Microsoft® Bing™ Maps Platform APIs’ Terms Of Use
Last Updated: April 2013
If you are using the Services:
1. What does this Contract
cover? This
is a contract between you and Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”). Sometimes
you are referred to as “Company”, “you” or “your” and Microsoft is referred to
as “we,” “us” or “our”. This Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs’ Terms of Use
(the “TOU”) applies to the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs (the “Services”)
listed here.
The rights and obligations that you have
under this TOU depend on your use of the Services as follows:
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If you are using the Services as part of a Bing Maps Agreement that incorporates this TOU by reference, Sections 1, 2 and 3 apply. If you would like to find out more about a Bing Maps Agreement, please contact
maplic@microsoft.com.
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If you are using the Services as part of a Volume Licensing Agreement, Sections 1, 2 and 4 apply. If you would like to find out more about a Volume Licensing Agreement, please contact
maplic@microsoft.com.
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If you are using the Services only for Education or Non-Profit
Organization Use (as defined in Section 2), Sections
1, 2, 5 and 8 apply .
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If you are using the Services only for Limited Public Website Use (as
defined in Section 2), Sections 1, 2, 6 and 8 apply.
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If you are using the Services only for Evaluation for Commercial,
Non-Commercial, or Government Use for 90 days (as defined in Section 2),
Sections 1, 2, 7 and 8 apply.
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If you are using the Services only for Mobile App Development (as
defined in Section 9), Sections 1, 2, 8 and 9 apply.
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If you are using the Services only for Windows Store App Development
(as defined in Section 10), Sections 1, 2, 8 and 10 apply.
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If you are using the Services only for Broadcast, the Bing
Maps Media, Entertainment and Broadcast Use Terms of Use apply.
2.
Definitions.
Wherever
used in this TOU with the first letter capitalized, these terms have the
following defined meanings:
“Access Credentials” means the unique
credentials provided to Company by Microsoft for use with the Services.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to an entity, any person or entity
that directly or indirectly owns, is owned by, or is under common ownership
with that entity. For purposes of this definition, ownership means control of
more than a 50% interest in an entity.
“Agreement” means the Bing Maps
Agreement and/or Volume Licensing Agreement.
“Asset” means one of any of the following classes: vehicle, device
or other mobile object.
“Bing Maps Agreement” means a separately executed Bing Maps
agreement(s) that incorporates this TOU including the Microsoft Service Order
under the Bing Maps Platform API’s Terms of Use, Microsoft Service Agreement
for Bing Maps Platform APIs and Microsoft Service Order for Bing Maps Platform
APIs and all predecessor or future agreements, including agreements formerly
known as the Microsoft License Agreement for MapPoint Web Services, Microsoft
Service Agreement for the Virtual Earth Map Control and the MapPoint Web
Service, Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Agreement – Service Order, and Service
Order for Microsoft Virtual Earth Map Control and the MapPoint Web Service.
“Bing
Maps AJAX Control API” means the Bing Maps Java Script API that enables developers to create Web sites and
mobile Company Applications with imagery and location functionality, as
described in greater detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Maps iOS Control API” means the
Objective-C control that enables developers to embed maps directly into native iOS Company Applications, as described in greater detail in
the SDKs.
“Bing Maps Platform APIs” means collectively the following APIs:
Bing Maps AJAX Control API, Bing Maps iOS Control
API, Bing Maps REST Services API, Bing Maps Silverlight Control API, Bing Maps
Silverlight Control for Windows Phone API, Bing Maps SOAP Services API, Bing
Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control API Beta, and Bing Spatial Data
Services API, including any successors or future versions of such APIs, and any
other Bing Maps Platform APIs that Microsoft may offer via the SDKs.
“Bing Maps REST Services API” means the services that enable the use
of REST URLs to perform tasks such as creating a map with pushpins, geocoding
an address, retrieving imagery metadata or calculating a route, all as part of
Company Applications, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps API” means the programmable
control that enables developers to create immersive Windows Store Apps Company
Applications for Windows offered through the Windows Store, as described in
greater detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Maps Silverlight Control API” means the programmable control
that enables developers to create an immersive mapping experience with
Silverlight in Company Applications, as described in greater detail in the
SDKs.
“Bing Maps Silverlight Control for Windows Phone API” means the
programmable control that enables developers to create immersive mapping
experiences with Silverlight in Company Applications on Windows Phone, as
described in greater detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Maps SOAP
Services API” means the programmable SOAP services that enable developers
to integrate maps and imagery, driving directions, distance calculations and
other location intelligence into Company Applications, as described in greater
detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Maps TOU” is the Bing Maps End User Terms of Use located here or such other locations as
Microsoft may specify from time to time, that apply to end users of your
Company Application.
“Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control API Beta” means
the programmable control that enables developers to integrate Bing Maps into
Company Applications that use Windows Presentation Foundation, as described in
greater detail in the SDKs.
“Bing Spatial Data Services API” means the services that enable the
use of REST URLs to geocode and reverse-geocode large sets of spatial data and
to create and query data sources in Company Applications, as described in
greater detail in the SDKs.
“Company
Application” means the Company’s software application(s) for online
services that use the Services as may be further defined in your Agreement.
“Content” means the maps, images and other data and third party
content that Company is authorized to access via the Services.
“Education or Non-Profit Organization Use” means using the Services
with a Company Application that
displays results for education or non-profit use, where non-profit organization
means a tax exempt organization and education means use by public or private
K-12 schools, universities, community colleges or other collegiate level
institutions such as vocational schools, trade schools or career colleges,
including their faculty, staff, and students, provided that (i) your use is consistent with the terms of Section 5; and
(ii) your Company Application is publically available without restriction (for
example, login or password must not be required) or available internally for
free instructional or non-commercial research use. Commercially funded research
projects and commercial company use for educational purposes are excluded from
Education or Non-Profit Organization Use.
“Evaluation for Commercial, Non-Commercial or Government Use” means
using the Services for commercial, non-commercial, or government use under the
TOU for a 90 day evaluation period without entering into an Agreement, provided
that (i) your use is consistent with the terms of
Section 7; and (ii) you do not exceed 10,000 cumulative billable transactions
(which will be free of charge) as defined in the SDKs ,
in any 30 day period. If these limits interfere with your ability to evaluate
the Services please contact us at maplic@microsoft.com.
“Geofence” means one or more coordinates
used to determine whether the location of an Asset has intersected a line or
entered or exited a polygon. Examples
include a radius of a point, a polyline or a polygon.
“Geofencing Alert” means the notification generated when an Asset enters,
intersects or exits a Geofence.
"Known User" is a user that is provisioned and/or authenticated
by Company Application (but not necessarily Company web site or network), for
example through the use of usernames, passwords, digital certificates, unique
IDs, smart cards, or other identification technology.
"Known User Subscription License" means the license granted to
a Known User pursuant to an Agreement.
“Limited
Public Website Use” means using the Services
for commercial, non-commercial or government use (provided that such use is not
considered Education or Non-Profit Organization Use as defined in this section)
under the TOU without entering into an Agreement, provided that (i) your use is consistent with the terms of Section 6; (ii)
your Company Application is available on a public website; and (iii) you do not
exceed 125,000 cumulative billable transactions (which will be free of charge)
as defined in the SDKs, in any twelve month period.
“Mobile App” means a Company Application that is a mobile web site or a
mobile app running in a native mobile operating system.
“SDKs” means the software development kits applicable to the
Services, located here, including all updated and
replacement development kits.
“Services” means, the Bing Maps Platform APIs to be provided by
Microsoft.
“Traffic Data” means road traffic data contained in the Services.
“Volume Licensing
Agreement” means a separately executed Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreement
(such as an Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Business and Services Agreement)
that includes licensing of the Services and incorporates this TOU.
“Windows Store App” means a Company Application that uses the Bing
Maps for Windows Store Apps API.
3. Use
with a Bing Maps Agreement. If you have separately entered into a Bing
Maps Agreement, the following terms also apply to your use of the Services. Please
note that we do not provide warranties for the Services under this section.
