OTZ Telephone Terms and Conditions OTZ Telephone aims to provide the best internet service possible to the people of the Northwest Arctic Borough. This agreement is designed to keep OTZ Telephone and the internet productive for you. OTZ Telephone supports the free flow of information over the internet. OTZ Telephone does not support streaming applications or services, Voice over IP (VoIP), VoIP associated application, or applications with near real-time requirements. OTZ Telephone doesn’t actively monitor or exercise editorial control over the content of any email, mailing list, news group or other materials that are, in OTZ Telephone’s sole discretion, potentially illegal, could subject OTZ to liability or violate these terms and conditions. OTZ Telephone also reserves the right to recover from our customers reasonable labor costs for remedial and preventive actions taken by OTZ Telephone as a result of our customers:
You are prohibited from using your account for illegal purposes. Transmission, theft, procurement, communication, alteration, publication or storage of information, data, or material in violation of any federal, state, local law, statute, regulation or rule is prohibited. This includes and is no way limited to: copyrighted material, material legally judged to be obscene, threatening, in violation of the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1995, or materials protected by trade secret You are expected to adhere to proper “Netiquette” in e-mail and OTZ Telephone postings. If OTZ Telephone learns of any user activity to the contrary, including but not limiting to “spamming”, accessing OTZ Telephone or any other confidential material without authorization, etc., we will take disciplinary action, which could include termination of services and possible legal action. You are responsible for use of your account(s) and confidentiality of password(s). OTZ Telephone will suspend or change access to your account immediately upon notification by you that a password has been lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised. The benefits or rights conferred are non-transferrable. Use of OTZ Telephone is expressly limited to you and your household or direct employees. Account sharing is strictly prohibited and shall be cause for termination of service. OTZ Telephone respects your privacy and will not deliberately disclose your e-mail, files, and postings to others. Remember those to whom you send email may not keep it secret. If we believe e-mail, files or postings are connected with unlawful activities; OTZ Telephone may disclose the to proper authorities to protect our system, our users and out organization. You have the responsibility to keep OTZ Telephone informed of a current mailing address. Credit Card and bank debit users must keep OTZ Telephone informed of the status and validity of credit card or bank account from which payments are made, including but not limited to cancellation of the credit card account, new expiration date, etc., If your credit or bank card is declined by the bank you will be notified, at which time you must either provide another card number or agree to pay the fee by cash, if you do not respond within (30) days of your billing date OTZ Telephone will suspend your account until all outstanding charges are settled. If charges are not settled by the second billing date after initial notification, your account will be disconnected. Service fees are non-refundable. OTZ Telephone reserves the right to change pricing, terms and conditions at any time without advanced notice to you. Disconnection of service by OTZ Telephone in no way waives your liability for outstanding charges. If we are required to take legal action to collect outstanding charges, OTZ shall be entitled to reasonable attorney fees and costs of litigation. The service is provided by OTZ Telephone “as is” without warranty of any kind. OTZ Telephone shall not be held liable for any delay in or failure to perform the services caused by circumstances. You understand service could be interrupted for several reasons, including but not limited to power interruptions, malfunctions, or maintenance. Scheduled outages outside of the normal maintenance window of 1:00 am to 4:00 am will be publicized. You are hereby warned that some information accessible via OTZ Telephone may be considered objectionable or obscene. OTZ Telephone is not responsible for inadvertent or deliberate access to such information nor can it prevent access to such materials. In addition, OTZ shall have the right, but not be obligated to edit publicly viewable information. Finally, you agree OTZ Telephone shall not be liable to you for any reason except to the extent that it may be required to refund for prepaid future service. You agree that OTZ Telephone shall not be liable to you for any damages, including but not limited to any compensatory, special or punitive damage incurred by you as a result of your use of OTZ Telephone’s system. I understand and agree to be legally bound by the terms and conditions of OTZ Telephone and I will be solely and individually liable and responsible through the use of the user ID assigned to me by OTZ Telephone. Violation of these policies may result in suspension or cancellation of my service without advance notice. My use of OTZ Telephone constitutes my acceptance with these terms and conditions.