Terms of Service

Definitions

1. NetGuard Solutions: NetGuard Solutions, established in Utrecht, Chamber of Commerce no. 91050677.
2. Customer: the party which NetGuard Solutions has entered into an agreement with.
3. Parties: NetGuard Solutions and customer together.
4. Consumer: a customer who is an individual acting for private purposes.

Applicability

1. These terms and conditions will apply to all quotations, offers, activities, orders, agreements and deliveries of services or products by or on behalf of NetGuard Solutions.
2. Parties can only deviate from these conditions if they have explicitly agreed upon in writing.
3. The parties expressly exclude the applicability of supplementary and/or deviating general terms and conditions of the customer or of third parties.

Prices

1. All prices used by NetGuard Solutions are in euros, are exclusive of VAT and any other costs such as administration costs, levies and travel-, shipping- or transport expenses, unless expressly stated otherwise or agreed otherwise.
2. NetGuard Solutions is entitled to adjust all prices for its products or services, shown in its shop, on its website or otherwise, at any time.
3. The parties agree on a total price for a service provided by NetGuard Solutions. This is always a target price, unless the parties have explicitly agreed upon in writing on a fixed price, which cannot be deviated from.
4. NetGuard Solutions is entitled to deviate up to 10% of the target price.
5. If the target price exceeds 10%, NetGuard Solutions must let the customer know in due time why a higher price is justified.
6. If the target price exceeds 10%, the customer has the right to cancel the part of the order that exceeds the target price by 10%.
7. NetGuard Solutions has the right to adjust prices annually.
8. NetGuard Solutions will communicate price adjustments to the customer prior to the moment the price increase becomes effective.
9. The consumer has the right to terminate the contract with NetGuard Solutions if he does not agree with the price increase.

Payments and payment term

1. NetGuard Solutions may, at the conclusion of the agreement, require a down payment of up to 50% of the agreed amount.
2. The customer must have paid the full amount within 7 days, after delivery.
3. Payment terms are considered as fatal payment terms. This means that if the customer has not paid the agreed amount at the latest on the last day of the payment term, he is legally in default, without NetGuard Solutions having to send the customer a reminder or to put him in default.
4. NetGuard Solutions reserves the right to make a delivery conditional upon immediate payment or to require adequate security for the total amount of the services or products.

Consequences of late payment

1. If the customer does not pay within the agreed term, NetGuard Solutions is entitled to charge an interest of 10% per month from the day the customer is in default, whereby a part of a month is counted for a whole month.
2. When the customer is in default, he is also due to extrajudicial collection costs and may be obliged to pay any compensation to NetGuard Solutions.
3. The collection costs are calculated on the basis of the Reimbursement for extrajudicial collection costs.
4. If the customer does not pay on time, NetGuard Solutions may suspend its obligations until the customer has met his payment obligation.
5. In the event of liquidation, bankruptcy, attachment or suspension of payment on behalf of the customer, the claims of NetGuard Solutions on the customer are immediately due and payable.
6. If the customer refuses to cooperate with the performance of the agreement by NetGuard Solutions, he is still obliged to pay the agreed price to NetGuard Solutions.

Suspension of obligations by the customer

The customer waives the right to suspend the fulfillment of any obligation arising from this agreement.

Settlement

The customer waives his right to settle any debt to NetGuard Solutions with any claim on NetGuard Solutions.

Guarantee

When parties have entered into an agreement with services included, these services only contain best-effort obligations for NetGuard Solutions, not obligations of results.

