1.1 Applicability and scope
1.1.1 These Terms and Conditions Growing Minds apply to all proposals, order forms and agreements and/or legal relationships between Growing Minds and Client, which have been registered at Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 51924722. Growing Minds is a trade name of Growing Minds B.V.
1.1.2 Growing Minds may amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. Growing Minds notifies Client of the amendment in writing one (1) month before it takes effect. If Client does not object before the amendment comes into force, Client shall be deemed to have accepted the amendment.
1.1.3 Changes in and additions to the Terms and Conditions and/or Agreements made between Growing Minds and Client are only valid when agreed to by Growing Minds in writing.
1.1.4 Verbal agreements, assignments or other expressions of whatever nature made by employees of Growing Minds are only valid and binding when they have been confirmed in writing by authorised representatives of Growing Minds.
1.1.5 Any general conditions by any name applied by Client are expressly rejected, unless explicitly accepted by Growing Minds. If Client has declared its general conditions to be applicable, the Terms and Conditions of Growing Minds prevail.
1.1.6 If the business name used by Client denotes more than one (legal) person or organisation, each will be responsible for the entire fulfilment of the obligations that may flow forth from the agreement with Growing Minds.
1.1.7 The headings above the clauses of these conditions are only intended to increase the legibility of this document. The content and meaning of a clause placed under a particular heading is, therefore, not limited to the meaning and content of the heading.
1.1.8 In case any conflict among the provisions of these Terms and Conditions, including the exhibits, the Agreement and/or any Statement of Work occurs, the following order of precedence applies to resolve such conflict: (a) provision of the Agreement; (b) provision of these Terms and Conditions; (c) provision of the Statement of Work.
1.2 Definitions
1.2.1 In the Terms and Conditions of Growing Minds the following words and expressions are capitalised. Any of the following words and expressions shown in the singular shall have the same meaning when used in the plural and vice-versa.
1.2.2 “Affiliate” means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the subject entity. “Control,” for purposes of this definition, means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50% of shares or the voting interests of the subject entity.
1.2.3 “Agreement” means Terms and Conditions, Order Form(s) referencing the Terms and Conditions, and all agreed proposals, Statements of Work, and subsequent agreements, together with its schedules, between Growing Minds and Client and information contained in a URL or policy referenced in these Terms and Conditions, Order Form and/or Documentation.
1.2.4 “Business Days” means Monday to Friday from
9.00 until
17.30 CET, with the exception of Dutch public holidays.
1.2.5 “Confidential Information” means all information that is proprietary or confidential and is either labelled as such or by its nature ought to be reasonably considered proprietary or confidential given the nature of the information and/or the circumstances of disclosure.
1.2.6 “Client” means in the case of an individual accepting this Agreement on his or her own behalf, such individual, or in the case of an individual accepting this Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, the company or other legal entity for which such individual is accepting this Agreement, and Affiliates of that company or entity (for so long as they remain Affiliates).
1.2.7 “Documentation” means the written standard documentation regarding the setup of Marketing Cloud, automated journeys and/or other technical solutions delivered to Client, which will be made accessible to Client and may be updated by Growing Minds from time to time. Documentation shall not be included in Order Form.
1.2.8 “Effective Date” means the day when an Agreement comes into effect.
1.2.9 “Fees” means all fees paid or payable by Client under this Agreement. Fees will be set out in the Agreement.
1.2.10 “Identification Codes” means usernames, passwords, address codes and/or other codes.
1.2.11 “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patents, copyrights, design rights, trademarks and trade names, service marks, trade secrets, know-how, database rights and other rights in the nature of intellectual property rights (whether registered or unregistered) and all applications for the same, anywhere in the world.
