TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
1) INTRODUCTION
Email Marketing Solutions strives to offer all its clients a reliable
and excellent level of service. If you have any queries we would like
to hear these. Please email us or see the "Contact" section at the Site
for other contact details.
2) DEFINITIONS
In these conditions, unless the context requires otherwise, the following
words shall have the following meanings:
"Client"
or "you" means the person, firm or company that has requested any Services;
"Conditions"
means the standard terms and conditions of sale set out herein;
"Contract"
means any contract for the provision of the Services;
"IPRs"
means any and all intellectual property rights including without limit
any and all patents, design rights, database rights, copyright, know-how,
moral rights, trade secrets, confidential information, trade marks,
service marks, trade names and goodwill;
"Keywords"
means those words notified to you by Email Marketing Solutions which
control your access to some of the Services including without limit
your password and username;
"Email Marketing Solutions" or "we" means Search ROI Ltd;
"Netiquette"
means generally accepted standards for use of the Internet such as,
but not limited to, sending bulk unsolicited email, mail bombing, misrepresenting
that you have third party authorisation and impersonating another person;
"Server"
means the computer servers used to provide the Service;
"Services"
means any services supplied or to be supplied by Email Marketing Solutions
(which may include without limit Ad Tracking, Mailing List Hosting,
Mailing List Management, Email Delivery, Autoresponder Services, Consultancy)
as described in the quote or acknowledgement of order issued by Email Marketing Solutions or as may be agreed from time to time;
"Site"
means any Internet website we
operate (including without
limit www.emailtools.co.uk, imailer.net); and
"Customer Data" means any data, information or material provided or submitted by you to the Services in the course of using the Services.
3) ACCEPTANCE
OF TERMS
The Conditions set out the only terms on which Email Marketing Solutions
is prepared to provide you with the Services. The Conditions shall apply
to all Contracts and by clicking on accept below (where you request
the Services at the Site) and/or or by using the Services you accept
this. All other terms and conditions (other than those which are agreed
in writing between us) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted
by law. Email Marketing Solutions reserves the right to review and revise
the Conditions from time to time without prior notice and, by using
the Services subsequent to any revision of these Conditions, you agree
to be bound by such changes. Please review the following link on a regular
basis for changes at http://www.emailtools.co.uk/terms.htm
4) REGISTRATION
Where appropriate, you agree to provide such information about yourself
as prompted by the Service's registration form and ensure that it is
at all times true, current, accurate and complete. If it is not or we
reasonably suspect it is not true, current, accurate and complete then
we shall be entitled to terminate the Contract or suspend the Services
until such time as we determine.
5) SECURITY
You are responsible for the security and proper use of all Keywords
and must take all necessary steps to ensure that they are kept confidential,
used properly and not disclosed to unauthorised people. You must inform
us immediately if you have any reason to believe that any Keyword has
become known to someone not authorised to use it or if any Keyword is
being or is likely to be used in an unauthorised way or of any other
breach of security. We are not liable for any loss of confidentiality
or for any damages arising from your failure to comply with these terms.
You will be entirely liable for all activities conducted and charges
incurred under your Keywords whether authorised by you or not. If you
forget any Keyword you should contact us and subject to you satisfying
certain security checks you will be given a new Keyword to enable you
to use the Services. You may change your password and registration details
at any time by contacting us.
6) THE
SERVICES
The Services shall be as described in the Site and such other material
as Email Marketing Solutions provides to you from time to time. We reserve
the right at any time and from time to time to amend, improve, correct,
discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof)
with or without notice and you agree that Email Marketing Solutions
shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any such modification,
suspension or discontinuance. We will restore the Service as soon as
reasonably practicable after temporary suspension. Unless otherwise
agreed in writing by Email Marketing Solutions, the minimum period for
the provision of the Services is 12 months from date on which they are
first made available to the Client (the "Initial Term") and shall continue
thereafter for further periods of 12 months (each being a "Renewed Term")
unless and until the Client serves at least one month's written notice
on Email Marketing Solutions prior to the expiry of the Initial Term
or a Renewal Term, such notice to expire at the end of such Initial
or Renewed Term. Email Marketing Solutions shall be entitled to restrict
bandwidth made available to the Client at any time in order to protect
all and any Internet solutions provided by Email Marketing Solutions
from time to time when necessary. Email Marketing Solutions shall use
its reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Servers and the data contained
therein are safeguarded from damage, accident, fire, theft and unauthorised
use.
