Standard of Care; Uncontrollable Events; Limitation of Liability SMC shall use reasonable professional diligence to ensure the accuracy of all services performed under this Agreement, but shall not be liable to the Company for any action taken or omitted by SMC in the absence of bad faith, willful misfeasance, negligence or reckless disregard by it of its obligations and duties. The duties of SMC shall be confined to those expressly set forth herein, and no implied duties are assumed by or may be asserted against SMC hereunder. SMC shall maintain adequate and reliable computer and other equipment necessary or appropriate to carry out its obligations under this Agreement. Upon the Company's reasonable request, SMC shall provide supplemental information concerning the aspects of its disaster recovery and business continuity plan that are relevant to the services provided hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, SMC assumes no responsibility hereunder, and shall not be liable for, any damage, loss of data, delay or any other loss whatsoever caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Events beyond SMC's reasonable control include, without limitation, force majeure events. Force majeure events include natural disasters, actions or decrees of governmental bodies, and communication lines failures that are not the fault of either party. In the event of force majeure, computer or other equipment failures or other events beyond its reasonable control, SMC shall follow applicable procedures in its disaster recovery and business continuity plan and use all commercially reasonable efforts to minimize any service interruption. SMC shall provide the Company, at such times as the Company may reasonably require, copies of reports rendered by independent public accountants on the internal controls and procedures of SMC relating to the services provided by SMC under this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall SMC, its affiliates or any of its or their directors, officers, employees, agents or subcontractors be liable for exemplary, punitive, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages, or lost profits, each of which is hereby excluded by agreement of the parties regardless of whether such damages were foreseeable or whether either party or any entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Standard of Care and Limitation of Liability The Portfolio Manager shall exercise its best judgment in rendering the services provided by it under this Agreement. The Portfolio Manager shall not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Trust or the Fund or the holders of the Fund's shares in connection with the matters to which this Agreement relates, provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to protect or purport to protect the Portfolio Manager against any liability to the Trust, the Fund or to holders of the Fund's shares to which the Portfolio Manager would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or by reason of the Portfolio Manager's reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. As used in this Section 7, the term "Portfolio Manager" shall include any officers, directors, employees or other affiliates of the Portfolio Manager performing services with respect to the Trust or the Fund.
Standard of Care/Limitations of Liability (a) Subject to the terms of this Section 10, PFPC Trust shall be liable to the Funds (or any person or entity claiming through the Funds) for damages only to the extent caused by PFPC Trust’s own intentional misconduct, bad faith, negligence or reckless disregard of its duties under this Agreement (“Standard of Care”). (b) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary (other than as specifically provided in Section 12(h)(ii)(B)(4) and Section 12(h)(iii)(A) of this Agreement), the Funds shall be responsible for all filings, tax returns and reports on any transactions undertaken pursuant to this Agreement, or in respect of the Property or any collections undertaken pursuant to this Agreement, which may be requested by any relevant authority. In addition, the Funds shall be responsible for the payment of all taxes and similar items (including without limitation penalties and interest related thereto). (c) PFPC Trust shall not be liable for damages (including without limitation damages caused by delays, failure, errors, interruption or loss of data) occurring directly or indirectly by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation: acts of God; action or inaction of civil or military authority; national emergencies; public enemy; war; terrorism; riot; fire; flood; catastrophe; sabotage; epidemics; labor disputes; civil commotion; interruption, loss or malfunction of utilities, transportation, computer or communications capabilities; insurrection; elements of nature; non-performance by a third party; failure of the mails; or functions or malfunctions of the internet, firewalls, encryption systems or security devices caused by any of the above. Should an event beyond PFPC Trust’s reasonable control occur, PFPC Trust will follow applicable procedures in its disaster recovery and business continuity plan and use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate and minimize any service interruptions to the Funds. (d) PFPC Trust shall not be under any duty or obligation to inquire into and shall not be liable for the validity or invalidity, authority or lack thereof, or truthfulness or accuracy or lack thereof, of any instruction, direction, notice, instrument or other information which PFPC Trust reasonably believes to be genuine. PFPC Trust shall not be liable for any damages that are caused by actions or omissions taken by PFPC Trust in accordance with Written Instructions or the reasonable advice of counsel. PFPC Trust shall not be liable for any damages arising out of any action or omission to act by any prior service provider of the Funds or for any failure to discover any such error or omission. PFPC Trust shall not have responsibility for any anti-money laundering requirements to which the Funds are subject under applicable laws or regulations or under the Subscription Documents with any Portfolio Fund in which the Funds have invested. (e) PFPC Trust shall have no liability for any action by the Funds or by any of the Portfolio Funds that prevents or limits the redemption or other liquidation of the Property (including without limitation any action taken by any Portfolio Fund to suspend or curtail redemptions or to make distributions in kind, including distributions of illiquid investments). (f) Neither PFPC Trust nor its affiliates shall be liable for any consequential, incidental, exemplary, punitive, special or indirect damages, whether or not the likelihood of such damages was known by PFPC Trust or its affiliates. (g) No party may assert a cause of action against PFPC Trust or any of its Affiliates that allegedly occurred more than 24 months immediately prior to the discovery of such cause of action. (h) Each party shall have a duty to reasonably mitigate damages for which the other party may become responsible. (i) This Section 10 shall survive termination of this Agreement.
