Acceptable Usage Policy

All capitalised terms, if not defined here, have the meaning given in your Now Mobile Terms & Conditions

As a Now Mobile customer, you have certain usage obligations. These obligations require your use of our services to be for private, personal, and legitimate consumer purposes.

The Acceptable Usage Policy explains your usage obligations, how to avoid breaching these obligations and what will happen if your usage breaches these obligations and fall outside or the Acceptable Usage Policy.

What is the acceptable usage limit on my plan?

We clearly define acceptable usage limit against each product on our website and dashboard. However, wherever a product mentions an “Unlimited” limit associated with it, note that this acceptable use policy also applies to it.

The following are the limits in place for all “Unlimited” products available on the Now Mobile website:

  1. Data: 200 GB
  2. Minutes: 3,000
  3. SMS: 3,000

What EU countries are covered as part of free roaming?

All our plans offer free EU roaming to the following countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Note: If your UK monthly data allowance is over 25GB, you'll have a Roaming Limit of 25GB when roaming in our Europe Zone.

This means you can use up to 25GB of your allowance at no extra cost – we'll text you if you're getting close to the limit, and again if you reach it.

You can still use data if you reach our Roaming Limit, but you'll be charged at £3.50/GB.

Your Obligations

You must:

  1. Not use the Services for any improper, immoral, fraudulent, or unlawful purposes or for the sending of any communication or storing of any information which is of an offensive, abusive, indecent, obscene, or menacing nature.
  2. Not cause, nor knowingly allow others to cause, any nuisance annoyance or inconvenience whether to Now Mobile or to anybody else. This includes any use of the Services for the persistent sending of unsolicited communications without reasonable cause.
  3. Not act in any way, whether knowingly or otherwise, such that the operation of the Services or the Network or any part of the Services or the Network will be jeopardised or impaired.
  4. Only use a handset that is compatible with the Services and complies with all relevant technical standards, legislation or regulation relating to its use.
  5. Comply with any reasonable instructions issued by Now Mobile which concern your use of the Services and co-operate with Now Mobile’s reasonable security and other checks (which may include Now Mobile making phone calls to you).
  6. Not send or upload anything that is copyright protected (unless you have permission) or which in any way breaches the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  7. Only use the Services for your own personal use and not for any commercial purposes and you must not distribute, re-supply, re-sell or otherwise made the Services available to any other person commercially.
  8. Not to circumvent any age restricted service mechanisms.
  9. Ensure that your SIM Card is kept safe. The SIM Card remains the property of Now Mobile or of the Network Operator.
  10. Not use the Service in conjunction with, or access the Services through, any GSM Gateway or similar device

What happens if your usage falls outside of this policy?

If we reasonably suspect you falling outside of this policy, Now Mobile, or the Network Operator directly, may:

  1. Immediately suspend and/or deactivate your Account,
  2. Change the status of your Account,
  3. Contact you to move you to an alternative tariff/plan
  4. Apply additional charges, for instance via standard rates

This can be due to any of the following circumstances:

  1. SIM Card abuse: Where the integrity of the SIM Card is under threat.
  2. SIM Cards or End-User Equipment causing Network issues: Where your SIM Card or device is interfering with the Network (though any such suspension will be in accordance with the Network’s Operator’s policy in respect of its own customers).
  3. GSM Gateway Abuse: When the Network Operator considers that you have been using a GSM Gateway.
  4. 999 Abuse: Where you abuse the 999 service or any similar emergency services access facility.
  5. Data Abuse: Where the Network Operator detects “denial of service” or other forms of data abuse from your Account.
  6. Service Abuse: Where the use of any plan exceeds the amount reasonably expected of a person using the service for personal purposes.
  7. Network Fraud: Where you are suspected of fraud.
  8. Multiple Usage: Where a user has or is suspected of having multiple plans with allowances over 100GB running during the same time.

If your SIM Card is deactivated, your specific telephone number will be reallocated to another customer, you will not be able to access the services, and you will not be entitled to a refund of any credit balance in your account.

Age Restricted Services

You are not permitted to access age restricted services (if any) if you are below the age specified to access them.

If you are allowed to access the age restricted services by you are the specified age or older you must not show or send content from the age restricted services to anyone below the specified age.

If you let anyone under the specified age, use your handset or SIM Card, you must ensure you deactivate access to the age restricted services.

Risk and title

The Products will be at your risk from the time of delivery.

Ownership of the Products will pass to you on the later of (i) delivery; or (ii) when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Products, including delivery charges (if any).

Price and payment

The price of any Products will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.

