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This User Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable between sms2mms
and every person (hereafter called 'Registered User' or User) who avails the 'SMS2MMS'
service under the domain and sub-domains at http://www.sms2mms.com. If you do not
agree to be bound by these terms and conditions you may not use the sms2mms website.
Reasonable use of the sms2mms website shall automatically bind the user to this
agreement.
BY COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AND CLICKING THE "SUBMIT" BUTTON, YOU ARE
AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE SMS2MMSTERMS OF SERVICES.
You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in
this User Agreement, which includes those terms and conditions expressly set out
below and those incorporated by reference, before you may become a user of the Site.
Sms2mms is only a virtual Venue, which facilitates users to send SMSes
Sms2mms.com is not an advertisement media site. It is important to realize that
we offer free SMS service to registered users so that they communicate information
to their known persons. (Communication should be between two known persons). The
Site acts as a venue, which allows registered users to communicate information anything,
which is legal, at any time, from anywhere, within India. sms2mms has no obligation
to observe and monitor the service. However, we reserves the right to review materials
posted and to remove any material/s sms2mms reserves the right to block all messages
from the list whose content is legally categorized as explicit, obscene, adult and
pornographic in nature. sms2mms also reserves the right to terminate your access
to any or all of the services, at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
It is difficult to monitor all the messages by reviewing or taping the messages
provided by users, through our Site. As a result, we have no control over the truth
or accuracy of the messages. We may not ensure you that all messages sent by registered
users may reach the destination mobile. We are not responsible for undelivered messages.
Restricted Messages. You must not send messages like abuse, adultery content, insulting
content, etc which we do not permit on the Site, We do not accept any obligation
to protect you for sending restricted messages on our Site. Sms2mms.com free site
is not mint for communicating advertisement messages. Such sales and marketing messages
are restricted in our site.
Identity verification. We use many techniques to verify the accuracy of the user’s
information provided to us when they register on the Site. However, because user
verification on the Internet is difficult, sms2mms cannot and does not confirm the
purported identity of users or the validity of the information which users post
to the Site. So we are assuming that the information provided by the registered
users is accurate and valid. Later by any other means, if we found the registered
users information is not valid or inaccurate, we had every right to take legal action
against that registered user.
All postings (messages, text, files, other Content) transmitted through the Site,
are the sole responsibility of the registeRed users from whom such Content originated.
Registered users are entirely responsible for all Content that they send, or otherwise
make available through the Site. For all Content provided by registered users, they
automatically agree to indemnify Provider as provided below.
By sending or otherwise posting any Content on the Site, you represent and warrant:
(i) Your own content like jokes, puzzles, sayings, etc have all necessary rights,
but not limited to copyrights to the content you provide and we have every right
to use it as provided in this Terms of Service;
(ii) All information you provide is true, accurate, current and complete, and does
not violate these Terms of Service;
(iii) The content will not cause injury to any person or entity.
You agree not to send, transmit, distribute messages in these or any other forms
through our sms2mms site such as:
1. Libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, pornographic, threatening, or an invasion
of privacy;
2. An infringement of the intellectual property rights, including, but not limited
to, copyrights and trademarks, of any person or entity;
3. Illegal in any way or which advocate illegal activity;
4. Any advertisement regarding various marketing and sales activities of goods,
or services.
1. Services
MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE
sms2mms reserves the right to change any of the terms, conditions, and notices under
which the services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these
terms and conditions including changes/modifications if any incorporated by us from
time to time. Your continued use of 'The Service' constitutes your agreement to
all such terms, conditions, and notices. sms2mms makes no guarantees as to the continuous
availability of the Service or any specific feature(s) of the Service. Sms2mms reserves
the right to change or terminate the Service and/ or alter the terms and conditions
of this Agreement at any time with on 14 days ' notice or without notice in some
cases. Service termination occurs are addressed in the sections below.
Messages shall be deemed to have been delivered when sms2mms has delivered/sent
the messages to the immediate destination that Sms2mms's software is programmed
to do, including SMTP servers, Mobile telephone networks, or any other intermediary
server or API that is deemed to be the point of dispatch of the message. Sms2mmsdoes
not guarantee delivery on behalf of Mobile telephone networks of mail servers.
2. USE OF PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Service Agreement and Indian Law, Sms2mmsgrants
the User an individual, personal non-sub licensable, non-exclusive and non-transferable
license ("the License") to use its proprietary software and/or application service,
in object code form only, and only in accordance with the applicable end user documentation,
if any, and only in conjunction with the Sms2mmsservice Agreement. The User will
not, directly or indirectly, reverse engineer, de-compile, disassemble or otherwise
attempt to establish the source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the software;
modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the software/ application;
or copy (except for archival purposes), rent, lease, distribute, assign, or otherwise
transfer rights to the Software / application; use the software/application for
timesharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party;
or remove any proprietary notices or labels with regard to Sms2mmsproducts and/or
services. As between the parties, the User acknowledges that Sms2mms, and its licensors
retain ownership of all propriety applications, software, intellectual property
"IP" (Intellectual Property) and any portions or copies thereof, and all rights
therein. Upon termination of this Service Agreement for any reason, this License
will terminate and the User shall destroy and cease to use all software and applications.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AND APPLICATIONS ARE Offered, "AS IS" AND SUBJECT TO THE
WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY FOUND IN THIS SERVICE AGREEMENT
AND SUBJECT TO TESTING BY THE USER OR User PRIOR TO ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
