Master Terms of Use
These Master Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the MyComms service and any additional products or services that we deliver from time to time, including but not limited to, all associated websites, content, firmware, devices, software applications, API’s, products and services (together, the Services).
The Services are provided to you by Communications Spectrum Pty Ltd (ACN 676 037 979) (“MyComms”, “we”, “us” or “our”). You must accept these Master Terms of Use to create a MyComms account and to access or use the Services. If you do not have an account, you accept these Master Terms of Use by using any part of the Services. If you do not accept these Master Term of Use, do not create an account or use the Services.
If you have any questions about these Master Terms of Use, you can contact us at info@commspec.co.
- Introduction
By creating a MyComms account (User Account), registering for or accessing our Services, or completing the steps for sign-up, you agree to be bound by:
- these Master Terms of Use;
- our Privacy Policy available at https://commspec.co/privacy-policy;
- any applicable laws and regulations; and
- any reasonable direction by us, including those required by law,
(together, your Agreement). Your participation constitutes a binding agreement between you and us on the terms of this Agreement.
If any document that is part of your Agreement (as listed in clause 1.1) contains a term that is inconsistent with a term in another document, the relevant these Master Terms of Use shall prevail. The only exception is where a term explicitly states that it applies regardless of any other parts of these Master Terms of Use.
Your Agreement does not have a minimum term unless explicitly stated and continues until it is terminated or not renewed in accordance with these Master Terms of Use.
- Responsibility for persons you allow to use the Services
You agree that you are responsible for:
- your use of the Services; and
- any other person to whom you grant access to your Services (including the use of your User Account), including persons under 18 years of age (Minor) or individuals with disability or reduced decision-making capacity.
- Policies
From time to time we may publish policies applicable to the Services at https://commspec.co/. You must comply with all policies applicable to the Services.
- Use of the Services
- User Account Eligibility
To create a User Account, you must:
- be at least 18 years old; and
- sign-up on our mobile app or any other channel we make available to you by providing your full name, date of birth, email address, and any other information as requested.
- Using the Service
By creating a User Account, you:
- must maintain confidentiality of all login details;
- must immediately notify us of any suspected or actual unauthorised access to your User Account;
- are responsible for maintaining and updating the accuracy of the information you provide to us relating to your User Account, including but not limited to your nominated payment method information; and
- are responsible for ensuring that any device you use is capable of using the Services you have purchased.
Your use of the Services is subject to fair usage restrictions. We may disable or downgrade features within the Services at our sole discretion (acting reasonably).
- Supported User profiles
A User Account allows you to create up to one (1) additional profile for someone that will also use the Services under your User Account (“Supported User”) by providing their name, date of birth, and any other information as requested.
A Supported User may include a Minor or individual with disabilities, or any other person for whom you create a profile.
Where you create a Supported User profile for a Minor, you must ensure that their use of the Services is authorised by a parent or legal guardian. You must not create a profile for a Minor unless their parent or legal guardian:
- has reviewed and consented to these Master Terms of Use;
- has consented to the collection, use and handling of the minor’s personal information and sensitive information as described in our Privacy Policy;
- has confirmed they will exercise supervision over the Minor’s use of the Services; and
- has confirmed they will assume all obligations and liabilities of the Minor as a user of the Services under these Master Terms of Use.
- Creator and Play Mode
A User Account provides different permission levels for Supported Users, including “Creator Mode” and “Play Mode”. A User Account holder is responsible for choosing the appropriate mode for the Supported User.
Creator Mode provides full access to the functionality of the Services, including the ability to create, edit, delete, and manage a Supported User and visual supports.
Play Mode provides a simplified and restricted interface intended for a Supported User. Play Mode limits access to editing tools and other features of the Services and allows access only to pre-existing visual supports created in Creator Mode or provided by us and our licensors.
- User Content
When using your User Account, you and any Supported User who has been granted access to Creator Mode may upload, create or input content, including images, photos, videos, text, audio, symbols, schedules, tasks, templates, visual supports, and any other material added, generated or submitted through your User Account (User Content).
The Account Holder is responsible for all User Content uploaded, created or submitted through their User Account, including User Content uploaded or created by a Supported User.
User Content remains your responsibility at all times and must comply with this Agreement and all applicable laws.
- Restrictions on use of the Services
You must not use or attempt to use the Services to:
- infringe or interfere with the legal rights, privacy or safety of any other person;
- upload, create, share, distribute or provide any materials (including within User Content) which is illegal, unlawful, contains protected information, discriminatory, defamatory, obscene, harmful, threatening, harassing, racially or ethically offensive, infringes upon the rights of any party, or is otherwise prohibited by these Master Terms of Use;
- affect the Services’ reliability, security or effectiveness or modify or merge the Services with any other software;
- expose us or any of our suppliers to liability (other than the obligation to supply the Services to you in accordance with this Agreement);
- resell, distribute or reproduce any part of the Services;
- enable children to access material inappropriate for a Minor or to establish (or try to establish) contact with a Minor you do not have permission to contact or not otherwise known to you;
- engage in fraud, misleading or deceptive behaviour, or hide or attempt to hide your identity;
- access any unauthorised part of the Services;
- scrape, harvest or data-mine any content or information from the Services; or
- send unsolicited offers or marketing through User Content.
