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We’ve updated our terms and conditions (as of 17th December 2020)
What we have updated:
- We’ve updated the description of our broadband plans to differentiate wireless broadband plans and fixed-line broadband plans.
- We’ve introduced a new wireless broadband plan
GENERAL TERMS
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Our agreement
- If you have a Skinny Prepaid connection that operates on our Network then you are a Skinny customer and you need to read these Customer Terms and the Services Terms (below) (together, the Skinny Prepaid Agreement or agreement) which together govern our contractual relationship with you for the provision of Skinny Prepaid Services on our Network.
- This agreement applies from 6 May 2020, and replaces the earlier 29 May 2019 version.
- Depending on what Skinny Prepaid Services you choose to use of ours, you will also be bound by the specific terms and conditions published on the Skinny Website relating to your Prepaid Plan and any specific terms and conditions relating to the Services you use, like mobile data services. For example, the Endless Mobile Plan Terms set out below. If there is any conflict or inconsistency between:
(a) the terms and conditions set out in this agreement; and
(b) the terms and conditions relating to your Prepaid Plan or the specific terms and conditions relating to the Services you use, then the terms and conditions relating to your Prepaid Plan or the specific terms and conditions relating to the Services you use will prevail over the terms and conditions of this agreement.
- From time to time, we may need to make changes to this agreement, the Services and/or Charges, and any such changes will be made and notified to you in accordance with clause 13 below. The latest version of this Agreement will always be published on our website.
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Interpretation
This agreement contains various words and expressions that have defined meanings. These defined words and expressions have the meanings set out below:
"Additional Services" means optional services offered by us in connection with the Skinny Prepaid Services (such as data, SMS, Roaming, and Video Calling) which may incur a fixed recurring Charge and/or other standard or casual Charges. You can find more information about these services, including which ones are available to you and the Charges for using them, on the Skinny Website. “Charges" means charges for access to and use of the Services.
"Content" means information, images and sounds, communications, software, application or any other material made available through the Services and includes wireless data and internet content.
"LMNP Terms" means the Terms for Local and Mobile Number Portability in New Zealand, as amended from time to time.
"Mobile Device" means the mobile phone or other telecommunications device (which incorporates a SIM) which is compatible with and operates on our Network and is used by you to access the Services.
"Mobile Service Provider" means a provider of mobile telecommunication services.
"MMS" means the multimedia messaging service, which allows you to send messages that include multimedia content such as images, audio and video.
"Network" means the telecommunications system owned by us and/or any of any Related Company which we use to provide the Services to you and other customers, including our WCDMA network.
"PIN" means a personal identification number which is necessary for protection from non-sanctioned access to your SIM.
"Port" or "Porting" means the process of transferring your mobile phone number from one Mobile Service Provider to another Mobile Service Provider.
"Prepaid Plan" or “Plan” means the relevant Skinny Prepaid Service pricing plan you choose from time to time.
"PUK1 Code" means a personal unblocking key code which can unblock your SIM.
"Roaming" means an Additional Service that allows you to use your Mobile Device in countries other than New Zealand.
"Services" means the mobile telecommunication services offered by us to you under this agreement, including the Additional Services, and anything else we do or provide in connection with those mobile telecommunication services, which may or may not incur a Charge.
"SIM" means any subscriber identity module (SIM) that we may have provided to you which enables you, when used with a Mobile Device, to access the Services on our Network.
“SMS” means a short message service, which is a form of text messaging on Mobile Devices.
"Related Company" means Spark New Zealand Trading Limited or any company which is a direct or indirect subsidiary of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited, or who would otherwise be deemed to be a related company of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited in accordance with section 2 of the Companies Act 1993;
"Skinny Customer Services" means Skinny Customer Services, which is contactable on 0800 475 4669 (0800 4SKINNY), or on 204 from your Skinny Mobile Device, or by using such other contact details which are updated by us on the Skinny Website.
Skinny Mobile Menu means the menu that is accessed by dialing *888# on your Skinny Mobile Device.
"Skinny Prepaid Account" means the account which records details of the amount of credits you have available from time to time.
"Skinny Prepaid Services" means voice, SMS, data and any other Services provided by us where you pay the Charges in advance by purchasing credit before using the Services.
"Skinny Website" means our website at www.Skinny.co.nz or such other website that we notify you of from time to time.
"we", "our" or "us" means Skinny, a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited, trading under the brand Skinny.
