TERMS OF DIAGNOSTICS DATA
COLLECTION IN ECOSTRUXURE™
BUILDING OPERATION
Version 1.0.
PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THESE TERMS,
AS THEY ARE APPLICABLE TO THE DIAGNOSTICS DATA COLLECTION IN
CONNECTION WITH YOUR ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION.
STARTING
FROM THE INSTALLATION OF YOUR ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION, SCHNEIDER
ELECTRIC WILL COLLECT SYSTEM DATA FOR ANALYSIS FROM YOUR ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING
OPERATION, THROUGH DIAGNOSTICS DATA COLLECTION (HEREINAFTER “DIAGNOSTICS”),
THAT IS A COMPONENT ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION.
YOU, AS
YOUR CORPORATION, COMPANY
OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY OR YOURSELF AS THE CASE MIGHT BE (HEREINAFTER “YOU”), CONFIRM YOUR
ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS (HEREINAFTER “TERMS”) AND YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND HEREBY,
BY CONTINUING TO LOG-ON TO ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION FOLLOWING INSTALLATION.
IF YOUR ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION HAS ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED AND LOGGED-ON
BY A THIRD PARTY ON YOUR BEHALF, YOU CONFIRM YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS BY ANY
SUBSEQUENT LOG-ON TO ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING OPERATION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE
BOUND HEREBY YOU MUST OPT-OUT FROM DIAGNOSTICS VIA YOUR ECOSTRUXURE BUILDING
OPERATION SYSTEM SETTINGS, ACCESSIBLE AFTER YOU HAVE LOGGED-ON TO ECOSTRUXURE
BUILDING OPERATION.
The present Terms
is a legal agreement between You and Schneider Electric (as defined hereunder) which
sets forth the terms and conditions governing the Diagnostics
embedded in and operating through Your Ecostruxure Building
Operation. It is Your responsibility to ascertain
that any person completing the installation of Your Ecostruxure
Building Operation Ecostruxure Building Operation has
the mandate or legal authority to bind You and confirm Your acceptance of the
Terms.
If You are a Third Party, subject to, and
as defined in, Section 6, prior to installing and logging on to Ecostruxure Building Operation, You
need to obtain permission from the end
user of Ecostruxure Building Operation, being the
owner or licensee of the Ecostruxure Building
Operation, from which Data is collected via the Diagnostics (hereinafter “End User”).
1. The Diagnostics
The Diagnostics connects
Your Ecostruxure Building Operation system, once
installed in Your facility, and to which the Diagnostics can be applied, to
Schneider Electric, enabling the Diagnostics to collect Ecostruxure
Building Operation Data for analysis from Ecostruxure
Building Operation systems, in order to improve the usability,
quality and performance of Schneider Electric products, systems, solutions
and services.
The Diagnostics may be
subject to change at Schneider Electric’s discretion.
In case of a
discrepancy between information in hard copy and the description on
www.schneider-electric.com the latter shall prevail.
The Diagnostics is provided in
connection with Ecostruxure Building Operation,
under these Terms by the Schneider Electric company which is registered in the
country where You install, and log-on, to Ecostruxure
Building Operation. The Schneider Electric companies are listed under the
drop-list of countries <<Select your country>> on the corporate web
site of Schneider Electric Group (hereinafter “Schneider Electric”). Your Ecostruxure Building Operation may also be installed by
Schneider Electric or by a company which directly or indirectly controls, or is controlled by, or is under
common control with, Schneider Electric (hereinafter “Affiliate”).
2.
Rights in the Diagnostics
The Diagnostics, as well as all rights, including but
not limited to all intellectual property rights, title, interest, technology
and know-how, whether patented or not, embodied in the Diagnostics shall remain
the sole property of Schneider Electric, to the exclusion of any third-party
software embedded in the Diagnostics or otherwise provided to You with the Diagnostics.
Nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to convey to
You any of Schneider Electric’s intellectual property rights in the Diagnostics;
all rights not specifically granted in these Terms are reserved by Schneider
Electric. Schneider Electric does not sell the Diagnostics to You.
All intellectual property rights pertaining to any
third-party software embedded in the Diagnostics, or otherwise provided to You
with the Diagnostics, shall remain vested in the relevant third-party and there
will be no deemed or implied transfer of ownership to You of such third-party intellectual
property rights.
Schneider Electric
and other trademarks contained in the Diagnostics are registered trademarks of the Schneider Electric group. Except as
otherwise expressly prescribed by statute, You may not
remove or alter any trademark, trade names, product names, logo, copyright or
other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels in the Diagnostics. These Terms does not authorise You to use any names or trademarks of
Schneider Electric or its authorised resellers.
3. Data collected and data privacy.
The Diagnostics will collect, store and process configuration,
performance, quantitative and qualitative data from Your Ecostruxure
Building Operation system (hereinafter “Data”). Such Data will be collected and
processed anonymously.