1.2.12 “Marketing Cloud as a Service” means the Salesforce online, cloud-based marketing automation application and software application(s) whether or not in combination with Professional Services provided by certified Salesforce Reseller Growing Minds that has been ordered by Client under an Agreement and to which the Terms and Conditions apply. Salesforce MSA and Salesforce Standard Success Plan apply on Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
1.2.13 “Growing Minds ” means Growing Minds B.V., registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 51924722, and its legal successors or Affiliates and partners that will enter into an Agreement with Client and have declared the Terms and Conditions applicable.
1.2.14 “Maintenance and Support” c overs all activities to maintain, update, investigate, resolve Cloud-based applications and Services issues and correct product bugs arising from the use of Cloud Application and Services in a manner consistent with and as specifically described in the Agreement with the Client.
1.2.15 “Process-data” means the electronic data and information entered in Marketing Cloud and/or Data Cloud by Client and/or data entered by third parties.
1.2.16 “Professional Services” means the implementation, related work and consultancy services, including Strategy & Account & Project governance, to be performed by Growing Minds as further specified in the Statement of Work (SOW) and/or Agreement.
1.2.17 “Term” the contractual duration of the Agreement
1.2.18 “Terms and Conditions Growing Minds ” refers to this document containing the terms and conditions used by Growing Minds.
1.2.19 “Third Party Products and Services” means products and services provided by Growing Minds, the resulting provisions and related activities, which originate from third parties.
1.2.20 “Third Party General Conditions” means conditions applicable to Third Party Products and Services.
1.2.21 “User” means an individual who is authorised by Client to use Marketing Cloud in accordance with the Agreement. Other conditions regarding users are specified in the Agreement.
1.3 Realisation of the Agreement
1.3.1 All offers of Growing Minds are non-binding, without any commitment and will be valid until thirty (30) days after sending, unless the validity period is extended in writing by Growing Minds.
1.3.2 Offers made by Growing Minds are based on the data, information or requirements made known by the Client as set out in clause
1.5
1.3.3 Any acceptance of an offer by Client that derogates from the initial offer by Growing Minds, will not bind Growing Minds.
1.4 Term and Termination
1.4.1 The Agreement will come into effect as of the Effective Date and shall be effective for the duration of the Term.
1.4.2 Except as otherwise specified in the Agreement, the Agreement between Growing Minds and Client will automatically renew for the entire Term.
1.4.3 Termination of the Agreement as described in clause
1.3.1 occurs by means of a registered letter, which must be received by the other party no later than 60 (sixty) days prior to commencement of the extension date of the Agreement, unless otherwise specified in the Order Form.
1.4.4 Each party has the right to terminate the Agreement wholly or partially without judicial intervention by means of a signed registered letter. This can be done if, after notifying the breaching party in writing of a failure to fulfil its obligations, the breaching party then fails to meet the aforesaid obligations within a reasonable period of time.
1.4.5 Growing Minds has the right to, notwithstanding its right to claim full compensation for damages, immediately terminate the Agreement, wholly or partially, without judicial intervention through means of a non-judicial declaration and/or withdraw and/or annul an offer if Client submits a legal request for debt restructuring, (also including WSNP) if bankruptcy or suspension of payment has been filed for Client, if Client is in a state of bankruptcy or suspension of payment has been granted or if Client’s company is liquidated or ended for any reason other than reconstruction or company merger, or a substantial part of its assets are subject to a prejudgment and / or execution order or the Client's company loses the free disposal thereof. In these cases, any claim by Growing Minds will be immediately due, and Growing Minds will not be liable for this termination.
1.4.6 After the Agreement has been ended, for any reason, Client can no longer derive any of the rights provided by the Agreement, leaving unhindered the existence of the obligations of both parties which by their nature continue automatically after the conclusion of their Agreement, such as but not limited to, obligations concerning intellectual property rights, confidentiality and non-competition.
1.5 Cooperation/Information/Requirements
1.5.1 Growing Minds shall carry out its obligations under the Agreement on the basis of data, information, requests and/or requirements made known to Growing Minds by Client.