"you" or "your" means the customer who is party to this agreement.
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Commencement of agreement
This agreement starts when you are first allocated a Skinny mobile phone number to use with your Skinny Prepaid Account or when you first credit your Skinny Prepaid Account or when you first use the Services, whichever happens first.
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Provision of Services
- Skinny Prepaid Services allow you to make and receive most local, national and international calls (when within our Network coverage area) using a Mobile Device, and access a range of other Services. You will need a Skinny SIM and a compatible Mobile Device to be able to connect to our Network and use the Services
- We will try our best to provide quality Services to you at all times and with reasonable care and skill. Because of the nature of mobile telecommunications, at times our ability to do so will be affected by factors outside of our control including, but not limited to, geographic conditions and physical obstructions, weather conditions, the number of people trying to use our Network at the same time or faults in our Network or other networks used by us to provide the Services to you and our Services’ reliance on systems and other services that we do not own or control. We therefore cannot promise or guarantee that our Service will be continuous or fault-free or available at a particular location.
- The quality, speed and coverage of the Services also depends partly on your Mobile Device, partly on our Network and partly on other telecommunications networks
- The Services may also be unavailable at times due to maintenance, repairs, upgrades or modifications to our Network or other networks used by us to provide the Services to you. Where it is within our control, we will try to keep such unavailability to a minimum
- You will be charged for each MMS message that is sent from your Mobile Device (e.g. the 'send' button is pressed and the mobile indicates the MMS is sent). MMS messages will be charged at Skinny's standard MMS rate per message to NZ mobile networks. Our MMS service is not available or suitable for use while roaming or for sending to international networks from your Skinny Mobile Device within NZ. The maximum file size of an MMS message is 600KB. If you attempt to send an MMS message over 600KB and/or if the message takes longer than 60 seconds to send, the message may be rejected (not delivered). Mobile Devices and/or our MMS system may automatically reduce the size and/or quality of an MMS message to fit within the maximum message size. It is your responsibility to check the size of an MMS message before you attempt to send it. MMS messages may be scaled by our MMS system to suit the receiving device's specifications, such as screen size and screen resolution. We cannot guarantee that any SMS and MMS messages you attempt to send will be successfully delivered or received.
- Roaming relies on the use of overseas telecommunication networks which we do not control and therefore we cannot guarantee the quality of any Roaming services. Some services, such as video calling and data, may not be available while Roaming. The use by you of overseas telecommunication networks will be subject to our available roaming destinations and the terms and conditions of the relevant network operator. Those terms and conditions will apply in addition to the terms and conditions contained in this agreement.
- You agree to:
• comply with all your obligations in this agreement;
• provide us with all information we reasonably request in connection with this agreement and make sure that all information you give to us or to any third party retailer is accurate and complete;
• keep confidential, and do not disclose to any other person, any PIN or other access code feature used by, or allocated to, you in connection with the Services;
• not use your Mobile Device or the Services in a way that is abusive or offensive or for an illegal or fraudulent purpose;
• not use your Mobile Device or the Services in a way that interferes with any other person's use or enjoyment of the Services;
• not use your Mobile Device or the Services to spam, mail bomb, publish any offensive or unlawful material, harvest information about others, create a false identity, access or upload any Content which breaches a third party right, or any other similar activity;
• use our Services for personal use only and in accordance with clause below;
• use only Mobile Devices and accessories approved for use with our Network and which comply with all relevant legislation and regulations (for example, those that you have purchased from us or our authorised retailers;
• not connect a SIM you have obtained from us to any other telecommunications network, other than as is permitted by the Services we provide for example when you use our roaming services;
• follow the instructions and guidelines we give you about the use of the Services and your Mobile Device;
• not do anything or introduce anything (including any virus) that may damage or harm our Network or equipment or any third party's network or equipment
• authorise us to conduct a credit check on you from time to time when we consider, acting reasonably and in good faith, that it is appropriate;
• not sell or otherwise make the Services available to others or commercially exploit the Services or any Content in any way This prohibited usage includes (but is not limited to) re-supplying Services, provision of call centre services, telemarketing, bulk messaging, application-to-person communications, machine to machine communications (including by using your SIM card in any other device), provision of cellular trunking units (or CTUs) or any other activity Skinny reasonably considers to be non-personal usage;
• never interfere with any part of our Network unless you have been authorised in writing by us to do so;
• authorise us or a person approved by us to remotely access your Mobile Device in order to perform any tasks that are reasonably necessary to protect you or our other customers and their use of the Services, and to maintain, alter or protect the integrity or performance of our Network or our Services or where we have been directed to do so by law;
• comply with the terms of any loan agreement you agree with us relating to any Mobile Device or other equipment you rent from us or that is loaned to you, and return it to us in the same condition you received it, or pay us the replacement costs of such;
• that you may not transfer any benefit or obligation of this agreement it to any other person, and
• indemnify us and any Related Company against any legal action taken, or losses or costs we or any Related Company incur, in connection with your use of your Mobile Device and the Services in breach of this Agreement. The indemnity in this clause shall extend to our officers, employees, contractors and agents and those of any other Related Company.
