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Terms of Service

Last Updated: September 20, 2024

Please carefully read the following Terms of Service before registering for and using the IDrive® 360 Service.

By registering for an IDrive® 360 account you or the entity you represent ("you" and "your") agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (the "Terms"), which govern your access to and use of IDrive® 360 (the "Service") offered by IDrive Inc. ("we", "us" or "our"). Some applications of the Service may implement open source code released under the GNU General Public License ("GPL"). Please carefully read the GPL as well as our Service Level Agreement and Privacy Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms.

If you are registering for the Service on behalf of an organization, you are agreeing to these Terms for that organization and promising that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms. In that case, "you" and "your" will refer to that organization.

1. Your Account

You agree to provide us with accurate and complete information when you create an IDrive® 360 Account (your "Account"). In order to prevent unauthorized access to your Account, you agree to keep your password and other Account details confidential and not share them with anyone else.

The data you upload to your Account is owned by you, and you, as the Account holder, are solely responsible for access to, content in or sharing and use of your Account. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from any access to, content in, or sharing and use of your Account. If you believe there has been unauthorized access to your Account, you must notify privacy@idrive.com immediately.

2. Conditions of Use

By using the Services, you agree that you:

(a) are solely responsible for obtaining sufficient rights to the content of all data and files stored by you on IDrive servers;

(b) will not violate, or encourage or facilitate the violation of, any aspect of our Acceptable Use Policy;

(c) will not use the Services to sell and/or distribute digital content to others. (The Services are not for storing and disseminating large amounts of data to large number of recipients or for dissemination of digital content for commercial purposes, and we may use procedures, which may vary from time to time, to detect unacceptable levels of usage and may immediately disable offending accounts based on detected misuse. We are not responsible for any business interruptions that may be caused due to this process); and

(d) will not access or attempt to access the Services by any means other than those provided on the IDrive website or by an authorized third party.

If there is suspicion that an account is being used for storage and distribution of any illegal material such as copyrighted content, we reserve the right to examine the content of the online storage and backup account. We may also access the account and data for support related activities. We normally do not review, inspect, edit or monitor any content, data or files stored by you or any other user of the Service. We reserve the right to refuse, remove or disable access to any data or files stored on our servers with immediate effect that we determine may be illegal, may violate these Terms, may violate the rights of any third party or otherwise may be reasonably objectionable.

For absolute privacy, we recommend use of the private encryption key which allows use of a key known only to the user in addition to the basic account credentials.

3. Registration Information / Privacy

You agree to promptly notify us of any change in the information you provided during your registration for the Services (including, without limitation, any change in your mailing address, telephone numbers or email address). The registration information (including your selected username and password) provided by you during your registration for the Service, together with any and all updates provided by you from time to time under this paragraph, is referred to in these Terms as the "Registration Information." Our policy regarding the privacy and use of the Registration Information is set forth in our Privacy Policy, which may be modified and amended by us from time to time. By accepting these Terms, you are also acknowledging that you agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy.

4. Billing

Automatic Renewal - Paid Plans

In exchange for use of the Services, you authorize a recurring monthly or annual charge to your credit card. The recurring charge will be at the published standard plan that is chosen at the time of sign-up or to a customized quote provided for your specific use. You also agree that the enrollment for the next service period is automatic and paid in advance.

We reserve the right to change our subscription plans or adjust pricing for our service or any components thereof in any manner and at any time as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion. Except as otherwise expressly provided for in these Terms of Use, any price changes or changes to your subscription plan will take effect following notice to you.

Please note that we may automatically receive updated credit card information from our merchants from time to time in cases where your account is issued a new card number or your credit card expires. However, we still advise you update your card manually from your account screen when changes to your account information occur. We need a credit card on file while the account is active.

If we are unable to execute any applicable charges due to credit card denial or for any other reason, you will be notified via email. In case of non-action by the user, the account may be cancelled. We may delay Account cancellation related to non-payment for the Services and provide a grace period of up to thirty (30) days from the due date to allow for the customer to arrange payment. If the account is cancelled for any reason, user data and its backups will be removed from our storage servers.

Taxes

You’re responsible for all applicable taxes, and we’ll charge tax when required to do so. IDrive can rely on the name and address you provide to IDrive as being the place of supply for sales tax, income tax, and VAT purposes.

Discrepancies

Your right to raise a billing discrepancy and any associated recovery is waived unless reported to us by calling our customer support line or emailing us at support@idrive.com within thirty (30) calendar days after such discrepancy is charged to your credit card.

