General terms and conditions of the VIMP GmbH

1. General terms

These general terms and conditions apply for all actual and future legal acts regarding all business relationships of VIMP GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “VIMP”) and the business partner (hereinafter referred to as “customer”). Opposed terms and conditions of the customer are invalid, provided that VIMP does not accept their applicability. A reference on the customers own terms and conditions does not count as accordance of these, even if they are attached and the agreement is enhanced. The customer’s terms and conditions always need to be additionally signed by VIMP. VIMP will only accept a further contractual responsibility, if the kind and the range of services and return services are defined in writing by both sides. Later verbal agreements and additions initially get affective when being accepted in writing afterwards. The same applies for all statements of intention, especially complaints, reminders and notices of defect regarding contractual relationships. The license agreements, which customer receives with the according software version, are independently from these terms and conditions a legally contractual basis for the use of the according products. The additional services and provision of services of VIMP are regulated amongst others in these terms of business.

2. VIMP Services: Installation

In line with the installation service your pre-installed server is prepared and adjusted for the use of the VIMP software. To use VIMP to the full extend, the installed MySQL database and the Apache installation get configured for the VIMP system. Additionally, the needed transcoding tools get installed and configured to guarantee the high-quality display of your media. Afterwards, also the VIMP software gets installed and prepared for the first use.

Dates of delivery and delivery terms are basically not binding temporal guidelines, unless they have been agreed as fixed dates in writing. Basically a standard version of the software, that has to be delivered, comes to be installed. The customer provides VIMP immediately after the contract signing all documents, from which the actual configuration of the customer’s hardware / operating system platforms can be determined. In case that VIMP recognizes that the configuration has to be altered, the alteration has to be done before the installation of the software with costs and risks with the customer. The customer is obligated to render all acts of concurrence, which are necessary in line with the implementation of the software. VIMP guarantees the perfect functioning of the software only on the approved hardware systems. The release and acceptance are effectively completed with the program installation of VIMP on a hardware system of the customer.

3. VIMP Services: Hosting

The services, contract periods and prices for the hosting booked by the customer, can be read on the websites or in an individual offer. If there is no other agreement, the contract runs for 12 months and is automatically extended by 12 months, if not later than 3 months before the end of the respective contract period it is canceled. Material to the adherence of the cancellation period is the betimes delivery of the cancelation at the respective other contract party’s address, named within the contract or ulterior conveyed. In the field of hosting, VIMP works together with a specialized provider.

The customer my not breach with the form, content or intended purpose of his websites and other data stored on the server, regarding legal prohibitions, morality and third parties’ rights (rights of name, originator, data security, etc.). The customer has to abide the affective law of the Federal Republic of Germany regarding the use of the server. He alone is liable and responsible for his server and the content stored on it. The customer is liable for all effects and disadvantages, which happen to VIMP and third parties due to improper or illegal use of the provided services or occurring due to the customer not abiding his obligations. Insofar as VIMP is used for illegal actions of the customer – especially regarding data security, obligator and competition rights – the customer pledges to absolve VIMP from all possible claims and to bear the costs emerged from the use or deletion of the illegal condition.

The customer will be informed about necessary scheduled maintenance work at least 24 hours beforehand. These will take place outside the usual operating time (Mo-Fr 8am – 8pm).

In case of price increase by providers, especially in the field of electricity powers, VIMP is entitled to adjust the monthly costs. The customer has to be informed about such increases at least 4 weeks beforehand and can make use of a special cancelation right at the moment of the price increase, as long as this increase excesses 5% of the present invoice amount.

4. VIMP Services: Updates & Support

In line with the Update & Support package, the customer receives information about product updates. Subsequently the updates can be downloaded in the secured area and be installed with the help of the update manual. The contained product updates are valid for all purchased VIMP software products, inclusively the modules if necessary. The premium support is realized via a ticket system and can be done via e-mail or telephone in singular cases.

The support service can be constricted or denied by VIMP at any time, if the customer has questions with regards to content of running the portal, that do not have anything to do with technical or infrastructural problems, or if the customers does wish detailed information on enhancing the software. In this case, VIMP will forward the customer to one of the partner agencies, which will provide support for these questions with charges.