Standard of Care; Limitation of Liability The Adviser will exercise its best judgment in rendering the services described herein. The Adviser shall not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Trust or the Fund in connection with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by the Adviser of its obligations and duties under this Agreement, or a loss resulting from a breach of fiduciary duty with respect to receipt of compensation for services (in which case any award of damages shall be limited to the period and amount set forth in Section 36(b)(3) of the 1940 Act).
Standard of Care; Liability (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Bank shall exercise reasonable care, prudence and diligence in carrying out all of its duties and obligations under this Agreement (except to the extent Applicable Law provides for a higher standard of care, in which case such higher standard shall apply), and shall be liable to Customer for any and all Liabilities suffered or incurred by Customer resulting from the failure of Bank to exercise such reasonable care, prudence and diligence or resulting from Bank's negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud and to the extent provided in Section 5.2(a). Unless otherwise specified or required by Applicable Law, Bank shall not be in violation of this Agreement with respect to any matter as to which it has satisfied the standard of care under this Agreement. (b) Bank shall not be liable under any circumstances for any indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages (including, without limitation, lost profits) of any form incurred by any person, whether or not foreseeable and regardless of the type of action in which such a claim may be brought, with respect to the Accounts or Bank's performance hereunder or Bank's role as custodian. (c) Subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, each Customer severally and not jointly shall indemnify the Bank Indemnitees against, and hold them harmless from, any Liabilities that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any of the Bank Indemnitees in connection with or arising out of Bank's performance under this Agreement, provided the Bank Indemnitees have not acted with negligence or bad faith or engaged in fraud or willful misconduct in connection with the Liabilities in question. Nevertheless, Customer shall not be obligated to indemnify any Bank Indemnitee under the preceding sentence with respect to any Liability for which Bank is liable under Section 5.2 of this Agreement. Bank shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate any Liability for which indemnity is sought hereunder (provided, however, that reasonable expenses incurred with respect to such mitigation shall be Liabilities subject to indemnification hereunder). (d) Subject to any obligation Customer may have to indemnify Bank with respect to amounts claimed by third parties, Customer shall have no liability whatsoever for any consequential, special, indirect or speculative loss or damages (including, but not limited to, lost profits) suffered by Bank Indemnitees in connection with the transactions and services contemplated hereby and the relationship established hereby even if Customer has been advised as to the possibility of the same and regardless of the form of action. (e) Without limiting Subsections 7.1 (a) or (b), Bank shall have no duty or responsibility to: (i) question Instructions or make any suggestions to Customer or an Authorized Person regarding such Instructions, provided that Bank believes in good faith that such Instructions have been given by Authorized Persons or which are transmitted with proper testing or authentication pursuant to terms and conditions that Bank may specify; (ii) supervise or make recommendations with respect to investments or the retention of Financial Assets; (iii) advise Customer or an Authorized Person regarding any default in the payment of principal or income of any security other than as provided in Section 2.7(b) of this Agreement; (iv) except as otherwise expressly required herein, evaluate or report to Customer or an Authorized Person regarding the financial condition of any broker, agent or other party to which Bank is instructed to deliver Financial Assets or cash; or (v) except for trades settled at DTC where the broker provides DTC trade confirmation and Customer provides for Bank to receive the trade instruction, review or reconcile trade confirmations received from brokers (and Customer or its Authorized Persons issuing Instructions shall bear any responsibility to review such confirmations against Instructions issued to and statements issued by Bank). (f) Bank shall indemnify the Customer from and against any and all Liabilities which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Customer resulting directly either from Bank's negligence, bad faith, fraud or willful misconduct in the performance of its obligations or duties hereunder, or from any act or omission by a Subcustodian in the performance of its subcustodial obligations or duties hereunder for which Bank is expressly liable under Section 5.2, taking into account the standards and market practice prevailing in the relevant market, provided that (i) in no event shall the Bank be obliged to indemnify Customer from against any Liability (or any claim for a Liability) to the extent such Liability is described in clause 7.1(b) this Agreement and (ii) the Customer shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate any Liability for which indemnity is sought hereunder (provided, however, that reasonable expenses incurred with respect to such mitigation shall be Liabilities subject to indemnification hereunder).
