Autodesk
General terms
These General Terms apply to your account with Autodesk and to our Offerings, and constitute a
binding contract between us.
1. Acceptance
By accepting these General Terms during your account registration or subscription process, or by
accessing or using our Offerings, you confirm your acceptance of these General Terms and other
applicable Terms and your agreement to be a party to this binding contract. If you do not agree,
you do not have the right to access or use our Offerings.
You agree to these Terms on behalf of the company or other legal entity for which you are acting
(for example, as an employee or contractor) or, if there is no company or legal entity, on behalf
of yourself as an individual (in either case, âYouâ). You represent and warrant that you have
the right and authority (as well as the capacityâfor example, you are of sufficient legal age) to
act on behalf of and bind such entity (if any) and yourself.
Additional capitalized terms are defined in these Terms and in the "Definitions" section (Section
22) below.
2. Right Of Return For Refund
For a limited period after You purchase or renew a subscription (the âReturn Periodâ), (i) if
You object to any of the terms set forth in these Terms, or (ii) if You object to the Autodesk
terms of purchase or auto-renewal (if any) applicable to the purchase or renewal of the
subscription, or (iii) if You are dissatisfied (for any reason) with the Offering to which You
subscribed, You may return the Offering and may qualify for a refund.
For orders placed directly with Autodesk, Autodesk will provide a full refund of Your subscription
fees if You cease use and return the Offering within the Return Period set forth below. For orders
placed through a reseller or other third party, please check the applicable return and refund
policy of that third party.
Type
Subscription Term
Return Period (measured from the date of purchase or renewal)
New subscription, Renewal of an existing subscription, Addition of users to an existing
subscription, Aligning subscription billing or renewal dates
Subscriptions longer than monthly (for example, annual)
30 days
Monthly subscriptions
15 days
Your right of return for refund does not apply to all orders, including orders for cloud credits,
consumption-based fees, consulting, advanced consulting, memberships, platform subscriptions or
fees, extra-territorial rights and enterprise agreements. For more information please see our Right
of Return Policy.
3. Additional Agreements, Special Terms
You may have an additional agreement signed directly with one or more Autodesk entities that
supplements or amends these Terms (for example, an enterprise business agreement) (âAdditional
Agreementâ). In addition, Offerings may be subject to special terms (âSpecial Termsâ),
including, for example, particular entitlements or restrictions on types of use. Special Terms may
apply to a particular Offering or to a particular category of user (for example, students). The
Special Terms are set forth in the Special Terms or in the Documentation for the Offering.
You agree to the Special Terms, if any, for an Offering that You subscribe to, obtain, access or
use. If You do not agree to all such Special Terms, You may not subscribe to, obtain, access or use
the Offering.
If there is any conflict between these General Terms and the Additional Agreement or Special Terms,
the Additional Agreement or Special Terms will control in relation to their subject matter. If
there is a conflict between the Additional Agreement and the Special Terms, the Additional
Agreement will control in relation to its subject matter. Any arrangement with respect to an
Offering is expressly conditioned on Your agreement to these Terms, and any further or different
terms are rejected.
4. Account
4.1 Account Responsibilities
To subscribe to an Offering, You may need an account. You are responsible for anyone who obtains,
accesses or uses Offerings through You or Your account (including Your Authorized Users). This
means (among other things) that You are responsible for Your Authorized Usersâ compliance with
these Terms, including their use of their accounts, as though each of the Authorized Users is You.
In certain cases, Your Authorized Users may be required to set up individual accounts or otherwise
agree to applicable terms in order to obtain, access or use Offerings, but that requirement does
not affect Your responsibility for Your Authorized Users.
You are also responsible for the security of Your account and all activity associated with Your
account. This means (among other things) that You (i) will ensure that only Your Authorized Users
use Offerings associated with Your account, and (ii) will secure and not share user IDs or
passwords (except with authorized account administrators). If You suspect unauthorized use of Your
account, please contact https://www.autodesk.com/trust/contact-us.
You will ensure that all Your account information (including any information that You or Your
Authorized Users provide in connection with Your registration for any Offering) is, and continues
to be, true and complete.
4.2 Account Benefits
Your account is designed to provide a place for You to access and manage Your account information
and obtain rights to Software, Web Services and other Benefits, including free benefits. Your
account is designed to be accessible virtually anywhere, anytime via the web at
accounts.autodesk.com or at other successor or alternative Autodesk sites.
Your account features may include:
Single sign-in to Autodesk sites and services
Single sign-in to Autodesk sites and services
Management of Your subscriptions
Access to Offerings
Access to downloads and trials
Access to technical support, learning resources and subscription news
Usage information regarding Your subscriptions, cloud credits and analytics
5. You Own Your Work
You will retain Your ownership rights to files, designs, models, data sets, images, documents or
similar material created by You or Your Authorized Users and submitted or uploaded to any Offering
by You or Your Authorized Users.
6. Privacy
Autodesk is committed to protecting Your privacy and letting You know what Autodesk will do with
Your personal information. Autodeskâs Privacy Statement sets forth (i) how Autodesk may collect,
use, store and process personal information of or relating to You, and (ii) how you may request
access to or deletion of Your personal information or exercise other privacy rights. You
acknowledge that You have read and understand the Privacy Statement.
7. Subscriptions
Benefits
Your subscriptions may include Software or Web Services or a combination of both Software and Web
Services. Your subscriptions may also include additional Benefits.
7.1 Subscriber benefits
You will be entitled to the subscriber Benefits that Autodesk makes generally commercially
available to users with the same subscription as You (including level, geography and other
attributes). Subscriber Benefits may include, for example:
Technical support
Global travel benefits
Home use benefits
Rights to previous versions
Access to forums, learning events, newsletters, webinars, galleries, and other educational
resources
Access to trial versions and APIs
Rights to Updates, Upgrades and other additional Software
Rights to Web Services
For more information about subscriber Benefits in general see Subscription Benefits page
7.2 Subscribing to an offering
Autodesk may offer additional modes of support from time to time. Examples may include online chat,
request a callback, support for Software and Web Services APIs provided via Autodesk Developer
Network, remote desktop troubleshooting or access to curated technical support resources, including
articles, videos and similar content. Modes of support may differ depending on Your Offering.
Additional terms may apply to these modes of support, including but not limited to conditions
relating to technical requirements. Not all modes of support will be available in every region or
every language.
7.3 Length of subscription
Your subscription to an Offering will be for a fixed term of limited length, the length of which
should be indicated at the time of purchase and should be reflected on Your confirmation of
purchase or other Offering Identification. If no length is indicated, please contact us at
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/contact-support and we will determine and confirm the length of Your
subscription term.
7.4 Renewal of subscription
At the end of Your subscription period for an Offering, You may be able to renew Your subscription
to the extent, and on the same terms, that Autodesk then generally makes commercially available to
subscribers of such Offering in the same geography. Certain subscriptions may have the option of
automatically renewing. If you would like to cancel any such automatic renewal, please see
Cancelling Automatic Renewal for Subscriptions.
7.5 Switched subscriptions
If Your subscription is replaced by a successor or substitute subscription, the new subscription
may be considered a Switched Subscription and, if so, will be subject to the Switched Subscription
Terms.
8. Scope, Prior Terms, Maintenance Terms
These Terms do not apply to (i) subscriptions purchased before May 18, 2018, unless renewed on or
after that date, or (ii) terms on which Autodesk has agreed to provide maintenance for Software
that was previously licensed to You on a perpetual basis. Rather, those subscriptions and
maintenance arrangements continue to be subject to their existing terms, which are available at
Prior Subscription Terms, Maintenance Terms.
