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Support and Maintenance
Agreement
( Last Updated: February 17, 2022
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Crimestar USA, LLC charges an annual fee per
concurrent user license to provide technical support for CrimeStar Records
Management Software. Customers who have paid for, and are current in
their payment of, the annual support and maintenance fee are deemed ‘Supported
Customers’. These customers are entitled to the products and services
outlined in this agreement. Conversely, customers who have not paid or
maintained the annual support and maintenance fee are deemed ‘Non-Supported
Customers,’ and are subject to the upgrade restrictions defined herein.
This technical support agreement is intended as a companion to the original
CrimeStar License Agreement, all the provisions of which are fully incorporated
into this agreement in order to protect the rights of both Supported Customers
and Crimestar USA, LLC. It is important that Supported Customers
fully read and understand the license agreement and this companion agreement.
The two documents are intended to protect the rights of both Supported Customers
and Crimestar USA, LLC.
Products and Services
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General Help: Crimestar USA, LLC will use its best efforts to
provide necessary consultation in a timely manner to assist supported
customers with the process of installing, setting up, configuring and using
CrimeStar. Additionally, in the event of a major computer problem at the
customer location, Crimestar USA, LLC will make reasonable efforts to help
the customer recover from the problem in order to return the CrimeStar
software to its normal operating condition. The methods and resources used to
accomplish this level of assistance shall at the discretion of Crimestar
Corporation consist of, but not be limited to:
- E-mail Communication and Consultation - ( Email Support )
- World Wide Web-based support, technical information, and product updates
at http://www.crimestar.com
- Voice Telephone Communication and Consultation
- Remote Diagnostics via Communication Utility Tools (i.e. Virtual Network
Computing: "VNC" ).
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Software Repairs: Crimestar USA, LLC will, as necessary, use its
best efforts to identify, isolate and repair various imperfections,
‘software bugs’ or other software programming problems that may exist or
become introduced into the CrimeStar software. Once these identified
imperfections or problems are repaired, an updated version or release of the
software that includes these associated repairs will be made available to
supported customers.
Product Design Input: It is Crimestar USA, LLC’s desire to evolve
the product using input from CrimeStar customers, agencies evaluating the
product and other sources with reasonable expertise in the realm of law
enforcement and public safety. Crimestar USA, LLC will make every reasonable
effort to give priority to the ideas, suggestions and input of supported
customers, when adding features and making product enhancements.
Software Updates: Crimestar
Corporation is continuously working to improve CrimeStar by adding new
features and capabilities to the product. Many of these new features or
capabilities are a direct result of product design input from supported
customers. Crimestar USA, LLC will make most of these new features
and updates available to supported customers as part of the base product
at no additional charge. Crimestar USA, LLC does reserve the right to
charge an additional fee, if it is deemed that a particular feature or
new capability constitutes a major upgrade in product functionality.
Notice of Upgrade Restriction
Crimestar USA, LLC reserves the right to explicitly lockout, via software
modifications, specific registered users who have not paid the annual support
and maintenance fees. This action shall serve to prevent them from downloading
and updating to the latest release of the software; thus obtaining the same
benefit as supported customers who have paid the annual support fee. This
lockout action will not prevent a non-supported customer from continuing to use
their existing installed licensed version release, it only serves to prevent the
use of future updates of the software product by non-supported
customers.
Non-supported customers shall in all circumstances, be responsible for
maintaining the CrimeStar installation files required for the current version of
the product they are using.
Past Due Support Fees
In order to be fair
to our supported customers whose support payments fund our ongoing product
development; non-supported customers that have allowed their annual
product support and maintenance agreement to lapse, and wish to once again
be a supported customer will be required to pay all past due
fees.
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