GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
PLEASE READ THESE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE (“TERMS”) CAREFULLY PRIOR TO USING DIALZEROS LLC’S (“DIALZEROS’S”) WEBSITE, DIALZEROS.COM (THE “SITE”). THE SITE IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU AGREE COMPLETELY TO THESE TERMS. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AND THE ENTITY YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO REPRESENT (“YOU” OR “YOUR”) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.
This Agreement governs the purchase and use of the Dialzeros (hereinafter the “Services or Service”) provided by Dialzeros, LLC (hereinafter the “Company”). The individual or legal entity opening an account for Service under this Agreement shall be referred to as “Customer” “you” or “your” in this Agreement. By using the Services, Customer agrees to be bound by this Agreement. Company may modify all or any part of this Agreement from time to time without notice to you – you should check back often so you are aware of your rights and responsibilities. Your continued use of the Service after changes to this Agreement have been published constitutes your acceptance of the updated Agreement. If at any time this Agreement is no longer acceptable to you, you should immediately cease all use of the Services.
1.0 Definitions
The following capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the following respective meanings and shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined unless the context shall require otherwise:
“Affiliate” means with respect to a party, means any corporation, firm, partnership, limited liability company or other entity, that directly or indirectly owns, is owned by, or is under common ownership with such party to the extent of at least fifty percent (50%) of the equity having the power to vote on or direct the affairs of such party, and any person, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity actually controlled by, controlling, or under common control with such party.
“Agreement” means the General Terms and Conditions, the Service Terms and Conditions, and the Acceptable Use Policy as may be modified or amended by Company, including, without limitation, the following, which are incorporated herein:
Privacy Policy (https://Dialzeros.com/privacy.html)
Price Schedule (Dialzeros Pricing plan)
“API” means Application Programming Interface.
“Applicable Law” means any law, regulation, rule, or order, of any government authority applicable to a Party, its business, or the subject matter of this Agreement, including but not limited to the following United States (and if applicable, Canadian) statutes and any regulations relating thereto: the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Telephone Consumer Fraud & Abuse Prevention Act, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and (if applicable) Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation.
“Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”)” the AUP specifies the actions prohibited or restricted by Customer, Customer End-User(s), and third parties.
“Basic 911 Service (911)” means emergency service that does not guarantee that the location and call back number is provided to the local 911 emergency services personnel.
“Billing Dispute Notice” means Company’s standard Billing Dispute Notice, which is supplied to you upon request, and must be used by you in order to properly submit any billing disputes to Company”.
“CPN” means Calling Partying Number.
“Enhanced E911 Services (E911)” means emergency service where the location and the phone number is automatically sent to the applicable PSAP.
“End-User” means any person or entity authorized by Customer to utilize, in whole or in part, the Service(s) provided by Company to Customer.
“Federal Regulators” means Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
“Inappropriate Content” means any Content that (i) violates Applicable Law, (ii) is unsolicited, including without limitation, bulk Messages, spam or other unsolicited commercial or other advertising material; (iii) violates any authoritative industry guidelines, including the CTIA SMS/MMS Interoperability Guidelines or other such guidelines regarding which Company may send notification to Customer or (iv) violates any Network Operator requirements, conditions, or codes of practice including but not limited to sending malicious or harmful code, denial of service attacks, or hacking.
“Industry Regulators” means Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), and the Wireless Association (CTIA).
“Interstate” means calls that originate in one state and terminate outside that state.
“Intrastate” means calls that originate and terminate within the same state.
“IP” means Internet Protocol.
“LOA” means a Letter of Authorization for any existing telephone numbers Customer wish to port to Company.
“LNP” means local number portability.
“Location Routing Number (“LRN”) means in the United States, a ten (10) digit number in a database called a Service Control Point (“SCP”) that identifies a switching port for a local telephone exchange.
“Message(s)” means to make contacts via messages using Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) and Short Message Service (SMS).
“NPA-NXX” means the first six digits of a phone number, or prefix as derived from the North American Number Plan (“NANP”). The area code is the first three digits and delineates a toll area in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The area code is also referred to as a Number Plan Area (“NPA”). NXX refers to the exchange, which is the three (3) digits following the area code.
“North American Number Plan “NANP” Termination Traffic” means all customer egress traffic to country code one (1) excluding toll-free termination traffic.
“Network Operator” means any mobile network operator, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, Third Party operator or user of a communications network to and from which Company or Company’s underlying providers can directly transmit and receive Messages.
“Operating Company Number (“OCN”)” means a numeric identity assigned to carriers in order to distinguish routing data.
