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License Agreement

1.TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.1These are the terms and conditions on which Fisher Cartwright Berriman Pty Limited (ACN 125 440 824) trading as the Australian Retailers Association ("the ARA") is able to grant a licence to the Member to use the Services.
1.2By clicking on the "Agree" button, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below.
2.UNDERTAKINGS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE MEMBER
2.1The maximum number of employees of the Member that may use the Services at any time is as specified in Schedule 1.
2.2The Member agrees that the Intellectual Property of the Product will at all times remain with the ARA and that the Product is the exclusive property of the ARA.
3.LICENCE FEE
3.1The ARA reserves the right to charge the member a licence fee after 30 June 2011.
3.2Any licence fee charged after 30 June 2011 will be increased annually by the greater of 5% or the Australian Consumer Price Index, effective as of 1st January each year.
4.PAYMENT TERMS
Payments will be made by the Member to the ARA when the Member pays membership fees to the ARA.
5.LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
5.1The Services are provided to the Member by the ARA on an as is available basis and the Member acknowledges that the ARA does not make any express warranty under this Agreement, including without limitation that the Services are or will be complete or free from errors.
5.2To the maximum extent permitted by law, the ARA will not be liable for any loss, injury, claim, liability or damage of any kind resulting in any way from:
  1. any errors in or omissions from the Services;
  2. the unavailability or interruption to the supply of the Services;
  3. the Member's use or misuse of the Services (regardless of whether the Member received any assistance from the ARA in using or misusing the Service);
  4. the content of the Member's materials;
  5. loss of or damage to the Member's materials;
  6. the Member's use of any equipment in connection with the Services;
  7. any delay or failure in performance beyond the reasonable control of the ARA or PeopleInsite;
  8. any negligence of PeopleInsite or the ARA or its employees, contractors or agents in connection with the Services.
6.TERMINATION
6.1 For the purposes of this Agreement, the following are terminating events:
  1. the breach or threatened breach by either party of any of its obligations under this agreement;
  2. the appointment of any type of insolvency administrator in respect of the property or affairs of either party;
  3. the entry or proposed entry by either party into any scheme, composition or arrangement with any of its creditors;
  4. the permanent discontinuance of the PeopleInsite on-line services; or
  5. any event described in this Agreement as a terminating event.
6.2This agreement may be terminated immediately on the happening of a terminating event at the option of the affected party. If the terminating event is one specified in clause 6.1 the affected party will give to the other party notice of the event and require the breach to be remedied (if possible). If the breach is not capable of remedy or, if the breach is capable of remedy but is not remedied (as the case may be) within 14 days of such notice, the Licence may be terminated by the affected party.
6.3All rights expressed to continue beyond termination of this Agreement will continue despite the terms of this clause.
6.4Upon request by the Member, the ARA will forward to the Member all data hosted by PeopleInsite in a reasonable timeframe.
7.DISPUTES
7.1 If there is a dispute between the parties then:
  1. the parties must discuss the dispute initially with a view to settling the dispute on an amicable basis;
  2. if the parties fail to reach agreement within thirty (30) days of the dispute arising the dispute must be referred to mediation;
  3. the parties will agree on the appointment of a competent mediator, such mediator to hold registration with the relevant professional association and have at least five (5) years' experience in the relevant field;
  4. if the parties cannot agree to the appointment of a mediator within ten (10) business days of the day referred to in paragraph (b), above, the parties must ask the President of the Law Society of New South Wales to nominate a suitably experienced and qualified person;
  5. the parties must co-operate to the extent necessary to enable the mediator to settle the dispute within twenty-eight (28) days of appointment;
  6. any mediation process between the parties will be conducted by teleconference at a mutually convenient time;
  7. the determination of a mediator or any agreement reached by the parties as a result of the mediation will be binding upon the parties.
7.2Each party will bear its own costs in relation to the mediation of any dispute pursuant to this clause.
7.3Notwithstanding the terms of this clause, either party may elect to proceed to mediation prior to expiration of the thirty (30) day period by serving a notice on the other party of their intention so to proceed.
8.COSTS
Each party must bear and is responsible for its own costs in connection with the preparation, execution, completion and carrying into effect of this Agreement.
9.ENTIRE UNDERSTANDING
This Agreement:
  1. is the entire agreement and understanding between the parties on everything connected with the subject matter of this Agreement; and
  2. supersedes any prior agreement or understanding on anything connected with that subject matter.
Each party has entered into this Agreement without relying on any representation by any other party or any person purporting to represent that party.
10.SEVERABILITY
Part or all of any clause of this Agreement that is illegal or unenforceable will be severed from this Agreement and will not affect the continued operation of the remaining provisions of this Agreement.
11.WAIVER
The failure of any party at any time to insist on performance of any provision of this Agreement is not a waiver of its right at any later time to insist on performance of that or any other provision of this Agreement.
12.NOTICE
12.1 A party notifying or giving notice under this Agreement must notify:
  1. in writing (by pre-paid post), facsimile or electronic communication (subject to satisfactory evidence of receipt of such facsimile or electronic communication); and
  2. addressed to the details of the recipient advised by the other party.
12.2 A notice given in accordance with clause 12.1 will be deemed received:
  1. if sent by pre-paid post, five (5) days after the date of posting; and
  2. if sent by facsimile or electronic communication then at the time that such a transmission receipt is received.
13.GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia to the exclusion of any other laws and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia in relation to this Agreement.
14.DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
14.1 In this Agreement unless the context requires otherwise:

Confidential Information means all confidential information disclosed by that party to the other party for the purposes of this Agreement;

ERMS means the Employment Relations Management System;

Intellectual Property means copyright, all rights conferred under statute, common law or equity in relation to inventions (including patents), registered and unregistered trade marks, registered and unregistered designs, domain names, confidential information and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields;

Product means the employment relations management system known as PeopleInsite owned by PeopleInsite Pty Limited and includes the Services;

Services means the PeopleInsite services which the Member elects to use as set out in the Schedule;

14.2 In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
  1. headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement;
  2. words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;
  3. words importing a gender include any gender;
  4. cognate or derivative parts of speech and grammatical forms of a word or phrase which are defined in this Agreement have a corresponding meaning;
  5. an expression importing a natural person includes any company, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation or other body corporate and vice versa;
  6. a reference to a party to a document includes that party's successors and permitted assigns;
  7. a reference to a statute, regulation, proclamation, ordinance or by-laws varying, consolidating or replacing it, and a reference to a statute includes all regulations, proclamations, ordinances and by-laws issued under that statute; and
  8. a reference to a document or agreement includes all amendments or supplements to, or replacements or notations of, that document or agreement.

SCHEDULE 1

1. Maximum number of users1
2. Maximum number of branches3
License FeeUp until 30 June 2011:No charge
Services
  1. access to personalised ERMS home page;
  2. access to past industrial relations circulars and award based information;
  3. access to, and generation of templates tailored to retail industry such as contracts, letters and policies (excluding Subscriber Members);
  4. employee records management for each Member within the Member's organisation (excluding Subscriber Members.
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