Special trading conditions for the use of the SMS service
(EgyptSMS.com) of Egypt Network Co. Status: April 2004
1. Scope
These trading conditions rule the contractual relation
between Egypt Network Co.
(mentioned Egypt Network Co. in the following) and the customer for
the usage of the SMS service egyptsms.com. Egypt Network Co. provides
these services exclusively on the basis of these terms of
service.
2. Contractual relationship
(1) The contractual relationship between the customer and
Egypt Network Co. for the use of the SMS service is the result of the
customers application and the acceptance by Egypt Network Co. to the
actual tariffs. As far as nothing different was agreed,
application is accepted tacitly by the contribution of the
service.
(2) The contractual relationship can be terminated by both
contracting parties at any time in written form (by E-Mail,
fax or letter). The remaining SMS volume can be returned
chargeable.
(3) The right for extraordinary termination of the
contractual relationship remains unaffected.
3. Services of Egypt Network Co.
(1) The range of the contractual performances results out
of the service specification of Egypt Network Co..
(2) Transmitted contents are not subject to examination
through Egypt Network Co.
(3) Egypt Network Co. reserves itself the right to extend the
services and to make improvements after the current technical
state of the art and under keeping of the entitled interests
of the customer.
4. Obligations of the customer
(1) The customer agrees to not use the SMS service to
transmit contents which fulfill in particular the following
conditions:
a) suitability to be interpreted as defaming, deceptive,
misleading, insulting, displeasing, pornographic, racistic,
glorifying violence, etc.;
b) menace or disconcertion of third.
(2) The customer is obligated to use the Egypt Network Co.
services properly and only in the context of the legality. It
is in particular obligated,
a) not to abusively use access to Egypt Network Co. services and
to omit illegal actions;
b) to accommodate recognized principles of data security,
especially to keep passwords secret etc., resp. to immediately
arrange modifications, if the assumption exists that
unauthorized thirds attained knowledge of this kind of access
information;
c) to immediately report a recognizable lack or damage
(failure report) and in the context of the reasonable make
measures that one all measures meet, which facilitate and
accelerate removal of the disturbance and enable an statement
of the lack or damage and their causes to Egypt Network Co.;
d) to immediately report each modification in the person of
the customer, the name or the designation, under whom it led
in the operating documents of Egypt Network Co..
e) egyptsms offers the possibility of defining any
Originator. If this feature is made available publicly, the
customer is obligated to guarantee by appropriate
authentification measures (E-Mail is not sufficient) that this
feature is not abused. If a customer misses this, account can
be closed or the Originator is adjusted to a fixed value by
Egypt Network Co..
f) Egypt Network Co. reserves itself the right to check
self defined originators at random base to detect misuse (e.g..
Advertising for premium rate numbers).
5. Suspension of the SMS service
(1) Egypt Network Co. reserves itself the right to lock the
service if the customer uses the service abusively, in
particular in the sense of 4. and/or offends against valid
right.
(2) For the own security of the customer Egypt Network Co. will
lock the service, if the assumption is justified that the
service is abusively used.
6. Responsibility of Egypt Network Co.
(1) The responsibility for rough negligence is limited to
the damage usually predictable in such cases. Responsibility
and compensations are limited to the height of the order
value.
(2) In case of failures of services because of disturbances
outside of the area of Egypt Network Co.'s responsibility,
Egypt Network Co.
does not reimburse any values.
(3) Egypt Network Co. does not assume liability for the
compatibility of the egyptsms application with data, programs,
configurations etc. of the customer. In particular Egypt
Network Co.
does not incur any expenses, remuneration, expenditures or
uses for the integration or missed integration of egyptsms.
This covers in particular - however not exclusive - also
the expenditure of time of the customer and/or its assigned
ones.
7. Responsibility of the customer
(1) The customer is responsible for all consequences and
disadvantages for Egypt Network Co. and third parties, which are the
result of the abusive or illegal use of the SMS service (in
particular with offence against 4.) or the result of that the
customer does not follow his other responsibilities and has to
represent this.
(2) The customer keeps Egypt Network Co. free from any third party
claims, which are demanded because of the culpable violation
of the rights of third parties by the customer or because of
the customers behavior contrary to the terms of the agreement
or by the customer breaking the law.
8. Terms of payment
(1) The payment of the SMS service takes place in advance,
as far as not agreed differently.
(2) Price adjustments: If Egypt Network Co. has additional costs
because of price adjustments of external partners, Egypt
Network Co.
has the right to adjust its price structure. In such cases,
Egypt Network Co. does a refund of the remaining credit balance on
request. If Egypt Network Co. receives knowledge about such a price
adjustments afterwards, possible extra costs can be charged
also retroactively to the customer.
9. Privacy
(1) Personal data, that is raised in the context of the use
of the SMS service, is raised and protected according to the
relevant regulations of the federal privacy law. Employees of
Egypt Network Co., who handle personal data, are obligated on
privacy.
(2) As far as Egypt Network Co. uses the help of third parties to
provide its services, Egypt Network Co. is, in the context of the
relevant privacy regulations, fully justified to transmit the
inventory data if this is necessary for the assurance of the
operation and the interests worth to protect of the customer
are not impaired.
10. Rights of use
(1) All copyrights and rights of use, which are located in
the property of Egypt Network Co., remain reserved to Egypt
Network Co..
(2) Copying and modifying, circulation and publication or
other use of all service contents by the customer or by third
parties, if it has to be represented by the customer, is
forbidden, if it was not explicitly approved by Egypt Network
Co. in
written form.
(3) The customer commits itself further to spread only such
contents for which the customer has the appropriate rights of
use.
11. Final provisions
If one or more regulations of these terms of service should
be ineffective, then this does not involves the inefficacy of
the entire contract. The ineffective regulation is replaced by
the relevant legal regulation.