This
non-exclusive Services Agreement (the "Agreement") contains
the complete terms and conditions that apply to your use of the
“Seller Panel” Services (the "Services"), described
at https://www.marketplacebible.com/selleragreement. As used in
this Agreement, "we", "our" and "Seller
Panel" means Marketplace Bible International PBC, a Delaware
Private Benefit Corporation ("MBI").
As used in this Agreement, "you" means the business person or business entity accepting this Agreement. In order to use the Services you must:
have registered for an account at our web site, the homepage of which is at www.marketplacebible.com (together with any successor or replacement website, the "Site") by providing your real first and last name, valid address, valid phone number, valid e-mail address and any other required information;
Not reside in the European Union;
Not provide to MBI or any of its service providers any personal information belonging to persons who reside in the European Union;
be at least 13 years of age (if you are an individual); and
be legally competent to enter into contracts.
Amendment;
Notice of Changes.
We reserve the right to change the terms
and conditions contained in this Agreement, other Service-specific
terms and conditions, or any policies or guidelines governing the
Services, including without limitation, any of the information
posted on the Products and Help sections
of the Site or the Content
Guidelines, Submission
Requirements, Pricing pages,
and Site
Terms, at any time and in our sole discretion. Any changes to
the Site, including Service-specific terms and conditions, or
policies and guidelines referenced in this Agreement, will be
effective upon posting of such revisions on the Site and upon our
sending via email a notice to you of the changes. We will, post a
notice of any changes to this Agreement on the Site for at least
thirty (30) days after the changes are effective. Changes to
referenced policies and guidelines or any other information in any
Products, Help, or other web pages may be posted without any other
notice to you. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SITE AND THE SERVICES
FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF ANY CHANGES TO THE AGREEMENT ON THE SITE
WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS. IF
YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SITE, DO
NOT CONTINUE TO USE THE SERVICES OR THE SITE.
2. Delivery of Content
2.1 Content Requirements
Once you have registered as a
member on the Site, you may set up distinct and separately saleable
video, audio and/or written works (each, a "Title") by
entering required information regarding such Titles on the Site, in
connection with our Title Setup requirements. You may deliver to us
Content for Titles at any time during the term of this
Agreement. "Content" means all content you
deliver to us relative to a Title, including your Titles, any short
segments of content (each, a "Promotional Clip") (if
any), all available text data relevant to a Title (for example, as
applicable, the Title name, description, images and trim size of a
written Title, and release date) ("Metadata"), artwork and
images for each Title (together with the Metadata, the "Descriptive
Materials"), and any trademarks, trade names, service marks,
logos, commercial symbols and other designations contained in any of
the foregoing.
2.2 Content Delivery
For each Title you set
up, you will send the applicable Content and Descriptive Materials at
your own expense and in accordance with the Submission
Requirements (which we may update from time to time), via
electronic upload for written Titles and in hard copy physical format
for video Titles (each such instance of Content, a "Source
Copy"). You will at all times retain legal title to your Source
Copies. However, we will not return to you any of the hard copy
physical format materials you provide to us.
All purchased digital books (e-books) will be auto-delivered to the Marketplace Bible app without exception, end users will be required to download the Marketplace Bible app to access their purchases, except for audio and video or printed books or physical products, which will be delivered by mail or as a download
2.3 Applicable
Policies and Guidelines
You agree to abide by, and all Content
you provide to us under this Agreement will comply with, the payment
terms, procedures, policies, and guidelines contained in the Content
Guidelines and in the Products, Help and Pricing pages
for use of the Products, as well as any Service-specific terms and
conditions on the Site. The procedures, policies, and guidelines
contained in the Products and Help pages
explain the processes and set out acceptable conduct and prohibited
practices. You should refer regularly to the Products and Help pages
to understand the current procedures and guidelines for use of the
Services and to be sure that your Titles are eligible for listing via
the Services.
3. Services
3.1. General
Once you are registered on the Site, have
provided us all the required information, have set up Titles and
delivered Content, including any Metadata and Descriptive Materials,
to us, and have paid us any applicable
fees, you are eligible for our Services, which may include
facilitating the distribution of your Titles (including your
Content), the listing of your Titles on “MBI” Properties and
other sales channels, the creation of Packaging Materials, the
printing or manufacture of Units (as defined in Section 4.2 below)
and the fulfillment of Unit orders, in each case on your behalf.
