“Affiliate” means, with respect to any company (or any other entity), any other company that controls, is controlled by the subject company or together with the subject company jointed controlled by any third party. “control” means the company owns more than 50% of the equity interests or voting rights of such subject company (or any other entity), or has an actual discretion or controlling power over the operation of such subject company by entry into contractual arrangements or by other means. With respect to any Party, its “Affiliates” include the subsidiaries, whether directly or indirectly owned, that are controlled by it (including the PRC domestic affiliate companies controlled by such Party through a VIE structure).
“Agreement” is defined in the preamble to this Agreement.
“China” or “PRC” means the People’s Republic of China, excluding for the avoidance of doubt the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan.
“Confidential Information” means technical or business information relating to a Party’s operations, purchasing methods, suppliers, products, finances, marketing, customers, information technology systems or business plans, including any trade secrets,know-how, data, formula, or processes that is either identified as proprietary or confidential and/or that the receiving Party knows or has reason to know is regarded as Confidential Information by the disclosing Party. Confidential Information shall include (i) any of the foregoing information, in whatever form maintained, whether documentary, computerized or otherwise, regardless of the form in which such information is communicated, and (ii) the existence of this Agreement and the business cooperation contemplated by this Agreement.
“Contribution Margin Per Order” means, with respect to a merchant on the O2O Sales Platform, an absolute number calculated as follows: ([***]) / [***].
“Cooperation Term” is defined in Section 7.2.
“Dada” is defined in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Effective Date” is defined in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Force Majeure” means any event that is unforeseeable by either Party by the time of the execution of this Agreement and cannot be controlled, avoided, overcome or solved by either Party, which takes place after this Agreement comes into effect and interferes with the performance or partial performance by any Party to this Agreement, including but not limited to earthquake, typhoon, flood, war, generalized unavailability of public networks used fore-commerce traffic, strike, acts of Governmental Entities, etc. For the avoidance of doubt, only an event that is incontrollable, unavoidable, insurmountable and unsolvable for both Parties constitutes Force Majeure, otherwise it cannot be so regarded.
“Governmental Entity” means any federal, national, state, provincial or local, whether domestic or foreign, government or any court of competent jurisdiction, administrative agency or commission or other governmental, regulatory, self-regulatory or enforcement authority or instrumentality, whether domestic or foreign.
“Intellectual Property” means (i) patents and patent disclosures; (ii) trademarks, service marks, logos, slogans, trade dress, trade names, corporate names, internet domain names (and all translations, transliterations, adaptations, derivations and combinations of the foregoing), together with all goodwill associated therewith; (iii) copyright, copyrightable works and moral rights; (iv) trade secrets, confidential information, rights in designs, rights in inventions and rights inknow-how; (v) computer software (including source code, executable code, data, databases and documentation); and (vi) all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered,applied-for or unregistered, and all rights or forms of protection having equivalent or similar effect anywhere in the world.
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