This TOU also limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 3.8 and 3.9 and
we ask you to read them carefully.
3.1 License
Rights. In exchange for the fees
set forth in your Bing Maps Agreement and subject to your compliance with Sections 1,
2, and 3 of this TOU, you may use the Services solely in
conjunction with and integrated into Company Applications using only methods
and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. Your use shall be subject
to any additional restrictions or rights included in your Bing Maps Agreement.
In the event of any conflict between this TOU and your Bing Maps Agreement, the
Bing Maps Agreement shall prevail. In using the Services and developing
Company Applications you must: obey the law (including local, state, federal or
other applicable consumer privacy regulations); not violate the rights of any
third party; and obey any codes of conduct or other notices we provide.
3.2 General Restrictions. We
do have some restrictions on your use of the Services. In developing
Company Applications, and in using the Services, you may not, nor may you
permit your customers to:
(a) Upload any content to the Services, or use the Services
to display or perform in your Company Application, any content:
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for
which you do not have all necessary permissions from the copyright holder(s);
·
which
includes nudity or is obscene, indecent or pornographic;
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which
is intended to exploit minors in any way;
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which
incites, advocates, or expresses hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous
violence; or
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which is intended to threaten, stalk, defame,
defraud, degrade, victimize, or intimidate an individual or group of
individuals for any reason, including on the basis of age, gender, disability,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, or religion, or to incite or encourage
anyone else to do so.
(b) Copy, store, archive, or create a database of the
Content, except that geocodes may be stored locally only for use with your
Company Applications.
(c) Exceed a total of 10,000,000 non-billable transactions
using the Bing Spatial Data Services API in any 12 month period; or exceed a
total of 5 batch geocoding or file uploads with a maximum of 200,000 records
each, using the Bing Spatial Data Services API, within any 24 hour period.
(d) Use Content, including geocodes, other than in
conjunction with your Company Application and the Services.
(e) Present or alert an end user to individual maneuvers of
a route in any way that is synchronized with the end-user’s sensor-based
position along the route (e.g. turn by turn navigation that tracks end-user’s
position using GPS and communicates a maneuver as the end-user approaches the
location for such maneuver).
(f) Change, obscure, or minimize any logo, trademark,
copyright or other notice of Microsoft or its suppliers, or digital watermarks
in the Content; except that we may make alternative logo,
trademark and copyright attribution requirements available for use with small
maps or on small devices; if available you will find
them here.
(g) Use the Services for business asset tracking, fleet
management, or dispatch including, without limitation, to monitor or
track the location or movement of Asset(s), including to provide guidance based
on the position or routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other
sensor-generated methods, or use Traffic Data with Assets, unless such use is
specifically allowed in your Bing Maps Agreement.
(h) Use Traffic Data other than on Internet based web pages
(or WAP or substantially similar wireless protocol based pages). Nor may you
use Traffic Data with messaging protocols such as email, SMS, MMS or other
plain text or rich text messaging.
(i) License or use Traffic Data
with: standalone traffic application providers; radio/television stations,
newspaper services, government-sponsored traveler information services or any
websites owned by the foregoing.
(j) Use Traffic Data other than in combination with the
Services and not separately. You may not deconstruct or mix and match the
Traffic Data with traffic data from another supplier or associate or add any
traffic data to or in combination with the Traffic Data. You may not use
Traffic Data for television or radio broadcast; in conjunction with weather
related services; for animation; or for storing or provision of continuously
updated traffic data or alerts to end users.
(k) Transmit, sell, license or deliver any infringing,
defamatory, offensive, or illegal products, services or materials.
(l) Violate any applicable U.S. Export Administration
Regulations or end-user, end-use and destination restrictions issued by U.S.
and other governments. The Services are subject to U.S. export jurisdiction.
(m) Use the Services in any way that threatens the
integrity, performance or reliability of the Services including performance or
stress testing, or in any manner that works around any technical limitations in
the Services; except that you may test the performance of the Services provided
such testing is not at levels above Company’s peak performance levels during
the prior three (3) months.
(n) Syndicate, redistribute, resell or sublicense access to
the Services or Content on a standalone basis, unless specifically allowed in
your Bing Maps Agreement.
(o) Falsify or alter any unique referral identifier in, or
assigned to, a Company Application, or otherwise obscure or alter the source of
queries coming from a Company Application.
(p) Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Services,
except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite
this limitation.
(q) Integrate road maps from the Services with road maps supplied by any
third party. You may not replace aerial imagery from the Services with imagery
supplied by any other mapping platform. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may
overlay aerial imagery that you have the rights to use, provided that such
imagery does not substantially replace the base aerial imagery provided by the
Services. You may incorporate various data layers of types not available
through the Services, in the Company Applications (for example, demographic or
school location data). You may combine or overlay Ordnance Survey's United
Kingdom mapping data or data derived from Ordnance Survey’s United Kingdom
mapping data (but not Ordnance Survey roads data) with the Services, provided
that you have procured all such rights to the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom
mapping data, that such use of the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom mapping data
with the Services is consistent with your Ordnance Survey license, and that you
indemnify Microsoft for such use pursuant to Section 3.8.
(r) Use bird’s eye aerial imagery (if it is made available
through the Bing Maps Platform APIs) to reveal latitude, longitude, altitude or
other metadata.
(s) Save, download, print, distribute, transmit or
manipulate the bird’s eye imagery, or offer others that ability, through your
Company Application.
(t) Allow use of bird’s eye imagery of the United States,
Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and/or Japan by a government entity.
(u) Use Content from Ordnance Survey for non-publicly
available Company Applications.
(v) Use the Services or Content with a vehicle’s dashboard,
or a device connected to a vehicle’s dashboard, systems or sensors, except that
the device may be connected to the vehicle power source for charging purposes.
Additional
restrictions may apply to use of particular Content or functionalities, as set
forth in the SDKs from time to time.
3.3 Developer Accounts. Microsoft will provide Company with access to developer
accounts which may be used for up to 10,000 cumulative transactions, of any
type including sessions, both billable or
non-billable, within any 30 day period, across all Company developer accounts.
Developer accounts may only be used by Company for developing, testing and
maintenance of the Services with Company Applications consistent with all other
terms in this Section 3. If these limits interfere with your ability to use the
Services please contact us at maplic@microsoft.com.
3.4 Account Access. We
require use of Access Credentials to use the Services, and require use of
transaction tracking and/or session tracking methods for all uses of the
Services, as described in the applicable SDKs. Company will use the Access
Credentials to: (a) access the Services; and (b) access an administrative
customer service site. Company will not make its Access Credentials available
to any third party except a third party authorized to act on its behalf.
Company is responsible for all use of the Services through its Access
Credentials. Company
will promptly notify us if it learns of a security breach related to your
Access Credentials and use of the Services.
3.5 Bing Maps TOU. You must
provide a hypertext link to the Bing Maps TOU: (i) at the bottom of each
page in your Company Application where the Services can be viewed or accessed,
or (ii) within the terms of use of your Company Application. Microsoft may
change the Bing Maps TOU from time to time and will provide notice as set forth
in Section 3.10(a). Company is responsible for notifying its end users of
changes as appropriate and will comply with Microsoft’s reasonable instructions
in doing so. You may not encourage or require any end user to breach the terms
of the Bing Maps TOU.
3.6 Privacy. Microsoft may collect information such as, but not
limited to, an end user’s IP address, requests, time of submissions and the results
returned to the user, in connection with transaction requests to the Services. All access to and use of
the Services is subject to the data practices set forth in the then-current
Microsoft Online Privacy Statement, a current copy of which is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686. You are responsible for
providing end users with adequate notice of the privacy practices applicable to
your Company Application.
3.7 Intellectual Property and
Reservation of Rights. All rights to the Services and the Content, including
rights of use, not specifically granted under this TOU or your Bing Maps
Agreement are reserved by Microsoft and its suppliers. Except as set forth in your Bing Maps Agreement, this TOU
does not grant Microsoft any right or license to any Company Application or
Company intellectual property, including intellectual property that Company has
licensed from third parties.
