Voise
Pty Ltd A.C.N 113 495 711 A.B.N 85 113 495 711 will
provide you, the customer stated on the
Application
form with services in line with the following Terms and Conditions
(Current as at 1/7/2005).
STANDARD
FORM OF AGREEMENT
GENERAL
TERMS – VOISE, VOISE Prepaid & OTHER VOICE SERVICES
Definitions
"Voise
Pty Ltd", "VOISE", "Our", “We” and “Us” means VOISE
Pty Ltd.
The “Customer”, “You”, “There” and “Your” means
the end user of our services
“Service” means
access to the VOISE VoIP Network and other voice networks
over VOISE maintained voice networks.
1.
Preamble
The
supply of these services is provided by VOISE. VOISE may
use third party suppliers and contractors for the supply
of services under this agreement. By using the VOISE service,
you have indicated your acceptance of all terms and conditions
as referred to in this agreement.
2.
Terms of this Agreement
2.1
This agreement commences on the application date and will
continue until ether party terminates the service(s).
If
you terminate this agreement you will remain liable for all
charges and all other amounts that are outstanding, including
any other amounts you are required to pay under this agreement.
2.2
This agreement shall stay in effect until terminated by you
or VOISE. Cancellation of this agreement depends upon the
specific terms of the service(s) you have with us. If no
specific termination conditions are mentioned, you must supply
7 Days verbal or written notice (not email) to VOISE before
the next billing period if you wish to cancel your service.
2.3
We retain the right to terminate this agreement at any time
if the customer fails to perform under it or any supplemental
agreements or conditions relating to the supply of the service.
2.4
We retain the right to refuse any application
2.5
Upon Termination of this agreement, VOISE will cease to provide
you with the service(s) as provided under this agreement(s)
and any outstanding payments will become immediately due.
3.
Provision of Services
3.1
The customer must provide the items (if any) necessary to
make the connection to our services possible.
3.2
VOISE shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that
your connection to our services is available within a reasonable
timeframe.
3.3
CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) is defined as equipment
owned by the customer and located at their premises.
Purchases,
Installation and configuration of this equipment and or software
used for connecting to the VOISE services is the responsibility
of the customer.
3.4
Equipment Purchased from VOISE will be covered by an equipment
specific warranty. The connection, configuration and installation
of any hardware and software purchased from us remain the
sole responsibility of the customer. Where possible we will
assist in configuring the hardware/software with your existing
equipment and software.
3.5
Permitted Use
a) You
acknowledge and agree that VOISE supplies the Service for
your use solely at the Premises as kept on record.
if
you move premises, you must update the details at which Premises
the service is used at. If for any reason the service is
not used at the premises as kept on record, VOISE is not
liable if the service(s) can not be used.
b)
You agree not to use, or allow another person to use, the
Service:
(i)
to infringe another person's rights;
(ii)
in a manner that may expose VOISE to liability;
(iii)
in any way that may damage any Equipment, or interfere with
or interrupt the Service or any other telecommunications
network, equipment, facilities or cabling controlled or utilised
by VOISE, or any other supplier of telecommunications services;
(iv)
in any way that may damage any property or injure or kill
any person;
(v)
to transmit, publish or communicate any defamatory, offensive,
abusive, indecent or menacing material;
(vi)
to make any hoax call, including calls to an emergency service;
(vii)
to violate or infringe any duty or obligation owed to any
person under law; and
(viii)
to commit, or in relation to the commission of, an offence
under any law of the Commonwealth or any
of
the States or Territories.
c)
You must not supply this service for re-sale.
3.6
Virtual Numbering
3.6.1
Issue of Virtual Numbers
a) VOISE
may issue a Number to the Service and vary that Number in
accordance with any national regulatory policy on
numbering made pursuant to the Telecommunications
Act.
b) The
selection, issuing and use of Numbers is governed by the
Authority's numbering plan and directions relating to
numbering,
and you agree that you must accept and comply with the requirements
of the Authority or any other body
from
time to time that administers or oversees the allocation
of Numbers.
c) VOISE
may be required by law to withdraw, suspend or reassign a
Number assigned to you, and VOISE will not be liable
to
you for any loss or damage incurred or sustained by you if
VOISE is so required.