Cancellation & Refunds

You must cancel your Account before it renews each month or year in order to avoid a charge for the next month's or year's fees to your credit card. Please note on cancellation, refunds are issued if the account is canceled within fifteen (15) days of its creation date. After 15 days, pro-rated refunds are issued on a case-by-case basis subject to eligibility.

We will not issue any pro-rated refunds for the remaining period of a month when an account with a monthly subscription plan ("current plan") is downgraded to a smaller plan ("new plan") (a plan that costs less per month than the current plan) during the middle of a month. However the rate applicable to the new plan will automatically be charged starting the first of the subsequent month.

For yearly accounts, you have the option of disabling auto-renewal and your account will terminate at the end of your annual term. Please note that all of your data will be deleted when your account is terminated. No pro-rated refunds will be issued for the time remaining in your annual subscription if you choose to disable auto-renewal. If you’d like to close your account prior to the end of your annual subscription term, please contact our support team.

Overuse - Paid Plans

Certain paid accounts are allowed to use storage space beyond the chosen plan's quota limit. This is designed to allow uninterrupted backups in case the usage exceeds the quota limit. However, for usage beyond the quota limit, there may be an overuse charge at the rate of $10/TB/Year for paid plan. While it is not necessary, we encourage users to upgrade to one of the higher storage plans if their usage exceeds the quota limit for their chosen plan to avoid the overuse charges. Upgrades may involve additional charges.

Free Accounts

We reserve the right to terminate Free Accounts at any time, with or without notice. Without limiting the foregoing, if a Free Account is inactive for ninety (90) days, then we reserve the right to terminate the Free Account without providing additional notice. An inactive account is an account where no login has occurred either automatically or manually for a specified period of time.

5. Backup Terms

Backup Console

IDrive® 360 offers a centralized backup management console with the functionality to create backup plan, perform backup, restore, update, and delete data.

Account Overview

IDrive® 360 offers a comprehensive overview of the account structure, various units created within the account and their associated users. This overview will also contain information about the total number of users under each unit, computers configured to specific units, settings of specific devices, status of the last backup, and the next scheduled backup. The platform sends email notifications to the user in case a backup fails, if you have set this preference. The account holder bears the sole responsibility for the consequences of failing to take appropriate steps in response to such email notifications. IDrive Inc. will have no liability to anyone for such failure. We provide log or trace files on the user machine to assist with error analysis and troubleshooting.

Reporting

All accounts will generate backup success and failure reports. These are sent via email and contain the following information: host name, volumes, recovery point, type, backup size, start time, time taken, backup status, integrity, and other backup-related information.

Clients

Activation of their accounts users can download and install the backup agent for their Windows and Mac machine.

Backup Options

IDrive® 360 supports the backup of individual files or folders, and a complete backup of your Windows and Mac computer.

Backup Process

Through IDrive® 360 users can define their backup plans on a per device basis and configure the backup, including the AES 256-bit data encryption. The backup agent connects over secure SSL to the selected storage destination. In the backup plan, the maximum bandwidth usage for backup data transfer can also be set.

Management Console

IDrive® 360 uses a centralized management console for backup management and administration activities. The management console has the functionality to add, configure, delete computers, create, perform backup, and restore, activities.

IDrive® 360 offers a number of data recovery options, such as file-level restore, complete system recovery, and specific disk volume recovery. We assure file-level restore provided backups have been reliable. System recovery and individual volume recovery are not assured because they could fail due to a variety of reasons, including the use of dissimilar hardware or other system-related problems.

6. Security

Account Passwords

You are solely responsible for any consequences arising out of your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your Account password and/or encryption password. You will notify us of any unauthorized use or breach in security of your Account immediately after you learn of such unauthorized access or use. We advise frequent changes to the Account password for better security. The automated forget password option works on the assumption that only the account holder has access to the email address on record. In case the user does not have access to the email address, other means of verification may be used including billing/credit card information to verify identity.

We endeavor to restrict access to the data and files you store or retrieve from your Account to persons you have authorized to access your Account. However, no password-protected system of data storage and retrieval can be made entirely impenetrable. Accordingly, you hereby acknowledge that it may be possible for an unauthorized third party to access, view, copy, modify and distribute the data and files you store in Your Account.

Encryption System

IDrive supports 256-bit AES data encryption before transmission from your computer using either (i) a default key or (ii) an optional user defined private key created by you. Based on your privacy and security needs, you need to make an appropriate encryption key choice. This encryption process encrypts the data contained within the file and not the file-name itself.

7. Use of IP Addresses

We may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and/or to audit the use of our site. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our policies, Terms, or to protect our service, site, customers, or others. Some services, such as user logs and registration emails, may also display IP addresses.

