Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs Terms Of Use
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1. What does this Contract cover? This is a contract between you and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft"). Sometimes you are referred to as "Company", "you" or "your" and Microsoft is referred to as "we," "us" or "our". This Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs’ Terms of Use (the "TOU") applies to the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs listed here and the Maps Platform APIs for the Universal Windows Platform ("UWP") listed here (collectively, the "Services").
- If you are using the Services as part of a Bing Maps Agreement that incorporates this TOU by reference, Sections 1, 2 and 3 apply. If you would like to find out more about a Bing Maps Agreement, please contact us here.
- If you are using the Services as part of a Volume Licensing Agreement, Sections 1, 2 and 4 apply. If you would like to find out more about a Volume Licensing Agreement, please contact us here.
- If you are using the Services only for Education or Non-Profit Organization Use (as defined in Section 2), Sections 1, 2, 5 and 8 apply.
- If you are using the Services only for Limited Website and Consumer App Use (as defined in Section 2), Sections 1, 2, 6 and 8 apply.
- If you are using the Cognitive Services Labs APIs, Sections 1, 2 and 7 apply.
- If you are using the Services only for Limited Commercial Windows App Use (as defined in Section 2), Sections 1, 2, 8 and 9 apply.
- If you are using the Services only for Windows App and Windows Phone App Development (as defined in Section 2), Sections 1, 2, 8 and 10 apply.
- If you are using the Services only for Broadcast, the Bing Maps Media, Entertainment and Broadcast Use Terms of Use apply.
- If you are using the Services as part of an Azure Marketplace subscription, Sections 1, 2 and 12 apply.
2. Definitions. Wherever used in this TOU with the first letter capitalized, these terms have the following defined meanings:
- "Access Credentials" means the unique credentials provided to Company by Microsoft for use with the Services.
- "Affiliate" means, with respect to an entity, any person or entity that directly or indirectly owns, is owned by, or is under common ownership with that entity. For purposes of this definition, ownership means control of more than a 50% interest in an entity.
- "Agreement" means the Bing Maps Agreement and/or Volume Licensing Agreement.
- "Asset" means one of any of the following classes: vehicle, device or other mobile object.
- "Billable Transaction" means any of the following (with all capitalized terms as defined in the Bing Maps Platform SDKs or the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs’ Terms of Use): (a) web services methods including, but not limited to, Premium Services, Imagery, Route, Geocode, Spatial Data and Search Services; (b) a session in the Bing Maps AJAX Control API, Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation API, or Bing Maps Silverlight Control API, where a session begins with the load of any of the aforementioned controls into a user’s browser and includes all transactions until the browser is closed or the user moves to a different page for up to 50 transactions (thereafter each otherwise Billable Transaction in a session will be charged as a separate Billable Transaction as set forth in Sections (a) and (c) herein; and (c) any new Services functionalities may constitute a Billable Transaction as described in the SDKs. All use of the Services in Company Applications under Section 4.9(a)(i) and/or (ii) by agents or franchisees of Company, must be controlled and branded by Company including all use of the Bing Maps Platform APIs.
- "Bing Maps Agreement" means a separately executed Bing Maps agreement(s) that incorporates this TOU including the Microsoft Service Order under the Bing Maps Platform API’s Terms of Use, Microsoft Service Agreement for Bing Maps Platform APIs and Microsoft Service Order for Bing Maps Platform APIs and all predecessor or future agreements, including agreements formerly known as the Microsoft License Agreement for MapPoint Web Services, Microsoft Service Agreement for the Virtual Earth Map Control and the MapPoint Web Service, Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Agreement – Service Order, and Service Order for Microsoft Virtual Earth Map Control and the MapPoint Web Service.
- "Bing Maps AJAX Control API" means the Bing Maps Java Script API that enables developers to create Web sites and mobile Company Applications with imagery and location functionality, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
- "Bing Maps Distance Matrix API" means the API that enables developers to generate and calculate travel time and distance information between various origin and destination locations, but without the routing details.
- "Bing Maps Isochrone API" means the API that calculates the geographical area that can be reached for a given travel time or distance. The result is a time or distance based geographical polygon based on routable networks for driving, walking, and public transit.
- "Bing Maps Platform APIs" means collectively the following APIs: Bing Maps AJAX Control API, Bing Maps Distance Matrix API, Bing Maps iOS Control API, Bing Maps REST Services API, Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control API, and Bing Spatial Data Services API, including any successors or future versions of such APIs, and any other Bing Maps Platform APIs that Microsoft may offer via the SDKs.