3.6.2
Local number portability
You
acknowledge that:
a) VOISE
may not provide local number portability for existing numbers
which you use for telecommunication services
obtained
from other Carriers or Carriage Service Providers; and
b) You
are not able to Port any virtual number assigned by VOISE
to any other Provider. VOISE is not obliged to procure for
and/or
provide to you any particular number allocated or assigned
to you by another Carrier or Carriage Service Provider.
VOISE
will not be liable to you for any loss or damage incurred
or sustained by you if such number is not, or is no longer,
available.
3.6.3
Numbering and Call Charges
You
acknowledge that:
a)
A local call charge will only apply to other calls made to
the area where your Virtual Local Number is located.
b)
People who call you from outside the SZA (Standard Zone Area)
of your Virtual Local Number may be charged a timed
call
from their Telecommunications Carrier. The Standard Zone
Area is the Geographic location of your number
and
where callers from the same zone area can call you for a
local call charge.
c)
When you move outside the geographic area or the SZA (Standard
Zone Area) of where your virtual Number is located,
we
may be required to change your virtual number to the area
where your service is now located.
3.7
Caller line identification
You
acknowledge that when:
a)
a call is made using a Service, the CLI may automatically
be sent to the telecommunications equipment of
the
person receiving the call; and
b)
a call is received using a Service, the CLI of the calling
party may be displayed or recorded by the Equipment,
unless
CLI is barred by the person making the call. You must comply,
and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that
any
third parties using the Service comply with applicable privacy
and other guidelines as well as industry codes of practice
on the use and capture of CLI.
3.8
Integrated Public Number Database
You
acknowledge that VOISE is obliged by law to supply specified
Customer Information with respect to any
person
who is allocated a Number under clause 3.6 for the purposes
of the Integrated Public Number Database. The information
held
in this database may only be provided for an approved purpose
to approved organizations such as directory information
organisations
or the assistance of emergency service or law enforcement
organizations. If you require that your Customer
Information
that appears on that database be altered, you must request
such alteration in writing.
3.9
Service availability, quality
3.9.1
General acknowledgment
The
parties acknowledge that it is technically impracticable
for VOISE to guarantee that the Service will
be
available in each area, that capacity will be available at
all times to make and receive calls, or that the Service
will
be
free from faults or errors. VOISE undertakes to provide the
Service using all the reasonable care
and
skill.
3.9.2
Reliance on other networks
You
acknowledge that the Service may rely upon the operation
of Supplier Networks operated by other Carriers and services
provided by other Carriage Service Providers (such as the
customer's internet service). You further acknowledge that
VOISE is unable to guarantee the operation of and the use
of the service through Supplier Networks or other carriers
and carriage service providers services. Any failure of a
Service caused by another network or service is beyond the
control of VOISE, and VOISE will not be responsible, or liable
to you, for such failures.
3.9.3
Fault reporting
a) VOISE
will provide a fault reporting service between the hours
of 9.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. AEST, on Business Days.
b) Where
a fault is reported (irrespective of whether you reported
it), you agree to provide all necessary assistance to enable
the
location and repair of any fault which is arises in the VOISE
Network or the Supplier Network with which the VOISE Network
is interconnected.
c) Where
VOISE determines that there is a fault within the VOISE Network,
it is responsible for correcting that fault. VOISE is not
responsible for:
(i)
any fault which is within a Supplier Network of an interconnected
Supplier, although VOISE
will
notify that Supplier of the fault and request that it be
corrected promptly; or
(ii)
any fault which is caused by your equipment, your internet
service provider (if not VOISE) or the Premises, but
will,
where possible, advise you of that fault and its probable
cause and location.
3.9.4
Maintenance
a) Without
limiting clause 3.9.1, you agree that VOISE may from time
to time, conduct maintenance on and of the network and infrastructure
through which the Service is provided. VOISE will try to
conduct such maintenance outside Business Hours, but you
acknowledge that it may not always be possible for VOISE
to do so.
b) You
agree that VOISE will not be responsible for rectifying any
fault in the Service if that fault arises in or is caused
by a network or infrastructure of another supplier of telecommunications
services, your own equipment or any other infrastructure,
equipment or facilities that are outside VOISE’s reasonable
control or responsibility.
