This Overture Lifestyles Candidate Profile Creation Agreement (this “Agreement”) sets forth the terms and conditions whereby you agree to provide certain services as a W2 or 1099 independent contractor working full time, part time, per diem, or gap coverage for OVERTURE LIFESTYLES and its subsidiaries, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”).
WHEREAS, the Company operates a cloud-hosted system that pairs Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidates seeking work assignments with Clients who are seeking services to be performed by Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidates;
WHEREAS, the company operates using various communication methods which you agree to opt in to by virtue of your profile creation which include, SMS text messages, Email, and phone calls) with the option of being recorded for training and support purposes)
WHEREAS, the Company enters into this Agreement with candidates who will become eligible for work placements with the Company’s clients in order to perform the services requested by the client;
WHEREAS, the Company wishes to enter into this Agreement with you, and you wish to accept the terms of this Agreement, in order to become a candidate who may be eligible to apply for one of the Company’s clients’ work assignments; and
WHEREAS, you by creating your Overture Lifestyles profile, consent to this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and legal sufficiently of which is hereby acknowledged, hereto agree as follows:
1.1 The Company connects Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidates with businesses who are interested in full-time, part-time, temporary, and Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractor, workers. Such businesses that engage the Company to find such workers shall be referred to herein individually as a “Client” and collectively as “Clients”.
The Company hereby engages you, and you hereby accept such engagement, as an Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Independent Contractor to provide certain services to the Client on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and any other agreement provided to you by the Client.
1.2 The Company, upon engaging a Client in need of services, shall deliver to you once you are authorized by a Client (by means of the Overture Lifestyles APP), available shift work detailing the shift requirements. The Company’s sole obligation with regard to the Services is to consult with its Client regarding Services and to transmit that information to you by means of the Overture Lifestyles APP.
1.3 The Company does not and shall not control or direct the manner or means by which you or your employees or Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractors perform the Services, including but not limited to the time and place you perform the Services.
1.4 The Client shall provide you with access to its premises, materials, information, and systems to the extent necessary for the performance of the Services. Unless otherwise specified by The Company and the Client, you shall furnish, at your own expense, the materials, equipment, and other resources necessary to perform the Services.
1.5 The Company shall not manage, supervise, or otherwise oversee the Services.
1.6 You shall comply with all rules and procedures communicated to you in writing by the Company and the Client, including those related to safety, security, and confidentiality.
The term of this Agreement shall commence on the date you are authorized by any Client of the Company.
The completion of the Services to the Client shall not terminate this Agreement.
3.1 As full compensation for the Services and the rights granted to the Company in this Agreement, the Company shall pay you the hourly and incentive fee (if applicable) as indicated in each shift assignment you complete payable within 24 hours after shift approval by the employer. You acknowledge that you will receive an IRS Form 1099-NEC or W2 from the Company, and that you shall be solely responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes, as set forth in Section 4.2.
3.2 Unless otherwise agreed to by the Company or the Client, you are solely responsible for any travel or other costs, or expenses incurred by you in connection with the performance of the Services, and in no event shall the Company reimburse you for any such costs or expenses.
4.1 You are an Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractor of the Company, and this Agreement shall not be construed to create any association, partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and the Company for any purpose. You have no authority (and shall not hold yourself out as having authority) to bind the Company and you shall not make any agreements or representations on the Company's behalf without the Company's prior written consent.
4.2 Without limiting Section 4.1, you will not be eligible to participate in any vacation, group medical or life insurance, disability, profit sharing or retirement benefits, or any other fringe benefits or benefit plans offered by the Company to its employees, and the Company will not be responsible for withholding or paying any income, payroll, Social Security, or other federal, state, or local taxes, making any insurance contributions, including for unemployment or disability, or obtaining workers' compensation insurance on your behalf. You shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify the Company against, all such taxes or contributions, including penalties and interest. Any persons employed or engaged by you in connection with the performance of the Services shall be your employees or Overture Lifestyles Authorized Contractors and you shall be fully responsible for them and indemnify the Company against any claims made by or on behalf of any such employee or Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractors.
5.1 All results and proceeds of the Services and deliverables performed under this Agreement, including but not limited to the deliverables (collectively, the “Deliverables”) and all other writings, technology, inventions, discoveries, processes, techniques, methods, ideas, concepts, research, proposals, and materials, and all other work product of any nature whatsoever, that are created, prepared, produced, authored, edited, modified, conceived, or reduced to practice in the course of performing the Services or other work performed in connection with the Services or this Agreement (collectively, and including the Deliverables, “Work Product”), and all patents, copyrights, trademarks (together with the goodwill symbolized thereby), trade secrets, know-how, and other confidential or proprietary information, and other intellectual property rights (collectively “Intellectual Property Rights”) therein, shall be owned exclusively by the Company. You acknowledge and agree that any and all Work Product that may qualify as “work made for hire” as defined in the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. § 101) is hereby deemed “work made for hire” for the Company and all copyrights therein shall automatically and immediately vest in the Company. To the extent that any Work Product does not constitute “work made for hire,” you hereby irrevocably assign to the Company and its successors and assigns, for no additional consideration, your entire right, title, and interest in and to the Work Product and all Intellectual Property Rights therein, including the right to sue, counterclaim, and recover for all past, present, and future infringement, misappropriation, or dilution thereof.
