LICENSE AGREEMENT
NOTICE TO ALL USERS: PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.
BY OPENING THIS PACKAGE, BREAKING THE SEAL, BY SELECTING "I ACCEPT", "OK", "CONTINUE", "YES" OR BY INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. If the Software is downloaded from the websites (for paid or trial use purposes), this Agreement will be accepted and a contract formed when you selects an 'I Accept', 'OK' or 'Yes' button or box below prior to download or installation.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DO NOT INSTALL OR ACCESS THE SOFTWARE OR OTHERWISE INDICATE REFUSAL, MAKE NO FURTHER USE OF THE SOFTWARE, AND CONTACT YOUR VENDOR OR CUSTOMER SERVICE, FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO OBTAIN A REFUND OF THE MONEY YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE AT ANY TIME DURING THE THIRTY (30) DAYS PERIOD FOLLOWING THE DATE OF PURCHASE.
PRODUCT REGISTRATION. By accepting this Agreement, You agree to register Your Software. Registration requires a valid product serial number and a valid email address for renewal and other notices.
The TREND MICRO USA Account is necessary for the activation of the online features, as stated in the Product Documentation.
You warrant that you are the legal owner of the device and you have all the legal rights to create your account. Please acknowledge that installing on your device Software, and taking in consideration the security policies and rules selected by you, you may experience access restrictions to device and data loss due to remote device lock or wipe commands applied by the administrator of the account manually through security policies. You as administrator( have the right to monitor your device, locate it on map, enforce screen lock and authentication, lock and wipe device, encrypt media storage, scan applications and file on your device. TREND MICRO USA shall not be held responsible for any damages resulting from privacy, data loss caused to you.
This License Agreement covers TREND MICRO USA Products for home-users licensed to you, including related documentation and any update and upgrade of the applications delivered to you under the purchased license or any related service agreement as defined in the documentation and any copy of these items.
The TREND MICRO USA Product offers an Internet control software which shall be installed on your device (computer, mobile, mobile computer device) that intercepts Internet-bound traffic, to monitor traffic and permits You to limit access to certain content. The software on Your personal device connects to a server network infrastructure and then send it to TREND MICRO USA servers for categorization.
The TREND MICRO USA Product may allow you to track the device location, disable access to the device, transmit images that have been capture with the camera of your device or voice records that have been recorded by the recorder of your device (if available). You may not use the services to gain unauthorized access, to upload, transmit, transfer data or information to TREND MICRO USA or third parties by any means. You agree that your use of these services will be in compliance with any laws which are applicable to you.
This License Agreement is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a legal person) and TREND MICRO USA for use of TREND MICRO USA’s software product identified above, which includes software and services for your device, and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation (hereafter designated as "TREND MICRO USA Product"), all of which are protected by international copyright laws and international treaties. By installing, copying or using TREND MICRO USA Product, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
GRANT OF LICENSE. TREND MICRO USA Product is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. TREND MICRO USA Product is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives You some rights to use TREND MICRO USA Product. TREND MICRO USA reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, You may use TREND MICRO USA Product only as expressly permitted in this Agreement.
TREND MICRO USA hereby grants you and only you the following non-exclusive, limited, non assignable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and royalty-bearing license to use TREND MICRO USA Product.
You will have certain rights to use the TREND MICRO USA Product during the License Period, which shall begin on the date of Your initial installation of the TREND MICRO USA Product regardless of the number of copies that You are permitted to use, and shall last for the period of time set forth in the Documentation or the applicable transaction documentation from the TREND MICRO USA distributor or reseller from which You obtained the TREND MICRO USA Product. The TREND MICRO USA Product may automatically be deactivated at the end of the License Period, and You will not be entitled to receive any feature or content updates to the TREND MICRO USA Product.
You can use one copy of the TREND MICRO USA Product on a single device. If a greater number of copies and/or number of devices is specified within the sale transaction documentation from the authorized distributor or reseller from which You obtained the TREND MICRO USA Product (Permitted Number), You shall have the right to copy the TREND MICRO USA Product in accordance with such specifications;
You can make one copy of the TREND MICRO USA Product for back-up or archival purposes; If the TREND MICRO USA Product supports multiple platforms or languages, if you receive the TREND MICRO USA Product on multiple media, if you otherwise receive multiple copies of the TREND MICRO USA Product, or if you receive the TREND MICRO USA Product bundled with other software, the total number of your Devices on which all versions of the TREND MICRO USA Product are installed may not exceed the Permitted Number.