3.9.5
Acknowledgement
You
confirm that VOISE does not warrant, and has not represented,
that the Service is or will be free of errors, defects or
interruptions, or that it will be available at all times.
You acknowledge that the Service will be used by you for
the purpose of making voice and fax calls only and not for
the transmission of data (such as internet dial up connections). You
also acknowledge that you may not be able to use the service
if electricity or an active online Internet connection is
not supplied to the equipment used and is unable to subsequently
connect to the service.
3.9.6
Access to Emergency Services and Priority Services
Without
limiting the Service Description, you acknowledge that the
Service relies on a supply of electricity and a current and
active internet service that is able to connect to our Network.
The service may not enable you to connect to Emergency Services
if that supply of electricity fails, there is a fault with
your internet service connecting to our service or your internet
connection is not active. Therefore the Service is not a
full replacement or substitute for a standard telephone service.
The Service should not be used, as a first choice, to make
an emergency call. VOISE is under no liability if you are
unable to access Emergency services from the service at anytime.
You
are required to ensure that our records as to the location
of the service are up-to-date as calls to emergency services
rely on this information and otherwise unless indicated the
service should not be used as a portable phone solution.
You may need to give your Information to the Operator (including
Full Address and Telephone Number details) each time you
make a call to emergency services.
VOISE
does not provide priority services over the VOISE service.
3.9.7
Calls to Services not available from VOISE
19xx,
019xx and 11xx services area not available from VOISE.
3.10
You are responsible for the security of your account. You
will be held liable for any unauthorised use of your account
if you disclose in anyway your account details to another
party.
4.
Service Fees and Payments
4.1
All prices include GST unless indicated.
4.2
The service fee shall be calculated in accordance with pricing
model selected by the customer on the application form, unless
changed by VOISE from time to time (With prior notice given).
The usage shall be binding on both parties. The Rate card
for services complements this agreement and is available
from www.voise.com.au. This Rate Card sets the fees
and charges for the provision of services and call costs.
Call Rates are subject to change without notice. Any Price
changes will be published on our website, by email or mail.
4.3
You are responsible for all usage on your account and all
the relevant costs relating the provision of services to
you.
4.4
Call charges:
a) The
details of each call (including timing where applicable)
made using the Service will be recorded.
b) The
records referred to in clause 4.4(a), and the records or
data of any Supplier whose network is interconnected with
the VOISE Network, will be conclusive evidence of your liability
to pay Call Charges to us for use of the Service, unless
it can be shown that these records are incorrect.
4.5
Charges included on an invoice:
VOISE
will endeavour, and require any billing and/or collection
agent to endeavour, to include all charges for calls made
using the Service in a billing period on the invoice relating
to that billing period. Where this is not possible, we may
include those calls not included on that invoice in any subsequent
invoice.
4.6
Installation, Remaining Monthly Fees, Hardware, Calls Made
and configuration fees and are not refundable under any circumstances.
4.7
Invoices are due by the due date. If payment is not made
by the Due Date, VOISE may suspend or refer any outstanding
amounts to a debt collection agency without notice to the
customer.
4.8
Unless otherwise stated, All services shall be renewed at
the next billing period.
4.9
Any Payments will be first applied to any outstanding balances
and then for any fees for services for which the customer
then requires.
4.10
Any payment disputes must be made to VOISE Networks within
7 Days of receipt of invoice. After investigation, if we
do not agree with the dispute, any outstanding fees will
become immediately payable.
4.11
Services are only available by credit card or by Direct Debit.
Accounts are only issued under certain conditions and by
approval of our credit manager.
4.12
In cases were a bank account or credit card supplied is declined
due to insufficient funds or our principal bankers charge
us for any dispute fees, such fees shall become the responsibility
of the customer and the customer shall pay VOISE this fee,
plus a 10% service charge and any outstanding amounts immediately.
4.13
Each service will be assigned an initial $200 credit limit.
Any Increase will be at the discretion of VOISE. You may
apply for an increase at anytime, based on your payment and
service history.
