service, the Client undertakes to: 1. Provide true, accurate, up-to-date and complete information during the subscription process; 2. Regularly update the subscription and, when required, credit card information so that it remains true, accurate, up-to-date and complete. If a User enrolls for a 30 day free trial, or any other promotional offer, he or she must comply with the subscription steps. WARNING: Hotmail, Yahoo! and Gmail webmail services may have anti-spam filters that may block E-mails sent by Tech Upstairs (renewal reminders, maintenance mails). The Client is invited to take this into account when he or she mentions his or her up-to-date mail.

 

  1. ARTICLE 5 – ACCESS TO THE SERVICE

The username AND the password created by the User allow him or her to have direct access to his or her account once the subscription process is completed. CAUTION: the Users are responsible for all actions occurring on their account with their username. The User undertakes to: 1. Contact Tech Upstairs immediately in the case of an abusive use of the user’s password or the account in the case of any security breach ; 2. Make sure he/she has properly left the account at the end of each session through the “deconnection” link aimed for it. Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible on any ground for any loss or damage related to a User’s error. The Services are purported to be perfectly delivered after subscription from the Client’s first access to the Tech Upstairs website. Tech Upstairs makes available to the Client tools for the building of its Application. The Client develops the Application on its own. Except separate estimate subject to proper legal conditions, at no time and no way shall Tech Upstairs provide the Client with a bespoke, ready-to-use Application requiring specific developments.

 

  1. ARTICLE 6– Tech Upstairs’s OBLIGATIONS

Tech Upstairs undertakes to bring full care and due diligence to the supply of a quality Service pursuant to the profession standards and the state of the art. Tech Upstairs’ obligations are performed on a “best effort” basis. If the Client subscribes to the additional platform publication Service, Tech Upstairs shall act on behalf of the Client. The platform general terms and conditions apply and the Client agrees to hold Tech Upstairs harmless from all claims and actions resulting from illegal usage of the Application.

 

  1. ARTICLE 7 – Tech Upstairs’ RESPONSIBILITY

7.1 Exclusion of responsibility
7.1.1 Technical access to the Service
The Service relies on complex technologies accessible via the Internet network that the Client recognizes as being open and heterogeneous for it is based on third party technology. Tech Upstairs denies any kind of responsibility in case of a potential damage which may result from the unavailability of the Service or a problem of connection to the Service.

7.1.2 Published information and Data
The information and messages published by the Users are their exclusive responsibility.

Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for fake announcements made by a Client, User or Guest. Likewise, Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible if the Client’s, User’s, or Guest’s published information at the day of the subscription are no longer valid. Additionally, Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for the malevolent use of the Data by a Client, User or Guest or even third party.

The responsibility of Tech Upstairs can be held only if it is proven that the damage results from its own action. Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for the violation of the hereunder terms and conditions by a Client, User or Guest.

7.1.3 Client’s fault
Tech Upstairs’s responsibility cannot be held if, due to the Client, the following occurs:

Deterioration of the platform hosting the Service ;
o Client’s, User’s or Guest’s misuse of the interfaces, omission, carelessness or disrespect of the pre-requisites or advice ;
o Disclosure, loss or illegal use of the Access Codes ;
o Client contractor’s fault, omission, carelessness on which Tech Upstairs has no control whatsoever;
o Temporary or permanent interruption of Service resulting from an order of an administrative or judiciary authority
o Partial or total destruction of Client’s Data attributable to the Client itself. The Client is warned and encouraged to take out any proper insurance to cover risks related to the damages related to the alteration or the loss of Data.

