Terms of Service and License Agreement
Last updated on June 7, 2012
Grammarly, Inc. (“Grammarly”), a Delaware corporation, owns and/or operates the web pages available at www.Grammarly.com and all sub-domains thereof (the “Site”). Access to and use of the software (“Software”) and services (“Services”) available on or through the Site (including, without limitation, Grammar Checker, Plagiarism Checker, Writing Handbook, Grammar Genie, Answers and Proofit) are governed by this Terms of Service and License Agreement (this “Agreement”).
THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT, OR DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY IT OR THE PRIVACY POLICY REFERENCED HEREIN, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE SITE AND YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS OR USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR SOFTWARE. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, SERVICES AND/OR SOFTWARE, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD, THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT.
If you are an individual paying subscriber, or are accessing the Site to use a free trial, of the Services or Software, this Agreement is between you, individually, and Grammarly.
If you are an employee, faculty member or student of a university, school or other entity or organization that has subscribed to the Services and Software (an “Enterprise Subscriber”) and has authorized you to use the Site, Services and Software (and “Authorized User”), this Agreement is a three-way agreement between you, the Enterprise Subscriber and Grammarly. Both the Enterprise Subscriber and Grammarly may seek recourse against you for any violation of the terms of this Agreement.
If you are an Enterprise Subscriber, this Agreement is between you and Grammarly. References to “you” in these Terms of Service and License Agreement shall mean the Enterprise Subscriber.
License
In consideration for your agreement to this Agreement and your payment of all applicable Fees (as defined below), Grammarly grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable license to access and make use of the Site, the Services and the Software, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. If you are an Enterprise Subscriber, you may permit such number of Authorized Users as has been agreed between you and Grammarly to access and make use of the Site.
You may access and use the Site, Services and Software solely for your own personal purposes and only in accordance with any instruction manuals, user guides and other documentation as made available by Grammarly from time to time (“Documentation”).
YOU MAY NOT CHECK MORE THAN 300 DOCUMENTS OR 150,000 WORDS IN ANY
In addition, you may not:
- (a) copy, modify or create derivative works based on the Site, Services, Software or Documentation, or any portion(s) of any of the foregoing (individually and collectively, “Grammarly IP”);
- (b) distribute, transmit, publish or otherwise disseminate any Grammarly IP;
- (c) download or store any Grammarly IP except to the extent explicitly permitted on the Site;
- (d) transfer to any third party any of your rights under this Agreement;
- (e) access or USE the Services, Software or Grammarly IP for the benefit of any third party;
- (f) access content or data not intended for you, log onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access, or otherwise violate or attempt to violate any security feature of the Site or Services;
- (g) attempt to access or derive the source code or architecture of any Software;
- (h) attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site, Services and/or Software, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures;
- (i) interfere or attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site or Services, load testing, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” “crashing,”;
- (j) automate access to the Site or the Services, including, without limitation, through the use of bots, scrapers or other similar devices;
- (k) export or re-export any Grammarly IP;
- (l) use or access any Services, Software or Grammarly IP in order to build a competitive solution; or
- (m) permit any third party to do any of the foregoing.
Grammarly may offer certain Software, including certain interfaces, for download from the Site (“Ancillary Software”). Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may install and use Ancillary Software on computers owned, leased or otherwise controlled by you, solely for your personal use in conjunction with your authorized use of the Services. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement for any reason, you shall cease any further use of the Ancillary Software and shall promptly destroy all copies thereof in your possession.
Certain Services or Software (including Ancillary Software) may be subject to additional limitations, restrictions, terms and/or conditions specific to such Services or Software (“Specific Terms”). In such cases, the applicable Specific Terms will be made available to you and your access to and use of the relevant Services or Software will be contingent upon your acceptance of and compliance with such Specific Terms.
Registration and Security
By completing the registration process for any given Service(s), you are agreeing to subscribe to the selected Service(s), subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You agree to provide Grammarly with accurate and complete registration information, and to promptly notify Grammarly in the event of any changes to any such information.
You shall be solely responsible for the security and proper use of all user IDs, passwords, or other security devices used in connection with the Site and/or the Services, and shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that they are kept confidential and secure, are used properly and are not disclosed to or used by any other persons. You shall immediately inform Grammarly if there is any reason to believe that a user ID, password, or any other security device issued by Grammarly has or is likely to become known to someone not authorized to use it, or is being or is likely to be used in an unauthorized way. Grammarly reserves the right (at its sole discretion) to request that you change your password(s) in connection with the Services, and you shall promptly comply with any such request.
