Terms of Service

Subject matter

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern the customer’s use of Approved Safely.

Approved Safely communicates with the Slack service ("Slack", which is offered by Slack Technologies Limited.). The customer must have a valid Slack account and must have agreed to Slack’s terms of service. Any costs associated with opening or maintaining the customer’s Slack account are the customer’s sole responsibility. The customer consents to Approved Safely accessing the customer’s Slack account and being granted access to information as per the Slack App's Permission Scopes. The customer is solely liable for any costs or damages that Slack associates with the Slack App.

Service specification

Approved Safely provides an online, approval tracking service ("Service"). It is offered as a Slack app.

To provide the Service, Approved Safely will access the customer's Slack workspace. Approved Safely will receive webhooks for interactions the customer has both with the service and with Slack, in channels where Approved Safely has been added. Approved Safely will, wherever possible, store references to data within Slack as opposed to storing the data ourselves. Where functionality depends on us storing data, it will be stored securely and encrypted at rest.

No consultancy, training, trouble shooting or support is within the scope of the services offered by Approved Safely under these Terms.

Installing the App

Using Approved Safely requires installing the Slack App into the customer's workspace. By installing Approved Safely, the customer is deemed to accept these Terms.

The person installing the App represents that he/she has the legal authority to bind the legal entity he/she acts for and provide the access to Approved Safely.

Obligations of the customer

If the customer chooses a paid plan, the customer agrees to pay Approved Safely the fees set out in the pricing section at https://approvedsafely.com/pricing. Fees will be collected automatically using whatever payment details the customer provided when they signed up.

The customer must not interfere or intend to interfere in any manner with the functionality or proper working of Approved Safely.

The customer will indemnify and hold harmless Approved Safely, its officers and directors, employees and agents from any and all third party claims, damages, and costs (including reasonable attorney fees) arising out of the customer’s use of Approved Safely in a manner not authorized by these Terms or in a manner that violate applicable law.

Obligations of Approved Safely

Approved Safely will use reasonable commercial endeavours to ensure that the Service is performed substantially in accordance with the Service specification and in a timely and professional manner.

Approved Safely will use reasonable commercial endeavours to ensure that any defects in the Service shall be remediated within a reasonable time following a detailed notification of such defect being given to Approved Safely by the customer.

Approved Safely will defend the customer from any and all claims, demands, suits, or proceedings brought against the customer by a third party alleging that the Service, as provided by Approved Safely to the customer, infringes any patent, copyright, or trademark or misappropriates any trade secret of that third party.

Warranty

Approved Safely warrants that, insofar as it is aware, the customer's use of the Service and software therein in accordance with these Terms will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.

The customer warrants that: (i) it will comply at all times with these Terms; (ii) it will not use the Service for any purpose that could, in Approved Safely’s reasonable opinion, be considered obscene, blasphemous, defamatory, promote or incite terrorism or hatred based on religion, race or disability, or is illegal pursuant to all applicable laws and regulations (including copyright laws); and (iii) it will not introduce to the Service any virus, worm, Trojan horse, adware, spyware or any other form of malicious content, code or software or anything which may otherwise compromise Approved Safely’s Service, properties or assets.

Downtime and services suspensions

Adjustments, changes and updates of Approved Safely that help to avoid or maintain dysfunctions of the Service may lead to temporary Service suspensions. Approved Safely will try to limit downtime of the Service or restrictions of accessibility to 10 hours a month.

The customer is aware that the Service relies on a working internet infrastructure. Additional downtime of the Service can occur, if the website is not available and at any other time with restrictive access to the internet.

The customer is aware that Approved Safely does not work if Slack is not properly available (be it to Approved Safely or to the customer).

Rights to use

Subject to and conditional upon the customer’s compliance with these Terms, the customer is granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable right to use Approved Safely as software as a service via the internet.

The customer is not granted any additional right to the Service or any other intellectual property of Approved Safely. The customer shall not be entitled to make copies of the Service or any software therein. The customer shall not translate the program code into other forms of code (decompilation) or employ other methods aimed at revealing the code embedded in the software of the Service in the various stages of its development (reverse engineering).

The customer is not entitled to remove or make alterations to copyright notices, serial numbers or other features which serve to identify the Service.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Approved Safely and its officers, employees and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages including, without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, good will or other intangible losses resulting from your access to and use of (or inability to access and use) the Service.

In no event shall Approved Safely's total liability to you for any damages resulting from any claim or series of related claims exceed the amount paid by you for the Service within the 12 months preceding such claim or series of claims.

Confidentiality

Each of Approved Safely and the customer undertakes that it will not at any time hereafter use, divulge or communicate to any person, except to its professional representatives or advisers or as may be required by law or any legal or regulatory authority, any confidential information concerning the business or affairs of the other party which may have or may in future come to its knowledge and each of Approved Safely and the customer shall use its reasonable endeavours to prevent the publication or disclosure of any confidential information concerning such matters.

Data protection

Approved Safely will process personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy, available at https://approvedsafely.com/privacy.

Term and Termination

These Terms will remain in effect until terminated by Approved Safely or the customer in accordance with this paragraph.

Approved Safely or the customer may terminate these Terms for any or no reason at their convenience at any time. Termination may be issued in writing or by using the provided account closing mechanism, if provided by Approved Safely. By terminating these Terms, the customer waives its right to further use of the Service and acknowledges that Approved Safely will not be liable to refund any sums paid by the customer in respect of the remaining duration of the customer’s then-current subscription period.

No notice period is required for Approved Safely or the customer to terminate these Terms. The Warranty, Limitation of Liability, Confidentiality, Governing Law and Jurisdiction, and Resolving Disputes paragraphs will survive termination.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Approved Safely’s relationship with the customer is governed by English law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes relating or connected to it.

Resolving disputes

Should the customer have any concerns or complaints about the Service Approved Safely provides, the customer should contact Approved Safely in the first instance using any of the methods set out on the Approved Safely website. Approved Safely will work with the customer in order to understand the issue and work towards a swift resolution.

Notices

Any notice or other communication required to be given to Approved Safely or the customer under or in connection with these Terms shall be sent by e-mail to the email-address registered by the customer with Slack, or to any updated email-address the customer provides from time to time.

Notices to Approved Safely must be directed via email, to contact@approvedsafely.com.

Final provisions

These Terms, together with any documents referred to in them, or expressed to be entered into in connection with them, constitute the whole agreement between Approved Safely or the customer concerning their subject matter.

The customer may set off only legally binding and recognized claims. The rights and obligations arising from these Terms are generally not transferable. However, Approved Safely may transfer these Terms with all rights and obligations to a company of its choice.

If any provision of these Terms is or later becomes invalid, or contains omissions, the validity of the other provisions shall remain unaffected. Approved Safely and the customer shall agree upon a new provision, which shall resemble the invalid provision as closely as possible in purpose and meaning considering the interests of Approved Safely or the customer and the legal regulations, to replace the invalid provision. In the event of an omission in these Terms, a provision shall be agreed upon which shall correspond with that which would have been agreed, pursuant to the purpose and meaning of these Terms, if the matter had been considered by Approved Safely and the customer when these Terms was formed.

These Terms may occasionally be modified by Approved Safely at any time.