• You agree to make sure everyone who uses your Mobile Device or SIM complies with the obligations and responsibilities set out in clause 4.7 above. You can take steps to prevent unauthorized use of your Services (for example by using passwords, PIN numbers and other security measures to control who gains access to and uses your Mobile Device and Services).
• Our Services are for personal use only, which means that they are for an individual person to use for reasonable personal and private use only. Any use of our Services for business use, or for large organisations or groups, is not personal use and is prohibited.
• Prohibited Usage: From time to time, we may monitor usage patterns. If your usage of our Services (a) is inconsistent with either normal usage patterns and/or the types of uses and purposes for which we communicate that the Services are to be used for, and/or (b) includes activities such as auto-dialling, continuously call (or text)-forwarding, bulk texting by machines, automated texting, tele-marketing, call centres, and use of cellular trunking units (CTUs), then we may contact you to advise you that your usage is Prohibited. We may then request that you stop or alter your usage accordingly. If your Prohibited Usage continues after receipt of a request to stop or alter the nature of such usage, we may without further notice, suspend, modify or restrict your use of the Services and/or withdraw your access to the Services.
• We may publish on the Skinny Website additional terms, requirements and/or policies relating to fair use that apply to some or all of the Services which will provide further rules and details around how such Services can be used. We will do this to help us prevent spamming, bullying or fraud and to ensure that excessive use of such Services does not prevent our customers from enjoying such Services (for example, by affecting our Network or a specific cell tower).
• You agree that using the Services does not give you any rights in any part of our Network.
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Mobile phone numbers
- Unless you Port a mobile phone number to us, we will allocate a mobile phone number to you for use with your Mobile Device or SIM on our Network. The mobile phone number does not belong to you and you may not sell or otherwise transfer it. Any disputes regarding the allocation of mobile phone numbers will be determined by us, acting reasonably and in good faith and taking particular facts of each case into consideration, and our decision will be final.
- In exceptional circumstances, we may be required to change the mobile phone number you use with your Mobile Device or SIM. Where we are required to change your allocated mobile phone number we will try and give you notice of this change.
- If you wish to Port your allocated mobile phone number to another Mobile Service Provider:
• you will need to contact that other Mobile Service Provider;
• you will be responsible for taking all necessary steps to Port the mobile phone number, other than our obligations under the LMNP Terms; and
• you will be responsible for all costs associated with Porting the mobile phone number (for example, the cost of a new SIM that is compatible with that other Mobile Service Provider, or any outstanding charges that you owe us).
• If you have not Ported the mobile phone number allocated to you prior to either the termination of this agreement, your Skinny Prepaid Account being deactivated or your access to the Services being disconnected, we may reallocate that number to another customer
• If you do not use your allocated Skinny Mobile number (for example, you may use the number you ported from another mobile provider instead), Skinny may make the original Skinny allocated mobile number available for future allocation to another person.
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Wireless data and content
- If the Services provide links to third party sites and/or Content, we are not responsible for such links, sites or for the Content on any such sites. We have included these links for convenience only and this inclusion is in no way an endorsement of the applicable site or third party
- If the Services allow you to access Content that originates from you or third parties, we may monitor any Content made available by you or any third party in order to maintain the integrity or performance of our Network and/or our Services and, acting reasonably and in good faith, remove any Content we consider to be inappropriate or in breach of any law or third party right. Where we remove any Content in accordance with this clause we will notify you that we have done so and provide you with a reason.
