Last updated: November 25, 2019
API Terms of Service
Thank you for using Xola’s API, developer tools, and associated software (collectively, the “API”). By accessing or using the API, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with Xola that is governed by the terms below as they may be revised from time to time and by any applicable policies and guidelines (collectively, the “Terms”).
These API TOS and the rights and obligations contained herein are in addition to and are incorporated into the General Terms of Service, which applies to all Xola Users ("Terms of Service"), by reference. Please read the General Terms of Service carefully, as it contains important provisions governing our relationship, including a binding arbitration provision and class action waiver, a disclaimer of warranties, and limitation of liability. Nothing in these API Terms shall be deemed to modify, waive, amend or rescind any other term of the General Terms of Service. In the event of a conflict, the General Terms of Service shall control.
We periodically update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms at https://www.xola.com/agreement-api and update the “Last Updated” date above to reflect the date of the most recent version. We encourage you to review these Terms periodically.
Preliminary Matters
These API Terms of Service (“API TOS”, “Agreement”) are entered into as of the Effective Date by and between Xola, Inc. ("Xola," “we”, “our” or “us”), a Delaware C Corporation, and a business or individual or party other than Xola using the API ("Developer," “you” or “your”). Hereafter, Xola and Developer may be collectively referred to as the “Parties”.
Agreement
Having considered and agreed to the above Preliminary Matters and the terms and conditions below, the Parties hereby mutually agree to the foregoing and as follows:
1. Definitions
- "Xola Account" means a business account registered to use Xola Services.
- "Account Credentials" means any passwords or other access credentials that allow you to access a Xola Account.
- "API" or "API Service" means all developer tools, functions, definitions, communications protocols, associated software, executables, and Content accessed from the Service.
- "App" means a software application, website, product, service, or integration between products and services you create using the API.
- "App Authorization" means an authorization workflow on the App Store that discloses to the End User what data and functionality is accessed and how the information is used. The authorization workflow requires End Users to agree to presented terms and authorize the App before installation is permitted.
- "App Store" means the Xola application marketplace, located at https://www.xola.com/app-store and from within the software application, where Suppliers may discover, authorize, activate, and deactivate Apps associated with their account.
- "Content" means any data or content accessed via the API.
- "Developer Credentials" means any passwords, keys, tokens, or other access credentials that allow you to access the API or Content.
- "End User" means any user of your App, which may include but is not limited to Xola Providers and Guests, as defined in the General Terms of Service.
2. API License
Subject to the terms and conditions herein, Xola grants to you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, limited right to access and use the API to develop, test and support your App and to allow access to your integration of the API within your App to End Users of your App, in each case, (a) in compliance with the General Terms of Service, including without limitation, these API TOS, and (b) to the extent permitted under all applicable local, state, provincial, national and other laws, rules and regulations. You have no right to distribute or allow access to the stand-alone API. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Xola.
3. Obligations and Restrictions
4. Ownership and Relationship of Parties
5. Rights We Reserve
At any point in the future, we reserve the right to do any of the following: charge fees for access to any of the API, offer or cease to offer support for the API, modify the API and require you to use those subsequent versions, require you to use the API in a different manner, deprecate any API in our sole discretion, or independently develop products or services that may compete with your Apps or other products and services.
If we determine that your use of the API or Developer Credentials is against the interests of us or our customers, we reserve the right to deactivate any Developer Credentials you have obtained, block your IP address(es), or otherwise block your use of the API.
6. Branding & Publicity
7. Term and Termination
8. Support
Xola reserves the right to change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the API at any time, including the availability of any Xola API.
9. Fees & Payment
Xola reserves the right to charge fees for future use of or access to our API in our discretion. If Xola decides to charge for access to the API, you do not have any obligation to continue to use such API.
10. Confidentiality
"Xola Confidential Information" means all non-public Xola information relating to the API, and any other information designated in writing by Xola as "Confidential" or an equivalent designation. Without granting any right or license, Xola agrees that Xola Confidential Information does not include information that (i) is or becomes (through no improper action or inaction by you) generally available to the public, or (ii) was in your possession or known by you without restriction prior to receipt from Xola, or (iii) was rightfully disclosed to you by a third party without restriction, or (iv) was independently developed by you without use of any Xola Confidential Information. In addition, you shall not disclose Xola Confidential Information to any third party without Xola’s prior written consent, except in instances that you reasonably determine that you are required by a Legal Requirement, provided you use reasonable efforts to limit disclosure and to obtain confidential treatment or a protective order and allow Xola to participate in the proceeding (to the extent permitted by the Legal Requirement). For purposes of this Agreement, "Legal Requirement" means any law, rule, regulation, order, subpoena, interrogatory, discovery request, or other legal requirement of a governmental authority. You shall not disclose your developer passwords or other credentials to any third party, and you shall not use Xola Confidential Information except for the express purpose for which it was disclosed.
11. No Exclusivity
"Xola Confidential Information" means all non-public Xola information relating to the API, and any other information designated in writing by Xola as "Confidential" or an equivalent designation. Without granting any right or license, Xola agrees that Xola Confidential Information does not include information that (i) is or becomes (through no improper action or inaction by you) generally available to the public, or (ii) was in your possession or known by you without restriction prior to receipt from Xola, or (iii) was rightfully disclosed to you by a third party without restriction, or (iv) was independently developed by you without use of any Xola Confidential Information. In addition, you shall not disclose Xola Confidential Information to any third party without Xola’s prior written consent, except in instances that you reasonably determine that you are required by a Legal Requirement, provided you use reasonable efforts to limit disclosure and to obtain confidential treatment or a protective order and allow Xola to participate in the proceeding (to the extent permitted by the Legal Requirement). For purposes of this Agreement, "Legal Requirement" means any law, rule, regulation, order, subpoena, interrogatory, discovery request, or other legal requirement of a governmental authority. You shall not disclose your developer passwords or other credentials to any third party, and you shall not use Xola Confidential Information except for the express purpose for which it was disclosed.
12. Limitations
13. Indemnification
You will indemnify, defend and hold us harmless, at your expense, against any third-party claim, suit, action, or proceeding (each, an "Action") brought against us (and our officers, directors, employees, agents, service providers, licensors, and affiliates) by a third party not affiliated with us to the extent that such Action is based upon or arises out of: (a) your use of the API; (b) your violation of these Terms;(c) your violation of applicable privacy laws or regulations; or (d) the violation of any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret or United States patent by your App or brand features. We will: notify you in writing within thirty (30) days of our becoming aware of any such claim; give you sole control of the defense or settlement of such a claim; and provide you (at your expense) with any and all information and assistance reasonably requested by you to handle the defense or settlement of the claim. You shall not accept any settlement that (i) imposes an obligation on us; (ii) requires us to make an admission; or (iii) imposes liability not covered by these indemnifications or places restrictions on us without our prior written consent.