You are solely responsible for all activity in connection with access to the Site and/or Services through your account or using your password, and for the security of your computer systems.
Enterprise Subscriber Responsibility for Authorized Users
Enterprise Subscribers shall ensure that the total number of Authorized Users does not exceed the maximum number of seats authorized by and purchased from Grammarly (each of which seat represents a unique (named) user). Authorized Users may not transfer (including by way of sublicense, lease, assignment or other transfer, including by operation of law) their seat, user name or right to use the Service to any third party. You, the Enterprise Subscriber, are solely responsible for the way your Authorized Users use the Site, Service and Software, and for ensuring that all of your Authorized Users comply with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Any violation of the terms and/or conditions of this Agreement by an Authorized User shall be deemed to be a violation thereof by you.
Fees, Payment and Trial Memberships
If you have registered to use certain Services and/or Software on a trial basis, then you may use such Services and Software only for noncommercial evaluation purposes during the applicable trial period. In all other cases, your access to or use of the Services and/or Software shall be contingent upon your payment of all applicable fees as described on the Site from time to time (“Fees”). *The preceding sentence is not applicable to Enterprise Subscribers or Authorized Users of Enterprise Subscribers. Enterprise Subscribers shall pay the fees set forth in the invoice(s) rendered by Grammarly in accordance with the payment terms set forth therein.*
Upon registering for Services, you will be required to designate a valid credit card or PayPal™ account. You hereby authorize Grammarly to charge to your designated account all Fees relating to the Services you select, and you agree to pay all such Fees in accordance with the applicable card member agreement or PayPal™ terms and conditions. *This paragraph is not applicable to Enterprise Subscribers or Authorized Users of Enterprise Subscribers.*
Grammarly reserves the right to revise its Fees, including by increasing or adding new Fees, at any time on 10 days’ notice. Such notice may be sent to you by email to your most recently provided email address or posted on the Site. You will be deemed to have received any such notice that is posted on the Site on the day it was posted. Your use of the Services after the 10 day notice period constitutes your acceptance of the new or revised Fees. If you do not agree to the revised Fees, you may cancel your subscription by following the “View cancellation instructions” link below.
Continuous membership
To ensure uninterrupted service, all subscriptions to Grammarly are renewed automatically. You hereby authorize Grammarly to charge subscription Fees for the renewal period to the credit card or PayPal™ account on file. All subscriptions are renewed at the subscription level(s) in effect at the time the then-current subscription term ends. You may cancel the subscription at any time by following the “View cancellation instructions” link below.
Free trial
Grammarly may offer a free trial membership from time to time. If you accept such an offer, no charges will be applied to your account until the end of the trial period. If you do not wish to be charged, you must cancel the Services before the end of the trial period. Grammarly will not refund any fees that have accrued to your account(s) after the free trial period.
Termination and Refund Policy
This Agreement shall continue until you cancel your subscription or until terminated by Grammarly. You may cancel your subscription at any time. View cancellation instructions at http://support.grammarly.com/entries/184955-how-do-i-cancel-my-subscription.
Grammarly may deny you access to all or any part of the Services or terminate your account
with or without prior notice if you engage in any conduct or activities that Grammarly
determines, in its sole discretion, violate this Agreement or the rights of Grammarly or any third
party, or is otherwise inappropriate. Without limitation, Grammarly may deny you access to the
Services, or terminate this Agreement and your account if your use of the Services exceeds the
Upon termination of your account(s), your right to use the Services and Software and to access the Site and any of its content will immediately cease. All provisions of this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, limitations of liability and miscellaneous provisions.
All Fees paid or accrued in connection with any Service are non-refundable. Except as may be expressly set forth herein, Grammarly will not prorate any Fees paid for a subscription that is terminated before the end of its term.
Termination of Agreement with Enterprise Subscriber
The following provisions apply only to Enterprise Subscribers. Either Grammarly or you may terminate this Agreement by notice if the other party breaches any material term of this Agreement and fails to cure such breach within thirty (30) days after receipt of notice of the breach from the non-defaulting party. In addition, Grammarly may suspend the Service upon notice if Client fails to make any payment required under any purchase order or invoice rendered by Grammarly or other agreement between the parties and fails to cure such breach within ten (10) days after receipt of notice of the breach from Grammarly. Any such suspension or termination shall be without limitation of any other right or remedy available to the terminating party.
