IMPORTANT NOTICE – PLEASE READ AND AGREE BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE.
This licence agreement (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you, whether an individual or entity ("you”) and NVIDIA Corporation ("NVIDIA") and governs your use of the NVIDIA APP software and materials provided (“SOFTWARE”).
This Agreement can be accepted only by an adult of legal age of majority in the country in which the SOFTWARE is used. If you are under the legal age of majority, you must ask your parent or legal guardian to consent to this Agreement.
If you don’t have the required age or authority to enter into this Agreement or if you don’t accept all the terms below, do not use the SOFTWARE.
You agree to use the SOFTWARE only for purposes that are permitted by this Agreement and any applicable law or regulation in the relevant jurisdictions.
1. Licence.
1.1 Grant. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, NVIDIA grants you a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable and non-sublicensable (except as expressly provided in this Agreement) licence to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE only for use in systems with NVIDIA GPUs.
1.2 Recorded Content. The SOFTWARE enables you to record electronic activity, including but not limited to gameplay (“Content”). You are solely responsible for Content and assume all risk arising from the use and distribution of it. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless NVIDIA and its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (“CLAIMS”) arising out of or in any way connected with such Content, including but not limited to CLAIMS that the Content (a) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third party right, including copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy or publicity rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; or (b) slander, defame, or libel any other person.
2. Limitations.
The following licence limitations apply to your use of the SOFTWARE:
2.1 You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE provided in binary form, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain source code of such SOFTWARE.
2.2 You may not change or remove copyright or other proprietary notices in the SOFTWARE.
2.3 You may not modify or create derivative works of the SOFTWARE.
2.4 Except as expressly granted in this Agreement, you may not copy, sell, rent, sublicence, transfer or distribute the SOFTWARE or make its functionality available to others.
2.5 You may not bypass, disable, or circumvent any technical limitation, encryption, security, digital rights management or authentication mechanism in the SOFTWARE.
2.6 You may not use the SOFTWARE for the purpose of developing competing products or technologies or assisting a third party in such activities.
2.7 You may not use the SOFTWARE in any manner that would cause it to become subject to an open source software licence; subject to the terms in the “Components Under Other Licences” section below.
2.8 You acknowledge that the SOFTWARE as delivered is not tested or certified by NVIDIA for use in any system or application where the use of or failure of such system or application developed with the SOFTWARE could result in injury, death or catastrophic damage (each, a "Critical Application"). Examples of Critical Applications include use in avionics, navigation, autonomous vehicle applications, automotive products, military, medical, life support or other life critical applications. NVIDIA will not be liable to you or any third party, in whole or in part, for any claims or damages arising from these uses. You are solely responsible for ensuring that systems and applications developed with the SOFTWARE include sufficient safety and redundancy features, and comply with all applicable legal and regulatory standards and requirements.
2.9 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless NVIDIA and its affiliates, and their respective employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, fines, restitutions and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees and costs incident to establishing the right of indemnification) arising out of or related to products or services that have been developed with or use the SOFTWARE (including for use in or for Critical Applications), and for use of the SOFTWARE outside of the scope of this Agreement or not in compliance with its terms.
3. Data Collection.
You hereby acknowledge that the SOFTWARE accesses and collects data to: (a) properly configure and optimise systems in which the SOFTWARE is installed, (b) deliver software and content updates through the SOFTWARE, (c) improve application features, (d) redeem codes for free games, and (e) comply with local privacy laws. Information collected by the SOFTWARE will include: (i) hardware configuration and ID, (ii) operating software, (iii) installed games and creative/design applications, (iv) games and applications settings, performance, and usage data, (v) usage metrics of the SOFTWARE, and (vi) geographical region.
NVIDIA may require certain personal information such as email address and entitlement information to deliver or provide certain features or services to you.
The SOFTWARE may contain links to third party websites and services. NVIDIA encourages you to review the privacy statements on those sites and services that you choose to visit so that you can understand how they may collect, use and share your data. NVIDIA is not responsible for the privacy statements or practices of sites and services controlled by other companies or organisations.