7) OBLIGATIONS
OF THE CLIENT
The Client agrees that it shall: i) immediately notify Email Marketing Solutions if it becomes aware of any unauthorised use of all or any
of the Services and/or Servers; ii) not use the Services and/or Servers
for any unlawful purpose or for the publication, linking to, issue or
display of any unlawful material (which shall include without limit
any pirated software or any material which is obscene, pornographic,
threatening, malicious, harmful, abusive, harmful, defamatory or which
breaches the rights (including without limit IPRs) of any third party
or which is or encourages criminal acts or contains any virus, worm,
trojan horse or other harmful code) whether under Scottish law or regulation,
the laws or regulations of the Clients country or any other place where
the results of such purpose or such material can be accessed; iii) not
use the Services and/or Servers for the publication, linking to, issue
or display of any material which in the absolute discretion of Email Marketing Solutions may harm Email Marketing Solutions or any of its
clients or bring Email Marketing Solutions into disrepute or may call
into question any action taken by Email Marketing Solutions on the Client's
behalf; iv) not use the Services and/or Servers in breach of good Netiquette
practices; v) ensure that it has all necessary consents, permissions
and licences to make use of the Services including without limit registration
under the Data Protection Act 1984 and 1998; vi) not provide any technical
or other information obtained from Email Marketing Solutions and/or
relating to the Services or the Contract to any person, company, firm
or government which the Client knows or ought reasonably be aware may
directly or indirectly lead to a breach of any Scottish law or regulation;
vii) not, in breach of good Netiquette practices, use any service provided
by any third party (including without limit an Internet website and/or
email) for the publication, linking to, issue or display of any material
which refers to an Internet website maintained by Email Marketing Solutions
or any other services offered by Email Marketing Solutions from time
to time; viii) ensure that all material or data hosted by Email Marketing Solutions on any list operated by the Client from time to time or communicated
through such list or using the Servers is checked for viruses and other
harmful code; ix) keep back ups of all data hosted by Email Marketing Solutions on any list operated by the Client from time to time; x) promptly
notify Email Marketing Solutions of any change to its communication
address and the Client acknowledges that Email Marketing Solutions shall
not be liable for any costs, damages or loss which the Client may suffer
or incur as a result of failure to notify such changes to Email Marketing Solutions; and xi) not reverse engineer, de-code or in any way disassemble
any software provided by Email Marketing Solutions in relation to the
provision of the Services. The Client acknowledges that in order to
make proper use of the Services it should have a basic knowledge of
how the Internet functions and what types of use are and are not acceptable.
The Client acknowledges that Email Marketing Solutions shall have no
obligation to: a) manipulate any material which the Client wishes and/or
does post on any website it operates or any communication which it issues
or sends in connection with any of the Services; or b) validate or vet
such material for usability, legality, content or correctness.
8) SPAMMING
PROHIBITED
You may not send email with an invalid "From:" or "Reply-to:" address.
All messages sent to your list must contain valid email addresses and
you must be responsive to all replies from members of your list, including
unsubscribe requests. All list messages must include unsubscribe instructions
in order that members can unsubscribe themselves from such list. You
may not refuse or ignore unsubscribe requests from members of your list.
List owners should respond to member requests for manual removal from
the list with courtesy and timeliness. You may not use Email Marketing Solutions for one-time mailings to a list of members after which you
substantially delete the membership and create a new list. Your membership
must be a static, permanent list to which you add or delete new members
and/or members subscribe or unsubscribe themselves in the ordinary course.