Capitalized terms in this Agreement have the following meanings:
"MBI
Properties" means (i) the Marketplace Bible Site and any
"mirrored" version of the Marketplace Bible which
substantially replicates the Marketplace Bible Site or a portion
thereof, (ii) any site with a web page widget, any site with any
other web page real estate, any application for use on mobile
devices, or other online point of presence, which in each case is
branded or co-branded " Marketplace Bible " and allows for
the discovery and purchase of products from “MBI” or its
affiliates, (iii) any other web site or online point of presence on
any platform through which marketplacebible.com (MBI) or its
affiliates make products or services available for discovery and (iv)
any other online point of presence or web site that you approve for
treatment as an “MBI” Property at our request, such approval not
to be unreasonably withheld.
"Marketplace Bible Site" means
the web site whose primary home page is identified by the URL
www.marketplacebible.com (and any successor or replacement web site),
websites operated by us or our affiliates primarily targeted at
customers outside the US, and any other web sites maintained by or
for us or our affiliates.
"Book" is a Unit in the
form of a physical book.
"Packaging Materials" are,
as applicable, the disc cover inserts, printed disc face, book
covers, and any other physical material that accompanies a
product.
3.2. Ordering Your Own Titles.
You may order copies of your own Title from us, and if you do so, we will ship the Units to the address specified by you. Title to such Units will pass to you when we place the Units with the carrier for shipment.
3.3. Marketplace Services. MBI offers a functionality to Service Providers such as lawyers, doctors, massage therapists, and chiropractors for annual listing fee of $99.00. Service Providers and end-users (customers) will both receive an email confirming each appointment and purchase. Service Providers agree to provide end users an automatic 10% discount when they book through the MBI platform. MBI will deduct an administrative fee of 5% the total amount for each service booked. The balance will then be paid by MBI to Service Provider.
3.3.1. Customer Reviews. The Marketplace Services platform includes a Customer Review feature that will allow customers to post reviews on services rendered using a rating system of 1-5 stars. MBI reserves the right to terminate without notice any Service Provider whose customer ratings are more than 40% negative. MBI reserves the right to remove Service Providers whose conduct (e.g., promoting pornography or adultery), violates the fundamentals of MBI’s Christian faith. MBI is the final authority on whether a Service Provider’s conduct violates our Christian faith.
3.4. Ancillary
Services.
We offer certain ancillary Services, which are described on the Site. Some of our ancillary Services may have additional terms and conditions that apply only to those Services.
4. Titles
4.1 Content Rejection and Removal
We
may, in our sole discretion, at any time, and without notice to you
(a) reject Content; or (b) remove or refuse to list or distribute any
Content on or from any “MBI” Property or other sales channel. You
will remain liable for all fees and other amounts that you may owe
under this Agreement in connection with any Title or Content we
remove because of a violation of this Agreement or our Content
Guidelines. You may withdraw your Title from the Services at any
time, but we will have 30 days from the date of a Title's withdrawal
(or termination of this Agreement) to remove all applicable Content.
However, we may fulfill any Customer orders pending as of the date we
remove such Title from the Services. If we request that you provide
additional information relating to your Content, such as information
confirming that you have all rights required to permit our
distribution of the Content, you represent and warrant that any
information and documentation you provide to us in response to such a
request will be current, complete, and accurate. You authorize us,
directly or through third parties, to make any inquiries we consider
appropriate to verify your rights to permit our distribution of the
Content and the accuracy of the information or documentation you
provide to us with respect to those rights.
4.2 Pricing; Legal
Title
We or our affiliate will be the seller of record for each
digital or physical product of your Title (each, a "Unit")
to a customer (each, a "Customer") we or our affiliate
sells through any MBI Property or other sales channel. To the extent
permissible under applicable local laws, we have sole and complete
discretion to set the retail price at which your Titles are sold on
the MBI Properties. You will provide a List Price for each Title in
the applicable currency of each MBI Property through which you elect
to distribute your Title, which will be at or below the suggested
retail price at which you list such title in physical form in that
currency through any distribution method. For the purpose of this
Agreement, "List Price" means the suggested
retail price that you submit to us per individual Title, which we
will use to calculate the retail price of the Title on each MBI
Property subject to applicable local laws. Please note that you may
update the List Price for your Titles in each currency at any time in
accordance with the Submission
Requirements, but it may take as long as 30 days for the list
price on the MBI Properties to be updated.
