Accenture DataStories Terms of Use

These terms of use (Hereafter “Terms”) apply to the Accenture DataStories Platform (cloud based), Accenture DataStories Standalone (local installation) and Accenture DataStories SDK Product provided by Accenture Global Solutions Limited, a private company limited by shares, registered in Ireland with company number 554978 and having its registered address at 3 Grand Canal Plaza, Grand Canal Street Upper, Dublin 4, Ireland (Hereafter “ACCENTURE”) and which are made available through its Website (Hereafter “Website”).

Please read these Terms carefully as they define your legal rights and obligations towards ACCENTURE each time you register on our Website on platform.datastories.com for a trial run or each time you use our products as a licensed user.

When you create an account and each time you register in order to get a trial or each time you login to use our product as a licensed user (Hereafter “Registration”), you will be asked to confirm that you have read these Terms of use and that you agree that their content is binding to you.

Your visit to the Website, your Registration and each use you make of ACCENTURE’s Products & Services, automatically involves that you have read and approved these Terms.

These Terms may be revised or updated without notice. Therefore, we advise you to review these Terms on a regular basis. The latest version of the Terms is always available on the ACCENTURE Website.

I. Definitions & Object of the terms

1. Purpose of the Products & Services provided by ACCENTURE

ACCENTURE is a.o. an A.I. and machine learning solution Company which provides consulting services as well as licenses which gives its customers access to its Products & Services (programs and algorithms) in order to help them analyse their Company’s data and take effective decisions based on recognizable patterns.

2. Definitions

• ACCENTURE: Accenture Global Solutions Limited, a private company limited by shares, registered in Ireland with company number 554978 and having its registered address at 3 Grand Canal Plaza, Grand Canal Street Upper, Dublin 4, Ireland.
• Registration: The process of obtaining access to the trial or commercial version of the Products provided by ACCENTURE by filling out the registration form.
• Account: The user account created upon acceptance of the Registration terms.
• User(s): Any registered person that uses the trial or commercial version of the Products provided by ACCENTURE.
• Company: A legal entity that is controlled by, or controls, or is under common control by User.
• Third Party: Any individual or legal entity that is not ACCENTURE, the User or the Company.
• Product(s): Any software licensed by ACCENTURE for the purpose of this agreement, including documentation, enhancements and error corrections. Product may also be referred to as “Cloud, Standalone or SDK Product”.
• Platform: An interactive space accessible to registered Users where they can have access to the Products on a trial or licensed basis.

3. Subject of the agreement and license grant

In return for his/her Registration, the User obtains permission to use the Accenture DataStories Product on a trial basis or on the basis of a paid license for a limited period of time through means of his/her personal account. Features in the trial version can be limited compared to the full version.

The trial version provides Users:

• Secure user access to the Platform for an agreed upon period.
• The opportunity to evaluate the Product individually for potential purchase of a license to the Product. The User is not allowed to conduct business with the Product during the trial period.

The license granted to the Users is limited to a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license of use of the Product.

No ownership of any content of the Product or any other Products & Services of ACCENTURE shall be transferred by ACCENTURE to the User.

ACCENTURE has the right to add innovations or to modify the Product at its own discretion. The User will be notified in a timely fashion about the execution of updates and/or upgrades insofar as these, in the judgment of ACCENTURE, may be important to the use of the Product.

All rights of use granted to the User are subject to full payment of the fees for the license. ACCENTURE reserves the right to revoke the use of the Product at any time without notice until full payment.

II. Terms of Use

1. Registration

To access the Product, the User has to create an account.

To create an account, the User must fill out the Registration Form on the Website with his/her personal information. This form must be completed correctly and entirely. ACCENTURE can unilaterally, immediately, definitively and without prior notice terminate/disconnect the account linked to an incomplete or incorrect Registration.

Users are not allowed to use third parties’ identities, proxies, temporary e-mail addresses and/or more than one (1) username.

The account is created strictly for the registered User. The registered User is not allowed to share this account with third parties.

A User is not allowed to start different trials from different email addresses.

During the Registration process, the User must agree to the present Terms, by ticking a box provided therefore.

