Shure Beta Forum Terms and Conditions

Effective December 15, 2025

These Shure Beta Forum Terms and Conditions ("Forum Terms") form a legal and binding agreement between you and Shure Incorporated ("Shure") for the use and access of the Shure Beta Forum (the "Beta Forum"). References in these Forum Terms to "we" or "us" refer to Shure.

Your access to and participation in the Beta Forum is governed by these Forum Terms and the Shure Cloud Terms of Use (“Cloud Terms”), which are incorporated herein by reference. Please read these Terms and the Cloud Terms carefully and make sure that you fully understand and agree to all terms and conditions. Do not access or use the Beta Forum unless you accept and agree to all terms and conditions. If you reject the Forum Terms, do not sign, do not click the box or button, and do not access or use the Beta Forum. BY: (I) ACCEPTING THESE FORUM TERMS, SIGNING THESE FORUM TERMS, CLICKING ON A BOX OR BUTTON THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH "I ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT" OR “ACCEPT” OR “OK” OR “CONTINUE” OR SIMILAR LANGUAGE; OR (II) ACCESSING OR USING THE BETA FORUM, YOU: (A) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE TERMS; (B) REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO A BINDING AGREEMENT; AND (C) ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE FORUM TERMS. If you are accepting these Forum Terms on behalf of another person, company, organization, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have full authority to bind them to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, immediately cease all access and use of the Beta Forum.

We reserve the right to modify these Forum Terms at any time. The current version of these Forum Terms will be made available at www.shure.com/legal/beta-forum-terms. All changes will be effective as of the date specified in these Forum Terms, or if no date is specified, immediately upon being made available and, by using the Beta Forum after changes are effective, you agree to those changes. Material changes will be clearly posted on or within the Beta Forum or otherwise communicated to you (e.g., via email). In the event of a direct conflict between these Forum Terms, the Cloud Terms, these Forum Terms including the Research Participation Agreement (as described below) will govern with respect to the Beta Forum and Shure Materials.

1. Beta Evaluation and Testing Activities

   From time to time, you may be invited to participate in a Study as described in the Research Participation Agreement set forth at the end of these Forum Terms. The terms of the Research Participation Agreement are fully incorporated into and form part of the Forum Terms. By accepting these Forum Terms or participating in the Study, you acknowledge and agree to the Research Participation Agreement.

2. User Content

   The Beta Forum allows you to provide User Content. “User Content” means all information, data, images, messages, documents, and other content that is entered into, submitted to, posted on, uploaded to, transmitted or displayed using, or otherwise provided via or using the Beta Forum by you. User Content includes, without limitation, any evaluations, responses, ideas, concepts, analyses and other information provided to Shure by the you in connection with a Study as described in the Research Participation Agreement. You, alone, are responsible for all User Content that you provide and for the legality, originality, and appropriateness thereof. Content generated by Shure is not User Content.

   You acknowledge and agree that your User Content: (i) will not contain any third-party materials, including the name, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights of such third party, unless you have all rights, permission, and consents necessary to provide the User Content; (ii) will not include any information that is discriminatory, threatening, harassing, offensive or otherwise harmful as such information relates to race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or otherwise; (iii) not reference current events or news; (iv) will not be outdated or irrelevant; or (v) will not include any of your sensitive or confidential information or that of a third-party or any personally identifiable information about an identified or identifiable natural person.

   By providing User Content you represent and warrant that you are the creator and owner of that User Content or that you otherwise have the full ability and all legal rights, permissions, and consents necessary to provide that User Content as contemplated under these Forum Terms. By providing User Content, you agree not to claim that any use of that User Content by us infringes or violates your or any other person’s intellectual property rights (including copyright), rights of privacy, rights of publicity, or other rights.

   Shure reserves the right to, but has neither the obligation nor duty to, at any time and for any reason: review, prescreen, edit, redact, otherwise modify, reorganize, or recategorize User Content; delete User Content from the Beta Forum; and archive or otherwise store any User Content. Shure reserves the right to impose limits on Beta Forum features (e.g., the ability to provide User Content) and to restrict your access to all or parts of the Beta Forum at any time for any reason, including any breach of these Forum Terms. You understand that, after termination of your account, your use of the Beta Forum, or these Forum Terms, any User Content you have provided may remain in our systems.

   If you believe that any content on the Beta Forum infringes any copyright that you own or control, please follow the process described in our Terms of Use under “Notice of Claimed Infringement” available at https://www.shure.com/en-US/meta/legal/terms-and-conditions-of-website-use.

