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Platform Terms

Version 1.0 · Last updated: 13 October 2026

The Ares Platform is provided by Ares Technology Limited (“Ares”, “we”, “us”). These Terms cover the business use of and access to the Services by the customer identified in the applicable Order Form (“the Customer”, “you”, “your”). The Services are supplied for business purposes only.

By accepting these Terms, whether by (1) clicking a box to indicate your acceptance; or (2) signing an Order Form referencing these Terms, the Customer agrees to be bound by these Terms. If the individual accepting these Terms is doing so on behalf of a company or other legal entity, they confirm that they have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms. In such cases, the “Customer” refers to that entity. If the individual does not have that authority or does not agree to these Terms, they must not accept these Terms or use the Services.

These Terms, together with our Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) and any applicable Order Form, collectively form our agreement with the Customer (the “Agreement”).

If there is a conflict between these Terms and an Order Form, the Order Form shall take precedence for that Subscription Term and each renewal term, unless the Order Form expressly provides otherwise or the parties agree otherwise in writing. If there is a conflict between these Terms and the Data Processing Addendum in relation to the processing of personal data, the Data Processing Addendum takes priority.

1. Interpretation & Definitions

In this Agreement, the following words have the meanings set out below.

“Affiliate”: means in relation to a party, any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that party.
“Authorised Users”: means the individuals the Customer permits to access and use the Services under its account, as notified to Ares or set out in the Order Form.
“Confidential Information”: has the meaning given in clause 9.1.
“Customer Data”: means any data, content or information that the Customer or its Authorised Users submit to the Services, that Ares accesses from the Customer’s Connected Services on the Customer’s behalf, or that the Services generate for the Customer, including outputs under clause 10.2. Customer Data does not include Supplemental Data, Aggregated Data or Usage Data. The exclusion of Supplemental Data and Usage Data does not exclude Personal Data within those categories from the protections of the DPA where Ares processes it on the Customer’s behalf.
“Data Processing Addendum”: means the data processing addendum between Ares and the Customer governing the processing of personal data under the Agreement.
“Data Protection Laws”: means UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and, to the extent applicable to the processing of personal data under this Agreement and as set out in the DPA, the EU GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and any other data protection or privacy legislation applicable to a party.
“Documentation”: means Ares’ user guides and materials made available to the Customer for the Services.
“Effective Date”: means the date set out in the applicable Order Form on which the Agreement becomes binding or, if none is specified, the date that Order Form is accepted by both parties, including through Ares’ online ordering process.
“Fees”: means the fees payable by the Customer as set out in the Order Form.
“Force Majeure Event”: has the meaning given in clause 16.2.
“Order Form”: means an order document signed by the parties, or an online subscription order accepted through Ares’ ordering process, that references this Agreement and sets out the Services subscribed to, Subscription Term and Fees.
“Privacy Policy”: means Ares’ privacy policy, as updated from time to time, currently available at https://www.withares.ai/privacy-policy.
“Services”: means the Ares platform, applications, related agents, API, MCP, workflow and integration features made available to the Customer under an Order Form, together with the Documentation and any support Ares provides.
“Start Date”: means the date on which the Customer’s access to the Services begins, as set out in the Order Form. If no Start Date is specified, the Start Date is the Effective Date.
“Subscription Term”: means the period during which the Customer has a right to access the Services, starting on the Start Date, as set out in the Order Form and renewed under clause 14.1.
“Supplemental Data”: has the meaning given in clause 6.1.
“Usage Data”: means technical, operational and statistical data about the use and performance of the Services, such as log files, feature usage, configuration settings and system metrics, but excluding the content of Customer Data.
“UK GDPR”: means the UK General Data Protection Regulation as it forms part of UK law.

Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation”. A reference to a law includes any amendment or re-enactment of it. Where this Agreement refers to something being agreed, notified or requested “in writing”, email is sufficient unless stated otherwise.

2. The Services

2.1.
Ares is a revenue platform that connects with the tools the Customer already uses to reconcile records across those tools and deploys agents that can, among other things, join meetings, take notes, capture action items and sync information back into their CRM. The specific features and modules included depend on the plan set out in the Order Form and are described in the Documentation.
2.2.
Ares may make trial, beta or early-access features available. These are provided “as is,” without warranty or support, and Ares may stop making them available at any time.
2.3.
Ares may update or change the Services from time to time, including to improve functionality, security or performance. If a change would materially reduce the core functionality as set out in the Documentation, Ares will give the Customer at least 30 days’ notice, or as much notice as reasonably practicable where that is not possible, and use reasonable efforts to provide a substantially equivalent alternative.
2.4.
Ares will give the Customer at least 24 hours’ notice of planned maintenance that is likely to affect availability, where reasonably possible.
2.5.
Ares will implement and maintain appropriate security measures to protect the Services and Customer Data, as set out in the Data Processing Addendum. The Ares Trust Center provides further information about those measures.

3. Access to and use of the Services

3.1.
Subject to this Agreement and payment of the Fees, Ares grants the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable right, for the Subscription Term, to access and use the Services for the Customer’s internal business purposes.
3.2.
The Customer is responsible for its Authorised Users’ compliance with this Agreement and for keeping login credentials secure. Each Authorised User must have their own individual account and individual accounts must not be shared. The Customer must tell Ares promptly if it becomes aware of any unauthorised access to its account.
3.3.
The Customer may reassign a seat from one Authorised User to another, for example, where an individual leaves the Customer or changes role, provided that a seat is not used by more than one individual at the same time.
3.4.
Where the Customer’s plan includes administrative or team-management functionality, an administrator account may be able to access records, notes, emails, communications or other content created by another Authorised User within the Customer’s account. The Customer is responsible for configuring and managing that access in accordance with applicable law and its own internal policies. Ares is not responsible for an administrator’s access to or use of another Authorised User’s data within the Customer’s account.
3.5.
Each party will comply with all laws applicable to it in connection with this Agreement. If the Customer’s use of the Services is subject to industry-specific regulation, the Customer is responsible for ensuring that its use of the Services complies with those requirements.
3.6.
The Customer will not, and will ensure that its Authorised Users do not:
1. 3.6.1.
  use the Services to build or support a product or service that competes with the Services;
2. 3.6.2.
  reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source code of the Services, except to the extent this restriction cannot be applied as a matter of law;
3. 3.6.3.
  probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services, or attempt to circumvent any security control or usage limit, without Ares’ prior written consent;
4. 3.6.4.
  use the Services to store or transmit unlawful, infringing, defamatory or otherwise harmful content, or upload data it does not have the right to share;
5. 3.6.5.
  attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Services or any related systems;
6. 3.6.6.
  use any automated means, including bots or scrapers, to access the Services other than through Ares’ supported APIs or integrations;
7. 3.6.7.
  attempt to evade any spam filter, blocklist or sender-reputation system;
8. 3.6.8.
  impersonate any person, or misrepresent its identity or affiliation;
9. 3.6.9.
  use or upload any contact list or outreach data regarding individuals without a lawful basis and any consents required under applicable law; or
10. 3.6.10.
  introduce any virus, malware or other harmful code into the Services.
3.7.
The Customer will not use any email-sending, messaging or calling feature of the Services to send unsolicited bulk communications or to make unlawful automated or unsolicited calls, or otherwise act in breach of applicable anti-spam, telemarketing, electronic marketing or privacy laws, including the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and, where applicable, the CAN-SPAM Act.
3.8.
Where the Customer uses any feature of the Services that records, transcribes or analyses calls, meetings or other communications, the Customer is responsible for informing all participants, including participants outside the Customer’s organisation, that the communication is being recorded, transcribed or analysed, obtaining any consent required under applicable law, and respecting any objection by a participant.
3.9.
The Customer will comply, and will ensure that its Authorised Users comply, with clauses 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. Non-compliance with these clauses will be deemed a material breach of the Agreement and Ares may suspend the Services under clause 15 or terminate under clause 14.3.
3.10.
If the Customer becomes aware of any content on, or use of, the Services that may breach this clause 3, it must notify Ares promptly at support@withares.ai.

4. Third-party services and integrations

4.1.
The Services can connect to third-party products, platforms and services that the Customer uses, such as its CRM, calendar, email or video-conferencing tools (“Connected Services”). The Customer authorises Ares to access and use Customer Data within its Connected Services on the Customer’s behalf. Third parties that Ares uses to provide the Services, including AI model providers and other sub-processors, are not Connected Services.
4.2.
The Customer’s use of its Connected Services is governed by its own agreements with the relevant providers. Ares is not responsible for Connected Services and is not liable for:
1. 4.2.1.
  any Connected Service becoming unavailable, being suspended or withdrawn, or changing its product, API or terms, where this is outside Ares’ reasonable control; or
2. 4.2.2.
  any delay, error or unavailability of the Services, impact on the Customer’s systems, or third-party usage charges caused by rate limits, quotas or other usage restrictions imposed by a Connected Service.
4.3.
Ares will use reasonable efforts to tell the Customer about any change to a Connected Service that Ares becomes aware of and that materially affects the Services and, where reasonably possible, to provide a workaround.
4.4.
The Customer is responsible for:
1. 4.4.1.
  maintaining the accounts, plans and usage allowances for its Connected Services that are needed for its use of the Services;
2. 4.4.2.
  ensuring its use of each Connected Service complies with that provider’s terms, including any restrictions on automated or AI processing of data;
3. 4.4.3.
  giving Ares reasonable prior notice before making any material change to a Connected Service that is likely to affect the Services. Ares is not responsible for issues caused by a change made without that notice; and
4. 4.4.4.
  setting up any AI agent, automation or workflow that it configures to act automatically, and reviewing its outputs and actions on an ongoing basis.

5. Customer Data

5.1.
As between the parties, the Customer retains all rights in Customer Data. Nothing in this Agreement transfers those rights to Ares, except for the licences expressly granted in this Agreement.
5.2.
The Customer grants Ares a royalty-free, worldwide licence to access, host, process and use the Customer Data during the Subscription Term and, after it ends, only to the extent necessary for the purposes set out in clause 5.5:
1. 5.2.1.
  to provide the Services for the Customer;
2. 5.2.2.
  to maintain, secure and improve the Services, for example by monitoring performance, refining processes, fixing bugs and testing new releases, subject to clause 5.3; and
3. 5.2.3.
  to create aggregated and/or anonymised data that does not identify, and cannot reasonably be used by any person to identify, the Customer or any individual, taking into account the means reasonably likely to be used for re-identification (“Aggregated Data”), and to use Aggregated Data for analytics, benchmarking and improving the Services.
5.3.
Ares will not sell Customer Data, use it to train any AI or machine learning model, or allow any sub-processor to use it for that sub-processor’s own model training or improvement purposes. When maintaining, securing or improving the Services under clause 5.2.2, Ares will ensure that:
1. 5.3.1.
  Customer Data is never shared with, or made visible to, any other customer;
2. 5.3.2.
  Ares personnel only access the content of Customer Data, such as recordings or transcripts, to the extent necessary to support, operate and maintain the Services for the Customer, investigate and resolve faults or security incidents, or comply with applicable law, in each case subject to appropriate access controls, confidentiality obligations and the DPA; and
3. 5.3.3.
  any Customer Data used to create test data is anonymised first.
5.4.
Aggregated Data is not Customer Data. Ares owns all rights in Aggregated Data, including any benchmarks and insights derived from it, and may continue to use it after this Agreement ends.
5.5.
After the Subscription Term ends, Ares will return or delete the Customer Data in accordance with the deletion or return period set out in the Data Processing Addendum. However, Ares may retain Personal Data processed on the Customer’s behalf after that period only to the extent required by applicable law. This does not prevent Ares from retaining limited account, billing and contractual records for which it acts as an independent Controller, where necessary and lawful, subject to its Privacy Policy and applicable retention limits.
5.6.
Where the Services include functionality that automatically matches, merges or otherwise consolidates records, the Customer should review merged records. Ares is not liable for any loss arising from an automated match or merge carried out in accordance with the Documentation, save to the extent caused by Ares’ breach of this Agreement.

