(English translation for information purposes only; contracts are always based on german "AGB")

– of unn | UNITED NEWS NETWORK GmbH, Lorenzstr. 29, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany hereafter
„UNITED NEWS NETWORK“ –

A. General Conditions

§ 1 Scope

1. These Terms & Conditions of Business (“Terms”) shall govern all commercial

transactions covering online services offered and rendered by UNITED NEWS NETWORK,

now and in future. These Terms shall define the contractual relationship

between United News Network and any person who makes use of such services

(hereafter “User”).

2. A written confirmation by an authorized employee of UNITED NEWS NETWORK

shall be required for any amendments hereto, collateral agreements, separate

warranties, or other claims. A special power of attorney shall be required for

any employees who are not authorized to negotiate such amendments, by

virtue of their position, executive authority, or general authority to act and sign.

3. If UNITED NEWS NETWORK organizes third-party services for the Customer pursuant

to these Terms, the Customer shall be governed by the terms & conditions of the

said party, provided it is deemed reasonable for the Customer to review such

conditions prior to executing the contract.

§ 2 Right to change list prices and amend these Terms

1. UNITED NEWS NETWORK reserves the right to adjust prices for a continuing

recurring obligation (contract for usage & services), provided such changes are

reasonable and comparable to those applicable to list prices of other similar

contracts for its customers. A price adjustment shall be deemed reasonable

if it reflects general movements in prices for similar products, as measured

by the harmonized CPI released by the Federal Bureau of Statistics.

The prices shall be adjusted no earlier than two months after notifying the

Customer. The Customer may cancel the contract with one (1) month’s notice

within a month of being informed of a price increase exceeding the harmonized

CPI.

2. An amendment to these Terms by UNITED NEWS NETWORK for a continuing

recurring obligation shall become a constituent element of a contract, provided

UNITED NEWS NETWORK informs the Customer of the amendments in textual form

and of the Customer’s right to file an objection thereto, and the Customer does

not object within one (1) month of such notification.

§ 3 Liability of UNITED NEWS NETWORK

1. UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall be liable to the Customer for damages, if it acts

with intent or gross negligence, but not for indirect or consequential damages, or

loss of profits, production stoppages, and/or operational interruptions that the

Customer and its customers incur. The mandatory legal rights of the Customer

shall remain in force, especially for endangerment to life or bodily injury or

health.

2. The liability of UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall be as prescribed by law for culpable

breach of its contractual duties or violation of an obligation, if such duties/obligation

must be fulfilled to enable proper performance of the contract and if the

Customer normally relies on compliance thereof. In the event of negligence on

the part of UNITED NEWS NETWORK, its liability shall be limited to foreseeable and

typical damages.

§ 4 Confidentiality, Privacy

1. Each party shall hold strictly confidential any and all proprietary information

released by the other party during the course of the contract, including trade

secrets that the Customer is bound not to disclose.

2. Customer data necessary for the business transaction shall be saved

electronically in compliance with BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act).

UNITED NEWS NETWORK is committed to complying with the privacy provisions

of BDSG and TDDSG (Communication services data protection act data),

as stated in its privacy policy ( german: Datenschutzerklärung ).

§ 5 Third-party services and charges

1. UNITED NEWS NETWORK may arrange to render the contractual services

through a third party or an affiliate.

2. UNITED NEWS NETWORK may assign any claims arising from or in connection

with these Terms to a third party or an affiliate, or authorize them to assert claims

on its behalf.

§ 6 Miscellaneous

1. The Laws of Germany alone shall govern a contract with the Customer, under

exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

2. Jurisdiction shall be at the place of business of UNITED NEWS NETWORK, if a

Customer is a general merchant, a legal entity under public law, or a special

public asset pursuant to §38 of ZPO (Code of Civil Procedures), or if following

execution of a contract the Customer moves its head office or general place of

business abroad or if such domicile is unknown.

3. Unless otherwise stipulated, Karlsruhe shall be the place of performance for

all rights and obligations herein.

4. Terminations, deadlines with a warning of refusal to perform, and reminders

must be in writing, whereby oral agreements shall be enforceable only if

confirmed in writing by UNITED NEWS NETWORK.

5. If any of these Terms are declared or become void or unenforceable, the

remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect, whereupon the

parties shall replace the offending part with an enforceable provision that

best reflects the original commercial intent of the parties.

B. Specific Conditions for the PresseBox service

§ 1 Subject matter of agreement

1. PresseBox is a service, product, and mark of UNITED NEWS NETWORK.

The purpose of the PresseBox service is primarily the digital distribution

and archiving of press releases from various technology sectors (“Base service”).

2. A Customer of the PresseBox service may also book and use additional

services (“Packages”) comprising a defined set of services.

§ 2 Assignability / Payment due date

1. A contract or order may not be transferred and can be used only by

the intended recipient of the service within the term of the contract. An

intended recipient is the User or company that places the order, whereby

a representative may also be designated in the order as the recipient.

2. All prices stated are in EUR and subject to the statutory VAT.

3. Unless otherwise stipulated in writing, the fees for use of the PresseBox

service shall be payable for the full term immediately upon booking the

service. The invoice for all booked services shall be issued at the beginning

of the minimum contractual term, whereby the terms of payment are net seven

(7) days upon receipt of the invoice.

§ 3 Publication of press releases

1. The Customer shall deliver the press releases in a digital form to enable

UNITED NEWS NETWORK to render the PresseBox services, otherwise the service

cannot be provided.

2. The content of a press release published via the PresseBox must be topical

and of potential interest to its readers. Therefore, UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall not

activate any distribution or dissemination functions for press releases that are

more than seven (7) days old when input into the PresseBox. This restriction

shall, however, not affect digital archiving of old press releases.

