(

)

Related Party

One of our directors also served as an officer and director of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. (“Ameritas”) as of

December 31, 2019.

In connection with our regular assessment of our insurance-based associate benefits, which is conducted by an independent insurance broker, and the costs associated therewith, we purchase dental and vision insurance for certain of our associates from Ameritas. The total value of these purchases was

$242,000,

$200,000

and

$248,000

2019,

2018

and

2017

respectively.

Mr. Hays, our Chief Executive Officer and director, is an owner of

14%

of the equity interest of Nebraska Global Investment Company LLC (“Nebraska Global”). We, directly or indirectly through our former subsidiary Customer-Connect LLC, purchased certain services from Nebraska Global, primarily consisting of software development services. The total value of these purchases were

$12,500

2017.

Mr. Hays personally incurred approximately

$538,000

of fees and expenses in connection with exploring our strategic alternatives, including the Recapitalization (see Note

), for which we reimbursed Mr. Hays in

2017.

These fees and expenses were attributable to the evaluation of alternatives and the sourcing and negotiating of financing for the alternatives, all of which we would have directly borne if they had

not

been advanced by Mr. Hays.

During

2017,

we acquired a cost method investment in convertible preferred stock of PX (see Note

). Also in

2017,

we paid

$250,000

to acquire certain perpetual content licenses from PX for content we include in certain of our subscription services. We also have an agreement with PX which commenced in

2016

under which we act as a reseller of PX services and receive a portion of the revenues. The total revenue earned from the PX reseller agreement in the years ended

December 31, 2019,

2018

and

2017

was

$578,000,

$439,000

and

$633,000,

respectively. We will

longer earn revenue under this agreement after

December 31, 2020.