Rambling over coffee: Did you know the Federal Reserve Bank is not actually part of the federal government? I didn't.

It's just the coffee talking again....


The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government...



So, I have to admit that I've never given all that much thought to the federal reserve... I've read about it numerous times in financial news, mentioned in books, etc. but it was not until I was reading a book (Interest (Final State Book 1 - which happens to be free on Kindle through Amazon as of this posting date... https://amzn.to/2MME4ou) that I got schooled in the history of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Now, granted it was in the context of one of the characters of the book explaining the Federal Reserve Bank to another character and it's all in the greater context of what those characters are trying to accomplish... but this is the part of the book that piqued my interest enough to make me stop, bookmark that page, and go on an internet search for the history of our Federal Reserve Bank.

And that is how i found out that although they use the word 'federal' in their name (leading me and probably a lot of others to think it was somehow a government backed entity), it's not.


From the book - which I will link to at the bottom of this post:

“Do you know what the Federal Reserve System is?”
“Yeah. It’s a government bank—”
“No! It’s a private bank. A private bank, by bankers and for bankers, beyond the rule of law. The government has no control over it, no oversight. There’s an old expression: the Federal Reserve is about as federal as Federal Express. It controls us, we cannot control it.”

Len found it odd that the first time Neith had shown anything like emotion, the conversation was about banking.
“Are you familiar with the history of central banking, Mr. Savitz?”
“Refresh me.”

“Central banking is centuries old. European countries like England had central banks since the 1600s, but America was unique in that it had no permanent central bank for its first 137 years. The founding fathers believed central banks were evil incarnate and did their best to resist any form of central banking during the early part of this country’s history.”

“So why do we have one now?”

“Before the Federal Reserve System was created, there were regular economic panics in the United States. Using retrospective forensic accounting, I have determined that it is likely that these panics were caused intentionally by major Wall Street investment bankers. In 1907, there occurred a crash so profound that the entire nation was on the verge of financial ruin. In an act of desperation, President Theodore Roosevelt pleaded with the banking tycoons of the day to bail the country out. Think about that for a second: the president had to openly beg wealthy bankers to save the nation.”

“I have to say, that doesn’t seem weird to me, Neith. Every president since has sucked their dicks, too.”

“To stall the crisis, the bankers lent money out at interest to failing businesses. Once the panic was over and out of the public’s mind, the bankers agreed to meet covertly to discuss how to further their profits. The meeting took place in abject secrecy at an exclusive hunting club on Jekyll Island on the Georgia coast. To avoid the attention of the newspapers,the bankers traveled to the meeting in a secret unmarked train under fake names. Also in attendance were an assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury and one Senator Nelson Aldrich, a close friend of J.P. Morgan’s, whose daughter had married into the Rockefeller family. Together, working in seclusion for ten straight days, they conspired to create a banking cartel and a system of moneylending so pervasive and insidious that the entire nation could be controlled through debt without anyone realizing it. Their brainchild was an ingenious conspiracy known as the Federal Reserve System. Even the name was brilliant, as it seemed to suggest some sort of government stockpile, when the truth was the complete opposite: it was a private IOU-printing machine.”
“Why on earth did people go along with it?”
“They had no choice. When a debt-averse American voting populace wouldn’t buy into it, the banking coterie exerted tremendous political pressure to get it through Congress. Behind closed doors, the bankers threatened to destroy the US economy if the scheme wasn’t passed into law. However, the backbone of Congress hadn’t yet been broken in those days, so they resisted it. A number of Congressmen, such as Arsène Pujo and Charles Lindbergh, refused to bow to the pressure. The bankers made good on their promise in 1913 when they decided to stop lending money. The country immediately went into financial chaos. The coercion worked. Congress authorized the Federal Reserve System later that year and simultaneously signed over its money-printing powers to the new central bank. In essence, the US government used to create its own US dollars for free, but in 1913 it was strong-armed into giving that authority away to a powerful banking cartel.”
“Unreal. Neith, have you considered bombing Wall Street for a change?”
 “That same year, Mr. Savitz, 1913, is when the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution was ratified. The exact same people were behind that change, too. The amendment gave Congress, for the first time in our history, the permanent power to collect income tax. Why? Because without an income tax, the banking cartel’s scheme wouldn’t work. In other words, their banks could lend the money to the United States, but until there was a large revenue stream, the United States would not be able to pay interest.”

“OK, so what? I happen to know the Federal Reserve isn’t allowed to keep profits. The profits are public.”
“That is where it gets tricky, and I need you to follow closely. If I lent you money at 1 percent interest, would it be profitable for you to turn around and lend it to someone else at 5 percent interest?”
“I guess so, sure.”

“You’d be collecting the interest in the middle. Imagine now that the person you lent the money to was the US government. In order to pay you 5 percent interest, what must the government do?”
“Collect taxes?”
“Exactly. That’s exactly what’s happening. The Federal Reserve, the institution that creates money in this country, creates it out of thin air, then lends it to for-profit banks at extremely low interest rates, at a far lower rate than would be available to you or me. This is called the discount rate, and it’s only available to those in the banking cartel. The discount rate is no fluke— it was the central issue of the clandestine Jekyll Island meeting. After borrowing at the discount rate, those for-profit banks turn around and lend it back to our own government at higher interest rates by buying treasury instruments like bonds and notes. The taxpayers are paying the interest on this money— money that was created for free and borrowed at a discount!”
“It sounds like a Ponzi, almost.”
“That’s exactly what it is, Mr. Savitz, a pyramid scheme. And this occurs not just here in America, but all over the world. There are over a hundred central banks just like the Federal Reserve, all of which are controlled by Dranthyx. The central banks create funny money and lend it to large corporate banks, also run by the Dranthyx. To make matters worse, these banks aren’t just robbing you through taxes, they are also stealing from you with inflation. If I put 100 dollars in your bank account, but inflation is 3 percent annually, then the money in the account will only be worth 97 dollars next year.”
“I thought inflation was supposed to be a good thing. Isn’t that what the economists are always saying?”
“I have a working hypothesis that financial illiteracy is genetically predetermined, deliberately coded into the human genome by the Dranthyx. If my hypothesis is correct, it would explain why such a large percentage of the world’s population is unable to make ends meet and why few people understand the time value of money. The only humans who seem to understand money implicitly are the Tchogols, who are overrepresented in the world of investing and high finance. If the average human understood money the way the Dranthyx do, the scheme wouldn’t work.”



Gaughen, Kevin (2015-05-06). Interest (Final State Book 1) (pp. 127-132). Kindle Edition.




And that part of the book is the reason I finally, after all these years looked up the history of our Federal Reserve Bank.

___________________________________________________________

It’s all the news channels can talk about: the White House has been bombed, there's chaos in the streets, and the United States has found itself in the throes of a violent revolution.

Surrounded by panicked people, washed-up journalist Len Savitz takes the crisis in stride. It’s nothing that a stiff drink won’t cure. After all, bad news only hurts optimists.

But when the mysterious leader of the rebels cherry-picks him to acquire certain information for her, Len is forced to go on an investigative mission where he uncovers millennia-old secrets and unwittingly triggers a chain of disturbing events that will determine the future of humankind.

Author Kevin Gaughen’s dynamic debut novel, Interest, creates a seamless alternate reality behind real-world political tensions while keeping pace with its page-turning plot. Interest is as riveting as it is thought-provoking.

Who really runs the world we live in? The further Len digs, the darker the answers appear to be…

Those crazy pop-up 'LEGAL AGREEMENTS' just for using a website or app are getting to be too much - too long - too full of legal mumbo jumbo and too sneaky

"Let's kill all the lawyers" is a line from William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. 

The full quote is "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". 

The character "Dick The Butcher" suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers.





That quote came to mind today when I all I wanted to do was log into the UPS site to check if a delivery was slated to be delivered today and I was met with the dreaded pop up "NEW UPDATED AGREEMENT" box.  The kind you have to click to 'agree' before you can move forward.

I always wonder what screw-the-customer-over items are hidden in the 1734 pages of small print that pop up on all our websites these days that I really DO try to hard to read through - at least skim and try to get what they are saying.  But unless you seriously HAVE A LAW DEGREE or the patience of a saint plus the concentration to sit and read through nothing but legalese for a least an hour or more....  you probably just click "I AGREE" under duress.

But this time the "I agree" had been changed as well.

No longer was it a simple "I agree"  but had been replaced with this mouth full:

I agree to and confirm that I've been given enough time to read and understand the UPS Technology Agreement, which contains important terms about my use of UPS Technologies, like terms limiting UPS's liability and my agreement on how disputes between UPS and me will be handled.^∗


What the fuck people!?

SERIOUSLY.  The legal 'let's sue everyone' mindset of today has GOT TO STOP.  IT'S INSANITY!!!!!!

ALL THIS JUST FOR LOGGING IN TO THE WEBSITE TO SEE IF I WAS GETTING A DELIVERY TODAY.

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12.                Miscellaneous.

12.1.           Independent Parties.  The parties are independent parties and nothing herein shall be construed as creating an employment or agency relationship, partnership, and/or joint venture between the parties. Neither party is granted any right or authority to assume or to create any obligation or responsibility, express or implied, on behalf of or in the name of the other party, or to bind such other party in any manner.

12.2.           Waiver.  No waiver of any provision of this Agreement, or any rights or obligations of either party under this Agreement, shall be effective, except pursuant to a written instrument signed by the party or parties waiving compliance, and any such waiver shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose stated in such writing.