5.2 To the extent any copyrights are assigned under this Section 5, you hereby irrevocably waive in favor of the Company, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any and all claims you may now or hereafter have in any jurisdiction to all rights of paternity or attribution, integrity, disclosure, and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as “moral rights” in relation to all Work Product to which the assigned copyrights apply.
5.3 You shall make full and prompt written disclosure to the Company of any inventions or processes, as such terms are defined in 35 U.S.C. § 100, that constitute Work Product, whether or not such inventions or processes are patentable or protected as trade secrets. You shall not disclose to any third party the nature or details of any such inventions or processes without the prior written consent of the Company. Any patent application for or application for registration of any Intellectual Property Rights in any Work Product that you may file during the Term or at any time thereafter will belong to the Company, and you hereby irrevocably assign to the Company, for no additional consideration, your entire right, title, and interest in and to such application, all Intellectual Property Rights disclosed or claimed therein, and any patent or registration issuing or resulting therefrom.
5.4 Upon the request of the Company, during and after the Term, you shall promptly take such further actions, including execution and delivery of all appropriate instruments of conveyance, and provide such further cooperation, as may be necessary to assist the Company to apply for, prosecute, register, maintain, perfect, record, or enforce its rights in any Work Product and all Intellectual Property Rights therein. In the event the Company is unable, after reasonable effort, to obtain your signature on any such documents, you hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company as your agent and attorney-in-fact, to act for and on your behalf solely to execute and file any such application or other document and do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution and issuance of patents, copyrights, or other intellectual property protection related to the Work Product with the same legal force and effect as if you had executed them. You agree that this power of attorney is coupled with an interest.
5.5 Notwithstanding Section 5.1, to the extent that any of your pre-existing materials are incorporated in or combined with any Deliverable or otherwise necessary for the use of any Work Product, you hereby grant to the Company an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, publish, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, make, have made, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise exploit such preexisting materials and derivative works thereof. The Company may assign, transfer, and sublicense such rights to others without your approval.
5.6 As between you and the Company, the Company is, and will remain, the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to any documents, specifications, data, know-how, methodologies, software, and other materials provided to you by the Company (“Company Materials”), and all Intellectual Property Rights therein. You have no right or license to reproduce or use any Company Materials except solely during the Term to the extent necessary to perform your obligations under this Agreement. All other rights in and to the Company Materials are expressly reserved by the Company. You have no right or license to use the Company's trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, symbols, or brand names.
5.7 You shall require each of your employees and Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractors to execute written agreements containing obligations of confidentiality and non-use and assignment of inventions and other work product consistent with the provisions of this Section 4 prior to such employee or Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractors providing any Services under this Agreement.
6.1 You acknowledge that you will have access to information that is treated as confidential and proprietary by the Company including without limitation the existence and terms of this Agreement, trade secrets, technology, and information pertaining to business operations and strategies, customers, pricing, marketing, finances, sourcing, personnel, and operations of the Company, its affiliates, or their suppliers or customers, in each case whether spoken, written, printed, electronic, or in any other form or medium (collectively, the “Confidential Information”). Any Confidential Information that you access or develop in connection with the Services, including but not limited to any Work Product, shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this clause. You agree to treat all Confidential Information as strictly confidential, not to disclose Confidential Information or permit it to be disclosed, in whole or part, to any third party without the prior written consent of the Company in each instance, and not to use any Confidential Information for any purpose except as required in the performance of the Services. You shall notify the Company immediately in the event you become aware of any loss or disclosure of any Confidential Information.
6.2 Confidential Information shall not include information that:
6.3 Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent disclosure of Confidential Information as may be required by applicable law or regulation, or pursuant to the valid order of a court of competent jurisdiction or an authorized government agency, provided that the disclosure does not exceed the extent of disclosure required by such law, regulation, or order. You agree to provide written notice of any such order to an authorized officer of the Company within five (5) days of receiving such order, but in any event sufficiently in advance of making any disclosure to permit the Company to contest the order or seek confidentiality protections, as determined in the Company's sole discretion.
