Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law and the terms governing your use of Talk Home's International Calling and Messaging Services. By using Talk Home App, you agree to these terms and conditions. The essential terms of these terms and conditions are:
Credits are valid for 180 days from the time of purchase or the date of your last top up within the 180 days ("Validity Period"). This means that if you top up within 180 days of your previous top up, your Validity Period will re-start from the new date of top up. You can top up your Talk Home App or App as many times as you like. After the Validity Period, you will still be able to access your Talk Home App or App, but you will lose any remaining Credit and you will need to top up to use chargeable services.
Each time you use Talk Home App, the credit on your Talk Home App account and/or the allowance on your Talk Home App bundle will be reduced by the charges incurred, calculated by Talk Home applying and deducting the total of the destination rates and any connection charge that may apply, plus any surcharge as defined below.
All calls using the Talk Home App are charged in one-minute increments, rounded up to the nearest minute.
Some calls have an additional charge referred to as a surcharge which is incurred for specific services (e.g. 0800 access numbers, collect calls, or use of a BT payphone).
Unless otherwise stated, your calling bundle lasts from 7 days to 30 days from activation depending on the denomination, is for non-commercial use only and any unused allowance expires automatically at the end of that period.
Activation is normally on the date on which you purchase the bundle. Your In-App Bundle excludes all calls other than calls made to fixed line geographic numbers and mobile numbers to the stated destination excluding calls to premium, reverse charge, and revenue share numbers.
Calls to any other numbers are charged at our standard rate as set out on our website. Where you use more than when your bundle allowance is consumed you will be charged for your excess use at the standard rate published on our website.
Welcome offers are only applicable to new users who have not made any bundle purchase inside Talk Home App.
Once applied, all welcome offers will be made unavailable to any other destination in the future.
Welcome offers are only valid for a period of 07 days from the date of purchase or the exhaustion of the allowance, whichever comes first.
Upon expiry, welcome offers are automatically transitioned to a £10 global credit subscription. This process is automatic and does not require any configuration. Users can choose to cancel their subscription within the duration that their welcome offer is valid, i.e. 07 days from the date of purchase.
Cancelation after the first 07 days will result in termination of all future renewals and the user will be given their respective allowance for the first month of their monthly subscription – no refunds applicable.
Global Credits is a pay as you go service that lets you call the world at standard calling rates.
To get started is simple. All you do is top-up your account which you can then use to call any phone number in the world.
Global credits never expire, and you can use them to buy a bundle for any country, make calls, or send SMS to any mobile or landline number.
To use the Talk Home App, you must have sufficient credit recorded against your account, to make chargeable calls and messages. Talk Home may impose limits on the total amount of top up credit you may associate with your account during any period.
Your use of the Talk Home App is deducted from your balance in accordance with the then current rates at the time of you making a call or sending a message. If charges are incurred simultaneously, they will be deducted simultaneously.
Top ups may only be used for Talk Home App, and you will not be entitled to receive any cash refund for any remaining credit.
The Talk Home App will display either, £, $, €, currency rates in accordance with the country code you entered during your registration.
Balances can be topped up through an iOS device within the Talk Home App by making a payment with your iTunes account. The Talk Home App will display the iTunes fee prior to making a payment and should the currency displayed differ to your iTunes account currency, then iTunes will apply a conversion rate to all payments made.
Balances can be topped up through an Android device within the Talk Home App or on the Website by making a debit/credit card payment through Talk Home's third-party payment provider and through PayPal.
Talk Home accepts no liability for currency conversions applied through third party payment providers.
It is your responsibility to ensure the security of your access to the Talk Home App. For this reason Talk Home suggest you do not write your access pin or web password or install the App on an unrecognized device that is not secured.
In this occurrence, please call our Customer Services team as soon as possible to block use of your credit.
Where the security of your access to Talk Home App is compromised (such as your mobile phone being lost, stolen or damaged), and your credit is used in an unauthorised manner, Talk Home are not able to provide you with a refund of any credit used in such manner.
If you are unable to confirm that you are the rightful owner of credit on your Talk Home App you may lose any remaining credit. You will also lose any remaining credit after the validity period expires.
You cannot use the Talk Home App for calling premium rate numbers or some non-geographic numbers, for example 090.
We discourage the use of the Talk Home App to make calls to Emergency Services.
If you access the Talk Home App from outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for your own compliance with local law.
Subject to your compliance with these terms and conditions, Talk Home hereby grants you permission to use the Talk Home App, provided that: (i) your use of the service as permitted is solely for your personal use, and you are not permitted to resell or charge others for use of or access to the service, or in any other manner inconsistent with these terms and conditions; (ii) you will not duplicate, transfer, give access to, copy or distribute any part of the service in any medium without Talk Home's prior written authorisation; (iii) you will not attempt to reverse engineer, alter or modify any part of the service; and (iv) you will otherwise comply with the terms and conditions.
