At a glance
- The 30-days Test phase will always be free of charge and free of commitment.
- You may add as many users to your account as you wish.
- Your data is secure and stored within the European Union
- You always retain ownership of your data and content
- We offer Email support (support@kordiam.io)
Please read these customer terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") before accessing Kordiam ("Software"). These Terms and Conditions apply to all Customers who use the Software as of March 1st, 2019.
The Software is owned and operated by Kordiam GmbH, a private limited company registered in Hamburg, Germany with number HRB 121060 whose registered office is at Falkenried 74a, 20251 Hamburg, Germany ("Kordiam", "we", "us" or "our").
You indicate your agreement to these Terms which include the Terms and Conditions, our Data Processing Agreement, and our Privacy Policy and accept to be legally bound by them by clicking or tapping on a button indicating your acceptance. If you will be using the Software on behalf of an organization, you agree to these Terms on behalf of that organization and you represent that you have the authority to do so. These Terms and Conditions, Data Processing Agreement, and Privacy Policy may change at any time for a variety of reasons, such as to reflect changes in applicable law or functionality additions to the Software. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, Data Processing Agreement or Privacy Policy, you may not use the Software. In these Terms and Conditions, "you" refers to the entity you represent ("Customer").
1. Registration
To register you must:
- be 18 years of age or older;
- be a human. Accounts registered by automated methods are not allowed;
- provide your full legal name and a valid email address. If you will be using the Software on behalf of an organization, you agree to these Terms on behalf of that organization and you represent that you have the authority to do so.
- agree to and comply with these Terms and Conditions
2. Payment
During the 30-day test period (“Test Phase”), no costs will be invoiced to you. Only through a new explicit agreement by you, a paid license package shall be invoiced.
Payment plan
You shall be invoiced in accordance with the License Package you fall under and any Additional Services you select (subsequently the “Payment Plan”). Per default, you will be invoiced on a monthly basis.
Paid users, freelancers, and license packages
Paid users:
You shall only be invoiced for Paid Users. The following users shall be considered as Paid Users and subsequently as licenses within a package to be invoiced.
Owner(s) has administrative control over the Software. Per default, the individual who signed up for the free trial is the Owner. Only an Owner can purchase the Payment Plan and is responsible for the payment of all fees and other additional costs or negotiated terms. Only an Owner may terminate these Terms and Conditions.
Admin(s) has technical control over the Software. An Admin is a Paid User that has administrative rights in the Software to create, edit, preview, view or delete the account ́s configuration and add or delete users. He may connect the Software to other linked services listed on Kordiam's website as supported integrations and may request API credentials. Per default, the first Admin is the individual who signed up for the free trial.
- Freelancers with non-restricted access are users marked as freelancers but whose default restricted access setting was removed. Such users shall be considered as Paid Users and subsequently as licenses within a package to be invoiced.
- Users with Read-Only access are users marked as having read-only rights. Such users shall be considered as Paid Users and subsequently as licenses within a package to be invoiced.
Only your Owner(s) or Admin(s) may issue legally binding declarations on your behalf.
Free of charge users:
Freelancers are free of charge if and only if they are both:
marked as external users in the admin area of the Software (i.e. whose user type is freelancer) and
whose user profile is marked as having restricted access, i.e. access only to their own tasks in the Software.
License packages:
Depending on the number of Paid Users in the Software, you will fall under the following License Package:
License package name | Paid user cap |
Extra- Small | 1-5 |
Small | 6-20 |
Medium | 21-40 |
Large | 41-60 |
Further license packages are available. For pricing or further License Packages, please contact Kordiam Sales.
Additional services
Support and security package
You are at liberty at any time to purchase the Support and Security Package as an additional service to be charged.
Details of services available in the Support and Security Package can be found here.
Monthly or annual term
Monthly term per default
Per default, you shall be invoiced on a monthly basis and shall pay the contractually owed Payment Plan plus the statutory value-added tax if applicable. Excluding the Test Phase, you will be invoiced in accordance with the number of Paid Users in your account in the previous calendar month.
You are at liberty of adding as many users as you wish to your account. Should the addition of users lead to the Paid User Cap of a given License Package to be exceeded, then you will be invoiced the respective higher License Package. You may review how many users and more specifically how many Paid Users, are in your account at any point in time in the admin section of the Software and you may delete any user at any point. Deleting a user will only be accounted for in the following invoice of the given term.
Annual term and annual rebate
Annual term:
You are at liberty at any point to choose the Annual Payment Term and benefit from the Annual Rebate on the total price. By doing so, you shall pay the contractually owed Payment Plan plus the statutory value-added tax at the beginning of the term. The Annual Term encompasses a full 12 calendar months (365 calendar days).