9. Software
If You order Software for delivery, or You order an Offering that includes Software (for example,
if a Web Service Offering requires client Software), the Software will at Autodeskâs discretion
be made available for download through Your account or other electronic means or delivered to You
by Autodesk or an Autodesk-authorized third party. Additional fees may apply for delivery of
physical media or other tangible embodiments of Software. No matter how Software is delivered,
Autodesk will not be liable for any losses or other liability incurred by You or others due to late
delivery or delivery to an incorrect address.
For any Offering consisting of Software that Autodesk makes available or delivers to You, and
subject to compliance with these Terms and all payment obligations, Autodesk grants to You a
nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, nontransferable license, for the period of Your subscription, to
install and use the Software (and permit Your Authorized Users to install and use the Software)
solely (i) in accordance with the Documentation for the Offering and any applicable Special Terms,
if any, and (ii) within the scope of Your subscription, including the permitted number, License
Type, Territory and other attributes specified for the type and level that You selected when
subscribing for the Offering. If Your Offering Identification or other confirmation from Autodesk
of Your subscription does not specify one or more of those attributes, the license will be (a) a
Trial Version; (b) for You as an individual or, if You are a company or other legal entity, for one
named employee; and (c) for use only within the country or jurisdiction where You acquired the
Offering. You may not install, access or use (or allow installation of, access to or use of) any
Software other than as authorized by such license and these Terms, and any other installation,
access or use is unauthorized.
During the period of Your subscription, Autodesk may make available or deliver Updates or Upgrades
to Software. All such Updates and Upgrades are subject to the same license and other terms as the
Software to which the Updates or Upgrades apply. You are encouraged to promptly install and use all
Updates and Upgrades made available to You during the subscription period. If You receive an Update
or Upgrade for any Software, You may install and use both the previous version and the new version
of the Software for testing and migration purposes for a maximum of 120 days (beginning on the
first installation date for the new version), provided that, during such 120-day period, You do not
use both versions concurrently for production use. After such 120 days, (i) Your (including Your
Authorized Usersâ) right to access and use such previous version will end, and (ii) You must stop
all access to and use of the previous version (including all access and use by Your Authorized
Users), uninstall all copies of the previous version, and, at Autodeskâs request, destroy any
such copies or return them to Autodesk or the reseller from which You acquired the Offering. For
certain Offerings (because of Special Terms for the Offerings or because of exceptions granted by
Autodesk under certain circumstances), You may have certain rights to continue using and accessing
previous versions after such 120-day period. Such rights, if any, are set forth in the Previous
Version Rights (see Subscription Benefits).
For the duration of a subscription, You may make one archival copy of the Software to which You
subscribed solely for Your backup and archival purposes.
Any Software (including any Update or Upgrade) that Autodesk makes available or delivers to You is
licensed for a limited subscription period, not sold, and You may not transfer or assign the
license, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding a contractual
prohibition to the contrary or as otherwise expressly permitted by Autodesk in writing. Your
subscription to a Web Service does not grant to You a license to the underlying Software used in
providing the Web Service.
10. Web Services
If You subscribe to Web Services, Autodesk will provide those Web Services to You for the period of
Your subscription, subject to compliance with these Terms and all payment obligations. You may
access and use the Web Services solely (i) in accordance with the Documentation for the Offering
and any applicable Special Terms, if any, (ii) for Your internal business purposes, in the form
made accessible and/or provided by Autodesk, and (iii) within the scope of Your subscription,
including the permitted number, Web Services Type, Territory and other attributes specified for the
type and level that You selected when subscribing for the Offering. If Your Offering Identification
or other subscription confirmation from Autodesk does not specify one or more of those attributes,
Your Web Service will be (a) a Trial Version; (b) for You as an individual or, if You are a company
or other legal entity, for use by one named employee; and (c) for use only within the country or
jurisdiction where You acquired the Offering. You may not access or use (or allow access to or use
of) any Web Service other than as authorized by these Terms, and any such access or use is
unauthorized.
Autodesk will make the Web Services available to You consistent with the manner in which Autodesk
makes such Web Services generally commercially available to users with the same subscription as You
(including level, geography and other attributes).
Web Services will be provided using processes and safeguards that are designed to help maintain the
security of Your Content. Autodesk from time to time may have external auditors prepare reports for
Autodesk subscriber on Autodeskâs adherence to its security controls for certain Autodesk
services. You may request from Autodesk a copy of such reports applicable to a Web Service to which
You subscribe, subject to Your agreement with Autodesk on non disclosure of and restrictions on use
of such reports. Autodesk expects to make available such reports no more frequently than once
annually.
11. Access To And Use Of Offerings
11.1 General Access and Use Conditions
Depending on the Offering, You may be required to log into Your account to activate, access or use
(or to continue accessing or using) the Offering. Only You, including Your Authorized Users, may
access or use an Offering. Access to and use of all Offerings is contingent on (among other things)
Your timely payment of all applicable amounts, including any taxes and other fees, with respect to
the Offerings and compliance with these Terms.
Some Offerings may cause Your Electronic Devices to automatically connect to the internet
(intermittently or on a regular basis)âfor example, to validate Your subscription, provide You
with access to services (including third-party services) or download and install Updates or
Upgrades, all without further notice to You. You agree to such connection and to validation of Your
subscription and to the automatic downloading and installation of Updates and Upgrades. For some
Offerings, You may be able to adjust Your Update or Upgrade settings (this is not available for
other Offerings, including those for which automatic Updates or Upgrades are required for operation
or security of the Offering).
Offerings do not include access to the internet or any other network or to any communications
services or any hardware, software, storage, security or other resources necessary for accessing or
using the Offerings. You and Your other suppliers and service providers are responsible for
acquiring all such items and for their reliability, security and performance. Not all Offerings,
and not all functions of an Offering (including those described in the Special Terms or
Documentation), are available in all locations or languages.
11.2 Autodesk APIs
When You subscribe to an Offering, Autodesk may provide You with access to applications programming
interfaces, software development kits, tools, libraries, scripts, sample source code and similar
developer material specifically for use of such Offering (collectively, âAPIsâ). For any such
APIs that Autodesk makes available or delivers to You, and subject to compliance with these Terms
and all payment obligations, Autodesk grants to You a nonexclusive, non sublicensable,
nontransferable license, for the period of Your subscription, to use such APIs only (i) internally
in conjunction with and for Your own authorized internal use of the Offering for which the APIs
were made available, and (ii) in accordance with any Documentation for the APIs. Some APIs are
subject to Special Terms, and Your license to the APIs is subject to those Special Terms. All APIs
are confidential and proprietary to Autodesk and may not be distributed or disclosed to any third
party or used for any purpose other than as permitted by the Documentation for the APIs and the
other requirements of these Terms (and any such other use is unauthorized). If You develop any
applications, services, modules or components using all or any portion of the APIs (collectively,
âYour Developmentâ), You may use Your Development with third-party software or hardware
(including porting Your Development to third-party platforms), but only if You remove from Your
Development all elements of the APIs (including any elements based on the APIs) and Your
Development (a) does not disclose, make available, incorporate or embody any part of the APIs, and
(b) does not incorporate or embody any part of the Offerings or other Autodesk intellectual
property. If You wish to use Your Development for any use other than Your internal use with Your
Offering (for example, for customers or any users other than You), You will need a separate
Developer License.