12.3.           Severability of Provisions.  In the event that any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms.

12.4.           Assignment.  This Agreement, including any rights, licenses or obligations under this Agreement, may not be assigned by You to any other Person or entity without the prior written consent of UPS.  UPS may assign, delegate or transfer all or any part of this Agreement or any rights hereunder to any member of the UPS Parties without the need for any approval or consent from You. For these purposes, “Assignment” shall include, but is not limited to, any merger or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the assigning party or any transfer of this Agreement, or any portion hereof, by operation of law or otherwise, or any sale or other transfer of thirty percent (30%) or more of the voting shares/interests of the assigning party or control thereof.  In the event of any permitted Assignment of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each of the parties and their respective legal successors and permitted assigns.

12.5.           Taxes.  Any fees payable under this Agreement do not include any taxes and fees (including, but not limited to, any applicable withholding taxes and VAT or any other tax or fee) levied by any duly constituted taxing authority against the fees payable to UPS hereunder.  You shall be solely responsible for the calculation of and payment of any such taxes to the relevant taxing authority, and shall not reduce the amount of the fees payable for such tax payment.

12.6.           Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Language.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement and any claim, case, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement (whether for breach of contract, tort or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, excluding (1) its conflict of law principles; (2) the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; (3) the 1974 Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods; and (4) the Protocol amending the 1974 Convention, done at Vienna, April 11, 1980.  The parties declare that they have required that this Agreement and all documents related hereto, either present or future, be drawn up in the English language only.  Les parties déclarent qu'elles exigent que cette entente et tous les documents y afférents, soit pour le présent ou l’avenir, soient rédigés en langue anglaise seulement.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and consistent with valid entry into a binding agreement, the controlling language of this Agreement is English and any translation You have received has been provided solely for Your convenience.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all correspondence and communications between You and UPS under this Agreement must be in the English language.  In the event You have entered into this Agreement by means of the Internet display of a translated version of this Agreement in a language other than U.S. English, You may view the U.S. English language version of this Agreement by accessing https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/technology-agreement.page .  THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION FOR ANY CLAIM, CASE, OR CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT (WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) SHALL BE A FEDERAL OR STATE COURT IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AND THE PARTIES HEREBY CONSENT TO SUCH EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE AND SHALL NOT ASSERT ANY DEFENSES BASED ON LACK OF IN PERSONAM JURISDICTION, IMPROPER VENUE OR INCONVENIENT FORUM.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if and to the extent subsequent separate or ancillary proceedings in another U.S. or foreign court are necessary in order to enforce a judgment of the court in Atlanta, Georgia, or otherwise as is necessary to provide complete relief and full resolution of all issues in dispute, the Parties may institute such subsequent separate or ancillary proceedings in any such U.S. or foreign court, and the Parties hereby consent to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such court and hereby waive any defenses therein based on lack of in personam jurisdiction, improper venue or inconvenient forum. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, UPS shall be entitled to interim relief or provisional remedies before any court having jurisdiction.  You agree to the admissibility of computer records and electronic evidence in any dispute herein.  For the avoidance of doubt, dispute resolution provisions contained in any agreement You have entered into with a member of the UPS Parties related to UPS services, including for example, the applicable UPS Terms and Conditions of Carriage/Service, shall govern whenever such provisions are applicable to any claim or controversy.  SEE SECTION 12.15 AND EXHIBIT B FOR COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DEVIATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF OR YOUR REGISTERED OFFICE IS LOCATED IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES: MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES, BANGLADESH, INDONESIA, ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR PUERTO RICO.

12.7.           Force Majeure.  Neither party hereto shall be liable for the failure to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement or for any Damages if such failure is caused by any reason beyond its reasonable control including without limitation, any occurrence of any act of God, labor strike or dispute, industrial disturbance, governmental emergency order, judicial or government action, emergency regulations, sabotage, riots, vandalism, electronic failure, major computer hardware or software failures, equipment delivery delays, acts of third parties, or act of terrorism.

12.8.           Remedies.  Any remedies provided herein are non-exclusive.

12.9.           Compliance with Laws.  Each party, in connection with its performance hereunder, shall strictly comply with all applicable laws, rulings, and regulations and shall take no actions which would cause the other party to be in violation of any laws, rulings or regulations applicable to it, including, where required, You as a licensee filing this Agreement with a governmental entity.  You specifically acknowledge that the UPS Materials provided hereunder may contain encryption functionality.  You acknowledge and agree that by downloading, importing or using the UPS Materials in any country or territory outside the United States you, not UPS, assume full responsibility for compliance with all the laws and regulations of such country or territory, including, without limitation, all laws and regulations governing the import, use, distribution, development, or transfer of encryption software or technology and all requirements of registration or licensing related to same.