- Without limiting your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, we are not responsible for:
• ensuring that any Content you access or make available through using the Services will be private or secure or free from viruses or other harmful things;
• any transactions you enter into, any dealings between you and any advertisers or third parties, or your participation in any promotions through use of the Services;
• any inaccuracies in any Content you obtain from the Services or any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, such Content;
• any corruption or loss of Content stored on, or transmitted over, our Network;
• any delay in your receipt of Content you select for transmission to your Mobile Device; or
• fixing any faults in your Mobile Device or SIM as a result of you accessing Content
Unwanted programs or Content may be downloaded from the internet without your knowledge, which may give unauthorised persons access to your Mobile Device. You are responsible for ensuring that your Mobile Device has appropriate protections against such unauthorized access and we are not responsible for any such unauthorised access or any damage or loss suffered as a result.
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Mobile phone and SIM
- Any SIM we supply to you remains our property and must be returned to us if this agreement ends. It is your responsibility to keep any SIM we supply to you in a good condition
- You must keep your Mobile Device and the SIM secure at all times. We recommend, in order to prevent unauthorised use of your Mobile Device and Services, that you use a PIN and other access code features provided with your Mobile Device and SIM to ensure that only you are able to access and use the Services. You must keep all such PINs and access codes confidential at all times. While we will use security screening and authentication checks where available, we may assume that any request or instruction we receive is authorised by you if it is made from your Mobile Device
- If a PIN is entered incorrectly three times in a row, the SIM will automatically block, and it will not be possible to use it unless it is unblocked. To unblock the SIM, you will need a PUK1 Code, which you can obtain from your SIM packaging or via the Dashboard section on the Skinny Website, or by calling Skinny Customer Services who can talk you through it. Take care when entering the PUK1 Code because if you continue to block your SIM by incorrectly entering the PUK1 Code the SIM will be rendered useless after 10 attempts and you will lose names, numbers and other information stored on it. Because of the nature of the SIM technology we will not be able to get this information back for you. You will then need to purchase a new SIM which comes with a new PUK1 Code, if you wish to continue using the Services
- If you suspect your Mobile Device or SIM supplied to you is lost or stolen you must immediately block your SIM via the Manage SIM page on the Dashboard section of the Skinny Website, or by calling Skinny Customer Services who can talk you through it. This will stop usage Charges to your account. You will remain liable for all Charges incurred in relation to the use of your Mobile Device or the SIM up to the time you inform us that your Mobile Device or SIM is lost or stolen and we have activated a block on your Mobile Device, whether the Charges have been incurred by you or someone else. We recommend you take steps to prevent unauthorized use of your Services (for example by using passwords, PIN numbers and other security measures to control who gains access to and uses your Mobile Device and Services). If your Mobile Device is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed, we will have no obligation to make a refund to you for the credit left on your Skinny Prepaid Account and you will need to purchase a new Mobile Device and/or SIM if you wish to continue using the Services
- If equipment, including your Mobile Device and SIM, supplied to you by someone else does not work properly, you need to contact the relevant equipment supplier or manufacturer, rather than us, about the problem. We are in no way responsible if this equipment supplied by someone other than us is damaged as a result of the unauthorised use on our Network, or if it does not work on our Network. We are under no obligation to take any action so you can access the Services using this equipment
- Any responsibilities we may have for a Mobile Device or other equipment that you buy directly from us will be covered by a separate warranty or sales agreement for that Mobile Device or other equipment
- You must pay the purchase price of any Mobile Device or other equipment you buy from us. We will continue to own the Mobile Device or other equipment until you have paid for it in full. The Mobile Device or other equipment will be at your risk from the time it is received by you
- If you have a Mobile Device that is SIM locked to our Network (a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device), it is to be used exclusively on our Network and must not be unofficially unlocked, interfered with, or disassembled without our prior written approval. A Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device may only be unlocked by obtaining the manufacturers unlock code from the Skinny website, or by calling Skinny Customer Services who can talk you through how to do it.
An unlock fee applies if network locking is removed from any Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device within the first nine months of being used on our Network (e.g. from the first time the Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device is turned on and connects to our Network). The unlock fee is usually $30 (including GST), unless otherwise stated. There is a limited number of times an unlock code can be entered and attempted in a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device, so care must be taken to ensure the unlock code is entered correctly and in accordance with our authorised unlocking process.
Any attempts by any person to unlock a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device without using our authorised unlocking process will render any applicable warranty associated with that Mobile Device void and may cause technical issues and damage to the Mobile Device or Services for which we will not be responsible or liable. To unlock your Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device, visit the Skinny Website or call Skinny Customer Services on 0800 4SKINNY who can talk you through it.
