MECER FAX TO EMAIL STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
- In this Agreement, the words hereunder will have the meanings assigned to them below:
- "Agreement" means these Standard Terms and Conditions,
- "Proprietary Information" means any and all trade secrets and data/information of a proprietary and/or confidential nature, including data/information that the parties should reasonably have known to be proprietary or confidential;
- "Service" means the "Fax to E-mail" service provided by MECER to the FAX TO EMAIL USER in terms of this Agreement;
- "Service Provider" means Telkom SA Limited or any other public switched telecommunications network operator with whom MECER FAX TO EMAIL may contractor for the provision of the service;
- "VAT" means Value-Added Tax.
- The clause headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not be used in the interpretation of this Agreement. Words importing any one gender includes the other gender, the singular includes the plural and vice versa. A person includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (whether or not having separate legal personality) and that person's legal and personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.
- In this Agreement, the words hereunder will have the meanings assigned to them below:
- COMMENCEMENT AND DURATION
- The Agreement shall commence upon the Effective Date and shall continue for an initial period of three months ("the initial period"). MECER agrees to utilize the Service on a regular basis and if not utilized for a period of three continuous months, the user’s number will be reallocated to another subscriber. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WILL ONLY OCCUR IF A FAX NUMBER IS NOT USES FOR A PERSIOD OF 3 (THREE) MONTHS. THE FAX TO EMAIL USER WILL ALSO FIRSTLY BE NOTIFIED BEFORE THE NUMBER WILL BE REALLOCATED.
- Subject to Clause 8, either party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement on not less than three months written notice to the other, provided that no such notice of termination may be given during the initial period so as to result in the termination of this Agreement taking effect prior to the expiry of the initial period. Should this Agreement not be terminated on the expiry of the initial period, it shall continue indefinitely thereafter unless cancelled by either party on not less than three months written notice to the other.
- CUSTOMER'S OBLIGATIONS
- MECER is prohibited from selling, reselling or otherwise dealing with the Service/s in any manner whatsoever other than as contemplated herein. Without limitation to the foregoing, any consideration which MECER may receive whilst acting in breach of this prohibition shall be forfeited to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD and Mecer shall account to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD for any such monies.
- MECER is prohibited from allowing any person other than its employees or other authorised parties, access to the Service.
- MECER may not at any time (and shall not at any time permit others to) use the Service in contravention of any applicable law, in any way which infringes the rights of any third party or in any which causes or (in GREEN PLANET FAX'S (PTY) LTD reasonable opinion) risks causing liability to GREEN PANET FAX (PTY) LTD.
- MECER warrants that it shall not (and shall not at any time permit others to) use the Service to produce, host or present any content in contravention of any person's intellectual property rights, and in particular warrants that it shall recognize, acknowledge and use any content in accordance with any third party's intellectual property rights. MECER furthermore warrants that it has received all necessary permissions to make use of any intellectual property relating to third parties.
- MECER shall indemnify GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD for any and all costs, damages, liabilities and expenses which may be suffered or incurred by GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD arising out of or relating to any breach of Clause 3.3 or 3.4 or by MECER.
- CHARGES
- MECER FAX TYO EMAIL is a free fax to email service. There will be no charge to the holder of the 086 fax number for the receiving of faxes.
- WARRANTIES
- MECER and GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD warrants that it shall use reasonable care and skill in providing the Service and that the Service shall correspond in all material respects with its description.