- Third Party Content and Features
The Services may include or make available visual supports, templates, tools, features, technologies or other materials that are created, supplied or licensed by third party suppliers and service providers (Third Party Content). Third Party Content may include content developed by therapists, behaviour support practitioners, researchers, licensors or other external contributors.
Except to the extent that a third party provider expressly provides a warranty to you, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees in relation to any Third Party Content, and we are not liable for its accuracy, completeness, suitability, reliability, availability or performance.
- Payment
- Fees
By creating a User Account and accepting these Master Terms of Use, you agree that we have the right to charge and collect payment for the Services (Fees). All Fees will be stated to you at the time of purchase and may be updated from time to time in accordance with clause 5.1. To maintain use of the Service, you must make payment of all Fees owed by you.
We may change the price of our Service from time to time; however, any price will apply to you no earlier than 30 days following notice to you. You can manage your account and cancel your Services before the next renewal cycle via the settings by which you subscribed (e.g. Google Play or Android Stores)
Unless otherwise specified, the Fees are shown in Australian dollars (AUD) and are inclusive of GST.
- Billing and Payment Method
If your Service is subject to renewal and includes an auto-renewal feature. You also agree that we have the right to charge and collect payment of applicable Fees on a recurring basis at the applicable renewal rate, unless you cancel your Services in accordance with the cancellation terms set out in clause 12.2.
Fees are billed through third-party platforms such as App Store or Google Play (App Store). By purchasing the Services, you authorise the applicable App Store and payment processors to receive, store, and encrypt your payment information. You may change your payment method, or cancel your Services, through your corresponding App Store.
You acknowledge that any payment of Fees are also subject to the terms and conditions specified by the App Store, as the payment collector. We do not process or store your payment details.
- Changing the Agreement
Except for the changes described in clause 5.2, we will give you at least 30 days’ written notice via email before we make a change that may adversely affect you or that could interfere with your enjoyment of the Service.
If you do not agree to a change made to your Agreement, you may elect to cancel your Service.
Examples of where we will notify you of a change include where we increase the Fees of your Services.
We may make changes to this Agreement without first notifying you if those changes are:
- beneficial or neutral changes, or changes that will not interfere with your enjoyment of the Service; or
- changes permitted by law where we are required to, or reasonably consider it fair to, make such a change.
- Free Trial
From time to time, we may offer a trial period for new User Accounts (Trial). Trials may be offered free of charge or at a reduced Fee. The length and specific terms of any Trial will be disclosed at the time it is made available. By accessing the Services during a Trial, you acknowledge that you are bound by the Agreement.
If a Trial is offered to you, you are eligible for one Trial only. You may not register for, or attempt to register for, multiple or consecutive Trials.
To commence a Trial, you must provide valid payment details via your App Store. Unless you cancel before the end of the Trial period, your Trial will automatically convert into a fully paid version of the relevant Services, and we will charge your nominated payment method for the applicable Fees in accordance with this Agreement.
In the event you come into possession of any information of whatever kind that by its nature is confidential, has been designated as confidential or you ought reasonably to know is confidential (Confidential Information), you must immediately notify us of your receipt of such Confidential Information and, unless otherwise agreed, destroy such Confidential Information.
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Rights
The Services, and all materials contained within or generated by the Services, are protected by our or our suppliers intellectual property rights, including software, code, templates, visual supports, images, icons, designs, graphics, text, data, trade marks, and other intellectual property (Intellectual Property).
Nothing in these Master Terms of Use transfers ownership of Intellectual Property to you or grants you any right to use, copy, reproduce, share, sell, license, distribute or otherwise exploit any part of the Intellectual Property unless expressly permitted under these Master Terms of Use or with our prior written consent. Prohibited actions include, but are not limited to, framing, linking, or reposting such material.
You agree to indemnify us and our suppliers against any losses or legal costs resulting from your breach of this clause, except where such loss is caused by our or our suppliers’ gross negligence, fraud, or wilful misconduct.
If you become aware of any unauthorized use of such material, you must notify us immediately.
- Licence to Use Services
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use the Services and Intellectual Property strictly in accordance with these Master Terms of Use, and:
- for your own ordinary personal and non-commercial use; or
- where you are permitted to use the Services professionally, for use in the course of your legitimate professional activities.