“PSAP” means a “public-safety answering point” sometimes called “public-safety access point”, is a call center in Canada and the United States responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for police, firefighting, and ambulance service.
“PSTN” means public switched telephone network.
“SIP” means Session Initiation Protocol, a signaling protocol used between VoIP networks to establish, control and terminate voice calls.
“Transit Fees” means any fees imposed by a Network Operator or Third Party for the delivery of any Message.
“Unsolicited Traffic” is defined as Messages which are sent on an unsolicited basis to end user receivers and which contain content embedded in the sender field or linked or attached in any way and which is relating to marketing information or other commercial or non-commercial information (so called Spam) that has not been requested by the end user receiver.
“VoIP” means Voice over IP.
1.0 TERM
1.1 This Agreement will continue so long as Services are installed, accessed, or otherwise used.
2.0 TERMINATION
2.1 In addition to any other rights that Company has or may have pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, this Section, if Company determines, in its sole discretion, that Customer’s use of any Service and/or any person or entity authorized by Customer to utilize, in whole or in part, the Service provided by Company to Customer interferes with or otherwise places in jeopardy Company’s network, customers, partners or business, then Company shall of the right to immediately suspend or terminate any or all of the Services. Company will use reasonable efforts to provide Customer with as much prior notification previous to the suspension or termination of Service as is practicable under the circumstances.
2.2 If either party fails to cure a material default within ten (10) days for late payments, or 30 days for other default, after notice specifying the default, the non-defaulting party may terminate the Service, and pursue any other available remedies at law or equity. The cure period will extend for 30 more days if Company uses good faith efforts to cure.
2.3 If any federal, state or local statute, rule, order, regulation or order by a court of law or regulatory authority, or anything similar to the foregoing effects a change (a “Change in Law”) which has a material adverse impact this Agreement and/or Service, then either party shall have the right to terminate the relevant Service with written notification.
3.0 PAYMENT FOR SERVICES; CREDIT WORTHINESS
3.1 Unless the parties expressly agreed otherwise, Customer shall remit payment for Services and applicable taxes, fees, administrative assessments, and surcharges in U.S. Dollars prior to any Service being used by the Customer. Customer agrees that Services shall not be provisioned unless and until sufficient pre-payment is made. Customer agrees that Services may be suspended immediately, in Company’s sole discretion, if sufficient pre-payment is not made. Customer agrees that it is solely its ongoing responsibility to ensure that sufficient pre-payment is made prior to any use of the Services, and Customer agrees that Customer shall maintain a positive account balance, sufficient to cover Customer’s anticipated usage of Services, at all times, in order to continue using the Services.
3.2 Customer shall be responsible for accurately providing Company with Customer’s valid payment information, including a valid payment method. Customer shall notify Company of any dispute relating to charges billed to Customer’s account by submitting a Billing Dispute Notice to Company within thirty (30) days (the “Billing Dispute Interval”) of the date the charge appeared on Customer’s account. The existence of a dispute shall not relieve Customer from paying any and all amounts billed hereunder, without setoff or reduction. The parties will use commercially reasonable efforts to resolve all billing disputes within forty-five (45) days of receipt of a properly completed Billing Dispute Notice. If Customer does not submit a Billing Dispute Notice within the Billing Dispute Interval, then Customer waives its rights to file a claim thereafter.
3.3 Unless the parties expressly agreed otherwise, Customer shall remit all payments by wire transfer or credit card and Customer understands and agrees that processing of Customer’s credit card payments may be denied or discontinued by Company at any time and in its sole discretion. Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to post payments to Customer’s account once Company receives notification of the receipt of payment. Customer understands that any type of payment may be delayed in posting to Customer’s account for Company administrative reasons and agrees that Service may be interrupted due to lack of sufficient positive balance during any such delay. Company, in its sole discretion, may immediately suspend or terminate Services to Customer whenever Customer fails to maintain a positive account balance or maintain a sufficient positive account balance to cover Customer’s anticipated usage of Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company shall not be responsible for ensuring that Customer’s maintains a positive account balance, and Customer shall promptly remit all payments necessary to cover any negative account balances. Service cancellation may result in the loss of the telephone numbers associated with the Service. Customer hereby waives any and all claims, actions or suits against Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries, and such entities’ employees, officers, directors and shareholders, and releases the same from any errors, omissions, and/or liabilities that may arise from the processing of aforementioned payment transactions and failure by Customer to maintain a positive account balance.
