Terms of Use

Last Update: September 11, 2024

Terms of Use for Online Services

All content of the BOC Websites and Services is copyrighted by BOC Products & Services AG (hereinafter: BOC Group). Third-party content is licenced accordingly and may be copyrighted by its respective owner. Unless stated otherwise in the specific service terms below, reproduction and redistribution of content on this website are allowed under the strict condition that such reproduction or redistribution is accompanied by a clear copyright statement (such as: “Copyright [current year], BOC Products & Services AG, https://www.boc-group.com; All rights reserved.”).

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BOC Group Online Services: Policies

Applicability

The present Terms of Use for Online Services apply to all self-service offerings of BOC Group. Other services, that are subject to a specific agreement between BOC Group and the client, are governed by the specific contract, the General Terms and Conditions, the specific Terms of Use, and any related data processing agreements in place.

Best Efforts

BOC Group strives to provide its services with the highest level of care and diligence. However, all BOC Group Online Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, with no express or implied warranty for accuracy or accessibility. Except where specific guarantees are made within these terms, all services are offered on a best-effort basis, and BOC Group does not warrant or guarantee any specific results, outcomes, or timelines. BOC Group is not liable for any discrepancies between expectations and actual performance.

Fair Use

BOC Group services are intended for lawful, legitimate use, consistent with their intended purpose and in compliance with all applicable laws. Users must not engage in illegal activities, violate the rights of others, disrupt services, or attempt unauthorized access. Excessive resource consumption beyond reasonable levels may result in restrictions. BOC Group reserves the right to monitor usage and take action, including suspension or termination, for violations. By using our services, you agree to this Fair Use Policy, ensuring a fair and productive environment for all users.

Changes

BOC Group reserves the right to change these Terms & Conditions for Online Services, including prices and service description from time to time upon written notice. Such notice may be provided to your e-mail address used for registration, by publishing the changes on this website, or by other communication, such as a pop-up after login to the specific service. Changes in prices will always be communicated to your e-mail address provided during registration. Updated terms or prices become effective by either the effective date stated in the notification, or if no effective date is stated upon the next renewal (e.g. one month for Starter Edition). If you do not agree to any updated conditions, you are free to cancel your subscription and you are not allowed to continue to use the Service anymore. If you elect not to cancel the Service or continue to use the Service after the effective date of any such update, your continued use of Service will constitute acceptance of the updated Terms & Conditions for Online Services, including prices and service description.

Prices

Unless expressly stated otherwise, all prices are net prices, stated in Euro, and are exclusive of the statutory VAT.

Communication

People who registered for a BOC Group Online Service may receive communication on new product releases and may be contacted by BOC Group or its affiliates for the reason of discussing opportunities in exploring professional services.

General

All Services are provided solely to natural or legal persons in terms of §§1-3 UGB (Unternehmensgesetzbuch, Austria) which are registering for and using BOC Group Online Services in execution of their commercial or independent professional activities. The information duties under § 9 ECG are expressly waived.

Applicability of GTC

The General Terms and Conditions (GTC) of the BOC Group apply mutatis- mutandis to all our online offers.

Service-Specific Terms for BOC Online Services

In the following, BOC Group Online Services with specific service terms are described. Information about the processing of personal data can be found in the corresponding section of BOC Group’s Privacy Policy.

Software Subscription (Self-Service Offering)

Short Description Several BOC Group Online Services contain Software Subscription services (free of charge or paid), which span software licences, maintenance services and operations services.  To provide Cloud Services BOC Group uses ISO27001-certified IaaS Provider.
Service-Specific Terms General Licence Agreement 

In the course of such Software Subscription, BOC Group grants the client a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the software in the manner intended and to the extend prescribed in the order form and the terms and conditions of this agreement.

This licence does not include the right to sublicence or to pass account details to third parties.

