1. Agreement. This Agreement is only between you and Parus Interactive, a division of Parus Holdings, Inc. ("Parus"), and concerns the Parus Interactive Communications Services ("Services"), also known as CommuniKate. The Terms provided by Parus and the service plan described in our standard marketing materials establish the applicable rates and features of the Service as they may be changed by Parus from time to time (the "Service Plan"). When you activate Services or attempt to use any of the Services, you accept this Agreement. If you do not agree to the Terms of this Agreement, Parus is unwilling to license or provide the Service to you. In that case, you may not use any of the Services. Use of the Website provided for your use in connection with the Services is governed by this Agreement and the Legal Disclaimers posted on the Website.
2. Provision of Service. The Service and use of the Website are protected by various intellectual property laws and treaties. The Service and use of the Website are licensed and not sold. We may decide not to provide Services to you for any lawful reason. We may request that you provide us with any information we reasonably require to determine whether you qualify for Services. Services in some areas may be managed and provided under contract with Parus by independent affiliates with access to our network. Some Services may not be available or may operate differently in certain affiliate markets.
3. Credit Issues. If at any time we determine, in our sole discretion, that payment for Services may not be made when due, we may suspend Services to you without notice and require that you provide payment on account or a guarantee of payment before we resume Services to you.
4. Changes to Agreement. If we change this Agreement at any time, we will do so as provided by this paragraph. Any changes to the Terms will be effective when we provide you notice of the changes. If you use Services or make any payment after the effective date of the changes, you accept the changes. If you do not accept the changes, you may terminate Services, subject to the terms of Termination, Section 14 set forth below. For purposes of this Agreement, "use" includes keeping the right to access our network by not terminating Services. You may not modify any of the terms of this Agreement.
5. Use of Services; Availability. You must be at least 18 years old to subscribe to our Services. Services may not be used for any unlawful, fraudulent, or abusive purpose, and by requesting Services, you agree that you will not use Services in any unlawful, fraudulent, or abusive manner. You agree to be responsible and not:
All Services are restricted to use by you only as the Terms of your Service Plan allow. You may not permit anyone else to use your Service. Services are available within the operating range of our network coverage. Coverage and quality of Services may be affected by conditions beyond our reasonable control. We do not guarantee that there will be no loss of data, interruptions, or delays in the provision or use of Services. We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect your account on the secure portion of our Website. We periodically reevaluate our security system and take whatever measures we believe are reasonably necessary to ensure the privacy of our subscribers' personal information. You should maintain a unique password and security code. You alone are solely responsible for taking all necessary and appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality of your password and security code, including changing them periodically and using passwords and security codes that are randomized combinations of letters, symbols, and numbers rather than common words or simplistic combinations of letters and/or numbers.
6. Number. We will assign at least one access phone number to you ("Number") for the use of Services. Your Number may include a toll-free access phone number, a local access phone number, or both. Parus owns your Number, and Parus may change any access phone number owned by Parus upon reasonable notice to you. You do not own any access phone numbers assigned as your Number, and your Number is not subject to FCC regulation or FCC portability rules.
7. Charges. You must pay, by each invoice due date, all charges for Services provided to the Number that our records indicate no matter who actually uses the Number at the time such Services are provided. Your Service will be billed whether or not your Service is used. If you wish to terminate your Service and no longer be billed for your Service, you must cancel your Service as required by the termination instructions in Section 14, Termination. These charges include, but are not limited to, recurring monthly service charges ("Monthly Service Charges"), applicable local and long-distance toll charges, optional features you select at an extra cost, and taxes and other regulatory-related charges. Local, long-distance, and international call charges are calculated by multiplying the length of each call (in seconds) by the applicable per-minute fee charged ("Per Minute Charges") for the destination you are calling during that particular call. Charges for Services will be rounded to the nearest six seconds, with one cent being the lowest possible charge. All charges will be denominated in U.S. currency. You will be invoiced for completed calls made to or from the Number (or through other phone numbers that, at your instruction, are associated with the Number, such as 'Follow-Me Numbers') from the time such calls access our system (by dialing the Number) until all access to our system and use of Services made with respect to such call is discontinued. Parus Interactive reserves the right to change Per Minute Charges at any time. You will be charged the applicable Per Minute Charge for the destination you are calling that is in effect at the time you place the call. For a current list of Per Minute Charges and optional charges, see our Website or contact us. If your access Number is called from a payphone in the United States or Canada, you will be charged our standard payphone surcharge per call.