- In the course of an Agreement, MECER may transfer communications to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD. Where communications are Processed in the course of performance of an Agreement, the parties are that this shall be done in the ordinary course of business of GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD via its telecommunications systems. MECER hereby gives its express consent to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD for such transfer and/or processing GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD agrees that it shall only process such communications received from MECER as may be reasonably necessary for the purposes of the Agreement or as otherwise required by law or to comply with legal obligations. GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD warrants that it shall take such technical and organisational measures as it believes to be reasonable and appropriate to protect such communications from unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage in order to ensure compliance with the Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act no 70 of 2002
- GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD does not warrant or guarantee that the information transmitted by or available to MECER by way of the Service:
- will be preserved or sustained in its entirety;
- will be delivered to any or all of the intended recipients or will be delivered within a particular time;
- will be suitable for any purpose;
- will be free of inaccuracies or defects or bugs or viruses of any kind; or
- will be secured against intrusion by unauthorised third parties;
- and GREEN PLANET FAX assumes no liability, responsibility or obligations in regard to any of the exclusions set forth in this clause 5.3.
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- Subject to Clause 6.2:
- GREEN PLANET FAX shall not be liable to MECER by reason of any representation, or any implied warranty, condition or other term, or any duty, common law or under the expressed terms of the Agreement, for any loss of revenue, profit, goodwill, anticipated savings, data or wasted expenditure or any indirect, incidental or consequential losses, liabilities or damages whatsoever arising from, or relating to the Agreement or the performance or non-performance of its obligations hereunder (irrespective of whether such losses, liabilities or damages are foreseeable or within the parties' reasonable contemplation); and
- GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD shall have no liability to any of MECER's customers and end-users in relation to the Agreement, and MECER shall indemnify GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD for any and all costs, damages, liabilities and expenses arising out of or relating to any claim made by such party.
- Because of the need to conduct maintenance, repair and/or improvement work from time to time on the technical infrastructure by means of which the Service is provided, the provision of the Services may be suspended from time to time, and all liability on the part of GREEN PLANET FAX of any loss or damage (whether direct or consequential) thereby incurred or for any costs, claims, or demands of any nature arising there from, is excluded. In the event of any such suspension, GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) shall provide MECER with 5 (five) days prior written notice in respect of such planned maintenance. GREEN PLANET FAX reserves the right to suspend the Services to carry out emergency maintenance on shorter notice.
- Subject to Clause 6.2:
- DOCUMENTATION
Any specifications, descriptive matter, drawings and other documents which may be furnished by GREEN PLANET (PTY) LTD to MECER from time to time:
- do not form part of this Agreement and may not be relied upon, unless they are agreed in writing by both parties hereto to form part of this Agreement;
- shall remain the property of GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD and shall be deemed to have been imparted by it in trust to MECER for the sole use of MECER. All copyright in such documents vests in GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD. Such documents shall be returned to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD on demand.
- TERMINATION and SUSPENSION
- GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD may terminate the Agreement or, at GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD’s discretion, cease or suspend the provision of Services upon written notice to MECER if: (a) MECER fails to pay any Charges when due and does not cure the failure within 7 (seven) days of a notice requiring payment; (c) if MECER commits a breach of Clause 3.3; (d) MECER commits a breach of the Agreement (other than as described in Clauses 8.1(a) and (b) above) and does not cure such breach within 30 (thirty) days of written notice from GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD; or (d) MECER suffers or undergoes an Event of Insolvency or (e) GHREEN PLANET FAX is obliged to comply with an order, instruction or request of a court, government agency, emergency service organisation or other administrative or regulatory authority or otherwise ceases to have a licence to provide the Service.
- MECER may terminate the Agreement if: (a) GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD commits a material breach of the Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of remedy has not cured such breach within 30 (thirty) days of receipt of written notice from MECER setting out the details of the breach and requiring its remedy; or (b) GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD suffers or undergoes an Event if Insolvency.
- Termination is without prejudice to the accrued rights and remedies of either party.
- PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- The parties will keep in strict confidence all Proprietary Information obtained (whether directly or indirectly) from the other party under or in connection with any Agreement. Each party agrees not to disclose the other party's Proprietary Information to any person (other than their employees who need to know the information for the purpose of the Agreement and who are under an equivalent duty of confidentiality) without the prior written consent of the other party. Each party shall: (a) use the other party's Proprietary Information only for the performance of its obligations under the Agreement; (b) treat all Proprietary Information of the other party in the same manner as it treats its own, but in no case with less than reasonable care; and (c) not make copies of the other party's Proprietary Information.
