PUTTI MEMBERSHIP USER TERMS
A. How do these terms of use work?
By creating a PUTTI account you are able to connect or subscribe to a wide range of applications and services provided by third party organisations on the PUTTI platforms. These terms of use (together with any terms and conditions of third party application and/or service providers using the PUTTI platform) therefore apply to your access to (including any account signed up to) the PUTTI platform and use of PUTTI or applications or services powered by, or which leverage the PUTTI platforms, and information received through, uploaded to, or retained in, PUTTI.
We use the phrase "these terms" to cover all of these terms and conditions and any changes to them. Please read these terms carefully before you start using PUTTI. By accessing and using PUTTI you agree to be bound by these terms. If you don't accept them, you should not access and use PUTTI.
We may change the functionality of PUTTI, including these terms, at any time by posting changes online. Your continuing use of PUTTI will mean that you agree to those changes.
Please note that additional terms may apply to specific services or applications provided through PUTTI. If PUTTI links to any additional terms as well as these terms for a particular service or application, you must read these terms and the additional terms together.
In these terms:
"PUTTI" means our online digital platforms.
"PUTTI account" means the PUTTI digital account for a particular individual that extends across the PUTTI platform and account enabled applications
"PUTTI website" means our website www.puttiapps.com
"payment source" means any bank account and/or credit/debit card that you add to your PUTTI account settings from which you will pay invoices received in your PUTTI account .
"provider" means a party which has entered into an agreement with us for to provide a service or application using PUTTI or for the use of PUTTI to enable you to use or access that party's services.
"User Payment Acknowledgments" means the acknowledgements you are required to make when you seek to use payment services.
"you" means the individual accessing and using PUTTI and "your" has a corresponding meaning.
"We" means APP LA CARTE LIMITED (trading as PUTTI), its related companies, successors and assignees. "Our" and "us" have a corresponding meaning.
A. Making payments through PUTTI
Where you use PUTTI to add a payment source and/or to pay an invoice, the User Payment Acknowledgements will apply.
B. Uploading and storing content in PUTTI
PUTTI enables you to upload and store content in your PUTTI account, including for the purpose of making copies of those documents available to third parties with your consent.
You agree that when you use PUTTI to upload and store content
- you own or you have the rights to upload and store those documents and content in PUTTI;
- all documents and content that you upload and store in PUTTI do not infringe anyone else's intellectual property or privacy rights and are not illegal, defamatory, discriminatory, offensive, obscene or otherwise illegal; and
- you will use the upload and storage functions of PUTTI solely for your personal use and you will not share the documents and content that you have uploaded with a third party through PUTTI, other than in relation to a feature or service that we expressly make available through PUTTI.
C. General terms
Your use of PUTTI
The functionality of PUTTI is provided for your convenience only and you use PUTTI at your own risk.
Your obligations
You agree that when you access and use PUTTI you will:
- comply with these terms;
- comply with all applicable laws and regulations;
- comply with our requirements and instructions around correct use of PUTTI, as set out in the PUTTI website or otherwise notified to you by us from time to time;
- not use PUTTI in a manner that infringes the rights of anyone else, or that restricts or inhibits their use of PUTTI;
- not use PUTTI for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
- not damage, interfere or harm PUTTI, or any website, network or system underlying or connected to PUTTI, or attempt to do so;
- not introduce any content or code to PUTTI or the PUTTI services, platforms, websites or applications which is technologically harmful;
- not use a robot, spider, scraper or other unauthorised automated means in relation to PUTTI or any information featured on PUTTI for any purpose;
- not use PUTTI to transmit any communication (other than those communications permitted by PUTTI);
Termination of an account
You reserve the right to terminate your PUTTI account
We reserve the right to terminate your PUTTI account immediately on written notice to you, or at a date specified in that written notice, if:
- we believe you have breached any of these terms; or
- we no longer intend to provide our PUTTI service.
Where we or you have terminated your PUTTI account, from the effective date of termination:
- you will no longer have access to your PUTTI account or to any of the contents of that account; and
Any third party application who uses the PUTTI account for authentication also has the right to remove you as a subscriber to their application.