5. Availability

For provided services hosting and transcoding mentioned in this contract an availability of 99% is guaranteed. A disturbance is considered as occurring, if the fault has been reported by the customer via telephone and an error description has been provided to the hotline via e-mail ([email protected]). The customer at this will receive a reference number, which confirms the receipt of the message.

In case of falling below the availability, the customer, for each percent shortfall, is entitled to receive a voucher of 10% of the monthly fee for the according service. The maximal voucher per year is restricted to a monthly fee per month. VIMP tries to guarantee a preferably high availability of the infrastructure. The grant of vouchers, compensation and fines are excluded, if the damage has been reported to a service provider or supplier of VIMP and if VIMP is waiting on the reparations by the service provider or supplier.

6. Shortcomings

A liability for a designed configuration is only given, if this has been agreed upon in writing specifically. VIMP points out, that according to the state of the art, it is not possibly to create software error free. If in case of a specific liability agreement an error occurs, the customer is obligated to report VIMP this error within two weeks in writing. In line with the written notice of defects the defect and its form of appearance need to be described as exact as possible, so a check of the defect can be performed (e.g. by submitting the error message) and a handling error can be excluded (e.g. describing the steps of procedure). The recession because of an insignificant defect is excluded. If the notice of defects proves as eligible, the customer sets VIMP an adequate period for supplementary performance. The customer informs VIMP, which kind of supplementary performance – enhancement of the delivered or delivering a new, free of defects object – he wishes. VIMP is however entitled to decline the desired supplementary performance, if it can only be done with disproportional costs and if the other way of supplementary performance would not bring considerable disadvantages.

7. Liability

In case of hindrance due to force majeure, VIMP is not obligated to value performance. VIMP only vouches with compensation, no matter because of which cause in law (including non-contractual liability), if the defect has been caused by VIMP or its suppliers grossly negligent or intentionally, has been based on violating an essential contractual primary obligation or cardinal obligation or the absence of an assured attribute. In case of slightly negligent violation of primal contractual primary obligations or cardinal obligations, the liability of VIMP is restricted to the extent of the typically foreseeable damage and the monthly order value. The liability of VIMP for financial losses with telecommunication services is restricted in all cases according to § 7 Abs. 2 telecommunications customer safety regulations. VIMP is not liable for financial losses, which occur in the first 48 hours of a disruption or a grave disturbance of the network connection.

Furthermore the liability for damages of VIMP is restricted on the grant of vouchers at the extent of maximal one monthly sum per damaging event. These vouchers resemble the sole compensation for the customer and the sole form of compensation by VIMP.

VIMP does not vouch for consequential harms caused by a defect, indirect and special defects (including damages for missed gains, missed sales volume or missed savings) independent of, if they occur for the customer because of deliberate or negligent actions or neglects by the employees or assistants of VIMP, or if VIMP has been informed about the possibility or the probability of the causation of such defects.

In case of claiming VIMP due to liability a contributory negligence of the customer has to be adequately considered, especially with inadequate error reports or inadequate data backup. The period of limitation for non-basic contract violations is restricted to two years.

The liability according to the law of product liability remains untouched by the preceding limitation of liability.

Irrespective of the preceding regulations, VIMP stays entitled and liable for amendment.

8. Instruction on revocation

The right of revocation is only available to end consumers, i.e. natural persons who do not enter into legal transactions for commercial or self-employed professional purposes.

According to that, there is also no right of revocation for software via online delivery (e.g. via e-mail or download), as the transmitted data is not suitable for return. There is also no right of revocation for software, which was made after customer specification.

9. Data privacy statement

We ensure that personal data is only collected, stored and processed to the extent necessary for the provision of our services and permitted by legal regulations, or ordered by law. 

