Unsolicited Submissions Policy
Introduction
At AIM™, we appreciate feedback on our products and services, but we have a policy related to unsolicited submissions of ideas, proposals, suggestions, etc. The purpose of this policy is to avoid any potential misunderstandings or disputes if products, services, features, technologies, advertising, promotions, marketing campaigns, content, or any other aspects of the business, already developed or about to be developed independently by AIM™ or its contractors appear to be substantially similar or identical to any unsolicited submissions submitted or provided to AIM™.
Policy
AIM™ does not seek, accept, consider or review any unsolicited Submission for any Purpose. Hence, please do not send or provide AIM™ any unsolicited Submission through any means, such as website, email, mail, etc.
Definitions
AIM™ and any of its affiliates and employees. Submission: Confidential or proprietary information including (but not limited to) ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, designs, inventions, unpublished applications for any type of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), drawings, letters, emails, documents, marketing plans, photographs, brand names, product names, proposals, suggestions, artwork, content, and creative materials. Purpose: Use of the Submission in (but not limited to) projects, advertising, promotions, campaigns, marketing strategies, websites, apps, books, scripts, software, research and development, products, services, equipment, processes, technologies, modifications or enhancement of products, services, equipment, processes, technologies. Submitter: A natural or legal person making a Submission.
Important Note
By making an unsolicited Submission to AIM™, the following terms will automatically apply, regardless of any contrary statements contained in or accompanying the unsolicited Submission. AIM™ suggests seeking legal advice before making any unsolicited Submissions.
Terms
i. The unsolicited Submission will be considered non-confidential and non-
proprietary by AIM™, and AIM™ will not sign a non-disclosure or confidentiality
agreement with the Submitter regarding the Unsolicited Submission.
ii. The Unsolicited Submission does not establish any kind of relationship between
the Submitter and AIM™.
iii. The Submitter irrevocably and perpetually grant AIM™ an unrestricted,
transferable, worldwide, license to copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post,
transmit, (re)distribute, publicly display, perform, modify, create derivative works
from, and otherwise freely use, the Unsolicited Submission and any related
intellectual property or any other rights, at its sole discretion and for any purpose,
commercial or otherwise, without any restriction or notice obligations, including,
but not limited to, using it in new AIM™ products/services or to improve existing
AIM™ products/services, without any compensation, in any form, to the
Submitter.
iv. The Submitter waives all his/her moral rights in the Unsolicited Submission,
without any compensation, in any form.
v. AIM™ will not be liable for any use or disclosure of the Unsolicited Submission in
any existing or later developed media.
vi. AIM™ will have no obligation to use, implement, review, keep, acknowledge
receipt, return the Unsolicited Submission, or otherwise respond to the Submitter
in any way regarding the Unsolicited Submission.
vii. AIM™'s receipt of the Unsolicited Submission is not an admission by AIM™ of
the Unsolicited Submission's novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not impair
AIM™'s right to contest existing or future IPRs relating to the Unsolicited
Submission.
viii. The Submitter owns all rights in the Submission (including, without limitation, all
rights to the text, code, audio, video, or digital recording and/or the performance
contained in the Submission) or, alternatively, the Submitter has acquired all
necessary rights in the Submissions to enable the Submitter to grant to AIM™
the rights in the Submission as described in these terms.
ix. The Submitter has paid and will pay in full all license fees, clearance fees, and
other financial obligations, of any kind, arising from any use or commercial
exploitation of the Submission.
x. The Submission does not infringe the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret,
or other IPRs, privacy rights, rules of social media sites, or any other legal or
moral rights of any third party.
Product Feedback
AIM™ encourages feedback from its customers. Thus, if you want to submit feedback to us, please only do so by submitting your feedback through the appropriate websites, which are governed by the specific terms and conditions detailed on those websites. Please provide feedback on AIM™’s existing products and do not send or provide any Unsolicited Submission otherwise.
Product Support
AIM™’s support team cannot accept an Unsolicited Submission, but only provide help or assistance with an existing product. Thank you for thinking of AIM™.