3.4 Customer agrees to provide any reasonable information Company may request to complete any applications in order to obtain information on Customer’s credit rating and background. Customer consents to Company’s verification and reporting personal and/or business payment and credit history. Company may rely on, without limitation, Customer’s credit history, payment history, credit bureau reports or other commercial credit references, and other information to determine whether to provide the Services, and to determine any limitations that may be placed on the Services that Company provides to Customer. Customer authorizes Company, based on Customer’s creditworthiness, as determined in Company’s sole discretion, to change, cancel, limit, and terminate Service at any time.
4.0 TAXES; FEES; ADMINISTRATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SURCHARGES
4.1 In addition to the rates for the Services, Company shall add to each invoice and Customer shall pay any sales, use, excise, value-added, gross receipts, services, labor-related, consumption, administrative assessment (an administrative assessment is a fee to recover a portion of internal costs and expenses incurred by Company to implement and administer the procurement of certain Services and the compliance with certain legal and regulatory obligations; the administrative fee is not a tax or a fee required by the government), and other taxes or surcharges, however designated, with the provision or use of Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if Customer provides Company written documentation of Customer’s tax-exempt status in a form reasonably acceptable to Company, Company will not charge Customer any taxes exempted due to Customer’s request and supporting documentation. Such documentation of Customer’s tax-exempt status will include a valid and properly executed tax exemption certificate(s) and/or statement(s) of indemnification for any taxes from which Customer seeks exemption, and any updates thereto. Customer will pay all remaining non-exempt charges. For clarity, the establishment of exemption from any taxes is the sole responsibility of Customer, and Company is not obligated to consider any retroactive request for tax exemption. Further, Customer is responsible for providing to Company on a timely basis any changes or updates thereto.
5.0 ON-LINE ACCESS; LICENSE; APPLICATIONS TOOLS
5.1 Customer has the sole and exclusive responsibility for the installation, configuration, security (including firewall security), and integrity of all Customer facilities, systems, equipment, proxy servers, software, hardware, systems, routing, networks, network addresses and configurations and the like and key contacts for problem escalation (collectively the “Customer Systems and Materials”).reasonably required for use in conjunction with or related to the Service and software provided by Company, including, without limitation, Customer’s connectivity to any third party. If Company grants Customer access, either by online access, by API or access by any other means, to a service ordering/management system and/or any other tools and applications or computer software in connection with the Service or software or the use of any Service or software (collectively, the “Tools and Applications”), the following apply:
(i) Subject to Customer’s compliance with this Agreement, Company grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable license during the term of this Agreement to use the Service and such Tools and Applications solely in connection with Customer’s use of the Service and/or Software (as applicable) during the term of the applicable Service. Customer will not, directly or indirectly: (A) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the Services, Tools and Applications; (B) modify, translate or create derivative works based on the Tools and/or Applications; (C) rent, lease, distribute, sell, resell, assign, display, host, outsource, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit or otherwise transfer rights to the Tools and/or Applications or make the Tools and Applications available to any third party; (D) use the Tools and/or Applications for timesharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party; (E) remove any proprietary notices or labels on any Tools and/or Applications; or (F) copy, reproduce, post or transmit any Tools and/or Applications in any form or by any means, including, without limitation, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means. Other than using the Tools and Applications for Customer’s internal business purposes, Customer may not resell the Tools or Applications or otherwise generate income from the Tools or Applications.
(ii) The Tools and Applications are Company’s (or its third-party licensor’s, as applicable) intellectual property. Nothing in this Agreement gives Customer any right or license to any of Company’s intellectual property.
(iii) Customer is fully and exclusively responsible for all information accuracy, charges, costs, transactions, and activities conducted through or with such Tools and/or Applications. Customer is fully and exclusively responsible to safeguard, monitor, manage, and maintain access to the Tools and Applications, and to only allow authorized use of the Tools and Applications to persons that Customer designates.
6.0 RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTENT COMMUNICATIONS; USE OF SERVICES
6.1 Customer will provide information reasonably requested by Company to perform the Services, including as applicable: telecommunication specifications, Customer or third-party telephone numbers and location information, network architecture and diagrams, etc. As between Customer and Company, Customer is the sole owner and is solely responsible for all such information and for all content provided to Company including all audio, visual, electronic or written communications (collectively “Customer Content”) on or from Customer’s accounts. Customer warrants that Customer is solely responsible for the content and rights to Customer Content. Customer will comply with all laws, rules and regulations while using the Service, and ensure it has the right to use the Service where it is located. Customer will not (i) transmit any communication that violates any law, rule or regulation; (ii) violate any third party rights in the course of using the Service; (iii) use the Service in any way that damages Company’s property or interferes with or disrupts Company’s system(s) or other users; or (iv) transmit, upload, receive or store on or through Company’s network any Customer Content or other material that contains any viruses, worms, “Trojan Horses” or other code features that may damage, disrupt or disable computers, networks or any information thereon.