4.14
Deposit:
VOISE
may, in its discretion, notify you that VOISE’s acceptance
of your Application and on going use of the service is conditional
on you paying a deposit (the amount of which will be specified)
in advance. If VOISE so notifies you, you must within 7 days
of the notice, pay the amount of the deposit. The parties
agree that the amount of the deposit will be applied by VOISE,
at its absolute discretion, in payment of invoices issued
by it, until such time as the amount of the deposit is exhausted.
Once the deposit is exhausted, we may required a further
deposit.
5.
Liability of VOISE
5.1
Services and Hardware provided by VOISE are provided “as-is” and
takes no responsibility for any loss of your data or inability
to make/receive a voice call or any act of god, fire, war,
terrorism, natural disaster or like occurrence for the loss
of your data or service.
5.2
We cannot agree that all services will be free of delays
and faults; we will use our best efforts to restore faults
within a reasonable time.
5.3
We may add, change or discontinue any of our services, with
at least 2 weeks notice, unless our provider(s) change their
services, in which we will attempt to inform you with enough
of Notice.
5.4
VOISE shall be under no liability to the Customer in respect
of any loss or damage (including consequential loss or damage)
which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly
or indirectly in respect of goods or services supplied pursuant
to this agreement or in respect of a failure or omission
on the part of VOISE to comply with its obligations under
this agreement and whether as the result of any negligent
act or omission of VOISE.
5.5
The Customer shall not hold VOISE, its officers, employees,
providers and agents liable for any damages or losses arising
from network downtime or suit or proceeding brought against
VOISE or its employees, officers, or agents by any person
or customer in respect of the transmission by the Customer
of any illegal, fraudulent or offensive material over the
VOISE Network and breach of Customer obligations under this
agreement and any unlawful act or omission by the Customer.
5.6
The laws in force in the State of Victoria shall govern this
agreement and each party shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Courts of the state.
5.7
This agreement, the Rules and the other documents delivered
pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding
and agreement between the parties with regards to the subject
matter. Neither this agreement nor any term in it may be
amended, assigned, waived, discharged or terminated except
by consent of VOISE.
5.8
Important Notice To Subscriber(s) For Credit (Section 18(E)(1)
Privacy Act 1988)
5.8.1.
Giving information to a Credit Reporting Agency (Section
18E(8)(c) Privacy Act 1988)
VOISE
has informed me that it may give certain personal information
about me to a credit reporting agency.
5.8.2.
Access to Commercial Credit Information (Section 18L(4) Privacy
Act 1988)
I/we
agree that VOISE may obtain information about me/us from
a business which provides information about the commercial
credit worthiness of persons or companies for the purpose
of assessing my or business application for consumer credit.
5.8.3.
Access to Consumer Credit Information (Section 18K(1)(b),
Privacy Act 1988)
I/we
agree that VOISE may obtain a consumer credit report containing
information about me or my company from a credit reporting
agency for the purpose of assessing my or business application
for commercial credit.
5.8.4.
Exchange of Credit Worthiness Information (Section 18N, Privacy
Act 1988)
I/we
agree that VOISE may exchange information with those credit
providers named in this application or named in a consumer
credit report issued by a credit reporting agency for the
following purposes;
· to
assess an application by me/us for credit
· to
notify other credit providers of a default by me/us
· to
exchange information with other credit providers as to the
status of this loan where I am in default
with
other credit providers
· to
assess my/our credit worthiness.
I
/we understand that the information exchanged can include
anything about my/our credit worthiness, credit standing,
credit history or credit capacity that credit providers are
allowed to exchange under the Privacy Act.
5.9
You agree that the Customer Service Guarantee in Section
120 of the Telecommunications (Customer Protection and Service
Standards) Act 1999 (Cth) (Act) and Part 5 of the Telecommunications
(Customer Service Guarantee) Standard 2000
(No
2) will not apply with relation to the provision of your
VOISE Service.
5.10
This agreement and any subsection may be amended at any time
with at least 14 Days written or electronic notice.
VOISE
Prepaid
1.0 Emergency
000 Calling is not available from this service. You will
require another Telecommunications Service in order to make
calls to Emergency 000.
1.1 Your
Account must be in credit in order to make a call via the
VOISE Prepaid Service. No Credit Limits apply to this service
as it is prepaid service.
1.2 VOISE
may cancel a Prepaid service if there is no credit in the
account and a charged call has not been made over a 60
Day
period.
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