You may not use the Services to send unsolicited email ("spam"),
commercial or non-commercial. Your email will be considered unsolicited
if your membership addresses are not 100% opt-in by your email list
members. If your email addresses came from harvesting, a purchased email
list, another mailing list (even with the approval of the list owner),
or were compiled by any other method other than direct subscription
from your email list members, for the purposes of this Agreement, those
emails will be considered unsolicited email ("spam"). If we
receive complaints that you are sending unsolicited commercial or non-commercial
email ("spamming"), in addition to other rights that Email Marketing Solutions may have under this Agreement or under applicable
law, Email Marketing Solutions may, at its sole discretion, suspend
your service pending a reconfirmation of your entire email list membership.
There is no reduction or refund of fees during period of suspension.
This reconfirmation may be carried out by Email Marketing Solutions
in any reasonable manner it determines, in its sole discretion, including
without limit, sending an email to all of your list members requiring
confirmation of their wish to continue their subscription to such list.
If Email Marketing Solutions determines in its sole discretion that
you have been spamming, in addition to any other rights under this Agreement
or under applicable law, (i) Email Marketing Solutions may bring an
action in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin such activity,
it being understood that such activity may cause irreparable harm to
Email Marketing Solutions which may not be fully compensable by monetary
damages and (ii) Email Marketing Solutions may recover from Client monetary
losses caused to Email Marketing Solutions by such activity in an amount
equal to (a) £500 for each such item of unsolicited email which
Client has sent to each separate and identifiable email address in violation
of this Rule, which amount the parties agree is a fair and reasonable
estimate of Email Marketing Solutions' losses which would be occasioned
by such violation; or (b) if Email Marketing Solutions can establish
a greater amount of monetary loss, the amount of such actual monetary
loss suffered by Email Marketing Solutions as a result of such violation
including, but not limited to, any damage or loss (including legal fees)
resulting from any claim made against Email Marketing Solutions as a
result of Client's conduct in violation of this Rule. In addition to
the foregoing, Client shall be responsible for costs incurred by Email Marketing Solutions in bringing such actions, including legal fees.
9) PRICE
The current price payable for the Services shall be published on the
Site from time to time and confirmed at the time you request us to provide
any of the Services. Refunds will be given at the discretion of Email Marketing Solutions. Email Marketing Solutions shall be entitled to
vary its prices from time to time however we shall give you at least
one month's notice of such increase and if you are not satisfied with
such increase then you will be entitled to terminate the Contract by
giving us written notice within one month of the date of the variation
notice failing which you shall be deemed to have agreed to the variation.
The price covers permitted number and size of monthly mailing limits
as stated on the Site. If you exceed this limit then Email Marketing Solutions reserves the right to make additional charges for usage above
the limit at the prevailing charge rate as stated on the Site. We will
endeavour to let you know if your usage exceeds the agreed level, however
it is your responsibility to monitor the services being used by you
from time to time. All prices quoted to the Client for the provision
of services by Email Marketing Solutions are exclusive of any value
added tax for which the Client may be additionally liable at the applicable
rate. Where the Services are purchased with a monthly payment plan comprising
a set up fee, this fee is payable immediately. Where a long term contract
is purchased, the set up fee is included within the total payment. If,
for any reason, there is contention relating to payment for our services,
Email Marketing Solutions reserves the right, in any case, to charge
an administration fee of £40 to cover costs.
10) PAYMENT
The price and all other amounts due under the Contract shall be paid
by the Client by the due date and in the currency as specified in Email Marketing Solutions's invoice. Payment shall only be deemed received
by Email Marketing Solutions upon receipt of cleared funds. Payment
shall be made in full without any abatement, set off or deduction on
any goods. Where you authorise payment to be made by credit or debit
card then such authority shall be deemed as authority to Email Marketing Solutions to take all that the Client owes under or in connection with
the Contract. It is of the essence of the Contract that the Contract
price and all other amounts due from the Client under the Contract are
paid on time.