- Clause 10.1 will not apply to information which: (a) is publicly available other than through a breach of contract; (b) is lawfully in the possession of the recipient before disclosure by the other party and is not otherwise subject to a confidentiality undertaking; (c) is obtained through a third party who is free to disclose it; (d) is required by law to be disclosed (and then, to the extent legally permissible, only after reasonable advance notice to the disclosing party); (e) is disclosed to professional advisers for the purpose of taking advice or for other legitimate business purposes.
- FORCE MAJEURE
- GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD shall not be liable for non-performance under this Agreement to the extent that the non-performance is caused by events or conditions beyond the reasonable control of GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD.
- It is expressly recorded that for purposes of this clause the following shall be regarded as events or conditions beyond GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD's reasonable control:
- a Service Provider fault that affects the Service; and/or
- the non-performance, inability to perform or delay in performance by the Service Provider relating to the provisioning of equipment, services and/or facilities to GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD that affects the Service; and/or
- acts of God or nature, explosion, flood, tempest, other atmospheric conditions, fire or any accident; (b) war, threat of war, terrorist acts or threat or terrorist acts, sabotage, insurrection, civil disturbance or requisition; (c) acts, restrictions, regulations, byelaws, prohibitions, orders or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental, parliamentary, regulatory, local, judicial or equivalent authority; (d) acts or omissions of any supplier, agent, sub-contractor or other third party; (e) failure of any telecommunications network not under the control of GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD; (f) import or export regulations or embargoes; (g) strikes, lock-outs or other industrial actions or trade disputes (whether involving its employees or those of a third party) (h) difficulties in obtaining raw materials, labour, fuel, parts or machinery; (i) computer viruses or worms, denial of service attacks, spoofing and/or other hacking attacks; or (j) power failures or interruptions of other utility services or a breakdown in machinery.
- GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Africa shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes, actions and other matters relating thereto.
- GENERAL
- MECER may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights under the Agreement without GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. No permitted assignment or transfer shall relieve MECER of its obligations hereunder. GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD may assign or transfer its obligations under this Agreement to any third party on written notice to MECER.
- The parties choose as their domicilia citandi et executandi for all purposes under this agreement, whether in respect of court process, notices or other documents or communications of whatsoever nature (including the exercise of any option), the following addresses: :
GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) Ltd
Unit D8, Tillbury office park
Randjiespark
Midrand
Fax: 086 578 8000
Fax : (+27) 12 342 1842
- The Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties and supersedes any and all prior agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to the subject matter of the Agreement. The parties acknowledge that: (a) they have not entered into the Agreement in reliance of any representations, terms or other assurances not expressly set out in the Agreement; (b) their sole remedies in relation to the Agreement are those for breach of contract; and (c) that this Clause does not apply in respect of any fraudulent representations or other assurances.
- Except as expressly provided by this Agreement, the Agreement may only be amended or modified by a written document signed by both parties.
- All terms and conditions of the Agreement which by their nature are intended to survive termination of the Agreement shall so survive. This includes, without limitation Clauses. 5. 6 and 9.
- If any term, condition, clause or provision of the Agreement is held to be illegal or unenforceable, the validity or enforceability of the remainder of the Agreement shall not be affected thereby.
- Failure by GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD to enforce any of its rights under the Agreement will not act as a waiver of that right unless GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD acknowledges the waiver in writing. No single waiver shall be deemed a continuous waiver.
- Except where expressly stated otherwise, the rights and remedies available under this Agreement are cumulative.
- This Agreement relates to the provision of the Service only. Should MECER require GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD to provide any additional services, such services shall be provided in terms of a separate agreement to be concluded between GREEN LANET FAX (PTY) LTD and MECER. MECER hereby agrees to accept any information that GREEN PLANET FAX (PTY) LTD may send regarding future value added services via MECER’s e-mail address.
