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The term includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback or other acknowledgment.6\n\n“Authenticate” means (i) to sign or (ii) with the intent to sign a record, to execute or adopt an electronic symbol, sound, message, or process referring to, attached to, included in, or logically associated or linked with, that record.7\n\n“Automated transaction” means a transaction in which a contract is formed in whole or part by electronic actions of one or both parties that are not previously reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course.8\n\n“Cancellation” means the ending of a contract by a party because of breach of contract by another party.9\n\n“Computer” means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions.10\n\n“Computer information” means information in electronic form that is obtained from or through the use of a computer or that is in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term includes a copy of the information and any documentation or packaging associated with the copy.11\n\n“Computer information transaction” means an agreement or the performance of it to create, modify, transfer, or license computer information or informational rights in computer information. The term includes a support contract under § 59.1-506.12. The term does not include a transaction merely because the parties’ agreement provides that their communications about the transaction will be in the form of computer information.12\n\n“Computer program” means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer to bring about a certain result. The term does not include separately identifiable informational content.13\n\n“Consequential damages” resulting from breach of contract includes (i) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the breaching party at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented, and (ii) any injury to an individual or damage to property other than the subject matter of the transaction proximately resulting from breach of warranty. The term does not include direct damages or incidental damages.14\n\n“Conspicuous,” with reference to a term, means so written, displayed, or presented that a reasonable person against which it is to operate ought to have noticed it. A term in an electronic record intended to evoke a response by an electronic agent is conspicuous if it is presented in a form that would enable a reasonably configured electronic agent to take it into account or react to it without review of the record by an individual. With respect to a person, conspicuous terms include (i) a heading in capitals in a size equal to or greater than, or in contrasting type, font, or color to, the surrounding text, (ii) language in the body of a record or display in larger or other contrasting type, font, or color or set off from the surrounding text by symbols or other marks that draw attention to the language, and (iii) a term prominently referenced in an electronic record or display which is readily accessible or reviewable from the record or display. With respect to a person or an electronic agent, conspicuous terms include a term, or reference to a term, that is so placed in a record or display that the person or electronic agent cannot proceed without taking action with respect to the particular term or reference.15\n\n“Consumer” means an individual who is a licensee of information or informational rights that the individual at the time of contracting intended to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. The term does not include an individual who is a licensee primarily for professional or commercial purposes, including agriculture, business management, and investment management other than management of the individual’s personal or family investments.16\n\n“Consumer contract” means a contract between a merchant licensor and a consumer.17\n\n“Contract” means the total legal obligation resulting from the parties’ agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable law.18\n\n“Contract fee” means the price, fee, rent, or royalty payable in a contract under this chapter or any part of the amount payable.19\n\n“Contractual use term” means an enforceable term that defines or limits the use, disclosure of, or access to licensed information or informational rights, including a term that defines the scope of a license.20\n\n“Copy” means the medium on which information is fixed on a temporary or permanent basis and from which it can be perceived, reproduced, used, or communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.21\n\n“Course of dealing” means a sequence of previous conduct between the parties to a particular transaction which establishes a common basis of understanding for interpreting their expressions and other conduct.22\n\n“Course of performance” means repeated performances, under a contract that involves repeated occasions for performance, which are accepted or acquiesced in without objection by a party having knowledge of the nature of the performance and an opportunity to object to it.23\n\n“Court” includes an arbitration or other dispute-resolution forum if the parties have agreed to use of that forum or its use is required by law.24\n\n“Delivery,” with respect to a copy, means the voluntary physical or electronic transfer of possession or control.25\n\n“Direct damages” means compensation for losses measured by § 59.1-508.8 (b) (1) or § 59.1-508.9 (a) (1). The term does not include consequential damages or incidental damages.26\n\n“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.27\n\n“Electronic agent” means a computer program, or electronic or other automated means, used independently to initiate an action, or to respond to electronic messages or performances, on the person’s behalf without review or action by an individual at the time of the action or response to the message or performance.28\n\n“Electronic message” means a record or display that is stored, generated, or transmitted by electronic means for the purpose of communication to another person or electronic agent.29\n\n“Financial accommodation contract” means an agreement under which a person extends a financial accommodation to a licensee and which does not create a security interest governed by Title 8.9A. The agreement may be in any form, including a license or lease.30\n\n“Financial services transaction” means an agreement that provides for, or a transaction that is, or entails access to, use, transfer, clearance, settlement, or processing of:A\n\na deposit, loan, funds, or monetary value represented in electronic form and stored or capable of storage by electronic means and retrievable and transferable by electronic means, or other right to payment to or from a person;B\n\nan instrument or other item;C\n\na payment order, credit card transaction, debit card transaction, funds transfer, automated clearing house transfer, or similar wholesale or retail transfer of funds;D\n\na letter of credit, document of title, financial asset, investment property, or similar asset held in a fiduciary or agency capacity; orE\n\nrelated identifying, verifying, access-enabling, authorizing, or monitoring information.31\n\n“Financier” means a person that provides a financial accommodation to a licensee under a financial accommodation contract and either (i) becomes a licensee for the purpose of transferring or sublicensing the license to the party to which the financial accommodation is provided or (ii) obtains a contractual right under the financial accommodation contract to preclude the licensee’s use of the information or informational rights under a license in the event of breach of the financial accommodation contract. The term does not include a person that selects, creates, or supplies the information that is the subject of the license, owns the informational rights in the information, or provides support for, modifications to, or maintenance of the information.32\n\n“Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.33\n\n“Goods” means all things that are movable at the time relevant to the computer information transaction. The term includes the unborn young of animals, growing crops, and other identified things to be severed from realty which are covered by § 8.2-107. The term does not include computer information, money, the subject matter of foreign exchange transactions, documents, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, instruments, investment property, accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, or general intangibles.34\n\n“Incidental damages” resulting from breach of contract:A\n\nmeans compensation for any commercially reasonable charges, expenses, or commissions reasonably incurred by an aggrieved party with respect to (i) inspection, receipt, transmission, transportation, care, or custody of identified copies or information that is the subject of the breach; (ii) stopping delivery, shipment, or transmission; (iii) effecting cover or retransfer of copies or information after the breach; (iv) other efforts after the breach to minimize or avoid loss resulting from the breach; and (v) matters otherwise incident to the breach; andB\n\ndoes not include