7.0 DATA PROTECTION
7.1 Each party will comply with any applicable data protection and privacy laws existing in all jurisdictions in which Service is performed (together, the “Data Protection Laws”). The parties agree provision of the Service may involve the collection, processing, storage or recording of certain “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” (as defined by applicable Data Protection Laws and referred to collectively herein as “Personal Data”) of Customer and participants. Where applicable under Data Protection Laws, the parties acknowledge Company acts as a “Data Processor” in relation to the Personal Data it processes on Customer’s behalf and Customer remains the “Data Controller” with respect to such Personal Data. Company hereby undertakes that it will (i) use Personal Data only to provide and administer Service as outlined in the applicable privacy statement(s) referenced below; (ii) process the Personal Data in accordance with Customer’s instructions; (iii) implement appropriate security measures designed to provide a commercially reasonable level of protection of the Personal Data; (iv) implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures, insofar as is possible, for the fulfillment of Customer’s obligations to respond to requests by users of the Service (“Data Subjects”); (v) take commercially reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify Personal Data when it no longer is necessary to retain it; and (vi) ensure that its employees authorized to process Personal Data are bound to appropriate confidentiality obligations. Personal Data may be collected, processed and/or stored by Company or its third-party suppliers in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the rest of the world. Customer represents and warrants it has a valid lawful basis for Company to process the Data Subjects’ Personal Data in connection with the Services in accordance with applicable Data Protection Laws.
8.0 CUSTOMER PROPRIETARY NETWORK INFORMATION
8.1 In the course of providing the Services, Company will necessarily obtain information about the quality, technical configuration, type, destination, location, pricing, contract terms, billing information and payment history relating to the Service provided to Customer. Such information is referred to as customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”). Customer hereby consents to the use, disclosure and access of CPNI by Company and Company affiliates and agents and partners for the purposes of verifying Customer usage and deployment of Service, improving the Service and marketing additional products and services that may be of interest to Customer. Customer acknowledges that it may withdraw its consent at any time by notifying Company. In the event that Customer withdraws its consent, Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the impact of such withdrawal upon Company’s provision of Service to Customer.
9.0 MESSAGES
9.1 If Customer uses the Services to send fax, email, phone, text, SMS or other messages (collectively, “Messages”) to any recipients (“Recipients”), as a condition for using such Service, Customer represents and warrants that: (i) Customer is solely responsible for the Messages; (ii) Customer has the legal right to send all Messages to the Recipients (including obtaining any required consents from the Recipients); (iii) the content, timing and purpose of all Messages, campaigns and programs are in compliance with all laws, rules and regulations; (iv) Customer is the sender of all Messages, and Company is merely acting at Customer’s direction as the transmitter of the Messages; (v) Company’s transmission of the Messages will not violate the rights of any third party or any law, rule or regulation; (vi) Customer has prior express consent to contact each wireless number delivered by Customer to Company in connection with the provision of Service; (vii) in the case of a wireless phone number, the intended Recipient is the current subscriber to, or the non-subscriber customary user of, the wireless phone number; and (viii) Customer has, unless an exemption applies, obtained from the Recipient of any solicitation Message an express written agreement that meets the requirements set forth in Section 310.4(b)(1)(v)(A) of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and Section 64.1200(f)(8) of the FCC’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act Rules. Customer may use the Service to transmit Customer Content or direct Company to make contacts via any channel to, or with, Recipients to transmit Customer Content. Where Company reasonably believes Customer may not have complied with the provisions of this Section, Company may, at its option, scrub all numbers against any appropriate database deemed necessary to remove all wireless numbers and/or temporarily suspend Service related to the compliance concern. Upon request by Company Customer will promptly provide, in writing, proof of prior express consent and Customer’s process for consent management. Customer is responsible for all uses of the Service in association with its accounts whether or not authorized by it including unintended usage due to holidays, daylight savings, computer clock errors or similar circumstances. Customer acknowledges and agrees Company does not control nor monitor Customer Content nor guarantee the accuracy, integrity, security or quality of Customer Content. Use of recording any use of the Service may subject Customer to laws or regulations and Customer is solely responsible for and obligated to provide any required notification to those being recorded. Customer shall indemnify, defend and hold Company, its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from and against any and all claims of loss, damages, liability, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) arising out of or resulting from Company following Customer’s instructions in sending the Messages or Customer’s breach of any representation and warranty set forth in this Section 9.
