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Terms and Conditions
The following are the Terms and Conditions for the use of OzoneSMS.com Products and/or Services ("OzoneSMS.com Products and/or Services" or "the Products" or "the Services") by the User ("User" or "Users"). Any User accessing and using the Products or availing the Services and/or any part thereof shall invariably be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
IMPORTANT: In accordance to the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Government of India), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act 1997 & 2000 and the common law of contract, these Terms and Conditions are valid, binding and enforceable for all persons that access the OzoneSMS.com website, the web pages or any part thereof. Hence, if you do not agree to be bound over by these Terms and Conditions, then you may not use the OzoneSMS.com website. The reasonable use of the OzoneSMS.com website shall automatically bind the Users to this agreement.
1. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
The Products offered by OzoneSMS.com consist of, but not limited to, the following: Messaging Tools or Interfaces (like Web Browser Interface, Microsoft Excel Plug-in, Desktop Messenger, Inbox, Unicode Tool, API Tools, Short Code, Virtual Long Number etc) developed either by OzoneSMS.com or any other third party, Sender Name/Number and Message Credits.
The Services offered by OzoneSMS.com consist of, but not limited to, the following: SMS Core Messaging Platform Access, wherever applicable, the Synchronization Software.
The Users shall be held responsible for obtaining and maintaining all computer hardware, software and communications equipment that are needed to access the Products and/or Services, and for paying all the chargeable access charges that are incurred while using the Products and/or Services.
OzoneSMS.com offers only some of its Products and/or Services free of cost while others are offered at a price. All the price details are mentioned prominently and are payable upfront, prior to the account and/or specific feature(s) and/or credits being activated. Price per SMS may vary periodically based on the variations done at operator's end. OzoneSMS.com shall make no guarantees for the uninterrupted and continuous availability of the Products and/or Services or of any specific feature(s) of the Products and/or Services.
The SMS prices may vary if operators introduce interconnection charges.
OzoneSMS.com offers Application Programming Interface (API) Tools like HTTP/S, XML, SMTP and/or COM Object Tool and/or SMPP Protocol to connect to OzoneSMS.com Core Messaging Platform. These provide an easy, efficient and flexible option to integrate with the User’s website/application, facilitating auto-generated SMS Text messages to be delivered to the intended recipients’ mobile phones. OzoneSMS.com charges a one-time setup fee or a periodic fee based on the package selected for activating such connectivity.
OzoneSMS.com also offers Life Time validity for some of its Products and/or Services which would be considered valid for a period of 6 Years.
Any special offers and/or discounts introduced by OzoneSMS.com are valid only for the specific validity period mentioned in the offer. OzoneSMS.com may or may not extend the offer, once the offer package reaches the expiration date.
OzoneSMS.com also provides an option to receive sms text messages into the User’s OzoneSMS.com account (called Inbox).
The Products and/or Services are “AS IS” and are subject to the disclaimers of warranty and the limitations of liability as found in this agreement and which are subject to testing by the Users before entering into this agreement.
OzoneSMS.com reserves the right to change or terminate the Products and/or the Services and/ or alter the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement at any time with/without notice and/or with immediate effect. All the fees paid to OzoneSMS.com when such termination occurs are addressed in detail in the sections below.
2. SINGLE USER ACCOUNT - ACCESS TO USE THE PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES
To access and use OzoneSMS.com Products and/or Services, Users need to have a OzoneSMS.com Account ("account"). For this account, the User needs to complete a simple one-time registration process by providing all current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the Registration Form. Entering inaccurate details might result in suspension or blockage of the account. The User has to choose his/her unique "username" and "password" (6 to 16 characters each).
To avail connectivity using API Tools and/or COM Object Tool and/or SMPP Protocol, the Users need to fill in another form, which contains details like IP Address to connect to the server, Technical Contact Information, Type of API etc.
OzoneSMS.com reserves the right to approve Users for connectivity using API Tools and/or COM Object Tool and/or SMPP Protocol at its sole discretion. Although OzoneSMS.com shall provide connection specifications and shall attempt to keep the specifications accurate and up to date, these specifications may be incomplete and may change from time to time without OzoneSMS.com informing the Users about the changes. It is the User's sole responsibility to test the specifications thoroughly on a regular basis and OzoneSMS.com shall not accept responsibility for any specifications that may be incorrect or incomplete.
The Users shall be entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality regarding their password and account information. In addition, the Users shall be entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under their accounts. OzoneSMS.com shall not be held liable to any third party claims and/or actions taken with respect to the Products and/or Services being offered. The Users agree to notify OzoneSMS.com immediately regarding any unauthorized use of their accounts or of any other breach of security.
If OzoneSMS.com finds no activity in any User's account for more than 365 days, that account shall be temporarily blocked or suspended. The Users may contact OzoneSMS.com to re-activate such accounts.
3. USER PRIVACY
OzoneSMS.com respects the privacy of the Users and assures that it shall not monitor, edit, or disclose any personal information about the Users or about the User's OzoneSMS.com account, which includes all of its contents, without the User's prior permission. However, this will not apply if OzoneSMS.com has to:
. Conform to the statutory and/or legal requirements or comply with the legal process;
. Protect and defend the rights or property of OzoneSMS.com;
. Enforce this Agreement or protect OzoneSMS.com business or reputation, including without limitation, upon termination, cancellation or suspension of this Agreement by OzoneSMS.com;
. Respond to the request for identification in connection with the claim of copyright or trademark infringement by the Users or to a claim by a third party that the Users is using the Products and/or Services in connection with an infringement, illegal or improper activity; or
. Act to protect the interests of the Users or any others in general
The User agrees that OzoneSMS.com can access his/her account, including the message content, as stated above or respond to product specific queries or technical issues.
The User hereby permits OzoneSMS.com to send him/her communication via email/sms of any updates, upgrades, notices, or any other information that OzoneSMS.com deems important for the Users to know, relating to the Products and/or Services.
4. USER OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES
OzoneSMS.com expressly prohibits any unauthorized commercial use of the Products and/or Services. The User gives irrevocable agreement to abide by all the applicable local, national and international laws and regulations and is solely responsible for all acts or omissions (that occur under his/her account or password), including responsibility for the content of any transmissions through OzoneSMS.com.
The Users acknowledge that OzoneSMS.com and its licensors retain ownership of all the propriety applications, software, intellectual property "IP" (Intellectual Property) and any portions or copies thereof in relation to them, and all rights therein.
. OzoneSMS.com provides by way of example, and not as a limitation, the stipulation that the Users agree not to, directly or indirectly:
. Reverse engineer, de-compile, disassemble or otherwise make any attempt to establish the source code or the underlying ideas or algorithms of the Products and/or Services;
. Modify, translate, or create distinctive and derivative works based on the Products and/or Services;
. Copy (except for archival purposes), rent, lease, distribute, assign, or otherwise transfer rights to the Products and/or Services;
. Use the Products and/or Services for timesharing or to the benefit of a third party;
. Remove any proprietary notices or label(s) that identify OzoneSMS.com Products and/or Services;
. Use the Services in any way connected to any chain letters, junk sms text messages, spam or any unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise);
. Harvest or otherwise collect, information about other Users, including email addresses, without obtaining their consent;
. Transmit any unlawful, harassing, libelous, or abusive, threatening, and harmful, or vulgar, obscene or otherwise any objectionable material of any kind or nature;
. Transmit any material that is an infringement of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties, which will include any trademark, copyright or right of publicity;
. Defames or slanders any person, or try to infringe upon any person's privacy rights;
. Transmit any material that may contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, or any other harmful or deleterious programs;
. Interfere with or disrupt the networks connected to OzoneSMS.com or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Products and/or Services or to other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to OzoneSMS.com;
. Interfere with another User's peaceful use and enjoyment of the Products and/or Services; or
. Engage in any other activity that OzoneSMS.com could believe may subject it to criminal liability or civil penalty or judgment.
5. OzoneSMS.com Offer - Disclaimer
Under no circumstances will OzoneSMS.com refund cash/credits for delays/non-delivery of services due to issues at the telecom operator's end.
From time to time, OzoneSMS.com runs several promotions for the entire/part of OzoneSMS.com users or for the entire/selected products/services within OzoneSMS.com.
These promotions may include discounts, contests, cash-back offers, bargains, benefits or any other offer as decided by OzoneSMS.com on its products/services.
OzoneSMS.com also runs promotions/offers targeted at certain segments of OzoneSMS.com clients, which may not be offered to the entire base of OzoneSMS.com users.
Eligibility criteria for inclusion of OzoneSMS.com users in these promotions vary from time to time.
TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR USING OUR SERVICES
TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR USING OUR SERVICES
The Service offered by OzoneSMS to you on the condition that you accept these Terms of Service. The usage of the service is limited under all the terms & conditions herewith published. This agreement shall be governed by the rules and regulations of the authorities of the government of India. Please read this agreement carefully before availing any of our paid services.
BULK SMS & VOICE SERVICE USAGE POLICY
1. Messages containing sexual, racist or discriminatory content or any
such usage of them may be considered as harassment and you are to be held
responsible for this. TEAM OzoneSMS does not assume any liability for the
content of messages sent.
2. Bulk SMS/Voice service will be available only from 9AM TO 9PM (IST)
3. TEAM OzoneSMS will be exempt from any claim that may arise from third
parties as a result of message content.