The licence shall remain effective only as long as the subscriber and all associated users are in full compliance with all the terms and conditions and shall terminate automatically if any user fails to comply with any such term or condition or upon expiration or cancellation.

Software Subscriptions expire at the end of their defined lifetime or according to the defined cancellation period.

Every Software Subscription follows the “Named Use” principle (NU). Therefore, the right to use is assigned to specific users and exclusively grants personal access to the Software for these users.

Software Subscriptions allow the subscriber and its associated users to store account data in the software product provided. BOC Group is not responsible for any of the data stored by the subscriber or any associated user.

In particular, BOC Group is not obliged to check whether the data stored violates applicable law, copyrights, registered trademarks, or competition regulations.

For details on data retention, please see the corresponding section of the specific service in our privacy policy.

Liability for data loss is excluded.

The client shall treat the access credentials required for using the Subscription Service with confidentiality and shall set up the necessary technical conditions in his infrastructure such that he can access the operating environment via the Internet.

BOC Group is entitled to block the client’s access to the Software if it has reasons to suspect that the client is involved in internet activities that threaten the security of the BOC Group infrastructure or that of a third party. This blocking may only occur for the duration of the threat. Any costs incurred by BOC Group in this context shall be borne by the client.

The client expressly agrees to refrain from carrying out attacks on the operating scenario for security checks, capacity tests, or the like. In exceptional cases, BOC Group may consent in writing to such tests being carried out. However, any such agreed tests require prior written consent from BOC Group, must be announced in writing with an appropriate lead time, and may only be executed at the agreed times and within the agreed scope.

The operations services are provided by BOC Information Technologies Consulting GmbH, Operngasse 20b, 1040 Vienna, on behalf of BOC Products & Services AG.

Furthermore, the specific Service Descriptions and Licence Terms below apply.

Limitation of Liability  

Neither party can be held liable for pure financial loss, loss of profit, expected savings that did not occur, and other losses due to claims of third parties.

Liability for loss of data in the event of slight negligence shall be limited to the typical cost of restoration. This shall be calculated based on the damage that would have occurred if reasonable backup measures had been taken in accordance with the associated risk (e.g. making backup copies).

Neither party is liable for damages that are attributable to circumstances beyond their control. This applies in particular for damages caused by the acts of third parties (such as in particular hacking) or by force majeure. Liability against BOC is excluded if arising due to independent actions of the client, the network environment used by the client or circumstances located in the sphere of the client.

If the client does not fulfill his duties of collaboration as described here to the agreed extent, the liability of BOC for damages resulting from this failure is excluded.

BOC is exempt from all obligations described in the Agreement if programme changes are carried out in the software programmes that form the subject of this contract without the prior consent of BOC or if the products or services are not used in the designated manner.

In addition, the contracting parties shall only be liable if there is a breach of an essential provision of the present contract. The amount of liability for each event causing damage is limited in total to the remuneration paid or payable in the calendar year concerned for the Service in question.

Damage claims shall become time-barred according to the statutory provisions, but not later than one year from the beginning of the statutory limitation period.

The liability limitations as set out in this section do not apply in the event of willful intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, or to the extent that the Product Liability Act applies.

ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition

Short Description ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition is a free, cloud-based, single-user version of BOC Group’s Business Process Management tool ADONIS or BOC Group’s Enterprise Architecture tool ADOIT with a restricted feature set.

The licence for ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition is valid for 60 days after registration and renews automatically upon each login to ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition. In addition, ADONIS/ADOIT Community users receive free access to selected e-learning content. The use of this e-learning content is governed by section E-Learnings.

Service-specific terms BOC Group is entitled to revoke the licence at any time with a notice period of one week.

Users of ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition are not entitled to any technical support, email, phone or personal support, or updates for the software or services licenced under this agreement.

BOC Group provides updates to ADONIS/ADOIT Community Edition at its own discretion and provides the service only until further notice. BOC Group has the right to schedule and execute downtimes for maintenance at any time.