Except
for material that we may license to you, we do not claim ownership of the
content you post or otherwise provide to us, that is hosted
by Microsoft or a third party hosting provider on Microsoft’s behalf, related
to the Services (called a “Submission”). However, by posting or
otherwise providing your Submission (and for the avoidance of doubt, where Microsoft
hosts content on your behalf including by a third party hosting provider, this
constitutes a Submission, but where you host or a third party hosts content on
your behalf, other than Microsoft or a third party hosting provider on behalf
of Microsoft, this does not constitute a Submission), you are granting to
Microsoft free permission to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, transcode
and otherwise modify your Submission, each in connection with the Services, and
sublicense these rights to others in order to provide the Services. For every
Submission you make, you must have all rights necessary for you to grant the
permissions in this section. You may
agree (for example in your Bing Maps Agreement) to grant Microsoft additional
rights under this section.
3.8 Duty to Defend.
(a) Microsoft. Microsoft agrees at its expense to defend Company in a
lawsuit or other judicial action, and pay the amount of any adverse final
judgment (after any appeals) or settlement to which Microsoft consents, for any
claim made by an unaffiliated third party that the Services infringe its
copyright, trademark or patent, or misappropriates a trade secret (individually
and collectively, an "Infringement
Claim").
(b) Company.
Company agrees at its expense to defend Microsoft in a lawsuit or other
judicial action, and pay the amount of any adverse final judgment (after any
appeals) or settlement to which Company consents, for any claim made by an
unaffiliated third party to the extent based on the operation of any Company
Application (together with any Infringement Claim, individually and
collectively, a “Claim”).
(c) Conditions. With regard to any Claim,
either party’s obligations are subject to the following conditions: (a) the
party seeking defense (the “Defended
party”) must promptly notify the other party (the “Defending party”) in writing of the Claim; (b) the Defending party
will have sole control over defense or settlement of the Claim; and
(c) the Defended party must provide the Defending party with reasonable
assistance in the defense of the Claim, for which the Defending party will
reimburse Defended party’s reasonable out of pocket expenses. Defended party
will have the right to employ separate counsel and participate in the defense
at Defended party’s expense. Defending party may not settle the Claim without
the Defended party’s prior written consent, if such settlement would result in
any admission, liability or limitation upon future actions of the Defended
party.
(d) Exceptions. Microsoft’s obligations
will not apply to the extent any Claim or adverse final judgment is based on:
(a) any unauthorized use, disposition or promotion of the Services or a
Microsoft trademark by Company; (b) a patent or copyright owned or controlled
by Company or its Affiliate; (c) combining the Services with a non-Microsoft
product, data or business process, if the basis of the
Claim would not have existed but for such combination; or (d) continued use of
any part of the Services after notice from Microsoft to stop use because of any
alleged infringement. Company will reimburse Microsoft for all damages, costs,
and expenses resulting from such actions.
(e) Mitigation. In addition to the
obligations in Section 3.8(a) above, Microsoft may, in connection with a
potential Infringement Claim, at its expense and option, take further action
such as: (a) procuring for Company the rights or licenses necessary to address
the Infringement Claim; (b) replacing or modifying the Services to make it
non-infringing, or (c) terminating the Services and refunding any fees prepaid
by Company for undelivered Services.
(f) Exclusive Remedy. This Section 3.8 provides
Company’s exclusive remedy for third party Infringement Claims.
3.9 Limitation of
Liabilities and Disclaimer.
(a) Limitation of
Liabilities.
Neither party nor its suppliers will be liable for any indirect damages,
(including, without limitation, consequential, special or incidental damages,
damages for loss of profits or revenues, business interruption, or loss of
business information) arising out of or related to the Services, Content, TOU
or Bing Maps Agreement, even if advised of the possibility of such damages or
if the possibility was reasonably foreseeable. Neither party’s aggregate
liability for all claims, actions and/or omissions arising from or related to
this TOU, the Bing Maps Agreement, the Services or the Content will exceed the
greater of (a) the amount of fees paid by Company to Microsoft in the twelve
(12) months preceding the date the claim arises, or (b) two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ($250,000). These limitations will apply even if any remedy
fails its essential purpose. None of the limitations and exclusions in this
section apply to claims related to either party’s violation of the other
party’s intellectual property rights, under Section 3.8 (Duty to Defend),
or to any obligation to pay fees.
(b) Disclaimer of
Warranties.
The Services and all Content are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, any and all representations, warranties
or conditions of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, implied or
statutory warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
title, non-infringement, accuracy or satisfactory quality), all with regard to
the Services and any Content, are expressly excluded. Microsoft makes no
warranty that the Services will operate properly as integrated with the Company
Applications, that the Services will be uninterrupted, or that any Content will
be accurate or complete.
(c) Disclaimer of Reliance. Microsoft specifically
disclaims any liability for end users’
reliance on the Services. Without
limiting the foregoing, Microsoft shall have no liability for harm to end users
resulting from reliance on any map or direction provided hereunder.
3.10 General Legal Terms.
(a) Notices. All legal notices in connection with the
Bing Maps Agreement or this TOU must be sent by post, express courier,
facsimile or email to the addresses and numbers indicated in the Address
Schedule of the Bing Maps Agreement. You are responsible for keeping your
contact information up to date.
This TOU is in electronic
form. We have promised to send you certain information in connection with the
Services and have the right to send you certain additional information,
including that which may be required by law, which we may send in electronic
form. If you do not consent to receive notices electronically, you must stop
using the Services.
We may provide required
information to you:
·
at
the e-mail address in your Bing Maps Agreement or any email address you
specified via www.bingmapsportal.com (you are responsible for keeping your
contact information up to date); or
·
by posting on any portion of this TOU or to another Microsoft
web site that will be designated in advance for this purpose.
Notices will be deemed
given on the date shown on the postal return receipt or on the courier,
facsimile or email confirmation delivery.
(b) How We May Change the
TOU. We may update the TOU from time to time and the
impact of such changes is governed by your Bing Maps Agreement.
(c) Force Majeure. Microsoft and Company will not be in default
of the Bing Maps Agreement or this TOU if performance is delayed or prevented
for reasons beyond its control, so long as it resumes performance as soon as
practical.
(d) Survival. Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.7 through and
including 3.10 will survive the termination or expiration of your Bing Maps
Agreement for any reason.
(e) Assignment. The Bing Maps Agreement and TOU will be
binding on the parties and their successors and assigns. We may assign the Bing
Maps Agreement and TOU, in whole or in part, at any time with notice to you.
Company may assign the Bing Maps Agreement to an Affiliate or to a third party
on prior notice to Microsoft, provided that the assignee agrees in writing to be
liable for all debts and obligations of the Company under the Bing Maps
Agreement.
(f) Enforceability and
Interpreting the TOU. All parts of this TOU apply to the maximum extent
permitted by law. If any provision of the Bing Maps Agreement or this TOU is
unenforceable, the parties (or, if the parties cannot agree, a court) will
revise it so that it can be enforced. Even if no revision is possible,
the rest of the Bing Maps Agreement and this TOU will remain in place. This
TOU, together with your Bing Maps Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement
between you and us regarding your use of the Services.
(g) Taxes. The amounts to be paid by
Company to Microsoft under a respective Bing Maps Agreement do not include any
foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes,
duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in
connection with the transactions or sessions contemplated under the Bing Maps
Agreement. Company shall pay to Microsoft any applicable value added,
sales or use taxes or like taxes that are owed by Company solely as a result of
entering into the Bing Maps Agreement and which are permitted to be collected
from Company by Microsoft under applicable law. Company may provide to
Microsoft a valid exemption certificate in which case Microsoft shall not
collect the taxes covered by such certificate. Microsoft is not liable
for any of the taxes of Company that Company is legally obligated to pay
(“Company’s Taxes”) which are incurred or arise in connection with or related
to the sale of goods and services under the Bing Maps Agreement, and all such
taxes (including, but not limited to, net income or gross receipts taxes,
franchise taxes, and property taxes) shall be the financial responsibility of
Company. Company agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Microsoft harmless
from Company’s Taxes or claims, causes of action, costs (including, without
limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and any other liabilities of any nature
whatsoever related to such taxes. If any taxes are required by law to be
withheld on payments made by Company to Microsoft, Company may deduct such
taxes from the amount owed Microsoft and pay such taxes to the appropriate
taxing authority; provided however, that Company shall promptly secure and
deliver to Microsoft an official receipt for any such taxes withheld or other
documents necessary to enable Microsoft to claim a U.S. Foreign Tax Credit.