8. Invoicing. Invoicing cycles are approximately 30 days in length. Invoicing cycles and dates may change from time to time. Charges for Services are invoiced at the end of the billing cycle. Monthly Service Charges are billed one billing cycle in advance, and Per Minute Charges are billed at the end of each billing cycle in arrears. You may be charged for Services incurred during a prior billing cycle if you were not charged for those Services previously. Invoices, at our sole option, may be sent to you in electronic format via email, as an email attachment, or by regular mail, or may be made available to you via your password protected access to the Website.
9. Payment. If you have authorized payment for Services by credit card or by debiting a bank account, no additional notice or consent is required before we invoice the credit card or debit the bank account for all amounts (including any late charges, taxes, or other regulatory-related charges) due to us or billed by us on behalf of a third party. You must promptly notify us of any change in your invoicing address or of the credit card or bank account used for payment. We reserve the right to require payment by money order, cashier's check, or other secured form of payment. If we take action to obtain payment beyond the invoicing of your Service charges, you must pay our costs and expenses of collection, including attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses, the fees of any collection agency, and court costs. If we act as an invoicing agent for a third-party service provider, payments received are first applied to amounts due and owing to us, and any remaining amounts are applied to sums due and owing to the third-party service provider. We may charge an additional fee for any check or other negotiable instrument endorsed by you and returned unpaid by a financial institution for any reason or for attempted credit or debit card payments that are declined. For a list of the current fees described in this Section, see your Service Plan or contact us.
10. ACH Payments. If you have authorized payment for Services by Automated Clearing House ("ACH"), you authorize us to debit your savings or checking account on a recurring monthly basis for all applicable fees, which may include, but are not limited to, (i) Monthly Service Charges, (ii) Per Minute Charges, (iii) cancellation charges, and (iv) other applicable charges and fees. We will continue to debit your account each month until you cancel your Service. In the event that a debit from your account is refused for any reason, we will charge your account a fee. If a debit from your account is refused or if you revoke this authorization, we will no longer provide the Service(s) to you, unless you provide an alternative method of payment. We reserve the right at any time to discontinue the availability of this ACH payment option. We will retain the routing number and account information provided by you for future ACH transactions. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide timely subscriber notification and confirmation of ACH transactions, as stipulated by National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) guidelines. If you select the ACH payment option, you represent and agree to the following: you are 18 years of age or older; you are the authorized account holder of the checking/savings account you provide to us; you understand and agree that your use of our Services is governed by the Terms and Conditions and that you have read and agreed to the Terms of your Service Plan.
11. Late Payment Charges. Payment is past due if we do not receive payment by the due date shown on your invoice. Acceptance of late or partial payments (even if marked "paid in full") does not waive our right to collect all amounts that you owe us.
We try credit card payments on their invoice date. If the payment is declined, then we retry it 7 days later. If that attempt is declined, then the account is locked. We try it one more time 7 days later, for a total of 3 automated tries each month until the balance is paid and the account is unlocked or the account is closed.
ACH payments are submitted to the issuing bank on the invoice date. If the payment is returned, then a $25 returned check fee is applied. Returned ACH payments are not automatically retried until the next invoice date. The account is locked when a payment is returned and will remain locked until paid.
Past due balances are applied to the next month's invoice and accrue until the full balance is paid or your account is closed.
Accounts are closed at 60 days past due, and the full past due amount must be paid to resume service with the same account or a new account.
We accept Visa, MasterCard, Amex, a debit card with the Visa or MasterCard logo, or ACH from a US Checking account.
12. Disputed Charges. You must raise any dispute that you have about any charges invoiced to you within 15 days of the date of the invoice, or you have accepted the invoice and waived any disputes or defenses related thereto. Invoicing, at our sole option, includes an electronic format via email, an email attachment, a paper invoice by regular mail, or an online invoice available to you via your password protected access to the Website. See Section 8, Invoicing. You may notify us of any dispute by emailing or chatting with our Customer Care Center. Calls to our sales or general business offices are not notice of a dispute or other defense. You do not have to pay any properly disputed amounts while we investigate them; however, you must pay amounts not in dispute by the due date. If other disputed invoice procedures are described on the invoice that you receive from us, then you must follow them.
13. Trademark, Copyright, and Other Intellectual Property. All service marks, logos, trade names, trade dress, and trademarks of Parus (collectively, the "Marks") are and shall remain the exclusive property of Parus, and nothing in this Agreement shall grant you the license to use the Marks.
