(hh) The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.
(ii) The Company is not and will not be (1) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (2) a plan or account subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”); (3) an entity deemed to hold “plan assets” of any such plans or accounts for purposes of ERISA or the Code; or (4) a “governmental plan” within the meaning of ERISA.
(jj) The Company and its subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. The Company and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data (including all personal, personally identifiable, sensitive, confidential or regulated data (“Personal Data”)) used in connection with their businesses, and to the Company’s knowledge, there have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to same, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same. The Company and its subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Personal Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification, except where suchnon-compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
7.Indemnification.
(a) The Issuers, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each of the foregoing (collectively, the “Underwriter Indemnified Parties”), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and judgments caused by (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Time of Sale Information, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages, judgments or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein. The foregoing indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability that the Issuers may otherwise have.
(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Issuers, their directors, their officers who sign the Registration Statement and any person controlling the Issuers within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively, the “Issuer Indemnified Parties”), to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Issuersto the Underwriter Indemnified Parties but only with reference to information relating to an Underwriter furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Time of Sale Information.
(c) In case any action shall be brought against any indemnified party, based upon the Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto and with respect to which indemnity may be sought against an indemnifying party, the indemnified party shall promptly notify the indemnifying party in writing and the indemnifying party shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
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