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Charges and your account
- In order to use the Services, you will need to have a Skinny Prepaid Account which is in credit, or have included quota remaining on an active Prepaid Plan. As Charges are incurred they will be deducted from the credit balance of your Skinny Prepaid Account. You can add additional credit to your Skinny Prepaid Account by; buying and redeeming a Skinny Prepaid Service card or voucher, by making a payment from your Visa or MasterCard credit or debit cards, setting up an auto-top-up on your Skinny Prepaid Account, setting up ‘Set and Forget’ Prepaid Plan payments on your Skinny Prepaid Account, or by using one of the other means of payment accepted by us from time to time. For more information on how to top up your Skinny Prepaid Account please refer to the Skinny Website or contact Skinny Customer Services. No bill will be sent to you in relation to your use of Skinny Prepaid Services, however you can check your account balance and activity of your Skinny Prepaid Account in a number of ways, i.e. using the Skinny App, the Dashboard, the Skinny Mobile Menu, or by calling Customer Services. To contact Skinny, please phone 0800 4754669 (08004SKINNY). Opening hours: Mon-Fri 8am - 7pm; Sat & Sun and all Public Holidays 9am - 5pm.
- Each Skinny Prepaid Service card or voucher has an expiry date printed on it and cannot be used after that date. We will not give refunds for any cards or vouchers not used by their expiry date. If you have a Skinny Prepaid Service card or voucher which has not reached its expiry date and appears to be faulty, contact Skinny Customer Services.
- The Charges for calls made from your Mobile Device are set out in your Prepaid Plan. Generally, there is a minimum one minute charge for each call and calls are charged by the minute.
- Skinny's standard data rates apply when you do not have a current Skinny Prepaid Plan, or Data Add-On that has remaining data included. Data on standard data rates is billed at 5c per 256KB block. You will be charged this 5c at the beginning of each new 256KB block in a single data usage session. A data usage session ends when either (i) a device is turned off, (ii) a device is detached/disconnected from the mobile network e.g. if you travel out of network range, you will be disconnected and when back in range automatically reconnected, which will result in a new session and an initial 5c charge, (iii) after a session has been running for 24 hours it will automatically end and re-start a new session which will result in an initial 5c charge.
- Skinny’s data usage rates for Endless data is calculated based on usage billed in 256KB blocks, rounded up, at the earlier of (i) the end of a 256KB data session or (ii) a twenty-four-hour period, with a minimum charge of 1KB.
- Skinny's data rates for included data in a Skinny Prepaid Plan (excluding the Endless Data references above) is calculated based on usage and billed in 64KB blocks, rounded up, at the earlier of (i) the end of a 64KB data session or (ii) a twenty-four hour period, with a minimum charge of 1KB. See table below with an example of how this works:
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Data Consumed
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Data Deducted From Your Plan Balance
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1KB |
| 65-128KB |
65KB |
| 129-192KB |
129KB |
| 193- 256KB |
193KB |
Note: 8 bits (b) = 1 byte (B); 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte (KB); 1024 KB = 1 megabyte (MB).
- SMS is charged per SMS sent. Please see your Prepaid Plan for more information about Charges for calls, SMS and data. The Charges for our other Services are set out on the Skinny Website. We may change our Charges from time to time and will notify you of any changes in accordance with clause 13.
- You are responsible for the use of your Mobile Device and you are liable for all Charges under this agreement whether incurred by you or someone else using your Mobile Device or SIM (with or without your knowledge). This includes when your Mobile Device or SIM has been lost or stolen, and prior to us activating a block on your Mobile Device or SIM. We recommend you take steps to prevent unauthorized use of your Services (for example by using passwords, PIN numbers and other security measures to control who gains access to and uses your Mobile Device and Services).
- If the credit balance on your Skinny Prepaid Account is used up while you are on a call, the call will be disconnected. We will not be liable for calls being disconnected after your credit has been used up
- If the credit balance on your Skinny Prepaid Account is used up while you have an open data session, the session will be terminated.
- If you have no credit on your Skinny Prepaid Account or have no quota remaining on an active Prepaid Plan, you will not be able to make any chargeable outgoing calls (except to emergency services on 111 or to Skinny Customer Services or any other non-chargeable calls) or use any other Services that would incur a Charge.
