SECURE CARE PRODUCTS, INC.
GENERAL PRODUCT WARRANTY STATEMENT
BY PERMITTING INSTALLATION OR
BY MAKING USE OF ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE DESIGNED OR
MANUFACTURED BY SECURE CARE PRODUCTS, INC. (“SECURE CARE”)
(INCLUDING SUPPORT SERVICES, MAINTAINED SOFTWARE AND MAJOR
RELEASES, WHETHER OR NOT IT IS COVERED BY ANY SOFTWARE
MAINTENANCE OR LICENSE AGREEMENT) (“THIS PRODUCT”), YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF THIS GENERAL PRODUCT WARRANTY STATEMENT, THAT YOU
UNDERSTAND THEM, AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM. YOU
UNDERSTAND THAT, IF YOU PURCHASED THIS PRODUCT FROM ANY
AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTOR OF SECURE CARE, THAT DISTRIBUTOR IS
NOT SECURE CARE’S AGENT AND IS NOT AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OR TO AGREE TO ANY TERMS OR
CONDITIONS WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING EXPRESSLY SET
FORTH IN THIS GENERAL PRODUCT WARRANTY STATEMENT.
If you do not agree to the
terms and conditions of this General Product Warranty
Statement, do not permit the installation or make use of
this Product and promptly return this Product to the place
where you obtained it for a full refund. If you have any
difficulty obtaining a refund, please contact Secure Care at
the telephone number provided in Section 2.B below.
1. Notices
A. ALL LOCKS USED WITH THE
SECURE CARE SYSTEM ARE DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, LABELED AND
DELIVERED SOLELY BY AN INDEPENDENT VENDOR OVER WHOM SECURE
CARE HAS NO CONTROL AND FOR WHOSE ACTIONS OR FAILURES TO ACT
SECURE CARE DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY. REGARDLESS OF
WHETHER THE LOCKS CARRY SECURE CARE’S LOGO OR NAME OR ANY
OTHER TRADEMARK, SERVICE MARK OR TRADE NAME USED OR CLAIMED
BY SECURE CARE, SECURE CARE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE LOCKS AND/OR THEIR
USE WITH OR OPERATION IN THE SECURE CARE SYSTEM, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SECURE CARE ALSO DISCLAIMS ALL
OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE LOCKS AND/OR THEIR USE WITH
OR OPERATION IN THE SECURE CARE SYSTEM THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE
ARISE OR BE IMPLIED FROM THE FACT THAT SUCH LOCKS CARRY
SECURE CARE’S LOGO OR NAME OR ANY OTHER TRADEMARK, SERVICE
MARK OR TRADE NAME USED OR CLAIMED BY SECURE CARE OR FROM
THE DELIVERY OR INSTALLATION OF THE LOCKS WITH SECURE CARE
SOFTWARE, PARTS AND/OR PRODUCTS OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING
OR USAGE IN TRADE. ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DESIGNING,
MANUFACTURING, LABELING AND WARNING OF HIDDEN DEFECTS OR
DANGERS IN THE LOCKS AND/OR THEIR USE WITH AND OPERATION IN
THE SECURE CARE SYSTEM RESTS EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE
INDEPENDENT VENDOR, AND ANY CLAIMS, COSTS, DAMAGES OR
LIABILITIES ARISING FROM THE LOCKS AND/OR THEIR USE WITH OR
OPERATION IN THE SECURE CARE SYSTEM SHALL BE MADE SOLELY
AGAINST THE INDEPENDENT VENDOR.