6. Supplemental Data

6.1.
The Services may supplement the Customer’s records with business contact and company information that Ares obtains from its own or licenced third-party sources (“Supplemental Data”). This may happen when the Customer uses an enrichment feature of the Services or, where described in the Documentation, automatically, for example when a contact is added to a deal.
6.2.
Ares grants the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Supplemental Data as part of the Services for its internal business purposes during the Subscription Term. Ares and its licensors retain their rights in Supplemental Data, and Supplemental Data is not Customer Data.
6.3.
The Customer will not, and will ensure that its Authorised Users do not: (a) sell, resell, sublicence, distribute or otherwise make Supplemental Data available to any third party; (b) use Supplemental Data to create, compile or enhance any database, list or product that competes with the Services or with Ares’ licensors; or (c) use Supplemental Data to determine any individual’s eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or any similar purpose, or for any other purpose prohibited by applicable law.
6.4.
Supplemental Data is provided on a reasonable efforts basis only. Ares does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any Supplemental Data, and the Customer is responsible for independently verifying Supplemental Data before relying on it for business-critical decisions.

7. Data protection

7.1.
Each party will comply with Data Protection Laws in relation to personal data processed under this Agreement. Where Ares processes personal data on the Customer’s behalf as part of the Services, the terms of the Data Processing Addendum apply.
7.2.
Ares may make a restricted international transfer of personal data in accordance with Data Protection Laws, including through an applicable adequacy decision or appropriate safeguard, as set out in the Data Processing Addendum.
7.3.
The Customer must comply with the restrictions on Prohibited Data set out in the Data Processing Addendum.

8. Fees and payment

8.1.
The Customer will pay the Fees set out in the Order Form. Unless the Order Form says otherwise, Ares will invoice the Fees annually in advance from the Start Date, and the Customer will pay each invoice within 30 days of the invoice date.
8.2.
If an undisputed invoice is not paid on time, Ares may charge interest on the overdue amount at 4% a year above the Bank of England base rate, accruing daily from the due date until paid.
8.3.
If the Customer reasonably disputes part of an invoice, it should notify Ares in writing before the due date and pay the undisputed part on time. The parties will work in good faith to resolve the disputed part promptly.
8.4.
Except as set out in this clause 8.4 or the Order Form, Ares will not change the Fees during a Subscription Term. Unless the Order Form states otherwise, any discount set out in the Order Form applies only to the first 12 months from the Start Date, and Fees for any later period (including any renewal term) will be calculated at the undiscounted unit prices set out in the Order Form.
8.5.
Ares may increase the Fees for a renewal term by giving the Customer at least 60 days’ notice before the renewal date. If the Customer does not accept the increase, it may give written notice of non-renewal within 30 days of receiving Ares’ notice, or by the deadline in clause 14.1 if later, and the Order Form will expire at the end of the current Subscription Term.
8.6.
The Customer may add seats, teams or additional modules during a Subscription Term by signing an amendment to its Order Form or a further Order Form. Unless that document states otherwise: (a) additional seats or teams for a module the Customer already subscribes to will be charged at the unit price set out in the existing Order Form, subject to clause 8.4; (b) additions will run until the end of the current Subscription Term, with Fees pro-rated for the remainder of that term; and (c) additions will renew together with the existing Order Form under clause 14.1.
8.7.
Fees are exclusive of VAT and any other applicable taxes, which the Customer will pay in addition to the Fees.