After expiration of the ADONIS/ADOIT Community account, the account content data will be exported and retained for three hundred sixty five (365) days and will be permanently deleted after this period.

Within this period, the exported data will be made available for download or deletion in a private email link.

For more details on the Software Subscription, please refer to the section: Software Subscription (Self-Service Offering)

Data Processing Please see the corresponding section of the privacy policy for details on data processing.

ADONIS Starter Edition

Short Description The ADONIS Starter Edition is a fully preconfigured, professional edition of BOC Group’s Business Process Management tool ADONIS, available exclusively as Software-as-a-Service.

It can be ordered online in self-service with credit card payment and is based on a monthly subscription for recurring payments.

The recurring service fee will be charged to the subscriber’s credit card monthly in advance, starting at the date of placing the order.

Service-Specific Terms Clients from EU countries may only subscribe to the Starter Edition if they have a valid VAT ID eligible for reverse charge processing.

The subscription to ADONIS  Starter Edition can be canceled by both parties at any time. Cancellation has to be provided in writing one (1) week before the end of the current subscription period to be effective at the end of the current period.

If this cutoff is missed, the subscription is renewed automatically for another one (1) month period and is then canceled automatically.

After termination of the ADONIS Starter Edition, the account content data will be exported and retained for six (6) months and will be permanently deleted after this period.

Within this period, the exported data will be made available for download upon the subscriber’s request.

Termination by the client must be directed to BOC Information Technologies Consulting GmbH per email: support@boc-cloud.com

The general availability of the Starter Edition is 24/7/365. Nevertheless, BOC Group guarantees a service availability of 99% within the defined service hours:

Monday – Friday, 08.00-18.00 CET (excluding announced maintenance slots and Austrian bank holidays).

Downtimes resulting from any causes beyond the control of BOC Group, such as downtimes of infrastructure services, third party services, software, hardware, or telecommunication failures or force majeure, or failures that are not reasonably foreseeable by BOC Group are excluded from the Service Availability calculations.

Subsequent releases of the product and fix levels will be made available to the client. The product that has been extended/amended by releases or fix levels is subject to the same licence agreement as the product version originally acquired.

For technical questions about the product, as well as for the reporting of incidents, qualified staff of the client may contact the BOC Group Support directly.

Every incident report requires a clear, comprehensible description in order to ensure the reproducibility of the relevant circumstances.

Incidents shall be classified in accordance with the following scheme:

·       An incident that inhibits operation is deemed to exist if the use of the product is not possible at all in productive operation.

·       An incident that obstruct operation is deemed to exist if the use of the product is possible in productive operation, but there are severe limitations to the usage.

·       A minor incident is deemed to exist if the use of the product in productive operation is possible with slight restrictions, or if there is an incident in the product in a test or development system.

Rectification of the incident may also take place via a product release, fix level, measures at the infrastructure level, an appropriate workaround solution or via indication of customer-side remedial measures.

However, in no event is the client entitled to inspect the source code.

    Availability and Incident Handling for ADONIS Starter Edition
Service Availability 99% availability within the time schedule Monday-Friday, 08:00-18:00 CET, Austrian bank holidays excluded. Outside this schedule services are generally fully available with automated system recovery in place. Planned Maintenance Windows 20:00 – 04:00 CET on working days and 00:00 – 24:00 CET on Saturday and Sunday, after prior notification via email
System Monitoring 24 / 7 / 52, monitoring of system
Incident Reporting BOC hotline support hours:
Monday-Friday, 08:00-18:00 CET,
except Austrian bank holidaysBOC hotline support channels:
Telephone: +43-1-905 10 81-2880
Email: support@boc-cloud.com
Severity: inhibiting
(service not usable)
Reaction time:1 hour
Response time: 6 hours
Resolution time(*): 8 hours
Severity: obstructive
(service partially usable with obstructions)
Reaction time: 1 hour
Response time: 10 hours
Resolution time goal: 200 hours
Severity: minor
(service usable with slight impairments)
Reaction time: 1 hour
Response time: 10 hours
Resolution time goal: 250 hours
System Recovery For recoverable software failures automatic healing procedures are in place, other failures are escalated to the operations team.
*within the support availability
For more details on the Software Subscription, please refer to the section: Software Subscription (Self-Service Offering) 

ADONIS/ADOIT Academy Programme

Short Description The BOC Academy Programme is focused on educating students in Business Process Management or Enterprise Architecture.