When choosing the Annual Term, you may inform Kordiam of the License Package you selected and shall be billed for the term accordingly. Per default, you shall be invoiced the License Package price in accordance with the number of Paid Users in your account at the time you select the Annual term.
During the Annual Term, you are at liberty of adding additional users. Should the addition of users lead to the Paid User Cap of a given License Package to be exceeded, then Kordiam shall inform you that the License Package Cap has been reached and subsequently invoice you the missing price difference for the remainder of the Term. The price difference will be based upon the next higher License Package for the remaining months in the Annual Term to which the payments already received shall be deducted. Should you delete Paid Users during the Annual Term to the extent that such deletion leads you to fall in a lower License Package, you shall have no refund right.
Annual rebate:
By choosing the Annual Payment Term, you will benefit from the following Annual Rebate on the total price.
- Annual Rebate: 10% of total price.
Switching between terms:
Should you switch from a Monthly to an Annual Term, such switch will be effective on the first day of the following calendar month. Should you switch from an Annual term to a Monthly term, you can only do so in writing to info@kordiam.io 30-days before the end of Annual Term.
Payment plan - price calculation formulas
The following price calculation formulas apply. Additional costs are excluded from the formulas and are invoiced separately.
Monthly payment plan Calculation formula
Total Monthly Price = License Package Price + [(if applicable Additional Services)]
Annual payment plan Calculation formula
Total Annual Price = [(License Package Price x 12 months) + (if applicable Additional Services)] – 10% (Annual Rebate)
Additional costs
Additional Costs are specific requests you demand owed beyond the services included in the price and are invoiced separately.
Additional trainings
Should you request additional trainings beyond those included in his License Package, these will be invoiced as additional costs.
For detailed costs, please contact Kordiam Sales.
Customer specific integration
You may request Customer Specific Integrations from Kordiam if you have purchased the Support and Security Package and selected the Annual Term.
For detailed costs, please contact Kordiam Sales.
Additional data memory
Included in the price of the Software are up to 10 GB of data memory per Paid User. Should you exceed this volume, Kordiam may ask for compensation for the exceeded data storage space.
Kordiam shall notify you in writing of this excess and shall assist you in deleting your excess data volume.
Should no excess data have been deleted, or should excess data have been deleted in an insufficient amount, 30-days following receipt of the notification for excess data volume, then Kordiam shall invoice you the following amount on a pro-rata basis
- For each additional gigabyte of memory Euro 0,35
Due and overdue payments
Invoices are due within thirty (30) working days. Should your corporation require a longer payment process, please contact Kordiam Sales.
Should your corporation require to be billed by our American Kordiam entity, please contact Kordiam Sales.
Failure to pay within 75 days may result in the Software being limited or suspended. Failure to pay within 90 days may result in the Terms and Conditions being terminated by us (subject to applicable legal requirements), which may result in a loss of your data.
Price changes
Kordiam is entitled to increase the agreed prices for the contractual services. Kordiam shall inform you in writing or by email of these price increases at least three (3) months in advance; the price increases do not apply to the periods for which you have already submitted payment.
In case of a price increase you are entitled to terminate with a period of two (2) weeks to the end of the term; if you make use of such termination right, then the increased prices shall not be implemented until the termination is effective.
3. Software version update
Kordiam may add or alter features and functionalities from the Software at any time without prior notice.
For a list of the Software´s core and additional functions please contact Kordiam sales.
4. Software availability
Monthly uptime percentage
“Monthly uptime percentage” means the total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month.
During the term, Kordiam will use reasonable efforts to achieve a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.8% for any calendar month.
“Downtime” means the time in which you cannot access or use the entire Software functionalities (core and additional), as monitored by Kordiam.
Exclusion from downtime
The following are not counted as Downtime for the purpose of calculating Monthly Uptime Percentage:
Scheduled maintenance:
Service unavailability caused by scheduled maintenance of the Software used to provide the applicable service (Kordiam will endeavour to provide 24 hour advance notice of service-affecting scheduled maintenance); or
Unforeseen event:
Service unavailability caused by events outside of the direct control of Kordiam or its subcontractor(s) (such as his hosting provider), including any force majeure event, the failure or unavailability of your systems, the Internet, and the failure of any other technology or equipment used to connect to or access the service.
Software service interruption credit
If Kordiam does not meet the Monthly uptime percentage, and so long as your account is current, you will be eligible to receive a credit which can only be applied against your following invoice. The credit is your exclusive remedy for such failure. Customers in the Test Phase shall not be eligible to any credits.