9. Confidentiality

9.1.
“Confidential Information” means information disclosed by one party to the other that is marked as confidential or would reasonably be understood to be confidential given its nature. Customer Data is included as the Customer’s Confidential Information. The terms of this Agreement, the Services, and the Documentation are included as Ares’ Confidential Information.
9.2.
Each party will:
1. 9.2.1.
  use the other’s Confidential Information only to perform its obligations or exercise its rights under this Agreement;
2. 9.2.2.
  protect it using at least the same care it uses for its own confidential information of a similar nature, and no less than reasonable care; and
3. 9.2.3.
  only share it with employees, contractors and advisers who need to know it and are bound by confidentiality obligations at least as protective as these.
9.3.
These obligations do not apply to information that:
1. 9.3.1.
  is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party;
2. 9.3.2.
  the receiving party already lawfully knew;
3. 9.3.3.
  is independently developed without reference to the Confidential Information; or
4. 9.3.4.
  is lawfully received from a third party without restriction.
9.4.
A party may disclose Confidential Information if required by law or a court order, provided it, where legally permitted, gives the other party reasonable notice first so that party can seek protective measures. Ares may disclose the Customer’s identity, the terms of the Order Form and high-level usage and outcome metrics, but not Customer Data, to its actual and prospective investors, lenders and acquirers, and their professional advisers, where the recipient is bound by confidentiality obligations, for fundraising, financing or corporate-transaction purposes.
9.5.
These confidentiality obligations continue for 3 years after this Agreement ends, except that: (a) obligations relating to Customer Data continue for as long as Ares or any of its sub-processors retains it; and (b) obligations relating to trade secrets continue for as long as the information remains a trade secret.

10. Intellectual property

10.1.
Ares and its licensors own all rights in the Services, the Documentation, the Usage Data, and all underlying software, models, algorithms and technology, including any improvements or developments made under clause 5.2.2 or 5.2.3 or using Aggregated Data. Nothing in this Agreement transfers any of these rights to the Customer.
10.2.
As between the parties and to the extent permitted by law, the Customer owns the outputs the Services generate for the Customer, which form part of the Customer Data. This does not extend to any Supplemental Data, third-party materials, or underlying models, processes, software or technology, in which the relevant rights remain with Ares or its licensors.
10.3.
The Customer grants Ares a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, modify and incorporate into the Services any feedback or suggestions the Customer or its Authorised Users give about the Services, without any obligation to the Customer. This licence does not extend to Customer Data or the Customer’s Confidential Information included in that feedback, which remain subject to the other provisions of this Agreement.

11. Warranties

11.1.
Ares warrants that the Services will perform materially in accordance with the Documentation. If the Customer promptly notifies Ares of a material non-conformity with reasonable details, Ares will use reasonable efforts to correct it at no additional cost, which is the Customer’s sole remedy for breach of this warranty.
11.2.
The Customer warrants that it has all rights necessary to provide the Customer Data to Ares, and that its use of the Services will comply with applicable law.
11.3.
Except as set out in this Agreement, the Services are provided “as is.” To the extent permitted by law, Ares excludes all other warranties, whether express or implied, including any warranty of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, or that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free.

12. Liability

12.1.
Nothing in this Agreement limits or excludes either party’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
12.2.
Subject to clause 12.1, neither party is liable to the other for loss of profits, revenue, business opportunity or anticipated savings or for any indirect, special or consequential loss, even if that loss was foreseeable. Neither party is liable for loss or corruption of data, except for reasonable and evidenced direct costs of restoring or reconstructing data to the extent caused by its breach of this Agreement. These exclusions do not apply to the Customer’s obligation to pay Fees and other sums due under this Agreement, express refund obligations, or amounts payable to third parties and reasonable defence costs covered by clause 13. Those indemnity amounts and restoration costs remain subject to the applicable caps in this clause 12.
12.3.
Subject to clauses 12.1, 12.2, 12.4 and 12.5, each party’s aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, indemnity or otherwise, will not exceed the total Fees paid or payable in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim under this Agreement, or, if the event occurs in the first 12 months after the Start Date, the Fees payable for those first 12 months.
12.4.
Subject to clauses 12.1 and 12.2, each party’s aggregate liability for breach of clause 7 (Data protection), the Data Processing Addendum, or clause 9 (Confidentiality), including liability under clause 13.4.3, will not exceed twice the amount calculated under clause 12.3.
12.5.
Clauses 12.3 and 12.4 will not apply to:
1. 12.5.1.
  either party’s infringement of the other party’s intellectual property rights; or
2. 12.5.2.
  the Customer’s payment obligations as set out under the Order Form.