- REPRESENTATIONS; WARRANTIES
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
PLEASE READ THESE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE (“TERMS”) CAREFULLY PRIOR TO USING DIALZEROS LLC’S (“DIALZEROS’S”) WEBSITE, DIALZEROS.COM (THE “SITE”). THE SITE IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU AGREE COMPLETELY TO THESE TERMS. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AND THE ENTITY YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO REPRESENT (“YOU” OR “YOUR”) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.
This Agreement governs the purchase and use of the Dialzeros (hereinafter the “Services or Service”) provided by Dialzeros, LLC (hereinafter the “Company”). The individual or legal entity opening an account for Service under this Agreement shall be referred to as “Customer” “you” or “your” in this Agreement. By using the Services, Customer agrees to be bound by this Agreement. Company may modify all or any part of this Agreement from time to time without notice to you – you should check back often so you are aware of your rights and responsibilities. Your continued use of the Service after changes to this Agreement have been published constitutes your acceptance of the updated Agreement. If at any time this Agreement is no longer acceptable to you, you should immediately cease all use of the Services.
1.0 Definitions
The following capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the following respective meanings and shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined unless the context shall require otherwise:
“Affiliate” means with respect to a party, means any corporation, firm, partnership, limited liability company or other entity, that directly or indirectly owns, is owned by, or is under common ownership with such party to the extent of at least fifty percent (50%) of the equity having the power to vote on or direct the affairs of such party, and any person, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity actually controlled by, controlling, or under common control with such party.
“Agreement” means the General Terms and Conditions, the Service Terms and Conditions, and the Acceptable Use Policy as may be modified or amended by Company, including, without limitation, the following, which are incorporated herein:
Privacy Policy (https://Dialzeros.com/privacy.html)
Price Schedule (Dialzeros Pricing plan)
“API” means Application Programming Interface.
“Applicable Law” means any law, regulation, rule, or order, of any government authority applicable to a Party, its business, or the subject matter of this Agreement, including but not limited to the following United States (and if applicable, Canadian) statutes and any regulations relating thereto: the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Telephone Consumer Fraud & Abuse Prevention Act, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and (if applicable) Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation.
“Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”)” the AUP specifies the actions prohibited or restricted by Customer, Customer End-User(s), and third parties.
“Basic 911 Service (911)” means emergency service that does not guarantee that the location and call back number is provided to the local 911 emergency services personnel.
“Billing Dispute Notice” means Company’s standard Billing Dispute Notice, which is supplied to you upon request, and must be used by you in order to properly submit any billing disputes to Company”.
“CPN” means Calling Partying Number.
“Enhanced E911 Services (E911)” means emergency service where the location and the phone number is automatically sent to the applicable PSAP.
“End-User” means any person or entity authorized by Customer to utilize, in whole or in part, the Service(s) provided by Company to Customer.
“Federal Regulators” means Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
“Inappropriate Content” means any Content that (i) violates Applicable Law, (ii) is unsolicited, including without limitation, bulk Messages, spam or other unsolicited commercial or other advertising material; (iii) violates any authoritative industry guidelines, including the CTIA SMS/MMS Interoperability Guidelines or other such guidelines regarding which Company may send notification to Customer or (iv) violates any Network Operator requirements, conditions, or codes of practice including but not limited to sending malicious or harmful code, denial of service attacks, or hacking.
“Industry Regulators” means Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), and the Wireless Association (CTIA).
“Interstate” means calls that originate in one state and terminate outside that state.
“Intrastate” means calls that originate and terminate within the same state.
“IP” means Internet Protocol.
“LOA” means a Letter of Authorization for any existing telephone numbers Customer wish to port to Company.
“LNP” means local number portability.
“Location Routing Number (“LRN”) means in the United States, a ten (10) digit number in a database called a Service Control Point (“SCP”) that identifies a switching port for a local telephone exchange.
“Message(s)” means to make contacts via messages using Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) and Short Message Service (SMS).
“NPA-NXX” means the first six digits of a phone number, or prefix as derived from the North American Number Plan (“NANP”). The area code is the first three digits and delineates a toll area in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The area code is also referred to as a Number Plan Area (“NPA”). NXX refers to the exchange, which is the three (3) digits following the area code.
“North American Number Plan “NANP” Termination Traffic” means all customer egress traffic to country code one (1) excluding toll-free termination traffic.
“Network Operator” means any mobile network operator, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, Third Party operator or user of a communications network to and from which Company or Company’s underlying providers can directly transmit and receive Messages.
“Operating Company Number (“OCN”)” means a numeric identity assigned to carriers in order to distinguish routing data.
