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Please read all of the following terms and conditions regarding
the services provided by Line1 Communications, Inc. ("Line1," "our," "us," or "we," as
applicable) to its customers ("you"). The terms and conditions
set forth herein, and as they may be modified from time to time in
the future, shall constitute our agreement by which we shall provide
any and all services to you now or in the future ("Agreement").
The current version of these terms and conditions will always be
posted at www.line1com.com and/or www.viewyourvoicemail.com.
The terms and conditions in this Agreement constitute the agreement
between Line1 and you regarding the comprehensive answering, messaging,
message conversion, and information services we offer ("Services").
Our current Services include Voicemail, Automated Attendant, Virtual
Office, Telephone Answering, Fax Broadcasting, Voice Broadcasting,
Email Broadcasting, Conference Calling, Unified Messaging, Fax-On-Demand,
Fax-To-Email, Message/Music-On-Hold. BY USING ANY OF THE SERVICES,
YOU THEREBY CONFIRM YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF, AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
BY, THIS AGREEMENT.
Our Services to you may be provided to you by us directly or through
business relationships with independent third parties, subcontractors,
or other service entities ("Business Partners"). The use
of the term "Business Partners" does not necessarily mean
that the relationship between Line1 and such other independent third
parties, subcontractors, or other service entities constitutes a
partnership, joint venture, or other such relationship. In addition,
your access to our Services may require you to utilize services provided
by other unrelated parties, including Internet access providers,
Internet Service Providers, PBX equipment and service providers,
telephone companies, computer hardware and software providers, and
other businesses.
If at any time you have a question regarding any of our Services,
please contact us at any of the telephone numbers or the email address
on our Support page.
1. Billing and Charges. Many current fees and costs are posted at
www.line1com.com. All charges are subject to change upon positing
on our website unless we have a separate written rate agreement with
you, in which case rates shall be subject to change as stated therein
or upon 30 days notice to you.
a. Billing. Base service charges for all services are invoiced
in advance and any usage sensitive billing increments including,
but not limited to fax over pages, 800 usage, long distance, etc.
are invoiced monthly. Payment for all billed amounts is due upon
receipt. Accounts are considered past due 30 days after the billing
date, at which time late fees may be applied.
b. Failure to pay. We may temporarily deny service or terminate
this Agreement without notice upon the failure of the subscriber
to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not relieve
you of the responsibility for payment of all accrued charges, plus
reasonable interest, late fees, reconnect fees, and/or deposits.
c. Billing Discrepancies. In the event of a billing discrepancy,
you must notify us within 30 days of invoice date. No adjustment
will be considered after the 30-day period.
d. Taxes, Surcharges, Etc. Any fees or charges in our rate schedules
are exclusive of any applicable federal, state, local sales taxes,
use, or gross receipts taxes, municipal utility taxes, franchisee
fees, 911 charges, communications services tax, or any other tax
or regulatory charge associated with the specific Services or equipment
you may receive from us. Taxes and regulatory fees, if applicable,
may be stated individually or included in any service/equipment charges.
2. User Conduct and Message Content. You acknowledge and agree that
Line1 and its Business Partners shall not be held responsible or
liable for any information, text, sound, or messages ("Content")
that may be transmitted, recorded, converted, or stored in the course
of our performance of our Services to you. Accordingly, you agree
that you, and not us or our Business Partners, are solely responsible
and liable for your use of our Services, including any Content.
We normally do not filter or otherwise amend or alter the Content
of messages and we accept no obligation to do so, unless you subscribe
to our voice to text conversion service (subject to its terms and
conditions). However, in providing any of our Services, we and our
Business Partners reserve the right to remove or refuse to transmit
or translate Content that violates this Agreement or is otherwise
objectionable. We and our Business Partners may preserve Content
and disclose Content if we, in good faith, believe that either we
are required to do so to comply with or respond to any legal process,
to enforce this Agreement, or to obtain advice from professional
advisers, including our legal counsel, regarding our rights or responsibilities.
You understand and agree that technical processing, conversion (if
applicable), and transmission of the Services, including your Content,
may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; (b) changes
to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks
or devices; and/or (c) single or multiple human review. We make no
guarantee as to the quality or accuracy of any voice to text conversion
service.
We are in full support of First Amendment rights under the United
States Constitution, but we do not offer Services for your use for
any illegal purpose. We may terminate our Services to you if in our
reasonable opinion the Services have been used for the purpose of
violating any applicable law or we reasonably believe that you have
done (or allowed to be done) any of the following using the Services:
harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress or discomfort to any
person or transmit Content that we consider to be unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene or racially, ethnically,
sexually or otherwise objectionable, particularly taking into account
the recipient's age; transmit any Content that infringes any rights
of confidence, trade marks, copyright, or other proprietary rights
or intellectual property of any party; impersonate any person or
manipulate identifiers to disguise the Content origin; or transmit
any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other
forms of solicitation. We do not support or condone the use of the
Services to send unsolicited marketing material.
