Last Update: April 4, 2022.

TERMS OF USE and NOTICES

AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND MERIDIANLINK MORTGAGE

The MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. Your use of a particular product or service included within the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System may also be subject to additional terms.

In the event that any of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein conflict with the other terms and guidelines contained within any particular product or service, then these terms shall control.

PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

See the Privacy Statement at https://www.meridianlink.com/privacy-policy for disclosures relating to the collection and use of your information.

MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY

You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify MeridianLink Mortgage immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. MeridianLink Mortgage will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by MeridianLink Mortgage or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

MeridianLink Mortgage reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions. Your continued use of the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

USE LIMITATION

You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System.

MeridianLink Mortgage possesses and will come into possession of information, documents and materials developed, created or discovered by or on behalf of MeridianLink Mortgage. Such information, documents and materials include, but are not limited to, software programs and subroutines, source and object code, algorithms, trade secrets, designs, technology, know-how, processes, data, ideas, techniques, inventions (whether patentable or not), works of authorship, formulas, business and product development plans, customer lists, terms of compensation and performance levels of employee, blueprints, drawings, photographs, charts, graphs, notebooks, computer disks, tapes or printouts, sound recordings and other printed, typewritten or handwritten documents, sample products, prototypes and models. You agree that you will not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the proprietary information, documents or materials of MeridianLink Mortgage except as may be specifically provided in this agreement. You further agree that you will not use or disclose any proprietary information, documents or materials of MeridianLink Mortgage, except as permitted by this contract, without the prior written consent of MeridianLink Mortgage.

At all times, both during the service provided by MeridianLink Mortgage and after its termination, you agree to keep in confidence and trust and will not use or disclose any Proprietary Information or anything relating to it without the prior written consent of an authorized officer of MeridianLink Mortgage.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

The MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System may contain links to third party Web sites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of MeridianLink Mortgage and MeridianLink Mortgage is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. MeridianLink Mortgage is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site nor is MeridianLink Mortgage responsible if the Linked Site is not working appropriately. MeridianLink Mortgage is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by MeridianLink Mortgage of the site or any association with its operators. You are responsible for viewing and abiding by the privacy statements and terms of use posted at the Linked Sites.

Any dealings with third parties (including advertisers) included within the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System or participation in promotions, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings or promotions, are solely between you and the other third party. MeridianLink Mortgage shall not be responsible or liable for any part of any such dealings or promotions.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

As a condition of your use of the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System, you will not use the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any of MeridianLink Mortgage' products and services (or the network(s) connected to any MeridianLink Mortgage' product(s)/service(s)) or interfere with any other party's use of MeridianLink Mortgage. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any MeridianLink Mortgage's Product/Service, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System.

USE OF SERVICES

The MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System may contain loan calculators, document forms and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others and to complete your work. You agree to abide by all the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System reasonable policies that are implemented by MeridianLink Mortgage from time to time.

MeridianLink Mortgage reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as MeridianLink Mortgage deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

SOFTWARE AND CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE MERIDIANLINK MORTGAGE LOAN ORIGINATION SYSTEM

All content and software (if any) that is made available to view and/or download in connection with the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System, excluding content and/or software that may be made available by end-users, ("Software") is owned by and is the copyrighted work of MeridianLink Mortgage and/or its suppliers and is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Your use of the Software is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with the Software ("License Agreement"). You may not install or use any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement unless you first agree to the License Agreement terms. For any Software not accompanied by a license agreement, MeridianLink Mortgage hereby grants to you, the user, a revocable personal, non-transferable license to use the Software in accordance with these Terms of Use, and for no other purpose provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Any reproduction or redistribution of the content and/or Software is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE CONTENT OR SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. You acknowledge that the Software, and any accompanying documentation and/or technical information, is subject to applicable export control laws and regulations of the USA. You agree not to export or re-export the Software, directly or indirectly, to any countries that are subject to USA export restrictions.

LIMITED WARRANTY

Licensor warrants that Product, as delivered to Licensee, does not infringe any existing U.S. patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret. If Licensee promptly notify Licensor of any such claim, Licensor will indemnify Licensee and hold Licensee harmless against such claim, and will control any defense or settlement, unless Licensee have modified Product, combined Product with any software that led to the claim or failed to promptly install any version of Product provided to Licensee that is non-infringing.

LIMITATION OF REMEDIES

THE FOREGOING WARRANTIES ARE IN LIEU OF OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW SUCH DISCLAIMING OF WARRANTIES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE DISCLAIMER ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS OR DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO LICENSOR OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THIS LICENSE. LICENSOR SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST DATA, LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PRODUCT, EVEN IF LICENSOR OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. LICENSOR AND ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.

INDEMNIFICATION

To the extent permitted by law through this license, you, the licensee, agree to indemnify and hold harmless MeridianLink Mortgage, its officials and employees, and any person from and against all claims, liabilities, losses, causes of action, damages, judgments, and expenses, including the reasonable cost of attorneys' fees and court costs, for injuries or damages to the person or property of third parties, including, without limitations, consequential damages and economic losses, that arise out of or in connection with your use, modification, or distribution of this software or program, its output, or any accompanying documentation

GENERAL TERMS REGARDING USE AND STORAGE

You agree that MeridianLink Mortgage may establish limits concerning use of any service offered on the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System, including without limitation, the maximum number of loan that can be generated per user account per month, the maximum number of days that loan data will be retained by the service, and the maximum number of times and duration you may access the service in a given period of time.

You agree that MeridianLink Mortgage has no responsibility or liability for the deletion, corruption or failure to store any data or other content maintained or transmitted by the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System. You acknowledge that MeridianLink Mortgage reserves the right to delete accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time.

TERMINATION/ACCESS RESTRICTION

MeridianLink Mortgage reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice if an outstanding balance is overdue. Upon termination of the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System, your right to use the MeridianLink Mortgage Loan Origination System immediately ceases. MeridianLink Mortgage shall have no obligation to maintain any content or to forward any data to you or any third party.

MeridianLink Mortgage will immediately terminate any account which it believes, in its sole discretion, is sharing confidential information with an unauthorized third party or is otherwise connected with any unauthorized third parties.

GENERAL

Any controversy or dispute arising out of this Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration conducted under the auspices of Judicate West arbitration and mediation services, and conducted in the County of Orange, State of California. If the parties cannot agree to a particular arbitrator from the Judicate West panel within 15 days of the initial request for arbitration, then both parties agree to allow Judicate West to select an arbitrator. All parties to this Agreement waive any right to a trial by jury. The provisions of the California Arbitration Act (Code of Civil Procedure, Part 3, Title IX, including section 1283.05) shall apply to any private arbitration hereunder. Any determination by the judge presiding at the private trial shall be binding and may be entered and enforced by any court having proper jurisdiction. The governing law of this contract shall be those of the State of California.

The prevailing party in binding arbitration, as determined by the arbitrator, shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs. If either party files a lawsuit to enforce any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, the prevailing party in said litigation shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees.