Last Updated: 8th July 2026
Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before registering for a chargeable subscription or installing any of the Services offered on this website operated by Ground up Software Ltd, a company registered in Ireland with company number, 619845 with its registered address at The CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, North Wall, Dublin, D01 Y6H7, Ireland and VAT number, IE3527034KH.
Upon completing our online registration form at app.livecosts.com/users/sign_up or https://app.livecosts.com/bosses/sign_up?subscription=trial for a chargeable subscription to the Services and/or installing the Services on your devices and clicking on the accept buttons relating to these Terms and Conditions, Service Level Agreement, Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy, you, the Customer, agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions, Service Level Agreement, Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy as they may be modified and posted on our website from time to time.
In the event of any inconsistency between the content of the Terms and Conditions, Service Level Agreement, Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions shall prevail followed by the Data Processing Agreement, the Service Level Agreement and then the Privacy Policy.
If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, Service Level Agreement, Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy then you may not purchase or use the Services.
In this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings:
| “Agreement” | means these Terms and Conditions, the Subscription Form, DPA, SLA and Privacy Policy and any documents referred to in them, together; |
| “Applicable Data Protection Laws” | means all applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force from time to time in Ireland including the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679); the Data Protection Acts 1988 – 2018; the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC (as updated by Directive 2009/136/EC) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) as amended and any other European Union legislation relating to personal data and all other legislation and regulatory requirements in force from time to time which apply to a party relating to the use of personal data (including, without limitation, the privacy of electronic communications); |
| “Authorised Users” | means employees, consultants or contractors of the Customer who have been expressly authorised by the Customer to receive a password in order to access the Services; |
| “Bug” | means an unwanted or unintended property of the Services that can be reproduced and causes the Services to malfunction but does not affect the availability of the Services; |
| “Business Day” | means Monday to Friday excluding any national holiday in Ireland; |
| “Business Hours” | means 09.00 to 17.00 local time for the respective location on Business Days; |
| “Client” | means any entity or persons to whom the Customer provides its services; |
| “Company” | means Ground Up Software Limited trading as Livecosts.com; |
| “Confidential Information” | means any and all information in any form whatsoever relating to the Company or the Customer, or the business, prospective business, finances, technical process, computer software (both source code and object code), IPR or finances of the Company or the Customer (as the case may be), or compilations of two or more items of such information, whether or not each individual item is in itself confidential, which comes into a party’s possession as a result of this Agreement or provision of the Services, and which the party regards, or could reasonably be expected to regard, as confidential and any and all information which has been or may be derived or obtained from any such information; |
| “Consequential Loss | means pure economic loss, losses incurred by a party, losses arising from business interruption, loss of business revenue, goodwill or anticipated savings, losses whether or not occurring in the normal course of business, costs of procuring substitute goods or product(s) or wasted management or staff time; |
| “Customer Data” | means all data imported into the Services by the Customer or Authorised Users for the purpose of using the Services or facilitating the use of the Services; |
| “Customer” | means the Customer named in the Subscription Form; |
| “Documentation” | means the training materials and user manuals relating to the use of the Services (which will be available via the Help Centre), as well as any additional documentation that the Company specifically creates for the Customer or otherwise provides to the Customer to assist in the correction of any issue with the Services; |
| “DPA” | means the data processing agreement located at https://www.livecosts.com/dpa as amended from time to time; |
| “Effective Date” | means the first payment date of a subscription; |
| “Emergency Maintenance” | means maintenance, upgrades, Updates, repairs to hardware and software related to resolving immediate problems causing instability in the non-installed Services; |
| “Feedback” | means feedback, innovations or suggestions created by the Customer or Authorised Users regarding the attributes, performance or features of the Services; |
| “Fees” | means the fees payable by the Customer during the Term of this Agreement; |
| “Force Majeure” | means anything outside the reasonable control of a party, including but not limited to acts of God, fire, storm, flood, earthquake, explosion, accident, acts of the public enemy, war, rebellion, insurrection, sabotage, epidemics, quarantine restriction, labour dispute, labour shortage, power shortage (including where the Company ceases to be entitled to access the internet for any reason beyond its control) transportation embargo, failure or delay in transportation, any act or omission (including laws, regulations, disapprovals or failures to approve) of any government or government agency; |
| “Functional Description” | means the description of the Services set out as follows: https://livecosts.com/functional-description |
| “Hosting Services” | means the services set out in Schedule 1 of these Terms and Conditions for hosting the non-installed Services; |
| “Illegal Content” | means any data or content which is defamatory, or constitutes a breach of the IPR or legal rights of any third party; |
| “Initial Term” | means a period of 1 month starting from the Effective Date; |
| “Integration Services” | means the services set out in Schedule 3 of these Terms and Conditions for Customers who integrate their external accounting package with our Services; |
| “Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)” | means all copyrights, patents, utility models, trademarks, service marks, registered designs, moral rights, design rights (whether registered or unregistered), technical information, know-how, database rights, semiconductor topography rights, business names and logos, computer data, generic rights, proprietary information rights and all other similar proprietary rights (and all applications and rights to apply for registration or protection of any of the foregoing) as may exist anywhere in the world; |
| “Invoice Data” | means any data collected by the Company from Customer invoices or quotations; |
| “Maintenance and Support Services” | means the services set out in Schedule 2 of these Terms and Conditions for maintenance and support of the Services; |
| “Privacy Policy” | means the Company privacy policy located at https://livecosts.com/privacy-policy as amended from time to time;
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| “Renewal Term” | means 1 month or 1 year depending on the customer’s selected licence; |
| “Services” | means the SaaS software application Livecosts.com or as specified in the Subscription Form and described in more detail in the Functional Description, including the Hosting Services, the Maintenance and Support Services, and the Integration Services set out in Schedules 1-3; |
| “SLA” | means the service level agreement located at https://www.livecosts.com/sla as amended from time to time; |
| “Subscription Fee” | means the subscription fee agreed in writing with the sales department who can be contacted at Our Contact Sales Form; |
| “Subscription Form” | means the subscription form completed by the Customer on-screen used to order the Services; and to make payment; |
| “Term” | means the Initial Term plus any Renewal Term together; |
| “Terms and Conditions” | means these terms and conditions; |
| “Time and Materials Basis” | means the Company’s standard daily consultancy rates plus any reasonable costs incurred by the Company; |
| “Travel Fees” | means all reasonable costs associated with any travel and subsistence expenses incurred by the Company (or its employees, permitted subcontractors or agents) in performing its obligations under this Agreement; |
| “Updates” | means any new or updated applications, services or tools (including any software programmes) made available by the Company as part of the Services during the Term. |
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Company: support@livecosts.com
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