consequential damages or direct damages.35\n\n“Information” means data, text, images, sounds, mask works, or computer programs, including collections and compilations of them.36\n\n“Information processing system” means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or processing information.37\n\n“Informational content” means information that is intended to be communicated to or perceived by an individual in the ordinary use of the information, or the equivalent of that information.38\n\n“Informational rights” include all rights in information created under laws governing patents, copyrights, mask works, trade secrets, trademarks, publicity rights, or any other law that gives a person, independently of contract, a right to control or preclude another person’s use of or access to the information on the basis of the rights holder’s interest in the information.39\n\n“Insurance services transaction” means an agreement between an insurer and an insured that provides for, or a transaction that is or entails access to, use, transfer, clearance, settlement, or processing of:A\n\nan insurance policy, contract, or certificate; orB\n\na right to payment under an insurance policy, contract or certificate.40\n\n“Knowledge,” with respect to a fact, means actual knowledge of the fact.41\n\n“License” means a contract that authorizes access to, or use, distribution, performance, modification, or reproduction of, information or informational rights, but expressly limits the access or uses authorized or expressly grants fewer than all rights in the information, whether or not the transferee has title to a licensed copy. The term includes an access contract, a lease of a computer program, and a consignment of a copy. The term does not include a reservation or creation of a security interest to the extent the interest is governed by Title 8.9A.42\n\n“Licensee” means a person entitled by agreement to acquire or exercise rights in, or to have access to or use of, computer information under an agreement to which this chapter applies. A licensor is not a licensee with respect to rights reserved to it under the agreement.43\n\n“Licensor” means a person obligated by agreement to transfer or create rights in, or to give access to or use of, computer information or informational rights in it under an agreement to which this chapter applies. Between the provider of access and a provider of the informational content to be accessed, the provider of content is the licensor. In an exchange of information or informational rights, each party is a licensor with respect to the information, informational rights, or access it gives.44\n\n“Mass-market license” means a standard form used in a mass-market transaction.45\n\n“Mass-market transaction” means a transaction that is:A\n\na consumer contract; orB\n\nany other transaction with an end-user licensee if:i\n\nthe transaction is for information or informational rights directed to the general public as a whole, including consumers, under substantially the same terms for the same information;ii\n\nthe licensee acquires the information or informational rights in a retail transaction under terms consistent with an ordinary transaction in a retail market; andiii\n\nthe transaction is not (a) a contract for redistribution or for public performance or public display of a copyrighted work; (b) a transaction in which the information is customized or otherwise specially prepared by the licensor for the licensee, other than minor customization using a capability of the information intended for that purpose; (c) a site license; or (d) an access contract.46\n\n“Merchant” means a person:A\n\nwho deals in information or informational rights of the kind involved in the transaction;B\n\nwho by the person’s occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the relevant aspect of the business practices or information involved in the transaction; orC\n\nto whom the knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or information involved in the transaction may be attributed by the person’s employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having the knowledge or skill.47\n\n“Nonexclusive license” means a license that does not preclude the licensor from transferring to other licensees the same information, informational rights, or contractual rights within the same scope. The term includes a consignment of a copy.48\n\n“Notice” of a fact means knowledge of the fact, receipt of notification of the fact, or reason to know the fact exists.49\n\n“Notify” or “give notice” means to take such steps as may be reasonably required to inform the other person in the ordinary course, whether or not the other person actually comes to know of it.50\n\n“Party” means a person that engages in a transaction or makes an agreement under this chapter.51\n\n“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental subdivision, instrumentality, or agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.52\n\n“Published informational content” means informational content prepared for or made available to recipients generally, or to a class of recipients, in substantially the same form. The term does not include informational content that is (i) customized for a particular recipient by one or more individuals acting as or on behalf of the licensor, using judgment or expertise or (ii) provided in a special relationship of reliance between the provider and the recipient.53\n\n“Receipt” means:A\n\nwith respect to a copy, taking delivery; orB\n\nwith respect to a notice:i\n\ncoming to a person’s attention; orii\n\nbeing delivered to and available at a location or system designated by agreement for that purpose or, in the absence of an agreed location or system: (a) being delivered at the person’s residence, or the person’s place of business through which the contract was made, or at any other place held out by the person as a place for receipt of communications of the kind; or (b) in the case of an electronic notice, coming into existence in an information processing system or at an address in that system in a form capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of that type by a recipient, if the recipient uses, or otherwise has designated or holds out, that place or system for receipt of notices of the kind to be given and the sender does not know that the notice cannot be accessed from that place.54\n\n“Receive” means to take receipt.55\n\n“Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.56\n\n“Release” means an agreement by a party not to object to, or exercise any rights or pursue any remedies to limit, the use of information or informational rights which agreement does not require an affirmative act by the party to enable or support the other party’s use of the information or informational rights. The term includes a waiver of informational rights.57\n\n“Return,” with respect to a record containing contractual terms that were rejected, refers only to the computer information and means:A\n\nin the case of a licensee that rejects a record regarding a single information product transferred for a single contract fee, a right to reimbursement of the contract fee paid from the person to which it was paid or from another person that offers to reimburse that fee, on (i) submission of proof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of the computer information and all copies within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee;B\n\nin the case of a licensee that rejects a record regarding an information product provided as part of multiple information products integrated into and transferred as a bundled whole but retaining their separate identity:1\n\na right to reimbursement of any portion of the aggregate contract fee identified by the licensor in the initial transaction as charged to the licensee for all bundled information products which was actually paid, on (i) rejection of the record before or during the initial use of the bundled product; (ii) proper redelivery of all computer information products in the bundled whole and all copies of them within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee; and (iii) submission of proof of purchase; or2\n\na right to reimbursement of any separate contract fee identified by the licensor in the initial transaction as charged to the licensee for the separate information product to which the rejected record applies, on (i) submission of proof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of that computer information product and all copies within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee; orC\n\nin the case of a licensor that rejects a record proposed by the licensee, a right to proper redelivery of the computer information and all copies from the licensee, to stop delivery or access to the information by the licensee, and to reimbursement from the licensee of amounts paid by the licensor with respect to the rejected record, on reimbursement to the licensee of contract fees that it paid with respect to the rejected record, subject to recoupment and setoff.58\n\n“Scope,” with respect to terms of a license, means:A\n\nthe licensed copies, information, or informational rights involved;B\n\nthe use or access