13. Indemnities

13.1.
Ares will defend the Customer against any third-party claim that the Services, when used as permitted under this Agreement, infringe that third party’s patent, copyright, trade mark or database right, and will pay damages finally awarded against the Customer or agreed in a settlement approved by Ares. The Customer must promptly notify Ares of the claim, give Ares control of the defence and settlement, and provide reasonable cooperation. For this indemnity, Services excludes Customer Data, generated outputs and Supplemental Data, except to the extent a claim concerns Ares’ underlying software or technology independently of that excluded material.
13.2.
Clause 13.1 does not apply to the extent the claim is caused by Customer Data or Customer-provided instructions and specifications, modifications not made or authorised by Ares, combination with products, data or services not supplied or required by Ares where the claim would not otherwise arise, use of the Services in breach of this Agreement or continued allegedly infringing use after Ares supplies a substantially equivalent non-infringing alternative or directs cessation. If a claim is made or Ares reasonably believes one is likely, Ares may, at its option:
1. 13.2.1.
  obtain a licence for the Customer to keep using the affected Service;
2. 13.2.2.
  modify the affected Service so it is no longer infringing while providing substantially the same functionality; or
3. 13.2.3.
  if neither is reasonably available, terminate the affected Service and refund any prepaid, unused Fees for it.
13.3.
Subject to clause 12.1, clauses 13.1 and 13.2 state Ares’ entire contractual liability and the Customer’s exclusive contractual remedies for third-party intellectual property infringement claims covered by clause 13.1.
13.4.
The Customer will defend Ares and its Affiliates against any third-party claim arising from:
1. 13.4.1.
  the Customer Data, or Ares’ permitted use of it, infringing a third party’s rights or breaching applicable law;
2. 13.4.2.
  the Customer’s breach of clauses 3.6, 3.7 or clause 3.8;
3. 13.4.3.
  the Customer’s breach of the Data Processing Addendum; or
4. 13.4.4.
  the Customer’s configuration or use of any AI agent, automation, or outreach feature of the Services to generate, send or publish content that is unlawful or that infringes any third party’s rights,
and the Customer will pay any damages and reasonable legal costs finally awarded against Ares or its Affiliates or agreed in a settlement, subject to the same notice, control and cooperation conditions as clause 13.1.
13.5.
The party seeking indemnification must not admit liability or settle a claim without the indemnifying party’s consent, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

14. Term, renewal and termination

14.1.
This Agreement starts on the Effective Date and continues until all Order Forms under it have ended. Each Order Form’s Subscription Term will automatically renew for a further period of the same length, unless either party gives the other written notice of non-renewal at least 60 days before the end of the then-current term, or such other notice period as the Order Form specifies.
14.2.
Either party may terminate the affected Order Form (or, where the breach affects all Order Forms, this Agreement) by written notice if the other party materially breaches this Agreement and, where the breach is capable of remedy, does not remedy it within 30 days of written notice.
14.3.
Ares may terminate this Agreement or any Order Form immediately by written notice if:
1. 14.3.1.
  the Customer fails to pay any undisputed amount within 14 days of a written reminder that it is overdue;
2. 14.3.2.
  the Customer breaches clause 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 6.3 or 16.12 and the breach is not capable of remedy, is repeated, or is not remedied within 5 business days of notice; or
3. 14.3.3.
  Ares is required to do so by law or by any regulatory authority.
14.4.
Either party may terminate immediately by written notice if the other becomes insolvent, enters administration or liquidation, or similar.
14.5.
Except as set out in this Agreement, neither party may terminate an Order Form before the end of its Subscription Term. Fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable except as expressly set out in this Agreement.
14.6.
When this Agreement or an Order Form ends:
1. 14.6.1.
  the Customer’s right to use the affected Services stops immediately;
2. 14.6.2.
  the Customer must pay all Fees due up to the date of termination and, where Ares terminates under clauses 14.2, 14.3.1, 14.3.2 or 14.4, or the Customer terminates other than as permitted by this Agreement, all Fees that would have been payable for the remainder of the Subscription Term, which become immediately due;
3. 14.6.3.
  Customer Data will be dealt with in accordance with clause 5.5 and the Data Processing Addendum; and
4. 14.6.4.
  termination does not affect any rights or liabilities that have accrued by then, and clauses 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 8 (for Fees accrued or payable), 9, 10, 12, 13, 14.6 and 16, and any other clause which by its nature should survive, continue to apply.