Company will make certain that any taxes withheld are minimized to the extent
possible under applicable law.
(h) Choice of Law and
Location for Resolving Disputes. If you are headquartered anywhere other than
Europe: (i) Washington State law governs the
interpretation of this TOU and your Bing Maps Agreement and applies to claims
for breach, regardless of conflict of laws principles; and (ii) you
and we irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state
or federal courts in King County, Washington, USA, for all disputes arising out
of or relating to the Bing Maps Agreement and TOU. If you are
headquartered in Europe, the Bing Maps Agreement and TOU will be construed and
governed by the substantive laws of England and Wales. The parties waive all
defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens.
Process may be served on either party in the manner authorized by applicable
law or court rule. In any dispute relating to the Bing Maps Agreement or TOU
the prevailing party will be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and
costs.
(i)
No Third Party Beneficiaries. This TOU is solely for your and our benefit.
It is not for the benefit of any other person, except for permitted successors
and assigns.
(j) No Joint Venture/Independent Development. The parties are operating
as independent contractors, and nothing in this TOU will be construed as
creating a partnership, franchise, joint venture, employer-employee
or agency relationship.
(k) Waiver. Any delay or failure of either party to
exercise a right or remedy will not result in a waiver of that, or any other,
right or remedy. No waiver will be effective unless made in writing and signed
by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
(l) Logos; Marketing. Except as otherwise agreed to by the parties in
writing, neither party will use any logo or trademark of the other party for
marketing or any other purpose without the other party’s prior written
approval.
(m) Print Rights. If print rights are available for the Services, such
rights will be included here.
4. Use
with a Volume Licensing Agreement. If you have separately entered into a Volume
Licensing Agreement, the following terms also apply to your use of the
Services.
4.1 License
Rights. In exchange for the fees
set forth in your Volume Licensing Agreement and subject to your compliance with Sections 1,
2, and 4 of this TOU, you may use the Services solely in
conjunction with and integrated into Company Applications using only methods
and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. Your use shall be subject
to any additional restrictions or rights included in your Volume Licensing
Agreement. In the event of any conflict between this TOU and your Volume
Licensing Agreement, the Volume Licensing Agreement shall prevail. In using the Services and
developing Company Applications you must: obey the law (including local, state,
federal or other applicable consumer privacy regulations); not violate the
rights of any third party; and obey any codes of conduct or other notices we
provide.
4.2 General Restrictions. We
do have some restrictions on your use of the Services. In developing
Company Applications, and in using the Services, you may not, nor may you
permit your customers to:
(a) Upload any content to the Services, or use the Services
to display or perform in your Company Application, any content:
·
for
which you do not have all necessary permissions from the copyright holder(s);
·
which
includes nudity or is obscene, indecent or pornographic;
·
which
is intended to exploit minors in any way;
·
which
incites, advocates, or expresses hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous
violence; or
·
which is intended to threaten, stalk, defame,
defraud, degrade, victimize, or intimidate an individual or group of
individuals for any reason, including on the basis of age, gender, disability,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, or religion, or to incite or encourage
anyone else to do so.
(b) Copy, store, archive, or create a database of the
Content, except that geocodes may be stored locally only for use with your
Company Applications.
(c) Exceed a total of 10,000,000 non-billable transactions
using the Bing Spatial Data Services API in any 12 month period; or exceed a
total of 5 batch geocoding or file uploads with a maximum of 200,000 records
each, using the Bing Spatial Data Services API, within any 24 hour period. If
these limits interfere with your ability to use the Services please contact us
at maplic@microsoft.com.
(d) Use Content, including geocodes, other than in
conjunction with your Company Application and the Services.
(e) Present or alert an end user to individual maneuvers of
a route in any way that is synchronized with the end-user’s sensor-based
position along the route (e.g. turn by turn navigation that tracks end-user’s
position using GPS and communicates a maneuver as the end-user approaches the
location for such maneuver).
(f) Change, obscure, or minimize any logo, trademark, copyright
or other notice of Microsoft or its suppliers, or digital watermarks in the
Content; except that we may make alternative logo,
trademark and copyright attribution requirements available for use with small
maps or on small devices; if available you will find them here.
(g) Use the Services for business asset tracking, fleet
management, or dispatch including, without limitation, to monitor or
track the location or movement of Asset(s), including to provide guidance based
on the position or routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other
sensor-generated methods, unless you have purchased one or more of the
following SKU’s: Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management North
America with Routing Per Asset; Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe with
Routing Per Asset;
Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management North America without Routing Per Asset; or
Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe without Routing Per Asset. You may only provide guidance based on the
position or routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other
sensor-generated methods if you purchased one or more of the following: Bing Maps Mobile
Asset Management North America with Routing Per Asset or
Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe with Routing Per Asset.
(h) Use the Services to track Assets that are consumer
devices, including, without limitation to monitor or track the location or
movement of Asset(s), including to provide guidance based on the position or
routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other sensor-generated
methods, unless you have purchased one or more of the following SKU’s: Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Consumer
Tracked Per Asset; or Bing Maps Public Website Usage Add-on SL.
(i) Use Traffic Data other
than on Internet based web pages (or WAP or substantially similar wireless
protocol based pages). Nor may you use Traffic Data with Company Applications
that track Assets of any type (including business, fleet or consumer devices)
or messaging protocols such as email, SMS, MMS or other plain text or rich text
messaging.
(j) License or use Traffic Data with: standalone traffic
application providers; radio/television stations, newspaper services,
government-sponsored traveler information services or any websites owned by the
foregoing.
(k) Use Traffic Data other than in combination with the
Services and not separately. You may not deconstruct or mix and match the
Traffic Data with traffic data from another supplier or associate or add any
traffic data to or in combination with the Traffic Data. You may not use
Traffic Data for television or radio broadcast; in conjunction with weather
related services; for animation; or for storing or provision of continuously
updated traffic data or alerts to end users.
(l) Transmit, sell, license or deliver any infringing,
defamatory, offensive, or illegal products, services or materials.
(m) Violate any applicable U.S. Export Administration
Regulations or end-user, end-use and destination restrictions issued by U.S.
and other governments. The Services are subject to U.S. export jurisdiction.
(n) Use the Services in any way that threatens the
integrity, performance or reliability of the Services including performance or
stress testing, or in any manner that works around any technical limitations in
the Services; except that you may test the performance of the Services provided
such testing is not at levels above Company’s peak performance levels during
the prior three (3) months.
(o) Syndicate, redistribute, resell or sublicense access to
the Services or Content on a standalone basis, unless specifically allowed in
your Volume Licensing Agreement.
(p) Falsify or alter any
unique referral identifier in, or assigned to, a Company Application, or
otherwise obscure or alter the source of queries coming from a Company
Application.
(q) Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Services,
except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite
this limitation.
(r) Integrate road maps from the Services with road maps supplied by any
third party. You may not replace aerial imagery from the Services with imagery
supplied by any other mapping platform. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may
overlay aerial imagery that you have the rights to use, provided that such
imagery does not substantially replace the base aerial imagery provided by the
Services. You may incorporate various data layers of types not available
through the Services, in the Company Applications (for example, demographic or
school location data). You may combine or overlay Ordnance Survey's United
Kingdom mapping data or data derived from Ordnance Survey’s United Kingdom
mapping data (but not Ordnance Survey roads data) with the Services, provided
that you have procured all such rights to the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom
mapping data, that such use of the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom mapping data
with the Services is consistent with your Ordnance Survey license, and that you
indemnify Microsoft for all such use pursuant to your Volume Licensing
Agreement.