“PSAP” means a “public-safety answering point” sometimes called “public-safety access point”, is a call center in Canada and the United States responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for police, firefighting, and ambulance service.
“PSTN” means public switched telephone network.
“SIP” means Session Initiation Protocol, a signaling protocol used between VoIP networks to establish, control and terminate voice calls.
“Transit Fees” means any fees imposed by a Network Operator or Third Party for the delivery of any Message.
“Unsolicited Traffic” is defined as Messages which are sent on an unsolicited basis to end user receivers and which contain content embedded in the sender field or linked or attached in any way and which is relating to marketing information or other commercial or non-commercial information (so called Spam) that has not been requested by the end user receiver.
“VoIP” means Voice over IP.
1.0 TERM
1.1 This Agreement will continue so long as Services are installed, accessed, or otherwise used.
2.0 TERMINATION
2.1 In addition to any other rights that Company has or may have pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, this Section, if Company determines, in its sole discretion, that Customer’s use of any Service and/or any person or entity authorized by Customer to utilize, in whole or in part, the Service provided by Company to Customer interferes with or otherwise places in jeopardy Company’s network, customers, partners or business, then Company shall of the right to immediately suspend or terminate any or all of the Services. Company will use reasonable efforts to provide Customer with as much prior notification previous to the suspension or termination of Service as is practicable under the circumstances.
2.2 If either party fails to cure a material default within ten (10) days for late payments, or 30 days for other default, after notice specifying the default, the non-defaulting party may terminate the Service, and pursue any other available remedies at law or equity. The cure period will extend for 30 more days if Company uses good faith efforts to cure.
2.3 If any federal, state or local statute, rule, order, regulation or order by a court of law or regulatory authority, or anything similar to the foregoing effects a change (a “Change in Law”) which has a material adverse impact this Agreement and/or Service, then either party shall have the right to terminate the relevant Service with written notification.
3.0 PAYMENT FOR SERVICES; CREDIT WORTHINESS
3.1 Unless the parties expressly agreed otherwise, Customer shall remit payment for Services and applicable taxes, fees, administrative assessments, and surcharges in U.S. Dollars prior to any Service being used by the Customer. Customer agrees that Services shall not be provisioned unless and until sufficient pre-payment is made. Customer agrees that Services may be suspended immediately, in Company’s sole discretion, if sufficient pre-payment is not made. Customer agrees that it is solely its ongoing responsibility to ensure that sufficient pre-payment is made prior to any use of the Services, and Customer agrees that Customer shall maintain a positive account balance, sufficient to cover Customer’s anticipated usage of Services, at all times, in order to continue using the Services.
3.2 Customer shall be responsible for accurately providing Company with Customer’s valid payment information, including a valid payment method. Customer shall notify Company of any dispute relating to charges billed to Customer’s account by submitting a Billing Dispute Notice to Company within thirty (30) days (the “Billing Dispute Interval”) of the date the charge appeared on Customer’s account. The existence of a dispute shall not relieve Customer from paying any and all amounts billed hereunder, without setoff or reduction. The parties will use commercially reasonable efforts to resolve all billing disputes within forty-five (45) days of receipt of a properly completed Billing Dispute Notice. If Customer does not submit a Billing Dispute Notice within the Billing Dispute Interval, then Customer waives its rights to file a claim thereafter.
3.3 Unless the parties expressly agreed otherwise, Customer shall remit all payments by wire transfer or credit card and Customer understands and agrees that processing of Customer’s credit card payments may be denied or discontinued by Company at any time and in its sole discretion. Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to post payments to Customer’s account once Company receives notification of the receipt of payment. Customer understands that any type of payment may be delayed in posting to Customer’s account for Company administrative reasons and agrees that Service may be interrupted due to lack of sufficient positive balance during any such delay. Company, in its sole discretion, may immediately suspend or terminate Services to Customer whenever Customer fails to maintain a positive account balance or maintain a sufficient positive account balance to cover Customer’s anticipated usage of Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company shall not be responsible for ensuring that Customer’s maintains a positive account balance, and Customer shall promptly remit all payments necessary to cover any negative account balances. Service cancellation may result in the loss of the telephone numbers associated with the Service. Customer hereby waives any and all claims, actions or suits against Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries, and such entities’ employees, officers, directors and shareholders, and releases the same from any errors, omissions, and/or liabilities that may arise from the processing of aforementioned payment transactions and failure by Customer to maintain a positive account balance.