7.2 Force Majeure
Tech Upstairs cannot be held liable if the performance of the Contract or any other hereunder obligation incumbent to Tech Upstairs, is obstructed, limited or impeded due to fire, explosion, network communication breakdown, collapse of hosting facilities, epidemic, earthquake, flood, electricity shortage, war, embargo, statute, order, demand from any government, strike, boycott, loss of telephone operator’s or hosting provider’s license or any other circumstance without reasonable Tech Upstairs’ control (“Force majeure case”), then Tech Upstairs will be free from the performance of its obligations in the limits of the said obstruction, limitation, impediment, likewise, the Client will be freed from its obligations as their performance is obstructed, limited or impeded too. Each party endeavors to limit the occurrence and the effects of such Force Majeure Case and shall proceed with their respective obligations as long as such case disappears. The party affected by a Force Majeure must inform the other by E-mail of the prognostics of duration or termination of such case. If the effects of a Force Majeure case shall last more than 30 days from the notification of it to the other party, the Contract will be automatically terminated when one party asks for it, without any right of indemnification for any of them.

7.3 Enhancements
The compensation Tech Upstairs may pay in case of a breakdown of a Service originating from a personal fault shall correspond to the personal, direct damage related to the said breakdown, excluding any indirect damage such as, without limitation, loss of sales, loss of profit, loss of customers, damage to the Client’s image or reputation, or any other loss of information, Data of any kind. In any case, all types of damages together, the amount of the compensation Tech Upstairs may bear is limited to the amount paid by the Client to Tech Upstairs in the last 12 months before the damage or the amount billed for the Tech Upstairs’ Service for which the responsibility is established, whichever is the lowest pursuant to the provisions of the article 19 “Service Level Agreement”, hereunder.

 

  1. ARTICLE 8 – GRANT OF LICENSE

Tech Upstairs hereby grants to the User, for the whole world, a non-exclusive, limited term, personal, non-assignable license to use the Service for the duration of the Contract, exclusively for its own activity, in the conditions hereunder. All the rights which are not expressly awarded to the Client are reserved to Tech Upstairs and its partners vested in such right of distribution.

  1. ARTICLE 9 – CLIENT’S OBLIGATIONS

The Client warrants having full rights and title for taking the present Contract. Technically speaking, the Client certifies having the required technical skills to use the Service or, at least, to train itself to be able to use by itself the Services. The Client is obliged to a collaboration duty, having, in particular, to respond promptly to any Tech Upstairs’s request. The Client acknowledges that the Application cannot work properly if the source code for the content the Client wants to embed in the Application is flawed. Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for that, at any time.

The Client is responsible for all activities taking place from its personal account and he undertakes to comply with any applicable statute, regulation and treaty, national or foreign that may apply in the course of the use of the Service, including on personal data protection, international communication, conduit of information, intellectual property, individual fundamental rights, including third party rights. Moreover, the Client undertakes to take out any necessary insurance next to any notoriously reputable insurance company in order to cover any loss or damage that may occur in the course of Contract. The Client must:

  1. Regularly check the E-mail address communicated to Tech Upstairs ;
  2. Use the intranet made available for technical matters with Tech Upstairs;
  3. Report immediately to Tech Upstairs any non-authorized use of a password or account or any security breach known or suspected;
  4. Report immediately to Tech Upstairs any copy or distribution of content known or suspected to be illegal by the Users and make its utmost to put and end to it; and
  5. Refrain from usurp somebody else’s identity or communicate false identity on its identity to access or use the Service.

The Client undertakes to communicate its accurate mail and postal contact details to Tech Upstairs. The Client is uniquely responsible for the use of the password to use the Service. The Client can only use the Service for its own needs and shall not:

  1. Make an Application to send unsolicited mail (“spam”) or any other big scale mailing breaking the law;
  2. Send or host illegal Data (obscene, pornographic, threatening, defamatory, or that may target and be harmful to minors or to private life);
  3. Send or host counterfeiting content, files and even hypertext links enabling to download protected creation on any form it may be, without the authorization of the owner of right or his or her beneficiary ;
  4. Send or host Data containing virus, computer worms, Trojans or any malevolent software;
  5. Interfere or impede the integrity or the functioning of the Service or the data related to;
  6. Try to obtain a non authorized access to the Service or at the related systems and networks.

Certain Service’s commercial offers may propose better integration capabilities via an application interface programming (API).  The number of API push the Client might execute may be limited.

