CustomerBeach
Client Agreement and Terms of Use
(Last updated 2/18/2008)
CustomerBeach is a service offered by Sycron Technologies Inc which is also d/b/a CustomerBeach. CustomerBeach provides you, our "Client",
with tools, resources, and services, all of which hereinafter will be know as "Services", to collect visitor e-mail addresses
and to create, launch, and manage online, permission-based, e-mail campaigns. This
Service may not be used for the sending of unsolicited e-mail (sometimes called
"spam"). See our Anti-Spam Policy. The following are the terms and conditions for
use of the Services. By checking the "I have read the CustomerBeach Terms of Use
statement. I accept these terms and conditions" box after logging in for the first
time, you accept these terms and conditions. You will be granted access only after
accepting these terms and conditions.
1. Services
The Services, which are provided subject to this Agreement, enable Clients to
sign up theirs contacts by collecting and storing their sign up data. With that
data, develop and execute permission based e-mail communications with these targeted prospects.
The Services are available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts
under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, the Services are not available
to individuals under the age of 18. If you do not qualify, please do not use the
Services
The total KiloByte data transfer of each message can be no more than 200kb.
2. Service Fees and Payment Authorization
All email delivery prices are subject to change at any time. All fees paid to CustomerBeach
for CustomerBeach Services are non-refundable, unless an account is terminated by
CustomerBeach for a reason other than violation of the Anti-Spam Policy. Payment
for Services will be made by a valid credit card accepted by CustomerBeach, unless
other payment arrangements have been made between you and an authorized CustomerBeach
representative. You hereby authorize CustomerBeach to charge your credit card for
such amounts on the first work day of each month, for that month’s Services based
on the pricing schedule below. Fees are payable in US dollars. If CustomerBeach
is for any reason unable to effect automatic payment via your credit card, you will
be notified via e-mail or phone. All prices are subject to change and you are responsible
for reviewing the Pricing Schedule from time to time and remaining aware of the
Fees charged by CustomerBeach:
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# of subscribed contacts
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Monthly Fee
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1,000 or less
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$100
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1,001 - 2,500
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$125
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2,501 - 5,000
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$150
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5,001 - 10,000
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$200
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10,001 - 20,000
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$250
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20,001 or more
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$0.0125 per contact
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*Prices are subject to change
**Setup fees may apply
For all accounts, CustomerBeach may charge an account re-activation fee should an
account need to be re-activated by Client after an account has become de-activated
due to non-payment or an untimely authorization for payment.
3. Account Registration and Security
You must complete the online registration form in order to access the Services.
You will provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself
as requested in the registration form. As part of the registration process, you
will identify an e-mail address and password for your CustomerBeach account. You
are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, passwords, and files,
and for all uses of your account and of the Services in your name. CustomerBeach
reserves the right to refuse registration of, or cancel, accounts it deems inappropriate.
4. Guarantees
It is understood that CustomerBeach makes no guarantee that HTML messages will be
rendered properly on all recipients' e-mail programs, due to the wide variety of
HTML generation tools available. CustomerBeach makes every attempt to make sure
that all e-mail messages sent through our servers follow e-mail standards, but we
cannot guarantee that messages will look consistent across all e-mail platforms
due to the number of different HTML composition tools available.
5. Restrictions and Responsibilities
You represent, covenant, and warrant that you will use the Services only within
the terms of this Agreement and all applicable laws (including but not limited to
policies and laws related to spamming, privacy, obscenity, or defamation). You agree
you will not access or otherwise use third party mailing lists in connection with
preparing or distributing unsolicited e-mail to any third party. You hereby agree
to indemnify and hold harmless CustomerBeach against any damages, losses, liabilities,
settlements, and expenses (including without limitation costs and reasonable attorneys'
fees) in connection with any claim or action that arises from an alleged violation
of the foregoing or otherwise arising from or relating to your use of the Services.
Although CustomerBeach has no obligation to monitor the content provided by you
or your use of the Services, CustomerBeach may do so and may remove any such content
or prohibit any use of the Services it believes may be (or is alleged to be) in
violation of the foregoing.
The Services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission or solicitation
of any material that violates United States Federal, state or other laws that may
apply in your local area is prohibited. This may include material that is obscene,
threatening, harassing, libelous, or in any way a violation of intellectual property
laws or a third party's intellectual property rights.