3.4 Customer agrees to provide any reasonable information Company may request to complete any applications in order to obtain information on Customer’s credit rating and background. Customer consents to Company’s verification and reporting personal and/or business payment and credit history. Company may rely on, without limitation, Customer’s credit history, payment history, credit bureau reports or other commercial credit references, and other information to determine whether to provide the Services, and to determine any limitations that may be placed on the Services that Company provides to Customer. Customer authorizes Company, based on Customer’s creditworthiness, as determined in Company’s sole discretion, to change, cancel, limit, and terminate Service at any time.
4.0 TAXES; FEES; ADMINISTRATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SURCHARGES
4.1 In addition to the rates for the Services, Company shall add to each invoice and Customer shall pay any sales, use, excise, value-added, gross receipts, services, labor-related, consumption, administrative assessment (an administrative assessment is a fee to recover a portion of internal costs and expenses incurred by Company to implement and administer the procurement of certain Services and the compliance with certain legal and regulatory obligations; the administrative fee is not a tax or a fee required by the government), and other taxes or surcharges, however designated, with the provision or use of Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if Customer provides Company written documentation of Customer’s tax-exempt status in a form reasonably acceptable to Company, Company will not charge Customer any taxes exempted due to Customer’s request and supporting documentation. Such documentation of Customer’s tax-exempt status will include a valid and properly executed tax exemption certificate(s) and/or statement(s) of indemnification for any taxes from which Customer seeks exemption, and any updates thereto. Customer will pay all remaining non-exempt charges. For clarity, the establishment of exemption from any taxes is the sole responsibility of Customer, and Company is not obligated to consider any retroactive request for tax exemption. Further, Customer is responsible for providing to Company on a timely basis any changes or updates thereto.
5.0 ON-LINE ACCESS; LICENSE; APPLICATIONS TOOLS
5.1 Customer has the sole and exclusive responsibility for the installation, configuration, security (including firewall security), and integrity of all Customer facilities, systems, equipment, proxy servers, software, hardware, systems, routing, networks, network addresses and configurations and the like and key contacts for problem escalation (collectively the “Customer Systems and Materials”).reasonably required for use in conjunction with or related to the Service and software provided by Company, including, without limitation, Customer’s connectivity to any third party. If Company grants Customer access, either by online access, by API or access by any other means, to a service ordering/management system and/or any other tools and applications or computer software in connection with the Service or software or the use of any Service or software (collectively, the “Tools and Applications”), the following apply:
(i) Subject to Customer’s compliance with this Agreement, Company grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable license during the term of this Agreement to use the Service and such Tools and Applications solely in connection with Customer’s use of the Service and/or Software (as applicable) during the term of the applicable Service. Customer will not, directly or indirectly: (A) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the Services, Tools and Applications; (B) modify, translate or create derivative works based on the Tools and/or Applications; (C) rent, lease, distribute, sell, resell, assign, display, host, outsource, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit or otherwise transfer rights to the Tools and/or Applications or make the Tools and Applications available to any third party; (D) use the Tools and/or Applications for timesharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party; (E) remove any proprietary notices or labels on any Tools and/or Applications; or (F) copy, reproduce, post or transmit any Tools and/or Applications in any form or by any means, including, without limitation, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means. Other than using the Tools and Applications for Customer’s internal business purposes, Customer may not resell the Tools or Applications or otherwise generate income from the Tools or Applications.
(ii) The Tools and Applications are Company’s (or its third-party licensor’s, as applicable) intellectual property. Nothing in this Agreement gives Customer any right or license to any of Company’s intellectual property.
(iii) Customer is fully and exclusively responsible for all information accuracy, charges, costs, transactions, and activities conducted through or with such Tools and/or Applications. Customer is fully and exclusively responsible to safeguard, monitor, manage, and maintain access to the Tools and Applications, and to only allow authorized use of the Tools and Applications to persons that Customer designates.
6.0 RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTENT COMMUNICATIONS; USE OF SERVICES
6.1 Customer will provide information reasonably requested by Company to perform the Services, including as applicable: telecommunication specifications, Customer or third-party telephone numbers and location information, network architecture and diagrams, etc. As between Customer and Company, Customer is the sole owner and is solely responsible for all such information and for all content provided to Company including all audio, visual, electronic or written communications (collectively “Customer Content”) on or from Customer’s accounts. Customer warrants that Customer is solely responsible for the content and rights to Customer Content. Customer will comply with all laws, rules and regulations while using the Service, and ensure it has the right to use the Service where it is located. Customer will not (i) transmit any communication that violates any law, rule or regulation; (ii) violate any third party rights in the course of using the Service; (iii) use the Service in any way that damages Company’s property or interferes with or disrupts Company’s system(s) or other users; or (iv) transmit, upload, receive or store on or through Company’s network any Customer Content or other material that contains any viruses, worms, “Trojan Horses” or other code features that may damage, disrupt or disable computers, networks or any information thereon.
