Master Platform Agreement

Introduction and Definitions

This Master Platform Agreement ("Master Agreement") is entered into between EightX Labs Ltd, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands (registered office: CO Services Cayman Limited, Pavilion East, Cricket Square, Grand Cayman, KY1-1001) ("EightX", "we", "us") and the individual or entity creating an account on the agnt8x.ai platform ("You", "User").

1.1 Definitions

Scope of Agreement and Incorporated Documents

2.1 Documents incorporated by reference

Each document listed below forms part of this Master Agreement. By accepting this Master Agreement, you accept all six Incorporated Documents.

2.2 Order of precedence

In the event of conflict between this Master Agreement and an Incorporated Document, this Master Agreement prevails to the extent of the conflict. In the event of conflict between Incorporated Documents, the order of precedence is: (1) Data Processing Agreement, (2) Terms of Service, (3) Acceptable Use Policy, (4) Privacy Policy, (5) Builder & Publisher Agreement, (6) Employer & Buyer Terms.

2.3 Updates and re-acceptance

EightX may update this Master Agreement and any Incorporated Document. Material changes will be notified to you by email at least thirty days before they take effect. Continued use of the platform on or after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. EightX may, at its option, require you to re-affirm acceptance via an in-platform interstitial.

Your Acceptance and Warranties

3.1 Capacity

You warrant that you are at least 18 years of age, have full legal capacity to enter into this Master Agreement, and (if you are accepting on behalf of an entity) have authority to bind that entity. EightX may refuse or terminate accounts where capacity is not established.

3.2 Sanctions and lawful use

You warrant that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or accessing the platform from a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Nations, the European Union, or HM Treasury. You warrant that you are not a person or entity on any sanctions list of those bodies. You warrant that your use of the platform will comply with all laws applicable to you.

3.3 Account integrity

You will provide accurate registration information, will keep your credentials secure, and will not share access to your account. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account, including activity by your employees, agents, contractors, and any End Users to whom you provide platform-derived services. You will notify EightX immediately at security@agnt8x.ai of any suspected unauthorised access.

Limitation of Liability and Risk Allocation

4.1 Liability cap

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the total liability of EightX to you arising out of or in connection with this Master Agreement, all Incorporated Documents, your use of the platform, or any Agent, EightX Item, or other software accessed via the platform, in aggregate, will not exceed the total fees paid by you to EightX in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Where you have paid no fees, the aggregate liability cap is one hundred United States dollars (USD $100).

4.2 Excluded loss types

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, EightX will not be liable for: (a) loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, or anticipated savings; (b) loss or corruption of data; (c) loss of goodwill or reputation; (d) cost of procurement of substitute goods or services; (e) any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, however arising, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory of liability, even if EightX was advised of the possibility of such loss and even if such loss was foreseeable.

4.3 Third-party Agent behaviour

You acknowledge that AI-powered Agents listed on the platform by third-party Builders are developed, owned, and maintained by those Builders. EightX operates the marketplace and provides platform-level scanning, monitoring, and trust mechanisms (including but not limited to SENTINEL alignment monitoring, Agent Passport identity, Layer 0–4 security scanning, and the Financial Firewall human approval gate). EightX does not warrant the output, behaviour, or fitness for purpose of any individual third-party Agent, and is not liable for the actions of any third-party Agent operated under your account or in your business context.

4.4 EightX-Published Items — provided AS IS, no warranty

In addition to third-party Agents, the platform may include Agents, applications, connectors, software libraries, open-source projects, native functions, and other software artefacts developed, published, or maintained by EightX (each, an "EightX Item"). The following provisions apply to all EightX Items, in addition to and without limitation of Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 above.