- "Bing Maps REST Services API" means the services that enable the use of REST URLs to perform tasks such as creating a map with pushpins, geocoding an address, retrieving imagery metadata or calculating a route, all as part of Company Applications, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
- "Bing Maps Snap to Road API" means the API that takes a list of longitudes and latitudes and returns a list of objects containing longitude, latitude, speed limit, and street names that forms a route snapped to the roads on the map. Users can request that the points be interpolated, resulting in a path that smoothly follows the geometry of the road.
- "Bing Maps TOU" is the Bing Maps End User Terms of Use located here or such other locations as Microsoft may specify from time to time, that apply to end users of your Company Application.
- "Bing Maps Truck Routing API" means the API that gets a truck driving route by specifying a series of geographical location defined by longitude and latitude that is used for navigational purposes. The route includes information such as route instructions, travel duration, travel distance. The API takes into consideration specific requirements for trucks and larger vehicles, e.g. avoiding low bridges, sharp turns, steep gradients, or following restrictions and permits for hazardous material.
- "Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control API" means the programmable control that enables developers to integrate Bing Maps into Company Applications that use Windows Presentation Foundation, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
- "Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps API" means the programmable control that enables developers to create immersive Windows Apps Company Applications for Windows offered through the Windows Store, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
- "Bing Spatial Data Services API" means the services that enable the use of REST URLs to geocode and reverse-geocode large sets of spatial data and to create and query data sources in Company Applications, as described in greater detail in the SDKs.
- "Company Application" means the Company’s software application(s) for online services that use the Services as may be further defined in your Agreement.
- "Content" means the maps, images and other data and third party content that Company is authorized to access via the Services or for the Cognitive Services Labs APIs the maps, data and third party content that Company is authorized to access via the Cognitive Services Labs APIs.
- "Drive Analytics" means the output of the analysis about an Asset's movement resulting from a Company Application's use of latitude/longitude coordinates, street names, and posted speed limits (car or truck) and other legal road use restrictions in order to determine if such Asset is following road compliance signage.
- "Education or Non-Profit Organization Use" means using the Services with a Company Application that displays results for education or non-profit use, where non-profit organization means a tax exempt organization and education means use by public or private K-12 schools, universities, community colleges or other collegiate level institutions such as vocational schools, trade schools or career colleges, including their faculty, staff, and students, provided that your use is consistent with the terms of Section 5. Further your Company Application must be one of the following: publicly available without restriction (for example, login or password must not be required), available only to current students of your education organization via your private network in order to provide education related services, available internally for free instructional use, or available internally for non-commercial research use. Commercially funded research projects and commercial company use for educational purposes are excluded from Education or Non-Profit Organization Use.
- "Geofence" means one or more coordinates used to determine whether the location of an Asset has intersected a line or entered or exited a polygon. Examples include a radius of a point, a polyline or a polygon.
- "Geofencing Alert" means the notification generated when an Asset enters, intersects or exits a Geofence.
- "Known User" is a user that is provisioned and/or authenticated by Company Application (but not necessarily Company web site or network), for example through the use of usernames, passwords, digital certificates, unique IDs, smart cards, or other identification technology.
- "Known User Subscription License" means the license granted to a Known User pursuant to an Agreement.
- "Limited Commercial Windows App Use" means using the Services in a Windows App or Windows Phone App for commercial or government use over a private network under the TOU without entering into an Agreement, provided that (i) your use is consistent with the terms of Section 9; and (ii) your Company Application does not exceed 125,000 cumulative Billable Transactions (which will be free of charge) as defined in the SDK’s, per calendar year (iii) your Company Application does not exceed 5 queries per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries.
- "Limited Website and Consumer App Use" means using the Services for commercial, non-commercial or government use (provided that such use is not considered Education or Non-Profit Organization Use as defined in this section) under the TOU without entering into an Agreement, provided that (i) your use is consistent with the terms of Section 6; (ii) your Company Application is available on a web site, mobile web site or a mobile app running in a non-Windows operating system; and (iii) you do not exceed 125,000 cumulative Billable Transactions (which will be free of charge) as defined in the SDKs, per calendar year (iv) your Company Application does not exceed 5 queries per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries.