Data will be collected, stored and processed for
analysis purposes, in order to improve and further
develop the Diagnostics, Ecostruxure Building
Operation and similar products, systems and services offered by Schneider
Electric.
Data may include the following:
Any data that
pertains to Your Ecostruxure Building Operation
system and its associated devices and networks such as the models, serial
numbers, quantities, versions, attributes and state. The Diagnostics is not intended
to collect any commercial information relating to Your business that falls
outside the scope of the building management system as indicated herein above.
As Ecostruxure Building
Operation provides You with the option of registering your Ecostruxure
Building Operation on Schneider Electric website in order to enhance Your user experience,
solely in such case and for such purpose You will be required to provide the
following mandatory personal identifiable information: e-mail, contact name,
business name, phone number, and the address of your business. With respect to
any such personal information provided by You, Schneider Electric shall comply
with Schneider Electric Privacy Policy available at https://www.se.com/ww/en/about-us/legal/data-privacy.jsp and that is incorporated herein by reference. The
aforesaid Privacy Policy is subject to change at Schneider Electric’s
discretion.
You are responsible for any personal information
pertaining to individuals that are under Your control and that is present or
accessible in the hardware configuration of Your Ecostruxure
Building Operation, Your personal computers, or mobile devices that could be
collected and stored via the Diagnostics.The laws and
regulations of some jurisdictions require the consent of the individuals to
which the personal information pertain prior to any collection, processing and
storage of their personal information and require that such personal
information shall be treated in compliance with such laws and regulations, You
agree and undertake to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to any
of those personal information above mentioned and to obtain all necessary consents
from any such individual, before You agree to these Terms.
4. Data storage
When Your Ecostruxure
Building Operation sends Data to Schneider Electric via the Diagnostics, such
Data is sent in an encrypted form over the Internet. When Schneider Electric
receives the Data, security technologies and strict procedures that Schneider
Electric uses to store its own business data are implemented to protect the
collected Data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
The Data will be collected and stored on computers and
servers either owned and operated by Schneider Electric and/ or service
providers acting on behalf of Schneider Electric in the countries where
Schneider Electric conducts business or otherwise stores its own business data.
Upon Your request, Schneider Electric will provide You
with any commercially reasonable available information concerning said security
technologies and procedures which You may then review so as
to determine whether such security technologies and procedures meet Your
security needs including any specific requirement of security applicable in the
field of Your activity. Should any security technologies and/or procedures
implemented by Schneider Electric with respect to Data do not meet Your
security requirements, You should opt-out from the Diagnostics
via the Ecostruxure Building Operation settings.
In all cases, Schneider Electric will ensure strict
confidentiality as regards to the Data and any other confidential information
such as but not limited to information about You and Your business coming into
possession of Schneider Electric in connection with the set-up, operation and
performance of Your Ecostruxure Building Operation,
with the same degree of care it uses in safeguarding its own confidential
information, but in no event with less than a reasonable degree of diligence
and care. Schneider Electric shall store Data for as long as necessary for the
purpose set out in these Terms.
The main purpose for Schneider Electric to collect
Data is the continuous improvement of its offering of products, systems and
services.
By accepting these Terms, You
acknowledge and agree that Schneider Electric is granted a non-exclusive,
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, paid-up, transferable,
sub-licensable license and approval to use, import, distribute, modify and
distribute modifications of, perform, create and distribute derivative works
of, copy, and display the Data for these purposes. This license includes the
right of Schneider Electric to sublicense the same rights to any Affiliated company
of Schneider Electric and any third party contractors
hired for any such purposes by Schneider Electric or otherwise acting on its
behalf. You represent that (i) You have
and will keep in effect all licenses and approvals necessary to grant at no
charge to Schneider Electric the foregoing license rights, and (ii) You are and
will remain responsible for complying with the terms of any agreements
including entitlements and permitted uses binding upon You to any third party
in relation to the Data and to hold harmless Schneider Electric from any third
party claims, costs and other amounts that Schneider Electric may incur or
otherwise be subject to because of Your failure to comply with any such third
party rights or agreements, entitlements or permitted uses.
You acknowledge that Schneider Electric may use the
Data only for the purposes as referred to herein above, and that Schneider
Electric may disclose Data to any contractors hired by Schneider Electric or
otherwise acting on its behalf to achieve such Schneider Electric’s internal
business purposes, always subject to confidentiality that Schneider Electric
shall preserve in accordance with these Terms.
At any time, the Diagnostics is terminated pursuant to
Section 9,
Schneider Electric will no longer collect nor process Data from Your Ecostruxure Building Operation. Notwithstanding the above and
save for any personal information, provided by You pursuant to Section 3,
Schneider Electric shall retain the right to use the Data collected and
processed before such termination, pursuant to the license granted under this
Section.
You shall own and retain all right, title and interest
(including without limitation all intellectual property rights) in and to any
Data collected from Your Ecostruxure Building
Operation through the Diagnostics.
