These Google India Private Limited Advertising Program Terms ("Terms") are entered into by, as applicable, the customer signing these Terms or any document that references these Terms or that accepts these Terms electronically ("Customer") and Google India Private Limited ("Google"). These Terms govern Google's advertising program(s) ("Program") as further described in the applicable Program's frequently asked questions at www.google.com (the "FAQs") and, as applicable, Customer's participation in any such Program(s), Customer's online management of any advertising campaigns ("Online Management") and/or any insertion orders ("IO") executed by and between the parties (together the "Agreement"). Google and Customer hereby agree and acknowledge:
1. Policies. Program use is subject to all applicable Google and Partner ad specification requirements and policies, including without limitation the Editorial Guidelines (adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html), Google Privacy Policy ( www.google.com/privacy.html) and Trademark Guidelines ( www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html) (collectively, "Policies"). Policies may be modified any time. Customer shall direct only to Google communications regarding Customer ads on Partner Properties. Some Program features are identified as "Beta," "Ad Experiment," or otherwise unsupported ("Beta Features"). To the fullest extent permitted by law, Beta Features are provided "as is" and at Customer's option and risk. Customer shall not disclose to any third party any information from Beta Features, existence of non-public Beta Features or access to Beta Features. Google may, at its sole discretion and without any prior consent from the Customer, modify ads to comply with any Policies.
2. The Program. Customer is solely responsible for all: (a) ad targeting options and keywords (collectively "Targets") and all ad content, ad information, and ad URLs ("Creative"), whether generated by or for Customer; and (b) web sites, services and landing pages which Creative links or directs viewers to, and advertised services and products (collectively "Services"). Customer shall protect any Customer passwords and takes full responsibility for Customer's own, and third party, use of any Customer accounts. Ads may be placed on (y) any content or property provided by Google ("Google Property"), and unless opted-out by Customer (z) any other content or property provided by a third party ( "Partner") upon which Google places ads ("Partner Property"). With respect to Adwords online auction-based advertising, Google may send Customer an email notifying Customer it has 72 hours ("Modification Period") to modify keywords and settings as posted. The account (as modified by Customer otherwise as initially posted) is deemed approved by Customer after the Modification Period, and Google is only liable to Customer for discrepancies if Customer can certify by contemporaneous documentary evidence that Google posted ads not approved by Customer. With respect to all other advertising, Customer must provide Google with all relevant Creative by the due date set forth in that advertising Program's applicable FAQ or as otherwise communicated by Google. Customer grants Google permission to utilize an automated software program to retrieve and analyze websites associated with the Services for ad quality and serving purposes, unless Customer specifically opts out of the evaluation in a manner specified by Google. Google or Partners may reject or remove any ad or Target any time for any or no reason. Google may modify the Program or these Terms at any time without liability and your use of the Program after notice that Terms have changed indicates acceptance of the Terms.
3. Cancellation. Customer may independently cancel advertising itself online through Customer's account, if any, or, if such online cancellation functionality is not available, with prior written notice to Google, including electronic mail. AdWords online auction-based advertising cancelled online will cease serving upon cancellation. All other advertising may be subject to Google's ability to re-schedule reserved inventory or cancel advertisements already in production. Cancelled advertisements may be published despite cancellation if cancellation of those ads occurs after any applicable commitment date as set forth in advance by the Partner or Google, in which case Customer must pay for those ads. Google may cancel immediately any IO, any of its advertising Programs, or these Terms at any time with notice, in which case Customer will be responsible for any ads already run. Google may modify any of its advertising Programs at any time without liability. Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement.
