Application Developer and API Agreement

By accepting this Agreement, either by accessing or using the API, or authorizing or permitting any individual to access or use the API, You agree to be bound by this Agreement. If You are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company, organization or another legal entity (an “Entity”), You are agreeing to this Agreement for that Entity and representing to ACEA that You have the authority to bind such Entity and its Affiliates to this Agreement, in which case the terms “Licensee”, “You”, “Your” or a related capitalized term herein shall refer to such Entity and its Affiliates. If You do not have such authority, or if You do not agree with this Agreement, You must not accept this Agreement and may not access nor use the API.

1. DEFINITIONS

For purposes of this Agreement, capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth below. Capitalized terms utilized in this Agreement and not defined have the meaning set forth in such other applicable agreement between Licensee and ACEA relating to its access to and use of the Services (“Service Agreement”).

“API” means an API and any accompanying or related documentation, source code, SDKs, executable applications and other materials made available by ACEA, including, without limitation, through its Developer Website.

“Applications” mean web or other software services, applications, or Themes developed by Licensee that utilize or interact with the API or otherwise interact with the Services and are authorized to be Published pursuant to this Agreement.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and/or proprietary rights.

“Internal Use” means the use of the API in connection with Licensee’s subscription to a Service for Licensee’s internal business purposes in accordance with the Service Agreement.

“Marks” mean ACEA, CE App, CE App Elite, and ACEA’s other product and service names, trademarks, service marks, branding and logos made available for use in connection with the APIs pursuant to this Agreement.

“Privacy Policy” means the Privacy Policy found here.

“Publish/Published/Publishing” means the making of any Application available to any Subscriber other than Licensee or for any purpose other than for use by Licensee as a Subscriber for Internal Use.

“Subscriber” means and refers to an individual or an Entity that has agreed to a Service Agreement or Reseller EULA for use of our Services.

“Themes” means Applications that allow Subscribers to present customized or non-default appearances and functionality within ACEA Software.

2. PURPOSE AND LICENSE

2.1) This Agreement and any and all restrictions and policies implemented by ACEA from time to time with respect to the API as set forth in the Documentation (“General API Policies”) govern Licensee’s rights to use and access the API for the purpose of developing, implementing and Publishing Applications. Licensee’s access to and use of the API for Internal Use is governed by the Service Agreement and the General API Policies. This Agreement also governs Licensee’s Publishing of Applications that do not utilize or interact with the API, but otherwise interact with the Services.

2.2) Subject to this Agreement, including the restrictions set forth in Section 3, ACEA grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, revocable right and license during the Term (as defined in Section 13) to: (a) use and make calls to the API to develop, implement and distribute Applications solely for use by Subscribers in connection with the Services; (b) use, reproduce, distribute, and transmit Service Data to the extent necessary to format and display it through the Applications; and (c) use and display the Marks only to identify that the Service Data originates from the Services.

2.3) ACEA shall have a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to implement, use, modify, commercially exploit and/or incorporate into the Services and/or the API any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback ACEA receives from Licensee.

3. RESTRICTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The licenses granted in Section 2 of this Agreement are explicitly conditioned on Licensee’s adherence to the following restrictions and compliance with its responsibilities as set forth herein.

3.1) Licensee must comply with all restrictions set forth in this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and the General API Policies in all uses of the API and Service Data, and in Publishing Applications. Licensee must also comply with all restrictions set forth in this Agreement and the Press & Brand Guidelines in all uses of Marks. If ACEA believes, in its sole discretion, that Licensee has violated or attempted to violate any term, condition or the spirit of this Agreement, the license afforded Licensee pursuant to this Agreement may be temporarily or permanently revoked, with or without notice to Licensee.

3.2) In order to use and access the API, Licensee must obtain API credentials (a “Token”) by becoming a Subscriber. Licensee may not share its Token with any third party, shall keep such Token and all Login information secure, and shall use the Token as Licensee’s sole means of accessing the API.