11.3 Use of Third-Party Material and Services
Autodesk may provide You with content, designs, models, data sets, project information, documents,
libraries, audio, links, data, applications and other software, services or similar material of a
third party (collectively, âThird-Party Material/Servicesâ) in connection with Offerings. Any
such Third-Party Material/Services may be governed by different terms found in such Third-Party
Material/Services (for example, in the âAbout Boxâ or a .txt file), on a web page specified by
Autodesk or in the Special Terms or Documentation for the Offering for which the Third-Party
Materials/Services are provided (collectively, âThird-Party Termsâ). If there are no
Third-Party Terms, Your use must be (i) limited to the same terms as the Offering for which You
received the Third-Party Material/Services, and (ii) solely in connection with Your use of such
Offering. You take sole responsibility for determining, obtaining and complying with all
Third-Party Terms. Autodesk will have no responsibility for, and makes no representations and
warranties regarding, (a) any Third-Party Material/Services or Your use of such Third-Party
Material/Services, and (b) the Third-Party Terms or Your compliance with such Third-Party Terms.
11.4 Use of Your Content
In order for You to access or use certain Offerings, or for Autodesk to provide You with certain
services, You may wish to upload or otherwise share Your Content. Autodesk personnel will not use
Your Content except (i) at Your request, or with Your consentâfor example, when providing You
support, or addressing a technical issue or other request; (ii) in connection with providing and
improving Offerings (including maintaining, securing, updating or otherwise modifying Offerings);
or (iii) in connection with legal-related obligations, enforcement, investigations or proceedings
(for example, in response to a valid subpoena). In general, Autodesk does not screen or review
content that is posted to any Offering, website or service or otherwise made available to Autodesk.
Autodesk reserves the right, however, to screen and review Your Content, and may block or remove
content for any reason, including because it is not in compliance with these Terms (for example,
illegal, offensive or phishing-related postings or spam). When You provide or make accessible Your
Content, You authorize Autodesk and its designees to use, reproduce, modify, distribute and make
available Your Content in connection with providing You with Offerings and allowing Autodesk to
fulfill its obligations and as otherwise permitted by these Terms.
You (a) are responsible for all of Your Content and for ensuring that Your Content and its use with
any Offering comply with all applicable laws and regulations and these Terms, and (b) warrant that
Your Content will not infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property or proprietary rights of
any person or violate any applicable laws or regulations. Autodesk recommends that You secure and
protect Your Content by using appropriate encryption and security technology. You acknowledge that
online services may suffer occasional disruptions or outages, and You may not be able to retrieve
Your Content as a result. Autodesk recommends that You regularly backup Your Content to Your own
storage. You are at all times responsible for storing and maintaining any such backup copies of
Your Content.
11.5 Collaboration and Sharing of Your Content
Some Offerings permit You to collaborate with others, including sharing Your Content or publishing
Your Contentâfor example, to a forum or to other services. If You choose to share or publish Your
Content (whether by collaboration on or sharing files with a project, emailing, sharing a link,
sharing files with other applications or services, posting in a forum or gallery or otherwise),
then others (including, in some cases, the general public) may be able to use, sell, reproduce,
modify, distribute, make available, display, transmit and communicate Your Content. Forums and
galleries may be public, and submissions are generally public. Once You share or publish Your
Content, suspending or terminating access will not delete or inhibit access to any of Your Content
that was earlier copied, transferred or otherwise shared or published. If You do not want others to
have any such access or any of those rights, do not use the sharing, publishing or other
collaboration features of the Offerings and set Your permissions accordingly.
An Offering may feature links to third parties that offer services, software or other materials
that complement such Offering. Such links are provided as a convenience to You. Autodesk does not
monitor or control what such third parties will do with Your Content. You are responsible for
ensuring the appropriate level of access to Your Content by any third party. If You authorize any
of Your information or Your Content to be shared with any third party, Autodesk may make available
Your information or Your Content to such third party; Autodesk will, however, have no
responsibility or liability for the actions of such third party, and all governing terms and
conditions, including those regarding privacy, are between You and such third party.
12. Trial Versions
Autodesk may make available or deliver Offerings (or features of an Offering) labelled or offered
as ânot for resale,â âfree,â âevaluation,â âtrial,â âpre-release,â âbetaâ
or another similar designation (collectively, âTrial Versionsâ). You may download, install,
access or use Trial Versions only during the period and for the purpose of the trial, as expressly
permitted by Autodesk. Except as expressly set forth in the online or other Documentation for the
Trial Version or applicable Special Terms, (i) the subscription period for the Trial Version will
be limited to 30 days, (ii) Your use will be limited to non-commercial evaluation purposes with no
rights to make available or distribute the Trial Version to any third party, and (iii) the use will
be only by You as an individual or, if You are a company or other legal entity, by one named
employee. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Terms or otherwise, (a) Autodesk makes no
commitments with respect to Trial Versions regarding any features, functions, service levels or
data and provides no warranties of any kind with respect to Trial Versions, (b) Autodesk may choose
not to generally release any Trial Versions or convert any Trial Version into a product offering,
and (c) Trial Versions may contain code that is not fully tested, including errors and faults that
may cause total data loss or system failure. Subscriptions to Trial Versions do not include
Subscription Benefits, and Autodesk reserves the right, without any further notice, to end any
Trial Versions at any time.
13. Websites
Separate from its Offerings, Autodesk may provide information on its general websites. You agree to
use such Autodesk websites in accordance with our Website Terms of Use.
14. Feedback
You have no obligation to provide Autodesk with ideas for improvement, suggestions or other
feedback (collectively, âFeedbackâ), whether in connection with a Trial Version or otherwise,
unless otherwise specified in the Special Terms for an Offering. If, however, You provide any
Feedback, You hereby grant to Autodesk a non-exclusive, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide,
royalty-free license (with rights to sublicense) to make, use, sell, offer to sell, reproduce,
modify, distribute, make available, publicly display and perform, disclose and otherwise exploit
the Feedback and any Offerings using the Feedback.
15. Limitations On Use
15.1 Offerings are tools
The Offerings are tools and are intended only to assist You with Your design, analysis, simulation,
estimation, testing and other activities and are not a substitute for Your professional judgment or
Your own independent design, analysis, simulation, estimation, testing or other activities,
including those with respect to product stress, safety and utility. Due to the large variety of
potential applications for the Offerings, they have not been designed or tested for any specific
uses, and it is Your responsibility to determine whether the use of an Offering is appropriate for
the purposes You pursue. Autodesk will not be responsible or liable in any manner whatsoever for
the results obtained through use of the Offerings, including any Output. You are responsible for
Your (including Your Authorized Usersâ) use of the Offerings and any results produced by the
Offerings, including any Output. Your responsibilities include, without limitation, the
determination of appropriate uses for the Offerings and the selection of the Offerings and other
computer programs and materials to help achieve Your intended results. You are also responsible for
establishing the adequacy of independent procedures for testing the reliability, accuracy,
completeness, compliance with applicable legal requirements, and other characteristics of any
Output, including, without limitation, all items designed with the assistance of the Offerings. You
further acknowledge that the Offerings and Output may not achieve the results You desire within
Your design, analysis, simulation, estimation, testing and other constraints.
15.2 Offerings are not designed for storage of sensitive personal information
The data storage functionality associated with Offerings is NOT suitable for the storage of Social
Security numbers, credit or debit card numbers, financial account numbers, driverâs license
numbers, medical information or health insurance information; data about personal characteristics
or other personal information, such as race or ethnic origin, religion or philosophical beliefs,
political affiliation or opinions, genetic or biometric data, sexual orientation or trade union
membership; or other information that may expose, or pose a risk of harm to, an individual if
improperly disclosed or used (collectively, âSensitive Personal Informationâ). Except as
expressly required by Autodesk (for example, a credit card number used to purchase a subscription),
You will not upload or otherwise make available to Autodesk any Sensitive Personal Information,
including any files containing Sensitive Personal Information, in connection with Your use of any
Offering.