If declarations of consent under data protection law are obtained within the scope of the use of our services, it is pointed out that these can be revoked at any time. Our services are subject to constant changes about the processing of data, the use of third-party providers or services. In this context, we may also change details of the processing of data via our Internet pages. Current information on the purpose, type and extent of the collection, processing and use of personal data can be found in the data protection information, which can be accessed at any time by clicking on the link in the footer of our website at www.vimp.com There you will also find information about the cookies and services we use.

10. Final Provisions

Alterations of contracts, enhancements and additional agreements require the necessity of written form. If a regulation of this agreement is ineffective or is to be ineffective, this does not affect the remaining regulations. In fact, in lieu thereof an ineffective regulation an according or an approximate replacement regulation, that fits the intention takes place, which the two parties would have agreed about to achieve the same economic results, if they had known about the ineffectiveness of this regulation. The same is affective regarding the incompleteness of the regulations accordingly. For the contractual relations of the co-contractors German right is effective. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is explicitly excluded. Place of execution for delivery and services is that place, that has been agreed about to be the address of execution, in doubt to be Munich. Place of execution for a payment is the location of the named paying office mentioned in the invoice. Court Of Jurisdiktion is Munich.

Munich, August 1st, 2022

VIMP Installation Service

Leave the complete installation process of your VIMP platform to us.

 

The VIMP installation service includes:

To access your server from the outside, we need the following:

We recommend Linux as operating system. An installation under UNIX, BSD or Windows is also possible, but is not officially supported by us.

Minimum server requirements for installing VIMP:

Webserver

PHP

MySQL/MariaDB

Transcoding
Please install the transcoding tools exactly as described in the documentation. Installing the standard packages is not sufficient due to patent regulations.

CSS modifications
To concatenate modified CSS files, npm must be installed.

Hardware

As a minimum requirement we recommend:

For productive use we recommend:

We recommend using a RAID controller for additional data security.

VIMP Installationsservice

Überlassen Sie den kompletten Installationsprozess Ihrer VIMP-Plattform uns.

 

Der VIMP Installationsservice beinhaltet:

  • Vorbereitung Ihres Servers
  • Installation der erworbenen VIMP Software
  • Installation der Transcoding Tools

Um von außen auf Ihren Server zugreifen zu können, benötigen wir folgendes:

  • SSH-Zugriff auf Ihren Server (idealerweise als root)
  • Vorinstalliertes Hosting (Apache + MySQL/MariaDB)

Wir empfehlen Linux als Betriebssystem. Eine Installation unter UNIX, BSD oder Windows ist ebenfalls möglich, wird von uns aber nicht offiziell unterstützt.

Minimale Servervoraussetzungen für die Installation von VIMP:

Webserver

  • Apache2
    • Version 2.4 empfohlen
  • oder NGINX

PHP

  • Version 7.1 – 8.0
  • GD-Bibliothek, openssl, cURL, MySQL, mbstring, PDO, pdo_mysql und XSL-Erweiterungen müssen installiert sein
  • PHP CLI (Command Line Interface) muss installiert sein
  • SourceGuardian Extension (außer für ViMP Ultimate Extended)

MySQL/MariaDB

  • MySQL: Version 5.7 – 8.0
  • MariaDB: Mindestens Version 10.2
  • InnoDB muss installiert sein

Transcoding
Die Transcoding-Tools bitte genau wie in der Dokumentation beschrieben installieren. Die Installation der Standardpakete ist aufgrund patentrechtlicher Bestimmungen nicht ausreichend.

  • FFmpeg
  • FFProbe
  • exiftool (>10.8)
  • time

CSS-Anpassungen
Um modifizierte CSS-Dateien zu verketten, muss npm installiert sein.

Hardware

Als Mindestanforderung empfehlen wir:

  • Quad-Core-Prozessor
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 500 GB Festplattenspeicher (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Für den produktiven Einsatz empfehlen wir:

  • Hexa-Core-Prozessor oder besser (mehr Kerne ermöglichen insbesondere eine schnellere Transcodierung der Medien)
  • 32 GB RAM oder mehr
  • 2000 GB Festplattenspeicher oder mehr (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Wir empfehlen die Verwendung eines RAID-Controllers für zusätzliche Datensicherheit.

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