3.3) Licensee’s Applications shall not substantially replicate products or services offered by ACEA, including, without limitation, functions or clients on platforms (such as iOS or Android) where ACEA offers its own client or function. Subject to the preceding sentence and the parties’ other rights and obligations under this Agreement, each party agrees that the other party may develop and publish applications that are similar to or otherwise compete with such party’s applications. Applications may not use or access the API or a Service in order to monitor the availability, performance, or functionality of any of the API or a Service or for any similar benchmarking purposes.

3.4) Applications shall not, in any manner, display any form of advertising within or connected to any Service Data received by any Subscriber, Subscribed User or End-User.

3.5) Licensee shall not, under any circumstances, through Applications or otherwise, repackage or resell the Services, or any part thereof, API or Service Data. Licensee shall not use or assist a third party in using the API or any ACEA Software in such a way to circumvent the requirement for an individual User Login for each individual who (a) leverages the Services to interact with End-Users; (b) Processes data related to interactions with End-Users; or (c) absent a license from Us otherwise, Processes data related to interactions originating from a Third Party Service that provides functionality similar to functionality provided by the Services and which would, pursuant to this Agreement, require an individual User Login if utilizing the Services for such interaction. Further, Licensee shall not use or assist a third party in using the API or any ACEA Software in such a way to circumvent applicable Service Plan restrictions or Subscribed User licensing restrictions that are enforced in the Service user interface. Licensee is not permitted to use the API or any Service Data in any manner that does or could potentially undermine the security of the Services, the API, Service Data or any other data or information stored or transmitted using the Services. In addition, Licensee shall not, and shall not attempt to: (a) interfere with, modify or disable any features, functionality or security controls of the Services or the API, (b) defeat, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or otherwise circumvent any protection mechanisms for the Service or the API, or (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or derive source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, structure or organizational form from the Services or the API.

3.6) Licensee acknowledges that Licensee is solely responsible, and that ACEA has no responsibility or liability of any kind, for the content, development, operation, support or maintenance of Applications. Without limiting the foregoing, Licensee will be solely responsible for (a) the technical installation and operation of its Applications; (b) creating and displaying information and content on, through or within its Applications; (c) ensuring that its Applications do not violate or infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; (d) ensuring that Applications are not offensive, profane, obscene, libelous or otherwise illegal; (e) ensuring that its Applications do not contain or introduce Malicious Software into a Service, an API, any Service Data or other data stored or transmitted using the Service; (f) ensuring that its Applications are not designed to or utilized for the purpose of spamming any ACEA subscribers, Subscribed Users or End-Users; and (g) ensuring that its Applications do not violate any applicable law or third party right.

3.7) Licensee will respect and comply with the technical and policy-implemented limitations of the API and the restrictions of this Agreement in designing and implementing Applications. Without limiting the foregoing, Licensee shall not violate any explicit rate limitations on calling or otherwise utilizing an API.

3.8) Licensee shall not make any modifications to any Service Data, other than as reasonably necessary to modify the formatting of such Service Data in order to display it in a manner appropriate for the pertinent Applications.

4. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

4.1) To the extent Licensee’s Applications transmit Service Data outside a Service, Licensee represents and warrants that Licensee has notified all users of such Applications that their Service Data will be transmitted outside the Service and that ACEA is not responsible for the privacy, security or integrity of such Service Data. Licensee further represents and warrants that to the extent Licensee’s Applications store, process or transmit Service Data, neither Licensee nor Licensee’s Application will, without appropriate prior user consent or except to the extent required by applicable law (a) modify the content of Service Data in a manner that adversely affects the integrity of Service Data; (b) disclose Service Data to any third party; or (c) use Service Data for any purpose other than providing the Application functionality to users of such Application. Licensee shall maintain and handle all Service Data in accordance with privacy and security measures reasonably adequate to preserve the confidentiality and security of all Service Data and all applicable privacy laws and regulations, and in no event less protective than the measures and policies set forth in the Privacy Policy.