1.5.2 Client shall provide all necessary cooperation to Growing Minds and shall make timely known all useful and necessary data and/or other information required for an adequate execution of the Agreement. Client shall ensure the accuracy of this input, data and/or other information.
1.5.3 If data, information and/or requirements necessary for execution of the Agreement, are not provided, not timely provided and/or not provided in accordance with the Agreement, or if Client fails to meet its obligations in any other way; then Growing Minds has in any case the right to terminate or dissolve the Agreement or to suspend execution of the Agreement and Growing Minds has the right to charge the costs incurred at its usual rates.
1.5.4 If changes and/or new facts arise in regard to data, information, requests and/or requirements previously provided, Growing Minds will always be fully justified, in consultation with Client, to adjust the Agreement to these new circumstances or to dissolve or annul the Agreement.
1.6 Confidentiality/Non-competition
1.6.1 Each party (the “receiving party”) shall keep confidential all Confidential Information of the other party (the “disclosing party”), not use such Confidential Information for any other purpose other than to perform its obligations under the Agreement not disclose such Confidential Information to any third party except as permitted under this Agreement, and shall use reasonable efforts to maintain the security and integrity of such
1.6.2 Without limitation to the foregoing, each party shall use at least the same degree of care which it uses to prevent the disclosure of its own confidential information of like importance to prevent the disclosure of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information, but never less than reasonable care.
1.6.3 Each party shall promptly notify the other party of any actual or suspected misuse or unauthorised disclosure of such other party’s Confidential Information. Upon the request of the disclosing party, at any time and on termination, the receiving party shall promptly return to the disclosing party or destroy all copies of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information within its possession or control, except that electronic copies of Confidential Information stored as automated backups may be retained if it is commercially unreasonable to return or destroy them, provided that these confidentiality obligations will survive for as long as the Confidential Information is retained.
1.6.4 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the receiving party shall have no liability to the disclosing party with regard to any Confidential Information of the disclosing party which the receiving party can demonstrate: (a) was in the public domain at the time it was disclosed or has entered the public domain through no fault of the receiving party; (b) was known to the receiving party without restriction, at the time of disclosure, as demonstrated by files in existence at the time of disclosure; (c) was disclosed to third parties with a prior written approval of the disclosing party; or (d) was independently developed by the receiving party without any use of the Confidential Information of the other party, as demonstrated by files created at the time of such independent development. The obligations of confidentiality shall not apply if and to the extent that Confidential Information is required to be disclosed by law or pursuant to an order or requirement of a court, an administrative agency or other governmental body, provided that the receiving party provides, if and to the extent permissible under applicable laws, prompt written notice thereof to the disclosing party to enable the disclosing party to seek a protective order or otherwise prevent or restrict such disclosure.
1.6.5 Client and its clients will not enter into any direct or indirect commercial, employment, or other such relations with employees from Growing Minds during the Term of the Agreement and for a period of 12 (twelve) months after termination or dissolution of the Agreement, without the written consent of Growing Minds. Client will ensure that its clients will comply with the foregoing obligation.
1.6.6 In the event that Client breaches clause
1.6.5, Client will be charged, without further notification required, a fine of € 50,000.- (fifty thousand euros) for each breach, undiminishing the right of Growing Minds to claim full compensation for damages incurred.
1.7 Liability
1.7.1 Growing Minds ’s total liability shall be limited to a compensation for direct damage to a maximum of the amount received by Growing Minds of the price stipulated in the Agreement, in the year before the claim (excluding VAT) to a maximum of € 50,000.- (fifty thousand euros), whereby a sequence of events is regarded as one event.
1.7.2 Growing Minds 's total liability for damage resulting from death or physical injury will in no event amount to more than € 1,000,000.- (one million euros), whereby a sequence of events is regarded as one event.