15.3 Acceptable use of offerings
You will access and use (and permit access to and use of) Offerings only in conformance with (and
will comply with) all applicable laws. Except as expressly authorized by these Terms, including any
Additional Agreement or Special Terms, or as otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Autodesk,
You will not:
Reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, port or create derivative works of all or any portion of
any Offering, except as expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding a contractual
prohibition to the contrary;
Sublicense, distribute, transmit, sell, lease, rent, loan or otherwise make available all or
any portion of any Offering (including any functionality of any Offering) to a third party or
provide any functionality of any Offering to a third party (whether on a service bureau basis or
otherwise); and
Access or use any Offering on or through the internet (other than as made available by Autodesk
through the internet), any wide-area network (WAN) or any other non-local network; on or through
any virtual private network (VPN); or on or through any application virtualization technology,
remoting virtualization technology, web-hosting, timesharing, software as a service, platform as a
service, infrastructure as a service, cloud or other web-based, hosted or similar service.
In addition, You will not:
Remove any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary rights notice from any
Offering, Documentation or related material;
Remove, disable or otherwise limit the effectiveness of any technical protection used by
Autodesk to (i) manage, monitor, control or analyze the installation of, access to, or use of any
Offering or (ii) protect Autodeskâs intellectual property rights;
Post, transmit or otherwise make available using the Offerings any information or material that
is or may be:
false, libelous, defamatory, fraudulent or otherwise unlawful or tortious;
threatening, harassing, degrading, hateful or intimidating, or that otherwise fail to
respect the rights and dignity of others;
obscene, indecent, pornographic or otherwise objectionable;
protected by copyright, trademark, design rights, trade secret rights, right of publicity
or privacy, or any other proprietary right, without the express prior written consent of the
applicable owner;
a national or state secret, classified information or any other information or material
(including any photograph, drawing, plan or model) that is subject to official confidentiality
treatment;
secret codes, countersigns, crypto-currency, passwords or other similar information;
advertising, spam, an offer to sell or buy any goods or services, a âchain letterâ or
any other form of solicitation; or
any malware (such as a virus, worm, Trojan horse, Easter egg, time bomb or spyware) or
other computer code, file or program that is or is potentially harmful or invasive or intended to
damage or hijack the operation of, limit the use of, or monitor the use of, any hardware, software
or equipment;
Use the Offerings in any way that is fraudulent or otherwise unlawful or tortious, or has any
fraudulent or other unlawful or tortious purpose or effect;
Interfere with or disrupt the operation of any Offering or the servers or networks used to make
any Offering available, including by hacking or defacing any portion of an Offering;
Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any Offering or to breach or circumvent any
security or authentication measures used by any Offering;
Use any Offerings as storage for âremote loadingâ or as a âdoorâ or âsignpostâ to
other web pages or internet resources, whether inside or beyond the sites through which the
Offerings are provided;
Collect content or information, from or with an Offering, using automated means (such as any
robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other device to retrieve, index, âscrape,â
or âdata mineâ);
Use any Offering or the output of any Offering in connection with the training of a neural
network or machine learning, deep learning or artificial intelligence system or software;
Unbundle the component parts of any Offering for use separate from each other or on different
electronic devices (except as may be expressly permitted in writing by Autodesk); or
Use or access Software made available as part of a Web Service separately from the applicable
Web Service (except as may be expressly permitted in writing by Autodesk).
16. Confidentiality
You or Autodesk (as the âDisclosing Partyâ) may disclose or make available Confidential
Information to the other party (as the âReceiving Partyâ) in connection with these Terms. The
Receiving Party will use the same degree of care as to the Disclosing Partyâs Confidential
Information that it uses to protect the confidentiality of its own confidential information of like
kind (but in no event less than reasonable care) and will (i) use the Confidential Information of
the Disclosing Party only in connection with Offerings, and (ii) except as otherwise authorized by
the Disclosing Party in writing, limit access to the Confidential Information of the Disclosing
Party to those of its employees, consultants, contractors, service providers, professional advisors
and other individuals who need such access for purposes related to Offerings and who are subject to
confidentiality obligations with the Receiving Party no less stringent than those in these Terms.
The Receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party if it is
compelled by law to do so. The Receiving Party will give the Disclosing Party prior notice of such
compelled disclosure (to the extent legally permitted) and take reasonable steps to limit such
disclosure. Autodesk may also disclose Your Confidential Information to comply with any
governmental or regulatory body request (including subpoenas or court orders), as part of a legal
proceeding involving Autodesk, or at Your request. If disclosure is made at Your request, You may
be responsible for the costs of compiling and providing access to Your Confidential Information.
17. Autodesk Proprietary Rights
You acknowledge and agree that Autodesk and its licensors and suppliers will have all ownership of
and all rights with respect to (i) the Offerings, Documentation, APIs, Metrics and other
information or material provided or made available by Autodesk to You and (ii) any copies of the
foregoing, or any materials or other information based on, derived from or otherwise using any of
the foregoing (including all rights under trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, patents and all
other intellectual property or proprietary rights relating to any of the foregoing). The structure
and organization, the underlying algorithms and other internals, the protocols, data structures and
other externals, and the source code of the Offerings and the APIs constitute proprietary and
confidential information of Autodesk, and You will not disclose such information to third parties,
or use such information for any purpose other than as required for ordinary-course access to and
use of the Offerings as set forth in these Terms, without Autodeskâs prior written consent. Also,
You agree not to access or attempt to access the Offerings by any means other than the interface
Autodesk provides or authorizes. In addition, You agree not to engage in any decompiling,
disassembling or other reverse engineering or otherwise attempting to discover, learn or study the
structure or organization, underlying algorithms or other internals, the protocols, data structures
or other externals, or the source code of the Offerings or APIs, except as expressly permitted
under applicable law notwithstanding a contractual prohibition to the contrary. Autodesk may make
available or provide access to other confidential and proprietary information (either marked as
such or understood to be such under the circumstances). If You receive such information, You will
not disclose it to any third party, or use such information for any purpose other than as required
for access to and use of the Offerings as set forth in these Terms, without Autodeskâs prior
written consent.
You have only the rights expressly granted to You under these Terms (including any Additional
Agreement or Special Terms). All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Autodesk and its
licensors and suppliers; Autodesk and its licensors and suppliers expressly disclaim (and You agree
not to assert) any other rights.
You agree not to take any action, or to authorize or encourage any third party to take any action
(or cooperate with any third party in taking any action), inconsistent with the foregoing.
18. Warranty, Disclaimers, Limitations On Liability
18.1 Limited warranty
Autodesk warrants that, for any paid subscription, as of the date on which the subscribed-for
Offering is made available to You and for 90 days thereafter or, if the subscription period is
shorter, such shorter period (âWarranty Periodâ), the Offering will provide the general
features and functions described in the end-user Documentation for the Offering. Autodeskâs
entire obligation and liability, and Your sole and exclusive remedy, for Autodeskâs breach of
this warranty will be for Autodesk, at its option, (i) to attempt reasonably to remedy the breach
or (ii) to refund amounts received for the affected subscription and terminate such subscription.
You must bring any warranty claim for any Offering within its applicable Warranty Period.