3. Availability of Services. We will provide Services to you subject
to availability of telecommunications equipment or infrastructure
to your location. It is our sole determination as to whether there
are adequate facilities to deliver the Service to you. We reserve
the right to decline or limit any Services if in our sole opinion
there are inadequate facilities or equipment (or some cause beyond
our control) necessary for a reliable service.
4. Service Interruptions. It is understood that the Services you
receive from us may be subject to the facilities and services provided
directly to you from other public utilities or your equipment vendors
or to us by one of our Business Partners or other unrelated third
parties over which your and/or we may have limited control over with
respect to maintenance and repair of these facilities. With respect
to our Business Partners or other service providers with whom we
have a relationship with, we will work closely with them in order
to restore or correct our Service to you. With respect to public
utilities or other unrelated third parties, including your equipment
vendors, we will work proactively with them on your behalf as necessary
to troubleshoot and resolve service problems or service restoration
issues in a reasonable manner under the given circumstances.
5. Modifications to Services. We may at any time modify or discontinue,
temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part of them) with
or without notice and liability to anyone. We value you, our customers.
While we will try to give you reasonable notice under the circumstance
of changes to our Services, service interruptions, or other service
quality issues, such notice may be limited based upon the circumstances
or may be limited only to postings on our website.
6. Termination.
a. By Us. We may terminate this Agreement for nonpayment
of any Services or for any violation of this Agreement, with or without
such reasonable notice under the circumstances.
b. By you. You may
terminate this Agreement upon notice to us. Your liability shall
be for any unpaid Services utilized since the last invoice.
7. No Resale of Services. You will not reproduce,
duplicate, copy, sell, resell, make available for gain, or exploit
for any commercial purposes any portion of the Services, use of the
Services, or access to the Services.
8. Proprietary Rights. The Services
and any software used in connection with the Services ("Software")
contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected
by intellectual property and other laws. You acknowledge and agree
that Content contained in information presented to you through the
Services may be protected by copyright, trade mark, patents or other
proprietary rights and laws. You may not copy, modify, rent, lease,
loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on Content
you receive (other than for forwarding messages) or the Software,
in whole or in part. You may not access the Services by any means
other than through the interface that is provided by us for use in
accessing the Services.
9. General Practices Regarding
Use and Storage. We may establish
general practices (and change such practices without notice) and
limits concerning use of the Services, including, without limitation,
any fair use policies to be implemented by us, the maximum number
of days that messages or other uploaded Content will be retained
by us, the maximum number of messages that may be sent from or received
by you, the maximum size of any message that may be sent from or
received by you, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on
our servers to you, and the maximum number of times Content will
be resent after failure of a message. We have no responsibility or
liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other
communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the
Services.
10. Passcodes & Security Issues. Access
to some of the Services may require you to use a Login ID and passcode.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Login
ID and passcodes. You must immediately notify us of any lost, unauthorized
use, or breach of your Login ID or passcodes. Upon request and with
security verification you may request to reset a Login ID or passcode.
11.
WARRANTY DISCLAIMER.
THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY LINE1, INCLUDING ANY
OF ITS BUSINESS PARTNERS, UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS" AND "AS
AVAILABLE" AND LINE1 MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY SIMILAR WARRANTY WHETHER
SUCH WARRANTY ARISES UNDER PROVISIONS OF ANY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
OR ANY STATE THEREOF. LINE1 MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES
THAT THE SERVICES ARE FREE OF RIGHTFUL CLAIMS OF ANY THIRD PARTY
FOR INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. THE ENTIRE RISK ASSOCIATED
WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICES SHALL BE BORNE SOLELY BY YOU.
LINE1 MAKES
NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT
THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR FREE OR
THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED. SOME OF THE SERVICES
WE PROVIDE TO YOU REQUIRE INTERNET CONNECTIONS AND/OR VOICE TELEPHONE
CONNECTIONS, SERVICES THAT MAY BE PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES OVER
WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL. LINE1 IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MESSAGES OR
INFORMATION THAT IS DELAYED, LOST, OR MISDIRECTED DUE TO INTERRUPTIONS
OR FLUCTUATIONS IN THE SERVICES OR BY SERVICES THAT ARE RECEIVED
BY YOUR FROM THIRD PARTIES WITH WHICH YOU MUST CONNECT TO IN ORDER
TO ACCESS LINE1'S SERVICES.
LINE1 DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY PERTAINING TO ANY
GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED, OBTAINED, SECURED, OR ACQUIRED THROUGH
THE SERVICES OR ANY TRANSACTION ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE SERVICES.
