Send Text Terms of Use at O2

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These terms and conditions set out the rules which apply to your use of the Send Text service (the "Service"). Please ensure that you read these terms and conditions carefully as your use in any way of the Service constitutes your agreement to all terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein. You also agree to be bound by O2's general terms and conditions located at www.o2.co.uk/termsconditions (including the WAP, Web and i-mode terms located at www.o2.co.uk/termsconditions/webwapandimode). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use please do not use this Service.

1. Description of Service and Charges
1. 1.1 Send Text is a service that allows a customer of any UK network (excluding a customer of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator) who has completed the registration of their mobile phone number on www.o2.co.uk to send free SMS over the web to a customer of any UK mobile network.
2. 1.2 You can send 10 free SMS via the Service every calendar month. If you are an O2 Broadband primary user, you can send 100 free SMS via the Service every calendar month.
3. 1.3 You can purchase additional bundles of 30 messages for £1.50 per bundle ("Paid SMS") online via the Send Text page. You will be charged for the additional bundles:
1. if you are an O2 Pay As You Go customer or a prepaid customer of another UK network, by receiving a premium text which will deduct £1.50 from your prepaid credit. You will not be able to purchase Paid SMS unless you have sufficient credit ; or
2. if you are an O2 Pay Monthly customer or a pay monthly customer of another UK network, on your next monthly invoice as a premium text.
4. 1.4 Free SMS which are not used in a calendar month will not be carried over to subsequent months. Unused Paid SMS will not be refunded but will be automatically carried over to subsequent months.
5. 1.5 Each SMS will be a maximum of 160 characters, including the information detailed in clause 1.6. If your message is longer than one SMS, several SMS will be sent and deducted from your balance. The maximum length of your message is the equivalent of three SMS, including the information detailed in clause 1.6.
6. 1.6 Your mobile phone number will appear at the beginning of the first SMS containing your message. All free SMS will include a tagline at the end of the message of no more than 30 characters.
2. No Replies
1. 2.1 The recipient will not be able to reply to SMS sent via the Service.
2. 2.2 If you used the Service prior to 8 July 2007, the replies sent to you before 8 July 2007 are still available in the Inbox section of the Service. We may delete these replies in future upgrades of the Service and we will inform you with reasonable notice of the deletion.
3. Termination
1. O2 reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service in accordance with the WAP, Web and i-mode terms.
4. General
1. 4.1 We will attempt to deliver your SMS for 24 hours only. The receiving mobile phone must be switched on and in network coverage during this period to receive the SMS. We will use our best efforts to deliver your SMS but we do not warrant that the service will be fault-free and available at all times or that your SMS will be delivered, or delivered in a timely manner. In any event, a sent but undelivered or not received SMS will be deducted from the balance of SMS available in that month.
2. 4.2 The Sent Items section will only display the last 10 messages sent via the Service. If you have sent fewer than 10 messages in the last 90 days, the Sent Items section will only display the messages sent in the last 90 days via the Service.
3. 4.3 O2 will not be liable for any loss or charge incurred by you as a result of your access or non-access to the Services or receipt, non-receipt or delay in receipt of any SMS sent via the Services.
4. 4.4 These Terms of Use are governed by English law. Both O2 and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.