Fair Use
All applications created with one subscription may not make more than a combined total of 150 000 requests per day to the Tech Upstairs APIs.

Pursuant to article “termination, limitation and suspension of Service”, the Client acknowledges that Tech Upstairs is entitled to limit, restrain, interrupt or suspend the whole or a part of the Service during a minimum of a 5 day period of time or even terminate the Contract, especially in case of disrespect of the warnings sent to the Client by E-mail for spamming. On this particular subject matter, Tech Upstairs reserves the right to install on its server software tools blocking such acts in case anyone (client or not) has complained about it in writing.

 

  1. ARTICLE 10 – LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL TECH UPSTAIRS BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TYPE OF INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST REVENUE, LOST PROFITS, LOSSES ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSACTIONS ENTERED OR NOT ENTERED INTO ON THE SITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING UNDER ANY THEORY OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO, TO THE EXTENT NOT ALLOWED BY LAW, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO EITHER OR BOTH PARTIES.

 

  1. ARTICLE 11 – INFORMATION AND DATA ON THE CLIENT’S ACCOUNT

Tech Upstairs cannot claim any proprietary rights on the Data, information or documents that the Client submits to the Service when using it. The Client is entirely responsible, excluding Tech Upstairs of the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality and reliability of the intellectual property rights or right of use the Client may have on the Data. Tech Upstairs cannot be held responsible for the deletion, the correction, the destruction, the damage, the loss or the inappropriate hosting of any Client’s Data. If the Client requires it expressly at the time of the termination of the Contract (for any reason other than the breach of the Contract by the Client), Tech Upstairs will make the Data available within 30 days after such termination. Tech Upstairs may withhold, remove and/or get rid of the Data, without notice, as soon as the Client violates the Contract, including belated payment. In case of a breach, the Client’s right of access and right of use cease immediately and Tech Upstairs cannot be compelled to host or transmit the Clients’ Data wherever it is.

  1. ARTICLE 12 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Tech Upstairs warrants having on his own the integrality of the rights, including intellectual property rights to the technology, content being part of the Service. The Contract hereunder transfers no property rights on the Service and its technology or content to the Client, they shall remain Tech Upstairs’s personal rights. The Tech Upstairs name, logo and www.Tech Upstairs.com as well as product’s names related to the Service are Tech Upstairs or third parties’ trademarks; no grant of license is made to the Client.

In case of a final judgment that may withdraw certain intellectual property rights from Tech Upstairs (such as templates or graphics or software development tools), at its sole initiative and at its own expense, Tech Upstairs may propose to the Client any other alternative having equivalent characteristics.

The suggestions, ideas, improvement requests, returns of experience, recommendations or any information the Client or any other third party may formulate about the Service directly benefit Tech Upstairs who is exclusively entitled of the intellectual property rights that may apply.

  1. ARTICLE 13 – TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Tech Upstairs makes technical support available to the Client that can be accessed from its account. To be duly taken into account, the Client is informed that any assistance request must be made in writing from the support tool designed for it

  1. ARTICLE 14 – TARIFFS

The Services ordered are mentioned in the Order form; the prices are all taxes included and payable in US Dollar (USD) currency, except if stated differently. Tech Upstairs reserves the right to modify pricing at any time, as long as the Client is informed by an E-mail or an online warning on www.techupstairs.com, a month before the new tariffs being less interesting for the Client come into force. In such case, the Client, from the post of such information, will be entitled to terminate the Contract without any penalties. If the Client remains silent, he is purported to have accepted the new tariffs. The pricing modifications apply on all and every ongoing contracts. Tech Upstairs reverses the right to apply, without notice, any new tax or tax raise. Tech Upstairs’ Service are payable at the Order, in advance. The Client has the responsibility of all payments related to the Contract. Except mutual agreement for a delay requested in advance, lack of payment or belated payment will entail without prior notice: – the immediate payment of all remaining amounts due by the Client for the Contract, whatever the previously agreed means of payment; – the suspension of all ongoing Service, whatever Service it is about, Tech Upstairs being entitled to terminate the contract; – the impossibility to subscribe again or renew the subscription to the Service; – the application of late payment interests until the day of full payment, based on 3 times the ongoing American legal rate. Any claim about billing or the nature of the Service must be made in writing at the address [email protected] within a month after the issue of the Order form. In the event Tech Upstairs has to pay collection expenses, it will inform the Client and will charge the Client back on the basis of the corresponding bill. The Client shall then reimburse Tech Upstairs the exact sum in US Dollar (USD) currency.