4. I understand and agree that SMS/Voice will not transmitted/delivered to
the numbers which are registered with National Customer Preference
Registry Govt Of India (http://nccptrai.gov.in )
5. You guarantee that the content of any SMS/Voice always respects and
does not in any way conflict with fundamental human rights or will follow
the norms of Intellectual Property Right laws. (E.g. right to privacy,
prohibition of discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, color,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social
origin).
6. Any illegal use of the SMS/Voice service is strictly prohibited.
7. You accept that the service is provided for professional use only and
you agree not to use it to:
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Promote alcohol, music, dancing, dating, gambling or deception. |
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Send unsolicited messages (i.e. mobile spam) and to therefore ensure that your messages are only sent to individuals that have given you their permission. |
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Harvest, or otherwise collect information about others, without their consent. |
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Mislead others as to the identity of the sender of your messages, by creating a false identity, impersonating the identity of someone/something else or by providing contact details that do not belong to you. |
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Transmit, associate or publish any unlawful, racist, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, demeaning, lewd, immoral, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind. As a general guideline, if your content is not suitable for ages 13+, it most likely goes against our Usage Policy. |
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Transmit any material that may infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties including trademarks, copyrights or other rights of publicity. |
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Transmit any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worm, time bombs, cancel-bots or any other harmful/deleterious programs. |
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Interfere with, or disrupt, networks connected to the service or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks. |
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Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the service, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the service, through password mining or any other means. |
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Interfere with others use and enjoyment of the service. |
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Engage in any other activity that Team OzoneSMS believes could subject it to criminal liability or civil penalty/judgment. |
8. You acknowledge that TEAM OzoneSMS delivers SMS/Voice messages via
major telecom operators and can therefore only influence the delivery
transmission of SMS/Voice messages within the technical constraints
imposed. SMS/Voice messages submitted via Internet will be transferred to
mobile network providers, provided that the recipient's phone is switched
on and doesn't have a full memory and is located in an area covered by its
subscribed mobile network provider. You acknowledge that, depending on the
recipient's mobile provider service, it may not be possible to transmit
the SMS/Voice message to the recipient successfully.
9. You are responsible for the privacy and storage of the user-name and
password. You agree that all activities made through your account are
legally bonded to you.
10. TEAM OzoneSMS neither claims nor guarantees the availability or
performance of this service and accepts no liability for transmission
delays or message failures. While TEAM OzoneSMS makes every effort to
deliver messages promptly.
11. TEAM OzoneSMS doesn't refund the credits for undeliverable SMS/Voice
messages to you because we cannot guarantee delivery of the SMS/Voice
messages to recipients due to possible errors. TEAM OzoneSMS debits
transmitted SMS/Voice messages according to its transmission logs. These
logs are deemed correct and valid even if the customer has objected to the
correctness of the accounting records, except if investigation by TEAM
OzoneSMS has produced evidence of a technical problem or error.
12. TEAM OzoneSMS reserves the right to exclude you from using this
service, refunding you any remaining amount in your account. All purchases
must be considered as final, in compliance with our no refund policy.
13. The SMS/Voice account balance is non-refundable and does not bear
interest. All the SMS/Voice must be used in the validity period from the
date of the purchase and no carry forward of the credits will be made
unless otherwise defined in a separate contract.
14. You under take the whole responsibilities regarding the messages
sending through OzoneSMS services from your account, which are transmitted
as per your request.
15. You shall indemnify and reimburse TEAM OzoneSMS all liabilities,
costs, losses and damages, in case of any claim brought against TEAM
OzoneSMS from any third party due to breach of contract.
LONG CODE/SIM HOSTING SERVICE USAGE POLICY
1. You shall provide valid GSM SIM Card taken from any operator within
India by providing all legal documents as demanded by the mobile company.
2. You agree that I will not oversell the keywords on the number assigned
to me.
3. I understand that in a minute GSM SIM Card can process only maximum 40
incoming messages if the traffic exceeds then incoming SMS might not be
processed and Team OzoneSMS is not responsible for that.
4. I understand that the outgoing SMS is not free of cost and will be
charged as per your SMS Plan with us (not as per my SIM Plan)
5. I understand that if SIM Card provided by me is blocked from the mobile
operator due any technical/non-technical/validity/balance issues then I
will contact the mobile operator directly and rectify the problems.
6. Keywords are subjected to availability.
7. I authorize OzoneSMS to host my SIM Card Number in their datacenter.
8. We are not liable for any loss incurred by the failure of a message to
be delivered to the Long code number assigned to you and you acknowledge
that damages for financial or other loss resulting from delivery failure
cannot be claimed from Team OzoneSMS .Furthermore, you agree that message
contents are deemed to have zero value.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Whilst we will take all reasonable steps to deliver your messages to
recipients as fast as possible, we cannot commit to, or guarantee, a
specific delivery time. Such times depend on various network and
system-related factors among the various entities involved in the
transportation of your messages across the cellular mobile networks.