(s) Use bird’s eye aerial imagery (if it is made available
through the Bing Maps Platform APIs) to reveal latitude, longitude, altitude or
other metadata.
(t) Save, download, print, distribute, transmit or
manipulate the bird’s eye imagery, or offer others that ability, through your
Company Application.
(u) Allow use of bird’s eye imagery of the United States,
Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and/or Japan by a government entity.
(v) Use Content from Ordnance Survey for non-publicly
available Company Applications.
(w) Use the Services or Content with a vehicle’s dashboard,
or a device connected to a vehicle’s dashboard, systems or sensors, except that
the device may be connected to the vehicle power source for charging
purposes.
Additional
restrictions may apply to use of particular Content or functionalities, as set
forth in the SDKs from time to time.
4.3 Services Update. Microsoft will make commercially reasonable efforts to
provide advance notice of material updates to the Services. When Microsoft
reasonably believes an update will require significant changes to all Company
Applications using the Services (such as major version releases – e.g. v1.0 to
v2.0), Microsoft will keep the previous version (one version back) of the
Services available for at least twelve (12) months after the release of the new
version. Company may be unable to access the Services if it does not upgrade
Company Applications to the latest version during that time.
4.4
Account Access and
Developer Accounts.
(a) We require use of
Access Credentials to use the Services, and require use of transaction tracking
and/or session tracking methods for all uses of the Services, as described in
the applicable SDKs. Company will use the Access Credentials to: (i) access the Services, and (ii) access an administrative
customer service site. Company will not make its Access Credentials available
to any third party except a third party authorized to act on its behalf.
Company is responsible for all use of the Services through its Access
Credentials. Company
will promptly notify us if it learns of a security breach related to your
Access Credentials and use of the Services.
(b)
Microsoft
will provide Company with access to developer accounts which may be used for up
to 10,000 cumulative transactions, of any type including sessions, both billable or non-billable, within any 30 day period,
across all Company developer accounts. Developer accounts may only be used by
Company for developing, testing and maintenance of the Services with Company
Applications consistent with all other terms in this Section 4. If these limits
interfere with your ability to use the Services please contact us at maplic@microsoft.com.
4.5
End User Terms. You must provide a hypertext link to the Bing
Maps TOU: (i) at the bottom of each page in your Company Application
where the Services can be viewed or accessed, or (ii) within the terms of use
of your Company Application. Microsoft may change the Bing Maps TOU from time to time and will provide notice as set forth in
Section 4.8(a). Company is responsible for notifying its end users of changes
as appropriate and will comply with Microsoft’s reasonable instructions in
doing so. You may not encourage or require any end user to breach the terms of
the Bing Maps TOU.
4.6
Privacy. Microsoft
may collect information such as, but not limited to, an end user’s IP address,
requests, time of submissions and the results returned to the user, in
connection with transaction requests to the Services. All access to and use of
the Services is subject to the data practices set forth in the then-current
Microsoft Online Privacy Statement, a current copy of which is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686. You are responsible for
providing end users with adequate notice of the privacy practices applicable to
your Company Application.
4.7
Intellectual Property and Reservation of Rights. All rights to the
Services and the Content, including rights of use, not specifically granted
under this TOU or your Volume Licensing Agreement are reserved by Microsoft and
its suppliers. Except as set forth in your Volume Licensing Agreement,
this TOU does not grant Microsoft any right or license to any Company
Application or Company intellectual property, including intellectual property
that Company has licensed from third parties.
Except
for material that we may license to you, we do not claim ownership of the
content you post or otherwise provide to us, that is hosted
by Microsoft or a third party hosting provider on Microsoft’s behalf, related
to the Services (called a “Submission”). However, by posting or
otherwise providing your Submission (and for the avoidance of doubt, where
Microsoft hosts content on your behalf including by a third party hosting
provider, this constitutes a Submission, but where you host or a third party
hosts content on your behalf, other than Microsoft or a third party hosting
provider on behalf of Microsoft, this does not constitute a Submission), you
are granting to Microsoft free permission to use, copy, distribute, display,
publish, transcode and otherwise modify your Submission, each in connection
with the Services, and sublicense these rights to others in order to provide
the Services. For every Submission you make, you must have all rights necessary
for you to grant the permissions in this section. You may agree (for example in your Volume
Licensing Agreement) to grant Microsoft additional rights under this
section.
4.8 General Legal Terms.
(a) Notices. All Bing Maps legal notices between the
parties will be sent consistent with your Volume Licensing Agreement. You are
responsible for keeping your contact information up to date. This TOU is in
electronic form. We have promised to send you certain information in connection
with the Services and have the right to send you certain additional information,
including that which may be required by law, which we may send in electronic
form. If you do not consent to receive notices electronically, you must stop
using the Services.
We may provide required
information to you:
·
at
the e-mail address provided through your Volume Licensing Agreement or any
email address you specified via www.bingmapsportal.com (you are responsible for keeping your
contact information up to date); or
·
by posting on any portion of this TOU or to another Microsoft
web site that will be designated in advance for this purpose.
Notices will be deemed
given on the date shown on the postal return receipt or on the courier,
facsimile or email confirmation delivery.
(b)
How We May Change the TOU. We may update the TOU from time
to time and the impact of such changes is governed by your Volume Licensing
Agreement.
(c) Survival. Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.7 and
4.8 will survive the termination or expiration of your Volume Licensing
Agreement for any reason.
(d) Enforceability and
Interpreting the TOU. All parts of this TOU apply to the maximum extent
permitted by law. If any provision of the Volume Licensing Agreement or this
TOU is unenforceable, the parties (or, if the parties cannot agree, a court)
will revise it so that it can be enforced. Even if no revision is
possible, the rest of the Volume Licensing Agreement and this TOU will remain
in place. This TOU, together with your Volume Licensing Agreement, constitutes
the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the Services.
(e) No Third Party
Beneficiaries. This
TOU is solely for your and our benefit. It is not for the benefit of any other
person, except for permitted successors and assigns.
(f) No Joint Venture/Independent Development. The parties are operating
as independent contractors, and nothing in this TOU will be construed as
creating a partnership, franchise, joint venture, employer-employee
or agency relationship.
(g) Waiver. Any delay or failure of either party to
exercise a right or remedy will not result in a waiver of that, or any other,
right or remedy. No waiver will be effective unless made in writing and signed
by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
(h) Logos; Marketing. Except as otherwise agreed to by the parties in
writing, neither party will use any logo or trademark of the other party for
marketing or any other purpose without the other party’s prior written
approval.
(i) Volume Licensing Agreement
Terms.
For clarity, the following terms will be governed as set forth in your Volume
Licensing Agreement: Confidentiality; Duty to Defend; Limitation of Liabilities
and Disclaimers; Taxes; Choice of Law and Location for Resolving Disputes;
Force Majeure; and Assignment.
(j) Print Rights. If print rights are available for the Services, such
rights will be included here.
4.9 Company Application
Terms. The
following terms apply respectively for each of the following offerings purchased
through Volume Licensing.
(a)
Bing Maps Enterprise Platform Service
SL and a Bing Maps Public Website Usage Add-on SL: If you have purchased a Bing Maps Enterprise
Platform Service SL and a Bing Maps Public Website Usage Add-on SL you may only
use the Services in: (i) a Company Application that
will serve as a map display and/or locator, available to consumers on Company
owned and operated publically available websites (including mobile websites or
apps), which may be offered for a fee and/or require a login; or (ii) a Company
Application which is used to track, view and manage Assets that are consumer
devices based on their GPS or other sensor based location. You may not use the Services for or in
connection with Company Applications used by authenticated enterprise users
(employees or agents of the enterprise) over a private network.