ACCENTURE reserves the right to agree or refuse the Registration request. The Registration may notably be refused for the following reasons:

• The User is not, or not anymore, an employee of Company he or she indicated in the Registration form.
• The User does not communicate the data asked for the identification or communicates incomplete or wrong data.
• The User tries to register more than once e.g. under different pseudonyms; or providing different email addresses.
• The User uses a third party’s identity.
• The User does not comply with the obligations incorporated in these Terms of Use, did not comply with them in the past or ACCENTURE can reasonably assume that he or she will not comply with them in the future.
• Any other reason based on which ACCENTURE can reasonably decide to refuse the Registration.

As soon as the Registration is complete, the User is registered on the list of the Users who will be able to get a trial or commercial version of the Product.

2. Access

At its own discretion, ACCENTURE reserves the right to issue a warning to the Users or to refuse temporarily or permanently the access to the Product.

Any refusal may notably but not exclusively be based on any of the following reasons:

• The User is not, or no longer, an employee of Company he/she indicated in the Registration form.
• The User registered incompletely or incorrectly or filled out the Registration form incompletely or incorrectly.
• The User communicated his identification data to a third party.
• The User tried to start a different trial or commercial version with a different email address.
• The User uses a third party’s identification data.
• The User tries to use the Product to cause damage of any kind or for wrong purposes.
• The User does not comply with the obligations contained in these Terms, did not comply with them in the past or ACCENTURE can reasonably assume that he/she will not comply with them in the future.
• The User attempted to copy or reverse engineer the Product.
• The User used the Product for an illegal or unauthorized purpose (contrary to these Terms or the law of the User’s jurisdiction).
• The User tried to modify, adapt or hack the Product or modify another website to falsely imply that it is associated with the Product, ACCENTURE or one of its services, third party vendors or hosting partners.
• Any other reasons out of which ACCENTURE can reasonably judge that access must be refused.

3. System requirements

The User should take into account the following system requirements. Requirements can be updated for each new release and will be available in the release notes.

DataStories Platform

• A modern browser: Chrome 120+, Firefox 115+, Safari 16+, Microsoft Edge 120+
• Screen resolution above 1366×768
• Minimum 8 GB of RAM, more RAM required for larger/more complicated data sets.

DataStories Platform on your own machine

• A modern browser: Chrome 120+, Firefox 115+, Safari 16+, Microsoft Edge 120+
• Screen resolution above 1366×768
• Minimum 16 GB of RAM, more RAM required for larger/more complicated data sets.
• +5 GB of free disk space

DataStories SDK for Jupyter

• Minimum 16 GB of RAM
• A modern browser: Chrome 120+, Firefox 115+, Safari 16+, Microsoft Edge 120+ (to view the HTML reports)
• +5 GB of free disk space

4. Limitation of liability

4.1. ACCENTURE shall not bear any responsibility or liability for any internet or telecommunication cost that the User may incur, nor for the incompatibility of the systems of the Users with the system requirement of ACCENTURE.

4.2. ACCENTURE is under no circumstance responsible or liable for the Content offered through the Product and for the data imported for which User is the sole responsible and liable. The content provided by ACCENTURE is prone to amendments, can always be removed and is made available to the User without any explicit or implicit guarantees regarding its correctness. ACCENTURE is neither liable for the damage caused by the use of the content of the Product, regardless of the fact that it seems accurate or not, nor for the damages caused by the use or circulation of this Content.

4.3. ACCENTURE makes every effort in order to provide access to the Product 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Regarding the technical features of computers, and the internet, and the necessity of periodic maintenance, update and upgrade, ACCENTURE cannot guarantee an uninterrupted access to its Products. ACCENTURE will make every effort to remedy the reasonable causes of discontinuation or suspension of the access as soon as possible.

Such discontinuance or suspension can be caused by technical problems such as, but not limited to, a server crash or an error, bug or virus causing problems with the Product. They are specific to the provision of this kind of service and will not be assimilated to failure in regard of ACCENTURE. Such difficulties will lead in no way to penalty or compensation as regards ACCENTURE. Nor can ACCENTURE be held liable for any consequences or direct or indirect damages caused to third parties or Users by any aspect of the Product, irrespective of the reason.

4.4. Other products & services or websites of third parties to which the Website occasionally refers are not managed, hosted or maintained by ACCENTURE. ACCENTURE is not liable for the content of these sites, for the links referring to them or for the amendments and updates made on them.