B. IF YOU PURCHASE COMPUTER
HARDWARE THROUGH SECURE CARE AND REQUEST THAT SECURE CARE
SOFTWARE BE INSTALLED AND TESTED ON THAT HARDWARE AT THE
FACTORY, SECURE CARE WARRANTS ONLY THAT THE HARDWARE AND THE
SOFTWARE PACKAGES WERE INSTALLED, SET-UP AND TESTED PRIOR TO
SHIPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL SECURE CARE PRODUCT MANUALS
AND THAT, AT THE TIME THE HARDWARE AND THE SOFTWARE PACKAGES
WERE FINALLY INSPECTED AT THE FACTORY, THEY WERE PERFORMING
(SUBJECT TO SECURE CARE’S SPECIFIED TOLERANCES) IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SECURE CARE’S SPECIFICATIONS. SECURE CARE
WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DEFECTS IN OR PROBLEMS
CAUSED BY THE HARDWARE, ALL CLAIMS FOR WHICH MUST BE MADE TO
THE HARDWARE MANUFACTURER AND/OR VENDOR. SECURE CARE
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT
TO THE HARDWARE AND/OR ITS USE WITH OR OPERATION IN THE
SECURE CARE SYSTEM, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SECURE
CARE ALSO DISCLAIMS ALL OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE
HARDWARE AND/OR ITS USE WITH OR OPERATION IN THE SECURE CARE
SYSTEM THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE ARISE OR BE IMPLIED FROM THE
FACT THAT SUCH HARDWARE CARRIES SECURE CARE’S LOGO OR NAME
OR ANY OTHER TRADEMARK, SERVICE MARK OR TRADE NAME USED OR
CLAIMED BY SECURE CARE OR FROM THE DELIVERY OR INSTALLATION
OF THE HARDWARE WITH SECURE CARE SOFTWARE, PARTS AND/OR
PRODUCTS OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE IN TRADE. ALL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, LABELING AND
WARNING OF HIDDEN DEFECTS OR DANGERS IN THE HARDWARE AND/OR
ITS USE WITH AND OPERATION IN THE SECURE CARE SYSTEM RESTS
EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE HARDWARE MANUFACTURER AND/OR VENDOR,
AND ANY CLAIMS, COSTS, DAMAGES OR LIABILITIES ARISING FROM
THE HARDWARE AND/OR ITS USE WITH OR OPERATION IN THE SECURE
CARE SYSTEM SHALL BE MADE SOLELY AGAINST THE HARDWARE
MANUFACTURER AND/OR VENDOR.
C. Secure Care’s software,
parts and products are designed for operation in a wireless
system. However, the range, performance, and predictability
of any wireless system, including Secure Care’s, is
dependent on several factors, including, but not limited to,
the following: building structure; environmental extremes
(e.g., temperature, earth tremors, air pollution, etc.); the
proximity of other wireless devices; the presence of
variable speed products; sources of Radio Frequency
Interference (RFI); physical orientation and positioning of
the equipment; and sources of Electro Static Discharge (“ESD”).
Secure Care cannot be responsible for the effect of these
types of factors on operation of its software, parts and
products.
D. This Product must be
installed, set-up, tested, supported, operated, maintained,
repaired and used only in accordance with all manuals and
instructions (including the user, installation, technical
and other manuals) issued by Secure Care (the “Product
Manuals”). It is your responsibility to assure that any
person who might be installing, setting-up, testing,
supporting, maintaining or repairing this Product knows the
contents of and has access to the Product Manuals and has
successfully completed Secure Care technical training. It is
also your responsibility to assure that any person who might
be operating or using this Product knows the contents of and
has access to the Product Manuals and has successfully
completed Secure Care in-service training. If you do not
have the Product Manuals or if you have any questions
regarding this Product and/or its installation, set-up,
testing, support, operation, maintenance, repair or use,
please call Secure Care at the telephone number provided in
section 2.B below. Secure Care cannot be responsible for
performance problems caused by a failure to follow published
and appropriate procedures for installation, set-up,
testing, support, operation, maintenance, repair and use.