(b)
Bing Maps Enterprise Platform Service
SL and a Bing Maps Internal Website Usage Add-on SL: If you have purchased a Bing Maps Platform
Service SL and a Bing Maps Internal Website Usage Add-on SL you may only use
the Services in a Company Application accessed by your employees on your
private network, to access and display maps and related information. Your Company Application may be accessed via
a web browser or an installed client, provided that you strictly control
functionality in the user interface and authentication of users.
(c)
Bing Maps Enterprise Platform Service
SL and Bing Maps Known User SL: If you have purchased a Bing Maps Platform
Service SL and a Bing Maps Known User SL you may only use the Services in a
Company Application accessed by your employees on your private network, to
access and display maps and related information. Your Company Application may be accessed via
a web browser or an installed client, provided that you strictly control
functionality in the user interface and authentication of users. You may not
exceed 100,000 total requests or 20 requests per Known User, whichever is
greater, of
forward or reverse
geocoding transactions, sessions or routing requests, all measured as an
average over any 24 hour period.
(d)
Bing Maps Enterprise Platform Service SL and Bing Maps Light Known User SL:
If you have purchased a Bing Maps
Platform Service SL and a Bing Maps Light Known User SL you may only use the
Services in a Company Application accessed by your employees on your private
network, to access and display maps and related information. Your Company Application may be accessed via
a web browser or an installed client, provided that you strictly control
functionality in the user interface and authentication of users. You may not exceed 25,000 total requests or 10
requests per Known User, whichever is greater, of forward or reverse geocoding
transactions, sessions or routing requests, all measured as an average over any
24 hour period.
Subject to Section 4.2(r), Company may
only overlay administrative boundaries or other map content provided that the
Company Application’s user interface prevents end users from:
·
loading
additional map content layers of any kind;
·
editing or creating map
content. For avoidance of doubt, simple
annotations such as a line, arrow, polygon or circle to highlight an area is
allowed and not considered map content under this restriction; and
·
executing
any spatial query other than proximity (find the nearest), point-in-polygon,
distance between two points or find and
route within the Services. For avoidance of doubt, Company Application
may perform geofences, buffers or query a spatially
enabled database.
(e)
Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Platform Add-on SL:
(i) This section applies to your use if you have purchased a
Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Platform Add-on SL and any one or more of the
following: Bing Maps Mobile Asset
Management North America with Routing Per Asset; Bing Maps Mobile Asset
Management Europe with Routing Per Asset; Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management North
America without Routing Per Asset; or Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe
without Routing Per Asset.
·
You
may only use the Services in a Company Application which is used by your
employees for mobile asset management to track, view and manage Assets based on their GPS or other sensor
based location. Company Application may be accessed via a web browser or an
installed client, provided that
you strictly control functionality in the user interface and authentication of
users.
·
You may not
exceed 100,000 total requests or 20 requests per Asset, whichever is greater,
of forward
geocoding
transactions, sessions or routing requests, all measured as an average over any
24
hour period. If you choose to use the
Bing Spatial Data Services API for batch geocoding, the 10,000,000 non-billable
transaction limit set forth in Section 4.2(c) will not apply to any reverse geocoding. You also may not reverse geocode the position of
more than one Asset per minute over any 24 hour period using the Bing Spatial
Data Services API or otherwise.
·
Notwithstanding
Section 4.2(w), you may use the Services to cache a Geofence
and/or Geofencing Alerts on a device only with your
Company Application, provided that neither the Geofence
and/or Geofencing Alerts interacts with the vehicle’s
dashboard, systems or sensors.
(ii)
This section applies to your use if you have purchased a Bing Maps Mobile Asset
Management Platform Add-on SL and Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Consumer
Tracked Per Asset.
·
You may only use the Services in a Company Application
which is used to track, view and manage Assets that are consumer devices based
on their GPS or other sensor based location. Company Application may be
accessed via a web browser or an installed client, provided that
you strictly control functionality in the user interface and authentication of
users.
·
You may
not exceed 50,000 total requests or 20 requests per Asset, whichever is
greater, of forward geocoding, sessions or routing requests, all measured as an
average over any 24 hour period. If you
choose to use the Bing Spatial Data Services API for batch geocoding, the
10,000,000 non-billable transaction limit set forth in Section 4.2(c) will not
apply to any reverse geocoding. You also may not exceed more than 50 reverse
geocoding requests per Asset over any 24 hour period using the Bing Spatial
Data Services API or otherwise.
5. Education or Non-Profit
Organization Use.
Subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, 5 and 8 of this TOU, you may
develop or host a Company Application that uses the Services to display results
for Education or Non-profit Organization Use (as defined in Section 2). You may use the Services solely in conjunction with and
integrated into Company Applications using only methods and means of access
that are documented in the SDKs. Please note that we do not provide warranties
for the Services for Education or Non-Profit Organization Use under this
Section 5. This TOU also limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 8.8 and
8.9 and we ask you to read them carefully.
6. Limited
Public Website Use. Subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, 6 and 8 of
this TOU, you may develop or host a Company Application that uses the Services
for Limited Public Website Use (as defined in Section 2). You may use the Services solely in conjunction with and
integrated into Company Applications using only methods and means of access
that are documented in the SDKs. If you will exceed the Limited Public Website
Use transaction limits or limits on use of the Bing Spatial Data Services API,
please contact us at maplic@microsoft.com to discuss how you can license additional transactions. Please note that we do not
provide warranties for the Services for Limited Public Website Use under this
Section 6. This TOU also limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 8.8
and 8.9 and we ask you to read them carefully.
7. Evaluation
for Commercial, Non-Commercial or Government Use. Subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, 7
and 8 of this TOU, you may develop or host a Company Application that uses the
Services for a 90 day evaluation period. You may
use the Services solely in conjunction with and integrated into Company
Applications using only methods and means of access that are documented in the
SDKs. If you will exceed the Evaluation for Commercial, Non-Commercial or
Government Use transaction limits or limits on use of the Bing Spatial Data
Services API, please contact us at maplic@microsoft.com to discuss how you can license additional transactions
for evaluation use. Please
note that we do not provide warranties for the Services for Evaluation for
Commercial, Non-Commercial or Government Use under this Section 7. This TOU
also limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 8.8 and 8.9 and we ask
you to read them carefully.
7.1 Use of Bird’s Eye Aerial Imagery. You may use bird’s eye
aerial imagery (if it is made available through the Bing Maps Platform APIs)
consistent with the following restrictions:
(a) You may not use bird’s eye aerial imagery to reveal
latitude, longitude, altitude or other metadata.
(b) You may not save, download, print, distribute, transmit
or manipulate the bird’s eye imagery, or offer others that ability, through
your Company Application.
(c) You may not allow use of bird’s eye imagery of the
United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and/or Japan by a
government entity.
8.
General Terms for use of
the Services under TOU Sections 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10.
If
you use the Services under Sections 5 (Education or Non-Profit Organization
Use), 6 (Limited Public Website Use) or 7 (Evaluation for Commercial,
Non-Commercial or Government Use), the terms in this Section 8 apply to your
use of the Services.
8.1
General Limitations and Conditions of the Services. In using the Services and
developing Company Applications you must: obey the law (including local, state,
federal or other applicable consumer privacy regulations); not violate the
rights of any third party; and obey any codes of conduct or other notices we
provide. We may use technology or other means to protect the Services that you
will not circumvent. These means may include, for example, filtering to
increase security. Microsoft may, in its sole discretion, limit the: (i) rate at which the Services, or any subset of it, may be
called, (ii) amount of storage made available to each Services account, or
(iii) length of individual content segments that may be uploaded to, or served
from, the Services (all of the foregoing being forms of “Throttling”).
8.2
General Restrictions. We do have some restrictions on your use of the Services. In
developing Company Applications, and in using the Services, you may not, nor
may you permit your customers to:
(a) Upload any content to the Services, or use the Services
to display or perform in your Company Application, any content:
·
for
which you do not have all necessary permissions from the copyright holder(s);
·
which
includes nudity or is obscene, indecent or pornographic;
·
which
is intended to exploit minors in any way;
·
which
incites, advocates, or expresses hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous
violence; or
·
which is intended to threaten, stalk, defame,
defraud, degrade, victimize, or intimidate an individual or group of
individuals for any reason, including on the basis of age, gender, disability,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, or religion, or to incite or encourage
anyone else to do so.