14. Termination. WWG Primary account holders may cancel their Service on the online CommuniKate website. This online access requires Primary account holder Website log on. You may also terminate Services at any time by (i) giving written notice, U.S. postage prepaid, to Customer Service Department, PO Box 11018, Tempe, AZ 85284 or (ii) chatting with the Customer Service Department. All written notices of termination must contain in legible form your full name, access Number, and the date of the notice. No termination notices may be sent by email, and any such attempted notices will be null and void. As permitted by the Agreement, we may terminate Services at any time before a notice of termination, if any, is given, and we may deactivate any Number before you receive notice of termination, if any is given, without liability to you. Termination by either you or us may be with or without cause. We may also terminate or suspend Services to you without liability (i) if you breach any provision of this Agreement or (ii) if you fail to pay any amounts due us. If you promptly cure a breach, we may, but are not obligated to, reactivate Services to you. If we choose to reactivate Services to you, we may impose a reactivation fee. Subscription Fees are not refunded when canceling, and a current Monthly Service Charge is not prorated to the date of termination or refundable for the current billing cycle month after the date of termination.
15. Taxes and Regulatory-Related Charges. We will invoice you for taxes, regulatory-related obligations, and other charges levied by federal, state, or local authorities, or foreign governments on Services, or mandated to be paid in proportion to gross receipts from Services provided, (except only for taxes based on our net income), if we pay these taxes or other regulatory-related charges. Taxes, regulatory-related charges, and charges not directly paid by us are not invoiced to you, but payment to the taxing or levying authority of any applicable taxes, regulatory-related charges, and charges due from you are your responsibility. If you claim any tax exemption, you must provide us with a valid tax-exempt document. Any tax exemption applies only from the date we receive a valid tax-exempt document.
16. Interruption of Services. We may give credit for a continuous interruption of Services for more than 24 hours on a case-by-case basis. Interruptions caused by your negligent or willful actions, late payments, or by the failure of equipment or service not provided by us, or by causes beyond our reasonable control, do not qualify for credit. We may provide you with an airtime credit of one minute for a call that is disconnected because of transmission limitations caused by conditions beyond our reasonable control and that you redial within one minute of disconnection. You must notify our Customer Care Center by chat or email within 24 hours of the disconnection to request credit.
17. Pay-Per-Call Services. We reserve the right to refuse the completion of calls from your Number to 900, 976, and any other numbers for pay-per-call services charged to Parus from your Number.
18. International Calling. You may be limited in the international destinations that you can call or receive calls with Services. You should see our Website, email, or chat with our Customer Care Center for information about international destinations that cannot be called using the Services and for applicable Per Minute Charges for destinations that can be called using the Services.
19. Limitation of Liability. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Section 19, our sole liability to you for any loss or damage in connection with, or arising out of, providing or failing to provide Services (including mistakes, omissions, interruptions, delays, errors, or defects) does not exceed the prorated Monthly Service Charge to you during the affected period. We are not liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential, or other damages (even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages) arising out of or in connection with:
In no event shall we be liable to you or any third party in any respect for any costs or damages arising either directly or indirectly from the use of Services, Materials, or use of the Website, including, without limitation, any actual, incidental, consequential, exemplary, punitive, reliance, or special damages, or for any loss of revenue, profits, use, data, goodwill, or business opportunities of any kind or nature whatsoever, arising in any manner from any cause of action or claim relating to this Agreement, the Services, Materials, or use of the Website provided by Parus Interactive. This limitation of liability applies equally to any third parties with whom Parus Interactive enters into a binding agreement to market or distribute any Services to end users, and such third parties shall not be liable to you or any other third party for any damages set forth above. This section survives the termination of this Agreement.
