Terms and Conditions for Ringus (Pty) Ltd trading as Bell-Us

• help protect our customers and the Internet community from irresponsible, abusive, or illegal activities;
• ensure the provision of a professional service (Service);
• ensure compliance with the relevant laws of the Republic;
• Set out what activities and online behaviour are considered an unacceptable use of the Service;
• protect the integrity of Bell-Us’ network; and
• set out the consequences that may flow from engaging in any prohibited activities.

Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using the Service to:

• Undertake or accomplish any illegal or unlawful activity. This includes, but is not limited to, posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating information, data or material which is libellous, obscene, discriminatory, unlawful, threatening or defamatory, or which infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or which in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local or international law, order or regulation.
• Post, store, send, transmit or disseminate any information or material which a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether this material or its dissemination is unlawful.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any other person’s computer or computer system, software or data without their knowledge and consent, breach the security of another user or attempt to circumvent the user authentication or security of any host, network or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorised to access or probing the security of other hosts, networks or accounts.
• Use or distribute tools designed or used for compromising or circumventing security, such as, but not limited to, password guessing programs, decoders, password gatherers, analysers, cracking tools, packet sniffers, encryption circumvention devices or Trojan Horse programs. Network probing or port scanning tools are only permitted when used in conjunction with a residential home network, or if explicitly authorised by the destination host and/or network. Unauthorised port scanning, for any reason, is strictly prohibited.
• Upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, create derivative works of, or distribute in any way, information, software or other material obtained through the Service or otherwise that is protected by copyright or other proprietary right, without obtaining permission of the owner.
• Service, alter, modify or tamper with the Bell-Us Equipment or Service, or permit any other person, who is not authorised by Bell-Us, to do the same.
• Restrict, inhibit, interfere with or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Bell-Us host, server, backbone network, base station, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation to any Bell-Us facilities used to deliver the Service.
• Use the Bell-Us services in a manner that exceeds the then current bandwidth, data storage or other limitations on the Bell-Us Service or puts an excessive burden on the Bell-Us network.
• Violate the rules, regulations, or policies applicable to any network, server, computer database, or website that you access.
• You may not circumvent user authentication or security of any host, device, or network (referred to as “cracking” or “hacking”), nor interfere with the service to any user, host, device, or network (referred to as “denial of service attacks”). The host, device, network or account shall also not be used for any illegal purpose, including phishing.
• If there is a violation of the Bell-Us system or network security is breached, Bell-Us will take civil and criminal action as appropriate.
• Bell-Us reserves the right to investigate incidents involving such violations and will involve and cooperate with law enforcement officials of the South African Police Services or any other law enforcement officials worldwide if a criminal violation is suspected.

All outbound calls are subject to a limit of 4500 minutes each month (per line). Excess minutes cannot be carried over.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate services, if at any time we deem your usage to exceed normal business use or fair usage limits.

In addition, you may be requested to a per minute surcharge, if your usage exceeds normal business use or our fair usage allowance limits (you are never automatically billed over-usage without your prior knowledge and acceptance).

As a fraud and security measure, calls exceeding 8 hours in length may be subject to disconnection.

Offers and Promotions by Bell-Us are subject to change.

The subject matter of any advertised offers or promotions are the Service(s) as offered in the service description at the time the Service(s) is offered or on promotion. Bell-Us reserves the right to make technical changes to the Service(s) and improvements to the advertised offers within a reasonable scope.

 Bell-Us reserves the right to modify its Service(s) where reasonably required, without notice and may from time to time expand on these Terms and Conditions in Promotional Terms and Conditions. Bell-Us reserves the right to modify, cancel and limit any promotion or offer. We reserve the right to refuse providing offers and/or promotions to particular individuals or organisations at our discretion. No warranties or guarantees are made.