Marketplace Bible International (MBI) reserves the right to conduct special discounted sales of any product(s) of our choosing that are listed on our platform up to 40% in order to drive sales during traditional seasonal specials such as Christmas, Black Friday etc. without having to get your prior consent.
4.3 Customer Returns
and Refunds
We will determine how to handle Customer returns of
Units, which may include, without limitation (a) in the case of
physical Units, placing the returned copy of the Unit into inventory
and reselling it to another Customer, in which case we will have no
obligation to pay you any Content
License Royalty for the resale of such Unit (because we
paid, or will pay, you for the original sale of such Unit); or (b)
destroying the Unit and calculating amounts due to you net of
the Content
License Royalty we previously paid for the destroyed return.
We reserve the right to prohibit returns under any circumstances. If
a Unit is returned and we have already paid you a Content
License Royalty on the returned Unit, we may offset the
amount of the Content
License Royalty we previously paid you for that returned
Unit against future Content
License Royalty, or require you to remit to us the amount of
the Content
License Royalty we paid to you for the returned Unit. If,
after a period of time, you have not taken advantage of Services you
have purchased, we may, in our sole discretion, refund your payment
for those Services.
5. Fees; Taxes
5.1 Fees
You will pay us all
applicable fees, as specified in our Price
List.
For any Unit sold to a Customer, we will pay you the
applicable Content
License Royalty based on the List Price of the Unit: (a)
within 31 days after the end of the month in which the Unit sold for
physical Units sold through the MBI Properties; and (b) within 60
days after the end of the month in which the Unit is sold for
physical Units sold through Expanded Distribution. The Content
License Royalty will be calculated based on the List Price of the
Unit in the location where we manufacture that Unit and payments will
be made to you in that currency (the "Manufactured
Currency").
All payments will be made via check, draft,
direct deposit, electronic transfer or other method we designate in
the Program Policies. We will make all payments in the Manufactured
Currency unless you choose to receive payment in an alternative
payment currency. A list of available payment currencies is provided
in the Program Policies. If you change your payment currency using
the options in the Program Policies, the change will be effective on
the first day of the calendar month following the calendar month in
which you make the change (unless we make an earlier period
available). If we pay you in a currency other than the Manufactured
Currency, the final amount remitted to you will be inclusive of all
fees and charges for facilitating payment to you in your selected
currency. Additionally, if we pay you in the Manufactured Currency,
we may charge you an additional fee if you elect to receive payment
by check or draft when electronic transfer is available in the
country where your bank account is maintained. If we pay you by check
or draft, we may accrue and withhold payments until the total amount
due meets a minimum payment threshold. Please see the Program
Policies for details on supported currencies and methods. If you have
amounts payable hereunder upon the termination of this Agreement,
then we may set off such amounts against any payment then payable to
you, or you will immediately pay any such amounts. For purposes of
calculating your Content
License Royalty, a sale of a Unit will be deemed to have taken
place at the time that we or our affiliate manufactures a physical
Unit on demand.
If we reasonably conclude based on information
available to us that your actions and/or performance in connection
with this Agreement may result in disputes, chargebacks or other
claims, then we may, in our sole discretion, delay initiating any
remittances and withhold any payments to be made or that are
otherwise due to you in connection with this Agreement for the
shorter of: (a) a period of 90 days following the initial date of
suspension; or (b) completion of any investigation(s) regarding any
of your actions and/or performance in connection with this Agreement.
Additionally, if a third party asserts that you did not have all
rights required to make your Content available using our Services we
may hold all Content
License Royalty due to you until we reasonably determine the
validity of the third party claim. If we determine that you did not
have all of those rights or that you have otherwise breached your
representations and warranties or our Content
Guidelines with regard to your Content, we will not owe you
a Content
License Royalty for that Content and we may offset
any Content
License Royalty that were previously paid against any
future Content
License Royalty, or require you to remit them to us. If we
terminate this Agreement because you have breached your
representations and warranties or our Content
Guidelines, you forfeit any Content
License Royalty not yet paid to you. If after we have
terminated your account you open a new account without our express
permission, we will not owe you any Content
License Royalty through the new account. We will not be
liable to you if we act in accordance with the provisions of this
Section.
All statements and other accountings will be
conclusive, final and binding, unless you give us written notice
stating the specific basis for objection within one year after the
date the payment was rendered. You will not maintain any action or
proceeding against us or our affiliates in respect of any disputed
statement unless you commence that action or suit against us within 6
months following the date that you provide us with the written notice
referred to in the immediately preceding sentence.