Grammarly may terminate this Agreement for convenience upon sixty (60) days’ prior written notice without liability to you. Following a termination pursuant to the foregoing sentence, Grammarly shall refund the pro rata portion of any Fees relating to the remaining term, as applicable.
Either Grammarly or you may terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to the other party if the other party has a receiver or similar party appointed for all or substantially all of its property, is declared insolvent by a court of competent jurisdiction, ceases to do business in the ordinary course, files a petition in bankruptcy or has a petition filed against it in bankruptcy, becomes the subject of any court or administrative proceeding related to its liquidation or insolvency (whether voluntary or involuntary) that is not dismissed within ninety (90) days, or makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors.
If this Agreement is terminated or otherwise expires for any reason you shall promptly return to Grammarly or destroy, as directed by Grammarly, all Confidential Information, Software and other materials in your possession or under its control belonging to Grammarly, and all rights and licenses granted by Grammarly pursuant to this Agreement shall terminate. Upon termination of this Agreement, your right, and your Authorized Users’ right, to use the Services and Software and to access the Site and any of its content will immediately cease. All provisions of this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, limitations of liability and miscellaneous provisions.
Access to Services
You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining any equipment and ancillary services needed to connect to or access the Site or otherwise use the Services, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, software, internet service and telecommunications capacity. You shall be solely responsible for ensuring that such equipment and ancillary services are compatible with the Services and Software.
User Content
You are solely responsible for all text or other content uploaded or entered by you in connection with your use of the Services and/or Software (“User Content”). Grammarly has no obligation to monitor any User Content and shall have no liability to you or any other person with respect thereto. You warrant, represent and covenant that you own or have a valid and enforceable license to use all User Content, and that no User Content infringes, misappropriates or violates the rights (including, without limitation, any copyrights or other intellectual property rights) of any person or entity or any applicable law, rule or regulation of any government authority of competent jurisdiction. Grammarly is not responsible for the loss, corruption or other changes to User Content. Without limiting the foregoing, any feature(s) of the Services and/or Software that may permit you to temporarily save or otherwise store certain User Content is offered for your convenience only and does not guarantee that the User Content will be retrievable. You are solely responsible for saving, storing and otherwise maintaining User Content including by maintaining backup copies of your User Content on appropriate independent systems that do not rely on the Service and/or Software.
Changes to Services or Terms
Grammarly reserves the right at any time to (I) change any information, specifications, features and/or functions of the Site, Services and/or Software, (II) suspend or discontinue any or all of the Services, including the availability of any feature, database, or content, and/or (III) impose limits on certain features and Services or restrict access to parts or all of the Services, in each case with or without prior notice and without any liability. Grammarly will use its commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of changes to the Services and/or Software that, in Grammarly’s reasonable opinion, have the effect of materially and adversely diminishing the functionality of the Services to which you have subscribed.
Grammarly may from time to time update or revise this Agreement. If Grammarly updates or revises this Agreement, Grammarly will notify you either by email to your most recently provided email address, or by posting the updated or revised Terms of Service and End User License Agreement on the Site. Your use of the Site, Services and/or Software following any such update or revision constitutes your agreement to be bound by and comply with this Agreement as updated or revised. You can view the most current Terms of Service and End
User License Agreement at http://www.grammarly.com/terms. It is your responsibility to review the Terms of Service and End User License Agreement periodically.
If you cancel your subscription within 10 days following such notice by Grammarly in accordance with the two preceding paragraphs, then Grammarly will refund you a pro-rated portion of any pre-paid Fees for the affected Services applicable to the cancelled portion of the pre-paid subscription term, if any.
Links to Other Sites
Any links on the Site to third party websites are provided for your convenience only. If you choose to access third party websites or obtain products or services from third parties, you do so entirely at your own risk. Grammarly does not warrant or make any representation regarding the legality, accuracy, or authenticity of content presented by such websites or any products or services offered by third parties.
Consent to Receive Email
Your registration to use the Site and/or Services constitutes your consent to receive email communications from Grammarly, including messages regarding customer service issues and other matters. You may opt not to receive email correspondence, other than technical notifications and email regarding issues related to your account and your use of the Site and Services, at any time by following the link included in the email messages.