In using the varied features of the Services, you may provide information (such
as name, contact information, or other registration information) to CustomerBeach.
CustomerBeach may use this information and any technical information about your
use of the Services to tailor its presentations to you, facilitate your movement
through the Service, or communicate separately with you.
CustomerBeach will not use any of your contact lists or any other customer information
for any other purposes than those intended with the service. Your customer contact
information will not be shared with any other parties. In addition, CustomerBeach
will not use your customer information for the purpose of sending unsolicited commercial
e-mail.
You will adopt and maintain the Privacy Policy, which may be modified by CustomerBeach
from time to time.
You may not use CustomerBeach to distribute illegal contests, pyramid schemes, chain
letters, or multi-level marketing campaigns
You may not use CustomerBeach to send email campaigns that link to or display nudity,
obscene content, gambling related content, illegal software, viruses, or to distribute
any other content that we deem inappropriate.
6. CAN-SPAM Act and Spam Policy Compliance
All CustomerBeach Clients must follow the rules of the federal CAN-SPAM act and
CustomerBeach's Anti-Spam policy when sending e-mail through the Service. Accordingly,
we require the following of e-mail messages sent through the CustomerBeach system:
- All e-mails must contain a one-click unsubscribe link. CustomerBeach scans every
campaign for the existence of an unsubscribe link. If an unsubscribe link is not
detected, the user is informed and is recommended to include an unsubscribe link
before continuing.
- All e-mails must contain non-Internet contact information of the sender, such as
your company's address, or your company's phone number.
- All e-mails must state the reason the recipient is receiving the message. For example,
"You are receiving this message from XYZ Company because you signed up for our e-mail
list.”
CustomerBeach reserves the right to cancel your account, without notice at any time,
if our compliance audit shows that your email program does not comply with the above
requirements.
7. Permission Based Email Requirements
Every email message sent in connection with the Services must contain an "unsubscribe"
link or other mechanism that allows your subscribers to remove themselves from your
mailing contact list. Each such link must remain operational for a period of thirty
(30) days after the date on which you send the message, and must be in form and
substance satisfactory to CustomerBeach. You acknowledge and agree that you will
not remove, disable or attempt to remove or disable either link.
You agree to import, access or otherwise use only permission-based lists (note:
purchased lists may not be used; please contact CustomerBeach if you have questions).
You cannot mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or spam email addresses.
Emails that you send through the Service may generate abuse complaints from recipients.
You are responsible for ensuring that your email campaigns do not generate a number of abuse complaints in excess
of industry norms. CustomerBeach, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether
your level of abuse complaints is within industry norms, and its determination shall
be final, binding and conclusive for all purposes under this Agreement.
CustomerBeach, at its own discretion, may immediately disable your access without
refund to the Services if CustomerBeach believes in its sole discretion that you
have violated any of the email and permission practices listed above, or the CustomerBeach
Anti-Spam Policy.
8. Licensing and Confidentiality
This is an Agreement for Services, and you are not granted a license to any software
by this Agreement. You will not, directly or indirectly: reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying
structure, ideas, or algorithms of, or found at or through the Services or any software,
documentation, or data related to the Services ("Software"); remove any proprietary
notices or labels from the Services or any Software, modify, translate, or create
derivative works based on the Services or any Software; or copy, distribute, pledge,
assign, or otherwise transfer or encumber rights to the Services or any Software.
The Services shall be used for your internal business (which includes civic or charitable)
purposes only and you shall not use the Services or any Software for timesharing
or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing with a Service Bureau Agreement. Download the PDF here.
You acknowledge and agree that the Services and the CustomerBeach company names
and logos and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans, are
the property of CustomerBeach or its affiliates or suppliers (collectively, the
"Marks"). You are not authorized to use any of the Marks in any advertising, publicity
or any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of CustomerBeach.
Your use of the Services confers no title or ownership in the Service, the Software
or the Marks and is not a sale of any rights in the Service, the Software or the
Marks. All ownership rights remain in CustomerBeach or its third party suppliers,
as the case may be.
9. Customer Contact List ownership
You will always maintain ownership of your Contact list and can export your list
at any time from CustomerBeach to a CSV (Comma separated values) file, which is
easily interpreted by Microsoft Excel and other data storage programs.