12.10.       Data Practices. In order to perform pickup and delivery services, and in connection with Your use of the UPS Technology, the UPS package delivery company in Your jurisdiction, whose name and address may be found under “Contact UPS” on the  UPS Web Site for Your jurisdiction (“UPS Delivery Co.”), collects, processes and uses personal information.  UPS Market Driver, Inc., 35 Glenlake Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30328 and the other UPS Parties receive personal information and use it for the Purposes defined below. 

The UPS Parties process personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The personal information is used for the purposes (the “Purposes”) set forth in, and is subject to, the UPS Privacy Notice published on UPS’s web site at < https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/privacy-notice.page > (hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement).  The personal information may be disclosed to certain recipients (“Recipients”) as described in the UPS Privacy Notice. You acknowledge You have read and fully understand the UPS Privacy Notice.

You represent and warrant to UPS that when You or Your employees, agents or contractors (“Shipper Parties”) provide UPS Delivery Co. with personal information: (1) the Shipper Parties have collected the personal information lawfully, and have the right and authority to provide the personal information to the UPS Parties for any uses permitted under these General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10; (2) You or another Shipper Party have notified each individual identified by the personal information (including all package addressees), as required by applicable law, that UPS will be processing the personal information in accordance with the UPS Privacy Notice published at < https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/privacy-notice.page > in effect at the time of shipping, that the personal information may be provided by UPS to the Recipients set forth above, and that the personal information may be transferred to countries or territories other than the country or territory in which the UPS Parties originally collected the information (which countries or territories may not have the same data protection laws as the country or territory in which You originally provided the information); and (3) You have obtained informed and specific consent from any package addressee or recipient, as required by law, that UPS may send e-mail and other notifications related to the agreed shipment services.

You further agree to receive non-marketing telephone calls and text messages relating to the UPS pickup and delivery services (including, without limitation, collections calls and text messages) from or on behalf of UPS at any wireless telephone number assigned to Your account.  You understand and agree that such calls or text messages may be prerecorded and/or delivered through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system and that Your wireless carrier’s message and data rates may apply to Your receipt of such calls and text messages at a cellular telephone number.  You understand and agree that any telephone number(s) that You provide to UPS will be true, accurate, current, and complete, and You will promptly update any such number as necessary to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete.

12.11.       Non-Exclusivity.  Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to preclude or restrict UPS in any way from entering into similar arrangements with any other Person or from dealing or contracting directly with mutual customers of the parties.

12.12.       Entire Agreement; Amendment.  This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding and agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes any and all (1) prior or contemporaneous representations, understandings and agreements related thereto and (2) any prior versions of the UPS Technology Agreement between UPS and You, all of which are merged in this Agreement. Such merger will not be effective as to Software. The UPS Technology Agreement current at the time You receive a particular version of the Software will govern Your use of such Software version at all times.  Any Corporate Technology Agreement between UPS and Customer, whether entered into before or after the date of this Agreement, shall supersede this Agreement.  Any UPS Technology Agreement between UPS and You having a version more recent than Version UTA08072018 shall supersede this Agreement. The superseding of any prior agreement shall not abridge UPS’s rights against You as a result of any violation or breach of such prior agreement before the date of this Agreement. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except by a writing signed by authorized representatives of the parties to this Agreement; provided, however, UPS may modify the End User Rights pursuant to End User Rights Section 3.1 and the UPS Materials and UPS Technology pursuant to these General Terms and Conditions Section 4.2 .  A writing with electronic signatures shall not qualify to modify or amend the Agreement.

12.13.       Waiver: European Union Notices.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, if You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in a member state of the European Union, You waive all notices, acknowledgements and confirmations relative to contracting by electronic means which may be required under Articles 10(1), 10(2), 11(1) and 11(2) of EU Directive 2000/31/EC as implemented in Your jurisdiction in respect of Your use of the UPS Technology.  If You are a resident of any European Union member state, You understand You have a right to withdraw from this Agreement in the first fourteen (14) days after Your acceptance, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, You hereby expressly renounce the 14-day right of withdrawal in exchange of UPS making UPS Technologies available to You immediately upon entering in this Agreement.

12.14.       NOTICE: Processing of Personal Information pursuant to UPS Privacy Notice.  Except as You indicate to the contrary pursuant to the methods specified in the UPS Privacy Notice (which preferences may be changed by You at any time), You hereby acknowledge that personal information may be processed for the Purposes as set forth in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .  You also agree that where You are the package addressee or recipient, You have received notice of the processing and use of personal information as described in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .

12.15.       Country-Specific Terms.  If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the countries or territories listed below, the terms of Exhibit B shall apply to You.  In the case of conflict or ambiguity between any provision contained in the body of these General Terms and Conditions and any provision contained in Exhibit B, the provision contained in Exhibit B shall prevail if Exhibit B applies to You.

a.       Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Djibouti, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania (“Middle Eastern Countries”).  

b.       Bangladesh, Indonesia, Israel, the United States of America and Puerto Rico.

