BY REGISTERING FOR, DOWNLOADING IN PART OR IN WHOLE, OR USING ANY OF THE VYKE SERVICES YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. The services under these terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) are provided by Vyke Holding
Ltd. In these Terms and Conditions, “Vyke“, “we“, “us“, or “our” means Vyke Holding Ltd and “you” and “your” means you; our Customer. Vyke Holding Ltd is a limited company incorporated in the UK registered under Company No. 09701220 and with
registered office at 27 A Maxwell Road, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2XY England.
The Vyke service will allow you to communicate with other persons including other Vyke service users. Some categories of communications or services may be Vyke Paid Services and require you to purchase credit in order to use them.
3.2.1 seek to copy, data-mine, cache, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise extract data from the Service except as otherwise agreed in these Terms and Conditions;
3.2.2 obtain or claim any ownership in any software (or in any derivation or improvement) connected to the Services;
3.2.3 sublicense the use of the Services to any person; and/or
3.2.4 create, write or develop any derivative software or any other software based on the Services utilising the proprietary and Confidential Information of Vyke or a third party licensor of Vyke.
(b) also determine how Services are presented and delivered to the Device or are otherwise made available to you. We can change the way they are presented, delivered or otherwise made available to you at any time.
(c) from time to time Vyke may, at its own digression, offer various promotions or trials giving free credit or free minutes. Vyke reserves the right to withdraw or amend these promotions or trials at any time without prior
warning, and furthermore expire any unused free credit or free minutes after 30 days unless otherwise stated in the promotion or trial.
5.8.1 After every event on a free Vyke number, you have a further 30 days free rental period for that Vyke number. Free rental periods are not cumulative
5.8.2 At any time you can choose to convert your free Vyke number to a rented Vyke number, providing that number is still live on your account. Once the number has been converted you will pay a rental fee for it from then on,
and for as long as you keep that number.
5.9.2 For any Vyke number where at least one month’s rental has been paid, there will be a grace period of up to 14days after the paid rental period ends, during which your virtual number will not be removed from your account
and the number will continue to work normally. When you renew the rental for this number however, the rental will be backdated to the date on which the previous rental period expired.
5.10.2 You can port an existing UK mobile phone number which you own into the Vyke service. To port a UK number in contact support@vyke.com
. We may charge you a fee when porting a number
into our service. If we do we make this clear on the relevant instruction pages on our website.
(b) because of other factors outside our control, such as poor internet connectivity causing jitter packet loss and poor voice quality, the features or functionality of your Device, regulatory requirements, lack of capacity,
interruptions to services from other suppliers, faults in other communication networks, the weather or radio interference caused by hills, tunnels or other physical obstructions.
8.6.2 maintain and update this information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. Information about a user shall be referred to as “User Data“. If any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current
or incomplete, Vyke has the right to suspend or terminate your account immediately and refuse to provide you with any and all current or future use of any Vyke Service
(b) as laid out in this agreement; and
(c) for your own personal use. This means you must not resell or commercially exploit any of the Services or content and you must not impersonate or create a false identity of any person, including but not limited to a Vyke
Official, forum leader, guide or host.
(a) for fraudulent, criminal or other illegal activity;
(b) in any way which breaches another person’s rights, including copyright or other intellectual property rights;
(c) to copy, store, modify, publish or distribute Services or content (including ringtones), except where we give you permission;
(d) to download, send or upload content of an excessive size, quantity or frequency. We will contact you if your use is excessive;
(e) in any way which breaches any security or other safeguards or in any other way which harms or interferes with our network, the networks or systems of others or Services;
(f) to falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designation or labels of the origin or source of software or other content contained in a file that you upload; and
(g) to use or provide to others any directory or details about customers.
(b) unsolicited bulk or commercial communications or other unauthorised communications, or knowingly send any viruses; or
(c) anything that is obscene, offensive, abusive, defamatory, menacing, harassing, threatening or is unlawful in any other way.
11.2.2 any and all charges incurred by your use of any device in connection with the Vyke Services or otherwise including, but not limited to, a cellular or mobile phone or tablet and
11.2.3 all billing transactions. Billing transactions include sign-up transactions (purchases at the time of sign-up) and purchase transactions (purchases which are made after sign-up). You may pay for all such transactions
via a credit card and/or debit card and other payment methods as on the purchasing pages of our Website. You can also purchase credit from the iTunes website.
(b) you have an active Vyke number which has made or received a call or voicemail or sent or received an SMS or
(c) you have made chargeable calls or sent chargeable SMS from your Vyke number. This means that the actual expiration date will always be 12 months from the date of the most recent successful recharge or use of the Vyke service
as described above.
11.8.2 ALL SALES ARE FINAL. Unless otherwise stated in these Terms and Conditions, Vyke will not issue a refund of any purchase except where required by law;
12.1.2 The Sender Vyke Customer can only transfer up to the total of the remaining balance in his/her Vyke account;
12.1.3 The Recipient Vyke Customer must be in the Sender Vyke Customers contact list;
12.1.4 If the Sender Vyke Customer account is put on hold for security reasons, the account of the Recipient Vyke Customer will also be put on hold temporarily and the credits received will be unavailable to the Recipient Vyke
Customer until the account of Sender Vyke Customer is re-activated;
12.1.5 The amount transferred to the Recipient Vyke Customer is not refundable back to the Sender Vyke Customer’s account by Vyke ;
12.1.6 The Sender Vyke Customer cannot transfer promotional credit
12.1.7 The ‘Transfer Credit’ feature is only available from your Vyke account online or as otherwise stated in writing by Vyke
12.1.8 The Sender must make total payments to Vyke exceeding $10 (or equivalent in local currency) before being allowed to transfer Vyke credit to another Vyke user.
(b) we advise you that your excessive use of Services is causing problems for other users, and you are continuing to use Services excessively;
(c) we believe your Device has been lost or stolen;
(d) we reasonably believe that you have used Services or a phone number for illegal or improper purposes in contravention of our responsible use requirements in Clause 8 above;
(e) we receive a serious complaint against you which we believe to be genuine (for example, if we receive a complaint that you are using Services in any of the ways prohibited in Clauses 8.6 and 8.10);
(f) we are required to suspend your Services by the emergency services or other government authorities; or
(g) we reasonably believe you have permitted your Device to be unlocked via any unauthorised manner;
(h) if we believe you have in any way breached any terms of these Terms and Conditions, any relevant Vyke End User License Agreement or any relevant third party End User License Agreement or our privacy statement.
(b) and our network provider’s entire liability to you for something we do or don’t do will be limited to £3,000 for one claim or a series of related claims; and
(c) we and our network provider are not liable for any loss of income, business or profits, or for any loss or corruption of data in connection with the use of Services. We and our network operator are not liable for any loss
or damage that was not reasonably foreseeable when you entered into the agreement.
(d) we and our network provider are not liable for loss of the use of money or anticipated savings, loss of information, loss of opportunity, goodwill or reputation, cost of procurement of substitute goods or services or any
indirect, special or consequential loss or damage of any kind howsoever arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise or, whether any such losses could be reasonably foreseen
by us or not or if even if Vyke has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
14.5.1 the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of any Materials; and
14.5.2 the acts or omissions of other providers of telecommunications or Internet services or for faults in or failures of their equipment.
14.9.2 your mobile device is not able to receive the Vyke Services; or
14.9.3 your mobile device is out of range or for some reason cannot be contacted
(b) subject to Clause 8.3 we and our network providers do not make any representations as to the accuracy, comprehensiveness, completeness, quality, currency, error-free nature, compatibility, security or fitness for purpose
of Services or their content. They are provided to you on an ‘as is’ basis; and
(c) we and our network providers are not providing you with advice of any kind (including without limitation investment or medical advice). Where Services contain investment information, we do not make invitations or offer
inducements to enter into any investment agreements.
(b) if we or they cannot carry out our duties, or provide Services, because of something beyond our control.
(b) to access content which is branded or provided by others and to acquire goods and services from others. Where we provide you with such access, all we do is transmit the content to you and we do not prepare or exercise control
over the content, goods or services. We and our network providers are not responsible or liable in any way for, and do not endorse, any of this content, goods or services.
15.6.2 Providing or arranging for third parties to provide customer care/help desk facilities and billing you for the Vyke Services (which may involve disclosing your information to third parties solely for those purposes);
15.6.3 To maintain quality and for training purposes, Vyke may monitor and record telephone conversations with you;
15.6.4 To inform you about other Vyke product or services unless you opted out to this during the application process or you notify our customer services in writing at support@vyke.com signifying that you do not wish to receive this information from us.
15.6.5 To disclose all or part of your personal data to a regulator (i.e. Ofcom, the Information Commissioner Office), a court, or to a public body to comply with any regulatory, government or legal requirement’; and
15.6.6 To communicate information that describes the habits or usage patterns and/or demographics of the whole or a part of Vyke’s customer base (including you) but which is anonymous and does not describe or reveal the identity
of any particular customer to any third party.
17.1.2 all liabilities, losses, costs, damages (including legal costs as part of a pre-litigation and settlement process or otherwise), and expenses incurred by Vyke,
17.1.3 because of or arising out of your use of Vyke Services, your connection to Vyke Services, your breach of these Terms and Conditions, or your breach of any right of a third party.