Intellectual property rights
We own all copyright and other intellectual property rights in:
- PUTTI and the PUTTI services and applications and all content therein, other than the content that PUTTI administrators upload into PUTTI and any content that you have uploaded and stored on PUTTI; and
- all data generated through PUTTI including through your use of PUTTI.
You agree that you will not do anything that is inconsistent with or adversely affects our intellectual property rights.
Your Privacy
We will collect personal information about you (including from providers) when you sign-up to PUTTI and as you access and use the applications on the PUTTI platform.
- you sign up to PUTTI;
- you subscribe to applications using PUTTI;
- you add a payment source;
- items are sent to you and received by you through PUTTI;
- you use PUTTI to use or access a provider's services;
- you upload documents or other content to your PUTTI account; and
- you otherwise use our PUTTI service.
In each case, we will only use this personal information for the purpose (or purposes) for which it was collected. This includes:
- verifying any address you have associated with your PUTTI account and providing verified address services to you;
- allowing for the verification of any bank account or credit card you have added as a payment source;
- providing information to providers as necessary for you to use or access a provider's services (including copies of documents and content that you have uploaded to your PUTTI account for the express purpose of using or accessing that provider's services);
- reporting to providers so that they have visibility of which of their customers have subscribed through PUTTI;
- the administration of PUTTI and providing our services or the services of applications you have subscribed to; and
- improving our PUTTI service and user experience, including through undertaking surveys in that regard.
We may also collect personal information for a purpose required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law.
We will keep any personal information you provide secure and will not disclose it to any other parties without your prior consent. We may, however, need to disclose personal information such as your name, address, authentication factor and any other relevant user preferences to an application or third party to enable them to provide a service you have requested or subscribed to.
We will also disclose personal information as required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law. If we consider that you have breached these terms or any applicable law we may provide your personal information as we see fit to enable us or any third party to take court proceedings, enforce or apply our terms, or to protect any party's rights, property or safety.
We may use and share with other third parties aggregated, anonymous information regarding PUTTI usage and trends for data analytics purposes. This information will not be able to be linked back to you.
If you want to check or correct information that we hold about you, please write to us at support@puttiapps.com
Security
Information transmitted over the internet is inherently insecure. However, we have physical, electronic and managerial processes in place to protect the information we collect through PUTTI. Items are passed through a secure server utilising encryption technology. All information in your PUTTI account is encrypted and protected through secure passwords, user log-ons and other security procedures.
Items in your PUTTI account will be stored securely.
You agree that you will not use a password that is easily guessed or relates to your easily identifiable personal information. This includes passwords that are comprised of birth dates, telephone numbers and sequential numbers.
You agree that you will not divulge your password to another person or store your password in electronic or written format.
Our liability
You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable to you or any third party for:
- any failure to provide access to PUTTI;
- any content specific to third party applications or services on the PUTTI platform
- any content which a provider sends you;
- any services that a provider provides;
- any content accessed through hyperlinks in a provider's item;
- any content which you upload and store in PUTTI.
We are not the agent of any provider who sends you items through PUTTI. We have no responsibility for any dealing or transaction between you and any provider, or for the provision of products or services by that provider. Other than in relation to any queries concerning bill payment services accessed through PUTTI, you must deal with any provider directly to resolve any issues arising in relation to your account with that provider or in relation to the provider's products or services.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage (direct or otherwise) you suffer in connection with your use of PUTTI, the PUTTI platforms, website, applications or any linked website, or your use of, or reliance on, content contained in or accessed through PUTTI (including the content of any item) or contained on or accessed through any linked website or service. We exclude any condition or warranty that could be implied into these terms (but only to the extent that this is allowed by law).
Your liability
You agree to indemnify us from and against all costs, claims damages or losses of any kind arising from any breach by you of these terms.
Governing law
Your use of PUTTI is governed by the laws of New Zealand. When you access and use PUTTI, you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.
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