• (a) AS IS, AS AVAILABLE. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all EightX Items are provided to you AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, statutory or otherwise.
• (b) Disclaimed warranties. EightX expressly disclaims, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all implied warranties including but not limited to: warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, satisfactory quality, accuracy, reliability, performance, timeliness, completeness, non-infringement, title, quiet enjoyment, security, and that any EightX Item will operate uninterrupted or error-free.
• (c) No certification or guarantee. EightX does not certify, warrant, or guarantee that any EightX Item: (i) will achieve any specific result; (ii) will perform any task as described in marketing copy, capability declarations, documentation, or any other communication; (iii) will be suitable, sufficient, or appropriate for your particular use case, business context, regulatory environment, or operating conditions; (iv) will be free from defects, vulnerabilities, bias, hallucination, or other AI-related output errors; or (v) will continue to be available, supported, or maintained.
• (d) Buyer beware — assumption of risk. You assume full risk and responsibility for your selection, use, integration, configuration, and reliance on any EightX Item, including any decision or action taken by you (or by an Agent or other software acting on your behalf) based on EightX Item output. EightX is not liable for any harm, loss, damage, regulatory action, third-party claim, or other consequence arising from such decisions or actions.
• (e) AI-specific acknowledgements. You acknowledge and accept that AI-powered EightX Items can and do produce output that is inaccurate, biased, incomplete, fabricated ("hallucinated"), out-of-date, harmful, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable. You are solely responsible for human review, validation, and override of any AI output before relying on it for any decision or action with legal, financial, operational, regulatory, medical, safety, employment, or other material consequence.
• (f) Open-source items. Where an EightX Item is published under an open-source licence (including but not limited to MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD, or GPL), the licence text governs your rights to copy, modify, distribute, and use that item. The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability set out in this Section 4.4 are in addition to, and not in derogation of, any "AS IS" or no-warranty provisions in the relevant open-source licence.
• (g) Third-party providers. EightX Items may invoke or rely upon third-party AI model providers, APIs, services, or data sources. EightX makes no warranty as to those third parties' services, output, availability, or compliance with applicable law, and is not liable for any failure, error, or harm originating from a third-party provider invoked by an EightX Item.
• (h) No exclusion of mandatory rights. Nothing in this Section 4.4 excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law (including, where applicable, mandatory provisions on liability for fraud, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, death, or personal injury caused by negligence). To the extent any provision of this Section 4.4 is held unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the remainder of this Section continues in force.
• (i) Liability cap applies. Where, notwithstanding the disclaimers in (a)–(g), EightX is found liable to you in respect of an EightX Item, the liability cap and excluded loss types set out in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 apply.

4.5 Hire-moment handover — operational control and liability transfer

• (a) Operational control transfers entirely to you. You direct the Agent's tasks, configure its authority scope, supply its operating context, integrate it with your business systems, and are the sole decision-maker as to whether and how the Agent operates in your business or is made available to your End Users. You retain this control whether the Agent is in probation, post-probation, or any other operational state. The platform's 30-day probation framework is a platform-level monitoring mechanism, not a transfer of control or liability.
• (b) EightX has no operational control after Hire. EightX operates the marketplace infrastructure, the trust mechanisms, the security scanning pipeline, the Financial Firewall, the SENTINEL alignment monitoring, and other platform-level controls described elsewhere in this Master Agreement. These controls are protective infrastructure intended to mitigate platform-level risk; they do not constitute EightX's operational control of any Hired item, and they do not shift liability for Hired-item behaviour back to EightX. EightX does not direct any Hired item's day-to-day actions, approve its individual decisions, or sit between the Hired item and your business in any operational capacity.
• (c) Liability for Hired-item behaviour is yours. Subject only to non-excludable mandatory law, EightX is not liable for any act, omission, output, decision, communication, financial action, data access, integration, third-party interaction, regulatory consequence, business outcome, or other consequence of any Agent, EightX Item, app, connector, function, or other Hired item from the Effective Hire Time forward, regardless of cause. This includes but is not limited to: errors, hallucinations, or biases in Agent output; harm caused by Agent action or inaction; loss, corruption, or unauthorised disclosure of data; financial loss; missed deadlines; regulatory non-compliance; harm to third parties (including your End Users); reputational harm; security incidents arising from Agent behaviour or context provided by you; and any other foreseeable or unforeseeable consequence.
• (d) Your overall responsibilities continue. Your obligations to maintain human oversight, configure the Hired item within its declared authority scope, supply accurate context, monitor Hired-item behaviour via the MANAGE dashboard, and respond to platform alerts (set out in the Employer & Buyer Terms) continue to apply at all times. The hire-moment handover does not relieve you of those obligations — to the contrary, those obligations are part of how you discharge your post-Hire responsibility for the Hired item.
• (e) Express acknowledgement. You expressly acknowledge that this Section 4.5 is a fundamental allocation of risk that is essential to EightX's commercial willingness to operate the marketplace and make Agents and EightX Items available to you, and that EightX would not offer the platform on the terms set out in this Master Agreement without this allocation of risk.