To lecturers, the programme provides lecture content, access to the Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture community, and free, cloud-based, multi-user accounts of BOC Group’s Business Process Management tool ADONIS or BOC Group’s Enterprise Architecture tool ADOIT for use in teaching at academic institutions worldwide.

Service-Specific Terms The service is only provided to those eligible for an academic account. This evaluation of eligibility is based on the data provided in the registration forms and is executed manually.

After termination of the Academy Account, the account content data will be exported and retained for fourteen (14) days and will be permanently deleted after this period.

Within this period, the exported data will be made available for download upon the lecturer’s request.

For more details on the Software Subscription, please refer to the section: Software Subscription (Self-Service Offering)

BOC Apps for Atlassian

Short Description BOC offers Apps (ADONIS Process Manager for Confluence or ADOIT Enterprise Architect for Confluence) to connect your Confluence installation with BOC Products. These apps allow the connected Confluence users to access the content of BOC Products.
Service-Specific Terms Please refer to the end-user license agreement (EULA) here: https://www.boc-group.com/en/eula-confluence-integration/

BOC Apps for M365

Short Description BOC Group offers Apps to connect your M365 installation with BOC Products (e.g. ADONIS Process Manager for SharePoint or ADOIT Process Manager for SharePoint).

These apps allow the connected M365 users to access the content of BOC Products.

Service-Specific Terms Users can download the app via the Microsoft Store but require an additional license which needs to be acquired separately from BOC Group via the BOC Group Marketplace request forms: https://marketplace.boc-group.com/

Content Request / Download

Short Description BOC Group offers a collection of free content pieces, like posters, whitepapers, cheatsheets, and on-demand webinars revolving around business- and tool-related topics, featuring experts from BOC Group and its associates.
Service-Specific Terms Registered users receive a limited, non- exclusive, non-transferable license to view and display the provided content. Users may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or publicly display the content without explicit permission from BOC Group.

Demo Request

Short Description Within the BOC Group Websites and Services, request forms to submit a Demo Request are provided.

Additionally, users might be requested to complete a survey, including company and use-case specific questions before the demo.

Service-Specific Terms Registered users are allowed to invite other colleagues to the demo. Users may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or publicly display the content without explicit permission from BOC Group.

E-Learning

Short Description BOC Group offers a variety of professional trainings via its B2B Marketplace.
Service-Specific Terms Access to e-learning courses or subscriptions can be obtained either for individual users (single seat) or as a package for several users (multi seat). In multi seat accounts, the main user can invite further users to register (up to the obtained number of seats). To be able to use this service, each user must register.

The access to a specific e-learning course or subscription expires automatically after the indicated time period from the starting date. If no time period is stated, minimum 1 month applies.

BOC Group grants registered users, for whom the indicated fee was fully paid (if agreed), a limited, non- exclusive, non-transferable license to view and display the training or e-learning sessions and the related content for the aforesaid time period, in the manner intended and to the extent of the terms and conditions of this agreement.

The content (training materials, graphics, videos, sample content, case studies, …) should only be viewed by the registered person and it is strictly forbidden to record or reproduce the content in any way.

The content provided is produced with best interest and care. Nevertheless, BOC Group is not liable for correctness, relevance and quality of the content, neither can BOC Group guarantee a learning or training success.