- User Content
You retain ownership of User Content created solely by you and any intellectual property rights contained therein.
You warrant that you have all necessary rights, permissions and consents to upload or submit User Content, and that the upload of the User Content will not infringe on any third party’s intellectual property rights.
By uploading, creating, or submitting User Content through your User Account, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to:
- host, store, use, reproduce, modify, display, communicate and otherwise handle User Content for the purpose of providing, operating and improving the Services;
- generate previews, exports or derivative outputs (such as PDFs or images) for your use within the Services; and
- use de-identified or aggregated information derived from User Content for analytics, service improvement or feature development.
This licence continues for as long as your User Content is stored within or used in connection with the Services.
All User Content jointly developed, or contributed to by you, will immediately vest in us upon creation. Any materials we create from the User Content will be owned by us.
- Warranties
- Mutual Warranties
Each party represents and warrant that:
- it has the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Master Terms of Use;
- where you have been approved to use the Services for legitimate professional use, you
- hold and will maintain all necessary authorisations, licenses, approvals, permits and other permissions (of whatever nature) required to operate in the industry of your respective professional services; and
- must give effect and maintain appropriate insurance policies, including insurance coverage for cyber-attack, workers compensation, public liability and professional indemnity, containing terms, limits and coverage that aligns with industry best practice and which would be reasonably expected of a prudent operator in each party’s respective industry;
- your use or receipt of the Services, or any User Content you upload in your use of the Services, does not and will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party;
- you have not relied on any representation made by us which has not been expressly stated in these Master Terms of Use;
- any Supported User (or their parents, guardians, or authorised representatives) has been provided with a copy of, and agrees to be bound by, these Master Terms of Use,
- where you have been approved to use the Services for legitimate professional use, you
and you acknowledge that we have relied on the above representations and warranties in agreeing to provide the Services to you in accordance with these Master Terms of Use.
- Exclusion of warranties
You agree that:
- the Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and without warranties of any kind either express or implied;
- we do not warrant that the functions, information, insights, data (whether raw or manipulated and whether collected or provided by us or any other person), or analysis which form part of the Services will be complete, accurate, meet your needs or expectations, be fit for your purpose, or that the operation of the Services will be uninterrupted or free from errors or viruses;
- the Services do not constitute medical, clinical, therapeutic or professional advice. The Services are not a substitute for professional diagnosis, treatment or assessment, and you must seek advice from qualified healthcare providers for any medical, behavioural and communication concerns;
- to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for:
- User Content or other material created or displayed through the Services, including miscommunications or unintended outcomes resulting from visual supports;
- the completeness, accuracy or reliability of any third-party information or content accessible via the Services; or
- interruptions, delays or faults caused by third-party systems, networks, integrations or circumstances outside our reasonable control;
- to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all express or implied representations and warranties (whether relating to fitness for purpose or performance, or otherwise) not expressly stated in these Master Terms of Use are excluded; and
- where any law implies a condition, warranty or guarantee which may not lawfully be excluded, then, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our liability for breach of that non-excludable condition, warranty, or guarantee will, at our option, be limited to the supply of the services again or payment of the cost of re-supply of the Services.
- Consumer rights
Your Agreement never operates to exclude or modify the applicable local consumer law that applies in your jurisdiction (where they apply) or to limit your remedies for breach of them in a way that is not permitted by law.
- Liability
- Liability generally
- Except where we are liable to you under these Master Terms of Use or under applicable law, we exclude, to the maximum extent permitted under law, all liability arising under or in connection with this Agreement, and any applicable Service whether direct, indirect or consequential and whether arising under common law, statute or otherwise, and whether or not of a kind of which we are or should be on notice.
- Each party’s liability under or in connection with these Master Terms of Use is proportionate to the extent to which that party contributed to the relevant liability.
- Nothing under these Master Terms of Use limits either party’s liability to the other in connection with:
- the party’s indemnification or confidentiality obligations under these Master Terms of Use; or
- the fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of that party.
- Limitation of Liability
- Liability generally
Subject to clause 10.1, each party’s maximum aggregate liability to the other party arising out of these Master Terms of Use will not exceed the Fees actually paid by you to us under these Master Terms of Use in the 12 months immediately preceding the first event or circumstance which gave rise to the relevant liability.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us (including our employees, independent contractors, agents, and/or permitted subcontractors) harmless (and must pay and compensate on demand) from and against all damage, claims (including third party claims), demands, suits, causes of action, awards, judgments and liabilities, including the cost of defending or settling any claims, demands, suits, causes of action, awards, judgments and liabilities (collectively, Claims) arising out of or alleged to have arisen out of:
- your fraud, negligence or wilful misconduct;
- your use of the Services, including but not limited to any actual or alleged infringement, misappropriation, or violation of any intellectual property rights of a third party;
- a breach of a provision of these Master Terms of Use by you or a Supported User (including a breach of a representation or warranty given by you under clause 8.1); and
- our acting in accordance with these Master Terms of Use or otherwise making any decision in good faith in relation the provision of any Services,
provided that any amount payable by you to us pursuant to this indemnity must be reduced by an amount that represents the extent to which the Claims are caused by the gross negligence, fraud, misconduct, or breach of these Master Terms of Use by us.