4. Prohibited Uses; License Grant; Representations and Warranties. Customer shall not, and shall not authorize any party to: (a) generate automated, fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions, inquiries, conversions, clicks or other actions; (b) use any automated means or form of scraping or data extraction to access, query or otherwise collect Google advertising related information from any Adwords website or property except as expressly permitted by Google; or (c) advertise anything illegal or engage in any illegal or fraudulent business practice. Customer represents and warrants that it holds and hereby grants Google and Partners all rights (including without limitation any copyright, trademark, patent, publicity or other rights) in Creative, Services and Targets needed for Google and Partner to operate Google's advertising programs for Customer (including without limitation any rights needed to host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, modify, distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, analyze, and create algorithms from and derivative works of Creative or Targets) in connection with this Agreement ("Use"). Customer represents and warrants that (y) all Customer information is complete, correct and current; and (z) any Use hereunder and Customer's Creative, Targets, and Customer's Services will not violate or encourage violation of any applicable laws, regulations, code of conduct, or third party rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights). Violation of the foregoing may result in immediate termination of this Agreement or customer's account without notice and may subject Customer to legal penalties and consequences.
5. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, GOOGLE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR NONINFRINGEMENT, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Google disclaims all guarantees regarding positioning or the levels or timing of: (i) costs per click, (ii) click through rates, (iii) availability and delivery of any impressions, Creative, or Targets on any Partner Property, Google Property, or section thereof , (iv) clicks,(v) conversions or other results for any ads or Targets (vi) the accuracy of Partner data (e.g. reach, size of audience, demographics or other purported characteristics of audience), and (vii) the adjacency or placement of advertisements within a Program. EXCEPT FOR INDEMNIFICATION AMOUNTS PAYABLE TO THIRD PARTIES HEREUNDER AND CUSTOMER'S BREACHES OF SECTION 1, to the fullest extent permitted by law: (a) NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, INTEREST, GOODWILL, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR FOR ANY LOSS OR INTERRUPTION TO CUSTOMER'S BUSINESS) WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY; AND (b) EACH PARTY'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO THE OTHER IS LIMITED TO AMOUNTS PAID OR PAYABLE TO GOOGLE BY CUSTOMER FOR THE AD GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. Except for payment obligations, neither party is liable for failure or delay resulting from a condition beyond the reasonable control of the party, including but not limited to acts of God, government, terrorism, natural disaster, labor conditions and power failures.
6. Agency. Customer represents and warrants that (a) it is authorized to act on behalf of and has bound to this Agreement any third party for which Customer advertises (a "Principal"), (b) as between Principals and Customer, the Principal owns any rights to Program information in connection with those advertisements, and (c) Customer shall not disclose Principal's Program information to any other party without Principal's consent.
7. Payment. Customer shall be responsible for all charges up to the amount of each IO, or as set in an online account, and shall pay all charges in Indian Rupees or in such other currency as agreed to in writing by the parties. Unless agreed to by the parties in writing, Customer shall pay all charges in accordance with the applicable IO or Program FAQ. Late payments bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (or the highest rate permitted by law, if less). Charges are exclusive of taxes, cesses or other applicable levies. Customer is responsible for paying (y) all applicable taxes, cesses and levies, government charges, and (z) reasonable expenses and attorneys fees Google incurs collecting late amounts. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Customer waives all claims relating to charges unless claimed within 60 days after the charge (this does not affect Customer's credit card issuer rights). Charges are solely based on Google's measurements for the applicable Program, unless otherwise agreed in writing. To the fullest extent permitted by law, refunds (if any) are at the discretion of Google and only in the form of advertising credit for only Google Properties. Nothing in these Terms or an IO may obligate Google to extend credit to any party. Customer acknowledges and agrees that any credit card and related billing and payment information that Customer provides to Google may be shared by Google with companies who work on Google's behalf, such as payment processors and/or credit agencies, solely for the purposes of checking credit, effecting payment to Google and servicing Customer's account. Google may also provide information in response to valid legal process, such as subpoenas, search warrants and court orders, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims. Google shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such information by such third parties.
8. Indemnification. Customer shall indemnify without limit and defend Google, its Partners, agents, affiliates, and licensors from any third party claim or liability (collectively, "Liabilities"), arising out of Use, Customer's Program use, Targets, Creative and Services and breach of the Agreement. Partners shall be deemed third party beneficiaries of the above Partner indemnity.Without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, Customer shall indemnify Google against any Liabilities or losses arising out of any claim based on any act or allegation of infringement of intellectual property, misrepresentation or defamation.