Monthly Uptime Percentage Service Credit
Less than 99.8% 5% of the monthly fee
To receive a service credit for a particular calendar month, an Owner must submit a claim by email to the support team (support@kordiam.io) within 30 days of the end of the month during which the Software did not meet the guaranteed uptime and include the Owner´s contact details as well as information supporting each claim of Downtime, including date, time, and a description of the incident and affected service, all of which must fall within the calendar month for which you are submitting a claim.
5. Software maintenance
Monitor availability
Kordiam constantly monitors the Software´s availability and removes any technical defects in accordance with the recovery times listed below.
Technical defect correction
For any technical defect in the Software that you report by phone or email (support@kordiam.io), Kordiam shall reasonably determine the severity level and respond as follows.
Security Level | Description |
Level 1 | At least one of the core functions is completely unavailable. |
Level 2 | A defect in a core function's feature but not in its totality or a defect in an additional feature |
Level 3 | A minor defect which does not affect the Customer's operation to a significant degree. |
Following the response time and depending on the Severity Level, Kordiam shall ensure that the reported technical defect is removed in accordance with the below.
Security Level | Response time | Recovery time |
1 | One hour | Three hours |
2 | Six working hours | Two working days |
3 | No later than on the following working day | No later than 16 weeks |
6. Support services- customer assistance
Customer support- service hotline
Kordiam agrees to answer any of your questions without delay but no later than two days upon receipt.
Technical defects and error reporting response times are described in the above clause.
Support, whether it be email or phone, is available on German working days between 0900 hrs (9:00am) and 1900 hrs (7:00pm) Central European Time (CET). On Sundays, answers will be given without delay only to Level 1 defects.
Email support: Per default, all Software questions or defect reports shall be sent via email to support@kordiam.io.
Phone support: Should you have purchased the Support and Security Packages, then you shall have access to the Support Hotline.
Kordiam shall use the following communications devices when answering: Email or phone and when in doubt, shall use the same communication device as that you use.
Set-up and trainings
Kordiam will provide the following customer assistance services, including:
Set-up and configuration:
You are at liberty to request assistance from Kordiam to configure his account by emailing support@kordiam.io. To this effect, Kordiam has also created guides available in the support forum.
Trainings:
You are at liberty to request trainings from Kordiam. The [amount of trainings] you may request is subsequent to the Payment Plan you have chosen. Travel expenses for on-premise trainings are borne by you without any surcharges.
Further training sessions may be purchased at additional cost.
7. About your data
Please read our Data Protection Agreement.
EU data hosting
Customer Data is exclusively hosted on servers within the EU and is thus subject to EU data protection law.
Kordiam may at its sole discretion at a later date choose to host Data of non-European Customers outside of the EU.
Data always belongs to you
You own all data including personal data you add to your account (“Customer Data”). You retain sole ownership of all rights, title and interest in and to your Customer Data. You have the sole responsibility for the legality, reliability, integrity, accuracy and quality of your Customer Data.
As you are and always remain the sole owner of the data, you can at any time - in particular upon termination, demand the return or deletion of your Customer Data. Kordiam shall have no retention right to such data. The return of the data is done through a data dump.
You may choose to integrate third party applications with the Software. We do not warrant or support these products. Integrations have been provided for your convenience and as such is at your own risks. You are responsible for all data imported into the Software from these third-party applications. If Customer Data is passed from or to the Software through an API, we will not be responsible for any use, disclosure, modification or deletion of Customer Data that is transmitted or accessed by third party applications.
Personal data is subject to the Data Protection Agreement
You and Kordiam undertake to comply with our obligations under relevant applicable data protection laws. To the extent that we process personal data on your behalf; you shall be the data controller and Kordiam shall be the data processor. The terms of the Data Protection Agreement shall apply to all Customer Data that we process on your behalf.
See our Data Protection Agreement.
Your data is confidential
Kordiam will treat all Customer Data as confidential, in particular Customer business and operational secrets obtained during the preparation, execution, and performance of the service and neither disclose them nor use them in any other manner. Kordiam will keep all Customer Data confidential to the extent permitted by law, from any unauthorized third party; provided that the disclosure of information is not necessary for Kordiam's proper performance of its contractual obligations.
Your data is secure
Kordiam will store and process Customer Data in a manner consistent with industry security standards. Kordiam has implemented appropriate technical, organizational and administrative systems, policies and procedures designed to help ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of your data and to mitigate the risk of unauthorised access to or usage of your Customer Data. Kordiam shall ensure that Customer Data is protected against unauthorized third-party access.
Kordiam shall take suitable measures against Customer Data loss in cases of server failure. For this purpose, Kordiam shall perform at least daily backups.