Furthermore, delivery reports and the originator are operator dependant
features and so it is not possible for us to give 100% guarantees for
their availability. We recommend that tests should be conducted beforehand
when these features are considered to be of high importance.
You acknowledge that as we send and receive text-messages via major
telecommunications companies and Mobile Network Operators, our influence
over the transmission of your messages is within the technical constraints
imposed upon us.
Our responsibility is therefore to ensure that the text-messages/voice
calls you send through the service are processed correctly and delivered
to the assigned entity. We are not responsible for the final delivery of
the message, as this is out of our control and is the responsibility of
the Mobile Network Operator.
SMS/Voice that cannot be delivered within the life span allocated to them,
either by us or a Mobile Network Operator will be discarded by the Mobile
Network Operator, without any notice. We are not
liable for any loss incurred by the failure of a message to be delivered
and you acknowledge that damages for financial or other loss resulting
from delivery failure cannot be claimed from Team OzoneSMS .Furthermore,
you agree that message contents are deemed to have zero value.
You also acknowledge that text-messages/voice calls are transmitted
unencrypted and that eavesdropping of mobile phone communications,
including SMS delivery, by third parties is possible. We also recommend
that you ensure sensitive and valuable information is communicated by a
number of communication methods.
Furthermore, use of the service and the Internet is at its own risk and
that the service is provided 'as is' and 'as available', without any
warranties or conditions whatsoever, expressed or implied. We will use all
commercially reasonable efforts to make access to the service available
through the required access protocols, but make no warranty or guarantee
that you will be able to access the service at any particular time or any
particular location. Without limiting the generality of the terms set
forth, we and our affiliates, agents, content providers, service
providers, and licensees.
Hereby disclaim all express and implied warranties as to the accuracy,
completeness, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for particular
purpose of the service generally, and any content or services contained
therein, as well as all express and implied warranties that the operation
of the service generally and any contentor services contained therein will
be uninterrupted or error-free.
Shall in no event be liable for any inaccuracy, error or omission in, or
loss, injury or damage caused in whole or in part by failures, delays or
interruptions of the service generally, and any aspect ancillary thereto;
you agree to indemnify us for any third party claims arising from such
failures, delays or interruptions in connection with regard to the use of
the service.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the provisions
outlined above are for the benefit of Team OzoneSMS and its affiliates,
agents, content providers and service providers and each shall have the
right to assert and enforce such provisions directly on its own behalf.
MODIFICATION OF TERMS
We frequently update, modify and otherwise continually seek to improve
the service and such changes often dictate that we simultaneously modify
the terms and conditions of use. As such, we have the right to modify the
terms of this agreement and to change or discontinue any aspect or feature
of our service, in either case, as it deems reasonably necessary. If you
do not agree with any such changes, your use of the service may be
cancelled in accordance with the procedures for cancellation set forth in
this agreement. You acknowledge your responsibility to review this
agreement from time to time and to be aware of any such changes and,
should you request, we will be happy to keep you informed if/when such
changes take place.
Furthermore, you accept that should there be a contradiction between other
specific terms & conditions and these general terms & conditions, the
other specific terms & conditions shall apply.
TERMINATION
If at any time you breach the terms & conditions of the service, we may
elect to suspend, terminate and/or cancel this agreement and/or recover
any damages from you arising from the event(s) giving rise to the
suspension, termination or cancellation. We reserve the right to suspend
your service at any stage for any reason we may deem necessary to continue
to provide any of our services in a way that may be hindered by your
status as being our client, your financial status or the content of the
messages originating from you.
Upon any such termination, cancellation and/or suspension, you are still
responsible for any obligations then accrued. Payment and other
obligations under this agreement are not suspended, stayed, or otherwise
affected by a suspension of access to / or use of the service (in whole or
in part) where said suspension arises from your failure to comply with, or
violation of, the terms of this agreement or of any law or legal
obligation. Upon termination and/or cancellation, for any reason, you
agree to immediately cease using the service and we shall have no
obligation to you after any termination or cancellation of this agreement.
You are also free to terminate or cancel this agreement at any time, and
for any reason. For such a termination or cancellation to be effective
however, you must inform us in writing through email, you will still be
under the responsibilities of this agreement for the duration that you
used the service and you will cease to have access to the use of any
credits that may exist in your account.
If you do not agree to the above mentioned "Terms of
Service" do not subscribe to use the OzoneSMS services.
Our terms and conditions are subject to change according to TRAI
rules and regulations. Our Latest Updates please visit
http://www.trai.gov.in