LINE1
DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF THE RESULTS OBTAINED
THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY DATA OR INFORMATION DOWNLOADED,
CONVERTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED OR ACQUIRED THROUGH
THE USE OF THE SERVICES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY DATA OR INFORMATION
DOWNLOADED, CONVERTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED OR ACQUIRED
THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES ARE AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND DISCRETION
AND LINE1 WILL NOT BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOU
OR YOUR PROPERTY FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION,
WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US, OUR EMPLOYEES,
OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY
STATED IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT
THE DISCLAIMER OF CERTAIN IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO CERTAIN OF THE FOREGOING
DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
IN NO EVENT SHALL LINE1
BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHETHER ARISING UNDER CONTRACT, WARRANTY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR STRICT LIABILITY) OR ANY OTHER THEORY
OF LIABILITY. LINE1'S LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM
OF THE ACTION, SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE MONTH'S CHARGES PAID BY YOU FOR
LINE1'S SERVICES, IF ANY.
The limitation of liability reflects the
allocation of risk between the parties. The limitations specified
in this Section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy
specified in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential
purpose. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY,
SO CERTAIN OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Line1
is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss or loss of profits
or revenue or investment in the event of (1) loss of data; (2) any
loss which is not reasonably foreseeable; (3) promotions, competitions,
offers for goods, events promoted on the Service which are run by
third parties such as advertisers or sponsors; (4) events beyond
our/their reasonable control, including telecommunications or the
Internet and computer viruses; (5) factual, technical or typographical
errors or omissions, missing or unavailable or incomplete content
or the fact content is not up to date; (6) downtime or delays in
the Services or in provision of content; (7) voice to text conversion
services; or (8) message Content.
Line1 and its Business Partners
shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content of any
alert provided through the Services, or for any actions taken by
you or any third party in reliance thereon. We do not guarantee that
an alert has been or will be delivered, and we shall not be responsible
for any losses or missed opportunities incurred by you due to the
delayed or non-delivery of an alert through any of the Services.
Specific alert delivery times are not guaranteed by us. You agree
that some of the Business Partners have specific operating hours
and that during non-operational hours we may not have access to information
necessary to determine whether an alert should be delivered. You
are responsible for determining the criteria (e.g., account activity)
which govern your receipt of alerts. You understand that alerts,
which may convey information about your account and account activity,
will be traveling through an unencrypted medium and may be accessed,
used, or misappropriated by unintended third-party recipients. Alerts
sent through an unencrypted medium can be activated and deactivated
by you at any time. You agree that information transmitted through
the Services is not confidential and you acknowledge that you have
no expectation of privacy with respect to such information. You agree
that Line1 and its Business Partners shall not be liable for any
direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages caused
by (a) the unauthorized use or misappropriation of any and all information
transmitted through the Services by electronic communication, or
(b) any use of information provided to you through the Services.
13. Indemnification. You shall indemnify and hold harmless Line1,
its directors, officers, employees and its Business Partners from
and against all liabilities, losses, costs, expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees), and damages resulting from any negligent acts,
omissions or willful misconduct by you, your use of the Services
and/or any breach of the terms and conditions of this Agreement by
you. This indemnification also includes any Content that may be transmitted
by or to you through use of our Services.
14. Governing Law. The laws of the State of Florida shall govern
this agreement. Venue for any matter under this Agreement shall be
in the appropriate court in Leon County, Florida, vested with such
jurisdiction.
15. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding
between the parties and can be amended from time to time by Line1
by posting such new or amended Terms and Conditions on the Line1
website.
16. Attorneys' Fees. In the event of any disputes arising out of
or in connection with this Agreement, the prevailing party therein
shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs,
whether same were incurred prior to or during any judicial proceedings,
including, but not limited to, any trial or appellate proceedings,
as well as prior to or during any of the dispute resolution mechanisms
set forth herein or which may otherwise be ordered by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
17. No Third Party Beneficiaries. No provision of this Agreement
provides any person or entity not a party to this Agreement with
any remedy, claim, liability, reimbursement, or cause of action or
creates any other third party beneficiary rights.
18. Notices. We may broadcast notices or messages through the Services
and/or by posting on our website to inform you of changes to this
Agreement, the Services, or other matters as we, in our sole discretion,
deem to be of importance to you regarding the Services or potential
impacts to the Services. At our election, such broadcast may be sent
over email, conventional mail, as a voice transmission, fax, website
postings, and/or "pop-up" communication, and any such notice
shall be deemed delivered and received on the date on which it is
transmitted or posted on our website. Use of our Services constitutes
your consent to receiving and acknowledgment of the sufficiency of
such notices. Notices by you to us may be transmitted to us via the
means set forth on the Support or Contact Us pages of our website. |