- You must add credit to your Skinny Prepaid Account at least once every 12 months, otherwise your Skinny Prepaid Account will be deactivated, or expired. When your Skinny Prepaid Account is deactivated all credit will expire. Any accrued Skinny Dollars will expire either on 12 months after last top-up or 2 December 2014, whichever comes first. If this happens, clause 10.2 will apply.
- If you damage or lose your SIM, you can purchase a new SIM from the Skinny Website and transfer your number to that new SIM. The facility for transferring your number to a new SIM is within the Dashboard section of the Skinny Website or call Skinny Customer Services who can talk you through how to do it.
- You are responsible for any roaming services charges you incur, and you are liable for all charges incurred on your account or deducted from your prepaid balance while roaming. Please note that there may be a delay for roaming services charges to appear on your account because the information must first be provided to Skinny from the overseas network operator.>To help you manage the Charges when you are roaming you can check out our helpful roaming tips on our Website.
- From time to time we may change Charges, and we make such changes and notify you in accordance with clause 13 of these Customer Terms.
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Withholding, suspending or restricting services
- We may withhold, suspend or restrict your use of any or all of the Services or disconnect you from the Network without warning if:
• you or anyone who uses your Mobile Device or SIM does not comply with the terms and conditions of this agreement or any other agreement with us, including any terms and conditions relating to Additional Services;
• you or anyone who uses your Mobile Device or SIM damages our Network or puts our Network at risk;
• you harass, abuse or threaten our staff; or
• you notify us that your Mobile Device or SIM has been lost or stolen.
- We may also need to suspend your use of the Services and disconnect you from our network without warning if our Network needs urgent maintenance or upgrading.
- When we withhold, suspend, restrict or disconnect a Service for the reasons set out in clause 9.1 above, you may have to purchase a new SIM, prepaid credit or Mobile Device, before you can use the Services again.
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Giving up or ending services
- You may end this agreement at any time for any reason by:
• simply ceasing to add credit to your Skinny Prepaid Account at least once every 12 months (see clause 8.11 above); or
• porting your mobile phone number to another Mobile Service Provider, or
• contacting Skinny Customer Services, and terminating your Services.
- We may end this agreement immediately without notice to you if:
• we have the right to suspend your access to the Services for any of the reasons set out in clause 9.1 above that have not been rectified within two weeks;
• you breach this agreement in a material way (for example, if you do something that could negatively impact our Network) and do not put it right within seven days of us asking you to, or
• you become insolvent or bankrupt, or a receiver, manager and receiver, or statutory manager is appointed over any or all of your assets, or any resolution is passed, or any proceeding is commenced to wind you up or liquidate you, or your poor payment history indicated, acting reasonably and in good faith, that you are unable to pay Charges.
- If this agreement ends for one of the reasons in clause 10.1 or 10.2 above:
• any unused Skinny Prepaid Service cards or vouchers you have will still expire on their expiry date;
• any unused credit on your Skinny Prepaid Account will lapse. Where we have terminated your account in accordance with clause 10.2 and you have any unused credit on your Skinny Prepaid Account, we will provide you with a refund provided you contact us within 6 weeks of the termination date.
• any names, numbers and other information stored on your SIM may be lost; and
• unless we agree otherwise or unless it has been Ported prior to giving up the Services, any mobile phone number allocated for you to use under this agreement will no longer be available to you
• You may temporarily or permanently give up any Additional Service via the Dashboard section on the Skinny Website, or by calling Skinny Customer Services who can talk you through how to do it
• If this agreement ends or you give up any Service and later want it reconnected, you may have to purchase a new SIM, credit and/or Mobile Device.
• Ending this agreement does not affect any rights and responsibilities which are intended to continue or come into force afterward
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Consumer Protection Legislation and Liability
- As a consumer, it is important that you understand that any rights you may have, or obligations we may have to you, under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 apply alongside these Terms, and are not impacted by anything in this clause 11. The website https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/ is a useful place to visit to help you understand your rights under this legislation.
- If you are acquiring the Services for the purposes of a business as defined in the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 you acknowledge that the provisions of that Act do not apply to the Services that that we provide to you under this agreement.
- Your liability to us:
• you accept your liability to us for breach of contract or negligence, and
• you are not liable for any loss to the extent that it is caused by us (for example, through our breach of contract or negligence). Our liability to you:
• we accept our liability to you for breach of contract or negligence subject to clause 11.9, and for our breach of consumer protection laws, such as the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 to the extent they apply to you.