During the installation process, the TREND MICRO USA Product may uninstall or disable other security products if such products or features are incompatible with TREND MICRO USA Product.
TRIAL LICENSE. If You are a trial user, You may use TREND MICRO USA Product for evaluation or testing purposes in a non-production environment for thirty (30) days from the date You download TREND MICRO USA Product (the “Trial Period”). During the Trial Period, You are entitled to web or email based technical support in the country where You are located and to Updates, if applicable. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TREND MICRO USA PRODUCT AND ANY SERVICES AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION USED FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Your right to use TREND MICRO USA Product ends when the Trial Period ends or if You violate any term of this Agreement. Upon termination of the Evaluation Period, You must delete or destroy all copies of TREND MICRO USA Product and documentation and stop using the Service. Your obligations and rights under this Agreement will continue to apply after the end of the Trial Period.
TERMS OF LICENSE. You will have certain rights to use the TREND MICRO USA Product during the License Period, which shall begin on the date of Your initial installation of the TREND MICRO USA Product regardless of the number of copies that You are permitted to use, and shall last for the period of time set forth in the Documentation or the applicable transaction documentation from the TREND MICRO USA distributor or reseller from which You obtained the TREND MICRO USA Product. The TREND MICRO USA Product may automatically be deactivated at the end of the License Period, and You will not be entitled to receive any feature or content updates to the TREND MICRO USA Product.
If you have agreed to permit TREND MICRO USA to automatically renew your subscription to TREND MICRO USA Product by charging a valid credit card number which you have provided to TREND MICRO USA, your subscription will be automatically renewed thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the term and each anniversary thereafter for a fee no greater than TREND MICRO USA's then-current price, excluding promotional and discount pricing. You must provide current, complete and accurate information for your billing account. You must promptly update all information to keep your billing account current, complete, and accurate (such as, but not limited to a change in billing address, credit card number, or credit card expiration date), and you must promptly notify TREND MICRO USA if your credit card is canceled (such as, but not limited to for loss or theft). If you fail to provide TREND MICRO USA any of the foregoing information, you agree that TREND MICRO USA may continue charging you for any subscription automatically renewed unless you inform TREND MICRO USA's Customer Care department (at any local number provided by the respective TREND MICRO USA entity in your region) not to renew your subscription to TREND MICRO USA Product at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of your subscription to TREND MICRO USA Product and informing them of your desire not to have such subscription automatically renewed. This Agreement will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any of the limitations or other requirements described herein. Upon any termination or expiration of this Agreement, you must cease use of TREND MICRO USA Product and destroy all copies of TREND MICRO USA and the Documentation.
UPGRADES. If TREND MICRO USA is labeled as an upgrade, you must be properly licensed to use a product identified by TREND MICRO USA as being eligible for the upgrade in order to use TREND MICRO USA Product. A TREND MICRO USA Product labeled as an upgrade replaces and/or supplements the product that formed the basis for your eligibility for the upgrade. You may use the resulting upgraded product only in accordance with the terms of this License Agreement. If TREND MICRO USA Product is an upgrade of a component of a package of software programs that you licensed as a single TREND MICRO USA Product may be used and transferred only as part of that single product package and may not be separated for use by more than the total number of licensed users. The terms and conditions of this license replace and supersede any previous agreements that may have existed between you and TREND MICRO USA regarding the original product or the resulting upgraded product.
COPYRIGHT. All rights, titles and interest in and to TREND MICRO USA and all copyright rights in and to TREND MICRO USA (including but not limited to any code, images, photographs, logos, animations, video, audio, music, text, and "applets" incorporated into TREND MICRO USA), the accompanying printed materials, and any copies of TREND MICRO USA are owned by TREND MICRO USA, with the understanding that rights, titles and interest in and to certain third party software identified in the accompanying Third Party License Terms are owned by their respective owners. TREND MICRO USA is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat TREND MICRO USA like any other copyrighted material. You may not copy the printed materials accompanying TREND MICRO USA. You must produce and include all copyright notices in their original form for all copies created irrespective of the media or form in which TREND MICRO USA exists. You may not sub-license, rent, sell, lease or share the TREND MICRO USA license. You may not reverse engineer, recompile, disassemble, create derivative works, modify, translate, or make any attempt to discover the source code for TREND MICRO USA, except as and only to the extent explicitly permitted by the licensing terms, identified in the accompanying Third Party License Terms, governing use of the third party software.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT. Certain technical support features may be offered by TREND MICRO USA for the license term of the TREND MICRO USA Product and may include live chat with a technical support consultant and/or assistance from a technical support consultant via remote access. If such features are offered and You choose to access such Technical Support it shall be governed by the following conditions: Any such Technical Support shall be provided in TREND MICRO USA’s sole discretion without any guarantee or warranty of any kind. It is solely Your responsibility to complete a backup of all Your existing data, software and programs before receiving any Technical Support. In the course of providing the Technical Support, TREND MICRO USA may determine that the technical issue is beyond the scope of the Technical Support. TREND MICRO USA reserves the right to refuse, suspend or terminate any of the Technical Support in its sole discretion.