20. Warranty. THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, AND USE OF THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS." PARUS INTERACTIVE MAKES NO WARRANTY TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE DESCRIPTION, QUALITY, TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AS TO THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, AND USE OF THE WEBSITE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE. PARUS INTERACTIVE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, AND USE OF THE WEBSITE ARE COMPLETELY ERROR-FREE OR WILL OPERATE WITHOUT PACKET LOSS OR INTERRUPTION, NOR DOES PARUS INTERACTIVE WARRANT ANY CONNECTION TO OR ANY TRANSMISSION OVER THE INTERNET. PARUS INTERACTIVE MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE QUALITY OF A CALL, OR AS TO ANY OTHER MATTER, ALL SUCH WARRANTIES HEREBY BEING EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED AND DISCLAIMED. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, AND USE OF THE WEBSITE. PARUS INTERACTIVE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, AND USE OF THE WEBSITE ARE FREE FROM ANY VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, OR OTHER CODE THAT IS CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE BY NATURE, AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MAINTAINING SUFFICIENT PROCEDURES TO SATISFY YOUR PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCURACY OF DATA INPUT AND OUTPUT, AS WELL AS PROTECTION FROM SUCH VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, OR OTHER CODE THAT MAY CONTAMINATE OR DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM OR DATA. WE DO NOT AUTHORIZE ANYONE TO MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND ON OUR BEHALF, AND YOU MAY NOT RELY ON ANY STATEMENT OF WARRANTY BY ANY PERSON AS A WARRANTY BY PARUS INTERACTIVE. THIS SECTION SURVIVES TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
21. Other Sites. Any links available on the Website that enable you to leave the Website are not under the control of Parus, and Parus is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other items of a destructive or contaminating nature. Additionally, other marks that appear on the Website may be marks of third parties that are not affiliated with Parus. Parus and its affiliates do not control the content of third-party websites. In no event will Parus Interactive be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special, consequential, or other damages for any use of the Website or on any other hyperlinked website, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs, or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.
22. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and defend us, our affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claim, action, damage, liability, and expense arising out of or in connection with:
This indemnification extends to and includes any attorneys' or other professionals' fees, costs, or expenses incurred by us arising from any actions or claims to which this indemnification applies, or from contesting the applicability of this section. This section survives termination of this Agreement.
23. Arbitration. You agree to submit to binding arbitration any and all differences or disputes related to or arising out of this Agreement or the Services that may be brought by either you or us against the other. This arbitration will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any arbitration shall be initiated in the Chicago office of the American Arbitration Association. Any award entered in any such arbitration shall be final and binding, and may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. Each party to the dispute will share equally the fees and expenses of the arbitrator and such arbitration. This section survives termination of this Agreement.
24. Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas without regard to conflicts of law principles. You agree, in any legal action or proceeding between you and Parus for any purpose concerning this Agreement, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of Texas, and you expressly waive all defenses to jurisdiction and agree to service of process upon your person anywhere in the world. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the Service, Materials, or the Website must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises, or such claim or cause of action is barred.
25. Waiver of Class Actions. You agree that all claims between you and Parus related to this Agreement will be resolved individually through arbitration and that you will not consolidate or seek judicial treatment for any claim unless previously agreed to in writing by both you and us. This waiver applies to this Agreement as amended or modified. This Section 25 survives termination of this Agreement.
26. Notices. You may obtain our current address for written notice or a change of your current postal or email address for written notice by emailing or chatting with our Customer Care Center. Written notice to you will be sent to your last known address or email address provided for purposes of this Section 26, or if you have not so provided a postal or email address, notices will be sent to your last known address or email address in our invoicing records. Written notices are deemed delivered 3 days after deposit in the U.S. mail, postage prepaid, and properly addressed, or upon the sending of an electronic mail message to your email address then on file with us. Unless otherwise required by this Agreement or Applicable Laws (as defined below):
Either you or we may change notice addresses by giving notice as provided in this section.
27. General. If either you or we do not enforce any right or remedy available under this Agreement, that failure is not a waiver of the right or remedy in any such case or for any other similar or dissimilar breach or failure by the other party. Our waiver of any requirement in any one instance is not a general waiver of that requirement and does not amend this Agreement. Neither the course of conduct between you and us nor trade practice will act to modify any provision of this Agreement. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, then such part of this Agreement shall be interpreted consistent with Applicable Laws as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, and the rest of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. Section headings are for descriptive purposes only and should not be used to interpret this Agreement. You may not assign this Agreement to any other person or entity without our prior written approval. This Agreement (including any links to our Website, referenced documents, and attachments) makes up the entire agreement between you and us and replaces all prior written or spoken agreements, representations, promises, or understandings between you and us. The provisions of this Agreement that are contemplated to be enforceable after the termination of this Agreement survive termination of this Agreement. This Agreement is subject to any applicable federal or state laws (collectively, "Applicable Laws"). If there is a conflict, Applicable Laws control over the Service Plan and the Terms, and the Service Plan controls over the Terms. Changes to Applicable Laws are effective as provided in the Applicable Laws.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTAND IT AND THAT, BY USING THE MATERIALS, WEBSITE, OR ANY PARUS SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE RIGHTS, REMEDIES, AND LIABILITIES OF YOU AND PARUS.