3. Either the Customer or a staff member of UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall

input and categorize press releases in the PresseBox system, whereby

the staff member shall not edit the articles.

4. The User alone shall bear the responsibility for publishing the content

of its article (such as textual material, images, illustrations, and links) and

disseminating the same.

5. The Customer shall not publish or disseminate any content of an article

via the PresseBox that contravenes the law, or infringes upon third-party

rights, or offends common decency.

6. Furthermore, the following kinds of articles shall not be published via

the PresseBox service:

* press releases that do not match any of the PresseBox categories

* press releases whose kind and size are deemed unreasonable, and

* press releases that are solely of a promotional nature, especially those

that do not satisfy the minimum conventional standards for articles.

7. UNITED NEWS NETWORK reserves the right to delete and not archive any

articles that contravene the provisions of §§B3.6 and B3.7, and to:

* restructure a press release.

* change the title of a press release.

* shorten the content of a press release (e.g. press agent or company profile)

placed in the press box of the client company.

8. UNITED NEWS NETWORK also reserves the right to delete an article completely

from its system at its discretion, in special circumstances.

§ 4 Liability of Customer

1. The Customer shall be responsible for the confidentiality and misuse of the

user name and password assigned for inputting press releases via a password

protected section of the website.

2. The Customer shall, within the scope of the law, hold UNITED NEWS NETWORK

harmless against any third-party claims arising from or in connection with the

content of any article published by the Customer via the PresseBox.

§ 5 „Ticket“ products#

1. The Ticket product is a service with a given number of coupons in a package,

(e.g. 3-coupon Ticket, 10-coupon Ticket…), each usable by the Customer to

publish an article via the PresseBox

2. A Ticket contract is valid for 12 months, and renews automatically for a

further 12 months at a time under the same conditions, unless terminated

with three (3) months notice prior to expiration of the then current period, as

determined by the date when UNITED NEWS NETWORK receives the termination

notice.

3. The Tickets shall expire at the end of their term, whereby any unused ones

cannot be carried forward into the following period.

4. If all Tickets in a package are used up within their term, the set shall renew

automatically at that point in time. The Customer shall receive a new package

with the same number of coupons subject to the same conditions, unless a

termination notice is received by UNITED NEWS NETWORK within seven (7) days

of using the last coupon.

5. The Ticket product also includes promotional coupons with a term of 12

months that are valid for a limited number of press releases.

§ 6 „Flat/Flat rate“ products

1. The Flat Rate product allows the Customer to issue an unlimited number

of press releases over a specified term via the PresseBox.

2. The term of a Flat Rate contract can be 12 months (typical) but not less

than (3) months. The Customer also has the option to negotiate other terms

of payment in writing.

3. A Flat Rate contract renews automatically for a further period of the same

duration under the same conditions, unless terminated with three (3) months

notice prior to expiration of the then current period, as determined by the date

when UNITED NEWS NETWORK receives the termination notice.

§ 7 „Media monitoring“ products

1. This is a service that UNITED NEWS NETWORK offers to conduct research on

specific media for the Customer per the latter’s requirements. If instead of having a fixed research profile the customer opts to use the software "Echobot", then instead of the following paragraphs 2. to 5. he will also be bound by the the terms and conditions at www.echobot.de/index/agb.

2. On the day an order is placed, UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall identify and

select the media to be assessed, subject to review by the Customer.

However, UNITED NEWS NETWORK reserves the right to change the content

of its media program, in order to stay current and be effective in monitoring

the media

3. UNITED NEWS NETWORK reserves the right to reject any specific monitoring

order at its discretion. The User shall verify the details of its monitoring order

and notify UNITED NEWS NETWORK immediately of any amendments thereto, whereby

UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall incorporate any requested changes that are feasible.

4. UNITED NEWS NETWORK does not warrant the completeness or correctness of the

research findings.

5. The User shall use the excerpts, textual materials, images etc. resulting

from the media monitoring program and delivered by UNITED NEWS NETWORK,

solely for internal archiving and documentation purposes, or as permitted by law.

6. A Media Monitoring contract is valid for at least three (3) months, and

renews automatically for a further period of one (1) month under the same

conditions, unless terminated with thirty (30) days notice prior to expiration of

the then current period, as determined by the date when UNITED NEWS NETWORK

receives the termination notice.

§ 8 Other services

1. UNITED NEWS NETWORK also offers other services to supplement the above

package deals, such as creating press releases. The terms and conditions,

including duration and payment, for these services are negotiated to reflect the

custom nature of the task at hand.

§ 9 PR services for company websites

1. UNITED NEWS NETWORK offers this service that includes an interface to the

PresseBox, such that press releases entered by the Customer are integrated for

automatic updates of the latter’s own website. This is accomplished via an

appropriate source code provided to the Customer by UNITED NEWS NETWORK.

2. UNITED NEWS NETWORK shall assign a simple right to use the source code within

the scope of the contract. The Customer shall be authorized to use the source code

within the scope of the contract. Following integration, the User shall take over

the complete source code provided. No changes or modifications may be made

to the code. Any changes to the graphical layout, for instance, can be done

via the configuration tool provided by UNITED NEWS NETWORK, which in turn creates a

modified source code.

3. Upon contracting for this service and following integration of the source

code, the User shall set up a link on its website to the PresseBox that

highlights the latter as a service provider. The Customer shall not delete the

relevant link from the source code transmitted by UNITED NEWS NETWORK.

4. The User shall verify that this service functions properly, is correct, and in

particular compatible with the existing technical infrastructure of the website.

Karlsruhe, 1st of december 2008