Data Collection and Privacy
Grammarly does not collect personally identifying information from you except to the extent you have explicitly given such information to Grammarly. Grammarly’s information practices are further described in its privacy policy. The privacy policy is part of this Agreement and is incorporated by reference, and you agree that utilization of data as described in the privacy policy is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights. Read the privacy policy at http://privacy-policy.truste.com/verified-policy/www.grammarly.com.
Ownership
All intellectual property rights in and to the User Content are and shall remain your property, and Grammarly shall acquire no right of ownership or use with respect to any User Content except in connection with its provision of the Services under this Agreement.
All intellectual property rights in and to the Software, Site and Services and other Grammarly IP are and shall remain the sole property of Grammarly and its affiliates and licensors, as applicable, and you shall acquire no right of ownership or use with respect to any Software or other Grammarly IP except as specified in this Agreement. You may from time to time provide Grammarly with suggestions, comments, recommendations and/or feedback regarding the Service, the Software and/or Grammarly’s related technologies (“Feedback”). Any and all Feedback is and shall be given entirely voluntarily. As between the you, Grammarly and, if applicable, the Enterprise Subscriber, all Feedback shall be exclusively owned by Grammarly and Grammarly shall be freely entitled to reproduce, prepare derivative works, disclose to third parties, display and perform (publicly or otherwise), sell, lease, license, distribute, and otherwise use and exploit any and all such Feedback as it deems appropriate, at its sole discretion, without obligation or liability of any kind to you, the Enterprise Subscriber or any other person or entity.
Indemnity
You shall indemnify and hold harmless Grammarly and its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any loss, liability (including settlements, judgments, fines and penalties) and costs (including reasonable attorney fees, court costs and other litigation expenses) relating to any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your access to the Site, use of the Services or Software, violation of this Agreement, or infringement of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
Warranty Disclaimers
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLIABLE LAW, GRAMMARLY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SITE, SERVICES AND SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE, SERVICES AND SOFTWAREARE AT YOUR OWN SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SITE, SERVICES AND ANY SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, GRAMMARLY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE, SERVICES AND/OR SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL GRAMMARLY BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, SERVICES AND/ OR SOFTWARE FOR (I) ANY AMOUNT IN THE AGGREGATE IN EXCESS OF THE FEES YOU HAVE ACTUALLY PAID TO GRAMMARLY DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT(S) GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY; (II) ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST OR DAMAGED USER CONTENT OR OTHER DATA, OR FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION GOOD FAITH AND REASONABLE CARE; OR (III) ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER.
YOU AGREE THAT THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY REPRESENTS A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK AND IS A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN GRAMMARLY AND YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE SITE, SERVICES AND SOFTWARE WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED WITHOUT SUCH LIMITATIONS.
CERTAIN STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
General Provisions
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, without regard to its choice of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement shall be instituted in a state or federal court in San Francisco County, California. You and Grammarly agree to submit to the jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, these courts in any such legal action or proceeding.
This Agreement and the rights and obligations herein are personal to you, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any of your rights or obligations hereunder, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Grammarly. Grammarly may freely assign this Agreement.
If any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement are for any reason held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall be unimpaired and shall remain in full force and effect, and the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s) shall be replaced by a valid, legal and enforceable provision or provisions that comes closest to the intent of the parties underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s).
The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof.
If Grammarly is unable to perform any obligation under this Agreement because of any matter beyond its reasonable control, such as lightning, flood, exceptionally severe weather, fire, explosion, war, civil disorder, industrial disputes (whether or not involving employees of Grammarly), acts of local or central government or other competent authorities, problems with telecommunications providers, hostile network attacks or other events beyond Grammarly’s reasonable control (each, a&Instant Grammarnbsp;“Force Majeure Event”), Grammarly will have no liability to you for such failure to perform; provided, however, that Grammarly shall resume performance promptly upon removal of the circumstances constituting the Force Majeure Event. If any Force Majeure Event continues for more than sixty (60) days, either Grammarly or you may terminate this Agreement by delivery of written notice to the other party. You will remain responsible for all Fees incurred through the last day the Service was available.
If you and Grammarly have executed a separate Subscription Agreement applicable to your access to and use of the Site, Services and/or Software, then the terms and conditions of such Subscription Agreement shall prevail to the extent of any conflict with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In all other cases, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Grammarly and you with respect to its subject matter, and supersedes all prior communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between Grammarly and you. No waiver or modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be binding unless in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of each party.
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