11) NON-PAYMENT AND SUSPENSION
In addition to any other rights granted to Email Marketing Solutions herein, Email Marketing Solutions reserves the right to suspend or terminate this Contract and your access to the Services if your account falls into arrears. You shall be responsible for any and all expenses incurred
by Email Marketing Solutions in recovering overdue amounts and shall
pay interest on them (before and after judgment) at annual rate of 5%
above the base lending rate of Abbey National plc calculated daily
until payment is made in full. There will be no reduction in fees for the Services during any period of account suspension. Email Marketing Solutions reserves the right to impose a reconnection fee in the event you are suspended and thereafter request access to the Services. You agree and acknowledge that Email Marketing Solutions has no obligation to retain Customer Data and that such Customer Data may be irretrievably deleted if your account is 30 days or more in arrears.
12) INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
All IPRs relating to the Services provided by Email Marketing Solutions
are and shall remain the property of Email Marketing Solutions. All
rights in the design and arrangement of the Site, text and graphics
and all software compilations, underlying source code, and all other
material on the Site are reserved to of Email Marketing Solutions UK
or its licensors. Except as expressly provided below, nothing contained
in these term of use or on the Site shall be construed as conferring
any license or right, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, under copyright
or other IPRs. Email Marketing Solutions and all other names, images,
pictures, logos and icons identifying Email Marketing Solutions or its
services are the property of Email Marketing Solutions UK in the UK
and other countries. Other product and company names mentioned on this
Site may be trade marks of their respective owners.
13) INDEMNITY
The Client agrees to fully indemnify and keep Email Marketing Solutions,
its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, partners, employees and agents
fully indemnified from and against all actions, demands, costs (on a
fully indemnity basis), losses, penalties, damages, liability, claims
and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees) whatsoever arising
from your breach of the Contract, your use or misuse of the Services,
any claims by third parties as to ownership or other rights arising
in any way by the Client infringing (whether innocently or knowingly)
third party rights (including without limit intellectual property rights).
14) DISCLAIMER
Nothing in the Contract or these Conditions shall exclude or limit the
liability of Email Marketing Solutions for death or personal injury
resulting from its negligence or fraudulent misrepresentation nor affect
the statutory rights of consumers. To the fullest extent permitted by
law the Site and its contents is provided by Email Marketing Solutions
on an "as is" and "as available" basis and no representations or warranties
(expressed or implied) of any kind are made (and they are expressly
disclaimed) with respect to the Services, the Site or its contents including,
without limit, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose. Further, Email Marketing Solutions does not represent or warrant
that: (i) the Services will meet your requirements; (ii) the Services
will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (iii) any results
obtained from using the Services will be accurate, complete or current.
You acknowledge that the allocation of risk in this contract reflects
the price paid for the Services and that it is not within the control
of Email Marketing Solutions how or for what purposes the Services are
used. If any exclusion in this license is held to be invalid and Email Marketing Solutions becomes liable for loss or damage that may lawfully
be limited then such liability shall be limited to the amount paid by
you for the Services. Email Marketing Solutions shall have no liability
to the Client for any loss arising from any material, data or instructions
supplied whether digitally or otherwise by the Client or on its behalf
which is incomplete, inaccurate, illegible, out of sequence or in the
wrong form or arising from late arrival or non-arrival or any other
fault by the Client or on its behalf. Email Marketing Solutions is not
responsible for any delay, malfunction, non performance and/or other
degradation of performance of any of the Services caused by or resulting
from any alteration, modification and/or amendments due to changes and
specifications requested or implemented by the Client whether or not
beyond the Services already supplied. Email Marketing Solutions reserves
the right to raise additional charges for any work so arising. If any
Services are or become unavailable then Email Marketing Solutions will
use reasonable endeavours to repair and reinstate the service within
24 hours of detection depending on the severity of the failure. If failure
is caused by the Client or any agent of the Client to whom access to
Servers was given then the Client shall pay all costs to reinstate and/or
repair the Server. Where such unavailability is due to the negligent
failure of Email Marketing Solutions to deal with circumstances within
its control and is for more than a total of 24 hours in any 30 day period
or for any 6 consecutive hour period then Email Marketing Solutions
will at its discretion either pay to you compensation limited to a refund
of the fee paid by you for the unavailable Services or provide you with
a credit up to the same amount. Neither Email Marketing Solutions nor
anyone else who has been involved in the creation, production or supply
of the Services shall be liable to the Client or any other person for
any loss in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory
duty) or otherwise howsoever and whatever the cause thereof by reason
of or in connection with the Contract or the Services for any: (i) economic
loss of any kind whatsoever, or (ii) loss of profit, business contracts,
revenues or anticipated savings, or (iii) damage to the Client's reputation
or goodwill, or (iv) loss resulting from any claim made by any third
party, or (v) special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any
nature whatsoever, and the Client shall indemnify Email Marketing Solutions
from and against any claim which may be made against Email Marketing Solutions in respect thereof. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion
or limitation of implied warranties or of liability for consequential
or incidental damages and therefore the above may not apply to you.
