Article 1 Proprietary Estimating Rates & Trade Secret Protection
The Licensee explicitly acknowledges and agrees that the localized Gulf Coast labor libraries, unit contractor rate variables, safety burden parameters, and parametric cost configuration multipliers built into the GulfCoast Outage Intelligence System (GOIS) represent highly confidential, proprietary engineering trade secrets.
Exportation, distribution, transmission, or disclosure of these unit rates or pricing algorithms to any third-party cost estimation firm, competitor software agency, or un-licensed refinery facility is strictly prohibited. The rates library must remain exclusively within authorized corporate network environments.
Article 2 Scope of License Grant & Site-Wide Restrictions
GOIS grants the corporate subscriber a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive site license to install, launch, and utilize the outage configurator natively within the designated refining complex.
This license is strictly bound to the authorized refining site name cryptographically sealed within the active license key (e.g. Baton Rouge Refinery). Staging or copying the program files to un-licensed refinery corridors, external corporate subsidiaries, or competitor assets represents a material breach of this agreement, immediately triggering site-wide authentication locks.
Article 3 Parametric Cost Modeling & AACE Class Accuracy Disclaimer
GOIS compiles, scales, and forecasts outage costs based on historical parametric cost curves, standard loaded craft multipliers, and active tank physical geometries.
While these calculations are calibrated against historical downstream turnarounds, they represent Class 3, 4, or 5 engineering estimates under AACE International guidelines. The Licensee is solely responsible for verifying final refining bids, material specifications, and contractor quotes prior to signing binding commercial agreements.
Article 4 Collaborative Outage Sync & Decentralized Databases
Collaborative data updates are recorded directly to a synchronized JSON file (gois_shared_state.json) in the application directory.
Syncing across different contractor companies, on-site craft leads, and off-site leadership is handled natively via corporate-approved Citrix ShareFile or Microsoft SharePoint/OneDrive sync clients. The Licensee is solely responsible for configuring, maintaining, and auditing security access permissions on their corporate storage drives.
Article 5 Subscription Billing, PO Net-30 Terms & Expiry Gates
Active refinery site subscriptions are billed on an annual cycle of $50,000 USD per refinery location. Transactions are processed through formal corporate Purchase Orders (PO) under standard NET-30 billing cycle terms.
If the corporate site license key expires without an approved Purchase Order renewal, the system will automatically engage the Subscription Gate Screen Overlay and block all cost modules, geometry calculations, and project tracking access.
Article 6 Limitation of Liability & Absolute Indemnification
"AS-IS" WARRANTY DISCLAIMER: GOIS is provided strictly on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular engineering purpose, or the absolute accuracy of cost estimation and parametric scaling algorithms.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY & DAMAGES: In no event shall the platform creators, developers, copyright owners, or distributors of GOIS be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use, misuse, or inability to use this software.
This includes, without limitation, physical refinery project cost overruns, outage schedule delays, material procurement errors, structural inspection oversights, safety incidents, refinery downtime, loss of profits, or loss of local storage persistence data.
INDEMNIFICATION & MAXIMUM REMEDY: The Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the developers and creators of GOIS from any third-party claims, legal actions, or financial losses arising from estimates compiled using this platform. Under no circumstances shall the platform creator's total cumulative liability for any breach, negligence, error, or omission exceed the total amount of licensing fees actually paid by the Licensee during the preceding 12-month period (capped at a maximum of $50,000 USD).