END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ CAREFULLY 

The herein contained License Agreement (“License” or “EULA”) shall be considered a legally binding agreement between You (as an individual or an entity, who then shall, within the constraints of this agreement, be referred to as “You” or “Your”) and Emper, LLC. for the use of the specified software application of Emper, which may include related printed material, media and any other components and/or software modules, including but not limited to required drivers (“Product”). Other aspects of the Product may also include, but are not limited to, software updates and any upgrades necessary that Emper, LLC. may supply to You or make available to You, or that You could obtain after the initial copy of the Product, and as such that said items are not accompanied by a separate license agreement or terms of use.

BY WAY OF THE INSTALLATION, COPYING, DOWNLOADING, ACCESSING OR OTHERWISE USE OF THIS PRODUCT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE HEREIN CONTAINED TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA, YOU THEN HAVE NO RIGHTS TO THE PRODUCT AND SHOULD THEREFORE NOT INSTALL, COPY, DOWNLOAD, ACCESS NOR USE THE PRODUCT.

This Product is hereby protected by copyright laws, as well as any other intellectual property laws. This Product is licensed and not sold.

LICENSE GRANT

Emper, LLC. shall grant to you a non-exclusive license for the use and installation of the Product subject to all the terms and conditions set forth herein. Furthermore, this EULA shall also govern any and all software upgrades provided by Emper, LLC. that would replace, overwrite and/or supplement the originally installed version of the Product, unless those other upgrades are covered under a separate license, at which those terms of that license will govern.

TERMINATION

Should you breach this EULA at any time, your right to the use of the Product will then immediately terminate and shall terminate without any notice being given. However, all provisions of this EULA, with the exception of the License Grant, will remain in effect and thus shall survive termination. Upon termination of the License Grant, You MUST destroy any and all copies of the Product.

COPYRIGHT

The aforementioned Product is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties, and as such all rights, title, and interest in and to the content offered, including but not limited to, any photographs, images, video animation, text, and music, that may be incorporated as part of the offered content. Such offered content is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Therefore, offered content must be treated like any other copyrighted material, with the exception that it is allowable for you to make copies as provided by the License. However, printed material, which may accompany any offered content, may not be copied.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE

As a Licensee, You may not:

(a)     Make use of the offered content on more than one computer at a time, without prior purchase of additional licenses;

(b)    You may not share, distribute, lend, lease, sublicense or otherwise make available, in any manner whatsoever, to any third party the offered content; 

(c)     Modify, adapt, create derivative works from or translate any part of the offered content other than what may be used within Your work in accordance with this License;

(d)    Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the offered content, nor attempt to locate or obtain its source code;

(e)     Attempt to alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice contained within the offered content; or

(f)     Make use of any offered content in any manner not stipulated within this EULA or the documentation accompanying the offered content.

UPDATES

Emper, LLC. may find the need from time to time to make available to all license holders updates for the offered content, in accordance with the herein contained terms and conditions of this EULA. It shall be at the sole discretion of Emper, LLC. to make conditional releases of a said upgrade to you upon your acceptance of another EULA or execution of another separate agreement. Should you elect to install and make use of these updates, you are therefore agreeing to be subject to all applicable licenses, terms, and conditions of this EULA and/or any other agreement.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

With regard and with relationship to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Emper, LLC., and, if applicable, related suppliers, shall provide the Product and any support services, if needed, related to the Product, and hereunto disclaim all warranties and conditions, either express, implied or statutory, which may include, but are not limited to, any implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, of suitability for a specified purpose, that it contains absolute accuracy or completeness of responses, of results, and of any lack of negligence or lack of workmanlike effort, all with respect to the Product, and the provision of or failure to provide Support Services. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARDS TO THE HEREIN CONTAINED PRODUCT. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY OF OR PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT AND SUPPORT SERVICES, IF ANY, REST WITH YOU.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND REMEDIES

In spite of any damages that you may or may not incur for any reason, which may include, but are not limited to, any and all direct or general damages, the entire liability of Emper, LLC. and/or any of the aforementioned suppliers covered under the herein contained provisions of this EULA, along with Your exclusive remedy with regards to all of the foregoing, shall hereby be limited to the amount actually paid by you for this Product . Therefore, the aforementioned limitations, exclusions, and any disclaimers shall apply to the maximum extent allowable by law, even should any proposed remedy fail its essential purpose.

EXPORT CONTROLS

By clicking on the install button, you hereby agree that you will comply with any and all applicable export laws, restrictions and all regulations of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Treasury, and any other U.S. or foreign agency or authority with regards to this provision of the EULA. You expressly agree not to export or re-export, nor allow the export or re-export of the offered content in violation of any such law, restriction or regulation, including without limitation, export or re-export to any country subject to any and all applicable U.S. trade embargoes or to any prohibited destination, in any group specified in the current “Supplement No. 1 to Part 740 or the Commerce Control List specified in the then-current Supplement No. 1 to Part 738 of the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (or any successor supplement or regulations).” 

U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS

The offered content is licensed by the U.S. Government with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. The use, duplication of, or the disclosure by the U.S. Government, shall be subject to restrictions in accordance with DFARS 252.227-7013 of the Technical Data and Computer Software clause, and 48 DCR 52.227-19 of the Commercial Computer Software clause, as applicable. 

ARBITRATION/MEDIATION DISPUTE RESOLUTION

The Parties to this EULA agree that should any dispute arise through any aspect of this relationship, including, but not limited to, any matters, disputes or claims, the parties shall confer in good faith to promptly resolve any dispute. In the event that the parties are unable to resolve the issue or dispute between them, then the matter shall be mediated and/or arbitrated in an attempt to resolve any and all issues between the parties. The parties agree that any claim or dispute that arises from for through this agreement, the relationship or obligations contemplated or outlined within this agreement, if not resolved through mediation, shall then go to and be resolved through final and binding arbitration. Any decision reached by the Arbitrator shall be final and binding and, if required, may be entered as a judgment in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any court having jurisdiction should determine that any portion of this Agreement to be invalid or unenforceable, only that portion shall be deemed invalid and not effective, while the balance of this Agreement shall remain in full effect and enforceable. This Agreement shall be interpreted and governed by and in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act 9 U.S.C. §1-16.

MISCELLANEOUS

·      The user agrees not to edit or otherwise remove Emper formatting/typeset/design tag from the copyright page or other areas of extracted documents and files if a Vital Edition license has been purchased. Users will be subjected to civil and criminal penalties as well as permanent ban from Emper product use if removal of tag is discovered.

·      Users do not own design templates but are licensing specific use of the template for the self-publication of the specified book.

·      Users may not use the software in the commission of conducting business of any kind where user publishes books that are not user’s personal works without purchasing the version of the software that permits such use. Vital -Basic Edition is not to be used in the commission of business indie publishing services. Users must purchase Yen, Bossem, or Honcho editions.

·      User may not resell or sublicense any portion of the software or its contents.

·      The user is responsible for any and all use and misuse of software licensed to them.

·      Non-compliance may result in permanent restriction and legal consequences.

·      The user is responsible for crediting the source of all imported images, fonts, and other applicable data. Emper is not liable.

This EULA, in its entirety, shall be legally binding upon and inure to the benefit of Emper, LLC. and you, our respective successors and permitted assigns. Should any of this provision be deemed invalid or unenforceable, such determination will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision contained herein. If there is any waiver of any breach or failure to enforce any of the provisions contained herein, it shall not be deemed as a future waiver of said terms or a waiver of any other provision of this EULA. Any waiver, supplementation, modification or amendment to any provision of this EULA, shall only be effective when done so in writing and signed off by Emper, LLC. and you. This EULA shall be governed solely by the laws of the State of California and of the United States. Should any action arise out of or in relation to this EULA, such action may be brought exclusively in the appropriate federal or state court in Mountain View & Lancaster, California, and as such, you and Emper, LLC. irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of said court and venue for Mountain View & Lancaster, California.