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Ozefone Telecom (WHIRL TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD, ACN 133 430 538) will supply you with telecommunications services
(“Services”) on the terms and conditions set
out below. Words not defined in these terms and conditions
have the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act
1997.
1. OUR AGREEMENT WITH YOU
1.1 As a customer of Ozefone Telecom these terms and conditions
form the basis of our agreement with you.
1.2 Our agreement with you also includes your application
or order form which you complete and provide to us. We
may accept and rely on facsimile copy of the application
or order form as if it was an original. You will be bound
by a facsimile copy of the application or order form as
if it was an original.
1.3 Our agreement with you also includes our currently
applicable price list. The price list may change from
time to time, but we will notify you of any changes when
they happen. Copies of the price list are available from
us, upon request.
2. SERVICE DESCRIPTION
2.1 Services will be supplied to you through the carriers
or networks (“Carriers”) that we nominate
in writing from time to time. You agree that we –
(a) may change Carriers without reference to you and at
any time; and
(b) have your express authorisation to notify any relevant
Carrier in respect of and to effect any such change.
2.2 We do not warrant that we will be able to supply Services
and we are not liable for any failure to provide all or
part of any of the Services, but, to the extent and to
the standard that Carriers provide Services to us, those
Services will be provided by us to you. When your connection
is disrupted, we will do our best to reinstate our Services
to you as soon as we can.
2.3 Unless otherwise stated in the schedule to this agreement,
we reserve the exclusive right to provide you with all
long distance services from the date of this agreement.
2.4 When using the Services, you agree to –
(a) comply with all statutes, regulations, by-laws or
licence conditions of any government body; and
(b) not breach any person’s rights or otherwise
cause us or a Carrier loss, liability or expense.
2.5 Our obligations to provide the Services ceases when
we transfer your account to another supplier and the other
supplier takes over full billing of those services.
3. CHARGES AND PAYMENT
3.1 You agree during the term of this agreement:
(a) to be charged for the Services we provide to you,
regardless of whether it is you who uses them, at our
current prices from time to time;
(b) to pay us for all calls made using the 1488 or 1441
access codes (whether you use it by override code dialling
(automatic or otherwise) or through pre-selection);
(c) as our charges are exclusive of any taxes, that we
can pass on to you the full amount of any taxes payable
on the charges; and
(d) to pay accounts for all of those charges (including
taxes) by the date specified in the account (“Due
Date”).
3.2 If you dispute in good faith an amount in the account,
you must notify us in writing within fourteen days setting
out reasons for the dispute and the amount in dispute.
Notwithstanding any dispute as to any amount of any charge,
you must pay the whole amount of each account by the Due
Date.
3.3 If you do not pay the account by the Due Date, then
we may charge interest at the rate of 1.5% per month or
part thereof on the outstanding amount of the invoice
and suspend all or part of your Services pending payment
of outstanding amounts on the account. Nothing in this
clause affects our rights to terminate this agreement
under clause 8.
3.4 If you do not pay the account by the Due Date, we
also reserve the right (at our discretion) to adjust the
prices you pay for the Services.
3.5 If you do not pay the account by the Due Date, we
also reserve the right (at our discretion) to charge a late payment fee of up to $20 exGST.
3.6 If you direct us, or authorise another carrier to
transfer any of the Services to another supplier, you
will pay in full -
(a) all of our accounts up until the time we stop providing
the Services, before we will release the number in question;
and
(b) all other proper charges that we become aware of after
the date of transfer that relate to the Services we provided
to you.
4. AMENDMENTS TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Without limiting clause 3.1, we may vary, alter, replace
or revoke any of these terms and conditions effective
upon the expiry of 14 days written notice from us. We
may interpret your ongoing use of the Services after that
date as constituting your acceptance of the variation,
alteration, replacement or revocation.
5. CREDIT CHECK
5.1 Prior to our accepting your application, you have
provided to us all information relevant to our assessment
of your credit rating. You have consented to the following:
(a) our obtaining from a credit reporting agency a credit
report containing personal information about you;
(b) our giving to and seeking from any credit provider
named in a credit report or in your application, information
in relation to your credit rating including without limitation
any information about your credit worthiness, credit history
or credit capacity that credit providers are allowed to
give or receive from other credit providers under the
Privacy Act 1988;
(c) our making independent enquiries of third parties
concerning your financial standing and for this purpose
you have authorised and permitted such third parties to
supply such information regardless of any confidentiality
or privilege which applies to the information sought;
and
(d) our providing any information we obtain about you
to the relevant Carrier.
6. TRANSFER OF SERVICES
6.1 When you transfer any services (“Transferred
Services”) from a Carrier, a telecommunications
service provider or equipment supplier who supplies telecommunications
services or equipment to you at the time of signing this
agreement (“Current Supplier”) to us, you
authorise us to sign on your behalf and in your name any
forms required by the Current Supplier to transfer the
Transferred Services as we direct.
6.2 You agree to immediately pay to the Current Supplier
any amounts owing for the Transferred Services up to the
date of the transfer.
7. LIMIT ON LIABILITY
7.1 We do not exclude or limit –
(a) the application of any provision of any statute (including
the Trade Practices Act 1974, the Privacy Act 1988 or
the Telecommunications Act 1997) where to do so would
contravene that statute or cause any part of this clause
7 to be void; or
(b) direct losses and damages which arise only as a result
of our gross negligence (which means where we commit an
act or allow an omission to occur in reckless disregard
of the consequences of the act or omission).
7.2 Except where clause 7.1 applies, we exclude all statutory
liability, tortious liability (including but not limited
to liability in negligence), conditions and warranties
implied by custom, the general law or statute, liability
for all direct, economic, consequential or indirect losses,
expenses, damages and costs incurred by you, arising out
of or relating to the Services, any failure to supply
or delay in supplying the Services or out of or relating
to this agreement.