You should review the NVIDIA Privacy Policy, located at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/, which explains NVIDIA's policy for collecting and using data, as well as visit the NVIDIA Privacy Centre, located at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/privacy-center/, to manage your consent and privacy preferences. If you access the SOFTWARE through your enterprise organisation, please contact your systems administrator with any questions relating to the collection and processing of your data. If you are your enterprise organisation’s systems administrator, please contact enterprisesupport@nvidia.com to manage your organisation’s privacy preferences.
4. Authorised Users.
You may allow employees and contractors of your entity or of your subsidiary(ies) to access and use the SOFTWARE from your secure network to perform the work authorised by this Agreement on your behalf. If you are an academic institution, you may allow users enrolled or employed by the academic institution to access and use the SOFTWARE as authorised by this Agreement from your secure network. You are responsible for the compliance with the terms of this Agreement by your authorised users. Any act or omission that if committed by you would constitute a breach of this Agreement will be deemed to constitute a breach of this Agreement if committed by your authorised users.
5. Pre-Release SOFTWARE.
SOFTWARE versions or specific features identified as alpha, beta, preview, early access or otherwise as pre-release may not be fully functional, may contain errors or design flaws, and may have reduced or different security, privacy, availability, and reliability standards relative to commercial versions of NVIDIA software and materials.
You may use a pre-release SOFTWARE at your own risk, understanding that such versions are not intended for use in production or business-critical systems. NVIDIA may choose not to make available a commercial version of any pre-release SOFTWARE.
6. Updates.
NVIDIA may, at its option, make available patches, workarounds or other updates to the SOFTWARE. Unless the updates are provided with their separate governing terms, they are deemed part of the SOFTWARE licensed to you as provided in this Agreement.
7. Components Under Other Licences.
The SOFTWARE may include or be distributed with components provided with separate legal notices or terms that accompany the components, such as open source software licences and other licence terms ("Other Licences”). The components are subject to the applicable Other Licences, including any proprietary notices, disclaimers, requirements and extended use rights; except that this Agreement will prevail regarding the use of third-party open source software, unless a third-party open source software licence requires its licence terms to prevail. Open source software licence means any software, data or documentation subject to any licence identified as an open source licence by the Open Source Initiative (http://opensource.org), Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org) or other similar open source organisation or listed by the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) Workgroup under the Linux Foundation (http://www.spdx.org).
You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain any additional third-party licences required to make, have made, use, have used, sell, import, and offer for sale your products or services that include or incorporate any third-party software and content, including, without limitation, audio and/or video encoders and decoders and implementations of technical standards. NVIDIA does not grant to you under this Agreement any necessary patent or other rights, including standard essential patent rights, with respect to any third-party software and content.
The SOFTWARE includes the 7-Zip software program ("7-Zip"). Use of the source code for 7-Zip is subject to the terms and conditions found at www.7-zip.org.
8. Termination.
This Agreement will automatically terminate without notice from NVIDIA if you fail to comply with any of the terms in this Agreement or if you commence or participate in any legal proceeding against NVIDIA with respect to the SOFTWARE. Additionally, either party may terminate this Agreement at any time with prior written notice to the other party. Upon any termination, you must stop using and destroy all copies of the SOFTWARE. Upon written request, you will certify in writing that you have complied with your commitments under this section. All provisions will survive termination, except for the licences granted to you.
9. Ownership.
The SOFTWARE, including all intellectual property rights, is and will remain the sole and exclusive property of NVIDIA or its licensors. Except as expressly granted in this Agreement, (i) NVIDIA reserves all rights, interests, and remedies in connection with the SOFTWARE, and (ii) no other licence or right is granted to you by implication, estoppel or otherwise. You agree to cooperate with NVIDIA and provide reasonably requested information to verify your compliance with this Agreement.
