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CallUma.com Terms and Conditions ("Terms")

We are Globelink Language Solutions Limited trading as CallUma (referred to as "CallUma"/ “we”/”us”/”our”). Our registered office address is Sanderson House, Station Road , Horsforth Leeds, West Yorkshire LS18 5NT. We are incorporated in England and our company number is 05641796. 

 

These Terms apply to the entire contents of our Website at www.calluma.com ("Website") and to any correspondence between us and you. Please read these Terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these Terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us.

 

1.             Introduction

1.1.                 You may access some areas of the Website without being a member of the CallUma service. Certain areas of the Website are only open to you if you register.

1.2.                 By accessing any part of the Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms in full. If you do not accept these Terms in full, you must leave the Website immediately. 

1.3.                 We may revise these Terms at any time by updating the Website. You should check the Website from time to time to review the then current Terms, because it is binding on you.

1.4.                 All calls and other communications are recorded for training, monitoring and quality of service purposes. You consent to this.

PART A: THE CALLUMA SERVICE

2.             The Service

2.1.                 In this part of the Terms:

2.1.1.                    "Service" and "account" both mean the services that you are entitled to receive as part of your Contract with CallUma. Paragraph 2.2 below states where further details of the Service will be found;

2.1.2.                    "Service Details Pages" means the pages on the Website stated to include the full details of the Service;

2.1.3.                    references to a "member of the Service" and "membership" mean you entering into or having entered a Contract with CallUma for the Service (depending upon the context);

2.1.4.                    "Membership Packages" means the types of standard services that you can choose from when becoming a member;

2.1.5.                    "Contract" is as defined in paragraph 4.3 below.

2.2.                 Details of the services that you are entitled to receive, or in the case of some services your allowance (per year, unless otherwise expressly stated) of entitlement to those services, are as set out in the Service Details Page for your Membership Package at the time that the Contract is formed (see paragraph 4.3 below). A copy of the service details will be sent to you at the time your membership application is accepted.

3.             Your status

3.1.                 By becoming a member of the Service, you warrant that:

3.1.1.                    You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts;

3.1.2.                    You are at least 18 years old;

3.1.3.                    You are entering into the Contract as a consumer and not a business. (If you are a business and wish to contract with us for our corporate services, please contact us).

3.2.                 CallUma does not sell memberships for purchase by children. We sell memberships and call time for purchase by adults and use by adults and children. If you are under 18, you may use CallUma.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

4.             Becoming a member of the Service; how a Contract is formed

4.1.                 To apply to become a member of the Service, you must complete the registration process on the Website.

4.2.                 As part of the registration process, you will be required to accept the Terms and pay the first annual fee to proceed with registration.

4.3.                 After completing the electronic sign-up form, we will send an email to the email account as entered on the sign-up form to confirm that the application has been accepted. Upon us sending the confirmation and full receipt from you of payment of the first Annual Membership Fee, a binding contract will come into force between us ("Contract").

4.4.                 CallUma offers a right to cancel - please see paragraph 11.

5.             Use of your account; user name and password safety

5.1.                 You are responsible for all use of your account. Subject to paragraph 5.3, you will be charged for all use of the Service, whether or not that use is by you personally.

5.2.                 You must keep your user name and password safe. Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.  Subject to the limited permission to allow others to use your account set out in paragraph 6 below, you must not disclose your user name and password to any other person.

5.3.                 If you become aware or suspect that your user name or password has been accidentally disclosed, or that someone has been using your account without your permission, you must report this to us immediately. We will then take steps to disable your account as quickly as possible. You will not be liable for charges for use of your account from the time that we disable your account.

6.     Use of the Service by friends and family

6.1.                 Subject to the rest of this paragraph, CallUma permits you to share your user name and password with your friends and family. As stated in paragraph 5.1, you will be responsible for all charges for use of your account.

6.2.                 If you share your user name with a friend or member of your family, you must do so on the basis that the user name and password are confidential information, and that person must not share the user name and password with anyone else.

6.3.                 At any time, we may contact you personally to check that you have authorised other persons to use your account, and may suspend your account until we are able to speak to you to confirm this authorised use.

6.4.                 We are also entitled to refuse to provide the Service to any person where that person does not provide sufficient evidence (in our opinion) that they are authorised by use to use your account. However, where we do provide the service to others, you will be responsible for all charges.