All adjustable features on
new and repaired Secure Care software, parts and products
are shipped with “factory default” settings. These “factory
default” settings may not comply with building and life
safety codes or other applicable laws and regulations in the
location where they are installed or operated. Secure Care
strongly recommends, therefore, that the settings on all
Secure Care software, parts and products be checked and, if
necessary, reset to comply with local building and life
safety codes and other applicable laws and regulations at
the time of any installation, set-up, testing, support,
maintenance or repair.
E. Secure Care’s system is
driven by software. However, the performance and reliability
of any software-driven system depends on adequately
maintaining the recommended minimum configuration of
computing platform, operating systems and applications
programs and on regularly performing industry-standard and
application-specific backup processes. If recommended
minimum configurations of computing platform, operating
systems, and applications programs are not adequately
maintained, or if appropriate backups are not regularly
performed, the software may not drive the system as
intended. Secure Care cannot be responsible for operational
problems caused by a failure to perform these maintenance
and backup procedures.
F. Secure Care does not
authorize, and strongly recommends against, any installation
or field replacement of software, parts or products by
untrained contractors or facility staff. Such work can be
hazardous, can render the system ineffective and will void
any Secure Care warranty or liability that might otherwise
relate to the system.
Before any software, parts
or products, which have been designed and manufactured by
Secure Care can be safely installed, set-up, tested,
supported, maintained or repaired, technical training in
accordance with standards established by Secure Care is
required. Regardless of how Secure Care’s software, parts or
products are obtained, they should not be installed, set-up,
tested, supported, maintained or repaired by any person who
has not satisfactorily completed that technical training (a
“qualified service technician”.) When Secure Care’s
software, parts or products are sold separately from
installation services, it is assumed that only a qualified
service technician will conduct any installation, set-up,
testing, support, maintenance or repair involving that
software, part or products.
G. It is important that any
installation, set-up, testing, support, operation,
maintenance, repair or use involving the system comply with
all local and national electrical and life safety codes. If
you have any questions about compliance with those codes,
please contact your local authorities.
H. Secure Care receives and
responds to telephone and dial-in inquires (the “Help Line”)
about its software, parts and products for the purpose of
discussing users’ experiences with Secure Care’s system,
helping users better understand how their systems work, and
providing ideas about what may be causing difficulties.
However, Secure Care cannot accurately diagnose the cause of
any problems or give complete instructions on how to fix
problems over the telephone or Internet. The only way to
assure that software, parts or products are installed,
set-up, tested, supported, maintained or repaired correctly
or that a Secure Care system is functioning properly is to
have it examined on site by a qualified service technician.
In addition, Secure Care software, parts and products cannot
be operated or used correctly by anyone who has not
successfully completed Secure Care in-service training.
Secure Care’s Help Line is not a substitute for on-site
diagnosis and servicing by a qualified service technician or
for successful completion of Secure Care in-service
training. Secure Care strongly recommends that any
installation, set-up, testing, support, replacement,
maintenance or repair of a system that is performed by a
person who has not satisfactorily completed technical
training in accordance with standards established by Secure
Care be immediately checked on-site by a person who has
completed that technical training.
WARNING: EVEN SLIGHT
MODIFICATIONS TO THE SYSTEM OR CHANGES IN THE OPERATING
ENVIRONMENT MAY CAUSE SECURE CARE’S SYSTEM TO MALFUNCTION.
THE ONLY WAY TO ASSURE THAT SECURE CARE’S SYSTEM HAS BEEN
INSTALLED, SET-UP, TESTED, SUPPORTED, MAINTAINED, AND
REPAIRED CORRECTLY IS TO HAVE A QUALIFIED SERVICE TECHNICIAN
DO THE WORK.
I. Secure Care’s software,
parts and products have been designed to augment a
facility’s reasonable procedures for protecting residents
and patients. However, no system or combination of
procedures and equipment can eliminate all risk or assure
complete security. Secure Care’s system is not intended as a
substitute for the careful identification and monitoring of
residents and patients by a facility’s professional staff.