EXHIBIT A

DEFINITIONS- GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Affiliates means third parties that control, are controlled by, or under common control with, whether directly or indirectly, a Person.  For purposes of this definition, the term “control” (including with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession directly or indirectly of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by trust, management agreement, contract or otherwise.

Agreement is defined in the second paragraph of these General Terms and Conditions.

Alternate Billed Shipment(s) means shipments tendered to the UPS Parties on Your behalf by another Person where such shipments are charged against Your UPS Account.

Assignment has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.4 .

Billing Data Service Provider means a third party services provider (1) hired by You for providing services for You to close the Customer Billing Cycle, and (2) who has been identified to UPS by You for receipt of Billing Data from UPS to You via the UPS Systems, using the approved secure transfer method which may be modified from time to time by UPS in accordance with this Agreement.

Confidential Information means any information or material, other than Trade Secrets, that is of value to UPS and is not generally known to third parties, or that UPS obtains from any third party (including without limitation the UPS Parties) that UPS treats as proprietary whether or not owned by UPS.  Confidential Information shall include Information.  Confidential Information shall not include information that You can show is: (1) known by You at the time of receipt from UPS and not subject to any other nondisclosure agreement between the parties; (2) now, or which hereafter becomes, generally known to the public through no fault of You; (3) otherwise lawfully and independently developed by You without reference to Confidential Information; or (4) lawfully acquired by You from a third party without any obligation of confidentiality.

Customer is defined in the third paragraph of the General Terms and Conditions.

Damages means any claims, losses, damages, rulings, judgments and costs and expenses (including without limitation attorney’s fees).

End User Rights means the document available at
< https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/technology-agreement.page > and described in the second paragraph of these General Terms and Conditions.

General Terms and Conditions means this document.

Inbound Shipments means shipments tendered to the UPS Parties for delivery to You.

Information means information provided from the UPS Systems (i) related to services provided by the UPS Parties or (ii) generated in connection with You shipping with the UPS Parties, including without limitation, Tendered Shipments.

Middle Eastern Countries has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.15 .

Outbound Shipments means a shipment tendered to the UPS Parties by You.

Permitted Territory means for any UPS Technology those countries and territories associated with such UPS Technology on End User Rights Exhibit C .

Person means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or other legal entity.

Purposes has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .

Recipients has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .

Restricted Territory means those countries or territories subject to a comprehensive economic sanctions program administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or to any other general prohibition on the use, exportation, or reexportation of the UPS Technology under U.S. sanctions or export control laws. Countries or territories subject to OFAC embargo or sanctions can change at any time.  For Your convenient reference only, the following links provide information pertaining to such countries or territories:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx , and http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/liststocheck.htm .

Service Provider has the definition provided in the third paragraph of the General Terms and Conditions.

Service Provider Employee has the definition provided in the third paragraph of the General Terms and Conditions.

Shipper Parties has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .

Software means those items of UPS Technology that (i) are software and that are provided by UPS to You under this Agreement, (excluding sample computer software code) and any associated Technical Documentation, and (ii) any Updates thereto to the extent provided by UPS to You under this Agreement.

Support Services has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 5.1 .

Support Software has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 5.1 .

Support Providers has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 5.1 .

Technical Documentation means collectively any and all documentation and/or sample computer software code regarding the UPS Technology or the UPS Marks provided or made available to You by UPS hereunder.

Tendered Shipment means a shipment tendered (i) by or for You to the UPS Parties for delivery or (ii) by a third party to the UPS Parties for delivery to You, which can be an Outbound Shipment, Alternate Billed Shipment or Inbound Shipment.

Term has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 6.2 .

Trade Secret means any information of UPS or that UPS acquired from a third party (including without limitation the UPS Parties) which is not commonly known by or available to the public, which (1) derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

Update(s) shall mean maintenance, error corrections, modifications, updates, enhancements or revisions to the UPS Materials.

UPS means UPS Market Driver, Inc.

UPS Account means any shipping account assigned to You by a member of the UPS Parties, including, without limitation, those accounts assigned to users of UPS.com shipping known as “temporary accounts” and UPS Freight shipping accounts.

UPS Databases means databases of proprietary information related to the shipping services of the UPS Parties and distributed with or for use with Software.

UPS Delivery Co. has the definition provided in General Terms and Conditions Section 12.10 .

UPS Marks means the word mark “UPS” as shown in various trademark registrations including but not limited to U.S. Trademark Registration No. 966,724, and the mark “UPS & Stylized Shield Device” as shown below and as shown in various trademark registrations, including but not limited to U.S. Trademark Registration Nos.: 2,867,999, 2,965,392, 2,973,108, 2,978,624, 3,160,056 and European Community Trademark Registration Nos.: 3,107,026, 3,107,281, and 3,106,978.