Fast File Exchange Service

Short Description The Fast File Exchange (FFE) service by BOC Group enables rapid and secure file transfer between users. It generates individual links for recipients and employs two-factor authentication for login security.
Service-Specific Terms Uploaded content is stored on the BOC Group servers for a limited period. Once the storage period has expired, the content can no longer be downloaded and will be deleted permanently.

Users are responsible for the content of exchanged files and agree not to misuse the service.

The service is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” bases and BOC Group makes no warranties for the availability of the service. Users are required to maintain regular backups. BOC Group is not responsible for recovery or backup of the uploaded data.

Lead Referral to Partner

Short Description When contacting BOC Group online, users can select the option to be referred to a regional partner. Users agree to have their information shared with third-party partners. They acknowledge that while efforts will be made to connect them with a regional partner, availability is not guaranteed.

You can find a list of potential partner companies per region here: https://www.boc-group.com/en/partners/#partner_list

Service-Specific Terms BOC Group carefully selects its partners, nevertheless BOC does not guarantee the performance, quality, or outcomes of their services. BOC Group is not responsible or liable for any actions, omissions, or conduct by its partners. Users engage with referred partners at their own discretion and risk.

Online Platform User Registration

Short Description BOC Group offers website visitors the opportunity to register for the Online Platform. Such registration allows users to view enhanced content, participate in events or use selected services. These include live and on-demand webinars and access to restricted articles. Content and services available to registered users may change from time to time. BOC Group may inform its users by email about new content or services.
Service-Specific Terms BOC Group grants registered users the limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the content provided via the Online Platform for its intended purpose. BOC Group is entitled to revoke this right at any time.

The content provided has been prepared with the greatest care. Nevertheless, BOC Group does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance and quality of the content. Any liability of BOC Group for incorrect content is explicitly excluded.

Sharing or passing on user credentials to access the Online Platform is expressly prohibited.

Online Ticketing System

Short Description BOC Group handles incidents, service requests, and other client-related tickets through an Online Ticketing system.
Service-Specific Terms A user with the provided email address is created when submitting a ticket for the first time. Subsequent submissions of tickets will be linked to this user. Users can also register to the Online Ticketing system to monitor the status of submitted tickets at any time.

Other data, such as database content or system logs, are – if requested from the client – typically processed through the Fast File Exchange Service (see corresponding section for processed data) and hence are not processed in the online ticketing system.

Partner Contact Request

Short Description Users are provided with the capability to contact a BOC Group partner directly through a contact form available on the BOC Group website, facilitating communication between users and BOC Group partners.
Service-Specific Terms BOC Group carefully selects its partners, nevertheless BOC does not guarantee the performance, quality, or outcomes of their services. BOC Group is not responsible or liable for any actions, omissions, or conduct by its partners. Users engage with referred partners at their own discretion and risk.

Photo and Video Documentation at Events

Short Description As part of the event documentation, BOC Group produces photographs or videos during physical or virtual events.
Service-Specific Terms By registering for or participating in physical or virtual events, you acknowledge that photographs and video material of you may be taken, recorded and used. You agree that these photos or videos may be published in BOC Group Websites, other online or offline media and publications covering the event as well as social media, brochures or presentations. This acknowledgement extends to both physical and virtual events and includes any content or statements produced during presentations and workshops.

Videos that exclusively focus on you personally (e.g. event experience statements, short interviews etc.), will only be produced, recorded and used following your explicit oral consent during the event. BOC Group reserves the right to use, reproduce, and distribute these materials without further notice or compensation to the individuals captured in the media.

Quick Chat Request

Short Description Users are enabled to submit a contact request to engage with sales representatives regarding a particular domain, product, or scenario.
Service-Specific Terms This service is intended as a non-binding preliminary discussion about BOC Group’s offerings, which may lead to a potential sale. It should not be misused as a free consultation. BOC Group reserves the right to terminate or limit quick chat interactions that are deemed to be outside the scope of initial inquiries or are used inappropriately.