10. Computer and Software Requirements
In order to use CustomerBeach, a Windows PC with Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
must be used. Additionally, a stable connection to the Internet is required. CustomerBeach
may work in a limited manner on Macintosh, Unix, and other platforms, but there
is no guarantee of functionality on non-Windows platforms. Additionally, CustomerBeach
may work in a limited manner on a non-Internet Explorer web browser (such as Netscape
Navigator), but there is no guarantee of full functionality on web browsers other
than Microsoft's Internet Explorer
11. Agreement Termination
You may terminate this Agreement at any time by sending an e-mail message to policyinfo@customerbeach.com
or by sending written notice to CustomerBeach, 8130 Industrial Park, Grand Blanc,
Michigan 48439. Correspondence must include your first name, last name, and CustomerBeach
username. No refunds will be issued if you terminate this agreement.
CustomerBeach may terminate this Agreement or the Services at any time with or without
cause, and with or without notice. CustomerBeach shall have no liability to you
or any third party because of such termination. If CustomerBeach terminates this
agreement because you violated the Anti-Spam policy, no refund will be issued.
CustomerBeach may delete any of your archived data within 30 days after the date
of termination. All sections of this Agreement which by their nature should survive
termination will survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership,
warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.
If you do not log into your account for more than 120 days, the account will become
inactive. When an account is classified (at CustomerBeach's sole discretion) as
inactive, CustomerBeach will flag that account as inactive. INACTIVE ACCOUNTS HAVE
30 DAYS TO BECOME ACTIVE OR THE ACCOUNT AND ITS DATA, INCLUDING SUBSCRIBER SIGNUPS,
MAY BE PERMANENTLY REMOVED FROM THE CUSTOMERBEACH DATABASE
12. Agreement Amendments
The Services are provided subject to this Agreement, as it may be amended by CustomerBeach,
and any guidelines, rules or operating policies that CustomerBeach may establish
and post from time to time (the "Agreement"). By posting updated versions of the
Agreement at the CustomerBeach web site, or otherwise providing notice to you, CustomerBeach
may modify the terms of the Agreement and may discontinue or revise any or all other
aspects of the Services at its sole discretion. All such changes shall become effective
upon posting of the revised Agreement on the Service.
13. Warranty Disclaimer and Remedies
USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY RELIANCE BY YOU UPON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY ACTION
TAKEN BY YOU BECAUSE OF SUCH USE OR RELIANCE, IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. CustomerBeach
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES
IT MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICES.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND CustomerBeach DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
Your sole and exclusive remedy for any failure or nonperformance of the Services
shall be for CustomerBeach to use commercially reasonable efforts to adjust or repair
the Services.
14. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL
THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL CustomerBeach OR ANY OF ITS UNDERLYING
SERVICE PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, ACCOUNT PROVIDERS,
LICENSORS, EMPLOYEES, DISTRIBUTORS OR AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO FOR PURPOSES
OF THIS SECTION AS "CustomerBeach ") BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY
MONEY DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, COVER, RELIANCE OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF CustomerBeach SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. IN THE EVENT THAT NOTWITHSTANDING
THE FOREGOING, CustomerBeach IS FOUND LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES FROM ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER,
AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE),
PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), THE LIABILITY OF CustomerBeach TO YOU WILL BE LIMITED
TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION
OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION AND EXCLUSION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
15. Miscellaneous
If any provision of the Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that
provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that
this Agreement will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
CustomerBeach and you agree that the Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement
of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous
written and oral agreements, communications, and other understandings relating to
the subject matter of the Agreement, and that all waivers and modifications must
be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein. No
delay or omission by either party in exercising any right or remedy under this Agreement
or existing at law or equity shall be considered a waiver of such right or remedy.
No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of the
Agreement, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind CustomerBeach in
any respect whatsoever.
The Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Michigan without regard
to its choice or law or conflict of laws provisions. All legal actions in connection
with the Agreement shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in the
State of Michigan.
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Optional signatures for record keeping:
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CustomerBeach
8130 Industrial Park Drive
Grand Blanc, Michigan
policyinfo@customerbeach.com
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CUSTOMERBEACH
Marc Thompson
It's Authorized Representative
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CLIENT: __________________
_________________________
It's Authorized Representative
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