2. Limited Warranty
A. Subject to the
limitations set forth in this general product warranty
statement (as amended from time to time by Secure Care in
its absolute discretion), and unless a different period is
specified in writing by Secure Care for a particular product
or service, Secure Care warrants that this product (subject
to Secure Care's specified tolerances and excluding any
expendable items), if sold by Secure Care to an authorized
Secure Care distributor, shall conform to the specifications
which accompany this product for a period of one (1) year
from the date of delivery of this product by Secure Care to
a common carrier, f.o.b. Secure Care’s manufacturing
facility in Concord, New Hampshire or, in the case of
services, from the date of first provision of such services.
This warranty does not extend to and is not for the benefit
of any person other than an authorized Secure Care
distributor who purchases this product from Secure Care, any
sub-distributor thereof and/or the customer to whom this
product is first provided for use, by Secure Care, an
authorized Secure Care distributor or any sub-distributor
thereof. In the event that this product does not comply with
this warranty, Secure Care will, at its option, either
repair or replace this product or refund the purchase price,
provided that this product is returned as provided in
section 2.b below. Replacement of this product under
warranty will not extend the original warranty period.
Secure Care will also, at
its option, either repair or replace this Product after the
warranty has expired, for an additional charge, provided
that this Product is returned as provided in Section 2.B
below. If Secure Care repairs or replaces this Product after
the warranty has expired, the terms of the warranty set
forth in this Section 2.A for a new Product will apply to
the repaired or replaced Product, with the exception that
the term will run for ninety (90) days from the date of
repair or replacement.
Repair may include the
replacement of parts and products with functionally
equivalent, reconditioned parts or products. Any part or
product replaced by Secure Care will become the property of
Secure Care upon replacement.
B. Warranty service is
available by contacting Secure Care at 800-451-7917 and
obtaining a Return Authorization Number. No Product may be
returned to Secure Care without first obtaining a Return
Authorization Number. When this Product is returned to
Secure Care, please include the Return Authorization Number
and a detailed written description of the problem. Issuance
of a Return Authorization Number by Secure Care will not
constitute an admission that there is a problem with the
Product being returned, that any problem is covered by
warranty or that Secure Care has any responsibility to
repair, replace, make refunds for or pay claims, costs,
damages or liabilities connected with the Product being
returned.
NOTE: Transmitters are not
repaired, nor is the warranty extended, beyond the
expiration date.
If this Product is returned
to Secure Care for any reason, you will retain title (unless
and until a part or product is replaced, in which case you
will obtain title to the replacement part or product at the
time of replacement), the risk of loss, and the obligation
to pay all costs of shipping, storage and other charges and
obligations relating to this Product.
C. Except as stated in this
section 2, Secure Care disclaims all warranties, express or
implied, with respect to the whole or any part of this
product, including, without limitation, all implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, title and/or non-infringement. Secure Care also
disclaims all obligations that might otherwise arise or be
implied from a course of dealing or usage in trade.
3. Limitations of
Liability
A. Regardless of the form
of any claim or action, Secure Care’s total liability to all
persons, whether singly or together, for all occurrences
combined, for claims, costs, damages or liabilities based on
any cause whatsoever and arising from or in connection with
this product, or the manufacture, distribution, promotion,
sale, installation, set-up, testing, support, maintenance,
operation, servicing, use or performance of this product, or
from or in connection with any delay or failure in providing
this product, shall not exceed the aggregate price (without
interest) paid to Secure Care for this product.
B. In no event shall Secure
Care be liable to anyone for any loss of data, loss of
profits or loss of use of this product or any equipment, or
for any special, incidental, consequential, exemplary,
punitive, multiple, or other damages, arising from or in
connection with the manufacture, distribution, promotion,
sale, installation, set-up, testing, support, maintenance,
operation, servicing, use or performance of this product or
from or in connection with any delay or failure in providing
or delivering this product.