RESEARCH PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

This Research Participation Agreement (or “Agreement” ) is made by and between the undersigned Participant (the “Participant”) and Shure Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, acting for itself and on behalf of its subsidiaries (individually and collectively, “Shure”).

On the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, Participant will participate in (i) evaluation and testing of Shure’s new audio and/or audio-visual products, accessories, and features, including but not limited to any other related software and hardware documentation and equipment (collectively, the “Prototypes”) and/or (ii) market research study regarding certain concepts devised by or on behalf of Shure, including regarding Shure’s new and/or existing products, software, or services (“Concepts”) (such evaluation and testing and market research study, collectively referred to hereinafter as the “Study”). Use of the Prototypes may also be subject to terms and conditions of applicable Shure terms and conditions or end user license agreement (EULA). In the event of any conflict between the terms of such EULA and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall govern with respect to all evaluation and testing or Prototypes prior to public release of the same. Shure’s EULAs are available at shure.com/legal unless otherwise provided to Participant by Shure.

The primary goals of the Study are for Shure to confirm that the Prototypes perform properly or determine if performance can be improved under “real-world” conditions before they are released commercially in final form by Shure and for Shure to evaluate Concepts to help Shure bring better, more desirable products to market.

Accordingly, the Participant, intending to be legally bound, understands and agrees with Shure as follows:

1. Each Prototype or Concept, and all related materials and information in any form (the Prototypes, Concepts, Study and related materials and information are referred to collectively as “Shure Materials”) are confidential, are owned by Shure, and are being provided to the Participant solely for Shure’s research, testing, evaluation and development purposes and not for sale, distribution, transfer to any third party, or other commercial purposes. The Participant will keep confidential (using at least commercially reasonable measures) and will not disclose or allow anyone else to disclose or allow anyone else access to or use of any Shure Materials, including but not limited to any name, design, features, functions, user guides included in the Shure Materials, or any elements or components of any of the foregoing; any testing or evaluation activities or results (whether Shure’s or Participant’s), or any other matters covered by this Agreement. Also, the Participant will not make copies, reproductions, drawings, or extracts of any Shure Materials, or any of their elements or components, nor will the Participant disassemble, decompile, translate, alter or reverse engineer any Shure Materials (or allow anyone else to do so).
2. Before using any Prototype, the Participant will read the user guides and any other instructions provided to the Participant by Shure for the Prototypes (including any warnings) and will ask Shure any questions the Participant has about them. During the testing and evaluation, the Participant will use the Participant’s reasonable efforts to put the Prototypes to “real-world” use according to Shure’s instructions. The Participant will not use any Shure Materials for any reason other than the Study, including testing and evaluation for Shure as contemplated under this Agreement, and the Participant will use and possess the Shure Materials only in locations approved by Shure.
3. The Participant will promptly report to Shure any malfunctions, shortcomings, bugs or other problems the Participant encounters with any Prototype or other Shure Materials and will provide any other information reasonably requested by Shure related to the testing and evaluation.
4. All evaluations, responses, ideas, concepts, analyses and other information provided to Shure by the Participant in connection with the Study will be honest, accurate and complete when provided to the best knowledge of the Participant, hereby are and shall be assigned to Shure by the Participant, and shall be the exclusive property of Shure. The Participant will promptly notify Shure if the Participant later learns that any submitted information has changed or is inaccurate or incomplete.
5. Portions of the Study may be audiotaped, videotaped or otherwise recorded for future use by Shure. The Participant understands that these recordings are for Shure’s research and development purposes only and will not be aired publicly for advertising purposes.
6. All Shure Materials provided to the Participant will be lent or licensed to the Participant by Shure on the non-exclusive, revocable, limited basis described in this Agreement. The Participant will return (or, at Shure’s written request, destroy) all Shure Materials to Shure upon completion of the Study or at any other time requested by Shure (along with any copies, reproductions, drawings, or extracts of them).
7. Participant will not (i) modify, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble any Prototype or Shure Materials, or otherwise attempting to derive the source code of any Prototype (if not provided in source code form); (ii) create derivative works based upon the Prototypes or any related materials; (iii) tamper or interfere with the functionality, delivery or operation of the Prototypes while using or installing it; (iv) sell, rent, license, transfer, resell, or distribute the Prototypes or Shure Materials to any third party; (v) duplicate, reproduce, copy, modify, or otherwise create derivative works of the Prototypes or Shure Materials; (vi) remove any proprietary notices, labels or marks that are on or in the Prototypes or any related materials; or (vii) export the Prototypes or Shure Materials to any other country.
8. The Shure Materials are still under development and are provided to the Participant for testing and evaluation purposes only. SHURE DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURY, HARM OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THE USE, DOWNLOAD, INSTALLATION OR UNINSTALLATION OF THE PROTOTYPES. THE PROTOTYPES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, COVENANTS OR INDEMNITIES OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SHURE FULLY DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS, INDEMNITIES AND LIABILITIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WHETHER ALLEGED TO ARISE BY LAW OR BY REASON OF CUSTOM OR USAGE IN THE TRADE, OR BY COURSE OF DEALING OR OTHERWISE. SHURE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE PROTOTYPES WILL BE OPERABLE, THAT THEIR OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT THEY WILL FUNCTION OR OPERATE IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY OTHER PRODUCT, OR THAT THEY WILL NOT DAMAGE ANY OTHER PRODUCT OR CAUSE ANY LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA. EXCEPT FOR PARTICIPANT’S BREACH OF ITS CONFIDENTIALITY OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER, IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, DOWNLOAD, INSTALLATION, MISUSE, UNINSTALLATION OR RELIANCE UPON THE PROTOTYPES, WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY ARISES FROM ANY CLAIM BASED UPON CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY, PERSONAL INJURY, OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE.
9. In performance of this Agreement, Shure may process personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) and any local implementing legislation of a member state of the European Union or the European Economic Area (collectively, the “GDPR), the data protection laws of the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and the United States, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PIPL”), as well as any other applicable data privacy regulation. Participant hereby acknowledges and authorizes Shure to process its personal data including but not limited to the transfer of its personal data outside its home jurisdiction, to the extent, and in such a manner, as is necessary for Shure to conduct its market research and prototype evaluation initiative. To this extent, Shure undertakes to implement appropriate safeguards and adequate levels of protection when (i) performing any personal data processing activity, (ii) engaging any third-party processor, and/or (iii) transferring any personal data. To learn more about Shure’s privacy practices and Participant’s rights, including Participant’s right to access, rectify, and request the deletion of personal data, Participant shall visit Shure’s Privacy Policy at shure.com/legal/privacy or submit its request by contacting Shure at privacy@shure.com.
10. The Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, excluding conflict-of laws rules.
11. This Agreement supersedes any prior agreements or understandings between the parties. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties related to this subject matter, and any change to its terms must be in writing and signed by the parties. If any provision of the Agreement is found unenforceable or invalid, the remainder of the Agreement will remain in full force and effect and it and any related provisions will be interpreted to best accomplish the unenforceable provision's essential purpose. A waiver of any provision of the Agreement by a party must be in writing to be effective and will in no way be construed as a waiver of any later breach of that provision.
12. The parties are independent contractors and this Agreement will not establish any relationship of partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency between the parties. Neither party has the power to bind the other or incur obligations on the other's behalf without the other's prior written consent. This Agreement does not confer any benefits on any third party unless it expressly states that it does.
13. If the Participant is a corporation or other entity, then the Participant represents and warrants that this Agreement has been executed on behalf of the Participant by its duly authorized officer or agent. The Participant will ensure that its employees and all others acting by or through the Participant comply with this Agreement. Participant waives notice of Shure's acceptance of this Agreement. Shure may terminate the Study in part or in full and the Participant’s right to use and possess any Shure Materials at any time. However, the Participant’s confidentiality obligations, releases, and other agreements, and the disclaimers, will survive termination indefinitely.
14. Participant shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including export control and sanctions laws of the United States, the European Union (such as the EU Dual-Use Regulation), and any other relevant jurisdictions. Participant shall not export, re-export, transfer, or disclose any Prototype, Shure Materials, or related data to any person or destination prohibited under such laws. Participant represents that neither the Participant nor any of it is affiliates, employees, or other acting by or through Participant is subject to any sanctions or listed on any restricted party list and that will not allow access to the Prototype or Shure Materials by any sanctioned person or in any sanctioned jurisdiction. In addition, Participant agrees that it will not use and will not allow the use of Prototypes or Shure Materials for any purposes prohibited by United States, EU and other applicable laws, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Participant shall promptly notify Company of any breach or suspected breach of this clause. Non-compliance with this provision shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement.
15. This Agreement may also be provided in other languages for convenience of the parties. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the English version of this Agreement, and any non-English version, the English version of this Agreement shall govern and control.