Definitions. In these T&Cs, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below, unless the context requires otherwise:
“Act of Insolvency” means any of the following acts:
- a Party admits its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due or otherwise acknowledges its insolvency;
- a Party ceases to carry on business in the ordinary course;
- a Party institutes any proceeding, takes any corporate action, or executes any agreement to authorise its participation in or the commencement of any proceeding seeking:
(i) to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent; (ii) liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, arrangement, protection, relief or composition of it or any of its property or debts or making a proposal with respect to it under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or compromise of debts or other similar laws; or
(iii) appointment of a receiver, trustee, agent, custodian or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its properties and assets; or
- a creditor or any other Person privately commences any proceeding against or affecting a Party (except during any period up to a maximum of sixty (60) days during which such proceeding is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings by such Party) seeking:
(i) to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent; (ii) liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, arrangement, protection, relief or composition of it or any of its property or debts or making a proposal with respect to it under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or compromise of debts or other similar laws; or
(iii) appointment of a receiver, trustee, agent, custodian or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its properties and assets.
“Account(s)” means any Client’s customer’s outstanding obligations to Client derived from a service Client provided to their customer.
“Affiliate(s)” means, with respect to any Person, any entity which directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by or is under direct or indirect common control with the person or any entity which is directly or indirectly controlled by an entity which controls the Person."
“Collections Web Portal Account” means the individual account set up by Client via Gatestone’s Collections Web Portal.
“Collections Web Portal” means the online system through which Client registers a Collections Web Portal Account and through which Client will upload any necessary information for Gatestone to provide the Services.
“Confidential Information” of a Party means any and all material and information of a Party (in this definition called the “Disclosing Party”) or its Affiliates which has or will come into the possession or knowledge of the other Party (in this definition called the “Recipient Party”)
in connection with or as a result of entering into these T&Cs (including the terms and existence of these T&Cs), and information concerning the Disclosing Party’s or its Affiliates’ past, present and future customers, suppliers, and business.
For the purposes of this definition, “information” and “material” includes know how, data, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, processes, techniques, programmers, designs, formulae, marketing, advertising, financial, commercial, sales or programming materials,
written materials, compositions, drawings, diagrams, computer programs, studies, work in progress, visual demonstrations, ideas, concepts, and other data, in oral, written, graphic, electronic, or any other form or medium whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Confidential Information” does not include the following information:
- information which is in the public domain when it is received by or becomes known to the Recipient Party or which subsequently enters the public domain through no fault of the Recipient Party (but only after it enters the public domain);
- information which is already known to the Recipient Party at the time of its disclosure to the Recipient Party by the Disclosing Party and is not the subject of an obligation of confidence of any kind;
- information which is received by the Recipient Party in good faith without an obligation of confidence of any kind from a third Person who the Recipient Party had no reason to believe was not lawfully in possession of such information free of any obligation of confidence of any kind, but only until the Recipient Party subsequently comes to have reason to believe that such information was subject to an obligation of confidence of any kind when originally received;
- information which is independently developed by the Recipient Party without any use of or reference to the Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party and which such independent development can be established by evidence that would be acceptable to a court of competent jurisdiction; and
- information which is not subject to an obligation of confidence of any kind when released, disclosed, made available or communicated by the Disclosing Party to a third party.
“Control” means, with respect to any Person, the right or power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether through the ownership of voting security, by contract or otherwise; and the term “controlled” shall have the same meaning.
“Effective Date” means the initial date on which Client accepted these T&Cs.
“Fees” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Article 3 of these T&Cs.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means:
- any and all proprietary rights provided under, (i) patent law, (ii) copyright law, (iii) trade-mark law, (iv) design patent or industrial design law, (v) semi-conductor chip or mask work law, or (vi) any other statutory provision or common law principle applicable to these T&Cs, including trade secret law, which may provide a right in either ideas, formulae, algorithms, concepts, inventions or know-how generally, or the expression or use of such ideas, formulae, algorithms, concepts, inventions or know-how; and
- any and all applications, registrations, licenses, sub-licenses, franchises, agreements or any other evidence of a right in any of the foregoing;
“Party” or “Parties” means either Client or Gatestone (as the context indicates) if used in the singular and both Client and Gatestone if used in the plural.
“Person” means any individual, natural person, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, syndicate, sole proprietorship, company or corporation with or without share capital, unincorporated association, joint venture, trust, trustee, executor, administrator or other legal personal representative, regulatory body or agency, government or governmental agency, authority or entity however designated or constituted.
“Services” mean those contact center services described in this Article 2 of these T&Cs.
“Taxes” means all sales taxes or other like taxes, levies and charges, chargeable by or payable to any Federal or State taxation authority but does not include taxes based on Gatestone’s net income, or amounts withheld by Client pursuant to federal, provincial or local tax regulations.
“Term” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Article 7 of these T&Cs.
“Terms & Conditions” means this agreement, including any supplemental documentation issued pursuant to these T&Cs, as it or they may be amended or supplemented from time to time, and the expressions “hereof”, “herein”, “hereto”, “hereunder”, “hereby” and similar expressions refer to these T&Cs and not to any particular Article, Section or other portion of these T&Cs.