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Amended and Restated Google Services Agreement

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Title: Amended and Restated Google Services Agreement
Date: 3/31/2009
Industry: Computer Services     Sector: Technology

Amended and Restated Google Services Agreement, Parties: miva  inc.
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Exhibit 10.28

 

CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.  CONFIDENTIAL PORTIONS HAVE BEEN OMITTED AND FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.

 

Amended and Restated

Google Services Agreement

 

This Amended and Restated Google Services Agreement (“ GSA ”) is entered into by and between Google Inc. (“ Google ”) and Miva, Inc. , a corporation formed under the laws of Delaware (“ Customer ”).  This GSA shall be effective as of January 1, 2009 (“ GSA Effective Date ”) and hereby amends and restates the Google Services Agreement between Google and Customer dated December 27, 2006. Each Order Form (as defined below) shall be governed by this GSA and shall become effective on January 1, 2009 (“ Order Form Effective Date ”). This GSA and the corresponding individual Order Form into which this GSA is incorporated together constitute the “ Agreement ”.

 

1   DEFINED TERMS .   The following capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth below.  Capitalized terms used but not defined in this GSA shall have the meanings stated in the Order Form.

 

1.1      Beta Features ” are those features of the Services which are identified by Google as beta or unsupported in Google’s then current technical documentation.

 

1.2      Brand Features ” means the trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features of each party, respectively, as secured by such party from time to time.

 

1.3      Customer Content ” means any editorial, text, graphic, audiovisual, and other content that is served to End Users of the Site(s) or Customer Client Application(s) and that is not provided by Google.

 

1.4      Destination Page ” means any Web page which may be accessed by clicking on any portion of an Advertising Result and/or Search Result.

 

1.5      Google Protocol ” means Google’s then current protocol for accessing and implementing the Services.

 

1.6      Intellectual Property Rights ” means any and all rights existing from time to time under patent law, copyright law, semiconductor chip protection law, moral rights law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, publicity rights law, privacy rights law, and any and all other proprietary rights, as well as, any and all applications, renewals, extensions, restorations and re-instatements thereof, now or hereafter in force and effect worldwide.

 

1.7      Order Form ” means the individual Google Services Agreement Order Form executed by both Customer and Google and into which this GSA has been incorporated by reference as provided therein.  Each Order Form (as it may be amended from time to time) into which this GSA may be incorporated will be considered a separate agreement from any other Order Form.  Accordingly, for purposes of interpretation of any specific order form, “Order Form” shall refer only to that Order Form into which this GSA has been incorporated and which is the subject of interpretation, and not to any other order form into which this GSA may otherwise be incorporated (unless and then only to the extent the parties have expressly provided otherwise).

 

1.8      Services ” means the services ordered by Customer and to be provided by Google pursuant to the Order Form.

 

2   SERVICES .

 

Services .   Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Google will provide Customer, and Customer will procure from Google, the Services for the fees set forth in the Order Form executed by Customer and Google.  ***

 

2.1     Beta or Unsupported Features .   *** Google reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to include or cease providing Beta Features as part of any Services at any time.

 

3   CUSTOMER OBLIGATIONS .

 

3.1     Prohibited Actions .   Customer shall not, and shall not allow any third party to:

 

(a)           edit, modify, truncate, filter or change the order of the information contained in any Search Results and/or Advertising Results (either individually or collectively), including, without limitation, by way of commingling Search Results and/or Advertising Results with non-Google provided search results or advertising;

 

(b)          frame any Results Page or Destination Page;

 

(c)           redirect an End User away from the Destination Page, provide a version of the Destination Page different from the page an End User would access by going directly to the Destination Page, intersperse any content between an Advertising Result or Search Result and the corresponding Destination Page or implement any click tracking or other monitoring of Advertising Results or Search Results;

 

(d)          display any Search Results and/or Advertising Results  in pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, or animation;

 

(e)           display any Search Results and/or Advertising Results to any third parties other than End Users;

 

(f)           minimize, remove or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Results Page (including any Search Results and/or Advertising Results), and the corresponding Destination Pages;

 

(g)          produce or distribute any software, or permit any of its software to be distributed with software, that prevents the display of ads provided by Google (such as by way of blocking or replacing ads);

 

(h)          ***;

 

(i)            transfer, sell, lease, syndicate, sub-syndicate, lend, or use for co-branding, timesharing, service bureau or other unauthorized purposes any Services or access thereto (including, but not limited to Search Results and/or Advertising Results, or any part, copy or derivative thereof);

 

(j)            enter into any arrangement or agreement under which any third party pays Customer fees, Customer pays any third party fees, or either shares in any revenue payments and/or royalties for any Search Results and/or Advertising Results;