8. Redundant Backups of Your Data

Based on the protection level of primary production devices, we may or may not keep redundant backups of the primary production data. This decision may be made based on RAID level, distributed nature of the file system where the user account resides and other criteria. If there is no redundant backup of primary production data, we may not be able to recover data in the event of failure and we may need to initiate a fresh backup of user data.

The general guideline to users is that we strongly recommend a local backup of user data on premise. Online or Cloud Backup should always be a complementary solution to local backup and not be the ONLY solution.

It is critical that users do not remove the data on their local computer that they backed up to IDrive® 360 and keep only one copy of data on IDrive® 360. In the event of hardware or software errors at the IDrive® 360 end and subsequent re-backups, this may still leave users without some of their data if the data is removed from their desktop that they may eventually need for restore. Again, we strongly recommend not to use IDrive 360 as the only source of your data backup, a local copy is strongly recommended.

We allow you to retain and restore previous versions of all files backed up to your account. Each version stored adds to your storage quota. We advise you to audit your logs completely including individual entries for files and total count periodically to ensure that the backups are taking place successfully and in case of errors, take corrective action.

IDrive® 360 requires you to periodically review, at least on a weekly basis to verify the execution of backups because backups may fail for any number of reasons including but not limited to, internet connectivity issues, authentication issues, firewall, blocks by anti-virus programs, system configuration changes to the computer, etc. You should also periodically update the backup client to the most recent version. We also recommend using private encryption key for additional security.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

The transmission, storage, viewing and retrieval of data and files through the World Wide Web is subject to a variety of conditions that make such transmission, storage, viewing and retrieval potentially unreliable. ACCORDINGLY, YOUR ACCOUNT AND THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, AT YOUR OWN RISK. IDRIVE INC., ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ITS DISTRIBUTORS, ADVERTISERS AND SUPPLIERS, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND THE SERVICE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT). YOUR ACCOUNT AND THE SERVICE MAY NOT MEET YOUR NEEDS. IDRIVE INC. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY: (A) THAT YOUR ACCOUNT OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS; (B) THAT ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT OR THE SERVICE WILL BE TIMELY, ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE; (C) THAT THE DATA AND FILES YOU STORE IN YOUR ACCOUNT WILL NOT BE LOST OR DAMAGED; (D) THAT THE DATA ON YOUR DESKTOP OR SERVER WILL NOT BE LOST OR DAMAGED; OR (E) THAT DEFECTS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY MATERIAL OR DATA YOU RETRIEVE THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR CHOICE AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE RETRIEVAL OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.

10. Limitations of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL IDRIVE INC. OR ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, ADVERTISERS OR SUPPLIERS HAVE ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR (I) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR DATA OR (II) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE YOUR ACCOUNT OR THE SERVICE OR YOUR LOSS OF DATA OR FILES STORED THEREIN REGARDLESS OF LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT IDRIVE INC. HAS BEEN WARNED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO OUR SERVICES WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF $100 OR ANY AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO IDRIVE INC. FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS OF THE SERVICES IN QUESTION.

11. Class Action Clause

You agree that Class Actions are not allowed and all disputes with IDrive® 360 must be resolved on an individual basis. You may not bring any claim against IDrive® 360 as a class member. This includes class arbitrations, class actions, private attorney general actions, and consolidation with other arbitrations. Regardless of whether any such dispute, controversy or claim concerns any other individual / entity, multiple individuals / entities, or other persons, classes of individuals, or entities, all cases shall be decided between IDrive® 360 and the individual only.

12. Indemnification

You will, as allowable by law, defend, indemnify and hold IDrive Inc., our subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, officers, licensor, directors and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of (i) your use of your Account and the Services, (ii) any data files and content stored by you in your Account and otherwise on our servers, and (iii) any violation of these Terms by you. We will be entitled, at our expense, to participate in the defense and settlement of the claim or action with counsel of our own choosing. You may not settle any claims that limit our rights without our prior written consent.

13. Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 Backup

IDrive® 360 Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 Backup application allows the Administrator of a Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 account to store their users data on the IDrive® 360 cloud.

You must maintain authorization and access to the Domain account and Backed up Sites (Microsoft Office 365 or Google Workspace) so that we are regularly able to access it for purposes of providing our IDrive® 360 Backup Services. You agree and acknowledge that Content may not be available or restorable a) if our access authority to a Domain or Backed up Site is changed or otherwise restricted; b) due to unavailability of the Domain or Backed up Site, or any portion thereof; c) if the Domain or Backed up Site provider amends its API guidelines in such a way that affects our ability to access the Domain to provide the Product; and/or d) with respect to modifications to the Content that are not captured in the backup frequency or retention schedule for the Service Plan chosen.