authorized, prohibited, or controlled;C\n\nthe geographic area, market, or location; orD\n\nthe duration of the license.59\n\n“Seasonable,” with respect to an act, means taken within the time agreed or, if no time is agreed, within a reasonable time.60\n\n“Send” means, with any costs provided for and properly addressed or directed as reasonable under the circumstances or as otherwise agreed, to deposit a record in the mail or with a commercially reasonable carrier, to deliver a record for transmission to or re-creation in another location or information processing system, or to take the steps necessary to initiate transmission to or re-creation of a record in another location or information processing system. In addition, with respect to an electronic message, the message must be in a form capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of the type the recipient uses or otherwise has designated or held out as a place for the receipt of communications of the kind sent. Receipt within the time in which it would have arrived if properly sent, has the effect of a proper sending.61\n\n“Standard form” means a record or a group of related records containing terms prepared for repeated use in transactions and so used in a transaction in which there was no negotiated change of terms by individuals except to set the price, quantity, method of payment, selection among standard options, or time or method of delivery.62\n\n“State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.63\n\n“Term,” with respect to an agreement, means that portion of the agreement that relates to a particular matter.64\n\n“Termination” means the ending of a contract by a party pursuant to a power created by agreement or law otherwise than because of breach of contract.65\n\n“Transfer”:A\n\nwith respect to a contractual interest, includes an assignment of the contract, but does not include an agreement merely to perform a contractual obligation or to exercise contractual rights through a delegate or sublicensee; andB\n\nwith respect to computer information, includes a sale, license, or lease of a copy of the computer information and a license or assignment of informational rights in computer information.66\n\n“Usage of trade” means any practice or method of dealing that has such regularity of observance in a place, vocation, or trade as to justify an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in question.b\n\nThe following definitions in other titles apply to this chapter:1\n\n“Burden of establishing” § 8.1A-201.2\n\n“Document of title” § 8.1A-201.3\n\n“Financial asset” § 8.8A-102.4\n\n“Funds transfer” § 8.4A-104.5\n\n“Identification” to the contract § 8.2-501.6\n\n“Instrument” § 8.9A-102.7\n\n“Investment property” § 8.9A-102.8\n\n“Item” § 8.4-104.9\n\n“Letter of credit” § 8.5A-102.10\n\n“Payment order” § 8.4A-103.11\n\n“Sale” § 8.2-106.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":273352,"text":"As used in this chapter:","type":"section","prefixes":["a"],"prefix":"a","entire_prefix":"a","prefix_anchor":"a","level":1,"next_prefix":"a1"},"1":{"id":273353,"text":"“Access contract” means a contract to obtain by electronic means access to, or information from, an information processing system of another person, or the equivalent of such access.","type":"section","prefixes":["a","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"a1","prefix_anchor":"a1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"a","next_prefix":"a2"},"2":{"id":273354,"text":"“Access material” means any information or material, such as a document, address, or access code, that is necessary to obtain authorized access to information or control or possession of a copy.","type":"section","prefixes":["a","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"a2","prefix_anchor":"a2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"a1","next_prefix":"a3"},"3":{"id":273355,"text":"“Aggrieved party” means a party entitled to a remedy for breach of contract.","type":"section","prefixes":["a","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"a3","prefix_anchor":"a3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"a2","next_prefix":"a4"},"4":{"id":273356,"text":"“Agreement” means the bargain of the parties in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing, and usage of trade as provided in this chapter.","type":"section","prefixes":["a","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"a4","prefix_anchor":"a4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"a3","next_prefix":"a5"},"5":{"id":273357,"text":"“Attribution procedure” means a procedure to verify that an electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance is that of a particular person or to detect changes or errors in information. 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With respect to a person, conspicuous terms include (i) a heading in capitals in a size equal to or greater than, or in contrasting type, font, or color to, the surrounding text, (ii) language in the body of a record or display in larger or other contrasting type, font, or color or set off from the surrounding text by symbols or other marks that draw attention to the language, and (iii) a term prominently referenced in an electronic record or display which is readily accessible or reviewable from the record or display. 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This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 101<\/a> and 996<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2001, chapter 763<\/a>; in 2003, chapter 353<\/a>; in 2004, chapter 794<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":70121,"section_number":"59.1-198","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-198\/"},{"id":73791,"section_number":"6.2-1819","catch_line":"Advertising","order_by":null,"url":"\/6.2-1819\/"},{"id":65091,"section_number":"6.2-2218","catch_line":"Advertising","order_by":null,"url":"\/6.2-2218\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":74114,"section_number":"59.1-506.12","catch_line":"Correction and support contracts","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-506.12\/"},{"id":63047,"section_number":"59.1-508.8","catch_line":"Licensor's damages","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-508.8\/"},{"id":86801,"section_number":"59.1-508.9","catch_line":"Licensee's damages","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-508.9\/"},{"id":81888,"section_number":"8.2-106","catch_line":"Definitions: \"Contract\"; \"agreement\"; \"contract for sale\"; \"sale\"; \"present sale\"; \"conforming\" to contract; \"termination\"; \"cancellation\"; \"hybrid transaction.\"","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-106\/"},{"id":87174,"section_number":"8.2-107","catch_line":"Goods to be severed from realty; recording","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-107\/"}],"permalink":{"id":261937,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76155,"identifier":"59.1-501.2","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.2","url":"\/59.1-501.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-501.2\/","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-501.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> As used in this chapter: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> “Access contract<\/span>” means a contract to obtain by electronic<\/span> means access to, or information from, an information processing system<\/span> of another person<\/span>, or the equivalent of such access. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> “Access material<\/span>” means any information or material, such as a document, address, or access code, that is necessary to obtain authorized access to information or control or possession<\/span> of a copy<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> “Aggrieved party<\/span>” means a party entitled to a remedy for breach of contract. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> “Agreement<\/span>” means the bargain of the parties in fact<\/span> as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances, including course of performance<\/span>, course of dealing<\/span>, and usage of trade<\/span> as provided in this chapter. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> “Attribution procedure<\/span>” means a procedure to verify that an electronic<\/span> authentication, display, message, record<\/span>, or performance is that of a particular person<\/span> or to detect changes or errors in information. The term includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback or other acknowledgment. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> “Authenticate<\/span>” means (i) to sign or (ii) with the intent<\/span> to sign a record<\/span>, to execute or adopt an electronic<\/span> symbol, sound, message, or process referring to, attached to, included in, or logically associated or linked with, that record<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> “Automated transaction<\/span>” means a transaction in which a contract is formed in whole or part by electronic<\/span> actions of one or both parties that are not previously reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