5.2 Bad
Debt
We will be entitled to an adjustment to payments made to
you for any amounts ultimately not collected because of fraudulent
credit card use or bad debt, in an amount equal to the payment
otherwise payable to you in connection with such purchase.
5.3
Taxes
5.3.1 Payments to You.
For the purposes of this
paragraph, the term "Transaction Taxes" means
sales/use, value added, or transaction taxes and other charges such
as duties, customs and government imposed surcharges. You will be
responsible for determining taxes you owe on payments you receive
under this Agreement. To the extent payments to you are subject to
any Transaction Taxes, (a) payment includes all applicable
Transaction Taxes, and (b) you will supply us with a valid tax
invoice separately stating such Transaction Taxes if required by law.
In return, we will provide you with any applicable exemption
certificate acceptable to the relevant taxing authority that we
possess, in which case you will not collect the Transaction Taxes
covered by such certificate. If any other taxes (for example,
international withholding taxes) are required to be withheld on any
payment, we will deduct such taxes from the amount otherwise owed and
pay them to the appropriate taxing authority.
5.3.2 Your
Payments to Us.
All fees payable by you to us pursuant to this
Agreement exclude Transaction Taxes. In addition to amounts owed by
you pursuant to this Agreement, you will pay us any Transaction Taxes
we are required to collect on such fees. If we charge you Transaction
Taxes, you may provide us with a valid exemption certificate
acceptable to the relevant taxing authority, in which case we will
not collect the Transaction Taxes covered by such certificate. All
fees payable by you to us under this Agreement will be made without
setoff and without deduction or withholding for, or on account of,
any present or future tax.
6. Licenses; Ownership; Feedback
6.1
Content
Subject to your retained control and ownership of your
Content as described in Section 6.4, in order to enable us to provide
you with the Services on your behalf, you grant to us a nonexclusive
license, during the term of this Agreement, to (a) create digital
versions of Content you provide in nondigital format; (b) create a
digitized version of the Content that we will use to create a Unit
(each, a "Source File"); (c) with respect to Books,
print, distribute and sell your Book through the MBI Properties and
other sales channels, (d) reformat, reproduce, and distribute your
Content through the MBI Properties, and other sales channels in
digital form on physical media, (e) distribute, display, transmit,
perform and use the Promotional Clips (if any) and the Descriptive
Materials for promotional purposes; and (f) create Packaging
Materials from the Descriptive Materials.
We may broadly
integrate the Descriptive Materials into the MBI Properties, and they
may appear in several places on the MBI Properties. By way of example
and not limitation, the Descriptive Materials may appear on product
detail pages, in search results, in customer browsing and buying
history, and in routine, automated and community-driven merchandising
features such as recommendations. Our use of the Descriptive
Materials may become integral to the MBI Properties throughout the
term of this Agreement and will continue beyond the term of this
Agreement even though we will no longer produce or sell new Units
after the term of this Agreement. Therefore, notwithstanding anything
to the contrary herein, for Descriptive Materials and Promotional
Clips, the license you grant us in Section 6.1(e) will be perpetual
and royalty-free. For preprinted inventory of your Units, we may
distribute and sell your Units through the MBI Properties and other
channels until we have sold all Units that we created during the term
of this Agreement.
For video and audio Titles, we may use text
from the Content, including creating or using closed caption text or
transcripts, as the basis for returning search results to visitors to
the MBI Site and to display excerpts of such text to illustrate the
relevance of the search result. You will deliver closed captions and
subtitles in accordance with our Content Guidelines to the extent
available, but in any case to the extent required by applicable law.
MBI may create, insert and distribute closed captions and subtitles
for the Content.
You agree that we and our affiliates may
include your written Titles in the Search
Inside program, which enables visitors to view, search, and
"page browse" through your written Titles. Accordingly, for
each of your written Titles you hereby grant us permission, on a
nonexclusive, perpetual basis, to (x) reproduce and store the
entirety of each Title in digital form on one or more computer
facilities of or under the control of us or our affiliates or our
independent contractors; (y) extract factual information from your
written Titles, such as character names, statistically improbable
phrases and capitalized phrases, and display such information to
visitors to any MBI Property; and (z) to display portions of each
Title on the MBI Properties so that a user will be able to (i) use
queries to locate, select and display excerpts that include the
search terms for every occurrence of the search terms; and (ii) view
a limited number of pages within a Title during any single
session.