                              

UPS Materials means collectively the UPS Technology, the UPS Databases, the Technical Documentation, the Information, the Software, the UPS Marks, and the UPS Systems.

UPS Parties means UPS and existing Affiliates, and their respective shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, partners, third party suppliers and third party licensors.

UPS Privacy Notice means the privacy notice available at https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/privacy-notice.page .

UPS Systems means the UPS computer and network systems accessed by the UPS Technology.

UPS Technology means those products identified on End User Rights Exhibit B .

You is defined in the third paragraph of this Agreement.

EXHIBIT B

COUNTRY SPECIFIC AMENDMENT TO THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in any country or territory identified in Section 12.15 of the General Terms and Conditions, the following terms replace or modify the referenced terms of the General Terms and Conditions.  All terms of the General Terms and Conditions that are not changed by these amendments remain unchanged and in effect.

1.       Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia,  Israel, the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

1.1                Geographic Scope and Applicability.

a.                   You warrant and represent that You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the following countries: Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Israel, the United States of America or Puerto Rico.

b.                   Subject to Section 1.1(a) of this Exhibit B above, You and UPS agree to modify the General Terms and Conditions as set forth in Section 1.2 of this Exhibit B below.

c.                    Except as amended as set forth herein, the General Terms and Conditions (including the Exhibits thereto) shall continue in full force and effect until expired or terminated and reflect the entire agreement between You and UPS regarding the subject matter hereof.  To the extent that any provisions of this Exhibit B are inconsistent with the General Terms and Conditions, the terms of this Exhibit B shall govern solely with regard to the subject of the inconsistency.

d.                   In consideration of the promises and mutual covenants of the parties, You and UPS agree that the General Terms and Conditions shall be modified as set forth in Section 1.2 of this Exhibit B below.

1.2                Amendments.

a.                   If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Israel, Section 9 of the General Terms and Conditions shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“9.           Limitation of Liability.

9.1          Except as expressly stated in Section 9.2:

a.             UPS Parties shall not in any circumstances have any liability for any Damages which may be suffered by the Customer (or any person claiming under or through the Customer), whether the same are suffered directly or indirectly or are immediate or consequential, and whether the same arise in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise howsoever, which fall within any of the following categories:

                                                            i.          special damage even if UPS Parties was aware of the circumstances in which such special damage could arise;

                                                          ii.          loss of profits;

                                                         iii.          loss of anticipated savings;

                                                        iv.          loss of business opportunity;

                                                          v.          loss of goodwill;

                                                        vi.          costs of procuring substitute goods arising out of this Agreement;

                                                       vii.          loss or corruption of data or data use.

b.                   The total liability of UPS Parties, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise and whether in connection with this Agreement or any collateral contract, shall in no circumstances exceed, in the aggregate, a sum equal to one thousand United States dollars (USD $1,000); and

c.                    You agree that, in entering into this Agreement, either it did not rely on any representations, whether written or oral, of any kind or of any person other than those expressly set out in this Agreement or (if it did rely on any representations, whether written or oral, not expressly set out in this licence) that it shall have no remedy in respect of such representations and, in either case, UPS Parties shall have no liability in any circumstances otherwise than in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement.

9.2          The exclusions in Section 9.1 shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, but UPS Parties do not exclude liability for:

a.                   death or personal injury caused by the negligence of UPS Parties, their officers, employees, contractors or agents;

b.                   fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

c.                    any other liability which may not be excluded by law.

9.3          For the avoidance of doubt, the presentment of this Agreement (version UTA 08072018) more than once to you does not change the UPS Parties’ total aggregate liability above one thousand united states dollars (USD $1,000).

9.4          Claims not made within six (6) months after the first event giving rise to a claim shall be deemed waived.”

b.                   If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Israel, the United States of America or Puerto Rico, Section 12.6 of the General Terms and Conditions shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“12.6      Governing Law and Arbitration.

a.       If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, which the Arbitration Rules of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause.  The number of arbitrators shall be one.  The seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be the Dubai International Financial Centre.  The language to be used in the arbitration shall be English.  The governing law of the Agreement shall be the substantive laws of England and Wales.  You hereby represent and warrant that You have the authority to enter into an agreement to arbitrate in accordance with this clause and any applicable law.

b.       If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in Bangladesh or Indonesia, any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, which the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause.  The number of arbitrators shall be one.  The seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.  The language to be used in the arbitration shall be English.  The governing law of the Agreement shall be the substantive laws of England and Wales.  You hereby represent and warrant that You have the authority to enter into an agreement to arbitrate in accordance with this clause and any applicable law.