In order to access and use the features of the Talk Home App you acknowledge and agree that you will have to provide Talk Home with your mobile phone number. You expressly acknowledge and agree that in order to provide Talk Home App, Talk Home may periodically access your contact list and/or address book on your mobile device to find and keep track of phone numbers of other users of the Talk Home App which will be securely stored on a third party server. When providing your mobile phone number, you must provide accurate and complete information. You hereby give your express consent to Talk Home to access your contact list and/or address book for phone numbers to enhance the Talk Home App.
You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," etc. or "load testers" such as wget, apache bench, Xcode Automator, mswebstress, httpload, blitz, Android Monkey, etc. that accesses the Talk Home App in a manner that sends more request messages to the Talk Home servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a Talk Home application, and you are forbidden from ripping the content unless specifically allowed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Talk Home grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the website for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. Talk Home reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. While Talk Home don't disallow the use of sniffers such as Ethereal, tcpdump or HTTPWatch in general, Talk Home do disallow any efforts to reverse-engineer our system, our protocols, or explore outside the boundaries of the normal requests made by Talk Home clients. Talk Home have to disallow using request modification tools such as fiddler or whisker, or the like or any other such tools activities that are meant to explore or harm, penetrate or test the site. You must secure our permission before you measure, test, health check or otherwise monitor any network equipment, servers or assets hosted on our domain. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including phone number, from the Talk Home App, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Talk Home App for any commercial solicitation or spam purposes. You agree not to spam, or solicit for commercial purposes, any users of the Talk Home App.
When Talk Home provides you with the Talk Home App, Talk Home will use the reasonable skill and care of a competent service provider, but Talk Home cannot guarantee that the Talk Home App will always be fault-free. Some things will be out of our control, for example, Talk Home App are dependent on the network operator which you use to access the Talk Home App.
Your access to the Talk Home App may be occasionally suspended to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. Your access may also be suspended if Talk Home are required to restrict it following instruction from the government, the emergency services or any other competent or lawful authority. In these circumstances, Talk Home will attempt to restore the service to you as soon as Talk Home reasonably can. If there is an unusual use of the Talk Home App, for example, significantly increased traffic indicating fraudulent use, Talk Home may temporarily suspend your use of the Talk Home App to prevent you from incurring excessive or unwanted charges.
You acknowledge and agree that in order to use the App, you require an active connection to the internet and if you fail to have an internet connection you will be unable to use the App to make calls and/or send messages. This is at your own risk and potential additional costs may be chargeable by your network provider.
When using a Wi-Fi connection, your call may be affected by the speed and quality of the Wi-Fi connection at your location.
By installing the App on your phone, you consent to us checking your version of the App, and where applicable, pushing updates of the App to your phone. However, Talk Home have no obligation to make available any such updates and reserve the right to require you to download and install updated versions of the App as a condition of continuing to use Talk Home App.
Talk Home reserves all rights to remove any functionality and services at any time within the App without prior notice.
Nothing in this paragraph shall limit or affect our liability resulting from anything Talk Home provide to you being found to be unsafe or if something Talk Home do negligently causes death or personal injury.
Subject to the above paragraph, if Talk Home are in breach of these terms and conditions, Talk Home will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result and to the extent that they are a directly foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you register to the Talk Home App. Talk Home do not assume any liability for content received from calls made or received by you using the Talk Home App.
You acknowledge that Talk Home are not responsible for providing or maintaining the equipment that you use to access the Talk Home App or the national or international telecommunications networks which your calls travel across.
The App may contain links to other sites which are outside our control and not covered by these terms and conditions. Talk Home are not responsible for the content of those sites nor the use of any personal information you submit to those sites.
The App may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the App complies with relevant laws and codes. Talk Home will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.
You must not use the Talk Home App for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose, to make any communication which is, or is intended to be, malicious, fraudulent or hoax, including to the emergency services, or in any way which may damage or affect the operation of the Talk Home App or any other telecommunications system.
If you do not comply with this paragraph 8, the Talk Home App may be suspended indefinitely and you may be liable to compensate us for all liabilities, claims, damages, losses and costs, including legal costs, which Talk Home may suffer as a result.
From time to time Talk Home may utilise promotional codes to provide special discounts and offers. Promotional codes will always be published with a validity period and restrictions will be specific to the promotion or offer. Promotional codes can only be redeemed once per customer and must be entered at the point of purchase.
All intellectual property, such as any applicable patents, copyright and designs incorporated into the provision of Talk Home App, including the App, and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein, are owned by or licensed to us. No licence, other than for the purposed of your personal consumer use of the Talk Home App, is granted to you in these terms and conditions to use any trade mark of Talk Home or its affiliated companies.
If you provide personal information to us through using the Talk Home App, Talk Home will not share it with anyone outside the Talk Home or sister companies for marketing purposes.
Talk Home will never disclose your information to anyone outside Talk Home and the Talk Home sister companies, except where Talk Home have your consent, where Talk Home are required or permitted to do so by law or, to other companies who provide a service to us.