3. Membership Eligibility.
Our services are not available to, and may not be used by, persons under the age
of 18 years or to temporarily or indefinitely suspended sms2mms members. If you
are under 18 years old, you can use this service only in conjunction with and under
the supervision of a parent or guardian. If you do not qualify, please do not use
our services. Membership is allotted to individuals only. Other than individuals
such as Business entities, clubs, associations, NGO, organizations, governing bodies,
should not entitled to use our service.
4. User ID.
You must choose a User ID and password on completion of registration. You are responsible
for all actions taken under your account and shall only use or utilize the Site
using your own User ID and password. You must use every effort to keep your password
safe and should not disclose it to any other person. You shall also not permit,
either directly or indirectly, any other person to utilize your User ID or password.
We are not responsible, if any other person misuses the service by logging into
your account. Sms2mmswill not be held liable to any third party claims and/or actions
taken with respect to services offered.
5. Risks
The customer agrees that, by definition, access to the Internet, the GSM and CDMA
networks and other communication media is associated with risks concerning authentication,
data security, privacy, availability of services, reliability of transmission etc.
- The customer agrees to bear full and exclusively responsibility arising from such
risks and consequences of the customer's usage of sms2mms.com services.
6. Member Privacy
It is Sms2mmspolicy to respect the privacy of the User. Sms2mmswill not monitor,
edit, or disclose any personal information about the User or the User's Sms2mms
account, including its contents, without the User's prior permission unless Sms2mmshas
a good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process;
(2) protect and defend the rights or property of delivered;
(3) enforce this Service Agreement or protect Sms2mmsbusiness or reputation, including
without limitation upon termination, cancellation or suspension of this Agreement
by delivered;
(4) respond to request for identification in connection with claim of copyright
or trademark infringement by the User, or a claim by a third party that the User
is using the Service in connection with an infringing, illegal or improper activity;
or
(5) act to protect the interests of the User or others. Sms2mmssuggest the Sender's
name and/or email address should be with each message that the end-user sends.
The User agrees that Sms2mmsmay access their account, including its contents, as
stated above or to respond to service or technical issues.
The Sms2mms.com also provides free service to the registered users. You, "The User",
also comprehends and concur that 'This Free Service' may include advertisements
and sponsorships and that these are necessary for Sms2mms to provide the service.
Various advertisers sponsor free Sms2mms messages so that registered users tend
to get sponsored ads at the end of their messages. We may serve advertisements to
this site or work with a third party to serve the advertisements. Advertisements
placed on the site may include but are not limited to banner ads, paid links, pop-up
windows, buttons, and sponsorships. You agree that Sms2mms has the right to run
such advertisements and promotions. The Service is provided as is Without warranty
of any kind. Sms2mms hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to
"The Service".
7. MO AND PREMIUM RATED SERVICES
Sms2mmsservices relating to Mobile Originated ("MO") and Bi-directional messaging
are described in "Appendix to HTTP, SMTP, FTP, XML, SMPP and COM API 1.9 and 2.0
MO and Bi-directional Messaging Services Only" ("MO terms"). Should there be a discrepancy
between the MO Terms and this agreement, this agreement shall prevail.
Sms2mmsoffers MO and premium rated services ("premium rated services") in certain
territories. This is subject to change and can be confirmed with Sms2mms.com from
time to time.
Any User wishing to use Sms2mms's premium rated services shall do so subject to
such terms and conditions as may be imposed by Sms2mmsin its premium rated Quotation
forms
The costs associated with the premium rated services shall be as set out in the
quotation form. Sms2mms.com will collect MO messages and pass these on to the User
in the methods described by sms2mms. The User will be responsible for content of
the service, as well as the cost of any and all bearer charges to provide the content
to the end-client. The User shall not use, or knowingly allow others to use, the
lines (MO Numbers) for any purpose, which in Sms2mms.com opinion is improper, immoral
or unlawful. The User will not act, or omit to act, in any way likely to injure
or damage any person, property or the Sms2mms gateway or cause the quality of the
MO number lines or Sms2mms's service in general to be impaired or interrupted in
any manner whatsoever. Sms2mmsshall be entitled, at any time, and without liability
to the User or any third party, to modify, expand, improve, maintain or repair the
Sms2mmsservice or the MO number ranges, notwithstanding that this may require suspending
the operation of the Sms2mmsMO service. Sms2mmsshall use its reasonable endeavors
to provide the User with advance notice of any such suspension and to minimize the
duration thereof in so far as this is reasonably practical.
The User warrants that their MO SMS Services do not and will not contravene any
laws or regulations of the Indian Law, or the countries in which these services
are offered, and in particular any laws relating to privacy, spamming, gaming and
gambling and the User indemnifies, holds harmless and shall defend Sms2mmsagainst
any claim, action or damage suffered or incurred by Sms2mmsas a result of a breach
by the User of this warranty.