You further grant us permission to cause such
transmission, reproduction and other use of the Content as mere
technological incidents to and for the limited purpose of technically
enabling the rights licensed to us under this Agreement (including,
but not limited to, caching to enable display and transfer and
encoding supplemental copies of Titles in alternate formats). So long
as we pay you the applicable Content
License Royalty upon the manufacture of your Book, we may
print a reasonable number of copies of any Book to hold in our
inventory. We may destroy inventory at any time without obligation to
you.
You grant us the rights set forth in this Section 6.1 on a
worldwide basis; however, if we make available to you a procedure for
indicating that you do not have worldwide distribution rights to a
Title, then the territory for the sale of that Title will be those
territories for which you indicate, through the procedure we provide
to you, that you have distribution rights.
6.2 Ownership
Subject
to the licenses set forth in this Section 6 and the following
sentence, and as between the parties, you retain all right, title and
interest in and to the Content, including all patent, copyright,
trademark, service mark, mask work, moral right, trade secret or
other intellectual property or proprietary right (collectively,
"Intellectual Property Rights") therein. Subject to your
underlying rights in the Content, as between the parties, we will own
all right, title and interest in and to the templates and other
materials created, provided or used by us in our performance under
this Agreement (including Source Files and Packaging Materials),
including all Intellectual Property Rights therein.
6.3 Cover
Images.
We may agree to provide you a file containing an image
of the cover of your Title ("Cover Image"). Contingent upon
your receipt of such Cover Image, we hereby grant you, during the
term of this Agreement, a worldwide, royalty-free right to use the
Cover Image for any lawful purpose related to promoting your
Title.
6.4 Feedback
Any feedback, ideas, modifications,
suggestions, improvements and the like made by you with respect to
the Services, the Site, anything on the Site (including current or
future features), or any beta program we are running ("Feedback")
will be our property. You agree to assign, and hereby assign, all
right, title and interest worldwide in the Feedback and the related
Intellectual Property Rights to us and agree to assist us, at our
expense, in perfecting and enforcing such rights. We may disclose or
use Feedback for any purposes whatsoever without any obligation
(including any financial obligation) to you. In addition, if you are
participating in a beta program, you agree to provide us with any
reports we request and to promptly respond to any and all reasonable
inquiries, questionnaires, surveys and other test documents we submit
to you.
7. Representations and Warranties
You acknowledge
that we are not the publisher of your Titles (including your
Content). You represent and warrant that you will be the publisher of
your Titles (including your Content) and, in any case, that you will
bear the full and ultimate responsibility for the publication and
general distribution of your Titles (including your Content). You
further represent and warrant that (a) you will comply with all laws,
rules, regulations and orders of any governmental authority having
jurisdiction over your performance hereunder as applicable in each
country (including any local legal requirements with respect to your
publication of your Titles, such as making any necessary
notifications and filings of copies of your Titles); (b) you have all
requisite right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and
perform your obligations hereunder; (c) prior to your delivery of
Content to us you have or have obtained all rights, clearances and
permissions to grant the licenses you grant hereunder that are
necessary for us to exercise the rights you grant under this
Agreement without any further payment obligation by us, including all
necessary music publishing and public performance rights in the
Content and the Promotional Clips; (d) you are granting us the
rights, licenses and authorizations you grant hereunder free and
clear of any encumbrances, and this Agreement does not violate or
conflict with any other arrangements, understandings or agreements
between you and any third party; (e) the Content (and our use
thereof) is not defamatory, libelous, obscene, or otherwise illegal,
does not invade any right of privacy, and does not infringe upon any
Intellectual Property Right or right of publicity of any person or
entity, and any recipe, formula, or instruction contained in the
Content is accurate and is not injurious to the user; (f) the Content
complies with all aspects of the Content
Guidelines, as such may be updated from time to time; and (g) you
are and will be solely responsible for accounting and paying any
co-owners or co-administrators of any Content any royalties with
respect to the uses of the Content permitted hereunder and their
respective shares, if any, of any monies payable hereunder. You will
pay (x) all royalties and other income due to copyright owners,
record royalty participants and under any applicable collective
bargaining agreements relating to the Titles, and (y) all royalties
and other income due to authors, copyright owners or administrators
and/or other royalty participants in any musical compositions
embodied in the Titles.