4.5. Users are responsible for maintaining the security of their account and password. ACCENTURE cannot and will not be held liable for any loss or damage, which is the consequence of the User’s failure to comply with this security obligation.

4.6. The User is responsible for the contents and correctness of the data he or she places on the Platform or provides by means of the Product.

4.7. The User is also responsible for the legal collection and further use and any other processing of a person’s Personal Data as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679 hereafter the “Regulation”) he or she processes by means of the Platform or by using ACCENTURE Product.

4.8. ACCENTURE claims no intellectual property rights over data submitted by Users and will not process it or share it with other parties. ACCENTURE may only retrieve a dataset which caused technical issues in an anonymized version for debugging purposes. Uploaded data will be deleted upon termination of their account by Users.

4.9. ACCENTURE does not offer warranty, explicit or implied, and cannot be held liable for the safety of the Content uploaded by the User or for any theft or loss of or damage to the Content. The User should always provide proper back up at his/her own responsibility and expense.

4.10. The User understands that ACCENTURE may use third party vendors and hosting partners (Hereafter “Suppliers”) to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run the Product.

The User hereby safeguards ACCENTURE, its officers, directors, agents, and employees from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of any kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of, or in any way, connected with any disputes arising between User and any suppliers, or between User and other Users.

4.11. The User assumes all responsibility and risk with respect to his or her use of the Product. ACCENTURE Products & Services are available “as is,” and “as available”. The User understands and agrees that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, ACCENTURE disclaims all warranties, representations and endorsements, express or implied, with regard to its Products & Services, including, without limitation, implied warranties of title, merchantability, non-infringement and fitness for a particular purpose. ACCENTURE does not warrant usage of the Products & Services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that errors will be detected or corrected. ACCENTURE does not assume any liability or responsibility for any computer viruses, bugs, malicious code or other harmful components, delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions, or the accuracy, completeness, reliability or usefulness of the information disclosed or accessed through the Products & Services. In no event will ACCENTURE be liable for any damages in excess of one hundred fifty euros (€150.00).

4.12. The User will safeguard and hold harmless ACCENTURE from any claim of the authorities or third parties against ACCENTURE related to any kind of breach of these Terms by the User and will compensate ACCENTURE in full for any damage which it would suffer accordingly.

5. Fair (accepted) and safe use of the Products & Services by Users

5.1. By Registration and use of the Product, the User undertakes to:

• Use the Product in accordance with these Terms;
• Behave as a responsible and careful User;
• Not act in any way that could harm ACCENTURE and/or other Users;
• Not be registered on different accounts using different User’s names or email addresses;
• Give information as User that is accurate, up-to-date and complete;
• Not use the identity of a third party or entity or use a fake personal or company name;
• Not use a User’s name / password that does not belong to him/her;
• Make sure as far as possible to keep his/her User’s name / password / code secret;
• Immediately notify ACCENTURE in case of any abuse of his/her User’s name / password / code;
• Immediately notify ACCENTURE in case of any breach, even if only potential, of the security of their Account or third parties’ rights;
• Not infringe, copy, spread, sell, give to third parties or use the security measures established by the Product;
• Not undertake to copy or reverse engineer any of ACCENTURE’s Products & Services or any part thereof;
• Refrain from uploading or processing through the Product personal data that has not been collected or that may not be processed further in compliance with the Regulation;
• Protect in an adequate way his personal devices against viruses and other similar risks, including computer hacking;
• Comply at all times with any instructions for use of the Product which ACCENTURE makes from time to time;
• Not use the Product for any illegal or unauthorized purposes;
• Not modify, adapt or hack the Product or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Products & Services, ACCENTURE or its suppliers or services;
• Not sell, license, sublicense or otherwise transfer the Product or any portion thereof to a Third Party without ACCENTURE’s prior written consent.

5.2. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Use. ACCENTURE highly recommends the User set up and use the MFA setting as an additional layer to his/her account. Here are some of the risks that could be reduced if MFA were implemented:

Keyloggers — Access to the internal network without MFA presents significant risk of attacks. A common method of attack is performed by getting a keylogging virus onto the User’s machine. Keyloggers record keystrokes and webpage navigation. In this way, an attacker can capture single factor authentication credentials and use them to access the network.