  1. ARTICLE 15 – PAYMENT

The first payment takes place at the latest the 30th calendar day of the free Service trial period. The Client may pay by credit card or PayPal. The Service subscribed by the Client is performed as soon as the first payment is made, subject to Tech Upstairs’s verification of the communicated information. Tech Upstairs shall acknowledge receipt of the Order and the payment and will inform by E-mail of the performance of the Service ordered. For any communication between the parties, the date and hour of Tech Upstairs’ server will make proof between the parties. This information is kept during the whole Contract. Unless Tech Upstairs specifies differently, the payment is made on a monthly, or annually period (depending on the choice made by the Client) and no refund will be made. In case of inaccuracy of the Client’s credit card details, whatever the reason, the Service may be removed and all the Data in the account could be deleted for good. Tech Upstairs denies any responsibility for the lost Data due to inaccurate Client’s banking details. The Client shall maintain its banking details up to date, especially credit card details. A menu is dedicated to it in the managing interface of the account. It is accessible with username and password. For any late payment late payment, Tech Upstairs will charge interests until the day of full payment, based on 3 times the ongoing American legal rate as well as collection expenses.

  1. ARTICLE 16 – TERM OF THE CONTRACT

The Service is made available for the duration stated in the Order. Tech Upstairs may warn the Client by E-mail before the end of the Service.

  1. ARTICLE 17 – DURATION – CONTINUATION OF THE SERVICE

Depending on the subscription made, the Contract is valid for a fixed one year period of time or a month with tacit renewal for another month being itself renewable for the same period of time at the same conditions. Any late payment or irregular payment, that is an incorrect or incomplete payment or not mentioning the correct required references, or made by a means of payment non accepted by Tech Upstairs will be merely ignored and shall provoke the reject of the activation or renewal of the Service.

  1. ARTICLE 18 – TERMINATION, LIMITATION AND SERVICE SUSPENSION

The Contract is terminated without prior notice, except in tacit renewal cases as stated above. In this last case, the Client must terminate the Contract by sending a letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent to the address stated in the legal notice at the latest one month before the term of the Contract.

Each party may terminate the Contract, without notice and right of compensation in case of force majeure lasting more than 30 days.

The Contract is terminated in case of a breach of the Contract by Tech Upstairs, not being fixed 7 days from the receipt of a letter with acknowledgment of receipt sent to the address stated in the legal notice. The date of notification of the letter stating the breach will be the date of the postmark, for the first presentation of the letter.

The Contract is terminated without prior notice in case of a breach of the Contract by the Client, from the sending of a letter with acknowledgment of receipt sent to the Client’s address.

At any time, Tech Upstairs may interrupt or suspend the Client’s Service if the way the Client use the Service endangers the security or the stability of the platform. A possible, Tech Upstairs may warn the Client previously.

Besides, Tech Upstairs reserves the right to interrupt or suspend the Service for a Client violating its obligation pursuant to article 9 “Client’s obligations” and especially if the Data infringes third parties’ intellectual property rights, violates other people’s rights (especially defamation, libel, slander, etc.), private life, public order, or in case of breach of good morals.

If necessary, Tech Upstairs may interrupt the Service for technical intervention aimed at enhancing or maintaining the Service.

The paid option “Tech Upstairs takes care” provides a maximum number of 12 submissions to the stores per the platform, iOS and Android, for customers with annual subscription, 1 submission per month for customers with monthly subscription. If the request of submission of an update to the store is considered unjustified, Tech Upstairs reserves the right not to complete the sending process.