7.3 Including, but not limited to, liability for gross
negligence and except to the extent of clause 7.1(a),
we are not responsible or liable for any indirect consequential
or economic damages, including, without limitation, loss
of income or profit or loss of actual potential business
opportunities.
7.4 Our liability to you for any breach of any implied
provision of this agreement (other than an implied warranty
of title) is limited, at our option, to refunding the
price of the goods or Services in respect of which the
breach occurred, or to providing, replacing or repairing
those goods or providing those Services again.
7.5 We are not liable to you for any delay in the connection
or failure in the operation of the Services.
7.6 You acknowledge that any liability of any Carrier
to you in relation to the Services is governed by the
terms and conditions on which that Carrier from time to
time supplies that service to its own retail customers.
8. TERM OF AGREEMENT
8.1 This agreement will commence on the date of its signing
by us.
8.2 You may cancel this agreement at any time on one month’s
written notice to us.
8.3 We may immediately terminate this agreement by written
notice at any time if, without our prior written consent:
you breach any term or condition of this agreement; a
receiver or receiver and manager is appointed over any
of your property or assets; a liquidator or provisional
liquidator is appointed to you; you become bankrupt; you
enter into any arrangements with your creditors; you assign
or otherwise deal with your rights under this agreement;
you cease to carry on business; or there is a material
change in your direct or indirect ownership or control.
8.4 We may also immediately terminate this agreement at
any time by written notice if the Carriers cease to provide
necessary services to us.
8.5 If we terminate this agreement in accordance with
this clause and a Carrier arranges to supply you services
other than through us, you acknowledge that –
(a) the Carrier may not be able to make those arrangements
immediately; and
(b) once the Carrier has made arrangements, the services
acquired by you from the Carrier will be acquired on the
Carrier’s then current tariffs and terms and conditions
and the Carrier will bill you accordingly.
9. INFORMATION
9.1 Without limiting clause 5.1, you agree to provide
us with any information we request in connection with
our providing the Services to you under this agreement.
9.2 You authorise and consent to the following:
(a) our conducting a physical audit of the Services and
any equipment supplied in respect of the Services should
we consider it necessary;
(b) our exchanging with Carriers all information about
you and the Services provided to you in our possession
or control including, but not limited to, your name, billing
address, street address, relevant telephone numbers, any
information obtained by us for the purpose of your application
and this agreement;
(c) the Carrier exchanging with us any information in
the Carrier’s possession or under its control in
relation to the Services including, without limitation,
all your records and, in particular, exchange line details,
account information, call charge records and call event
records; and
(d) ours and the Carrier’s use of the information
referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this clause.
10. CONFIDENTIALITY
You will keep confidential all information supplied by
us or the Carriers and we will keep confidential all information
supplied by you, except as provided by clauses 5 and 9.
11. ASSIGNMENT
Your rights under this agreement are personal. You must
not assign or attempt to assign any right or obligation
under this agreement without our written consent. We may
assign all or any of our rights and obligations under
this agreement at any time by notifying you in writing.
12. WARRANTY OF AUTHORITY
Any persons signing this agreement on your behalf warrant
that they have full power and authority to bind you in
respect of this agreement.
13. OUR EQUIPMENT
13.1 Risk in any equipment provided by us or any third
party to you for purchase or hire (“Equipment”)
passes to you upon delivery. You will accept any Equipment
on the basis of these Terms and Conditions and any additional
terms and conditions notified at the time of delivery.
13.2 Title to any Equipment provided for purchase does
not pass to you until all amounts owing to us under this
agreement and the cost of such Equipment have been paid
in full. Until title passes to you, the Equipment will
be held by you as bailee for us.
13.3 If Equipment is installed at premises occupied by
you, you must not interfere with the Equipment or its
installation.
13.4 You irrevocably grant to us, our agents and servants,
leave and licence without the necessity of giving any
notice to enter at any time on and into premises occupied
by you using reasonable force if necessary to inspect,
search for and re-take possession of any Equipment in
respect to which payment is overdue. You shall indemnify
us and hold us harmless against any loss or damage suffered
by any person or company arising from such possession.
13.5 On the termination of this agreement for any reason,
you will immediately return all Equipment owned by us
or make it available for our collection.
14. OTHER EQUIPMENT
14.1 Where you have PABX or other network equipment, you
must ensure that it is programmed as we specify.
14.2 Where you have equipment on premises you occupy which
is used by another supplier to provide you with services,
we will disconnect that equipment when you transfer the
services to us and we connect our Equipment (if any).
You must immediately notify that supplier that you have
transferred your services to us and arrange for them to
remove their equipment from the premises.
15. REFUNDS POLICY
15.1 Any hardware purchased that is defective or inoperable will be replaced with an item of the same type and model, if no similar item is available then the purchase price will be refunded.
16. SHIPPING POLICY
16.1 All hardware purchases will be shipped within 3 business days.
17. MISCELLANEOUS
17.1 Any notice, demand, consent or other communication
required to be given to either party must be delivered
personally or sent by prepaid mail or by facsimile to
the address of the other as last notified.
17.2 Clauses 2.5, 3.5, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13.4, 13.5 and 14
shall survive the expiration or termination of this agreement.
17.3 This agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the law of New South Wales and the
parties hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts of that State.
17.4 This agreement contains yours and our entire understanding
to the exclusion of any and all prior or collateral agreement
or understanding relating to the Services, whether oral
or written.
17.5 If any part of this agreement is found to be invalid
or of no force or effect, this agreement shall be construed
as though such part had not been inserted and the remainder
of this agreement shall retain its full force and effect.
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