8. Indemnification; Maintenance of Rights
8.1
Indemnification
You will indemnify, defend and hold us and our
affiliates (and the respective employees, directors, members,
managers and representatives of each) and any operator of an MBI
Property harmless from and against any and all claims, judgments,
damages and expenses (including without limitation reasonable
attorneys' fees) (collectively, "Claims") arising out
of any breach or alleged breach by you of the terms of this
Agreement, including without limitation the terms contained within
the Products and Help pages
and the Content
Guidelines, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Without limiting the foregoing, You, when acting as a Service Provider, agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless MBI from all third-party claims relating in any way to the services you provide to any of MBI’s end users.
8.2 Maintenance of Rights
You will not do anything to
intentionally prejudice the rights granted hereunder, but in the
event that you lose any rights or other licenses, consents or
permissions relating to a specific Title that are necessary for you
to grant the rights you grant to us hereunder, or you receive notice
of a third-party claim relating to a Title which you reasonably deem
to be of concern, you will immediately remove such Title from our
Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you will use commercially
reasonable efforts to maintain the rights to the Content that you
provide to us under this Agreement. Without limiting our rights or
remedies under this Agreement, you will reimburse us for any refunds
we make to Customers as a result of the withdrawal of a Title under
this Section. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 8.2
is intended to relieve you of your indemnification obligation
regarding Claims set forth in Section 8.1 above.
9. DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED
ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. WE AND OUR AFFILIATES MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: (A) THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND
NONINFRINGEMENT; (B) THAT THE SERVICES, THE SITE, OR THE MBI
PROPERTIES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE,
ACCESSIBLE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR OPERATE WITHOUT ERROR;
AND (C) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE
OF TRADE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WE
AND OUR AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES. WE AND OUR
AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY
DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE SITE, THE MBI PROPERTIES, ANY
OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, RIGHT, CLAIM, OR REMEDY IN TORT, WHETHER OR
NOT ARISING FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE, THE SERVICES, THE INABILITY TO USE
THE SERVICES, OR THOSE RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED
OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH
THE SERVICES.
10. Term; Termination
This Agreement will remain in
effect until terminated in accordance with this Section. You may
terminate this Agreement at any time by giving notice to
us, and we may terminate this Agreement at any time by sending you an
e-mail notice at the e-mail address associated with your account. Our
notice of such termination will be effective at the time we send you
the notice. Upon termination, you will pay us whatever fees were
incurred prior to the date of the termination. Also upon termination:
(a) we may fulfill any Customer orders pending as of the date of
termination; and (b) we may continue to maintain digital copies of
your Content in order to provide "refresh" copies or
otherwise support customers who have purchased or rented a Title
prior to termination. Upon termination, we may set off against any
payments to be made to you, an amount determined by us to be adequate
to cover any disputes, chargebacks and refunds from your account for
a prospective three-month period. At the end of such three-month
period following termination, we will refund any amount not used to
offset chargebacks and refunds to you, or seek reimbursement from you
via any of the means authorized in Section 5.1 above for any
additional amount required to offset chargebacks and refunds, as
applicable.
The following Sections will survive termination of
this Agreement: 4.1, 4.3, 5, 6 (except subsections 6.1(a)-(d) and
(f)), 8.1, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 16. In addition, all rights to Units
acquired by Customers will survive termination.
11. Password Security; Account Information; No Multiple
Accounts
Your password for the Site may be used only to
access the Site, use the Services, electronically set up your Titles,
and review any reports, records, or other features we make available
to you. You are solely responsible for maintaining the security of
your password. You may not disclose your password to any third party
(other than third parties authorized by you to use your account) and
are solely responsible for any use of or action taken under your
password on the Site. If your password is compromised, you will
change your password. You must ensure that all information you
provide in connection with establishing your account, such as your
name, address and email, is accurate when you provided it, and you
must keep it up to date as long as you use the Services. You may
maintain only one account at a time. If we terminate your account,
you will not establish a new account. You will not use false
identities or impersonate any other person or use a username or
password you are not authorized to use. You authorize us, directly or
through third parties, to make any inquiries we consider appropriate
to verify account information you provide. You also consent to us
sending you emails relating to the Program and other publishing
opportunities from time to time. This takes precedence over any
directions you may have given us, including through any Marketplace
Bible or MBI affiliate web site.
12. Privacy
Please read the
marketplacebible.com Privacy
Notice (the "Privacy Notice"), which is
incorporated herein by reference and can be found by clicking on this
link [https://mbi-rs.rt.cisinlive.com/privacy_policy ].