  1. ARTICLE 19 – OPERATING CONDITIONS

The Client acknowledges hereby that variation in bandwidth and other unexpected troubles in the Internet networks and/or hosting services may entail a temporary poor quality of Tech Upstairs’s Service.

  1. ARTICLE 20 – SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT

Tech Upstairs undertakes the Service to be 99,9% accessible and in working conditions that have a maximum monthly unavailability of 43 minutes 12 seconds per month. Should this availability rate not be completed, Tech Upstairs undertakes to pay penalties equaling no more than 25% of the monthly amount billed to the Client, for every 1 minute of unavailability. This penalty doesn’t apply in the case of the Client’s fault, or a third party’s fault, or force majeure.

The amount of the penalties paid by Tech Upstairs cannot exceed the monthly amount billed to the Client. These penalties compensate for all the damages related to the unavailability.

When the penalty rate occurs for a given month, Tech Upstairs withdraws it directly from the bill for the next period of time. In case of further installments, the penalty is withdrawn on the bill of the next installment.

The foreseen unavailability for maintenance or any other reason excludes the penalty rate. For this predicted unavailability, Tech Upstairs informs the Client as follows:
– For over 60mn of interruption, Tech Upstairs sends a notification by E-mail a minimum of 48 hours before;
– For interruptions inferior to 60mn, Tech Upstairs posts a notification in the Client’s managing interface.

  1. ARTICLE 21 – WAIVER

Should Tech Upstairs not apply on the provision of this Contract, or tolerates a breach shall not be construed as a waiver for the said provision.

  1. ARTICLE 22 – PERSONAL DATA

The Client being a physical person, the User or the Guest acknowledges having a right of access, modification, deletion of his or her personal data by contacting Tech Upstairs by E-mail in the legal notice.

Personal data is kept as long as legally necessary for judicial proof. Tech Upstairs won’t sell such data to third parties other than commercial partners.

Concerning the Application itself, the Client acknowledges to be informed of Data protection formalities. The Client shall ensure compliance with the provisions of the Federal and State laws on “Data protection and privacy” that may be enforced. The Client shall undertake to fulfill any steps that may be required to declare data with any equivalent National body. Generally speaking, the Client undertakes towards the Users, Guests, Authors and more broadly any client, prospects or contact to respect any local regulation and in particular to get prior consent for any distant prospection (“opt-in”), except if stated otherwise by law.

  1. ARTICLE 23 – CONTRACTUAL HIERARCHY – MODIFICATION

The present general terms, the Order form and conditions and the legal notice form part of the whole Contract excluding any other document, E-mail, correspondence or buyer’s general term and conditions the parties may have disclosed before Order. Special provision on the Order form may contradict the general terms and conditions hereby.

Any modification or introduction of new subscription options will be posted on the Tech Upstairs website or communicated by E-mail to the Client. In such case, the Client may terminate the Contract within 30 days before the new conditions come into force, pursuant to article 16.

  1. ARTICLE 24 – MISCELLANEOUS

23.1 Partial invalidity
Should any provision of this agreement be declared invalid, this will in no way affect the validity of the whole agreement or of another clause. In such case, the parties endeavor to replace the invalid provision by a valid one respecting the spirit and the purpose of the present general terms and conditions.
23.2 Lapsed claims Any claim for liability against the Tech Upstairs lapses one (1) year after the event having generated the claim for damages.
23.3 Sub-contracting Tech Upstairs may subcontract the performance of all the Services with any other party it chooses.
23.4 Reference The Client accepts the use of its brand names and logos among the references used to promote Tech Upstairs’ business.
23.5 Titles The titles of the articles hereby aim at facilitating the reading and are not binding by themselves.

  1. ARTICLE 25 – GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of Georgia. In the event that litigation results from or arises out of this Agreement or the performance thereof, the Parties agree that should Tech Upstairs prevail, User will reimburse reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and all other expenses, whether or not taxable by the court as costs, in addition to any other relief to which Tech Upstairs may be entitled.