Domain Name System (DNS) — DNS is a vulnerable part of the infrastructure. Without MFA, hackers could bring down the network or worse by linking Users to websites that will infect their machines with malware.

Stolen Passwords — Users will sometimes use the same password for personal use as they do at their schools/employment. If the third-party password database is compromised, those attackers will have access to the employer’s network.

Brute Force Attacks — It’s often the case that Users will choose bad passwords. An attacker using brute dictionary attacks against a system is likely to find a percentage of weak passwords.

Password Cracking — Technology has made leaps in this area over the last few years to the point where inadequately hashed passwords can be cracked relatively easily.

5.3. As part of the Services under the agreement, User understands the information security risk and agrees that ACCENTURE shall not be liable for any claim, demand, or cause of action, of any nature whatsoever, for any direct or indirect damages, arising out of a breach of confidential information as a result of this identified gap.

Further, the User will safeguard ACCENTURE from any claim of the authorities or third parties against ACCENTURE related to any kind of breach of the Terms and will compensate ACCENTURE in full for any damage which it would suffer following a breach committed by the User.

6. Intellectual property

6.1. ACCENTURE retains all ownership and all intellectual property rights to respectively the Product, the Content and all associated software.

Users are not allowed to copy, reverse engineer or use the Products & Services, Content, associated software or other elements linked to these in any way except in the manner described within these Terms without our prior and written authorization or unless permitted by law. The Product and other elements which are protected include notably trademarks, texts and articles, software, databases, forms, domain names, corporate names, product names, logos, algorithms, graphic elements and illustrations, graphs, music, colour combinations, slogans, layouts, settlement sheets and any other element of the Product, Platform or Website that is prone to protection.

6.2. ACCENTURE claims no intellectual property over the User’s data or data from other people that Users may upload via the Product when using their trial or commercial version. However, the User hereby grants a licence to ACCENTURE to retrieve a dataset and use it in an anonymized form to re-run the Product for debugging purposes.

7. Duration and termination of an account

7.1. Once a User passes the registration and an account is made, the duration of the account is defined by the type of account (trial, commercial) and the fee paid for the use of the Product.

• For commercial (paid) license: the User agrees that the license and corresponding support will expire automatically at the end of the subscription period, unless the User renews his/her license timely and provided that the User in all circumstances remains in compliance with the Terms of this agreement.
• For trial license: the User agrees that the license and corresponding support will expire automatically at the end of the trial period.

7.2. In case of termination of an account by the User, the User will no longer have access to the Product from the moment the license is expired.

7.3. In case of breach of the Terms of Use, the account of the User will be terminated immediately and permanently.

7.4. ACCENTURE can always decide to terminate the agreement without prior notice and with immediate effect, when the User fails to comply with any provision of these Terms of Use. In the event of such termination, ACCENTURE will be entitled to full compensation by the User for all possible damage and the User is not entitled to any compensation for the remaining subscription time.

8. Miscellaneous provisions

8.1. The User must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Products & Services.

8.2. These Terms contain the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replace all prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral.

8.3. If these Terms are amended, the amended version will be available on the Website and will be applicable from the User’s first visit following this modification. As from that moment, the User will be presumed to have read the modifications and to agree to them.

8.4. Whenever possible, the provisions of this agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be valid and enforceable under the applicable law. If one or more provisions are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remainder of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

8.5. All issues, questions, and disputes concerning the validity, interpretation, enforcement, performance and termination of this agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian law.

8.6. All disputes shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.

III. Academic and Student Use

DataStories provides any User that is a non-profit educational, academic and/or research institution, or a student, with a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license for the Product. In these cases, the Product can only be used for non-commercial purposes. Any other use of the Product with the intention of making a profit is not allowed.

All clauses of Part 1 and Part 2 of this Terms of Use are applicable, except for:

• The student license to the Product is offered free of charge and expires at the latest when the student obtains a PhD or comparable degree or stops scholarship.
• Features in the student version may be limited compared to the full version.
• ACCENTURE has no obligation to provide any support or additional service for student licenses.
• ACCENTURE excludes every liability for any damage that may occur.