18.2 Disclaimers
EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTY SET FORTH IN THE âLimited Warrantyâ SECTION (Section
18.1) ABOVE, AND ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES SET FORTH AS SUCH IN ANY ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT OR SPECIAL
TERMS, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, (i) THE OFFERINGS ARE PROVIDED âAS
IS,â AND (ii) AUTODESK AND ITS LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE, AND YOU RECEIVE, NO WARRANTIES,
REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS OR COMMITMENTS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ANY OF
THE OFFERINGS OR ANY OUTPUT, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY
QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS
IMPLIED BY STATUTE, OR ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS BASED ON A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OF TRADE OR
INDUSTRY STANDARDS. Any statements about the Offerings (including any statements about their
functionality or performance) or Output, or other communications with You, that are not contained
in these Terms or any Additional Agreement or Special Terms are for information purposes only and
do not constitute a warranty, representation, condition or other commitment. Without limitation as
to the generality of the foregoing, Autodesk does not warrant or otherwise commit that (a) the
Offerings or Output, or the access thereto or use thereof, will be available, uninterrupted,
error-free, secure, accurate, reliable or complete, (b) the Offerings will meet any particular
performance or availability criteria, (c) Your Content will not be lost or damaged or (d) errors
will be corrected or any particular support requests will be resolved to meet Your needs. Any
reference to âunlimitedâ access, use, storage or otherwise with respect to an Offering is
subject to the technical limitations of the Offering.
18.3 Limitations on liability
Neither Autodesk nor any of its licensors or suppliers will have any liability (directly or
indirectly) for any incidental, special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages; loss of
profits or revenue; business interruption or loss of use; cost of procurement of substitute goods
or services or other cover; failure of or defects in the Output; loss, corruption or deletion of
(or failure to delete) data or Your Content; or damages resulting from Force Majeure (in each case,
regardless of the legal theory for seeking such damages or other liability). In addition, the
aggregate liability of Autodesk and its licensors and suppliers with respect to any Offering or
Output thereof will in no event exceed the amount paid or payable by You for the Offering in the
one-year period before the events or circumstances giving rise to the liability first occurred.
The limitations on liability in these Terms will apply to the maximum extent permitted by
applicable law to any damages or other liability, however caused and regardless of the theory of
liability, whether based on contract, tort (including negligence and strict liability),
indemnification, recourse, statute or otherwise, even if Autodesk has been advised of the
possibility of the liability and regardless of whether the limited remedies in these Terms fail of
their essential purpose.
You acknowledge that the amounts payable for the Offerings are based in part on and reflective of
the disclaimers of warranties and limitations on liability in these Terms and that such disclaimers
and limitations are an essential element of the bargain between You and Autodesk.
Nothing in these Terms purports to restrict or exclude Autodeskâs liability for (i) death or
personal injury caused by Autodeskâs willful intent or gross negligence or (ii) Your damages or
losses caused by Autodeskâs fraud.
18.4 Relationship to applicable law
Autodesk does not seek to limit Your warranties, Your other rights and remedies, or the liability
of Autodesk for damages or losses to the extent the limits are not permitted by applicable law
(such as statutory warranties, conditions, remedies or liabilities that cannot be excluded by
applicable law). Nothing in these Terms restricts the effect of warranties, the liability of
Autodesk for damages or losses or other terms that cannot be excluded or otherwise modified under
applicable law notwithstanding a contractual restriction to the contrary. These Terms give You
specific legal rights, and You may also have other legal rights, which vary from jurisdiction to
jurisdiction. For example, some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or
the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages or other rights, so those
provisions of these Terms may not apply to You. Some of these legal requirements are described in
the "Country/Jurisdiction-Specific Terms" section (Section 23).
19. Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold harmless (and, at Autodeskâs request, defend) Autodesk against any
and all losses, liabilities, expenses (including reasonable attorneysâ fees) suffered or incurred
by Autodesk by reason of any claim, suit or proceeding (âClaimâ) arising out of or relating to
(i) Your Content; (ii) Your (including Your Authorized Usersâ) use of Offerings, including any
Output or other results produced by such use; and (iii) Your (including Your Authorized Usersâ)
breach of these Terms (including any Additional Agreement, any Special Terms or any other
applicable terms).
20. Term, Termination, Suspension
These Terms become effective on the first date accepted in accordance with the "Acceptance" section
(Section 1) and continue in effect indefinitely unless terminated in accordance with this âTerm,
Termination, Suspensionâ section (Section 20).
20.1 Your right to terminate
You may terminate Your subscriptions and these Terms if Autodesk is in material breach of these
Terms (including any Additional Agreement, any Special Terms or any other applicable terms) and
fails to cure such breach within 30 days after written notice of the breach.
20.2 Autodesk's right to terminate
Autodesk may terminate any or all of Your subscriptions or other Offerings, these Terms and/or Your
account, if (i) You have no current paid subscriptions; (ii) You have failed to timely pay any
amounts (including fees and taxes) owing with respect to any Offerings or otherwise owing to
Autodesk; (iii) You (including any of Your Authorized Users) are in material breach of these Terms
(including any Additional Agreement, any Special Terms, or any other applicable terms) and fail to
cure such breach within 30 days after written notice of the breach; or (iv) You become subject to
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, become insolvent, make an arrangement with or affecting Your
creditors (including an assignment for the benefit of creditor) or commence a process of
liquidation. These Terms will automatically terminate without further notice or action by Autodesk
if You go into liquidation.
20.3 Effect of termination of subscription
Upon expiration or termination of a subscription or other Offering for any reason, Your rights with
respect to that Offering, including any related Software license or subscription Benefits, will
end. At that time, You will stop all access to and use of the Offering (including all access and
use by Your Authorized Users) and uninstall any and all copies of materials related to such
Offering (including any related Software, Documentation, APIs or other material from Autodesk). In
addition, at Autodeskâs request, You will destroy any such copies or return them to Autodesk or
the reseller from which You acquired the Offering. You will retain proof that You returned or
destroyed all such copies. In connection with the expiration or termination of a subscription, (i)
as a convenience to You for some Web Services, Autodesk will, upon Your written request, provide
You with a brief period (for example, 30 days) in which You may retrieve Your Content after
expiration or termination of the Web Services, if You are in compliance with these Terms and pay
the applicable fees, if any (for example, Autodeskâs then-current professional services fees for
any assistance Autodesk provides), and (ii) otherwise, Autodesk may delete, without notice, any or
all of Your Content, including backup and other copies thereof. For more information on
post-expiration/termination content retrieval, please check with the individual Web Services
Offering. This convenience for some Web Services, if available, does not relieve You of
responsibility for retaining and securing complete copies of Your Content at all times.
20.4 Effect of termination of terms
Upon any termination of these Terms for any reason, (i) Your account and Your subscriptions and
other Offerings, including those of Your Authorized Users, will immediately terminate, (ii) You
will cease all access to and use of any Offerings (including all access and use by Your Authorized
Users), and (iii) the effects described above with respect to expiration or termination of a
subscription or other Offering will apply. Your payment obligations, ownership of Your work (as
described in the âYou Own Your Workâ section (Section 5)), obligations with respect to APIs and
Your Development (including those in the âAutodesk APIsâ section (Section 11.2)) and indemnity
obligations (including those in the âIndemnityâ section (Section 19)); the license as to
Feedback (in the âFeedbackâ section (Section 14)); Autodeskâs rights and Your obligations
with respect to proprietary rights (including the rights and obligations in the âAutodesk
Proprietary Rightsâ section (Section 17)); the disclaimers and limitations on liability (in the
âLimited Warranty, Disclaimers, Limitation on Liabilityâ section (Section 18)); the governing
law and dispute resolution provisions (in the âContracting Autodesk Entity, Governing Law, and
Dispute Resolutionâ section (Section 21.4)); and Your responsibility for anyone who accesses or
uses (or obtains) Offerings through You or Your account (including Your Authorized Users)
(including the responsibility described in the âAccountâ section (Section 4)) will survive
termination for any reason.