Kordiam has strict internal rules by which only a small group of carefully selected Kordiam employees and long-term EU subcontractors may handle personal data.
8. Your duties
Keep your passwords safe
Keeping your data secure also requires that you maintain the security of your account by using sufficiently complicated passwords and storing them safely. You should also ensure that you have sufficient security on your own systems.
You are responsible for safeguarding your passwords and any other credentials used to access the account. You are responsible for the activity which occurs in your account. You shall inform Kordiam immediately if there is a suspicion your password or any other access data may have been disclosed to unauthorized parties.
Your other duties
You may not purchase, use, or access the Software for the purpose of building a competitive product or service or for any other competitive purpose; nor may you reverse engineer it; nor resell or lease it.
You may not misuse our Software by interfering with its normal operation or attempt to access it using a method other than through the interfaces and instructions that we provide.
Unless authorized by Kordiam in writing, you may not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Kordiam system or network by means of penetrations tests.
You may not engage in abusive or excessive usage of the Software, which is usage significantly in excess of average usage patterns that adversely affects the speed, responsiveness, stability, availability, or functionality of the Software for other users. Kordiam will endeavour to notify you of any abusive or excessive usage to provide you with an opportunity to reduce such usage to a level acceptable to Kordiam.
You shall exempt us from any third-party claims which are based on an illegal use of the Software by you or which result from any data protection, copyright or other legal disputes caused by you which are in connection with the Software;
You shall check for viruses prior to sending any data and information to us and shall use a state-of-the art virus protection programs.
9. Logos
Kordiam may identify you (by name and logo) as a Kordiam customer on our website and on other promotional materials. If you need an exception to this, please contact Kordiam sales.
10. Term and termination
Automatic renewable term
The initial term is specified on the invoice. The term will automatically renew at the end of each term for additional terms: monthly per default, annually should you have previously selected the Annual Term.
Termination by you
Owner may terminate 30 days before the end of the term, in writing by emailing info@kordiam.io.
Termination will result in the deactivation or disablement of your account and access to it, and the deletion of Customer Data latest 30 days after effective termination.
Termination for cause
Upon 30 days written notice, either party shall have the right to terminate for breach. Termination shall be effective if either party has failed to cure the breach within 30 days after notification. The breach must be material, repeated, or persistent.
Termination by us
Kordiam may terminate your right to use the Software for any reason at our discretion by providing a 6-month notice. Should fees for the remained months in the term have been pre-paid, these fees will be reimbursed.
11. Limitation of liability
Limitation of liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF EACH OF KORDIAM ENTITIES, ITS AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, SUPPLIERS, AGENTS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO KORDIAM DURING THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY.
Exclusion of certain liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL KORDIAM BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF USE, DATA, BUSINESS, REVENUES OR ANTICIPATORY OR FORESEEABLE PROFITS OR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, GENERAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
Wilful and gross negligence
Kordiam is liable to Customer in cases of wilful intent or gross negligence for all damages caused by Kordiam as well as its legal representatives and vicarious agents without limitation.
Force majeure
None of the parties is obligated to comply with their contractual obligations in the case and for the duration of a force majeure.
In particular, the following circumstances constitute a force majeure: any fire/explosion/flooding not caused by the Party; war, mutiny, blockade, embargo; any labour dispute lasting more than 6 weeks and not culpably caused by the Party; technical internet problems out of control by a Party.
Each Party agrees to inform the other Party immediately in writing regarding the occurrence of a force majeure.
12. Changes
Kordiam may change these Terms and Conditions at any time for a variety of reasons, such as to reflect changes in applicable law or updates to the Software or to account for new Software functionality. The most current version will always be posted on this page and changes to previous versions will be highlighted. Your continued use or access of the Software following the changes constitute acceptance of those changes. Kordiam will notify Owner(s) via email of any material changes as determined by Kordiam´s sole discretion.
13. Final provision
These Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany and the courts of Hamburg shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in relation to these Terms and Conditions.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is determined to be unenforceable, that provision will be severed, and the remainder of terms will remain in full effect.
Specifications
Software core functions
At its core, the Software has the following functions. A core function is characterized by its features. The sum of all the features to a core function define its qualities and characteristics.
A core function shall not be warranted if and only if, all the function´s features and characteristics are unavailable.
A defect in a single or several features to a core function shall be considered as a Severity Level 2.
Core function | Core function's features |
Story planning |
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Story list display |
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Task management |
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Editorial time management |
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Additional functions
Kordiam warrants the following functions as additional functions. A defect in an additional function shall be considered as a Severity Level 2.
Additional functions |
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Should your company require special Terms and Conditions, please contact Kordiam.