6.4 Notice of Immunity Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement:
7.1 You represent and warrant to the Company that:
7.2 The Company hereby represents and warrants to you that:
8.1 You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, and assigns from and against all losses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, actions, judgments, interest, awards, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses of whatever kind (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or resulting from:
8.2 The Company may satisfy such indemnity (in whole or in part) by way of deduction from any payment due to you.
During the Term, you shall maintain in force adequate workers' compensation, commercial general liability, errors and omissions, and other forms of insurance, in each case with insurers reasonably acceptable to the Company, with policy limits sufficient to protect and indemnify the Company and its affiliates, and each of their officers, directors, agents, employees, subsidiaries, partners, members, controlling persons, and successors and assigns, from any losses resulting from your acts or omissions or the acts or omissions of your agents, Contractors, servants, or employees. The Company shall be listed as additional insured under such policy, and you shall forward a certificate of insurance verifying such insurance upon the Company's written request, which certificate will indicate that such insurance policies may not be canceled before the expiration of a thirty (30) day notification period and that the Company will be immediately notified in writing of any such notice of termination.
10.1 You or the Company may terminate this Agreement, effective immediately upon written notice to the other party to this Agreement, if the other party materially breaches this Agreement, and such breach is incapable of cure, or with respect to a material breach capable of cure, the other party does not cure such breach within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice of such breach.
10.2 In the event you terminate this Agreement for any reason other than a material breach by the Company, which is incapable of cure, then you shall be liable for the cost to the Company for entering into an agreement with another Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractor to complete the Services. To the extent those costs are less than the Fees payable to you for any Services completed up and to including the date of such termination, then Company shall pay you on a pro-rata basis any Fees then due.
10.3 Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement for any reason, or at any other time upon the Company's written request, you shall within seven (7) days after such expiration or termination:
10.4 The terms and conditions of this clause and Section 4, Section 5, Section 6, Section 7, Section 8, Section 11, Section 13, and Section 14 shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.
You agree that during the Term of this Agreement and for a period of twelve (12) months following the termination or expiration of this Agreement, you shall not make any solicitation to employ the Company's personnel without written consent of the Company, to be given or withheld in the Company's sole discretion. For the purposes of this clause, a general advertisement or notice of a job listing or opening or other similar general publication of a job search or availability to fill employment positions, including on the internet, shall not be construed as a solicitation or inducement, and the hiring of any such employees or Overture Lifestyles Authorized Candidate Contractor who freely responds thereto shall not be a breach of this clause.
You shall not assign any rights or delegate or subcontract any obligations under this Agreement without the Company's prior written consent. Any assignment in violation of the foregoing shall be deemed null and void. The Company may freely assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement at any time. Subject to the limits on assignment stated above, this Agreement will inure to the benefit of, be binding on, and be enforceable against each of the Parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
In the event you breach or threaten to breach Section 6 of this Agreement, you hereby acknowledge and agree that money damages would not afford an adequate remedy and that the Company shall be entitled to seek a temporary or permanent injunction or other equitable relief restraining such breach or threatened breach from any court of competent jurisdiction without the necessity of showing any actual damages. Any equitable relief shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, legal remedies, monetary damages, or other available forms of relief.
This Agreement and all related documents and all matters arising out of or relating to this Agreement and the Services provided hereunder, whether sounding in contract, tort, or statute, for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles that would cause the laws of any other jurisdiction to apply. Any action or proceeding by either of the Parties to enforce this Agreement shall be brought in any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware, County of Kent. The Parties hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of these courts and waive the defense of inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any action or proceeding in such venue.
15.1 You shall not export, directly or indirectly, any technical data acquired from the Company, or any products utilizing any such data, to any country in violation of any applicable export laws or regulations.
15.2 All notices, requests, consents, claims, demands, waivers, and other communications hereunder (each, a “Notice”) shall be in writing and addressed to the Parties at the addresses set forth on the first page of this Agreement (or to such other address that may be designated by the receiving party from time to time in accordance with this Section). All Notices shall be delivered by personal delivery, nationally recognized overnight courier (with all fees prepaid), email, or certified or registered mail (in each case, return receipt requested, postage prepaid). Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, a Notice is effective only if:
15.3 This Agreement, together with any other documents incorporated herein by reference constitutes the sole and entire agreement of the Parties to this Agreement with respect to the subject matter contained herein, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to such subject matter.
15.4 This Agreement may only be amended, modified, or supplemented by an agreement in writing signed by each party hereto, and any of the terms thereof may be waived, only by a written document signed by each party to this Agreement or, in the case of waiver, by the party or parties waiving compliance.
15.5 If any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Agreement or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction.
15.6 This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts and by electronic [or facsimile] signature, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one instrument.
DISCLAIMER: OVERTURE LIFESTYLES, LLC IN NO WAY CONTROLS, DICTATES, OR OVERSEES THE COMPLETION OF THE SERVICES DESCRIBED ABOVE.
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