Self-service Appointment Bookings

Short Description Within BOC Group’s websites and services you might have the possibility to book an appointment with our staff by selecting one of the time slots offered.
Service-Specific Terms Appointments are subject to availability and are not confirmed until the receipt of a confirmation. BOC Group reserves the right to reschedule or cancel confirmed appointments due to unforeseen circumstances.

Virtual and Physical Events

Short Description BOC Group hosts events throughout the year, both virtual and physical. Virtual events include access to the live webinar and recording. The BOC Group website offers the possibility to register for such events online.

  • For virtual events, the service includes:
  • Providing access to live webinars for timely registrants,
  • Access to on-demand webinar content,
  • Distribution of recordings to webinar registrants,
  • Handling of participant inquiries through email or phone,
  • Evaluation of attendance data for follow-up purposes.
Service-Specific Terms BOC Group grants registered participants the limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to view the content provided within an online event for its intended purpose. Therefore, sharing or passing on user credentials to access a webinar is expressly prohibited. BOC Group is entitled to revoke granted rights at any time, especially if participants are disturbing the session.

Recording and Use of Virtual Events:

Most of our webinars will be recorded and may be reused for information and marketing purposes. We will make this transparent within the webinar or at its registration. Please note that we are not in control of the information you are sharing during a webinar and therefore advice you to not share any sensitive information during such webinars. Your comments (text, voice, video) and other interactions with the speaker can become part of the recording. In the event of any reuse, however, we will ensure that, as far as possible, no personal participant data is visible.

Limited Use of Virtual Event Content:

BOC Group grants registered participants the limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to view the content provided within a webinar for its intended purpose. Therefore, sharing or passing on user credentials to access a webinar is expressly prohibited. BOC Group is entitled to revoke granted rights at any time, especially if participants are disturbing the session.

The content provided has been prepared with the greatest care. Nevertheless, BOC Group does not warrant the accuracy, relevance and quality of the content. Any liability of BOC Group for incorrect content is explicitly excluded.

The recording or individual excerpts of the content (visual and audio) shown in the webinar are strictly prohibited in any form for participants.

For further service-specific terms, please refer to the section: Photo and Video Documentation at Events

Virtual Live Demo

Short Description BOC offers interested parties the opportunity to get detailed insights into the capabilities of BOC’s applications by providing online demonstrations (“Virtual Live Demos”). The BOC Group website offers the possibility to register for such demo sessions.
Service-Specific Terms Registered users receive a limited, non- exclusive, non-transferable license to view and display the provided content. Users may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or publicly display the content without explicit permission from BOC Group.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Links to Other Websites

BOC Group is concerned with providing correct and complete information within reason. BOC Group does not assume liability or guarantee that any of the information provided is up to date, correct, or complete. That applies to all links this website refers to directly or indirectly. BOC Group is not responsible for the content of a third-party page reached by a link.

BOC Group reserves the right to change or edit content provided on the website, without further notice.

BOC Group is not liable for direct or indirect damage, claim, or loss of profit, connected to information provided on this website.

Copyright and Trademarks

BOC Group, the BOC Group logo, all products, product names, and product logos of BOC Group are registered trademarks of BOC Products & Services AG. All rights reserved.

Further product and company descriptions are subject to the copyright of the corresponding companies. All listed trademarks are property of the corresponding producers. Mentioning them does not violate any copyright regulations.

BOC Group reserves the right to update, improve and edit the content of the website at any time without announcement.

Law and Jurisdiction

The entire contractual relationship between the client and BOC Group is subject to Austrian Law. Application of the UN Sales Convention and the provisions on conflicts of law pursuant to the International Private Law of the respective country are excluded.

Disputes arising from or in connection with the contractual relationship between the client and BOC Group, shall be finally settled by the court with jurisdiction for commercial matters in Vienna.