- "Mobile Asset Management With Routing SKUs" means, collectively, Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management North America with Routing Per Asset; Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe with Routing Per Asset; Bing Maps Asset Management for Windows North America with Routing Per Asset; Mobile Asset Management North America with Routing per Asset; Mobile Asset Management Europe with Routing per Asset; Bing Maps Asset Management for Windows Europe with Routing per Asset; and Mobile Asset Management Rest of World with Routing per Asset.
- "Mobile Asset Management Without Routing SKUs" means, collectively, Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management North America without Routing Per Asset, Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Europe without Routing Per Asset and Bing Maps Mobile Asset Management Rest of World without Routing Per Asset.
- "Premium Services" means the Bing Maps Distance Matrix API, Bing Maps Isochrone API, Bing Maps Snap to Road API, and Bing Maps Truck Routing API.
- "SDKs" means the software development kits applicable to the Services, located here, including all updated and replacement development kits.
- "Services" means, the Bing Maps Platform APIs and UWP Maps Platform APIs to be provided by Microsoft.
- "Volume Licensing Agreement" means a separately executed Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreement (such as an Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Business and Services Agreement) that includes licensing of the Services and incorporates this TOU.
- "Windows App" means using the Services in a Company Application (i) built upon the UWP which runs exclusively across Windows platforms and/or (ii) which runs exclusively on the Windows 8.x and earlier operating systems.
- "Windows Phone App" means using the Services in a Company Application which runs exclusively on the Windows Phone 8.x and earlier operating systems.
3. Use with a Bing Maps Agreement. If you have separately entered into a Bing Maps Agreement, the following terms also apply to your use of the Services. Please note that we do not provide warranties for the Services under this section. This TOU also limits our liability. These terms are in Sections 3.8 and 3.9 and we ask you to read them carefully.
- 3.1. License Rights. In exchange for the fees set forth in your Bing Maps Agreement and subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this TOU, you may use the Services solely in conjunction with and integrated into Company Applications using only methods and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. You will set the user region parameter in the Services in compliance with applicable laws, including those regarding mapping, of the country where the Content is made available. Your use shall be subject to any additional restrictions or rights included in your Bing Maps Agreement. In the event of any conflict between this TOU and your Bing Maps Agreement, the Bing Maps Agreement shall prevail. In using the Services and developing Company Applications you must: obey the law (including local, state, federal or other applicable consumer privacy regulations); not violate the rights of any third party; and obey any codes of conduct or other notices we provide.
- 3.2. General Restrictions. We do have some restrictions on your use of the Services. In developing Company Applications, and in using the Services, you may not, nor may you permit your customers to:
- (a) Upload any content to the Services, or use the Services to display or perform in your Company Application, any content:
- for which you do not have all necessary permissions from the copyright holder(s);
- which includes nudity or is obscene, indecent, pornographic or libelous;
- which is intended to exploit minors in any way;
- which incites, advocates, or expresses hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous violence; or
- which is intended to threaten, harass, stalk, defame, defraud, degrade, victimize, or intimidate an individual or group of individuals for any reason, including on the basis of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, or religion, or to incite or encourage anyone else to do so.
- (a) Microsoft. Microsoft agrees at its expense to defend Company in a lawsuit or other judicial action, and pay the amount of any adverse final judgment (after any appeals) or settlement to which Microsoft consents, for any claim made by an unaffiliated third party that the Services infringe its copyright, trademark or patent, or misappropriates a trade secret (individually and collectively, an "Infringement Claim").
- (b) Company. Company agrees at its expense to defend Microsoft in a lawsuit or other judicial action, and pay the amount of any adverse final judgment (after any appeals) or settlement to which Company consents, for any claim made by an unaffiliated third party to the extent based on the operation of any Company Application (together with any Infringement Claim, individually and collectively, a "Claim").
- (c) Conditions. With regard to any Claim, either party’s obligations are subject to the following conditions: (a) the party seeking defense (the "Defended party") must promptly notify the other party (the "Defending party") in writing of the Claim; (b) the Defending party will have sole control over defense or settlement of the Claim; and (c) the Defended party must provide the Defending party with reasonable assistance in the defense of the Claim, for which the Defending party will reimburse Defended party’s reasonable out of pocket expenses. Defended party will have the right to employ separate counsel and participate in the defense at Defended party’s expense. Defending party may not settle the Claim without the Defended party’s prior written consent, if such settlement would result in any admission, liability or limitation upon future actions of the Defended party.
