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Support and Maintenance
Agreement
( Revised: September 2005
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Crimestar Corporation charges an annual fee per
concurrent user license to provide technical support for CrimeStar Records
Management Software. Customers who have paid for, and are current in
their payment of, the annual support and maintenance fee are deemed ‘Supported
Customers’. These customers are entitled to the products and services
outlined in this agreement. Conversely, customers who have not paid or
maintained the annual support and maintenance fee are deemed ‘Non-Supported
Customers,’ and are subject to the upgrade restrictions defined herein.
This technical support agreement is intended as a companion to the original
CrimeStar License Agreement. It is important that Supported Customers
fully read and understand the license agreement and this companion agreement.
The two documents are intended to protect the rights of both Supported Customers
and Crimestar Corporation.
Products and Services
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General Help: Crimestar Corporation will use its best efforts to
provide necessary consultation in a timely manner to assist supported
customers with the process of installing, setting up, configuring and using
CrimeStar. Additionally, in the event of a major computer problem at the
customer location, Crimestar Corporation will make reasonable efforts to help
the customer recover from the problem in order to return the CrimeStar
software to its normal operating condition. The methods and resources used to
accomplish this level of assistance shall at the discretion of Crimestar
Corporation consist of, but not be limited to:
- E-mail Communication and Consultation - ( Email Support )
- World Wide Web-based support, technical information, and product updates
at http://www.crimestar.com
- Voice Telephone Communication and Consultation
- Remote Diagnostics via Communication Utility Tools (i.e. Virtual Network
Computing: "VNC" ).
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Software Repairs: Crimestar Corporation will, as necessary, use its
best efforts to identify, isolate and repair various imperfections,
‘software bugs’ or other software programming problems that may exist or
become introduced into the CrimeStar software. Once these identified
imperfections or problems are repaired, an updated version or release of the
software that includes these associated repairs will be made available to
supported customers.
Product Design Input: It is Crimestar Corporation’s desire to evolve
the product using input from CrimeStar customers, agencies evaluating the
product and other sources with reasonable expertise in the realm of law
enforcement and public safety. Crimestar Corporation will make every reasonable
effort to give priority to the ideas, suggestions and input of supported
customers, when adding features and making product enhancements.
Software Updates: Crimestar Corporation is continuously working to
improve CrimeStar by adding new features and capabilities to the product. Many
of these new features or capabilities are a direct result of product design
input from supported customers. Crimestar Corporation will make most of these
new features and updates available to supported customers as part of the base
product at no additional charge. Crimestar Corporation does reserve the right to
charge an additional fee, if it is deemed that a particular feature or new
capability constitutes a major upgrade in product functionality.
Notice of Upgrade Restriction
Crimestar Corporation reserves the right to explicitly lockout, via software
modifications, specific registered users who have not paid the annual support
and maintenance fees. This action shall serve to prevent them from downloading
and updating to the latest release of the software; thus obtaining the same
benefit as supported customers who have paid the annual support fee. This
lockout action will not prevent a non-supported customer from continuing to use
their existing installed licensed version release, it only serves to prevent the
use of future updates of the software product by non-supported
customers.
Non-supported customers shall in all circumstances, be responsible for
maintaining the CrimeStar installation files required for the current version of
the product they are using.
Past Due Support Fees
In order to be fair to our
supported customers whose support payments fund our ongoing product development;
non-supported customers that have allowed their annual product support and
maintenance agreement to lapse, and wish to once again be a supported customer
will be required to pay all past due fees.
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