c.        If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in Israel, any dispute arising out of this Agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the International Arbitration Rules of the Israeli Institute of Commercial Arbitration, which the International Arbitration Rules of the Israeli Institute of Commercial Arbitration are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause.  The number of arbitrators shall be one. The parties also agree to abide by and to perform the award or judgment of the arbitrator as the final decision respecting such dispute.  The language to be used in the arbitration shall be English.  The governing law of the Agreement shall be the substantive laws of England and Wales.  You hereby represent and warrant that You have the authority to enter into an agreement to arbitrate in accordance with this clause and any applicable law.

d.       If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in the United States of America or Puerto Rico, any dispute arising out of this Agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be governed as set forth in Attachment 1 (Dispute Resolution in the U.S. and Puerto Rico) attached hereto.

e.        To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and consistent with valid entry into a binding agreement, the controlling language of this Agreement is English and any translation You have received has been provided solely for Your convenience.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all correspondence and communications between You and UPS under this Agreement must be in the English language.  In the event You have entered into this Agreement by means of the Internet display of a translated version of this Agreement in a language other than U.S. English, You may view the U.S. English language version of this Agreement by accessing https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/technology-agreement.page . 

f.        Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement, dispute resolution provisions contained in any agreement You have entered into with a member of the UPS Parties related to UPS Services, including for example, the applicable UPS Terms and Conditions of Carriage/Service, shall govern whenever such provisions are applicable to any claim or controversy.

c.                    If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Israel, Section 12.16 shall be appended to the General Terms and Conditions as follows:

“12.16    Interpretation.  The following rules of interpretation shall apply to this Agreement:

a.       Section and Exhibit headings shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

b.       A person includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (whether or not having separate legal personality).

c.        Unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular shall include the plural and in the plural include the singular.

d.       Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to one gender shall include a reference to the other gender.

e.        Any reference to an English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England, be deemed to include a reference to what most nearly approximates to the English legal term in that jurisdiction.

f.        A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as amended, extended or re-enacted from time to time, whether before or after the date of this Agreement, and in the case of a reference to a statute is also to all subordinate legislation made under that statute whether before or after the date of this Agreement.

g.        Any words following the terms “including,” “include,” “in particular” or “for example” or any similar phrase shall not limit the generality of the related general words.

h.       Any reference to the word “merchantability” shall also be construed as meaning “satisfactory quality.””

d.                   If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Israel, Section 12.17 shall be appended to the General Terms and Conditions as follows:

“12.17    Third Party Rights.  A person who is not a party to this Agreement shall not have any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this Agreement, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists, or is available, apart from that Act.”

e.                    If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in one of the Middle Eastern Countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Israel, Section 12.18 shall be appended to the General Terms and Conditions as follows:

“12.18    Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption.  You shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, regulations, and codes relating to anti-bribery and anti-corruption including but not limited to the UK Bribery Act 2010 in connection with this Agreement and promptly report to UPS any request or demand for any undue financial or other advantage of any kind received by such party in connection with the performance of this Agreement.”

f.                    If You are a resident of or Your registered office is located in Indonesia, Section 12.13 of the General Terms and Conditions shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“12.13 Entire Agreement; Amendment.  This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding and agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes any and all (1) prior or contemporaneous representations, understandings and agreements related thereto and (2) any prior versions of the UPS Technology Agreement between UPS and You, all of which are merged in this Agreement. Such merger will not be effective as to Software. The UPS Technology Agreement current at the time You receive a particular version of the Software will govern Your use of such Software version at all times.  Any Corporate Technology Agreement between UPS and Customer, whether entered into before or after the date of this Agreement, shall supersede this Agreement.  Any UPS Technology Agreement between UPS and You having a version more recent than Version UTA08072018 shall supersede this Agreement. The superseding of any prior agreement shall not abridge UPS’s rights against You as a result of any violation or breach of such prior agreement before the date of this Agreement. A writing with electronic signatures shall not qualify to modify or amend the Agreement.

Attachment 1

Dispute Resolution in the U.S. and Puerto Rico

Binding Arbitration of Disputes 

Except as to disputes that qualify for state courts of limited jurisdiction (such as small claims, justice of the peace, magistrate court, and similar courts with monetary limits on their jurisdictions over civil disputes), You and UPS agree that any controversy or claim, whether at law or equity, arising out of or related to this Agreement that arises in whole or in part in the United States or Puerto Rico, regardless of the date of accrual of such dispute, shall be resolved in its entirety by individual (not class-wide nor collective) binding arbitration.

Arbitration is the submission of a dispute to a neutral arbitrator, instead of a judge or jury, for a final and binding decision, known as an “award.” Arbitration provides for more limited discovery than in court, and is subject to limited review by courts. Each party has an opportunity to present evidence to the arbitrator in writing or through witnesses. An arbitrator can only award the same damages and relief that a court can award under the law and must honor the terms and conditions in this Agreement. You and UPS agree that their sole relationship is a contractual one governed by this Agreement.