C. In no event shall Secure
Care be liable to anyone for any claims, costs, damages or
liabilities caused by: (i) any distributor’s failure to
perform its obligations and responsibilities under a
distributor agreement with Secure Care; (ii) improper or
defective promotion, distribution, sale, installation,
set-up, testing, support, maintenance or repair of this
product, including work performed, without Secure Care’s
prior written consent in its absolute discretion, by a
person who has not satisfactorily completed Secure Care
technical training, or in a manner not consistent with
Secure Care technical training; (iii) improper or defective
operation or use of this product by a person who has not
successfully completed Secure Care in-service training, or
in a manner not consistent with Secure Care in-service
training; (iv) supply of this product by a distributor for
use in, or the use of this product in, any system or
configuration not designed to Secure Care standards or in
which a distributor or any third party has substituted
materials and/or goods not specified by Secure Care; or (v)
deterioration of this product during storage.
D. You agree to indemnify
and hold Secure Care harmless from all claims, costs,
damages and liabilities asserted by anyone for any damages
that are excluded and waived, or are intended to be excluded
and waived, by this section 3, or which are imposed by law
on behalf of anyone but which are not expressly stated in
this general product warranty statement.
E. The exclusions, waivers
and limitations on claims, costs, damages and liabilities
and any rights of indemnification set forth in this section
3 shall be enforceable to the maximum extent allowed by law
and shall not be expanded or negated in any respect by
Secure Care’s operation of a “help line” to receive and
respond to telephone or dial-in inquires about this product,
by any communications through that “help line” or by any
actions taken by anyone following communications with Secure
Care over such “help line.”
4. Governing Law and
Arbitration
A. This General Product
Warranty Statement, and all questions arising out of or
relating to it, shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New Hampshire,
without giving effect to the conflict of laws provisions
thereof, and excluding the United Nations Convention on
contracts for the international sale of goods, the 1974
convention on the limitation period on the international
sale of goods (the “1974 convention”), and the protocol
amending the 1974 convention, done at Vienna April 11, 1980.
B. Any dispute, controversy
or claim arising out of or relating to this general product
warranty statement shall be resolved by arbitration.
Regardless of the amount in dispute, the arbitration shall
be conducted by a single arbitrator selected by the parties
or, if they cannot agree, by a single arbitrator selected in
accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the
American Arbitration Association without regard to the
amount in dispute. The arbitration shall be conducted in
English, in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules
of the American Arbitration Association, in Concord, New
Hampshire. The decision of the arbitrator shall be binding
and enforceable by any state or federal court in New
Hampshire, and you hereby consent to the personal
jurisdiction of any state or federal court in New Hampshire
for that purpose. The expense of the arbitration (excluding
each side’s own attorneys' fees, costs, and related
expenses) shall initially be paid in equal shares by each
side, but the total of such expenses plus any award of
attorneys' fees, cost and expenses shall finally be paid by
the parties as the arbitrator determines. Nothing in this
section 4.b shall preclude Secure Care from seeking
provisional or equitable relief from any appropriate court
to protect its rights prior to, pending or in the absence of
such arbitration proceedings.
5. Severability
The invalidity or
unenforceability of any provision of this General Product
Warranty Statement shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of any other provision hereof.
6. Waiver
No term or condition of
this General Product Warranty Statement may be waived except
in writing signed by Secure Care. A waiver on one or more
occasions of any term or condition of this General Product
Warranty Statement shall not constitute or be deemed to be a
waiver of such term or condition on any other occasion. No
delay or failure of Secure Care to exercise any right or
remedy under this General Product Warranty Statement will
operate as a waiver thereof; no failure to enforce or insist
upon compliance with any provision of this General Product
Warranty Statement on any one occasion shall be deemed to be
a waiver of Secure Care's right to do so on another
occasion; and no course of dealing will constitute a waiver,
alteration, limitation or expansion of any of the parties'
rights and obligations under this General Product Warranty
Statement.
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