LIMITED WARRANTY. TREND MICRO USA warrants that the media on which TREND MICRO USA is distributed is free from defects for a period of thirty days from the date of delivery of TREND MICRO USA to you. Your sole remedy for a breach of this warranty will be that TREND MICRO USA , at its option, may replace the defective media upon receipt of the damaged media, or refund the money you paid for TREND MICRO USA. TREND MICRO USA does not warrant that TREND MICRO USA will be uninterrupted or error free or that the errors will be corrected. TREND MICRO USA does not warrant that TREND MICRO USA will meet your requirements.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, TREND MICRO USA DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE TREND MICRO USA PRODUCTS, ENHANCEMENTS, MAINTENANCE OR SUPPORT RELATED THERETO, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS (TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE) OR SERVICES SUPPLIED BY HIM. TREND MICRO USA HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, LOSS OF DATA, DEVICE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON INTERFERENCE, ACCURACY OF DATA, ACCURACY OF INFORMATIONAL CONTENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND NON INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS BY FILTERING, DISABLING, OR REMOVING SUCH THIRD PARTY’S SOFTWARE, SPYWARE, ADWARE, COOKIES, EMAILS, DOCUMENTS, ADVERTISEMENTS OR THE LIKE, WHETHER ARISING BY STATUTE, LAW, COURSE OF DEALING, CUSTOM AND PRACTICE, OR TRADE USAGE. TREND MICRO USA is acting on behalf of its suppliers and marketing partners for the purpose of disclaiming, excluding and/or limiting obligations, warranties and liability as provided in this Agreement, but in no other respects and for no other purpose. The foregoing provisions shall be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
The TREND MICRO USA Product, as provided under this Agreement, can contain features and functionalities that allows You to protect sensitive information on your device. You will be required to provide a password in order to encrypt and protect such information. You will not be able to recover the information you have encrypted if you lose or forget the password. You are aware that the level of encryption that can be used by the TREND MICRO USA Product should protect your information from the average computer user; however, you acknowledge that the encryption may be broken. You also acknowledge that information that has been encrypted may not be unencrypted if your hard drive has bad sectors or fails. TREND MICRO USA shall not be held responsible for access of your information where you have provided your password to a third party or have failed to use reasonable efforts to protect such information, password, answers to challenge questions or for user error.
DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES. Anyone using, testing, or evaluating TREND MICRO USA bears all risk to the quality and performance of TREND MICRO USA. In no event shall TREND MICRO USA be liable for any damages of any kind, including, without limitation, direct or indirect damages arising out of the use, performance, or delivery of TREND MICRO USA, even if TREND MICRO USA has been advised of the existence or possibility of such damages.
SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO CASE SHALL TREND MICRO USA'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE PAID BY YOU FOR TREND MICRO USA. The disclaimers and limitations set forth above will apply regardless of whether you accept to use, evaluate, or test TREND MICRO USA.
We strongly recommend that You back up Your data frequently. You shall at all times be under a duty to mitigate Your loss.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO USERS. THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
UPDATES. By accepting this Agreement, You acknowledge and agree that your system will be used for receiving and serving Updates of the Product through a peer to peer protocol. The protocol will not be used for anything other than transmitting and receiving TREND MICRO USA updates of signatures files.
CONSENT TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. TREND MICRO USA may send you legal notices and other communications about the Software and Maintenance subscription services or our use of the information you provide us (“Communications”). TREND MICRO USA will send Communications via in-product notices or via email to the primary user’s registered email address, or will post Communications on its Sites. By accepting this Agreement, you consent to receive all Communications through these electronic means only and acknowledge and demonstrate that you can access Communications on Sites.
DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY- TREND MICRO USA informs you that in certain programs or products it may use data collection technology to collect technical information (including suspect files), to improve the products, to provide related services, to adapt them and to prevent the unlicensed or illegal use of the product or the damages resulting from the malware products.
The personal information given (name, email address, password), during initial setup, if collected, it will be used as an account name under which You may elect to receive additional services and/or under which You may use certain features of the Software. You may change and TREND MICRO USA strongly recommends you, the account name at any time after installation of the Product.
You accept that TREND MICRO USA may use such information as part of the services provided in relation to the product and to prevent and stop the malware programs running on your device.
By accepting this Agreement, You acknowledge and agree that the security technology used can scan the traffic in an impersonal mode to detect the malware and to prevent the damages resulting from the malware products.You acknowledge and accept that TREND MICRO USA may provide updates or additions to the program or product which automatically download to your device.By accepting this Agreement, You agree to upload the executable files for the purpose of being scanned by the TREND MICRO USA servers. Similarly, for the purpose of contracting and using the program, you may have to give TREND MICRO USA certain personal data. TREND MICRO USA informs you that it will treat your personal data in accordance with current applicable legislation and as established in its Privacy Policy.
From time to time, the TREND MICRO USA Product may collect certain information from the device on which it is installed, which may include: IP, Information on potential security risks as well as URLs of websites visited that the TREND MICRO USA Product deems potentially fraudulent. The URLs could contain personally identifiable information that a potentially fraudulent website is attempting to obtain without Your permission. This information is collected by TREND MICRO USA for the purpose of evaluating and improving the ability of TREND MICRO USA’s products to detect malicious behavior, potentially fraudulent websites and other Internet security risks. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
- URLs of websites visited as well as search keywords and search results only if the browser toolbar feature is enabled. This information is collected by TREND MICRO USA for the purpose of evaluating and advising You regarding potential threats and risks that may be associated with a particular Web site before You view it. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
- Executable files that are identified as potential malware, including information on the actions taken by such files at the time of installation. These files are submitted to TREND MICRO USA using the TREND MICRO USA Product’s automatic submission function. The collected files could contain personally identifiable information that has been obtained by the malware without Your permission. Files of this type are being collected by TREND MICRO USA only for the purpose of improving the ability of TREND MICRO USA’s products to detect malicious behavior. TREND MICRO USA will not correlate these files with any personally identifiable information. Such automatic submission function may be deactivated after installation by following the instructions in the Documentation for applicable products.
- Status information regarding installation and operation of the TREND MICRO USA Product. This information indicates to TREND MICRO USA whether installation of the TREND MICRO USA Product was successfully completed as well as whether the TREND MICRO USA Product has encountered an error. The status information could contain personally identifiable information only if such information is included in the name of the file or folder encountered by the TREND MICRO USA Product at the time of installation or error. The status information is collected by TREND MICRO USA for the purpose of evaluating and improving TREND MICRO USA’s product performance and installation success rate. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
- Information contained in email messages that you send through the TREND MICRO USA Product to TREND MICRO USA to report as spam or as incorrectly identified as spam. These email messages may contain personally identifiable information and will be sent to TREND MICRO USA only with your permission, and will not be sent automatically. If you send such messages to TREND MICRO USA, TREND MICRO USA will use them only for the purpose of improving the detection ability of TREND MICRO USA’s antispam technology. TREND MICRO USA will not correlate these files with any other personally identifiable information.
- Information contained in a report that You may choose to send through the TREND MICRO USA Product to TREND MICRO USA when the TREND MICRO USA Product encounters a problem. The report includes information regarding the status of both the TREND MICRO USA Product and Your device at the time that the TREND MICRO USA Product encountered the problem. The status information about Your device may include the system language, and the operating system version for Your device, as well as the processes running, their status and performance information, and data from files or folders that were open at the time the TREND MICRO USA Product encountered the problem. The information could contain personally identifiable information if such information is included in, or is a part of the name of the files or folders open at the time the TREND MICRO USA Product encountered the problem.
This information will be sent to TREND MICRO USA only with Your permission, and will not be sent automatically. The information is collected by TREND MICRO USA for the purpose of improving TREND MICRO USA’s product performance or statistic information. This information will not be correlated the encountered problem and with any personally identifiable information.
- The Internet Protocol (IP) address or computer identification of the device on which the TREND MICRO USA Product is installed, as well as other general, statistical information used for license administration, product analysis, and for improving product functionality. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
- TREND MICRO USA can send actions on different applications used by you, as anonymous information to generate statistics, for providing information about the health and security of your device. The program statistics displayed are based on an average value of all the statistics submitted by TREND MICRO USA users. This can assist you when making a decision about the future use or purchase of the programs. The information is anonymous collected and TREND MICRO USA reserve the right to use it and publish it for rating figures, statistics and analyses.
The collected information as set out above is necessary for the purpose of optimizing the functionality of TREND MICRO USA’s products and may be transferred to the TREND MICRO USA Group or in the United States or other countries that may have less protective data protection laws than the region in which You are situated (including the European Union), but TREND MICRO USA has taken steps so that the collected information, if transferred, receives an adequate level of protection.
TREND MICRO USA reserves the right to cooperate with any legal process and any law enforcement or other government inquiry related to your use of this TREND MICRO USA Product. This means that TREND MICRO USA may provide documents and information relevant to a court subpoena or to a law enforcement or other government investigation. In order to promote awareness, detection and prevention of Internet security risks, TREND MICRO USA may share certain information with research organizations and other security software vendors.
TREND MICRO USA may also use statistics derived from the information to track and publish reports on security risk trends or system optimization. By using the TREND MICRO USA Product, You acknowledge and agree that TREND MICRO USA may collect, transmit, store, disclose and analyze such information for these purposes. You declare that all the data that you provide will be true and accurate and undertakes to inform TREND MICRO USA of any changes to said data. You have the right to object to the processing of any of his or her data which is not essential for the execution of the agreement and to its use for any purpose other than the maintenance of the contractual relationship.
In the event that you provide the details of a third-party, TREND MICRO USA shall not be held responsible for complying with the principles of information and consent, and it shall therefore be you that guarantees to have previously informed and obtained the consent of the owner of the data, with regards to communicating such data.
In addition to TREND MICRO USA Product registration information, TREND MICRO USA must process and store certain information about Your network and equipment to provide Maintenance and related support services. To improve its products, TREND MICRO USA may also upload information periodically from installed TREND MICRO USA Product about product usage, detected malware or potentially unwanted files and use Service traffic to improve its data bases and heuristics. The TREND MICRO USA Product is not designed to capture or retain any personal or private information. You agree that TREND MICRO USA may (i) use uploaded data from installed TREND MICRO USA Product to improve products and services; (ii) use uploaded data for analysis or reporting purposes only if any such use does not identify You or include any information that can be used to identify any individual person. TREND MICRO USA reserves the title, ownership and all rights and interest to any intellectual property or work product resulting from its use and analysis of such information.
By using the Product, you acknowledge and agree that TREND MICRO USA may collect, disclose, store and analyze these information for the purposes above mentioned.
GENERAL. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Romania and by international copyright regulations and treaties. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue to adjudicate any dispute arising out of these License Terms shall be of the courts of Romania. Nothing in this License Agreement will diminish any rights You may have under existing consumer protection legislation or other applicable laws in Your jurisdiction that may not be waived by contract.
In the event of invalidity of any provision of this Agreement, the invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement.
This Agreement describes certain legal rights. You may have other rights under the laws of Your state or country. You may also have rights with respect to the party from whom You acquired the TREND MICRO USA Product. This Agreement does not change Your rights or obligations under the laws of Your state or country if the laws of Your state or country do not permit it to do so.
TREND MICRO USA and TREND MICRO USA logos are trademarks of TREND MICRO USA. All other trademarks used in the product or in associated materials are the property of their respective owners.
The license will terminate immediately without notice if you are in breach of any of its terms and conditions. You shall not be entitled to a refund from TREND MICRO USA or any resellers of TREND MICRO USA as a result of termination. The terms and conditions concerning confidentiality and restrictions on use shall remain in force even after any termination.
TREND MICRO USA may revise these Terms at any time and the revised terms shall automatically apply to the corresponding versions of the TREND MICRO USA Product distributed with the revised terms. If any part of these Terms is found void and unenforceable, it will not affect the validity of rest of the Terms, which shall remain valid and enforceable.
In case of controversy or inconsistency between translations of these Terms to other languages, the English version issued by TREND MICRO USA shall prevail.