If Email Marketing Solutions is prevented or delayed in or from performing
any of its obligations under the Conditions or the Contract due to circumstances
beyond its control such as but not limited to governmental acts, war,
riots, strikes or trade disputes (including by and with our own employees),
technical failure, general availability of the Internet, power failure,
communications failure, weather, flood, fire or explosion, natural or
local emergency Email Marketing Solutions shall not be liable for this.
15) CONFIDENTIALITY
All confidential information of either party or of any of its customers
disclosed to or discovered by the other as a result of the provision
of the Services shall be regarded as disclosed in confidence and shall
only be used in connection with the performance of its obligations under
the Contract and not be passed on to third party and/or in any way be
made use of at any time either during or after the termination of the
Contract save with consent of the other or which comes into the public
domain (otherwise than through the unauthorised disclosure by the other).
The Client shall promptly notify Email Marketing Solutions if it becomes
aware of a breach of confidence in relation to the Services and/or the
Contract and shall give Email Marketing Solutions all reasonable assistance
in connection with any proceedings Email Marketing Solutions may institute
against a third party at Email Marketing Solutions' expense.
16) PRIVACY
For quality control purposes your telephone conversations with Email Marketing Solutions staff may be recorded from time to time. The information
you provide to us will be stored on computer. We are committed to protecting
your privacy. We and any of our associated companies may use the information
you provide us to provide a more personalised service and to tell you
about changes in our and their service or any new services which we
think you will find valuable. If you object to any of these uses at
any time, then please inform us by writing to Email Marketing Solutions
at the address set out in the "Contact Us" section at the Site. We may
also use such information where and to the extent of any requirement
to comply with any applicable law, legal process or to enforce any of
these Conditions. We will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents
of any private communications transmitted via the Servers unless required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary
to conform or comply with applicable law, to protect and defend the
rights and/or property of Email Marketing Solutions or to protect the
personal safety of any of our clients or the public.
17) COOKIES
Cookies are bits of electronic information that a website can transfer
to your hard drive to help tailor and keep records of your visit to
the Site. Cookies help us to provide you with the best possible service
on our Site. We use cookies to see where visitors are coming from and
tracking user interests and behaviour. If you voluntarily provide personal
details, we may use cookies to identify what pages and topics are of
specific interest to you. Most major websites use cookies and their
use is standard on the Internet. Most Internet browsers automatically
accept cookies. However, you can change your settings so that you are
notified whenever you are sent a cookie, or block them completely should
you wish to do this.
18) P3P DISCLAIMER
P3P
files &/or headers are used to compare the P3P settings to the privacy
settings of the viewing browser. P3P
policy implementation on any of our websites &/or software (including,
without limit, compact P3P policies), is for the sole purpose of enabling
3rd party cookie acceptance by P3P-enabled browsers and may not accurately
reflect the type of data that may be stored in any cookie that we may
set. Email Marketing Solutions is not responsible for the privacy practices or
the content of Client websites and expressly disclaims all liability
associated with the privacy practices and content of such Client websites.