(b) Copy, store, archive, or create a database of the
Content, except that geocodes may be stored locally only for use with your
Company Applications.
(c) Exceed 50,000 cumulative billable transactions (which
will be free of charge) as defined in the SDKs, within any 24 hour period, with
the exception of Evaluation for Commercial, Non-Commercial or Government Use
where you may not exceed 10,000 cumulative billable transactions (which will be
free of charge) as defined in the SDKs, in any 30 day period. Nor may you
exceed a total of 5 batch geocoding or file uploads with a maximum of 50
records each, using the Bing Spatial Data Services API, within any 24 hour
period.
(d) Use Content, including geocodes, other than in
conjunction with your Company Application and the Services.
(e) Present or alert an end user to individual maneuvers of
a route in any way that is synchronized with the end-user’s sensor-based
position along the route (e.g. turn by turn navigation that tracks end-user’s
position using GPS and communicates a maneuver as the end-user approaches the
location for such maneuver).
(f) Change, obscure, or minimize any logo, trademark,
copyright or other notice of Microsoft or its suppliers; digital watermarks in
the Content; or any search box, portion of the results, or advertisement;
except that we may make alternative logo, trademark, and
copyright attribution requirements available for use with small maps or on
small devices; if available you will find them here.
(g) Use the Services for business asset tracking, fleet
management, or dispatch including, without limitation, to monitor or
track the location or movement of Asset(s), including to provide guidance based
on the position or routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other
sensor-generated methods.
(h) Use bird’s eye aerial imagery (except you may use bird’s
eye aerial imagery if your use of the Services is under Section 7 and
consistent with Section 7.1 accordingly).
(i) Use Traffic Data other
than on Internet based web pages (or WAP or substantially similar wireless
protocol based pages). Nor may you use Traffic Data with messaging protocols
such as email, SMS, MMS or other plain text or rich text messaging.
(j) License or use Traffic Data with: standalone traffic
application providers; radio/television stations, newspaper services,
government-sponsored traveler information services or any websites owned by the
foregoing.
(k) Use Traffic Data other than in combination with the
Services and not separately. You may not deconstruct or mix and match the
Traffic Data with traffic data from another supplier or associate or add any
traffic data to or in combination with the Traffic Data. You may not use
Traffic Data for television or radio broadcast; in conjunction with weather
related services; for animation; or for storing or provision of continuously
updated traffic data or alerts to end users.
(l) Use the Services in a way that harms us or our
Affiliates or suppliers.
(m) Transmit, sell, license or deliver any infringing,
defamatory, offensive, or illegal products, services or materials.
(n) Violate any applicable U.S. Export Administration
Regulations or end-user, end-use and destination restrictions issued by U.S.
and other governments. The Services are subject to U.S. export jurisdiction.
(o) Use the Services in any way that threatens the
integrity, performance, or reliability of the Services including performance or
stress testing, or in any manner that works around any technical limitations in
the Services.
(p) Syndicate, redistribute, resell or sublicense access to
the Services or Content on a standalone basis.
(q) Falsify or alter any unique referral identifier in, or
assigned to, a Company Application, or otherwise obscure or alter the source of
queries coming from a Company Application.
(r) Use any automated process or service to access and/or
use the Services (such as a BOT, a spider, periodic caching of information
stored by Microsoft, or “meta-searching”).
(s) Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Services,
except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite
this limitation.
(t) Integrate road maps from the Services with road maps supplied by any
third party. You may not replace aerial imagery from the Services with imagery
supplied by any other mapping platform. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may
overlay aerial imagery that you have the rights to use, provided that such
imagery does not substantially replace the base aerial imagery provided by the
Services. You may incorporate various data layers of types not available
through the Services, in the Company Applications (for example, demographic or
school location data). You may combine or overlay Ordnance Survey's United
Kingdom mapping data or data derived from Ordnance Survey’s United Kingdom
mapping data (but not Ordnance Survey roads data) with the Services, provided
that you have procured all such rights to the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom
mapping data, that such use of the Ordnance Survey United Kingdom mapping data
with the Services is consistent with your Ordnance Survey license, and that you
indemnify Microsoft for such use pursuant to this TOU.
(u) Use Content from Ordnance Survey for non-publicly
available Company Applications.
(v) Use the Services
or Content with a vehicle’s dashboard, or a device connected to a vehicle’s
dashboard, systems or sensors, except that the device may be connected to the
vehicle power source for charging purposes.
Additional
restrictions may apply to use of particular Content or functionalities, as set
forth in the SDKs from time to time. We reserve the right to include a search
box or advertising in the Content served through the Services. You will not
intentionally omit or obscure such advertising, search box or search results
including advertising when displaying such Content to end users.
8.3
Account Access. We require use of Access Credentials to use the Services,
and require use of transaction tracking and/or session tracking methods for all
uses of the Services, as described in the applicable SDKs. Company will use the
Access Credentials to: (a) access the Services, and (b) access an
administrative customer service site. Company will not make its Access
Credentials available to any third party except a third party authorized to act
on its behalf. Company is responsible for all use of the Services through its
Access Credentials. Company
will promptly notify us if it learns of a security breach related to your
Access Credentials and use of the Services.
8.4
Bing Maps TOU. You must provide a hypertext link to the Bing
Maps TOU: (i) at the bottom of each page in your Company Application
where the Services can be viewed or accessed, or (ii) within the terms of use
of your Company Application. Microsoft may change the Bing Maps TOU from time to time. Company is responsible for notifying
its end users of changes as appropriate and will comply with Microsoft’s
reasonable instructions in doing so. You may not encourage or require any end
user to breach the terms of the Bing Maps TOU.
8.5
Privacy. Microsoft
may collect information such as, but not limited to, an end user’s IP address,
requests, time of submissions and the results returned to the user, in
connection with transaction requests to the Services. All access to and use of
the Services is subject to the data practices set forth in the then-current
Microsoft Online Privacy Statement, a current copy of which is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686. You are responsible for
providing end users with adequate notice of the privacy practices applicable to
your Company Application.
8.6
Intellectual Property and Reservation of Rights. Microsoft and its suppliers
retain all right, title and interest in and to the Services, Content, the SDKs
and all intellectual property rights therein, except for the limited rights
expressly granted herein. This TOU does not
grant Microsoft any right or license to any Company Application or Company
intellectual property including intellectual property that Company has licensed
from third parties.
Except for material that we
may license to you, we do not claim ownership of the content you post or
otherwise provide to us, that is hosted by Microsoft or a
third party hosting provider on Microsoft’s behalf, related to the Services
(called a “Submission”). However, by posting or otherwise providing your
Submission (and for the avoidance of doubt, where Microsoft hosts content on
your behalf including by a third party hosting provider, this constitutes a
Submission, but where you host or a third party hosts content on your behalf,
other than Microsoft or a third party hosting provider on behalf of Microsoft,
this does not constitute a Submission), you are granting to Microsoft free
permission to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, transcode and otherwise
modify your Submission, each in connection with the Services, and sublicense
these rights to others in order to provide the Services. We may refuse to
publish and may remove your Submission from the Services at any time. For every
Submission you make, you must have all rights necessary for you to grant the
permissions in this section. You may
agree to grant Microsoft additional rights under this section.
8.7
Your Responsibility. You will indemnify and hold
the Microsoft parties harmless from and against any and all loss, liability,
and expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) suffered or incurred by
reason of any claims, proceedings or suits based on or arising out of any
breach by you of any obligation or warranty under this TOU. You will be solely
responsible for defending any claim, subject to Microsoft's right to
participate with counsel it selects, and you will not agree to any settlement
that imposes any obligation or liability on the Microsoft parties without
Microsoft's prior written consent.