Schneider Electric shall own and retain all right,
title and interest (including without limitation all intellectual property
rights) in and to any information created by Schneider Electric from processing
Data in accordance with these Terms.
6.
Third party
installation and log-on
If You are not the End-User, nor Schneider Electric nor
a Schneider Electric Affiliate (hereinafter “Third Party) and You are installing
and completing the log-on to Ecostruxure Building
Operation, on behalf of, or as a part of a service to, an End User, You have to ensure that such End User accepts and agrees to
these Terms prior or at the time You complete the installation log-on to the Ecostruxure Building Operation.
By completing the installation of, and by logging-on
on to, Ecostruxure Building Operation on behalf of
the End User, You warrant to Schneider Electric that the
End User has accepted and agreed to these Terms and hold Schneider Electric
harmless in connection hereto as set out in this Section.
You shall indemnify and
hold Schneider Electric harmless from any and all
claims, damages, demands or proceedings (including attorney’s fees) brought
against Schneider Electric, including those brought by any End User or other
third party, including but not limited governmental bodies, European Union bodies,
etc., arising out of or in connection with Your non-fulfillment of Your
obligation to insure the acceptance and approval of these Terms by an End User
in accordance with this Section.
In no event shall
Schneider Electric be liable for any indirect, intangible, incidental, punitive
or consequential damages, loss, expense or cause of action, whether based on
contract, warranty, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute or otherwise,
including, without limitation, damages for loss of business, loss of profits,
business interruption, loss of data or for any other pecuniary or non-pecuniary
loss or damage, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use
or misuse of the Diagnostics, even if Schneider Electric has been advised of
the possibility of such damages.
The Diagnostics is provided as it is and to the full
extent permitted by law (on both federal and state level, when applicable)
applicable in any country where You installed Ecostruxure
Building Operation, Schneider Electric makes no other warranty than those
explicitly contained in this Section 8
and expressly disclaims all other warranties or representations, either express
or implied, as to the Diagnostics and its updates, including without limitation
any warranties of fitness for any particular purpose, merchantability,
non-infringement, title or sample. Further, while Schneider Electric has taken
reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in or
shown on the Diagnostics, Schneider Electric makes no warranty or
representation of any kind, whether express or implied, as to whether Diagnostics
will meet Your requirements, expectations or purposes or the operation of the Diagnostics
or Ecostruxure Building Operation will be
uninterrupted or error-free or that the Diagnostics will be protected against
all possible security threats, internet threats or other threats or
interruptions.
The Diagnostics shall start
collecting data as of the date of the installation of Your Ecostruxure
Building Operation and shall remain active unless: (i) Schneider Electric, at
its sole discretion decides to discontinue the Diagnostics, or (ii) You opt out
from the Diagnostics via the Ecostruxure Building
Operation settings.
These Terms constitute
the entire agreement between You and Schneider Electric in relation to the Diagnostics
and replaces any previous agreement or understanding, whether oral, electronic
or written, in relation with the same subject matter.
You acknowledge and
agree that these Terms as well as the Diagnostics may be modified or amended by
Schneider Electric from time to time and that Your continued use of Ecostruxure Building Operation, without opting out from the
Diagnostics, after a modification or amendment of either shall constitute Your
acceptance of the modified terms or Diagnostics. Any modification or amendment
to these Terms or Diagnostic will be posted on Schneider Electric’s website(s) dedicated
to the Diagnostics. Should any modification or amendment to these Terms or Diagnostics
not be acceptable to You, You should immediately opt
out from the Diagnostics as set up in Section 9.
Should any of the
provisions in these Terms be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a
competent jurisdiction, You and Schneider Electric shall take all reasonable
steps in order to modify such term to render it valid
and enforceable, bearing in mind its original intent, and such term as modified
shall be fully enforced between You and Schneider Electric; all other terms of
these Terms shall remain valid and unaffected by such declared invalidity,
illegality or non-enforceability.
No failure or delay on
the part of either You or Schneider Electric in the exercise of any power,
right or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other
or further exercise thereof or of any other right, power or privilege.
Headings in these Terms
are just for ease of reference and will not affect their interpretation.
Words expressed in the
singular include the plural and vice versa.
Sections 2,5,6,7,8
10
and 11
of these Terms shall survive termination of the Diagnostic.
11. Applicable law – Disputes Resolution
These Terms shall be
exclusively governed by the laws of the country (on both federal and state
level, when applicable) where Schneider Electric has its registered office or
principal place of business, to the exclusion of said country’s conflict of law
rules.
Any dispute between You
and Schneider Electric arising out of or in connection with these Terms and/or
the Diagnostics, whether based on contract, warranty, tort (including
negligence), strict liability, statute or otherwise, which cannot be amicably
settled, shall in all cases be finally settled according to the law governing
these Terms as defined above, by the courts having jurisdiction in the place
where Schneider Electric has its registered office or principal place of
business, to the exclusion of any other jurisdiction whatsoever, including in
case of plurality of defendants, injunction-like or emergency proceedings and
appeal in warranty.