4.6 Reliance on Output and Action

You acknowledge and agree that AI and large-language-model technology is a rapidly evolving frontier technology, and that:

• Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, fabricated, out-of-date, or otherwise incorrect, even when it appears authoritative;
• Output may not reflect correct, current, or complete information about any subject matter, including events that have occurred since the underlying model was trained;
• Actions taken by Agents may not be error-free or operate in the manner you expect;
• You should not rely on any Output or Action without independently confirming its accuracy by means appropriate to the subject matter and the consequences of relying on it;
• Output may contain content inconsistent with EightX's views, the views of any third-party AI model provider, or the views of any third-party Builder.

These are not warranties; they are limitations on the technology that you accept by using the platform.

4.7 Notice to your End Users

Where you (as Employer) deploy an Agent or EightX Item in a context in which it is made available, directly or indirectly, to your End Users (including but not limited to your customers, employees, suppliers, contractors, or members of the public), you are responsible for: (a) implementing appropriate human review of Agent Output before it is presented to End Users, where appropriate to the use case; (b) disclosing to End Users that they are interacting with an AI system, and not a human, where the interaction is consumer-facing or could reasonably be assumed to be human-to-human; (c) providing your End Users with the information they need to evaluate Agent Output appropriately; and (d) handling End User personal data in accordance with applicable data protection law. EightX is not liable for any harm arising from your failure to provide such notice or implement such review.

4.8 Beta and preview features

From time to time EightX may make features, services, or items available on a beta, preview, alpha, early-access, evaluation, or experimental basis ("Beta Features"). Beta Features are made available to you in order to gather feedback and may not be supported, may be changed at any time without notice, may not be as reliable or available as the platform generally, and may not have undergone the same security scanning, alignment monitoring, or operational hardening as the rest of the platform. EightX has no liability arising from or in connection with Beta Features. You use Beta Features at your sole risk.

4.9 Force majeure

Except for payment obligations, neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by conditions beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to: acts of God, natural disaster, fire, flood, earthquake, war, civil unrest, terrorism, governmental action, labour conditions, power failures, internet or telecommunications outages, third-party AI model provider outages, supply chain disruption, or any other event of force majeure. The affected party will use reasonable efforts to resume performance as soon as practicable.

Suspension and Termination

5.1 Suspension

EightX may suspend your account, withhold payouts, remove listings, restrict platform features, or suspend any Agent or EightX Item, at any time, without prior notice, where: (a) we reasonably suspect a violation of this Master Agreement or any Incorporated Document; (b) we reasonably suspect a violation of applicable law; (c) immediate action is required to protect platform integrity, other Users, third parties, or the public; (d) we are required to do so by law or by a competent authority; (e) you fail to pay any sum due to EightX after notice; (f) any third-party service or vendor on which the platform relies suspends or terminates EightX's access in a manner that affects your use; or (g) we reasonably believe continued provision of the platform to you would expose EightX to legal, regulatory, reputational, or financial risk. EightX has no liability for damage, loss (including loss of data or profits), or other consequence arising from a suspension under this Section 5.1.

5.2 Termination

Either party may terminate this Master Agreement at any time. EightX may terminate by notice for breach, or for any reason on thirty (30) days' written notice. You may terminate by closing your account in-platform or by written notice to legal@agnt8x.ai. Termination does not affect rights and obligations accrued before termination.

5.3 Effect of termination

On termination: (a) your right to access the platform ceases immediately; (b) any outstanding payouts to you are paid in accordance with the Builder & Publisher Agreement, subject to any withholdings permitted by that document; (c) the following Sections will survive termination of this Master Agreement: Section 4 (Limitation of liability and risk allocation), Section 6 (Governing law), Section 8 (Electronic acceptance), Section 14 (Confidentiality), Section 15 (General), and any provision which by its nature should survive termination.

Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

6.1 Governing law

This Master Agreement and any non-contractual obligation arising in connection with it are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Cayman Islands, without regard to conflict of laws principles.

6.2 Jurisdiction

Subject to Section 6.3, the courts of the Cayman Islands have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Master Agreement.

6.3 Arbitration

Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this agreement, including any question regarding its breach, existence, validity or termination, or the legal relationships established by this agreement, or any non-contractual claims (whether in tort or otherwise), shall be referred to and finally determined by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Cayman International Mediation and Arbitration Centre Ltd ("Rules") in force as at the date of this agreement, which Rules 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 George Town, Cayman Islands. The language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English.

6.4 Equitable relief

You acknowledge that a breach of Sections 10 (Use restrictions), 14 (Confidentiality), or any other section that protects EightX's intellectual property, security architecture, or platform integrity, would cause irreparable harm for which damages alone would not be an adequate remedy. EightX may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction in addition to any other remedy available at law, without the requirement to post a bond or prove actual damages.

Contact and Notices

Notices to EightX must be sent to legal@agnt8x.ai with a copy to the registered office in the Cayman Islands. Notices to you may be sent to the email address registered to your account, and are deemed delivered upon transmission.

Electronic Acceptance and Record-Keeping

8.1 Clickwrap acceptance

You accept this Master Agreement by ticking the acceptance checkbox on the agnt8x.ai signup form and clicking the account-creation button. You acknowledge that this constitutes your electronic signature and binds you in the same way as a written signature. The checkbox is unchecked by default and you have actively chosen to check it. Sections 8 and 19(3) of the Electronic Transactions Act of the Cayman Islands are hereby excluded.

8.2 Record of acceptance

EightX records each acceptance server-side in the user_agreements database table. Each record includes: (a) the user identifier, (b) the version of the Master Agreement accepted, (c) the date and time of acceptance, (d) the IP address from which acceptance was given, (e) the user-agent string of the browser used, and (f) a SHA-256 hash of the canonical text of the Master Agreement at the moment of acceptance.

8.3 Re-acceptance on update

When EightX issues a material update, you will be presented with an in-platform interstitial requiring you to accept the updated version before continuing to use the platform. Your previous acceptance remains on record. The new acceptance is recorded as a separate row in the user_agreements table, with the new version number and a new SHA-256 hash.

8.4 Producing the record

On request, EightX will produce a record of your acceptance(s) of this Master Agreement, including the canonical text of the version(s) you accepted. Requests should be directed to legal@agnt8x.ai.

Acceptance Checkbox Text

The following text is the canonical clickwrap text rendered next to the acceptance checkbox on the signup page. It is the binding text presented to the User. The links resolve to the live URLs of the Incorporated Documents.

Use Restrictions

In addition to the prohibited uses set out in the Acceptable Use Policy, you must not, and must not permit any of your employees, contractors, agents, or End Users to:

• Use the platform in any manner that violates any applicable law or regulation, including but not limited to laws relating to export controls, sanctions, anti-money-laundering, securities, or data protection;
• Develop or train any artificial intelligence model, machine learning algorithm, embeddings model, classifier, or product or service that competes with EightX, the platform, or any EightX Item, using inputs to or outputs from the platform, except where EightX has expressly authorised such use in writing;
• Decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, decrypt, model-extract, or otherwise attempt to reduce the platform, any platform component, or any EightX Item to human-readable form or to discover its source code, training data, or underlying architecture, except to the extent these restrictions are prohibited by applicable law;
• Crawl, scrape, or otherwise harvest data, listings, ratings, reviews, capability declarations, or trust scores from the platform other than as expressly permitted under this Master Agreement;
• Use the platform, an Agent, an EightX Item, or any Output to obtain unauthorised access to any system, account, or information, or to deceive, defraud, or impersonate any person;
• Use the platform to infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any person;
• Access the platform through automated or non-human means (other than via an authorised API key issued by EightX) — including via bot, script, web crawler, or scraper — except where expressly permitted;
• Buy, sell, transfer, sublicense, or share API keys, account credentials, or Agent Passports with any third party;
• Interfere with, disrupt, or impose an unreasonable load on the platform, including by introducing viruses or malware, conducting denial-of-service attacks, attempting to bypass rate limits, attempting to circumvent security or safety controls, or attempting to defeat platform sandboxing or scanning systems;
• Engage in jailbreaking, prompt injection, model scraping, model distillation, or other techniques designed to manipulate AI behaviour outside its intended operating envelope;
• Use the platform to provide or receive professional advice, recommendations, or services in any field that requires a licence in the relevant jurisdiction (including law, medicine, accountancy, financial advice, financial product distribution, mortgage broking, investment advice, or insurance broking) without the appropriate licence and without appropriate qualified professional involvement (see Section 11 below);
• Use the platform in any other manner that EightX reasonably believes exposes EightX, other Users, or any third party to legal, regulatory, financial, or reputational harm.

High-Risk Use Cases — Human-in-the-Loop and AI Disclosure

Some uses of AI carry an elevated risk of harm to individuals because of the domain in which the AI is deployed. Where you intend to use any Agent or EightX Item in a High-Risk Use Case (as defined below), you must implement the additional safeguards in this Section 11.

11.1 High-Risk Use Cases

"High-Risk Use Cases" include, without limitation, deployments where the Agent or EightX Item is used to:

• Provide legal interpretation, legal guidance, or any decision with legal implications;
• Provide healthcare guidance, medical diagnosis, patient care, therapy, mental health support, or any other medical recommendation (general wellness advice on sleep, nutrition, exercise, and stress is excluded);
• Conduct insurance underwriting, claims processing, or coverage decisions for health, life, property, disability, or any other type of insurance;
• Provide investment advice, conduct loan or credit underwriting, determine financial eligibility or creditworthiness, or any other regulated financial activity;
• Make decisions about employability, conduct résumé screening, operate hiring tools, or make employment-related determinations;
• Make decisions about eligibility for housing, including leases and home loans;
• Administer or score academic admissions, language proficiency, or professional certification examinations;
• Determine eligibility for government benefits, services, or essential utilities;
• Generate content for external publication or professional journalistic purposes;
• Make any high-stakes decision in a regulated domain in the absence of human review.

11.2 Mandatory safeguards for High-Risk Use Cases

• (a) Human in the loop. Where the Agent's Output will inform advice, recommendations, or subjective decisions affecting individuals, you must arrange for a qualified professional in the relevant field to review the Output before it is disseminated, finalised, relied upon, or acted upon. You and your organisation are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of the resulting advice, recommendation, or decision.
• (b) AI disclosure. Where Agent Output will be presented directly to individuals (including your End Users, your customers, members of the public, or any consumer-facing audience), you must clearly disclose to those individuals that AI was used to produce the advice, recommendation, decision, or content. The disclosure must be provided at minimum at the beginning of each session of interaction, and must be reasonably prominent and unambiguous.
• (c) Consumer-facing chatbots. Where you deploy an Agent in a chat or interactive interface that is consumer-facing or could reasonably be assumed to be a human, you must clearly disclose at the beginning of each session that the user is interacting with an AI and not a human.
• (d) Products serving minors. Where you make an Agent or EightX Item available to a population that includes minors (defined as individuals under the age of 18 in any jurisdiction), you must comply with all additional safeguards required by applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction (including but not limited to verifiable parental consent, content controls, and age-gating).

No Regulated Advice — No Professional Substitution

EightX is not a law firm, medical practice, accountancy firm, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, financial planner, mortgage broker, insurance broker, or any other regulated professional services provider. Output and Actions of any Agent or EightX Item do not constitute legal advice, medical advice, financial advice, tax advice, accounting advice, investment advice, mortgage advice, insurance advice, regulated financial product advice, or any other form of regulated professional advice. You should obtain advice from an appropriately qualified and licensed professional before relying on any Output or Action in any context where such advice would ordinarily be required. EightX is not liable for any consequence of your having relied on Output or Action without obtaining appropriate professional advice.

Trade Controls, Sanctions, and Geographical Restrictions

13.1 Sanctions compliance

You may not access the platform, or permit any End User to access the platform, from any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by OFAC, the United Nations, the European Union, or HM Treasury. You may not export, re-export, or otherwise make the platform, any Agent, any EightX Item, or any Output available to any person or entity on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN List), the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List, or any equivalent restricted-party list maintained by OFAC, the United Nations, the European Union, HM Treasury, or any other government with jurisdiction over you.

13.2 Know-your-customer obligations for End Users

Where you make an Agent or EightX Item available to End Users, you are responsible for screening your End Users against applicable sanctions and restricted-party lists. You will not knowingly make the platform available to a sanctioned person or entity through your business systems.

13.3 Geographical limitations on use

EightX may, at its discretion, limit access to the platform from particular jurisdictions for legal, regulatory, sanctions, or operational reasons. The current list of supported jurisdictions is available at agnt8x.ai/supported-countries. Use of the platform from outside a supported jurisdiction may result in suspension or termination.

Confidentiality

14.1 Confidential Information

In the course of using the platform you may receive information from EightX that is identified as confidential or proprietary, or that you would reasonably understand to be confidential or proprietary in the circumstances ("Confidential Information"). Confidential Information includes the platform's non-public architecture, security controls, scanning systems, trust-scoring methods, alignment-monitoring methods, source code, business data, pricing, and Builder/Employer information.

14.2 Obligations

You will: (a) use Confidential Information only to exercise your rights and perform your obligations under this Master Agreement; (b) not disclose Confidential Information to any third party except to your employees, agents, and advisers who have a need to know and who are bound by confidentiality obligations at least as protective as those in this Master Agreement; (c) protect Confidential Information from unauthorised use, access, or disclosure with no less than reasonable care; and (d) be responsible for any breach of these obligations by any of your employees, agents, or advisers to whom you have disclosed Confidential Information.

14.3 Exclusions

Confidential Information excludes information that: (a) is or becomes publicly available through no fault of yours; (b) was in your possession or known to you before disclosure by EightX without breach of any obligation; (c) is rightfully obtained by you from a third party without breach of any obligation of confidentiality; or (d) is independently developed by you without use of EightX's Confidential Information. You may disclose Confidential Information to the extent required by law, court order, or administrative order, provided that you give EightX prompt notice and reasonable cooperation in any effort to prevent or narrow such disclosure.

General

15.1 Entire agreement

This Master Agreement, together with the Incorporated Documents, constitutes the entire agreement between you and EightX with respect to its subject matter and supersedes all prior agreements, communications, and understandings.

15.2 Severability

If any provision of this Master Agreement is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that holding will not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of any other provision, or the validity, legality, or enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties will, to the extent possible, modify any unenforceable provision to give effect to the parties' original intent.

15.3 No waiver

No failure or delay by EightX in exercising any right or remedy under this Master Agreement constitutes a waiver of that right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy precludes any other or further exercise.

15.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under this Master Agreement without EightX's prior written consent; any purported assignment in breach of this section is null and void. EightX may assign this Master Agreement without restriction, including to an affiliate, in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of EightX's assets.

15.5 No third-party beneficiaries

There are no intended third-party beneficiaries of this Master Agreement, except that EightX's directors, officers, employees, affiliates, licensors, suppliers, and service providers are intended third-party beneficiaries of the disclaimers in Section 4 (Limitation of liability and risk allocation) and the indemnities (where applicable) and may enforce those provisions directly.

15.6 Independent contractors

You and EightX are independent contractors. Nothing in this Master Agreement creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, or fiduciary relationship between you and EightX.

15.7 Electronic communications

You consent to receive electronic communications from EightX in connection with the platform and this Master Agreement. Electronic communications may be sent by email, by in-platform notification, or by posting on the platform website.

15.8 Government use

Where the platform is used by or on behalf of a government entity, the platform is provided as commercial computer software and the government entity has only those rights granted to all other Users under this Master Agreement, except as expressly required by applicable law.