 

(k)           directly or indirectly generate queries, or impressions of or clicks on Search or Advertising Results, through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means (including, but not limited to, click spam, robots, macro programs, and Internet agents);

 

[***] = Confidential treatment requested for redacted portion; redacted portion has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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(l)            encourage or require End Users or any other persons, either with or without their knowledge, to click on Advertising Results through offering incentives or any other methods that are manipulative, deceptive, malicious or fraudulent (each of the foregoing in subsections (k) and (l) a “ Fraudulent Act ”);

 

(m)          modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any Services, the Google Protocol, or any other Google technology, content, data, routines, algorithms, methods, ideas design, user interface techniques, software, materials, and documentation;

 

(n)          remove, deface, obscure, or alter Google’s copyright notice, trademarks or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or provided as a part of any Services, the Google Protocol, or any other Google technology, software, materials and documentation;

 

(o)          “crawl”, “spider”, index or in any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from the Services (including, but not limited to, Search Results and/or Advertising Results, or any part, copy or derivative thereof); or

 

(p)          create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product through use of or access to any of the Services or proprietary information related thereto.

 

Further, no Site or Customer Client Application shall contain any pornographic, hate-related or violent content or contain any other material, products or services that violate or encourage conduct that would violate any criminal laws, any other applicable laws, or any third party rights.

 

3.2      Implementation .  Customer shall ensure that there is no use of or access to any Services through Customer’s properties which are not in compliance with the terms of the Agreement or not otherwise approved by Google, and Customer shall monitor and disable any such access or use by unauthorized parties (including, but not limited to, spammers or any third party sites).  ***

 

3.3    ***

 

4    Ownership; License Grants .

 

4.1      Google Rights .  Google shall own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below), relating to the Services (and any derivative works or enhancements thereof), including but not limited to, all software, technology, information, content, materials, guidelines, documentation, and the Google Protocol.   Customer shall not acquire any right, title, or interest therein, except for the limited use rights expressly set forth in the Agreement.  Any rights not expressly granted herein are deemed withheld.

 

4.2      Customer Rights .  Customer, its licensors, or other applicable third party providers own all Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Customer Content.  Google shall not acquire any right, title or interest in or to such Customer Content, except as expressly provided herein.  Any rights not expressly granted herein are deemed withheld.

 

4.3      Brand Features; License Grant .

 

4.3.1              Brand Features .  Each party shall own all right, title and interest, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights, relating to its Brand Features.  Some, but not all examples of Google Brand Features are located at:  http://www.google.com/permissions/trademarks.html (or such other URLs Google may provide from time to time).  Except to the limited extent expressly provided in this Agreement, neither party grants, and the other party shall not acquire, any right, title or interest (including, without limitation, any implied license) in or to any Brand Features of the first party; and all rights not expressly granted herein are deemed withheld.  All use by Google of Customer Brand Features (including any goodwill associated therewith) shall inure to the benefit of Customer and all use by Customer of Google Brand Features (including any goodwill associated therewith) shall inure to the benefit of Google.  No party shall challenge or assist others to challenge the Brand Features of the other party (except to protect such party’s rights with respect to its own Brand Features) or the registration thereof by the other party, nor shall either party attempt to register any Brand Features or domain names that are confusingly similar to those of the other party.

 

4.3.2              License to Google Brand Features .  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Google grants to Customer a limited, nonexclusive and nonsublicensable license during the Services Term to display those Google Brand Features expressly authorized for use in this Agreement, solely for the purposes expressly set forth herein.  ***Furthermore, in its use of any Google Brand Feature, Customer agrees to adhere to Google’s then current Brand Feature use guidelines, and any content contained or referenced therein, which may be found at the following URL: http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html (or such other URL Google may provide from time to time).

 

License to Customer Brand Features .  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Customer grants to Google a limited, nonexclusive and nonsublicensable license during the Services Term to display those Customer Brand Features expressly authorized for use in this Agreement, solely for the purposes expressly set forth herein.  ***

 

4.4            ***

 

5    Payment.

 

5.1      Fees.   The fees and payment terms for the Services shall be set forth in the applicable Order Form.

 

5.2      Taxes and Other Charges .   All payments under the Agreement are exclusive of taxes imposed by any governmental entity.  Customer  shall pay any applicable taxes, including sales, use, personal property, value-added, excise, customs fees, import duties or stamp duties or other taxes and duties imposed by governmental entities of whatever kind and imposed with respect to the transactions for services provided under the Agreement, including penalties and interest, but specifically excluding taxes based upon Google’s net income.  When Google has the legal obligation to collect any applicable taxes, the appropriate amount shall be invoiced to and paid by Customer “net thirty (30) da


 
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