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authenticate card holder; and (iv) Cus<strong>to</strong>mer‟s his<strong>to</strong>ry with Expedia and/or Expedia, Inc. (Delaware) and any entity that<br />

is directly or indirectly controlled by Expedia, Inc. (Delaware) (the “Expedia Group Member”).<br />

6. Ownership of Cus<strong>to</strong>mer Data. As between the parties, Cus<strong>to</strong>mer Data shall be considered proprietary<br />

information of Expedia. All right, title and interest in the Cus<strong>to</strong>mer Data will be owned by Expedia.<br />

C. TERM This Agreement will commence on the Effective Date and, unless terminated earlier as provided<br />

herein, shall continue from the Effective Date until either party gives notice in accordance with the provisions of Clause<br />

E.<br />

D. WEBSITE AND <strong>EXPEDIA</strong> CONTENT<br />

1. Expedia’s Ownership of Website, Expedia Marks and Expedia Content. Expedia is the owner or licensor<br />

of intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, all copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets) in<br />

connection with and in: (i) all versions of the Website; and (ii) the Expedia Marks (collectively, the “Expedia<br />

Content”). “Expedia Marks” shall mean Expedia‟s trade names, trademarks, service marks, and/or other visual<br />

representations thereof, including logos, designs, symbols, word marks, images, colors and color combinations, trade<br />

dress, characters and other publicity rights, or other badge of origin or indicia of ownership owned or used by Expedia.<br />

Affiliate acknowledges that the Website, Expedia Content and the Expedia Marks are owned by (or licensed by)<br />

Expedia and the use of Expedia Marks by Affiliate in connection with this Agreement inures <strong>to</strong> the benefit of Expedia<br />

and nothing herein will grant any ownership interest in the elements of the Website, Expedia Content and the Expedia<br />

Marks <strong>to</strong> Affiliate.<br />

2. Content Protection. The Expedia Website and the technology and infrastructure used <strong>to</strong> provide content <strong>to</strong><br />

each of them are proprietary <strong>to</strong> Expedia or Expedia Group Members. Expedia grants only a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable,<br />

revocable, non-sub-licensable right <strong>to</strong> use, access, display and run the Website and Expedia Content for the<br />

Permitted Purposes. Accordingly, notwithstanding anything herein <strong>to</strong> the contrary, without the express, written<br />

permission of Expedia, which may be denied or granted in its sole discretion, Affiliate will not, directly or indirectly:<br />

(a) access, search, scrape, crawl or moni<strong>to</strong>r the Website or copy, extract, use, modify, or repurpose any content or<br />

information in the Website or Expedia Content (including, without limitation, price or availability information for any<br />

travel product or service), for any purpose or by any means (e.g., robot, spider, scraper or any other au<strong>to</strong>mated or<br />

manual means); (b) deep-link <strong>to</strong> any portion of the Website; (c) attempt <strong>to</strong> create derivative works of the Expedia<br />

Content; (d) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, translate, adapt or otherwise attempt <strong>to</strong> derive the source code<br />

(or underlying components or algorithms) from the Website, Expedia Content or associated files; and (e) remove, alter<br />

or destroy any proprietary, trade mark or copyright notices of Expedia or its licensors as contained in the Website or<br />

Expedia Content. In addition, Affiliate will not, directly or indirectly: (i) violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion<br />

headers on the Website or bypass, circumvent, or avoid any measure employed <strong>to</strong> prevent or limit access <strong>to</strong> the Website,<br />

including the content and information thereon; or (ii) take any action that, in Expedia‟s sole discretion, imposes or<br />

might impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the technology or infrastructure of the Website or use<br />

the Website or any of its features and services in any manner that could interrupt, damage, disable, overburden or impair<br />

the Website or interfere with any other party‟s use and enjoyment of the Website, including, without limitation, sending<br />

mass unsolicited messages or “flooding” servers; (iii) obtain or attempt <strong>to</strong> gain unauthorized access <strong>to</strong> other computer<br />

systems, materials, information or any services available on or through the Websites or Expedia Content through any<br />

means, including through means not intentionally made publicly available or provided through the Website or Expedia<br />

Content; (iv) engage in any au<strong>to</strong>matic or unauthorized means of accessing, logging-in or registering on the Website or<br />

Expedia Content, or obtaining lists of users or other information from or through the Website or Expedia Content,<br />

including, without limitation, any information residing on any server or database connected <strong>to</strong> the Website or Expedia<br />

Content; (v) use the Websites or any of its services in violation of Expedia‟s or third party‟s intellectual property or<br />

other proprietary or legal rights; (vi) use the Websites or any of their services in violation of any applicable law code,<br />

guidelines or regulation; or (vii) encourage or support anyone else‟s attempt <strong>to</strong> do any of the prohibited acts aforesaid.<br />

3. Trademark Protection. Except for the limited license granted in Clause B4 above, Affiliate is prohibited<br />

from using or displaying (directly or indirectly), and agrees not <strong>to</strong> use, display, or reference (directly or indirectly), any<br />

URL, trade name, trademark, logo, or branding of Expedia or Expedia Group Members in any manner whatsoever<br />

(including, without limitation, in any meta-tags, search engine advertising, marketing or optimization, any other online<br />

or offline marketing or advertising, press releases, etc.) without the express, written permission of Expedia or its<br />

applicable Expedia Group Members which may be denied in the sole discretion of Expedia or such Expedia Group<br />

Standard Expedia Singapore Travel Agent Affiliation Agreement 12-11 Expedia Confidential<br />

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