9. Arbitration. The parties agree that they will try in good faith to settle within thirty (30) days any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of, relating to or in connection with this Agreement ("Dispute"). If the Dispute is not resolved within thirty (30) days after such Dispute arose, such Dispute must be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration, to which the Parties hereto expressly agree and submit. The arbitration will be submitted to the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") and conducted in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the AAA in force as of the date of this Agreement ("Rules"). Pre-hearing information exchange shall be limited to the reasonable production of relevant, non-privileged documents and carried out expeditiously. There will be one arbitrator selected by mutual agreement of the Parties. The arbitrator will not act as amiable compositeur or ex aequo et bono. It is the intent of the parties that, barring extraordinary circumstances, arbitration proceedings will be concluded within 60 days from the date the arbitrator is appointed. The arbitrator may extend this time limit in the interests of justice. Failure to adhere to this time limit shall not constitute a basis for challenging the award. The arbitration will be conducted in English and the place of arbitration will be Bangalore, India. Either party may, without waiving any remedy under this Agreement, apply to the arbitrator and/or any court having jurisdiction any interim, provisional, injunctive or conservatory relief that is necessary to protect the rights or property of that party until the arbitration award is rendered or the Dispute is otherwise resolved. Any decision rendered by the arbitrator will be final and binding on the parties, and judgment thereon may be entered by any court of competent jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, any court that has jurisdiction over either of the parties or any of their assets. The parties expressly agree that the arbitrator will be empowered to award and order equitable or injunctive relief with respect to matters brought before him, provided however, that such remedy or relief is consistent with the remedies and limitations set forth in this Agreement. The parties agree that all arbitral proceedings conducted pursuant to this Section, including the existence of any arbitral proceedings, information disclosed in the course of such arbitral proceedings, and any settlements, negotiations, discussions, proposals, and awards related thereto shall be considered confidential information and shall not be disclosed to third parties except as required by law or otherwise provided herein. The parties may, however, disclose such information to an appropriate court, as is necessary to seek enforcement of any award rendered by the arbitrator or to seek any interim, provisional, injunctive or conservatory relief pursuant to the terms hereof.
10. Miscellaneous. The Agreement must be construed as if both parties jointly wrote it, governed by Indian law. The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and replaces any other applicable agreements, terms and conditions applicable to the subject matter hereof. Any conflicting or additional terms contained in additional documents (e.g. reference to a purchase order number) or oral discussions are void. Each party shall not disclose the terms or conditions of these Terms to any third party, except to its professional advisors under a strict duty of confidentiality or as necessary to comply with a government law, rule or regulation. Customer may grant approvals, permissions, extensions and consents by email, but any modifications by Customer to the Agreement must be made in a writing executed by both parties. Any notices to Google must be sent to Google India Pvt. Ltd., No. 3, RMZ Infinity - Tower E, Old Madras Road, 4th Floor, Bangalore, 560 016, India with a copy to Legal Department, via confirmed facsimile, with a copy sent via first class or air mail or overnight courier, and are deemed given upon receipt. Notice to Customer may be effected by sending email to the email address specified in Customer's account, or by posting a message to Customer's account interface, and is deemed received when sent (for email) or no more than 15 days after having been posted (for messages in Customer's account interface). A waiver of any default is not a waiver of any subsequent default. Unenforceable provisions will be modified to reflect the parties' intention and only to the extent necessary to make them enforceable, and remaining provisions of the Agreement will remain in full effect. Customer may not assign any of its rights hereunder and any such attempt is void. Google and Customer and Google and Partners are not legal partners or agents, but are independent contractors. In the event that these Terms or an Advertising Program expire or is terminated, Google shall not be obligated to return any materials to Customer.
11. Term. Unless terminated earlier under the terms of this Agreement This Agreement shall have a term of 1year from the latest of the signature dates below. Customer acknowledges and agrees that if this Agreement expires or is terminated, any Customer campaigns in effect as of the date of such expiration or termination or any new campaigns commenced after such expiration or termination shall run thereafter subject to Google's then standard terms and conditions for the Program.