These prices include VAT but exclude delivery costs (if any) which will be added to the total amount due.

Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Delivery Email.

Our site contains a number of Products, and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Products listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our dispatch procedures so that, where a Product's correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Product to you. If a Product’s correct price is higher than the price stated on our site, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Product, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.

We are under no obligation to provide the Product to you at the incorrect (lower) price, even after we have sent you a Delivery Email, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mispricing.

Payment for all Products must be by credit or debit card. We accept payments using those methods as are set out on our site from time to time. Please note that some products are pay as you go and some monthly, and that if you set your orders to auto renew or auto top up then they will automatically update until otherwise updated. The same will apply to monthly recurring plan orders.

Dormancy

  1. If, after your SIM Card becomes Active, you do not make a Chargeable Event in any consecutive period of 90 days, then we will Restrict your SIM Card, meaning that you will be unable to make outbound calls nor use data, but you will be able to receive inbound calls, send and receive SMS and USSD will operate. To get us to remove the Restriction you must top-up your Account. If you get the Restriction removed, any credit or Allowances recorded against your Account will again become available to you for use and your SIM Card will be fully Active again.
  2. If, after the date your SIM Card becomes Restricted, you do not get the Restriction removed in the following period of 90 days, then we will Suspend your SIM Card, meaning that you will be unable to make or receive calls, send or receive SMS nor use data but USSD will operate, and you will be able to telephone Customer Services and make Top-Ups. To get us to remove the Suspension you must top-up your Account. If you get the Suspension removed, any credit or Allowances recorded against your Account will again become available to you for use and your SIM Card will be fully Active again.
  3. If, after the date your SIM Card becomes Suspended, you do not get the Suspension removed in the following period of 180 days, then we will Expire your SIM Card, meaning that the SIM Card and your mobile phone number can no longer be used by you, and you will not be entitled to a refund of any unused credit.
  4. However, if you intend to be outside the United Kingdom and so not using your SIM Card for a long period, we may, at our discretion, agree to extend the Suspension of your SIM Card by a further 180 days (and we will not Expire your SIM Card until the end of that second period of 180 days); to request such an extension, you must telephone Customer Services prior to your departure from the United Kingdom and your SIM Card must be Active at that time.

Our refunds policy

When you return a Product to us because you have cancelled the Contract between us within the fourteen-day cooling-off period (see clause 4.1 above), we will process the refund due to you, if applicable, as soon as possible.

Refunds are only applicable for our monthly plans and are only accepted in the first 14 days of subscription. VAT, admin charges, and any usage will be deductible at the time of the refund.

We will refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.

Our liability

We exclude all liability to you in relation to your use of, the Services and their supply by a third party.

Our liability for losses you suffer as a result of us breaking this agreement is strictly limited to the purchase price of the Product you purchased.

This does not include or limit in any way our liability: for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or for any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.

We are not responsible for indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage, including but not limited to: loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data, or waste of management or office time however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable۔

Where you buy any Product from a third-party seller through our site, the seller's individual liability will be set out in the seller's terms and conditions

We are not liable to you for any delay or failure in sending you a Delivery Email where such delay or failure is caused by you not having provided us with your valid email address.

Written communications

Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on our website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information, and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

Notices

All notices given by you to us must be sent to hello@nowmobile.co.uk. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when placing an order, or in any of the ways specified in clause 10 above. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped, and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

Transfer of rights and obligations

The contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns.

You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.

We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.

Events outside our control

We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control ("Force Majeure Event”).

A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation): strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action; civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war; fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic, pandemic or other natural disaster; impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; or the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.

Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavors to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.

Waiver

If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.

A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default. 14.3 No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 11 above.

Severability

If any of these terms and conditions or any provisions of a Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition, or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Entire agreement

These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the whole agreement between us and supersede any previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between us, relating to the subject matter of any Contract.

We each acknowledge that, in entering a Contract, (and the documents referred to in it), neither of us relies on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (“Representation”) of any person (whether a party to that Contract or not) other than as expressly set out in these terms and conditions.

Each of us agrees that the only rights and remedies available to us arising out of or in connection with a Representation shall be for breach of contract as provided in these terms and conditions.

Nothing in this clause shall limit or exclude any liability for fraud.

Our right to vary these terms and conditions

We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities.We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities.

You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order products from us, unless any change to those policies or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions before we send you the Delivery Email (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the Products).

Law and jurisdiction

Contracts for the purchase of Products through our site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by English law. Any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with such Contracts or their formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.