20.5 Autodesk's right to suspend
If Autodesk believes in good faith that Your Content or Your conduct or failure to act (including
the conduct or failure of Your Authorized Users) may (i) pose a security risk or otherwise
adversely impact Offerings, systems or other users; (ii) constitute or enable tampering with,
removing, disabling or otherwise limiting the effectiveness of any technical protections (including
any mechanisms for managing, monitoring, controlling or analyzing the installation of, access or,
or use of any Offerings or protections of Autodeskâs intellectual property rights); (iii) subject
Autodesk, any reseller or any other user to liability; or (iv) not comply with these Terms
(including any Additional Agreement, any Special Terms or any other applicable terms), including
failure to pay any amounts owing with respect to any Offerings, Autodesk has the right, but not the
obligation, to immediately disable or suspend Your access to and use of any Offerings and access to
and use of Your Content. Unless Autodesk reasonably determines that immediate action is prudent,
Autodesk will seek to notify You of the planned disabling or suspension before it takes effect.
21. Miscellaneous
21.1 Changes to the offerings
Autodesk reserves the right from time to time to (and You acknowledge and agree that Autodesk may)
(i) modify or release subsequent versions of an Offering, or may discontinue an Offering and/or
provide instead a substitute Offering; (ii) modify or discontinue the Benefits, features and
functionality, or supporting services or availability with respect to an Offering, whether
generally or in any geographic area or language; or (iii) add or modify license keys,
authorizations or other means of controlling access to or use of the Offerings. Autodesk will
endeavor to inform You of major changes to the Offerings.
21.2 Changes to terms
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Autodesk reserves the right from time to time to
(and You acknowledge that Autodesk may) modify these Terms. Autodesk will endeavor to notify You of
any material modification to the Terms that may have a materially adverse effect on You
(âModification Noticeâ), and You will then have an opportunity to review such modification.
Except as otherwise expressly set forth in these Terms (including any Additional Agreement or
Special Terms), if any such modification has a material adverse effect on You and You do not agree
to the modification, You may reject the modification by notifying Autodesk of the rejection within
30 days of the Modification Notice. If You reject a modification under these circumstances, (i)
Your access to and use of any Offerings affected by the modification will continue to be governed
by the terms in effect immediately before the modification (except to the extent the modification
was made for security, privacy or legal compliance reasons) until (a) the end of the then-current
period for the subscription or other Offering, if applicable, or (b) 180 days after the
Modification Notice, whichever is earlier; and (ii) Your rights to such Offerings, including any
related subscription Benefits, will then terminate. In the event of such a termination by You,
Autodesk (or an applicable reseller) will refund the prorated portion of any prepaid fees
applicable to the remaining term of Your subscription for the affected Offerings after the
effective date of termination. Such date will be the end of the term of such Offerings. If the
subscription is renewed or extended, it will be under the then-current Terms. Notices by You or
Autodesk will be provided as set forth below, except that You may also provide Your notice of
rejection (within the 30-day period described above) to the email address, or in any other manner,
specified in the Modification Notice.
Notwithstanding the forgoing, modifications to the Privacy Statement, Special Terms, Subscription
Types, Subscription Benefits or other policies will be handled as described therein.
You acknowledge that Your commitments with respect to the Offerings and Subscription Benefits are
not contingent on delivery of future features or functionality (or oral or written statements about
future features or functionality).
21.3 Language of terms; Interpretation
The English language version of these Terms will be the version used when interpreting or
construing these Terms, and any notices or other communications in connection with these Terms will
be provided in the English language. Any reference in these Terms to âdaysâ are to calendar
days unless otherwise specified. The words âincludingâ and âfor exampleâ or âe.g.,â and
words of similar import, are not limiting or exclusive and will be deemed followed by âwithout
limitation,â whether or not such language is included. Section and other headings are for ease of
reference only and are not to be used to interpret the meaning of any provision. Any rights and
remedies provided for in these Terms are cumulative and are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any
other rights and remedies available under applicable law.
21.4 Autodesk Party, Governing Law, and Dispute Resolution
Depending on where Your principal place of business is (or, if You are an individual, where You are
resident), these Terms are between You and the Autodesk Party set out below. The governing law for
these Terms, including any rights, obligations and claims of the parties, will be as specified
below. Similarly, any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms,
including the breach, performance, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity of these
Terms (and whether under contract, tort, including and strict liability, competition law or
otherwise), and including the determination of the scope or applicability of the dispute resolution
provisions of these Terms, will be finally determined under the law, in the location and by the
dispute resolution process specified below (except as may be specified in the
"Country/Jurisdiction-Specific Terms" section (Section 23).
Your principal place of business (or, if You are an individual, the place of Your residency)
References to âAutodesk Partyâ means the following Autodesk entity:
Governing law is:
Exclusive jurisdiction/forum for dispute resolution:
United States
Autodesk, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(i) State of California, and (ii) to the extent controlling, federal laws of the United States
(i) United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, or (ii)
Superior Court of the State of California, County of Marin
Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau
Autodesk, Inc., a Delaware corporation
Hong Kong
Arbitration before three arbitrators in Hong Kong administered by the Hong Kong International
Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under the HKIAC administered arbitration rules in force when the notice
of arbitration is submitted
Europe, the Middle East or Africa
Autodesk Ireland Operations Unlimited Company, an Irish company
Ireland
Courts of Ireland
Asia, Oceania or the Asia-Pacific region, other than Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
Autodesk, Inc., a Delaware corporation
Singapore
Courts of Singapore
Worldwide unless in a country or region described above
Autodesk, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(i) State of California, and (ii) to the extent controlling, federal laws of the United States
(i) United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, or (ii)
Superior Court of the State of California, County of Marin
If You have any dispute with respect to an Offering or otherwise arising from or relating to these
Terms (including any Additional Agreement, any Special Terms, the Autodesk Privacy Statement or any
other applicable terms), You will first seek to resolve the dispute informally with the Autodesk
Party as set forth above by providing notice of the dispute (including a description of the dispute
and related documentation) in the manner described below for Notices and cooperating with the
Autodesk Party to try to address the matter amicably. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days
from receipt of the notice, either You or the Autodesk Party may file a formal claim in the forum
for dispute resolution described above (depending on Your principal place of business or, if You
are an individual, Your place of residence).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Autodesk may apply for injunctive relief and other equitable
remedies (or their equivalent) in any jurisdiction or forum.
21.5 Compliance
Autodesk has the right to verify the installation of, access to, and use of any Offerings by You
and Your Authorized Users. As part of any such verification, Autodesk or its authorized
representative has the right, on 15 daysâ prior notice, to inspect Your records, systems and
facilities, including machine IDs, serial numbers, Autodesk IDs, and other related information, on
Your premises using an Autodesk approved verification tool. In addition to Autodeskâs right to
perform a verification on Your premises, You shall within 15 days of such verification request,
provide a report to Autodesk using an Autodesk approved verification tool, that contains
information relating to the installation of, access to, and use by You and Your Authorized Users of
any Offerings including machine IDs, serial numbers, Autodesk IDs, and other related information.
If Autodesk determines that Your installation of, access to, or use is not in conformity with these
Terms (including any Additional Agreement, Special Terms or other applicable terms), You will
immediately purchase new subscriptions to remedy the noncompliance, and pay Autodeskâs reasonable
costs of the verification. Autodesk reserves the right to seek any other remedies available at law
or in equity.
21.6 Force majeure
Neither party will be responsible or have any liability for any delay or failure to perform to the
extent due to unforeseen circumstances or causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of
God, earthquake, fire, flood, sanctions, embargoes, strikes, lockouts or other labor disturbances,
civil unrest, failure, unavailability or delay of suppliers or licensors, riots, terrorist or other
malicious or criminal acts, war, failure or interruption of the internet or third party internet
connections or infrastructure, power failures, acts of civil and military authorities and severe
weather (âForce Majeureâ). The affected party will give the other party prompt written notice
(when possible) of the failure to perform and use its reasonable efforts to limit the resulting
delay in its performance.