4.2) Licensee represents, warrants and covenants that (a) its Applications and Licensee Marks, the use of such Applications by its users, and the activities with respect to such Applications and Licensee Marks undertaken by ACEA in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, do not and will not violate, misappropriate or infringe upon the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; (b) Licensee will comply with all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations, including, without limitation, all applicable export control laws, and maintain all licenses, permits and other permissions necessary to develop, implement and Publish its Applications; (c) its Applications do not and will not contain or introduce any Malicious Software into the Service, the API, any Service Data, or other data stored or transmitted using the Service; (d) its Applications are not designed to or utilized for the purpose of spamming any Subscribers, Subscribed Users or End-Users; and (e) it has all right, power and authority to grant the licenses granted to ACEA herein.

4.3) Licensee represents, warrants and covenants that it will include the mandatory terms of service provisions listed in Section 4.4 below (“Mandatory Service Terms”) in the terms of service (“App Terms of Service”) that govern use of its Applications by Subscribers. Such Mandatory Service Terms are a minimum set of provisions and Licensee may have more exhaustive App Terms of Service. Licensee may change the term references to match the terms used in its App Terms of Service.

4.4 Mandatory Service Terms:

(i) The Licensee is the licensor of the Application and ACEA is not a party to the App Terms of Service.

(ii) Except as otherwise limited by any App Terms of Service imposed or required by the Licensee, Licensee grants Subscriber a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to access, deploy, use and integrate the Application in connection with Subscriber’s active Account for a Service.

(iii) Any information that Licensee collects, stores and processes from Subscriber or the systems Subscriber uses to access or deploy the Application, including Service Data, will be subject to the App Terms of Service, privacy notice, or similar terms that the Licensor provides to Subscriber, and will not be subject to the Privacy Policy.

(iv) Subscriber may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Application in whole or in part, or create any derivative works from or sublicense any rights in the Application, unless otherwise expressly authorized in writing by Licensor.

(v) Each of Subscriber and the Licensor shall maintain all rights, title and interest in and to all its respective patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and/or proprietary rights (collectively, “IP Rights”). The rights granted to Subscriber to use the Application under these App Terms of Service do not convey any additional rights in the Application or Licensor Service, or in any IP Rights associated therewith. Subject only to limited rights to access and use the Application as expressly stated herein, all rights, title and interest in and to the Application and all hardware, software and other components of or used to provide the Application, including all related IP Rights, will remain with and belong exclusively to the Licensor. Licensor shall have a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to incorporate into the Application or otherwise use any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback it receives from Subscriber.

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5. MODIFICATIONS

Licensee acknowledges and agrees that ACEA may modify this Agreement, the Services, the API, the General API Policies, and the Privacy Policy, from time to time (a “Modification”). Licensee will be notified of a Modification to this Agreement, the ACEA API or the General API Policies through notifications or posts on the ACEA Developer Website. All other Modifications shall be communicated through the Services, ACEA’s Sites, or any other website owned and operated by ACEA or through a form of direct communication from ACEA to Licensee. Licensee further acknowledges and agrees that such Modifications may be implemented at any time and without any notice to Licensee. Licensee shall, within thirty (30) days from the date of first notice of any Modification(s) (or such shorter period of time specified in the notice of the Modification(s)) (the “Conformance Period”) comply with such Modification(s) by implementing and using the most current version of the API and making any changes to Applications that may be required as a result of such Modification(s). Licensee acknowledges that a Modification may have an adverse effect on Applications, including but not limited to changing the manner in which Applications communicate with the API and display or transmit Service Data. ACEA shall have no liability of any kind to Licensee or any user of Licensee’s Applications with respect to such Modifications or any adverse effects resulting from such Modifications. Licensee’s continued access to or use of the Services or API following the Conformance Period shall constitute binding acceptance of the Modification(s) at issue.

6. OWNERSHIP

Subject to the limited licenses expressly provided in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement transfers or assigns to ACEA any of Licensee’s Intellectual Property Rights in its Applications or Licensee’s Marks or other technology, and nothing in this Agreement transfers or assigns to Licensee any of ACEA’s Intellectual Property Rights in the Services, the API, the Marks, or ACEA’s other technology or the respective Intellectual Property Rights in any Service Data of ACEA or its Subscribers, Subscribed Users or End-Users.