19) TERMINATION
The Contract may be terminated: i) immediately by Email Marketing Solutions
if the Client fails to pay any sums due hereunder within 7 days of their
due date; ii) immediately by either party to the other if the other
commits any material breach of any these conditions and which (in the
case of a breach capable of being remedied) has not been remedied within
a reasonable time period as may be specified in a formal request in
writing or by electronic email to remedy the same; iii) immediately
by written notice from Email Marketing Solutions if the Client commits
any material breach of any these conditions which may impact the Services
or Servers of Email Marketing Solutions or the ability of Email Marketing Solutions to provide the services; iv) immediately by either party if
the other shall convene a meeting with its creditors or if a proposal
shall be made for a voluntary arrangement within part 1 of the Insolvency
Act 1986 or a proposal for any other composition scheme of arrangement
with (or the assignment for the benefit of) its creditors or if the
other shall be unable to pay its debts within the meaning of Section
123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or if a trustee receiver or administrative
receiver or similar officer is appointed in respect of all or any of
the business or assets of the other party or if a petition is presented
or a meeting is convened for the purpose of considering a resolution
or any other steps are taken for the winding up or the making of an
administrative order (otherwise than for the purposes of a solvent amalgamation
or reconstruction). In the event that Email Marketing Solutions is entitled
to terminate the Contract for any reason then it shall in the alternative
at its sole discretion be entitled to suspend the Services for such
period as Email Marketing Solutions shall determine. Upon termination
or expiry of the Contract all amounts payable by the Client to Email Marketing Solutions shall become immediately due and Email Marketing Solutions shall be entitled to immediately cease the provision of the
Services.
20) FOREIGN
JURISDICTIONS
The Site may contain references or cross references to services that
are not available in every country. We do not represent that all Services
and content , materials and services on the Site are appropriate or
available for use in all geographic locations, and accessing such from
certain locations may be illegal and prohibited. Your access to the
content, materials and services on the Site from such locations is at
your own initiative and we are not responsible for your compliance with
local laws or other applicable laws. You will not access the foregoing
if prohibited by law. Any translation of these Conditions into a language
other than English is for the convenience of the Client only and it
is agreed that the English language version of these Conditions at http://www.emailtools.co.uk/terms.htm
shall be relied on by the parties and shall prevail in the event of
any differences.
21) MISCELLANEOUS
Any failure or delay by either party in exercising any rights or remedy
will not constitute a waiver. Any notice or other communication to be
given by a party under this Agreement must be in writing and must be
given by delivery at or sending by first class post or by email or facsimile
transmission to the last known postal, email address or relevant telecommunications
number of the other party. Notices shall be deemed to have been received
when in the ordinary course of the means of transmission it would be
received by the addressee. To prove the giving of a notice it shall
be sufficient to show it was despatched. A notice shall have been effect
from the sooner of its actual or deemed receipt by the addressee. Any
termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other
rights or remedies which a party may be entitled to hereunder or at
law and shall not effect any previous rights or liabilities of either
party nor the coming into or continuance in force of any provision hereof
which is expressly or by implication intended to come into continue
in force upon or after such termination. If any provision of these Conditions
is held by any competent authority to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable
in whole or in part then the provision shall be deemed to be severable
from the remaining provisions and shall not affect their validity or
enforceability. Your use of this Site and the Contract will be governed
by Scottish Law and will be deemed to have occurred and been made in
Scotland. If you have any disputes with us or any other aspect of the
Site then these will be exclusively resolved in the Scottish Courts.
The Client shall not share, re-sell or attempt to share or re-sell the
Services, transfer or attempt to transfer this Contract or permit any
third party to use and/or access any of the Services for any purpose,
without prior consent of Email Marketing Solutions.