21.7 Export
When You obtain, access or use an Offering, You must comply with the export control and
international trade laws and regulations of the United States and of any other country whose laws
apply to You or Your Content. You must not access or use any Offering from within a U.S. sanctioned
location or if You appear on any U.S. government restricted parties list. You must obtain U.S.
government and any other required authorization before You obtain, access or use, or allow any
third party to obtain, access or use, any Offering for a U.S.-restricted end use. Restricted end
uses include, but are not limited to, work on nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or on missile
systems capable of delivering them. You must not upload or otherwise provide Autodesk with any
content or materials (including Your Content) that constitute classified information or that are
subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (âITARâ) or its foreign counterparts.
You must not upload or otherwise provide Autodesk with any content or materials that cannot legally
be transferred from Your location to the United States or from the United States to Your location.
You must not use any Offering to make Your Content or any other content or materials available to
any country, entity or other party that cannot legally receive them under U.S. and other applicable
law.
21.8 Government
For U.S. Government procurement, all Offerings that constitute or include Software are deemed to be
commercial computer software as defined in FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202, as applicable, and any
successor regulations. Any use, modification, reproduction release, performance, display or
disclosure of the Software by the U.S. Government will be solely in accordance with the license
rights, restrictions and other terms set forth in these Terms (including any Additional Agreement
or Special Terms).
21.9 Assignment
You may not assign or otherwise transfer these Terms or Your rights or obligations under these
Terms (whether by operation of law or otherwise) without Autodeskâs prior written consent, and
Autodesk may terminate these Terms (including Your rights under these Terms) if You are acquired
by, or come to be controlled by, any other person or entity (whether by acquisition of shares,
merger, or other transaction) without such written consent of Autodesk. Autodesk may assign or
otherwise transfer these Terms (without Your consent or notice to You) as part of a reorganization,
merger, sale of assets or other transaction that involves all or a portion of the Offerings or
related business.
21.10 No waivers
Failure to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of such provision,
unless such waiver is specified in writing and signed by the party against which the waiver is
asserted.
21.11 Severability
If and to the extent any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable under applicable law, (i)
such provision will be deemed modified to the extent reasonably necessary to conform to applicable
law but to give maximum effect to the intent of the parties set forth in these Terms, and (ii) such
provision will be ineffective only as to the jurisdiction in which it is held unenforceable without
affecting enforceability in any other jurisdiction.
21.12 Notices
Any notices by You to Autodesk will be sent by postal mail or delivery service to Autodesk, Inc.,
111 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, California 94903, USA, Attention: General Counsel. Such notices
will be effective when received by Autodesk.
Except as otherwise expressly stated in these Terms (including any Additional Agreement or Special
Terms), any notices by Autodesk to You will be provided (i) by email to the registered email
address associated with Your account, (ii) by posting to Your account, (iii) by posting within an
Offering (for example, through an in-Offering notification function or sign-in notification), (iv)
by postal mail or delivery service to the address associated with Your account, or (v) in any other
manner deemed reasonable by Autodesk that involves specific notification to You. Notices from
Autodesk to You will, (a) in the case of notices by email, be effective one day after being sent
and (b) in the case of other notices, five days after being posted or sent. You hereby agree to
service of process being effected on You by registered mail sent to the address set forth on Your
Customer Information Form (or, if no Customer Information Form has been provided, Your last address
known by Autodesk) if so permitted by applicable law.
21.13 Entire agreement
These Terms, including the Privacy Statement, any Additional Agreement and any Special Terms (which
are incorporated by reference in these Terms), constitute the entire agreement between You and
Autodesk (and merge and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements, discussions,
communications, representations, warranties, advertising or understandings) with respect to the
subject matter hereof.
21.14 DMCA
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the âDMCAâ) provides recourse for copyright
owners who believe that material appearing on the internet infringes their rights under U.S.
copyright law. If You believe in good faith that materials made available by or through Autodesk
infringe Your copyright, You (or Your agent) may send Autodesk a notice requesting that Autodesk
remove the material or block access to it. If You believe in good faith that someone has wrongly
filed a notice of copyright infringement against You, the DMCA permits You to send Autodesk a
counter-notice. Notices and counter-notices must meet the then current statutory requirements
imposed by the DMCA. See http://www.copyright.gov/ for details. Notices and counter-notices should
be sent to:
Copyright Agent
Autodesk, Inc.
111 McInnis Parkway
San Rafael, CA 94903 USA
E-mail: copyright.agent@Autodesk.com
Tel: +1 (415) 507.5000
Fax: + 1 (415) 507.6128
Autodesk suggests that You consult Your legal advisor before filing a notice or counter-notice.
22. Definitions
Authorized Users means (i) You (if You are an individual) and (ii) identified individuals (such as
Your individual employees, consultants and contractors and other individuals accessing and using an
Offering for Your benefit) for whom You have acquired a subscription to an Offering. If an Offering
allows You to designate Authorized Users for such Offering, You will be responsible for providing
notice to, and obtaining agreement from, any such Authorized Users regarding the application of
these Terms to their access to and use of such Offering prior to their access and use.
Autodesk means Autodesk, Inc., a Delaware (United States) corporation, together with its
subsidiaries and other affiliates.
Autodesk Party means the particular Autodesk entity identified in the section entitled âAutodesk
Party, Governing Law, and Dispute Resolutionâ (Section 21.4).
Benefits means any benefits made available to You or Your Authorized Users by Autodesk. Benefits
are typically based on the level or type of Offering for which You subscribe. Benefits may include
access to Updates and Upgrades, rights to previous versions, additional Software or Web Services,
Trial Versions, APIs, Global Travel Rights, technical support, training, webinars, forums, events,
galleries, newsletters and usage data. Benefits may also include account benefits such as single
sign-on and management of Your profile, security settings, linked accounts and preferences.
Confidential Information means information not generally known to the public that is (i) made
available or disclosed by a Disclosing Party to a Receiving Party in writing and (ii) designated by
the Disclosing Party in writing as Confidential. Autodesk Confidential Information also includes
the non-public aspects of (i) any Offering and any related product plans, technology and other
technical information and (ii) business negotiations. Nonetheless, Confidential Information does
not include (a) any information that (1) becomes generally known to the public without breach of
any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party; (2) was known to the Receiving Party before receipt
from the Disclosing Party without breach of any obligation (and without a duty of confidentiality)
owed to the Disclosing Party; (3) is received from a third party without breach of any obligation
(and without a duty of confidentiality) owed to the Disclosing Party; or (4) was independently
developed by the Receiving Party; (b) any of Your Content that You send to, or allow to be accessed
by, a third party through an Offering; or (c) any Feedback.
Customer Information Form means a form completed by or on behalf of You and submitted to Autodesk
(or to a reseller), directly or indirectly, in connection with Your account, a subscription or
other Offering.
Documentation means any end-user documentation (including online, printed or other documentation)
and any technical or legal requirements for an Offering.
Electronic Devices mean (i) computers (whether desktop, laptop or tablet); (ii) virtual machines
not accessed through a network connection; and (iii) mobile devices.
License Type means the license type specified by Autodesk for a subscription (for example,
single-user or multi-user). License Types are set forth on Subscription Types.
Metrics means data and other information regarding access to and use of any Offerings (including
Your access and use). Metrics includes information regarding usage of features, functions, storage
and indexes and information regarding usage, volume, type, storage and processing of Your Content
(but not Your Content itself). If Metrics includes any personal information, treatment of such
personal information will be pursuant to the Privacy Statement.