6.5.                 CallUma does not permit you to share your user name and password with anyone except as set out above.

7.             The Contract period; Contract renewals

7.1.                 The Contract starts on the date on which it is formed, as described in paragraph 4.3. It continues for 12 months ("Contract Period"), after which it will automatically renew for another 12 months unless you choose to cancel in accordance with paragraph 7.2 below.

7.2.                 Two weeks before the end of the current Contract Period, we will email you to inform you of the imminent renewal of your Contract. You can choose to cancel renewal of your Contract by following the instructions in the email. If you do not cancel the Contract in this way, it will automatically renew in accordance with paragraph 7.1.

7.3.                 You agree that CallUma's record of the renewal email referred to in paragraph 7.2 shall be sufficient proof that CallUma sent and you received that email.

8.             Payment

8.1.                 The charges of the Service consists of two elements:

8.1.1.                    An annual fee for membership. The first annual fee is payable as part of the registration process; subsequent annual fees are payable at the start of each Contract Period;

8.1.2.                    Charges for using a Service by telephone, text, or another method of communication for which charges apply. You will be charged immediately after the relevant communication has taken place. Please note that for most Membership Packages, calls are between £0.95 and £1.50 per minute and texts are between £0.95 and £1.95 each. Please see the details for current charges on our Website to see the charges that apply to your use of the Service. Please note that you will also have to pay the cost of the telephone call, text message or other communication method itself.

8.2.                 Details of the charges for your Membership Package are set out on the Service Details Page for that Membership Package.

8.3.                 Payment for the Service must be by credit or debit card. We accept payment with the cards listed by our online payment system from time to time.

8.4.                 CallUma staff will never ask you for your payment card details - all over the telephone financial transactions will be undertaken by our Security Centre.

8.5.                 The secure payment provider that we use will retain your payment details including, where relevant, credit and debit card details, to enable billing of per minute call charges and easy membership renewal. Please refer to our Privacy Policy Click here.

8.6.                 We may send you an email prior to the expiry date of your payment card, inviting you to update your card details to enable you to have continual and uninterrupted use of the Service.

8.7.                 If you do not pay an amount when it becomes due, you must arrange to make payment by another method. If a payment is overdue by 7 days or more, we reserve the right to suspend your account or terminate the Contract.

8.8.                 If a payment is overdue, we shall be entitled to charge interest on the overdue amount at 3% above the base rate of Barclays Bank Plc per year. Interest will accrue on a daily basis from the due date up to the date of actual payment, after as well as before any Court judgment.

9.             Document Storage

9.1.                 If you upload data and information to our Document and Data Storage facility (“datastore”) this information will be held securely and will be private to you. We do not have access to this data. We will never ask for your datastore password and answers to security questions. In the event that you forget your datastore password and/or security question and answers, if we are satisfied as to your identity, we will email you a new password to enable to you to recommence use of the Service.

10.         Emergencies

10.1.             Your membership includes the entitlement to make unlimited Emergency calls to CallUma per annum. These will be of unlimited length and we will endeavour to provide interpretation assistance. Emergency calls are those that, in CallUma’s reasonable opinion, constitute an emergency, typically those that require contact with and language interpretation between the member and the emergency services i.e. Police, Fire and Ambulance services.

10.2.             *CallUma and Unlimited Text Messages Fair Use Policy
CallUma’s Fair Use Policy is designed to make sure that your CallUma service is great value, fast and reliable whenever you use it. It is intended to ensure that our customers do not use our services in an excessive, unreasonable, offensive or fraudulent manner. Such usage may impact the quality or reliability of our services. Our Fair Use Policy applies when you use any of our unlimited services.
Excessive Use
You must not use any of our unlimited text services in a way that we deem to be excessive. We will notify you if we deem your usage to be excessive, and in breach of our Fair Use policy and may ask you to reduce your usage. If usage continues at an excessive level following this request or if usage is deemed by us to be unreasonable, offensive or fraudulent, we may refuse you access to our CallUma service and/or you may then be charged at our standard rates for your usage.