Performance of the agreement

1. NetGuard Solutions executes the agreement to the best of its knowledge and ability and in accordance with the requirements of good workmanship.
2. NetGuard Solutions has the right to have the agreed services (partially) performed by third parties.
3. The execution of the agreement takes place in mutual consultation and after written agreement and payment of the possibly agreed advance by the customer.
4. It is the responsibility of the customer that NetGuard Solutions can start the implementation of the agreement on time.
5. If the customer has not ensured that NetGuard Solutions can start the implementation of the agreement in time, the resulting additional costs and/or extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Duty to inform by the customer

1. The customer shall make available to NetGuard Solutions all information, data and documents relevant to the correct execution of the agreement to in time and in the desired format and manner.
2. The customer guarantees the correctness, completeness and reliability of the information, data and documents made available, even if they originate from third parties, unless otherwise ensuing from the nature of the agreement.
3. If and insofar as the customer requests this, NetGuard Solutions will return the relevant documents.
4. If the customer does not timely and properly provides the information, data or documents reasonably required by NetGuard Solutions and the execution of the agreement is delayed because of this, the resulting additional costs and extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Duration of the service agreement

1. The agreement between NetGuard Solutions and the customer is entered into for an indefinite period of time, unless it results otherwise from the nature of the agreement or the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
2. If a fixed-term contract has been entered into, it will be tacitly converted into an open-ended contract at the end of the term, unless 1 of the parties terminates the contract with due observance of a notice period of 2 month(s), or if a consumer terminates the agreement with due observance of a notice period of 1 month causing the agreement to end at the end of the fixed term.
3. If the parties have agreed upon a term for the completion of certain activities, this is never a strict deadline, unless specified explicitly otherwise in writing. If this term is exceeded, the customer must give NetGuard Solutions a written reasonable term to terminate the activities, before it may either terminate the contract or claim damages.

Cancellation of the contract for an indefinite period of time

1. The customer can terminate an agreement that has been concluded for an indefinite period at any time with due observance of a notice period of 2 months.
2. A consumer has the right to terminate an agreement for an indefinite period with due observance of a notice period of 1 month.

Intellectual property

1. NetGuard Solutions retains all intellectual property rights (including copyright, patent rights, trademark rights, design and design rights, etc.) on all designs, drawings, writings, data carriers or other information, quotations, images, sketches, models, scale models, etc., unless parties have agreed otherwise in writing.
2. The customer may not copy or have copied the intellectual property rights without prior written permission from NetGuard Solutions, nor show them to third parties and / or make them available or use them in any other way.

Penalties

1. If the customer violates the articles of these general terms and conditions about secrecy or intellectual property, then he forfeits on behalf of NetGuard Solutions an immediately due and payable fine of € 1.000 if the customer is a consumer and € 5.000 if the customer is a company, for each violation and in addition an amount of 5% of the aforementioned amount for each day that this violation continues.
2. No actual damage, prior notice of default or legal proceedings are required in forfeiting the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article.
3. The forfeiture of the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article shall not affect the other rights of NetGuard Solutions including its right to claim compensation in addition to the fine.

Indemnity

The customer indemnifies NetGuard Solutions against all third-party claims that are related to the products and/or services supplied by NetGuard Solutions.

Complaints

1. The customer must examine a product or service provided by NetGuard Solutions as soon as possible for possible shortcomings.
2. If a delivered product or service does not comply with what the customer could reasonably expect from the agreement, the customer must inform NetGuard Solutions of this as soon as possible, but in any case within 1 month after the discovery of the shortcomings.
3. Consumers must inform NetGuard Solutions of this within two months after detection of the shortcomings.
4. The customer gives a detailed description as possible of the shortcomings, so that NetGuard Solutions is able to respond adequately.
5. The customer must demonstrate that the complaint relates to an agreement between the parties.
6. If a complaint relates to ongoing work, this can in any case not lead to NetGuard Solutions being forced to perform other work than has been agreed.

Giving notice

1. The customer must provide any notice of default to NetGuard Solutions in writing.
2. It is the responsibility of the customer that a notice of default actually reaches NetGuard Solutions (in time).

Joint and several Client liabilities

If NetGuard Solutions enters into an agreement with several customers, each of them shall be jointly and severally liable for the full amounts due to NetGuard Solutions under that agreement.