Unless otherwise expressly agreed in these Master Terms of Use, we will only indemnify, defend, and hold you harmless from and against any third-party Claims to the extent the Claims are due solely to our fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
- Termination
- When we may suspend or cancel the Services
Without limiting other rights, we may suspend or cancel your Services without prior notice if:
- you breach clause 2 above;
- you breach any other clause of the Agreement, and the breach is likely to cause serious or permanent harm to any person (including us or our suppliers);
- you intimidate, abuse, insult, harass or threaten any staff member, or those of our partners or suppliers by any means;
- you make frivolous complaints; or
- you breach any other clause of this Agreement which is not capable of remedy, or which is capable of remedy and is not remedied within 5 business days of our written request that you do so.
You can cancel the Services through your subscriptions in the App Store. You will continue to have access to the Services until the end of the billing period.
For Services that auto-renew, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date. If you cancel the Services within 24 hours of auto-renewal or after we have started providing the Services to you, we won’t refund any Fees you have already paid to us.
- Terminating this Agreement
Termination means that this Agreement, or the specific Service under it, comes to an end and only occurs once all obligations under these Master Terms of Use have been met, or the obligation is waived in writing by the party owed the obligation.
You may terminate one or more Services without affecting any other active Services, unless expressly requested by you to terminate all Services. We may terminate one or more of your Services at our discretion within 30 days’ written notice via email. The termination of a specific Service does not automatically terminate your other active Services unless stated otherwise.
Once a Service is terminated, you will not be able to use that Service and the associated User Account may also be closed.
If you wish to dispute any aspect of the Services (including billing), or if you wish to make a complaint about any aspect of the Services, you can do so by emailing us at info@commspec.co.
We will use best endeavours to resolve your dispute or complaint. However, if you are not satisfied with how we handle your dispute or complaint, you may refer the dispute or complaint to external parties, such as:
- your local fair trading or consumer affairs authority; or
- the relevant data protection or privacy authority in your jurisdiction.
- General
- Novation and assignment
You agree that we may assign all or part of our rights under these Master Terms of Use to any party at any time, provided we give you 30 days’ prior written notice.
You agree and give your consent that this agreement may be novated (that is MyComms will be replaced as a party to this agreement by another party) to any other party by either us or the party to whom this agreement will be novated giving notice to you, provided that the novation is on terms no less favourable to you than the terms of this agreement immediately before the novation.
You cannot assign or novate all or part of your rights and obligations under this agreement (other than in accordance with this paragraph), unless we provide our consent in writing (which will not be unreasonably withheld).
- Force Majeure
A party is excused from performance of an obligation under these Master Terms of Use (other than payment) while prevented by Force Majeure (an act of God or other cause beyond reasonable control) if it notifies the other party and uses reasonable efforts to mitigate. That party’s obligations resume once the Force Majeure ceases.
- Entire agreement
To the extent permitted by law, this Agreement embodies the entire agreement of the parties in relation to its subject matter and supersedes any and all prior agreements, understandings, representations and undertakings, whether oral or in writing.
- Severance
If any provision or part of a provision of these Master Terms of Use is held or found to be void, invalid or otherwise unenforceable (whether in respect of a particular party or generally), it will be deemed to be severed to the extent that it is void or to the extent of voidability, invalidity or unenforceability, but the remainder of that provision will remain in full force and effect.
- Waivers
Without limiting any other provision of these Master Terms of Use, the parties agree that:
- Failure to exercise or enforce, or a delay in exercising or enforcing, or the partial exercise or enforcement of, a right, power or remedy provided by law or under these Master Terms of Use by a party does not preclude, or operate as a waiver of, the exercise or enforcement, or further exercise or enforcement, of that or any other right, power or remedy provided by law or under these Master Terms of Use;
- a waiver given by a party under these Master Terms of Use is only effective and binding on that party if it is given or confirmed in writing by that party; and
- no waiver of a breach of a term of these Master Terms of Use operates as a waiver of another breach of that term or of a breach of any other term these Master Terms of Use.
- Survival
Any term or condition which is expressed to survive the expiration or termination of these Master Terms of Use will survive any expiration or termination of these Master Terms of Use, including but not limited to clauses 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
- Governing law and jurisdiction
These Master Terms of Use are governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia. Each party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts having jurisdiction in that state.