Unless
otherwise authorized or consented, you agree not to use any
information regarding other participants of the Program that is
accessible from the Site or the Marketplace Bible Site or MBI
affiliate web site or disclosed to you by us or our affiliates. By
way of example and not limitation, you agree not to use any such
information for purposes of solicitation, advertising, unsolicited
e-mail or spamming, harassment, invasion of privacy, or otherwise
objectionable conduct. We and our affiliates may communicate with you
in connection with your listings, sales, and the Services,
electronically and in other media, and you consent to such
communications regardless of any "Customer Communication
Preferences" (or similar preferences or requests) you may have
indicated on the Site or by any other means.
13. Relationship of Parties
You and we are
independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create
any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales
representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You
will have no authority to make or accept any offers or
representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement,
whether on your site or otherwise, that would reasonably contradict
anything in this Section or Agreement.
14. No Grant of License by Us
For the avoidance of
doubt, we do not hereby grant you any license or other rights to any
intellectual property or technology owned or operated by us or any of
our affiliates, including, without limitation, any trademarks or
trade names (collectively, the "Seller Panel IP").
Additionally, you may not in any way use any Marketplace Bible IP,
including without limitation for the purpose of issuing any press
release or other activity that may be considered promotional or
marketing related.
15. Miscellaneous
You consent to the use of electronic
means to complete this Agreement and to provide you with any notices
we give you in relation to this Agreement. To be effective, any
notice given by a party under this Agreement must be in writing and
(i) if by an MBI party, delivered via email, via a posting on the
“MBI Seller Panel” website or via a message through your account,
or (ii) if by you to Marketplace Bible International PBC, delivered
via email to sellerpanel@marketplacebible.com and if delivered by you
to Marketplace Bible International PBC via mail to P.O Box 2467,
Scottsdale, AZ 85252. Notices will be effective and deemed received
on the date transmitted or posted. We may sublicense the rights
granted to us hereunder to our affiliates or to any third party
designated or engaged by us and acting on our behalf for purposes of
fulfilling our obligations or exercising our rights under this
Agreement; provided, however, that we will remain ultimately liable
for our compliance with this Agreement. You may not assign any of
your rights or obligations under this Agreement. The failure of
either party to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not
constitute a waiver of the party's rights to subsequently enforce the
provision. Any waivers granted hereunder are effective only if
recorded in a writing signed by the party granting such waiver. If
any provision of this Agreement is determined by any court or
governmental authority to be unenforceable, the parties intend that
this Agreement be enforced as if the unenforceable provisions were
not present and that any partially valid and enforceable provisions
be enforced to the extent that they are enforceable. The rights and
remedies of the parties under this Agreement are cumulative, and
either party may enforce any of its rights or remedies under this
Agreement or other rights and remedies available to it at law or in
equity. Nothing in this Agreement will act to restrict or otherwise
limit any rights we may have in connection with the Content, or
portions thereof, as provided under applicable law and any other
permission from you. We will not be liable or otherwise responsible
to you or any third party for any delay, default, or failure of
performance arising out of any reasonably unforeseeable act, matter,
cause, contingency or circumstance beyond our reasonable control,
including, without limitation, any acts of God, third party acts or
governmental action.
16. Disputes; Governing Law
Any dispute or claim
relating in any way to this Agreement, your visit to
marketplacebible.com or our Services will be resolved by binding
arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims
in small claims court if your claims qualify. The United States
Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to this
Agreement. There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review
of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award
on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court
(including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages),
and must follow the terms of this Agreement as a court would. To
begin an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter requesting
arbitration and describing your claim to Marketplace Bible
International PBC at P.O Box 2467, Scottsdale, AZ 85252 The
arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association
(AAA) under its rules. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org
or by calling 1-800-778-7879 (in the United States). Payment of all
filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the
AAA's rules. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by
telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the United
States county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.
You and we each agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be
conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class,
consolidated or representative action. If for any reason a claim
proceeds in court rather than in arbitration you and we each waive
any right to a jury trial. You or we may bring suit in court on an
individual basis only, and not in a class, consolidated or
representative action, to apply for injunctive remedies. You may
bring any such suit for injunctive remedies only in the courts of the
State of Arizona, USA. The United States Federal Arbitration Act,
applicable United States federal law, and the laws of the state of
Arizona, USA, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will
govern this Agreement and any dispute of any sort that might arise
between you and us relating to this Agreement or the Services.