Institutional Arbitration

The arbitration shall be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes (the “AAA Rules”), and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The AAA Rules, including instructions for how to initiate arbitration, are available at https://www.adr.org . The arbitrator shall decide all issues of the case on the basis of the applicable law, not equity. If You initiate arbitration, You must serve UPS’s registered agent for service of process, Corporation Service Company, which has locations in every state. Information also can be found on the website of your local Secretary of State.

Any arbitration under this Agreement will take place on an individual basis; class, mass, consolidated or combined actions or arbitrations or proceeding as a private attorney general are not permitted. You and UPS each waives the right to trial by jury.  You and UPS further waive the ability to participate in a class, mass, consolidated or combined action or arbitration.

Place of Arbitration/Number of Arbitrators/Costs of Arbitration

Any arbitration will take place in the county where You reside and will be determined by a single arbitrator. Any filing fee or administrative fee required of You by the AAA Rules shall be paid by You to the extent such fee does not exceed the amount of the fee required to commence a similar action in a court that otherwise would have jurisdiction. For all non frivolous complaints, UPS will pay the amount of such fee in excess of that amount.  The arbitrator will allocate the administrative costs and arbitral fees consistent with the applicable rules of the AAA.  Reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses will be allocated or awarded only to the extent such allocation or award is available under applicable law.

All issues are for the arbitrator to decide, except that issues relating to the scope, application, and enforceability of the arbitration provision are for a court to decide. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision.

Severability

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the AAA Rules, if any part of this arbitration provision is deemed invalid or ineffective for any reason, this shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this arbitration provision, and the arbitrator shall have the authority to amend any provisions deemed invalid or ineffective to make the same valid and enforceable.

Desk Arbitration

For all disputes concerning an amount less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00), the parties shall submit their arguments and evidence to the arbitrator in writing and the arbitrator shall make an award based only on the documents; no hearing will be held unless the arbitrator in his or her discretion, and upon request of a party, decides it is a necessity to require an in-person hearing.  For a dispute governed by the AAA Consumer-Related Disputes Supplementary Procedures, and concerning an award between fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), inclusive, UPS shall pay Your filing fee under the AAA Rules, provided that You agree that each party shall submit their arguments and evidence to the arbitrator in writing and that the arbitrator shall make an award based only on the documents, without a hearing being held. Notwithstanding this provision, the parties may agree to proceed with desk arbitration at any time.

Access to Small Claims Courts

All parties shall retain the right to seek adjudication in a state court of limited jurisdiction, such as small claims, justice of the peace, magistrate court, and similar courts with monetary limits on their jurisdiction over civil disputes, for individual disputes within the scope of such court’s jurisdiction.

Acknowledgements

YOU AND UPS ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT EACH PARTY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO:

(a)           HAVE A TRIAL BY JURY TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE ALLEGED AGAINST YOU, UPS OR RELATED THIRD PARTIES;

(b)           HAVE A COURT, OTHER THAN A STATE COURT OF LIMITED JURISDICTION AS DEFINED ABOVE, RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE ALLEGED AGAINST YOU, UPS OR RELATED THIRD PARTIES;

(c)           HAVE A COURT REVIEW ANY DECISION OR AWARD OF AN ARBITRATOR, WHETHER INTERIM OR FINAL, EXCEPT FOR APPEALS BASED ON THOSE GROUNDS FOR VACATUR EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN SECTION 10 OF THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT; AND

(d)           SERVE AS A REPRESENTATIVE, AS A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR IN ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY, JOIN AS A CLASS MEMBER, AND/OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A MEMBER OF A CLASS IN ANY CLASS, MASS, CONSOLIDATED OR COMBINED ACTION OR ARBITRATION FILED AGAINST YOU, UPS AND/ OR RELATED THIRD PARTIES.

Award

The arbitrator may award money or equitable relief in favor of only the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party’s individual claim. Similarly, an arbitration award and any judgment confirming it apply only to that specific case; it cannot be used in any other case except to enforce the award itself. To reduce the time and expense of the arbitration, the arbitrator will not provide a statement of reasons for his or her award unless a brief explanation of the reasons is requested by one of the parties. Unless both You and UPS agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative, private attorney general or class proceeding.

Confidentiality of Arbitration

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the AAA Rules, UPS and You agree that the filing of arbitration, the arbitration proceeding, any documents exchanged or produced during the arbitration proceeding, any briefs or other documents prepared for the arbitration, and the arbitral award shall all be kept fully confidential and shall not be disclosed to any other party, except to the extent necessary to enforce this arbitration provision, arbitral award or other rights of the parties, or as required by law or court order. This confidentiality provision does not foreclose the AAA from reporting certain consumer arbitration case information as required by state law.