7. SUPPORT

This Agreement does not entitle Licensee to any support for the Services or the API, unless Licensee makes separate arrangements with ACEA for such support. Licensee is solely responsible for providing all support and technical assistance to End-Users of its Applications and Subscribers who access, deploy and/or purchase its Applications. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that ACEA has no obligation to provide support or technical assistance to the users of Applications and Licensee shall not represent to any such users that ACEA is available to provide such support. Licensee agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to provide reasonable support to users of its Applications.

8. CONFIDENTIALITY

Licensee may from time to time, gain access to Confidential Information. Licensee may use Confidential Information only to the extent necessary to exercise its rights under this Agreement. Subject to the express permissions set forth herein, Licensee may not disclose Confidential Information to a third party without the prior express consent of ACEA, provided in writing or by email. Without limiting any other obligation of Licensee under this Agreement, Licensee agrees that it will protect Confidential Information from unauthorized use, access, or disclosure in the same manner that Licensee would use to protect its own confidential and proprietary information of a similar nature and in any event with no less than a reasonable degree of care.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

ALL ASPECTS OF THE SERVICES AND THE API, INCLUDING ALL SERVER AND NETWORK COMPONENTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AND ACEA EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ACEA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OR API WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED BY YOU FROM ACEA OR THROUGH THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

10.1) EXCEPT FOR LICENSEE’S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) WILL EITHER PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR THEIR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SUBSCRIBED USERS, END-USERS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES OR BUSINESS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR FOR ANY TYPE OF INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE LOSS OR DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER LOSS OR DAMAGES INCURRED BY SUCH PARTY OR THIRD PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE API OR THE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH DAMAGES.

10.2) NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THIS AGREEMENT, ACEA’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO LICENSEE OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING OUT THIS AGREEMENT, SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00). ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR OF THE FIRST EVENT OR OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

10.3) Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply to Licensee. IN THESE JURISDICTIONS, ACEA’S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. The limitations set forth in this Section 10 will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

11. INDEMNIFICATION

Licensee will indemnify and hold ACEA harmless against any claim brought by a third party against ACEA arising from or related to any breach of an obligation, representation, warranty, covenant or other provision of this Agreement by Licensee or any matter which Licensee has expressly agreed to be responsible pursuant to this Agreement.

12. TERM AND TERMINATION

This Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and will remain in effect until terminated pursuant to this Section 12 (the, “Term”). Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, or for no reason including, but not limited to, if Licensee violates any provision of this Agreement. Any termination of this Agreement shall also terminate the licenses granted to Licensee hereunder. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, Licensee shall cease using, and either return to ACEA, or destroy and remove from all computers, hard drives, networks, and other storage media, all copies of any materials licensed pursuant to this Agreement and any Confidential Information in Licensee’s possession, and shall certify to ACEA that such actions have occurred. Sections 3, 4, 6, 8-15, 17 and 18 shall survive termination of this Agreement.

13. ASSIGNMENT; ENTIRE AGREEMENT; REVISIONS

13.1) Licensee may not, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, assign all or any part of this Agreement or Licensee’s rights under this Agreement or delegate performance of Licensee’s duties under this Agreement without ACEA’s prior consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. ACEA may, without Licensee’s consent, assign this Agreement to any Affiliate or in connection with any merger or change of control of ACEA or the sale of all or substantially all of its assets provided that any such successor agrees to fulfill its obligations pursuant to this Agreement. Subject to the foregoing restrictions, this Agreement will be fully binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties and their respective successors and assigns.

13.2) This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. Either party’s failure to enforce at any time any provision of this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of that provision or of any other provision of this Agreement.

14. SEVERABILITY

If any provision in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified by the court and interpreted so as to best accomplish the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in effect.

15. RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES

The parties are independent contractors. This Agreement does not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship among the parties.