- (d) Exceptions. Microsoft’s obligations will not apply to the extent any Claim or adverse final judgment is based on: (a) any unauthorized use, disposition or promotion of the Services or a Microsoft trademark by Company; (b) a patent or copyright owned or controlled by Company or its Affiliate; (c) combining the Services with a non-Microsoft product, data or business process, if the basis of the Claim would not have existed but for such combination; or (d) continued use of any part of the Services after notice from Microsoft to stop use because of any alleged infringement. Company will reimburse Microsoft for all damages, costs, and expenses resulting from such actions.
- (e) Mitigation. In addition to the obligations in Section 3.8(a) above, Microsoft may, in connection with a potential Infringement Claim, at its expense and option, take further action such as: (a) procuring for Company the rights or licenses necessary to address the Infringement Claim; (b) replacing or modifying the Services to make it non-infringing, or (c) terminating the Services and refunding any fees prepaid by Company for undelivered Services.
- (f) Exclusive Remedy. This Section 3.8 provides Company’s exclusive remedy for third party Infringement Claims.
- (a) Limitation of Liabilities. Neither party nor Microsoft’s suppliers will be liable for any indirect damages, (including, without limitation, consequential, special or incidental damages, damages for loss of profits or revenues, business interruption, or loss of business information) arising out of or related to the Services, Content, TOU or Bing Maps Agreement, even if advised of the possibility of such damages or if the possibility was reasonably foreseeable. Neither party nor Microsoft’s suppliers’ aggregate liability for all claims, actions and/or omissions arising from or related to this TOU, the Bing Maps Agreement, the Services or the Content will exceed the greater of (a) the amount of fees paid by Company to Microsoft in the twelve (12) months preceding the date the claim arises, or (b) two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). These limitations will apply even if any remedy fails its essential purpose. None of the limitations and exclusions in this section apply to claims related to either party’s violation of the other party’s intellectual property rights, under Section 3.8 (Duty to Defend), or to any obligation to pay fees.
- (b) Disclaimer of Warranties. The Services and all Content are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind by Microsoft or its suppliers. To the maximum extent permitted by law, any and all representations, warranties or conditions of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, implied or statutory warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy or satisfactory quality), all with regard to the Services and any Content, are expressly excluded by Microsoft and its suppliers. Microsoft and its suppliers make no warranty that the Services will operate properly as integrated with the Company Applications, that the Services will be uninterrupted, or that any Content will be accurate or complete.
- (c) Disclaimer of Reliance. Microsoft and its suppliers specifically disclaim any liability for end users' reliance on the Services. Without limiting the foregoing, Microsoft and its suppliers shall have no liability for harm to end users resulting from reliance on any map, Content, or direction provided hereunder.
- (a) Notices. All legal notices in connection with the Bing Maps Agreement or this TOU must be sent by post, express courier, facsimile or email to the addresses and numbers indicated in the Address Schedule of the Bing Maps Agreement. You are responsible for keeping your contact information up to date.
This TOU is in electronic form. We have promised to send you certain information in connection with the Services and have the right to send you certain additional information, including that which may be required by law, which we may send in electronic form. If you do not consent to receive notices electronically, you must stop using the Services.
We may provide required information to you:
- at the e-mail address in your Bing Maps Agreement or any email address you specified via www.bingmapsportal.com (you are responsible for keeping your contact information up to date); or
- by posting on any portion of this TOU or to another Microsoft web site that will be designated in advance for this purpose.
Notices will be deemed given on the date shown on the postal return receipt or on the courier, facsimile or email confirmation delivery.
4. Use with a Volume Licensing Agreement. If you have separately entered into a Volume Licensing Agreement, the following terms also apply to your use of the Services.
- 4.1. License Rights. In exchange for the fees set forth in your Volume Licensing Agreement and subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, and 4 of this TOU, you may use the Services solely in conjunction with and integrated into Company Applications using only methods and means of access that are documented in the SDKs. You will set the user region parameter in the Services in compliance with applicable laws, including those regarding mapping, of the country where the Content is made available. Your use shall be subject to any additional restrictions or rights included in your Volume Licensing Agreement. In the event of any conflict between this TOU and your Volume Licensing Agreement, the Volume Licensing Agreement shall prevail. In using the Services and developing Company Applications you must: obey the law (including local, state, federal or other applicable consumer privacy regulations); not violate the rights of any third party; and obey any codes of conduct or other notices we provide.
- 4.2. General Restrictions. We do have some restrictions on your use of the Services. In developing Company Applications, and in using the Services, you may not, nor may you permit your customers to: