The concepts and terms summarised in this section apply to all Home and Family products and services.
Disclosure of personal information to certain third parties
Our Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use, store, disclose and handle your personal information.
In particular, you should be aware that:
- if we use a third-party service provider to provide a service to you, we may disclose your personal information to that third-party service provider for the purpose of providing the relevant service to you; and
- if we provide you with an nbn service or any services related to an nbn service or to the nbn network, we may disclose information about you to NBN Co.
Responsibility for any use of a service
You are responsible and have to pay for any use of your service, whether you authorise it or not. Additionally, if you do not disconnect your service when you leave your premises, you will still have to pay for any use of the service by later occupants or any other person.
Device and equipment ownership
We retain title and ownership of any device, hardware, accessory or equipment you purchase from us until you have paid us in full for that device, hardware, accessory or equipment. For example, if you are paying for a device in multiple instalments over a 24-month period, you do not own that device until you have paid the total price for that device.
We may update Our Customer Terms or your service from time to time
From time to time, we may change Our Customer Terms or your service (including changing the pricing, features and inclusions for your service – or moving you to a new service if your existing or previous service is no longer available). Generally speaking, if the change is likely to benefit you or to have a neutral impact on you, we will not inform you of the change. In other circumstances, we will inform you of the change in advance.
However, if you are a Small Business customer and have a service with us on a fixed term contract, we will not change the charges for that service during the relevant fixed term without your consent, except for third-party charges that we choose or are required to pass-through to you, which we can change as set out in the previous paragraph.
Please refer to Our Customer Terms (including the General Terms that apply to you and the section of Our Customer Terms that apply to your service) for more details.
Renewal of your service
Unless specified otherwise in the relevant section of Our Customer Terms or in your separate agreement with us, your service will renew and continue on a month-to-month basis at the end of its fixed or minimum term.
Early termination charges for fixed-term contracts
Unless otherwise set out in Our Customer Terms, if your service is provided on a fixed-term basis (e.g. 12 months or 24 months) and it is cancelled (in whole or in part) before the end of its fixed term for any reason other than our material breach (including, for example, if you move to a different service or downgrade ore reduce the scope of your service), we may charge you an early termination charge. The applicable early termination charge (if any) is set out in the relevant Critical Information Summary (if any) or section of Our Customer Terms for your service. We will not charge you an early termination charge if we terminate your service without cause.
Device and equipment repayment
If you purchase any device, accessory, hardware or equipment from us via any payment or repayment plan or option (such as any Mobile Repayment Option, Accessory Repayment Option, Device Purchase Plan or Device Payment Contract) and either it or the service to which it is associated is cancelled, you will be required to pay the remainder of the applicable price for the relevant device, accessory, hardware or equipment.
Failure to return equipment
If you are required to return any device, equipment, hardware or accessory to us and you fail to return it to us when required, we may either, as applicable and as set out in the section of Our Customer Terms for your service:
- charge you a non-return fee to replace the relevant device, equipment, hardware or accessory; or
- enter your premises to re-take possession of the relevant device, equipment, hardware or accessory, in which case you must pay us any reasonable expenses we incur as a result of re-taking possession of the relevant device, equipment, hardware or accessory.
Please refer to the section(s) of Our Customer Terms that apply to your service(s) for more details.
Migration to the NBN
If we decide or are required to transfer your service to the NBN, we may, by giving you prior reasonable notice, either transfer you to an alternative service provided on the NBN (and cancel your existing service) or cancel your existing service, in which case we will not charge you an early termination charge.
Termination for unusual or excessive use
We can cancel your service at any time if it is used in an excessive or unusual way.
Services may not be continuous or fault free
We will use due care and skill in providing our services but, in particular due to the nature of telecommunications systems (including our services’ reliance on systems and services that we do not own or control), we cannot promise that our services will be continuous or fault-free.
Our liability to you may be limited or excluded
Depending on the circumstances and subject to any right you may have under the Australian Consumer Law, our liability to you may be limited or excluded entirely (and we may disclaim or exclude specific guarantees, warranties or liabilities) in relation to your agreement with us and your service (or certain aspects of your service), as set out in the relevant section(s) of Our Customer Terms.
For more details on how we limit or exclude our liability to you, please refer to:
• if you are a Small Business customer, the General Terms for Small Business section of Our Customer Terms; or
• if you are a Corporate customer, the General Terms for Corporate Customers section of Our Customer terms,
as well as the relevant section of Our Customer Terms that apply to you your service(s).
NBN Co’s liability to you
Unless specified otherwise in the section of Our Customer Terms that apply to your services, if we provide you with an nbn service then to the extent permitted by law and subject to any non-excludable rights you may have under consumer protection laws, NBN Co is not liable for any loss or damage in connection with the nbn services.