Testing Procedure Limitations The Asset Representations Reviewer will only be required to perform the testing procedures listed under “Tests” in Schedule A, and will have no obligation to perform additional procedures on any Subject Lease or to provide any information other than a Review Report indicating for each Subject Lease whether there was a Test Pass or a Test Fail for each Test, or whether the Subject Lease was a Test Complete and the related reason. However, the Asset Representations Reviewer may provide additional information about any Subject Lease that it determines in good faith to be material to the Review.
Subcontracting for the Provision of Services (a) The parties acknowledge that, subject to the provisions of the Enabling Legislation, the HSP may subcontract the provision of some or all of the Services. For the purposes of this Agreement, actions taken or not taken by the subcontractor, and Services provided by the subcontractor, will be deemed actions taken or not taken by the HSP, and Services provided by the HSP. (b) When entering into a subcontract the HSP agrees that the terms of the subcontract will enable the HSP to meet its obligations under this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, the HSP will include a provision that permits the Funder or its authorized representatives, to audit the subcontractor in respect of the subcontract if the Funder or its authorized representatives determines that such an audit would be necessary to confirm that the HSP has complied with the terms of this Agreement. (c) Nothing contained in this Agreement or a subcontract will create a contractual relationship between any subcontractor or its directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, affiliates or volunteers and the Funder. (d) When entering into a subcontract, the HSP agrees that the terms of the subcontract will enable the HSP to meet its obligations under the FLSA.
Product Warranties Except as set forth in Schedule 3.15, (a) there are no warranties express or implied, written or oral, with respect to the Business and (b) there are no pending or threatened claims with respect to any such warranty, and Seller has no liability with respect to any such warranty, whether known or unknown, absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise and whether due or to become due.
Disclaimer of Other Warranties EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY ------------------------------ PROVIDED HEREIN, THE SALE OF THE EQUIPMENT IS HEREBY MADE ON AN "AS-IS WHERE-IS" BASIS. SELLER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO (i) THE EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, ITS SELECTION, QUALITY, DESIGN, CAPACITY, CONDITION, MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR USE OR FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND FREEDOM FROM CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR PATENT INFRINGEMENT OR ABSENCE OF OBLIGATIONS BASED ON STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT OR NEGLIGENCE, (ii) THE FREEDOM OF THE EQUIPMENT (OR ANY PART OR PORTION THEREOF) FROM ANY LATENT OR OTHER DEFECT (WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE), (iii)THE COMPLIANCE OF ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT (OR ANY PART OR PORTION THEREOF) WITH ANY APPLICABLE LAWS OR REGULATIONS, (iv) THE CREDITWORTHINESS OF EACH LESSEE OR ANY OTHER PERSON UNDER THE LEASES AND THE TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, (v) THE COLLECTIBILITY OF ANY AMOUNT UNDER THE LEASES AND ANY OF THE TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, (vi) THE TAX CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LEASES, OR (vii) THE DUE AUTHORIZATION, EXECUTION AND DELIVERY BY, OR THE ENFORCEABILITY AGAINST, ANY PERSON WHO IS OR HAS BEEN A PARTY TO THE LEASES AND ANY OF THE TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE SELLER) AND SELLER HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Limited Product Warranty Repair or Replacement within 12 years