PLEASE NOTE: In order to ensure that Sms2mmscomplies with industry codes of conduct,
users are obliged to route all MT messages related or associated directly or indirectly
with any Sms2mms hosted short code via Sms2mms's messaging gateway. This will enable
Sms2mms to ensure that all premium rated- and short code messaging services offer
the required confirmation messages as stipulated by the various codes of practice
and that such messages can be validated as having been submitted. Sms2mmsshall be
entitled to immediately terminate the User's services if the User does not comply
with the provisions of this clause, without any liability to the User or any third
party.
The User will not be entitled to use any of Sms2mms's trademarks (whether registered
or unregistered) or to make reference to Sms2mms in any advertising, publication
or communication related to the MO or bi-directional SMS Services or otherwise,
other than such usage as permitted by Sms2mmsin writing.
Should the User's account be used by users for such networks as Sms2mmscharges for
incoming messages, the User shall be responsible for such costs in full. These charges
are published by Sms2mmsfrom time to time, and can be amended by Sms2mmsas and when
Sms2mmsdeems it necessary. Sms2mmsshall have the right to subtract such message
credits as are necessary to Redeem the said charges from the User's Sms2mms account.
8. MESSAGE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS
Sms2mmsassumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store information.
Sms2mmshas set no fixed upper limit on the number of messages the User may send
through the Service apart from how many units are left in the User's account; however,
Sms2mmsreserves the right, at its sole discretion, to determine whether or not the
User's conduct is consistent with the letter and spirit of the Service Agreement
and may terminate the Service if the User's conduct is found to be inconsistent
with the Agreement. Sms2mmsmay, in the future, with prior notification, limit the
amount of storage space available to each Member.
The sender ID that may be sent as part of mobile text messages is not a guaranteed
feature and may not be sent without any notification.
Although Sms2mmsprides itself on speedy delivery of messages, messages may be delivered
late due to queuing or network traffic. This will still result in the message being
seen as "delivered".
9. MEMBER CONDUCT
Any unauthorized commercial use of the Service, is expressly prohibited. The User
agrees to abide by all applicable local, national and international laws and regulations
and is solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under its account
or password, including the content of any transmissions through the Service. By
way of example, and not as a limitation, the User agrees not to:
i. Use the Service in connection with junk SMS messages, spamming or any unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise);
ii. Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses,
without their consent;
iii. Create a false identity mobile phone address or header, or otherwise attempt
to mislead others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of the message;
iv. Transmit through the Service, associate with the Service or publishing with
the Service unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar,
obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature;
v. Transmit any material that may infringe the intellectual property rights or other
rights of third parties, including trademark, copyright or right of publicity;
vi. Libel, defame or slander any person, or infringe upon any person's privacy rights;
vii. Transmit any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancel bots, or any other harmful or deleterious programs;
viii. Interfere with or disrupt networks connected to the Service or violate the
regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
ix. 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;
x. Interfere with another User's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's
use and enjoyment of similar services; or
xi. Engage in any other activity that Sms2mms believes could subject it to criminal
liability or civil penalty or judgment.
10. NO WARRANTIES OR LIABILITIES
SMS2MMS(INCLUDING ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, SUPPLIERS, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDE RS,
PARTNERS, AFFILIATES AND AGENTS) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR LIABILITY
OF ANY NATURE Incurred BY WHOMEVER AND RESULTING FROM USE OF THE SERVICE AND THE
INTERNET GENERALLY, ACCESS TO THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE, ACCESS TO WEBSITES LINKED TO
T HE SMS2MMS WEBSITE, INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE; INABILITY TO ACCESS
WEBSITES LINKED TO THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE, CONTENT AVAILABLE ON THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE,
SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE, PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM THE SMS2MMS
WEBSITE, DOWNLOADS AND USE OF CONTENT FROM THE SMS2MMS WEBSITE, AND/OR ANY OTHER
REASON NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO SMS2MMS'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND THE USER EXPRESSLY
ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IS AT ITS OWN RISK AND THAT SMS2MMSIS PROVIDED "AS
IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED. SMS2MMSWILL USE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO MAKE ACCESS TO SMS2MMS
AVAILABLE TO THE USER THROUGH THE REQUIRED ACCESS PROTOCOLS, BUT MAKES NO WARRANTY
OR GUARANTEE THAT THE USER WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS SMS2MMS AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME
OR ANY PARTICULAR LOCATION.
Whilst Sms2mmswill ensure that the service is reasonably available at all times,
and will at all times endeavor to maintain connections to as many aggregators, gateways
and Carriers as are, in its discretion, commercially viable and make all upgrades
to the SMS2MMS API available to The User in a commercially reasonable and timely
manner, the User acknowledges that Sms2mmscannot guarantee the availability of a
Carrier's SMSC. Information, ideas and opinions expressed on the SMS2MMS website
should not be regarded as professional advice or the official opinion of sms2mms
, and Users are encouraged to consult professional advice before taking any course
of action related to the information, ideas or opinions expressed on the SMS2MMS
website.
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