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eircom mobile Acceptable Use Policy

You understand that you are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent by you and that you will be responsible for all activities that take place as a result of access to the services provided by eircom mobile (the “Services”) via your Account (whether authorised by you or not).

You must not use the site situated at www.eircom.ie/mobile (the “Site”), the Services or any of the content on the Site (the “Content”):

  • for any activity that contravenes the laws of Ireland or any other applicable jurisdiction
  • for unlawful or fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
  • to send, receive, forward, upload, download, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, malicious, threatening, racist, indecent, defamatory, derogatory, obscene, menacing, or otherwise objectionable generally or that may cause offence to any person on the grounds of race, creed or sex to gain unauthorised access to the facilities, services or resources of eircom mobile, its host service provider, Meteor Mobile Communications Limited (“Meteor”), or the facilities, services or resources of connected networks
  • to engage in activities which waste the resources (people, networks, computers, financial) of eircom Limited or Meteor
  • to harass, stalk, inconvenience, cause annoyance or needless anxiety to any person, impersonate any other person or act in a way which may reasonably be objectionable or is otherwise injurious to third parties
  • in any way that breaches copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or infringes the intellectual property rights, of any kind whatsoever, of eircom Limited, Meteor or others
  • in any way which infringes the proprietary rights in any software
  • other than for your own private, personal and business use
  • for resale commercially
  • in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the Services or access to the Services to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way
  • in any way that infringes other customers' use and enjoyment of the Services
  • to initiate the sending of unsolicited advertising or promotional material including without limitation junk-mail for commercial or non-commercial reasons
  • to send anything which consists of or contains software viruses, spyware, Trojans or any other file which may be detrimental to the network of eircom mobile, Meteor, or other users of the Services
  • to send anything which could objectively be viewed as political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any SPAM of any kind whatsoever
  • other than in accordance with the acceptable use policies of any connected networks or relevant third party service providers, or any other conditions notified to you prior to your use of the Services.
  • You are also expressly advised that eircom mobile may restrict WAP or internet access to any URL or Content that is illegal or eircom mobile reasonably believes is contrary to this AUP or, where relevant, to the ICIA Code of Practice.

In addition, you shall:

  • not use multiple log-ins for disruptive purposes or in a manner calculated to annoy others
  • not forward, send, transmit or transfer any part of any Content to another person
  • not re-sell, copy or incorporate into any other work part or all of the material available on the Services or the Site in any form save that you may print or download extracts of the material for your personal use only
  • not store, modify, transmit, distribute, broadcast or publish any part of the Content in a way that breaches the provisions of this section
  • comply fully with any additional conditions displayed relating to the use of particular Content or the Services which may apply and comply with all other instructions issued by us from time to time regarding use of the Services and the Content; or
  • not use any automated means, including without limitation, agents, robots, spiders, or scripts to access, monitor or copy any part of the Site except where this is expressly approved of by eircom mobile, in advance, in writing.
  • not without our written consent, save as permitted by law, and shall not permit any other person, to: (a) copy, modify, disassemble, reverse engineer, decompile or in any other way interfere with any software provided as part of the Services; or (b) create any new software partly or wholly based on this software; or (c) transfer, assign or sub-license your right to use the software or attempt to do so.

Indemnity:

You agree to indemnify eircom Limited or Meteor, or any company in the eircom Group and their officers, directors and employees, immediately on demand, against all claims, liability, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of any breach of these terms and conditions by you, or somebody acting with your permission, or any other liabilities arising out of your (or their) use of the Services.

Termination

eircom mobile reserves the right to take such action as it deems appropriate against you if you violate any conditions of this Acceptable Use Policy. In such cases, the Services (including your user name and password, your PIN number, email addresses or other data stored by eircom mobile, may be limited, interrupted or terminated with or without notice to you, the Customer.

eircom mobile reserves the right to modify the above at any time and you are obliged, as a Customer, to remain familiar with the most recent version which is available on www.eircom.ie/mobile or on request from our Customer Care department.

Please note that eircom mobile, if approached with complaints relating to any of the above violations, will cooperate and assist the police, law enforcement and regulatory bodies with their investigations in order to bring such misuse and violations to an end.

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