1.7.3 Direct damage is exclusively understood as: a) The reasonable costs made in determining the cause and extent of the damage; b) The reasonable costs incurred in prevention or limitation of the damage to the degree that Client can demonstrate that these costs have led to the limitation of the damage. c) reasonable costs incurred to repair damage, insofar as Client demonstrates that these costs have led to the repair of damage and Growing Minds, upon written request, is unable to offer a timely solution to repair damage itself.
1.7.4 Growing Minds ‘s liability for indirect damage, including consequential damage, loss of profit, loss of savings, mutilated and/or lost data, (personal) data breach, delays, losses, damage as a result of a failure of Client to provide the required information or assistance, damage through corporate inactivity and/or claims from third parties against Client, is expressly excluded.
1.7.5 Except for the cases mentioned in clause
1.7.3, Growing Minds has no liability for damage compensation regardless of what an action towards compensation is based upon.
1.7.6 The condition for the existence of any right to compensation is always that the Client notifies Growing Minds in writing by mail within 60 (sixty) days after the damage registered came into existence and takes the necessary measures to limit the damage as much as possible.
1.7.7 Growing Minds is not liable for damage regardless of its nature caused by Third Party Products and Services which Growing Minds has delivered to Client. Growing Minds ’s liability with regard to Third Party Products and Services is limited as indicated in the Third Party General Conditions.
1.8 Transfer
1.8.1 The Agreement between Growing Minds and Client and the rights and obligations, which flow forth from this Agreement, cannot be transferred to a Third Party by Client without prior written consent from Growing Minds.
1.8.2 Client gives Growing Minds in advance the right, without needing the explicit approval of Client, to transfer the whole Agreement or parts thereof to: a) holding-, sister- and/or subsidiary companies; b) a third party in the case of merger or acquisition of Growing Minds. In the event this happens, Growing Minds will inform Client.
1.9 Force Majeure
1.9.1 Neither party is obligated to fulfil any obligation if they are prevented from doing so because of circumstances, which can be considered beyond their fault, and for which a party cannot be held accountable by law, legal act, or generally accepted practices. The aforementioned circumstances include circumstances that are beyond Growing Minds 's power as well as business risks of Growing Minds, these include but are not limited to failure to perform by a supplier of Growing Minds, the late or non-availability of required information and specifications and/or changes in such information, incorrect functional specification of Third Party Products and Services and/or products delivered by a third party, bad weather conditions, fire, explosions, electricity failures, (D)Dos-attacks, hacking, cracking or any downtime or unavailability caused by unlawful conduct by third parties, the destruction, damaging or disabling of any automated system or any system for telecommunication by whoever, causing interference in the course or the working of such system, or frustrating by whoever of a security measure taken with respect to such system, interference in networks, floods, strike, pandemic, epidemic, actions by the government and theft,.
1.9.2 When force majeure is of a temporary nature, Growing Minds has the right to suspend its commitments until the force majeure has ceased to exist without being obliged to any form of damage compensation.
1.9.3 Growing Minds reserves the right, in the case of force majeure, to collect payment for obligations already fulfilled before force majeure was known.
1.9.4 If the force majeure of either party surpasses a three month (3) period, either party has the right to terminate the Agreement without being obliged to any form of damage compensation regarding such termination.
1.10 Nullity
1.10.1 If one or more terms (or part of a term) of the Agreement are nullified, declared to be nullified, annihilable or have lost their validity in another way, the other terms (or part of the term in question) of this Agreement will remain in force undiminished.
1.10.2 With regard to terms (or part of the term) that are nullified, declared to be nullified, annihilable or lose their validity in another way, parties shall consult with each other to try to reach a substitute arrangement with which the parties shall strive for the maintenance of the gist of this Agreement (or the remainder of the term in question) in its totality.
1.11 Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution
1.11.1 All Agreements made between Growing Minds and Client are governed by the laws of The Netherlands, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing. Parties explicitly agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is not applicable.
1.11.2 Disputes between parties which cannot be resolved amicably, will be placed before a qualified court of Amsterdam, location Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
