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Last updated: December 29, 2022
Thank you for subscribing to our CFO Services. These Pilot CFO Services Terms (“CFOS terms”) apply to our CFO Services and operate in addition to the terms of the Pilot Subscription Agreement. If there is an express conflict between the CFOS terms and the Pilot Subscription Agreement, the CFOS terms control. Terms defined in the Pilot Subscription Agreement and used in these CFOS terms without definition have the meaning given to them in the Pilot Subscription Agreement.
1.1 Strategic consulting Services
We offer strategic financial consulting Services to help you manage and grow your business. The Services we provide to you are specified in your Order Form and may include: monthly engagement, annual budgeting, and assistance in preparing financial materials related to equity financings or other corporate transactions (“CFO Services”). CFO Services (including any communications you may have with our personnel in connection with those Services) are not a substitute for and do not include legal, regulatory, tax, real estate, healthcare or accounting advice. We are not a public accounting firm and are not acting as your agent, broker, fiduciary or investment advisor. CFO Services do not include, and you will not purport to rely on them for: (i) accounting advice, (ii) legal or regulatory advice regarding any of your business practices, including with respect to their appropriateness or legality; or (iii) tax advice or tax return preparation. You should seek the services of a duly licensed professional in connection with any of the foregoing.
We are not responsible for notifying you of the need to prepare or file, or for actually preparing or filing, any notices, applications or documents of any kind to comply with any applicable laws and regulations, or for your compliance with any requirements to qualify or register in any state or other jurisdiction.
1.2 Independent consultants
CFO Services provided to you by our employees or agents are fractional services only. We and our employees and agents are independent consultants and have no fiduciary duties to you or your business in the way an in-house CFO would. As such, you agree not to misidentify or misclassify us or our employees or agents as your “CFO” or “Chief Financial Officer” to any third party.
In providing the CFO services, we act at your management’s direction, and all Deliverables are intended solely for your management and not for any third party. Use of any such analyses or deliverables for external purposes is at your discretion and by your management. While we may suggest one or more courses of action, it is the responsibility of your management to determine the appropriate course of action in their business judgment, and we will not have responsibility for the business decisions made by you or for any business outcome.
2.1 Deliverables
Unless otherwise agreed by the parties in writing and subject to Section 2.2 below, you shall own all right, title and interest (including all intellectual property and other proprietary rights) in and to Deliverables (defined herein) upon payment in full therefor. All Deliverables are works made for hire to the extent allowed by law and, in addition, we make all assignments to you necessary to accomplish the foregoing ownership. “Deliverable” means any work product that is created, developed or made by us specifically for you, or that is specified in an Order Form, and delivered to you by us during performance of the CFO Services (but expressly not including any Background Materials (as defined below)).
2.2 Background Materials
We (and our licensors, as applicable) shall retain all right, title and interest in and to all Background Materials (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights therein). To the extent that any Background Materials are included in any Deliverable, we grant you a nonexclusive right and license to use such Background Materials internally and solely in connection with, and as incorporated in, the Deliverable. Except for the limited rights and licenses expressly granted hereunder concerning the Background Materials, no other license is granted and no other use is permitted. “Background Materials” means all information, ideas, know-how, processes, software, templates, works of authorships, trade secrets, methods, and technologies, including all intellectual property and other proprietary rights embodied therein, that (a) are owned or developed by us (whether developed by or for us or otherwise acquired from a third party) prior to the performance of CFO Services under the Agreement or separate and apart from the performance of CFO Services under the Agreement, or that are in-licensed by us from a third party, including any changes or extensions thereto, or (b) are created or developed by us in performing CFO Services under the Agreement, are generally applicable to the services that we provide, and do not include any of your Customer Data.
3.1 Services
We warrant that the CFO Services will be performed in a professional and workmanlike manner. Any warranty claim under these CFOS terms must be made by you in writing within thirty (30) days after performance of the nonconforming CFO Service. Our sole obligation and your exclusive remedy in respect thereof is to reperform the nonconforming CFO Service (in which case, no refund will be provided) or, at our sole discretion, refund you the fees paid for the nonconforming CFO Service, which refund will in no event exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid for the nonconforming CFO Service prior to the claim or (b) one-hundred (100) U.S. dollars.