15. Suspension

15.1.
Ares may suspend the Customer’s access to the Services if:
1. 15.1.1.
  the Customer fails to pay an undisputed invoice within 5 business days of a reminder notice;
2. 15.1.2.
  the Customer materially breaches clauses 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8 and does not remedy this promptly after notice; or
3. 15.1.3.
  Ares reasonably believes suspension is necessary to prevent harm to the Services, other customers, or third parties, in which case Ares may suspend immediately and will notify the Customer as soon as reasonably possible.
15.2.
Ares will restore access promptly once the issue giving rise to the suspension is resolved.
15.3.
Fees remain payable during any period of suspension under this clause 15.

16. General

16.1.
Assignment. The Customer may not assign or transfer this Agreement without Ares’ prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld. Ares may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of its relevant assets, or to an Affiliate.
16.2.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform caused by events outside its reasonable control (a “Force Majeure Event”), including failures of third-party infrastructure or utilities, and cyberattacks. If a Force Majeure Event continues for more than 90 consecutive days, either party may terminate the affected Order Form by written notice.
16.3.
Notices. Legal notices must be sent in writing to the postal or email addresses set out in the Order Form.
16.4.
Entire agreement. This Agreement is the entire agreement between the parties about its subject matter and supersedes all prior discussions or agreements on that subject. Each party confirms it has not relied on any statement not set out in this Agreement.
16.5.
Changes to this Agreement. Ares may update these Terms from time to time. Where the Customer has accepted an Order Form, the version of these Terms in force at its Effective Date applies for that Subscription Term, and updated Terms apply from the start of the next renewal term. During a Subscription Term, Ares may only make changes required by law or regulation or needed to address a security risk, and will give as much notice as reasonably possible.
16.6.
Severability. If any part of this Agreement is found unenforceable, the rest continues in effect.
16.7.
Waiver. Failing to enforce a right under this Agreement is not a waiver of that right.
16.8.
Relationship. The parties are independent contractors. This Agreement does not create a partnership, joint venture or agency.
16.9.
Third-party rights. A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right to enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, except that an Affiliate of Ares may enforce clause 13.4 where the claim relates to that Affiliate.
16.10.
Publicity. Ares may identify the Customer by name and logo as a customer of Ares, for example, on its website or marketing materials. The Customer can opt out of this at any time by written notice. Any case study, press release or joint announcement requires the Customer’s prior written approval.
16.11.
Non-solicitation. During the Subscription Term and for 6 months after, the Customer will not directly solicit for employment any Ares employee who was materially involved in providing the Services to the Customer in the preceding 6 months, other than through general recruitment advertising not targeted at Ares’ staff.
16.12.
Sanctions. Ares and Customer will comply with all applicable import, export control, and sanctions laws (the “Sanctions Laws”). The Customer must not: (a) use the Services if the Customer is a designated, denied or otherwise restricted party, or on any list of prohibited or restricted parties, under the Sanctions Laws; or (b) export, distribute, supply or permit the use of the Services to any person where the Customer has reason to believe that such person is located, organised or resident in a country or region that is subject to comprehensive economic sanctions.
16.13.
Governing law and jurisdiction. This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any jurisdiction.
16.14.
Resolving disputes. Before starting court proceedings, except for recovering undisputed payments or seeking injunctive relief, the parties will try in good faith to resolve any dispute through discussion between senior representatives for at least 15 business days.