8.8
We Make No Warranty. We provide the Services and
Content “as-is,” “with all faults”, “as available” and without warranty of any
kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, any
and all representations, warranties or conditions of any kind whatsoever
(including, but not limited to, implied or statutory warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement,
accuracy or satisfactory quality), all with regard to the Services and any
Content, are expressly excluded. Microsoft makes no warranty that the Services
will operate properly as integrated with the Company Applications, that the
Services will be uninterrupted, or that any Content will be accurate or
complete. Microsoft specifically disclaims any liability for end users’ reliance on the Services. Without limiting the foregoing,
Microsoft shall have no liability for harm to end users resulting from reliance
on any map or direction provided hereunder.
8.9
Liability Limitation. You can recover
from Microsoft only direct damages up to an amount equal to fees you have paid
to us for the Services for one month. Neither
party nor its suppliers will be liable for any indirect damages, (including,
without limitation, consequential, special or incidental damages, damages for
loss of profits or revenues, business interruption, or loss of business
information) arising out of or related to the Services, Content, or TOU even if
advised of the possibility of such damages or if the possibility was reasonably
foreseeable.
8.10
Changes to the Services; Cancellation or Suspension of
the Services; Audit. We
may change, cancel or suspend your use of the Services at any time. Some
changes to the Services may cause existing Company Applications to stop
working. Our cancellation or suspension may be without cause and/or without
notice. Upon Services cancellation, your right to use
the Services stops right away. Once the Services are cancelled or suspended,
any data you have stored on the Services may not be retrieved later. Microsoft
reserves the right to verify your compliance with this TOU.
8.11
General Legal Terms.
(a) How We May Change the
Contract. We may update the TOU from time to time. If we change this TOU, then
we will provide notice as provided in Section 8.11(g). If you do not agree to
these changes, then you must stop using the Services. If you do not stop using
the Services, then your use of the Services will continue under the changed
TOU. In the future we may choose to charge for all use of the Services, or
change the requirements for use free of charge. If we choose to change the fee
requirements for the Services, Microsoft will provide notice of such terms as
provided in Section 8.11(g), and you may elect to stop using the Services
rather than incurring fees.
(b) Term. This TOU will become
effective on your first use of the Services. This TOU may be terminated
immediately for any reason and without notice by Microsoft. If this TOU
terminates, all rights granted to you by this TOU will automatically terminate
and you will cease to have any rights to use the Services.
(c) Force Majeure. Microsoft and Company will not be in default
of this TOU if performance is delayed or prevented for reasons beyond its
control, so long as it resumes performance as soon as practical.
(d) Survival. Sections 8.1, 8.2 and 8.6 through and
including 8.11 will survive the termination or expiration of this TOU for any
reason.
(e) Assignment. We may assign the TOU, in whole or in part,
at any time with notice to you.
(f) Enforceability and Interpreting the TOU. All
parts of this TOU apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. If any
provision of the TOU is unenforceable, the parties (or, if the parties cannot
agree, a court) will revise it so that it can be enforced. Even if no
revision is possible, the rest of the TOU will remain in place. This TOU constitutes
the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the Services.
(g)
Notices; Consent Regarding Electronic Information. This TOU is in electronic
form. We have promised to send you certain information in connection with the
Services and have the right to send you certain additional information,
including legal notices and that which may be required by law, which we may
send in electronic form. You are responsible for keeping your contact
information up to date.
We may provide required
information to you:
·
at
the e-mail address you specified when you signed up for the Services or any
email address you specified via www.bingmapsportal.com (you are responsible for keeping your
contact information up to date); or
·
by posting on any portion of this TOU or to another Microsoft
web site that will be designated in advance for this purpose.
Notices provided to you via
e-mail will be deemed given and received on the transmission date of the
e-mail. If you do not consent to receive notices electronically, you must stop
using the Services. Any notice from you will be sent electronically to: maplic@microsoft.com.
(h) Claim Must Be Filed
Within One Year. Any
claim related to this TOU or the Services may not be brought unless brought
within one year. The one-year period begins on the date when the claim first
could be filed. If it is not filed within the one-year period, then that claim
is permanently barred. This applies to both parties.
(i)
Choice of Law and Location for Resolving Disputes. If you are headquartered
anywhere other than Europe, Washington State law governs the interpretation of
this TOU and applies to claims for breach, regardless of conflict of laws
principles. You and we irrevocably consent to the
exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state or federal courts in King County,
Washington, USA, for all disputes arising out of or relating to this TOU. If you are
headquartered in Europe, the TOU will be construed and governed by the
substantive laws of England and Wales. The parties waive all defenses of lack
of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens.
Process may be served on either party in the manner authorized by applicable
law or court rule. In any dispute relating to the TOU the prevailing party will
be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
(j) No Third Party
Beneficiaries. This
TOU is solely for your and our benefit. It is not for the benefit of any other
person, except for permitted successors and assigns.
(k) No Joint
Venture/Independent Development. The parties are operating as independent
contractors, and nothing in this TOU will be construed as creating a
partnership, franchise, joint venture, employer-employee
or agency relationship.
(l) Waiver. Any
delay or failure of either party to exercise a right or remedy will not result
in a waiver of that, or any other, right or remedy. No waiver will be effective
unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving
party.
(m) Logos; Marketing. Except as otherwise
agreed to by the parties in writing, neither party will use any logo or
trademark of the other party for marketing or any other purpose without the
other party’s prior written approval.
(n) Print Rights. If print rights are
available for the Services, such rights will be included here.
9.
Mobile App Development. Subject to your
compliance with Sections 1, 2, 8 and 9 of this TOU, you may develop and host
Mobile App Company Applications that use the Services. You may use the Services
solely in conjunction with and integrated into Mobile App Company Applications
using only methods and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. Please note that we do not provide
warranties for the Services for Mobile Apps Company Applications under this
Section 9. This TOU limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 8.8 and
8.9 and we ask you to read them carefully.
Your Mobile Apps Company Applications and the Content therein must be
available to consumers and may be offered for a fee; or available internally
for free instructional non-commercial use. You may not use the Services for or in
connection with Mobile Apps Company Applications used by authenticated
enterprise users (employees or agents of the enterprise) over a private network
(for information on licensing for these types of applications, please contact maplic@microsoft.com).
You are responsible for obtaining users’
express permission (opt-in) to use users’ personally identifying information,
including users’ location information, and providing a mechanism through which
users can opt-out of the use of their personally identifiable and location
information. Your use of the Content in the Services is subject to the Bing Maps App
Branding Guidelines.
If you have a Bing Maps Agreement or
Volume Licensing Agreement, you may use the Services for Mobile App Development
free of charge pursuant to this Section 9 by following the instructions at the Bing Maps Portal.
10. Windows Store App Development. Subject to your compliance with Sections
1, 2, 8 and 10 of this TOU, you may develop and host Windows Store Apps Company
Applications that use the Services. You may use the Services solely in
conjunction with and integrated into Windows Store Apps Company Applications
using only methods and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. Please note that we do not provide
warranties for the Services for Windows Store Apps Company Applications under
this Section 10. This TOU limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 8.8
and 8.9 and we ask you to read them carefully.
Your Windows Store Apps Company Applications and
the Content therein must be available to consumers and may be offered for a
fee; or available internally for free instructional non-commercial use.
You may not use the Services for or in connection with Windows Store Apps
Company Applications used by authenticated enterprise users (employees or
agents of the enterprise) over a private network. (for
information on licensing for these types of applications, please contact maplic@microsoft.com).
You are responsible for obtaining users’
express permission (opt-in) to use users’ personally identifying information,
including users’ location information, and providing a mechanism through which
users can opt-out of the use of their personally identifiable and location
information.
If you have a Bing Maps Agreement or
Volume Licensing Agreement, you may use the Services for Windows Store App
Development free of charge pursuant to this Section 10 by following the
instructions at the Bing Maps Portal.
11.
Media, Entertainment and Broadcast Use. To
use Bing Maps for Media, Entertainment and Broadcast Use, please refer to the
Bing Maps Media, Entertainment and Broadcast Use Terms of Use.