8.<\/span> “Cancellation<\/span>” means the ending of a contract by a party because of breach of contract by another party. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

9.<\/span> “Computer<\/span>” means an electronic<\/span> device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

10.<\/span> “Computer information<\/span>” means information in electronic<\/span> form that is obtained from or through the use of a computer or that is in a form capable of being processed by a computer. The term includes a copy<\/span> of the information and any documentation or packaging associated with the copy<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

11.<\/span> “Computer information transaction<\/span>” means an agreement<\/span> or the performance of it to create, modify, transfer, or license<\/span> computer information or informational rights in computer information. The term includes a support contract under § 59.1-506.12<\/a>. The term does not include a transaction merely because the parties’ agreement<\/span> provides that their communications about the transaction will be in the form of computer information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

12.<\/span> “Computer program<\/span>” means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer to bring about a certain result. The term does not include separately identifiable informational content<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

13.<\/span> “Consequential damages<\/span>” resulting from breach of contract includes (i) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the breaching party at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented, and (ii) any injury to an individual or damage to property other than the subject matter of the transaction proximately resulting from breach of warranty. The term does not include direct damages<\/span> or incidental damages. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

14.<\/span> “Conspicuous,” with reference to a term, means so written, displayed, or presented that a reasonable person<\/span> against which it is to operate ought to have noticed it. A term in an electronic record<\/span> intended to evoke a response by an electronic agent<\/span> is conspicuous if it is presented in a form that would enable a reasonably configured electronic agent<\/span> to take it into account or react to it without review of the record<\/span> by an individual. With respect to a person<\/span>, conspicuous terms include (i) a heading in capitals in a size equal to or greater than, or in contrasting type, font, or color to, the surrounding text, (ii) language in the body of a record<\/span> or display in larger or other contrasting type, font, or color or set off from the surrounding text by symbols or other marks that draw attention to the language, and (iii) a term prominently referenced in an electronic record<\/span> or display which is readily accessible or reviewable from the record<\/span> or display. With respect to a person<\/span> or an electronic agent<\/span>, conspicuous terms include a term, or reference to a term, that is so placed in a record<\/span> or display that the person<\/span> or electronic agent<\/span> cannot proceed without taking action with respect to the particular term or reference. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

15.<\/span> “Consumer<\/span>” means an individual who is a licensee<\/span> of information or informational rights that the individual at the time of contracting intended to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. The term does not include an individual who is a licensee<\/span> primarily for professional or commercial purposes, including agriculture, business management, and investment management other than management of the individual’s personal or family investments. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

16.<\/span> “Consumer contract<\/span>” means a contract between a merchant<\/span> licensor<\/span> and a consumer. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

17.<\/span> “Contract” means the total legal obligation resulting from the parties’ agreement<\/span> as affected by this chapter and other applicable law<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

18.<\/span> “Contract fee<\/span>” means the price, fee, rent, or royalty payable in a contract under this chapter or any part of the amount payable. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

19.<\/span> “Contractual use term<\/span>” means an enforceable term that defines or limits the use, disclosure of, or access to licensed information or informational rights, including a term that defines the scope of a license<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

20.<\/span> “Copy<\/span>” means the medium on which information is fixed on a temporary or permanent basis and from which it can be perceived, reproduced, used, or communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

21.<\/span> “Course of dealing<\/span>” means a sequence of previous conduct between the parties to a particular transaction which establishes a common basis of understanding for interpreting their expressions and other conduct. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

22.<\/span> “Course of performance<\/span>” means repeated performances, under a contract that involves repeated occasions for performance, which are accepted or acquiesced in without objection by a party having knowledge of the nature of the performance and an opportunity to object<\/span> to it. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

23.<\/span> “Court<\/span>” includes an arbitration or other dispute-resolution forum if the parties have agreed to use of that forum or its use is required by law<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

24.<\/span> “Delivery,” with respect to a copy<\/span>, means the voluntary physical or electronic transfer of possession<\/span> or control. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

25.<\/span> “Direct damages<\/span>” means compensation for losses measured by § 59.1-508.8<\/a> (b) (1) or § 59.1-508.9<\/a> (a) (1). The term does not include consequential damages<\/span> or incidental damages. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

26.<\/span> “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

27.<\/span> “Electronic agent<\/span>” means a computer program<\/span>, or electronic or other automated means, used independently to initiate an action, or to respond to electronic messages<\/span> or performances, on the person<\/span>’s behalf without review or action by an individual at the time of the action or response to the message or performance. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

28.<\/span> “Electronic message<\/span>” means a record<\/span> or display that is stored, generated, or transmitted by electronic means for the purpose of communication to another person<\/span> or electronic agent<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

29.<\/span> “Financial accommodation contract<\/span>” means an agreement<\/span> under which a person<\/span> extends a financial accommodation to a licensee<\/span> and which does not create a security interest governed by Title 8.9A. The agreement<\/span> may be in any form, including a license<\/span> or lease. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

30.<\/span> “Financial services transaction<\/span>” means an agreement<\/span> that provides for, or a transaction that is, or entails access to, use, transfer, clearance, settlement<\/span>, or processing of: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> a deposit, loan, funds, or monetary value represented in electronic form and stored or capable of storage by electronic means and retrievable and transferable by electronic means, or other right to payment to or from a person<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> an instrument or other item; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> a payment order<\/span>, credit card transaction, debit card transaction, funds transfer, automated clearing house transfer, or similar wholesale or retail transfer of funds; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> a letter of credit, document of title, financial asset, investment property, or similar asset held in a fiduciary or agency capacity; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> related identifying, verifying, access-enabling, authorizing, or monitoring information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

31.<\/span> “Financier<\/span>” means a person<\/span> that provides a financial accommodation to a licensee<\/span> under a financial accommodation contract<\/span> and either (i) becomes a licensee<\/span> for the purpose of transferring or sublicensing the license<\/span> to the party to which the financial accommodation is provided or (ii) obtains a contractual right under the financial accommodation contract<\/span> to preclude the licensee<\/span>’s use of the information or informational rights under a license<\/span> in the event of breach of the financial accommodation contract<\/span>. The term does not include a person<\/span> that selects, creates, or supplies the information that is the subject of the license<\/span>, owns the informational rights in the information, or provides support for, modifications to, or maintenance of the information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

32.<\/span> “Good faith<\/span>” means honesty in fact<\/span> and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

33.<\/span> “Goods<\/span>” means all things that are movable at the time relevant to the computer information transaction<\/span>. The term includes the unborn young of animals, growing crops, and other identified things to be severed from realty which are covered by § 8.2-107<\/a>. The term does not include computer information, money, the subject matter of foreign exchange transactions, documents, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, instruments, investment property, accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, or general intangibles. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

34.<\/span> “Incidental damages” resulting from breach of contract: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> means compensation for any commercially reasonable charges, expenses, or commissions reasonably incurred by an aggrieved party<\/span> with respect to (i) inspection, receipt, transmission, transportation, care, or custody<\/span> of identified copies or information that is the subject of the breach; (ii) stopping delivery, shipment, or transmission; (iii) effecting cover or retransfer of copies or information after the breach; (iv) other efforts after the breach to minimize or avoid loss resulting from the breach; and (v) matters otherwise incident to the breach; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> does not include consequential damages<\/span> or direct damages<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

35.<\/span> “Information” means data, text, images, sounds, mask works, or computer programs<\/span>, including collections and compilations of them. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

36.<\/span> “Information processing system<\/span>” means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or processing information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

37.<\/span> “Informational content<\/span>” means information that is intended to be communicated to or perceived by an individual in the ordinary use of the information, or the equivalent of that information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

38.<\/span> “Informational rights” include all rights in information created under laws<\/span> governing patents, copyrights, mask works, trade secrets, trademarks, publicity rights, or any other law<\/span> that gives a person<\/span>, independently of contract, a right to control or preclude another person<\/span>’s use of or access to the information on the basis of the rights holder’s interest in the information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

39.<\/span> “Insurance services transaction<\/span>” means an agreement<\/span> between an insurer and an insured that provides for, or a transaction that is or entails access to, use, transfer, clearance, settlement<\/span>, or processing of: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> an insurance policy, contract, or certificate; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> a right to payment under an insurance policy, contract or certificate. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

40.<\/span> “Knowledge,” with respect to a fact<\/span>, means actual knowledge of the fact<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