11.         Your right to cancel the Contract

11.1.             If you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel a Contract at any time within 15 days, beginning on the day on which the Contract comes into force (as described in paragraph 4.3) ("Cancellation Period"). In this case, you will receive a full refund of the annual membership fee paid for the Service in accordance with our refunds policy.

11.2.             The right to cancel described in paragraph 11.1 will end early if you begin using the Service during the Cancellation Period. In such a situation, the right to cancel will end when you first use the Service. For example, if you request interpretation over the telephone during the Cancellation Period, that is use of the Service and the Cancellation Period will have ended.

11.3.             Where the right to cancel applies, to cancel a Contract you must inform us in writing by emailing the following email address: securitycentre@calluma.com.

12.         Our rights to end the Contract

12.1.             We may end the Contract at any time by giving notice to you if you do any the following:

12.1.1.                You breach the acceptable use policy or conduct rules set out in Part B below, or any of your other obligations under these Terms;

12.1.2.                You fail to pay an amount due to us within 7 days of us it becoming due, as further in paragraph 8.7 above.

12.2.             If we end the Contract in accordance with paragraph 12.1, you shall not be entitled to any refund of the annual fee, and you shall immediately pay all sums that you owe to us (whether or not under the Contract). This does not affect your statutory rights.

13.         Liability for the Service

13.1.             CallUma's liability to you for any claim for breach of contract, negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise shall be limited as follows:

13.1.1.                For any claim for personal injury or death caused by our negligence, or for fraudulent misrepresentation, no limit shall apply;

13.1.2.                For any other claim, our liability shall be limited to the greater of: £2,000 for all claims arising within a 12 month period; or the fees that you have paid to us within the 12 months before the claim arose. 

13.2.             CallUma shall not be liable to you for the following types of loss, whether direct, indirect or consequential, and even if you notified us that you would incur any of these losses:

13.2.1.                Financial loss;

13.2.2.                Expected or incidental losses; loss of expected savings; reduction in the value of an asset.

13.3.             Please refer to paragraph 20.3 for the types of liability that we do not exclude.

 

PART B: ACCEPTABLE USE AND ACCEPTABLE CONDUCT POLICY

14.         Conduct

14.1.             You will treat our staff and interpreters with respect. Any verbal abuse or threats will be reported to the relevant authorities and further use of the Service will be terminated.

14.2.             You must not use the Website in any way that could cause damage, impairment or restricted access to the Website.

14.3.             Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to the Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. We shall have no obligations with respect to such material. We shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. 

14.4.             You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Website any material:

14.4.1.                that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or

14.4.2.                for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or

14.4.3.                which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or

14.4.4.                which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

14.5.             You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking). 

14.6.             We shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraphs 14.4 or 14.5.

 

PART C: GENERAL

15.         Intellectual property

15.1.             CallUma.com, CallUma, the CallUma logo, Pass The Phone, and other marks indicated on our website are the unregistered trade marks (or registered trade marks where expressly indicated) of CallUma.

15.2.             You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Website for your own use on the following basis:

15.2.1.                no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any way;

15.2.2.                no graphics on the Website are used separately from the corresponding text; and

15.2.3.                our copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies. 

15.3.             Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by us or our licensors. For the purposes of these Terms, any use of extracts from the Website other than in accordance with this paragraph 15 for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website. 

15.4.             Subject to this paragraph 15, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission. 

15.5.             Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

16.         Links to and from the Website

16.1.             You may link to the Website from your own website or newsletter for the purpose of promoting or recommending our services to your visitors and/or readers. We reserve the right to revoke your right to the Website where we deem this to be appropriate.

16.2.             Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Website. CallUma has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

17.         Access and Maintenance

17.1.             We will try to ensure that availability of the Website and the Service will be uninterrupted and error free. However, due to the nature of the Internet and other telecommunications services, this cannot always be guaranteed. The Website and the Service may occasionally be suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance of the service, or the introduction of new or amendment to services provided. We will endeavour to keep such “down-times” to a minimum.

17.2.             Owing to the nature of the various telecommunications services around the world, CallUma cannot guarantee that you will be able to contact us by mobile or landline at any time.

18.         Events beyond our reasonable control

18.1.             We are not responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control, and shall not be liable for any losses or expenses (whether direct or indirect) arising out of such delay or failure. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

19.         Concerns and complaints

19.1.