Offerings means Software, Web Services and other Benefits provided by Autodesk and any
subscriptions for such items. Offerings includes free and other Trial Versions of Software, Web
Services and other Benefits.
Offering Identification means one or more designations by Autodesk that set forth (as applicable)
the name of an Offering, the License Type or Web Services Type, and the permitted number, Territory
and length of Your subscription. The Offering Identification may be (i) provided in a written
confirmation or other notice issued to You by Autodesk, posted to Your account, transmitted via
email, physically delivered or otherwise made available to You; (ii) located in the Software or on
or with any Autodesk packaging if the Software is delivered to You; or (iii) obtained from Autodesk
on request. Offering Identification does not include any designation, confirmation, packaging or
other document provided by a reseller or other third party.
Output means all results, work product, designs, prototypes or other items created or generated by
or through any use of any Offering, including any products, parts or services based on or using
such results, work product, designs, prototypes or other items.
Software means any software or similar materials, including any modules, components, features and
functions, made available by Autodesk, whether or not provided as part of a subscription and
whether or not provided for a fee. Software includes Updates and Upgrades.
Terms (including âthese Termsâ) means these General Terms and the other terms referenced in
these General Terms, including the Special Terms, Autodesk Privacy Statement and Additional
Agreement (if any), together with any other applicable terms.
Territory means the country or jurisdiction where You acquired Your subscription. Autodesk may
indicate the applicable Territory in an Offering Identification. For additional information
regarding the definition of Territory see the âCountry/Jurisdiction-Specific Termsâ section
(Section 23). If You acquire Your subscription in the country or jurisdiction in which You are
incorporated, chartered or otherwise organized, if You are a legal entity (or, if You are an
individual, in the same country or jurisdiction as Your residence), You may qualify for additional
geographies pursuant to Global Travel Rights benefits, see Subscription Benefits.
Trial Versions will have the meaning set forth in the "Trial Version" section (Section 12).
Updates means security fixes, hot fixes, patches and other updates (including new features, new
functions and other modifications released between Upgrades), if and when made available to You by
Autodesk and determined by Autodesk to constitute an update.
Upgrades means new versions of Offerings, or add-ons to or additional products associated with
Offerings, if and when made available to You by Autodesk and determined by Autodesk to constitute
an upgrade.
Web Service means a web- or cloud-based service made available by Autodesk, whether or not provided
as part of a subscription and whether or not provided for a fee.
Web Services Type means the Web Services type specified by Autodesk for a subscription (for
example, number of cloud credits). Web Services Types are set forth on Subscription Types.
Your Content means (i) any files, designs, models, data sets, images, documents or similar material
submitted or uploaded to any Offering by You or Your Authorized Users and (ii) Your specific output
generated from the use of any Offering based on Your own raw data or information.
23. Country-Specific Terms
Notwithstanding the other terms of these Terms, if Your principal place of business is in (or, if
You are an individual, You are a resident of) a country or jurisdiction identified below, the terms
set forth below for such country or jurisdiction will apply to You:
23.1 Member states of the European Union
If You acquired Your subscription in a member country of the European Union or the European Free
Trade Association, the applicable âTerritoryâ for such subscription is all the countries of the
European Union and the European Free Trade Association.
If Your principal place of business is in (or, if You are an individual, You are resident of) a
Member State of the European Union and there are any court proceedings in a Member State between
You and a third party relating to the use of an Offering, (i) You will inform Autodesk promptly in
writing of such court proceedings, and (ii) You will not serve Autodesk with a third party notice
regarding such proceedings unless Autodesk requests in writing that You do so.
In addition, the following provisions apply if You are contracting with Autodesk Ireland Operations
Unlimited Company (âAutodesk Irelandâ) as a consumer and are resident in a country that is a
Member State of the European Union:
(i) The choice of the law of Ireland as governing law will not deprive You of the protections
granted to You by provisions of the law of the country where You reside that cannot be derogated
from by contract pursuant to the law of such country. Autodesk Ireland may bring a claim with
respect to an Offering against You only in the courts of the country where You reside, and You have
the right to bring a claim with respect to an Offering against Autodesk Ireland either in the
courts of Ireland or in the courts of the country where You reside. In any case, You and Autodesk
Ireland have the right to bring a counterclaim in the court in which, in accordance with this
provision, the original claim is pending.
(ii) If Autodesk assigns or otherwise transfers these Terms, Autodesk will ensure that the
assignment or other transfer does not prejudice Your rights under these Terms. You may request
Autodeskâs consent to the assignment or other transfer by You of these Terms and Your rights and
obligations under these Terms. Any such consent by Autodesk will be subject to demonstration by You
that the transferee will comply with these Terms, that You will remain responsible for such
compliance, and that You will no longer have any access to or use of any Offering (including any
functionality of any Offering).
(iii) Notwithstanding the âEntire Agreementâ section (Section 21.13) of these Terms, such
section will not exclude Autodeskâs liability to You for (a) misrepresentations in voluntary
statements about an Offering made by Autodesk to You that You rely on in purchasing the Offering;
or (b) failure to provide pre-contract information regarding an Offering that Autodesk is required
by the law of the country where You reside to provide to You before purchasing the Offering.
Also, nothing in these Terms purports to restrict or exclude (1) Autodeskâs liability for death
or personal injury caused by Autodeskâs negligence or (2) statutory liability for products under
the statute of a Member State of the European Union (e.g., the German Product Liability Act).
In addition, notwithstanding any limitations on Territory in these Terms, these Terms do not limit
cross-border access or use (such as access or use in one Member State of the European Union of
Offerings purchased in another Member State of the European Union) that is expressly authorized by
applicable law.
23.2 Australia
The following provision may apply to You depending on Your circumstances:
Our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You
are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and for compensation for any other
reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced
if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.
In addition to your other rights and remedies under law in relation to the Offerings, Offerings
that are legitimately purchased also come with a 90-day limited warranty as set out in these Terms.
For Australian customers, the warranty is given by Autodesk Australia Pty Ltd, an Australian
company with principal offices at Level 5, Building C, 11 Talavera Road, Macquarie Park, New South
Wales, Australia. If an Offering does not provide the general features and functions described in
the Documentation in the 90-day period after delivery to You, please call (+61) (0) 2 9844 8000
with details of Your product, serial number, place of purchase, details of the defect and Your
return contact details.
Autodesk will not be responsible for user error and may refer any such issues to a supporting
reseller, if any. You may be required to return the Offering to the address we provide to You at
the time, at Your own cost.
DESPITE ANYTHING ELSE IN THESE TERMS, IF ANY OFFERING IS SUBJECT TO THE MANDATORY WARRANTIES OR
GUARANTEES OF THE COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT (CTH) OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW IN AUSTRALIA (THE
âLAWâ), AND SUCH LAW PERMITS AUTODESK TO LIMIT ITS LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF THESE WARRANTIES OR
CONDITIONS, THEN AUTODESKâS LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF ANY SUCH WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE WILL BE
LIMITED AT AUTODESKâS OPTION TO THE REPAIR, REPLACEMENT OR REPERFORMANCE (OR THE COST OF DOING
SO) OF THE RELEVANT OFFERING.
23.3 Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
If You acquired Your subscription in mainland China, the âTerritoryâ for such subscription is
Mainland China. Likewise, if You acquired Your subscription in Hong Kong, the âTerritoryâ for
such subscription is Hong Kong; if You acquired Your subscription in Macau, the âTerritoryâ for
such subscription is Macau, and if You acquired Your subscription in Taiwan, the âTerritoryâ
for such subscription is Taiwan.
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