41.<\/span> “License<\/span>” means a contract that authorizes access to, or use, distribution, performance, modification, or reproduction of, information or informational rights, but expressly limits the access or uses authorized or expressly grants fewer than all rights in the information, whether or not the transferee has title to a licensed copy<\/span>. The term includes an access contract<\/span>, a lease of a computer program<\/span>, and a consignment of a copy<\/span>. The term does not include a reservation or creation of a security interest to the extent the interest is governed by Title 8.9A. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

42.<\/span> “Licensee<\/span>” means a person<\/span> entitled by agreement<\/span> to acquire or exercise rights in, or to have access to or use of, computer information under an agreement<\/span> to which this chapter applies. A licensor<\/span> is not a licensee<\/span> with respect to rights reserved to it under the agreement<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

43.<\/span> “Licensor<\/span>” means a person<\/span> obligated by agreement<\/span> to transfer or create rights in, or to give access to or use of, computer information or informational rights in it under an agreement<\/span> to which this chapter applies. Between the provider of access and a provider of the informational content<\/span> to be accessed, the provider of content is the licensor<\/span>. In an exchange of information or informational rights, each party is a licensor<\/span> with respect to the information, informational rights, or access it gives. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

44.<\/span> “Mass-market license<\/span>” means a standard form<\/span> used in a mass-market transaction<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

45.<\/span> “Mass-market transaction<\/span>” means a transaction that is: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> a consumer contract<\/span>; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> any other transaction with an end-user licensee<\/span> if: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

i.<\/span> the transaction is for information or informational rights directed to the general public as a whole, including consumers<\/span>, under substantially the same terms for the same information; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

ii.<\/span> the licensee<\/span> acquires the information or informational rights in a retail transaction under terms consistent with an ordinary transaction in a retail market; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

iii.<\/span> the transaction is not (a) a contract for redistribution or for public performance or public display of a copyrighted work; (b) a transaction in which the information is customized or otherwise specially prepared by the licensor<\/span> for the licensee<\/span>, other than minor<\/span> customization using a capability of the information intended for that purpose; (c) a site license; or (d) an access contract<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

46.<\/span> “Merchant<\/span>” means a person<\/span>: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> who deals in information or informational rights of the kind involved in the transaction; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> who by the person<\/span>’s occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the relevant aspect of the business practices or information involved in the transaction; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> to whom the knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or information involved in the transaction may be attributed by the person<\/span>’s employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having the knowledge or skill. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

47.<\/span> “Nonexclusive license<\/span>” means a license that does not preclude the licensor<\/span> from transferring to other licensees<\/span> the same information, informational rights, or contractual rights within the same scope. The term includes a consignment of a copy<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

48.<\/span> “Notice<\/span>” of a fact<\/span> means knowledge of the fact<\/span>, receipt of notification of the fact<\/span>, or reason to know the fact<\/span> exists. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

49.<\/span> “Notify<\/span>” or “give notice<\/span>” means to take such steps as may be reasonably required to inform the other person<\/span> in the ordinary course, whether or not the other person<\/span> actually comes to know of it. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

50.<\/span> “Party” means a person<\/span> that engages in a transaction or makes an agreement<\/span> under this chapter. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

51.<\/span> “Person<\/span>” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental subdivision, instrumentality, or agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

52.<\/span> “Published informational content<\/span>” means informational content prepared for or made available to recipients generally, or to a class of recipients, in substantially the same form. The term does not include informational content that is (i) customized for a particular recipient by one or more individuals acting as or on behalf of the licensor<\/span>, using judgment<\/span> or expertise or (ii) provided in a special relationship of reliance between the provider and the recipient. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

53.<\/span> “Receipt” means: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> with respect to a copy<\/span>, taking delivery; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> with respect to a notice: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

i.<\/span> coming to a person<\/span>’s attention; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

ii.<\/span> being delivered to and available at a location or system designated by agreement<\/span> for that purpose or, in the absence of an agreed location or system: (a) being delivered at the person<\/span>’s residence, or the person<\/span>’s place of business through which the contract was made, or at any other place held out by the person<\/span> as a place for receipt of communications of the kind; or (b) in the case of an electronic notice, coming into existence in an information processing system<\/span> or at an address in that system in a form capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of that type by a recipient, if the recipient uses, or otherwise has designated or holds out, that place or system for receipt of notices<\/span> of the kind to be given and the sender does not know that the notice cannot be accessed from that place. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

54.<\/span> “Receive<\/span>” means to take receipt. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

55.<\/span> “Record<\/span>” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

56.<\/span> “Release<\/span>” means an agreement<\/span> by a party not to object<\/span> to, or exercise any rights or pursue any remedies to limit, the use of information or informational rights which agreement<\/span> does not require an affirmative act by the party to enable or support the other party’s use of the information or informational rights. The term includes a waiver<\/span> of informational rights. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

57.<\/span> “Return,” with respect to a record<\/span> containing contractual terms that were rejected, refers only to the computer information and means: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> in the case of a licensee<\/span> that rejects a record<\/span> regarding a single information product transferred for a single contract fee<\/span>, a right to reimbursement of the contract fee<\/span> paid from the person<\/span> to which it was paid or from another person<\/span> that offers to reimburse that fee, on (i) submission of proof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of the computer information and all copies within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> in the case of a licensee<\/span> that rejects a record<\/span> regarding an information product provided as part of multiple information products integrated into and transferred as a bundled whole but retaining their separate identity: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> a right to reimbursement of any portion of the aggregate contract fee<\/span> identified by the licensor<\/span> in the initial transaction as charged to the licensee<\/span> for all bundled information products which was actually paid, on (i) rejection of the record<\/span> before or during the initial use of the bundled product; (ii) proper redelivery of all computer information products in the bundled whole and all copies of them within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee<\/span>; and (iii) submission of proof of purchase; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> a right to reimbursement of any separate contract fee<\/span> identified by the licensor<\/span> in the initial transaction as charged to the licensee<\/span> for the separate information product to which the rejected record<\/span> applies, on (i) submission of proof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of that computer information product and all copies within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the licensee<\/span>; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> in the case of a licensor<\/span> that rejects a record<\/span> proposed by the licensee<\/span>, a right to proper redelivery of the computer information and all copies from the licensee<\/span>, to stop delivery or access to the information by the licensee<\/span>, and to reimbursement from the licensee<\/span> of amounts paid by the licensor<\/span> with respect to the rejected record<\/span>, on reimbursement to the licensee<\/span> of contract fees<\/span> that it paid with respect to the rejected record<\/span>, subject to recoupment and setoff. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

58.<\/span> “Scope,” with respect to terms of a license, means: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> the licensed copies, information, or informational rights involved; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> the use or access authorized, prohibited, or controlled; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> the geographic area, market, or location; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> the duration of the license. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

59.<\/span> “Seasonable,” with respect to an act, means taken within the time agreed or, if no time is agreed, within a reasonable time. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

60.<\/span> “Send” means, with any costs provided for and properly addressed or directed as reasonable under the circumstances or as otherwise agreed, to deposit a record<\/span> in the mail or with a commercially reasonable carrier, to deliver a record<\/span> for transmission to or re-creation in another location or information processing system<\/span>, or to take the steps necessary to initiate transmission to or re-creation of a record<\/span> in another location or information processing system<\/span>. In addition, with respect to an electronic message<\/span>, the message must be in a form capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of the type the recipient uses or otherwise has designated or held out as a place for the receipt of communications of the kind sent. Receipt within the time in which it would have arrived if properly sent, has the effect of a proper sending. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

61.<\/span> “Standard form<\/span>” means a record<\/span> or a group of related records<\/span> containing terms prepared for repeated use in transactions and so used in a transaction in which there was no negotiated change of terms by individuals except to set the price, quantity, method of payment, selection among standard options, or time or method of delivery. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

62.<\/span> “State<\/span>” means a State<\/span> of the United States<\/span>, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States<\/span> Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession<\/span> subject to the jurisdiction<\/span> of the United States<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

63.<\/span> “Term,” with respect to an agreement<\/span>, means that portion of the agreement<\/span> that relates to a particular matter. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

64.<\/span> “Termination<\/span>” means the ending of a contract by a party pursuant to a power created by agreement<\/span> or law<\/span> otherwise than because of breach of contract. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

65.<\/span> “Transfer”: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> with respect to a contractual interest, includes an assignment of the contract, but does not include an agreement<\/span> merely to perform a contractual obligation or to exercise contractual rights through a delegate or sublicensee; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> with respect to computer information, includes a sale, license, or lease of a copy<\/span> of the computer information and a license or assignment of informational rights in computer information. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

66.<\/span> “Usage of trade<\/span>” means any practice or method of dealing that has such regularity of observance in a place, vocation, or trade as to justify an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in question. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

b.<\/span> The following definitions in other titles apply to this chapter: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> “Burden of establishing” § 8.1A-201<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> “Document of title” § 8.1A-201<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> “Financial asset” § 8.8A-102<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> “Funds transfer” § 8.4A-104<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> “Identification” to the contract § 8.2-501<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> “Instrument” § 8.9A-102<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> “Investment property” § 8.9A-102<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

8.<\/span> “Item” § 8.4-104<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

9.<\/span> “Letter of credit” § 8.5A-102<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

10.<\/span> “Payment order<\/span>” § 8.4A-103<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

11.<\/span> “Sale” § 8.2-106<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 59.1-501.2)\n\na. As used in this chapter:\n\n 1. “Access contract” means a contract to obtain by electronic\n means access to, or information from, an information processing system of\n another person, or the equivalent of such access.\n\n 2. “Access material” means any information or material, such as a\n document, address, or access code, that is necessary to obtain authorized\n access to information or control or possession of a copy.\n\n 3. “Aggrieved party” means a party entitled to a remedy for breach\n of contract.\n\n 4. “Agreement” means the bargain of the parties in fact as found\n in their language or by implication from other circumstances, including course\n of performance, course of dealing, and usage of trade as provided in this\n chapter.\n\n 5. “Attribution procedure” means a procedure to verify that an\n electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance is that of\n a particular person or to detect changes or errors in information. The term\n includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes,\n identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback or other acknowledgment.\n\n 6. “Authenticate” means (i) to sign or (ii) with the intent to\n sign a record, to execute or adopt an electronic symbol, sound, message, or\n process referring to, attached to, included in, or logically associated or\n linked with, that record.\n\n 7. “Automated transaction” means a transaction in which a contract\n is formed in whole or part by electronic actions of one or both parties that\n are not previously reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course.\n\n 8. “Cancellation” means the ending of a contract by a party\n because of breach of contract by another party.\n\n 9. “Computer” means an electronic device that accepts information\n in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence\n of instructions.\n\n 10. “Computer information” means information in electronic form\n that is obtained from or through the use of a computer or that is in a form\n capable of being processed by a computer. The term includes a copy of the\n information and any documentation or packaging associated with the copy.\n\n 11. “Computer information transaction” means an agreement or the\n performance of it to create, modify, transfer, or license computer information\n or informational rights in computer information. The term includes a support\n contract under § 59.1-506.12. The term does not include a transaction\n merely because the parties’ agreement provides that their communications\n about the transaction will be in the form of computer information.\n\n 12. “Computer program” means a set of statements or instructions\n to be used directly or indirectly in a computer to bring about a certain\n result. The term does not include separately identifiable informational\n content.\n\n 13. “Consequential damages” resulting from breach of contract\n includes (i) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and\n needs of which the breaching party at the time of contracting had reason to\n know and which could not reasonably be prevented, and (ii) any injury to an\n individual or damage to property other than the subject matter of the\n transaction proximately resulting from breach of warranty. The term does not\n include direct damages or incidental damages.\n\n 14. “Conspicuous,” with reference to a term, means so written,\n displayed, or presented that a reasonable person against which it is to\n operate ought to have noticed it. A term in an electronic record intended to\n evoke a response by an electronic agent is conspicuous if it is presented in a\n form that would enable a reasonably configured electronic agent to take it\n into account or react to it without review of the record by an individual.\n With respect to a person, conspicuous terms include (i) a heading in capitals\n in a size equal to or greater than, or in contrasting type, font, or color to,\n the surrounding text, (ii) language in the body of a record or display in\n larger or other contrasting type, font, or color or set off from the\n surrounding text by symbols or other marks that draw attention to the\n language, and (iii) a term prominently referenced in an electronic record or\n display which is readily accessible or reviewable from the record or display.\n With respect to a person or an electronic agent, conspicuous terms include a\n term, or reference to a term, that is so placed in a record or display that\n the person or electronic agent cannot proceed without taking action with\n respect to the particular term or reference.\n\n 15. “Consumer” means an individual who is a licensee of\n information or informational rights that the individual at the time of\n contracting intended to be used primarily for personal, family, or household\n purposes. The term does not include an individual who is a licensee primarily\n for professional or commercial purposes, including agriculture, business\n management, and investment management other than management of the\n individual’s personal or family investments.\n\n 16. “Consumer contract” means a contract between a merchant\n licensor and a consumer.\n\n 17. “Contract” means the total legal obligation resulting from the\n parties’ agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable law.\n\n 18. “Contract fee” means the price, fee, rent, or royalty payable\n in a contract under this chapter or any part of the amount payable.\n\n 19. “Contractual use term” means an enforceable term that defines\n or limits the use, disclosure of, or access to licensed information or\n informational rights, including a term that defines the scope of a license.\n\n 20. “Copy” means the medium on which information is fixed on a\n temporary or permanent basis and from which it can be perceived, reproduced,\n used, or communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.\n\n 21. “Course of dealing” means a sequence of previous conduct\n between the parties to a particular transaction which establishes a common\n basis of understanding for interpreting their expressions and other conduct.\n\n 22. “Course of performance” means repeated performances, under a\n contract that involves repeated occasions for performance, which are accepted\n or acquiesced in without objection by a party having knowledge of the nature\n of the performance and an opportunity to object to it.\n\n 23. “Court” includes an arbitration or other dispute-resolution\n forum if the parties have agreed to use of that forum or its use is required\n by law.\n\n 24. “Delivery,” with respect to a copy, means the voluntary\n physical or electronic transfer of possession or control.\n\n 25. “Direct damages” means compensation for losses measured by\n § 59.1-508.8 (b) (1) or § 59.1-508.9 (a) (1). The term does not\n include consequential damages or incidental damages.\n\n 26. “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical,\n digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar\n capabilities.\n\n 27. “Electronic agent” means a computer program, or electronic or\n other automated means, used independently to initiate an action, or to respond\n to electronic messages or performances, on the person’s behalf without\n review or action by an individual at the time of the action or response to the\n message or performance.\n\n 28. “Electronic message” means a record or display that is stored,\n generated, or transmitted by electronic means for the purpose of communication\n to another person or electronic agent.\n\n 29. “Financial accommodation contract” means an agreement under\n which a person extends a financial accommodation to a licensee and which does\n not create a security interest governed by Title 8.9A. The agreement may be in\n any form, including a license or lease.\n\n 30. “Financial services transaction” means an agreement that\n provides for, or a transaction that is, or entails access to, use, transfer,\n clearance, settlement, or processing of:\n\nA. a deposit, loan, funds, or monetary value represented in electronic form and\nstored or capable of storage by electronic means and retrievable and\ntransferable by electronic means, or other right to payment to or from a person;\n\nB. an instrument or other item;\n\nC. a payment order, credit card transaction, debit card transaction, funds\ntransfer, automated clearing house transfer, or similar wholesale or retail\ntransfer of funds;\n\nD. a letter of credit, document of title, financial asset, investment property,\nor similar asset held in a fiduciary or agency capacity; or\n\nE. related identifying, verifying, access-enabling, authorizing, or monitoring\ninformation.\n\n 31. “Financier” means a person that provides a financial\n accommodation to a licensee under a financial accommodation contract and\n either (i) becomes a licensee for the purpose of transferring or sublicensing\n the license to the party to which the financial accommodation is provided or\n (ii) obtains a contractual right under the financial accommodation contract to\n preclude the licensee’s use of the information or informational rights\n under a license in the event of breach of the financial accommodation\n contract. The term does not include a person that selects, creates, or\n supplies the information that is the subject of the license, owns the\n informational rights in the information, or provides support for,\n modifications to, or maintenance of the information.\n\n 32. “Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of\n reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.\n\n 33. “Goods” means all things that are movable at the time relevant\n to the computer information transaction. The term includes the unborn young of\n animals, growing crops, and other identified things to be severed from realty\n which are covered by § 8.2-107. The term does not include computer\n information, money, the subject matter of foreign exchange transactions,\n documents, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, instruments, investment\n property, accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, or general intangibles.\n\n 34. “Incidental damages” resulting from breach of contract:\n\nA. means compensation for any commercially reasonable charges, expenses, or\ncommissions reasonably incurred by an aggrieved party with respect to (i)\ninspection, receipt, transmission, transportation, care, or custody of\nidentified copies or information that is the subject of the breach; (ii)\nstopping delivery, shipment, or transmission; (iii) effecting cover or\nretransfer of copies or information after the breach; (iv) other efforts after\nthe breach to minimize or avoid loss resulting from the breach; and (v) matters\notherwise incident to the breach; and\n\nB. does not include consequential damages or direct damages.\n\n 35. “Information” means data, text, images, sounds, mask works, or\n computer programs, including collections and compilations of them.\n\n 36. “Information processing system” means an electronic system for\n creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or processing\n information.\n\n 37. “Informational content” means information that is intended to\n be communicated to or perceived by an individual in the ordinary use of the\n information, or the equivalent of that information.\n\n 38. “Informational rights” include all rights in information\n created under laws governing patents, copyrights, mask works, trade secrets,\n trademarks, publicity rights, or any other law that gives a person,\n independently of contract, a right to control or preclude another\n person’s use of or access to the information on the basis of the rights\n holder’s interest in the information.\n\n 39. “Insurance services transaction” means an agreement between an\n insurer and an insured that provides for, or a transaction that is or entails\n access to, use, transfer, clearance, settlement, or processing of:\n\nA. an insurance policy, contract, or certificate; or\n\nB. a right to payment under an insurance policy, contract or certificate.\n\n 40. “Knowledge,” with respect to a fact, means actual knowledge of\n the fact.\n\n 41. “License” means a contract that authorizes access to, or use,\n distribution, performance, modification, or reproduction of, information or\n informational rights, but expressly limits the access or uses authorized or\n expressly grants fewer than all rights in the information, whether or not the\n transferee has title to a licensed copy. The term includes an access contract,\n a lease of a computer program, and a consignment of a copy. The term does not\n include a reservation or creation of a security interest to the extent the\n interest is governed by Title 8.9A.\n\n 42. “Licensee” means a person entitled by agreement to acquire or\n exercise rights in, or to have access to or use of, computer information under\n an agreement to which this chapter applies. A licensor is not a licensee with\n respect to rights reserved to it under the agreement.\n\n 43. “Licensor” means a person obligated by agreement to transfer\n or create rights in, or to give access to or use of, computer information or\n informational rights in it under an agreement to which this chapter applies.\n Between the provider of access and a provider of the informational content to\n be accessed, the provider of content is the licensor. In an exchange of\n information or informational rights, each party is a licensor with respect to\n the information, informational rights, or access it gives.\n\n 44. “Mass-market license” means a standard form used in a\n mass-market transaction.\n\n 45. “Mass-market transaction” means a transaction that is:\n\nA. a consumer contract; or\n\nB. any other transaction with an end-user licensee if:\n\ni. the transaction is for information or informational rights directed to the\ngeneral public as a whole, including consumers, under substantially the same\nterms for the same information;\n\n ii. the licensee acquires the information or informational rights in a retail\n transaction under terms consistent with an ordinary transaction in a retail\n market; and\n\n iii. the transaction is not (a) a contract for redistribution or for public\n performance or public display of a copyrighted work; (b) a transaction in\n which the information is customized or otherwise specially prepared by the\n licensor for the licensee, other than minor customization using a capability\n of the information intended for that purpose; (c) a site license; or (d) an\n access contract.\n\n 46. “Merchant” means a person:\n\nA. who deals in information or informational rights of the kind involved in the\ntransaction;\n\nB. who by the person’s occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or\nskill peculiar to the relevant aspect of the business practices or information\ninvolved in the transaction; or\n\nC. to whom the knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or information\ninvolved in the transaction may be attributed by the person’s employment\nof an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself\nout as having the knowledge or skill.\n\n 47. “Nonexclusive license” means a license that does not preclude\n the licensor from transferring to other licensees the same information,\n informational rights, or contractual rights within the same scope. The term\n includes a consignment of a copy.\n\n 48. “Notice” of a fact means knowledge of the fact, receipt of\n notification of the fact, or reason to know the fact exists.\n\n 49. “Notify” or “give notice” means to take such steps\n as may be reasonably required to inform the other person in the ordinary\n course, whether or not the other person actually comes to know of it.\n\n 50. “Party” means a person that engages in a transaction or makes\n an agreement under this chapter.\n\n 51. “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust,\n estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint\n venture, governmental subdivision, instrumentality, or agency, public\n corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.\n\n 52. “Published informational content” means informational content\n prepared for or made available to recipients generally, or to a class of\n recipients, in substantially the same form. The term does not include\n informational content that is (i) customized for a particular recipient by one\n or more individuals acting as or on behalf of the licensor, using judgment or\n expertise or (ii) provided in a special relationship of reliance between the\n provider and the recipient.\n\n 53. “Receipt” means:\n\nA. with respect to a copy, taking delivery; or\n\nB. with respect to a notice:\n\ni. coming to a person’s attention; or\n\n ii. being delivered to and available at a location or system designated by\n agreement for that purpose or, in the absence of an agreed location or system:\n (a) being delivered at the person’s residence, or the person’s\n place of business through which the contract was made, or at any other place\n held out by the person as a place for receipt of communications of the kind;\n or (b) in the case of an electronic notice, coming into existence in an\n information processing system or at an address in that system in a form\n capable of being processed by or perceived from a system of that type by a\n recipient, if the recipient uses, or otherwise has designated or holds out,\n that place or system for receipt of notices of the kind to be given and the\n sender does not know that the notice cannot be accessed from that place.\n\n 54. “Receive” means to take receipt.\n\n 55. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible\n medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable\n in perceivable form.\n\n 56. “Release” means an agreement by a party not to object to, or\n exercise any rights or pursue any remedies to limit, the use of information or\n informational rights which agreement does not require an affirmative act by\n the party to enable or support the other party’s use of the information\n or informational rights. The term includes a waiver of informational rights.\n\n 57. “Return,” with respect to a record containing contractual\n terms that were rejected, refers only to the computer information and means:\n\nA. in the case of a licensee that rejects a record regarding a single\ninformation product transferred for a single contract fee, a right to\nreimbursement of the contract fee paid from the person to which it was paid or\nfrom another person that offers to reimburse that fee, on (i) submission of\nproof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of the computer information and all\ncopies within a reasonable time after initial delivery of the information to the\nlicensee;\n\nB. in the case of a licensee that rejects a record regarding an information\nproduct provided as part of multiple information products integrated into and\ntransferred as a bundled whole but retaining their separate identity:\n\n 1. a right to reimbursement of any portion of the aggregate contract fee\n identified by the licensor in the initial transaction as charged to the\n licensee for all bundled information products which was actually paid, on (i)\n rejection of the record before or during the initial use of the bundled\n product; (ii) proper redelivery of all computer information products in the\n bundled whole and all copies of them within a reasonable time after initial\n delivery of the information to the licensee; and (iii) submission of proof of\n purchase; or\n\n 2. a right to reimbursement of any separate contract fee identified by the\n licensor in the initial transaction as charged to the licensee for the\n separate information product to which the rejected record applies, on (i)\n submission of proof of purchase and (ii) proper redelivery of that computer\n information product and all copies within a reasonable time after initial\n delivery of the information to the licensee; or\n\nC. in the case of a licensor that rejects a record proposed by the licensee, a\nright to proper redelivery of the computer information and all copies from the\nlicensee, to stop delivery or access to the information by the licensee, and to\nreimbursement from the licensee of amounts paid by the licensor with respect to\nthe rejected record, on reimbursement to the licensee of contract fees that it\npaid with respect to the rejected record, subject to recoupment and setoff.\n\n 58. “Scope,” with respect to terms of a license, means:\n\nA. the licensed copies, information, or informational rights involved;\n\nB. the use or access authorized, prohibited, or controlled;\n\nC. the geographic area, market, or location; or\n\nD. the duration of the license.\n\n 59. “Seasonable,” with respect to an act, means taken within the\n time agreed or, if no time is agreed, within a reasonable time.\n\n 60. “Send” means, with any costs provided for and properly\n addressed or directed as reasonable under the circumstances or as otherwise\n agreed, to deposit a record in the mail or with a commercially reasonable\n carrier, to deliver a record for transmission to or re-creation in another\n location or information processing system, or to take the steps necessary to\n initiate transmission to or re-creation of a record in another location or\n information processing system. In addition, with respect to an electronic\n message, the message must be in a form capable of being processed by or\n perceived from a system of the type the recipient uses or otherwise has\n designated or held out as a place for the receipt of communications of the\n kind sent. Receipt within the time in which it would have arrived if properly\n sent, has the effect of a proper sending.\n\n 61. “Standard form” means a record or a group of related records\n containing terms prepared for repeated use in transactions and so used in a\n transaction in which there was no negotiated change of terms by individuals\n except to set the price, quantity, method of payment, selection among standard\n options, or time or method of delivery.\n\n 62. “State” means a State of the United States, the District of\n Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or\n insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.\n\n 63. “Term,” with respect to an agreement, means that portion of\n the agreement that relates to a particular matter.\n\n 64. “Termination” means the ending of a contract by a party\n pursuant to a power created by agreement or law otherwise than because of\n breach of contract.\n\n 65. “Transfer”:\n\nA. with respect to a contractual interest, includes an assignment of the\ncontract, but does not include an agreement merely to perform a contractual\nobligation or to exercise contractual rights through a delegate or sublicensee;\nand\n\nB. with respect to computer information, includes a sale, license, or lease of a\ncopy of the computer information and a license or assignment of informational\nrights in computer information.\n\n 66. “Usage of trade” means any practice or method of dealing that\n has such regularity of observance in a place, vocation, or trade as to justify\n an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in\n question.\n\nb. The following definitions in other titles apply to this chapter:\n\n 1. “Burden of establishing” § 8.1A-201.\n\n 2. “Document of title” § 8.1A-201.\n\n 3. “Financial asset” § 8.8A-102.\n\n 4. “Funds transfer” § 8.4A-104.\n\n 5. “Identification” to the contract § 8.2-501.\n\n 6. “Instrument” § 8.9A-102.\n\n 7. “Investment property” § 8.9A-102.\n\n 8. “Item” § 8.4-104.\n\n 9. “Letter of credit” § 8.5A-102.\n\n 10. “Payment order” § 8.4A-103.\n\n 11. “Sale” § 8.2-106.\n\nHISTORY: 2000, cc. 101, 996; 2001, c. 763; 2003, c. 353; 2004, c. 794.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}