10. Feedback.
You may, but you are not obligated to, provide suggestions, requests, fixes, modifications, enhancements, or other feedback regarding the SOFTWARE (collectively, “Feedback”). Feedback, even if designated as confidential by you, will not create any confidentiality obligation for NVIDIA or its affiliates. If you provide Feedback, you grant NVIDIA, its affiliates and its designees a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up and transferable licence, under your intellectual property rights, to publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, use, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, distribute (through multiple tiers of distribution), import, create derivative works of and otherwise commercialise and exploit the Feedback at NVIDIA’s discretion. You will not give Feedback (i) that you have reason to believe is subject to any restriction that impairs the exercise of the grant stated in this section; or (ii) subject to licence terms which seek to require any product incorporating or developed using such Feedback, or other intellectual property of NVIDIA or its affiliates, to be licenced to or otherwise shared with any third party.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY NVIDIA AS-IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, RELATING TO OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, USAGE OF TRADE AND COURSE OF DEALING. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NVIDIA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT ANY CERTAIN CONTENT WILL BE AVAILABLE; OR THAT THE SOFTWARE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY NVIDIA WILL IN ANY WAY INCREASE THE SCOPE OF ANY WARRANTY EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
In addition, you agree that you are solely responsible for maintaining appropriate data backups and system restore points for systems that include SOFTWARE, and that NVIDIA will have no responsibility for any damage or loss to such systems (including loss of data or access) arising from or relating to (a) any changes to the configuration, application settings, environment variables, registry, drivers, BIOS, or other attributes of the system (or any part of such system) initiated through the SOFTWARE; or (b) installation of any SOFTWARE or third party software patches through the NVIDIA update service.
12. Limitations of Liability.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL NVIDIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY (I) INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR (II) DAMAGES FOR (A) THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS, OR (B) LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, USE, DATA OR GOODWILL ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF NVIDIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A PARTY'S REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
ADDITIONALLY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS OR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED FIVE U.S. DOLLARS (US$5).
13. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution.
13.1 Informal Resolution. If you or NVIDIA have any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to NVIDIA APP or this Agreement (“Dispute”), the parties agree to work in good faith to resolve the Dispute informally. If you have a Dispute, you must first contact NVIDIA and give NVIDIA an opportunity to resolve it by contacting NVIDIA by mail at NVIDIA Corporation, ATTN: Legal, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California, 95051, United States. Either you or NVIDIA may seek to have a Dispute resolved in small claims court if all the requirements of the small claims court are satisfied. Either you or NVIDIA may seek to have a Dispute resolved in small claims court in your county of residence or the small claims court in closest proximity to your residence at any time before an arbitrator is appointed, and you may also bring a Dispute in small claims court in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.
13.2 Binding Arbitration. For any Disputes that are not resolved informally or by the small claims court, you and NVIDIA each agree to resolve any such Dispute by binding arbitration before an arbitrator from Judicial Mediation and Arbitration Services ("JAMS") (rules available at https://www.jamsadr.com/). Except as otherwise provided in this section, all issues are for the arbitrator to decide, including jurisdictional and arbitrability issues and the formation, existence, validity, interpretation, and scope of this arbitration provision. The arbitration will be conducted in Santa Clara County, California (or the nearest JAMS office to Santa Clara County), unless you request an in-person hearing in your hometown or you and NVIDIA agree otherwise. You and NVIDIA agree that the parties will arbitrate all Disputes, remedies, and requests for relief subject to individual arbitration first, the arbitrator will only determine issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted, and the arbitrator may only award declaratory or injunctive relief in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party’s individual claim. You and NVIDIA agree that any remaining unresolved Disputes, remedies, or requests for relief may be pursued in court only after the arbitrator’s award has been issued. In any later court proceeding, the arbitrator’s factual findings will not be entitled to deference by the court. Nothing in these terms will prevent a party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief from the courts in any jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened violation of that party’s data security, intellectual property rights, or other proprietary rights. If for any reason this Section 13.2 is unenforceable concerning any Dispute, and a Dispute proceeds in a court of general jurisdiction, the Dispute will be exclusively brought in state or federal court located in Santa Clara County, California.
13.3 Class Action, Representative Action, & Jury Trial Waiver. All Disputes must be brought by a party in its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding. You and NVIDIA agree to waive the right to a jury trial, participate in class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, any collective, consolidated, or other proceeding or request for relief where someone acts in a representative capacity.
13.4 Right to Opt-Out. You may opt-out of the foregoing jury trial, class action, arbitration, and collective or consolidated proceeding waiver provision by notifying NVIDIA in writing within 30 days of commencement of use of NVIDIA APP, within 30 days of the effective date of this Agreement, or within 30 days of any future change NVIDIA may make to this Section 13.4. Such written notification must be sent by mail to NVIDIA Corporation, Attn: Legal, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California, 95051 and must include (1) your name, (2) your address, (3) the reference to NVIDIA APP as the product to which the notice relates, and (4) a clear statement indicating that you do not wish to resolve disputes through arbitration and demonstrating compliance with the 30-day time limit to opt-out. Any opt-out notification received after the opt-out deadline or not including the required items noted in (1)-(4) in the preceding sentence will not be valid and you will be required to pursue your Dispute in arbitration or small claims court. Opting out of this dispute resolution procedure will not affect the terms and conditions of this Agreement, which still apply to you. If you opt-out of any future change NVIDIA may make to this Section 13.4, the most recent version of Section 13.4 before the change you rejected will apply.
13.5 Governing Law. You and NVIDIA each agree that all Disputes will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, in addition to the internal substantive laws of the State of Delaware and the United States, without regard to or application of its conflict of laws rules or principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly disclaimed. Any translation of this Agreement is done for local requirements and, if there is a dispute between the English and any non-English versions, you and NVIDIA agree that the English version of this Agreement will govern to the extent not prohibited by local law in your jurisdiction.
14. No Assignment.
NVIDIA may assign, delegate or transfer its rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law. You may not, without NVIDIA’s prior written consent, assign, delegate or transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law, and any attempt to do so is null and void.
15. No Waiver.
No failure or delay by a party to enforce any Agreement term or obligation will operate as a waiver by that party, nor prevent the enforcement of such term or obligation later.
16. Trade Compliance.
You agree to comply with all applicable export, import, trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including U.S. Export Administration Regulations and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations. These laws include restrictions on destinations, end-users and end-use.
17. Government Use.
The SOFTWARE, including related documentation (“Protected Items”) is a “Commercial product” as this term is defined at 48 C.F.R. 2.101, consisting of “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” as such terms are used in, respectively, 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202 & 252.227-7014(a)(1). Before any Protected Items are supplied to the U.S. Government, you will (i) inform the U.S. Government in writing that the Protected Items are and must be treated as commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation developed at private expense; (ii) inform the U.S. Government that the Protected Items are provided subject to the terms of this Agreement; and (iii) mark the Protected Items as commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation developed at private expense. In no event will you permit the U.S. Government to acquire rights in Protected Items beyond those specified in 48 C.F.R. 52.227-19(b)(1)-(2) or 252.227-7013(c) except as expressly approved by NVIDIA in writing.
18. Notices.
Please direct your legal notices or other correspondence to NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, United States of America, Attention: Legal Department. If NVIDIA needs to contact you about the SOFTWARE, you consent to receive the notices by email and that such notices will satisfy any legal communication requirements.
19. Entire Agreement.
Regarding the subject matter of this Agreement, the parties agree that (i) this Agreement constitutes the entire and exclusive agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous communications and (ii) any additional or different terms or conditions, whether contained in purchase orders, order acknowledgments, invoices or otherwise, will not be binding on the receiving party and are null and void. This Agreement may only be modified in a writing signed by an authorised representative of each party.
If a court of competent jurisdiction rules that a provision of this Agreement is unenforceable, that provision will be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
(v. 28 November 2023)