7.0 DATA PROTECTION
7.1 Each party will comply with any applicable data protection and privacy laws existing in all jurisdictions in which Service is performed (together, the “Data Protection Laws”). The parties agree provision of the Service may involve the collection, processing, storage or recording of certain “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” (as defined by applicable Data Protection Laws and referred to collectively herein as “Personal Data”) of Customer and participants. Where applicable under Data Protection Laws, the parties acknowledge Company acts as a “Data Processor” in relation to the Personal Data it processes on Customer’s behalf and Customer remains the “Data Controller” with respect to such Personal Data. Company hereby undertakes that it will (i) use Personal Data only to provide and administer Service as outlined in the applicable privacy statement(s) referenced below; (ii) process the Personal Data in accordance with Customer’s instructions; (iii) implement appropriate security measures designed to provide a commercially reasonable level of protection of the Personal Data; (iv) implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures, insofar as is possible, for the fulfillment of Customer’s obligations to respond to requests by users of the Service (“Data Subjects”); (v) take commercially reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify Personal Data when it no longer is necessary to retain it; and (vi) ensure that its employees authorized to process Personal Data are bound to appropriate confidentiality obligations. Personal Data may be collected, processed and/or stored by Company or its third-party suppliers in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the rest of the world. Customer represents and warrants it has a valid lawful basis for Company to process the Data Subjects’ Personal Data in connection with the Services in accordance with applicable Data Protection Laws.
8.0 CUSTOMER PROPRIETARY NETWORK INFORMATION
8.1 In the course of providing the Services, Company will necessarily obtain information about the quality, technical configuration, type, destination, location, pricing, contract terms, billing information and payment history relating to the Service provided to Customer. Such information is referred to as customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”). Customer hereby consents to the use, disclosure and access of CPNI by Company and Company affiliates and agents and partners for the purposes of verifying Customer usage and deployment of Service, improving the Service and marketing additional products and services that may be of interest to Customer. Customer acknowledges that it may withdraw its consent at any time by notifying Company. In the event that Customer withdraws its consent, Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the impact of such withdrawal upon Company’s provision of Service to Customer.
9.0 MESSAGES
9.1 If Customer uses the Services to send fax, email, phone, text, SMS or other messages (collectively, “Messages”) to any recipients (“Recipients”), as a condition for using such Service, Customer represents and warrants that: (i) Customer is solely responsible for the Messages; (ii) Customer has the legal right to send all Messages to the Recipients (including obtaining any required consents from the Recipients); (iii) the content, timing and purpose of all Messages, campaigns and programs are in compliance with all laws, rules and regulations; (iv) Customer is the sender of all Messages, and Company is merely acting at Customer’s direction as the transmitter of the Messages; (v) Company’s transmission of the Messages will not violate the rights of any third party or any law, rule or regulation; (vi) Customer has prior express consent to contact each wireless number delivered by Customer to Company in connection with the provision of Service; (vii) in the case of a wireless phone number, the intended Recipient is the current subscriber to, or the non-subscriber customary user of, the wireless phone number; and (viii) Customer has, unless an exemption applies, obtained from the Recipient of any solicitation Message an express written agreement that meets the requirements set forth in Section 310.4(b)(1)(v)(A) of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and Section 64.1200(f)(8) of the FCC’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act Rules. Customer may use the Service to transmit Customer Content or direct Company to make contacts via any channel to, or with, Recipients to transmit Customer Content. Where Company reasonably believes Customer may not have complied with the provisions of this Section, Company may, at its option, scrub all numbers against any appropriate database deemed necessary to remove all wireless numbers and/or temporarily suspend Service related to the compliance concern. Upon request by Company Customer will promptly provide, in writing, proof of prior express consent and Customer’s process for consent management. Customer is responsible for all uses of the Service in association with its accounts whether or not authorized by it including unintended usage due to holidays, daylight savings, computer clock errors or similar circumstances. Customer acknowledges and agrees Company does not control nor monitor Customer Content nor guarantee the accuracy, integrity, security or quality of Customer Content. Use of recording any use of the Service may subject Customer to laws or regulations and Customer is solely responsible for and obligated to provide any required notification to those being recorded. Customer shall indemnify, defend and hold Company, its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from and against any and all claims of loss, damages, liability, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) arising out of or resulting from Company following Customer’s instructions in sending the Messages or Customer’s breach of any representation and warranty set forth in this Section 9.
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