These Terms mentioned on this page constitute the entire and exclusive legal agreement between you and IDrive Inc.

14. IDrive® 360 Entire Machine Backup Terms of Service

IDrive® 360 Entire Machine Backup provides comprehensive data protection, securing all data on your computer with the ability to restore it in the event of a disaster. However, please note the following:

Recovery Limitations: The restoration and booting of your computer from an entire machine backup may not be successful in all scenarios. Factors such as dissimilar hardware, boot file issues, RAID configurations, or other unforeseen circumstances may cause the restore process to fail. It is not guaranteed that a successful backup will restore the system to its original state under all conditions.

Alternative Recovery Options: If a full system restore fails, users can still recover individual files and folders from their backups, ensuring that critical data remains accessible.

Users are advised to regularly test their backups and ensure compatibility with their system's hardware to mitigate potential recovery issues.

15. Termination

We may, at our option and in addition to other remedies, immediately and without notice terminate these Terms at any time or suspend your access to the Services: (i) if you breach any provision of these Terms; (ii) if we are required to do so by law; (iii) if we cease to offer any services covered by these Terms; or (iv) for any other reason with thirty (30) days prior written notice to you (or sooner if you are flagrantly violating these Terms or are a threat to users or the Services). You may terminate these Terms at your convenience by delivering at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to us. Should you object to any of these Terms or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with the Services in any way, your only recourse is to immediately: (a) discontinue use of the Services; (b) terminate these Terms; and (c) notify us of such termination as described below in paragraph 15. Upon any termination of these Terms, we will remove stored in IDrive® 360 backup data files from main storage and archives immediately. Paragraphs 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 of these Terms (and any other provision that can be reasonably construed to survive termination) will survive termination of these Terms.

16. Notices

Any notice under these Terms given by IDrive Inc. to you will be deemed to be properly given if sent (i) by email to your email address as set forth in the Registration Information, (ii) by a startup screen that starts before your next use of the Services, (iii) by written communication mailed by first class U.S. mail to your address on record in the Registration Information, or (iv) by a display about the changed information in the Terms on our website. It is important that you maintain a correct working email address and update it if necessary to be able to receive our communications. To ensure proper delivery of email communications, please whitelist '@idrive.com' domain in your email spam filter.

Any notice under these Terms provided by you will be deemed to be properly given if received by Customer Service at support@idrive.com, except those that are related to cancellation or termination of your Account. 'Cancel at the end of your annual term' is available online by disabling auto-renewal option. For special cases where you’d like to close your account prior to the end of your annual subscription term, please contact our support team. Sending an email to support@idrive.com for cancellation is not considered as a cancellation notice for security reasons. On successful cancellation of an account by you or by us, due to various reasons including non-payment for the Services, your data will be removed from our storage servers. We may delay the cancellation related to non-payment for the services and provide a grace period of up to thirty (30) days from the due date to allow for the customer to arrange for payments.

17. Severability

These Terms will be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. If for any reason any provision of the Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable under applicable law to any extent, then (i) such provision will be interpreted, construed or reformed to the extent reasonably required to render the same valid, enforceable and consistent with the original intent underlying such provision and (ii) such invalidity or an unenforceable provision will not affect any other provisions of the Terms.

18. Modifications to this Agreement

We may change these Terms from time to time and the most current version will always be posted on our website located at https://www.idrive.com/endpoint-backup/. If we think a revision is material we will notify you (e.g., via email). Other changes may be posted to our blog or terms page, so please check those pages regularly. Your continued use of the Services after such revisions become effective will constitute your acceptance of such changed terms and conditions. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Services.

19. Miscellaneous

THESE TERMS AND THE USE OF THE SERVICES AND SOFTWARE WILL BE GOVERNED BY CALIFORNIA LAW EXCEPT FOR ITS CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES. ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES OR SOFTWARE MUST BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AND BOTH PARTIES CONSENT TO VENUE AND PERSONAL JURISDICTION THERE. The provisions of the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and any successor treaties will not apply. You will commence any claim or cause of action arising under or otherwise occurring by reason of these Terms within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is forever barred. These Terms create no third party beneficiary rights. You may not assign any of your rights in these Terms, and any such attempt is void, but we may assign our rights to any of our affiliates or subsidiaries, or to any successor in interest of any business associated with the Services. IDrive Inc. and you are not legal partners or agents; instead, our relationship is that of independent contractors. Our failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision or right of these Terms will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive agreement between you and IDrive Inc. with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior and contemporaneous understandings and agreements.