16. NOTICE

All notices to be provided by ACEA to Licensee under this Agreement may be delivered in writing (a) by nationally recognized overnight delivery service (“Courier”) or U.S. mail to the contact mailing address provided by Licensee to ACEA; or (b) electronic mail to the electronic mail address provided for the Account owner related to Your subscription to the Service. Licensee must give notice to ACEA in writing by Courier or U.S. Mail to the following address: Advanced Continuing Education Association, Inc., Attn: Legal Department, 71 Commercial St #44., Boston, MA 02109 USA. All notices shall be deemed to have been given immediately upon delivery by electronic mail, or if otherwise delivered upon receipt or, if earlier, two (2) business days after being deposited in the mail or with a Courier as permitted above.

17. GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without reference to conflict of laws principles. In any action initiated by either party under this Agreement, jurisdiction shall lie in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. You hereby expressly agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of this jurisdiction for the purpose of resolving any dispute relating to this Agreement or access to or use of the Services by You, Subscribed Users or End Users.

18. ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS

When used in this Agreement with the initial letters capitalized, in addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:

“Account” means any accounts or instances created by or on behalf of Subscriber or its Affiliates within the Services.

“ACEA Software” means software provided by ACEA (either by download or access through the internet) that allows Subscribed Users or End-Users to use any functionality in connection with the applicable Service.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to a Party, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Party, whereby “control” (including, with correlative meaning, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct, or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.

“Confidential Information” means any information disclosed by either party to the other party, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally or by inspection of tangible objects or by the viewing of product demonstrations (including without limitation documents, prototypes and equipment). “Confidential Information” includes, but is not limited to, (i) the ACEA Software and all ACEA developed proprietary extract, transport and import programming tools, ACEA scripting languages, reports, and monitoring tools, (ii) the Applications and all Licensee developed proprietary extract, transport and import programming tools, Licensee scripting languages, reports, and monitoring tools, each party’s non-public ideas and concepts, documentation and other written material, methodologies, processes and inventions, business and technology strategies, client lists, and product development, as well as the terms of this Agreement. Confidential Information shall not include any information which (i) is or becomes publicly known or generally available in the public domain through no action of the receiving party; or (ii) was already in the possession of the receiving party under no obligation of confidentiality at the time of disclosure by the disclosing party as shown by the receiving party’s files and records; or (iii) is received by the receiving party from an independent third party without a breach of such third party’s obligations of confidentiality; or (iv) was developed independently by the receiving party without use of or reference to the disclosing party’s Confidential Information, as shown by documents and other competent evidence in the receiving party’s possession.

“Documentation” means any written or electronic documentation, images, video, text or sounds specifying the functionalities or limitations of the Services or describing pricing plans, as applicable, provided or made available by ACEA to You in the applicable ACEA help center(s), Site or ACEA Developer Website; provided, however, that Documentation shall specifically exclude any “community moderated” forums as provided or accessible through such knowledge base(s).

“End-User” means any person or entity other than Subscriber or Subscribed Users with whom Subscriber, its Subscribed Users, or its End-Users interact while using a Service.

“Malicious Software” means any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, time bombs, or any other similar harmful software.

“Service(s)” means the products and services that are ordered by You online through a link or via an Order Form or Reseller Agreement referencing this Agreement, whether on a trial or paid basis, and made available by ACEA. The applicable Software, updates, API, Documentation, and all Solutions that are provided under this Agreement are included within the definition of “Services”. From time to time, the names and descriptions of the Services or any individual Service may be changed. To the extent Subscriber is given access to such Service as so described by virtue of a prior Order Form or other prior acceptance of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be deemed to apply to such Service as newly named or described.

“Service Data” means a subset of Confidential Information comprised of electronic data, text, messages, communications or other materials submitted to and stored within a Service by You, Subscribed Users and End-Users in connection with Your use of such Service, which may include, without limitation, Personal Data (but shall not include the Personal Data of Your Subscribed Users in the context of Account Information as described in the Privacy Policy).

“Site” means a website operated by ACEA or its Affiliates, including www.aceaglobal.com, as well as all other websites that the ACEA operates (but shall not include the Services).

“Subscribed User” means an individual (including those of Your Affiliates) authorized to use the Service(s) through Your Account as a User and/or administrator, each as identified through an individual User Login.

“User Login” means a unique username and associated password provisioned to an identifiable individual to permit them to access the Services.