Liability of NetGuard Solutions

1. NetGuard Solutions is only liable for any damage the customer suffers if and insofar as this damage is caused by intent or gross negligence.
2. If NetGuard Solutions is liable for any damage, it is only liable for direct damages that results from or is related to the execution of an agreement.
3. NetGuard Solutions is never liable for indirect damages, such as consequential loss, lost profit, lost savings or damage to third parties.
4. If NetGuard Solutions is liable, its liability is limited to the amount paid by a closed (professional) liability insurance and in the absence of (full) payment by an insurance company of the damages the amount of the liability is limited to the (part of the) invoice to which the liability relates.
5. All images, photos, colors, drawings, descriptions on the website or in a catalog are only indicative and are only approximate and cannot lead to any compensation and/or (partial) dissolution of the agreement and/or suspension of any obligation.

Expiry period

Every right of the customer to compensation from NetGuard Solutions shall, in any case, expire within 12 months after the event from which the liability arises directly or indirectly. This does not exclude the provisions in article 6:89 Dutch Civil Code.

Dissolution

1. The customer has the right to dissolve the agreement if NetGuard Solutions imputably fails in the fulfillment of his obligations, unless this shortcoming does not justify termination due to its special nature or because it is of minor significance.
2. If the fulfillment of the obligations by NetGuard Solutions is not permanent or temporarily impossible, dissolution can only take place after NetGuard Solutions is in default.
3. NetGuard Solutions has the right to dissolve the agreement with the customer, if the customer does not fully or timely fulfill his obligations under the agreement, or if circumstances give NetGuard Solutions good grounds to fear that the customer will not be able to fulfill his obligations properly.

Force majeure

1. In addition to the provisions of article 6:75 Dutch Civil Code, a shortcoming of NetGuard Solutions in the fulfillment of any obligation to the customer cannot be attributed to NetGuard Solutions in any situation independent of the will of NetGuard Solutions, when the fulfillment of its obligations towards the customer is prevented in whole or in part or when the fulfillment of its obligations cannot reasonably be required from NetGuard Solutions .
2. The force majeure situation referred to in paragraph 1 is also applicable - but not limited to: state of emergency (such as civil war, insurrection, riots, natural disasters, etc.); defaults and force majeure of suppliers, deliverymen or other third parties; unexpected disturbances of power, electricity, internet, computer or telecoms; computer viruses, strikes, government measures, unforeseen transport problems, bad weather conditions and work stoppages.
3. If a situation of force majeure arises as a result of which NetGuard Solutions cannot fulfill one or more obligations towards the customer, these obligations will be suspended until NetGuard Solutions can comply with it.
4. From the moment that a force majeure situation has lasted at least 30 calendar days, both parties may dissolve the agreement in writing in whole or in part.
5. NetGuard Solutions does not owe any (damage) compensation in a situation of force majeure, even if it has obtained any advantages as a result of the force majeure situation.

Modification of the agreement

If, after the conclusion of the agreement and before its implementation, it appears necessary to change or supplement its contents, the parties shall timely and in mutual consultation adjust the agreement accordingly.

Changes in the general terms and conditions

1. NetGuard Solutions is entitled to amend or supplement these general terms and conditions.
2. Changes of minor importance can be made at any time.
3. Major changes in content will be discussed by NetGuard Solutions with the customer in advance as much as possible.
4. Consumers are entitled to cancel the agreement in the event of a substantial change to the general terms and conditions.

Transfer of rights

1. The customer cannot transfer its rights deferring from an agreement with NetGuard Solutions to third parties without the prior written consent of NetGuard Solutions.
2. This provision applies as a clause with a property law effect as referred to in Section 3:83 (2) Dutch Civil Code.

Consequences of nullity or annullability

1. If one or more provisions of these general terms and conditions prove null or annullable, this will not affect the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
2. A provision that is null or annullable shall, in that case, be replaced by a provision that comes closest to what NetGuard Solutions had in mind when drafting the conditions on that issue.

Applicable law and competent court

1. Dutch law is exclusively applicable to all agreements between the parties.
2. The Dutch court in the district where NetGuard Solutions is established is exclusively competent in case of any disputes between parties, unless the law prescribes otherwise.