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Below are full-length tech contract forms, in MS Word.

These form contracts are provided free of charge, including for use in your contracts and your clients’ contracts. But they’re subject to our TERMS OF USE & PRIVACY, which includes both disclaimers and license restrictions on reselling the forms. In addition to the other disclaimers, please remember that none of the sample contracts below will be appropriate for all business or legal situations. They usually need some customization. Each form contract shows when it was last updated.  Not all may yet have been updated to reflect changes to (or new) clauses in the 3rd edition of The Tech Contracts Handbook (available for order from Amazon here). Consider reviewing also the form clauses, which have been updated for the 3rd edition.                                                   

NEW: CLAUSES FOR AI CONTRACTS

David Tollen recently published an issue-spotter on artificial intelligence (AI) contracts, and it includes several sample clauses. These supplement the clauses provided in The Tech Contracts Handbook.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTRACTS: AN ISSUE-SPOTTER

SAAS TERMS OF SERVICE, SIMPLE

SAAS TERMS OF SERVICE, SIMPLE

Vendor-friendly; simple; online execution. Posted/revised June 16, 2023.

SAAS TERMS OF SERVICE W/ SUB-CUSTOMERS

SAAS TERMS OF SERVICE W/ SUB-CUSTOMERS

Vendor-friendly; system access for customer’s own customers/clients; online execution. Posted/revised April 26, 2021.

HYBRID CLOUD AGREEMENT W/ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

  HYBRID CLOUD AGREEMENT W/ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

SaaS or other cloud w/ on-premise software; professional services for implementation & customization; provider-friendly; system access for customer’s own customers/clients. Posted/revised September 14, 2022.

MOBILE APP SOFTWARE LICENSE & SAAS SUBSCRIPTION

MOBILE APP SOFTWARE LICENSE & SAAS SUBSCRIPTION

On-app software (downloadable mobile app) + SaaS — all-in-one agreement for both app and remote service, through mobile device; vendor-friendly. Posted/revised May 26, 2021.

END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) W/ MAINTENANCE

END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) W/ MAINTENANCE:

On-premise software; vendor-friendly; maintenance plan; source code escrow. Posted/revised June 4, 2019.

DISTRIBUTION LICENSE AGREEMENT (VAR)

DISTRIBUTION LICENSE AGREEMENT (VAR)

Value-added reseller / distribution as embedded component; provider (vendor) -friendly. Posted/revised September 14, 2022.

SOFTWARE LICENSE, CUSTOMIZATION, & MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT

SOFTWARE LICENSE, CUSTOMIZATION, & MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT

On-premise software license w/ integration or other customization; short maintenance terms; source code escrow; vendor-friend. Posted/revised June 16, 2023.

CUSTOMER’S ITMA (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASTER AGREEMENT)

 CUSTOMER’S ITMA (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASTER AGREEMENT)

On-premise software, SaaS, professional services, or any combo of the three; customer’s form contract; customer-friendly; accommodates multiple projects/licenses/SoW’s; ink signature. Posted/revised May 31, 2019.

IT MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT

  IT MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT

Professional services; multiple statements of Work; ink signature. Posted/revised October 22, 2019.

CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT

CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT

Consultant/vendor-friendly; professional services by an individual consultant (not a multi-consultant company); assignment of IP and confidentiality (NDA) terms; multiple statements of work; ink signature. Posted/revised June 2, 2019.

STATEMENT OF WORK FORM

  STATEMENT OF WORK FORM

Contract attachment for use w/ professional services agreements. Posted/revised June 2, 2019.

MUTUAL NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

  MUTUAL NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

Easily transformed into 1-way NDA. Posted/revised June 2, 2019.

STAFF CONFIDENTIALITY & ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

  STAFF CONFIDENTIALITY & ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

Employee (but easily modified for other individual staff-member); broad assignment/ownership transfer; one-way NDA; Addresses Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. Posted/revised June 2, 2019.

CUSTOMER'S U.S. DATA PROCESSING ADDENDUM

  CUSTOMER’S U.S. DATA PROCESSING ADDENDUM

Customer-friendly; focused on U.S. state general data privacy and security laws w/ limited international terms. Posted/revised June 3, 2021.

CUSTOMER'S DATA PROTECTION ATTACHMENT FOR ALL DATA

  CUSTOMER’S DATA PROTECTION ATTACHMENT FOR ALL DATA

Customer-friendly; terms applicable to all data (referencing but not including terms specifically applicable to GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or any other statute). Posted/revised May 4, 2022.