• we are not liable for any loss to the extent that it is caused by you (for example, through your breach of contract or negligence).
- We are not liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, business or anticipated business or anticipated profits or savings.
- You may become aware that you have suffered loss before we do. If you suffer any loss as a result of this agreement, you agree to take reasonable steps to avoid or minimise your loss and that we are not liable for any loss that results from your failure to take reasonable steps to do so.
- We aim to provide quality services to you at all times, and exercise reasonable skill and care in performing our obligations to you. However, if we are prevented from performing any obligation in these Terms by reason of any act of God, act of State, riot, insurrection, civil commotion, strike, sanctions, boycott, embargo or any other circumstance beyond our reasonable control, we will try to advise you of the existence of the circumstances and its expected duration, and the obligations that are impacted by the circumstances. Our performance of these Terms and provision of Services to you will, to the extent that it is made impossible or impracticable by such circumstances (despite us taking reasonable steps to provide the services be suspended until such circumstances cease to exist. We are not liable to you for any failure or delay in performing any obligation set out in these Terms in the circumstances contemplated by this clause 11.7. You will not be required to pay any Charges for any Services to the extent that such Services are not provided by us due to the circumstances contemplated by this clause 11.7.
- No other Spark company, network operator and/or third party supplier (including their officers, employees, contractors and agents) will be liable to you for loss or damage of any kind arising from your use of the Services. This clause creates a right and benefit that other Spark companies, network operators and/or suppliers can enforce as a defence to any claim
- If we or any of the other parties listed in the clause above are ever liable to you for any reason, the maximum combined amount we and all the other parties listed in clause 11.8 (together) will have to pay you and anyone else who uses the Services we provide for you (together), will be:
• $1,000 for any event or for any series of related events; and
• a total of $5,000 in respect of all events in any 12 month period,
provided that you notify us of your claim within 12 months after you reasonably became aware of the occurrence of the relevant event or series or events that gave rise to your claim.
- The limitations do not limit any rights you may have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986.
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Your privacy
When you use Skinny services, you often need to share some personal information with us. Our Privacy Policy tells you what information we collect and how we use, share and protect it, and it applies whenever you interact with us or use our products and services.
Read our Privacy Policy here
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Changing these terms, Charges and Services
- Changes to terms: From time to time we may need to change the terms of this Agreement by changing or removing existing terms or by adding new ones. Changes may take the form of completely new terms. If we determine, acting reasonably and in good faith, that a change will have, or is likely to have a detrimental impact on you, we will give you at least two weeks’ notice of the change. We will tell you about any changes to the terms of this Agreement by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you, and will publish the change on our website. Your continued use of our Services after changes have been notified to you in this way indicates your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the changes you may exercise your right to terminate this agreement.
- Changes to Charges: We may change our Charges from time to time. When we decrease charges for any Services we may make the change immediately and we will tell you about the change as soon as possible after the change has been made by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you and publishing the change on our website.
When we increase Charges for any of our Services (including introducing charges for Services that are currently free) and you are impacted by the change, we will give you one month’s notice of these changes. We will notify you of these changes by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you and publishing the change on our website.
- Changes to Services: We may alter our Services from time to time. If we reasonably consider that a change to our Services is likely to benefit you or have a neutral impact on you we may make that change immediately and will tell you about the change as soon as possible after the change has been made by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you, and publishing the change on our website. Examples of changes that will benefit you include inclusion of additional benefits in your Skinny Prepaid Plan. Examples of changes that will have a neutral impact on include changing the name a Skinny Prepaid Plan.
If we alter our Services in a way that reduces the Service offering currently received by you and the change is within our control we will provide you two weeks’ notice, of such alterations. However, if the change is outside of our control, and it is possible, we will provide you notice of the change beforehand. If the change is outside of our control and we are unable to provide you notice of the change beforehand we will provide you notice as soon as possible after the change has been made. We will tell you about any such alterations by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you and publishing the change on our website.
We may change you to a new Skinny Prepaid Plan if we consider, acting reasonably and in good faith, that you will be better off, and will give you two weeks’ notice of such a change by SMS messaging you and/or emailing you, and publishing the change on our website. 4. Right to Terminate: If you do not agree to any changes made in accordance with this clause, you may exercise your right to terminate this Agreement by ceasing to use the Services. Your continued use of our Services after changes have been notified to you in this way indicates your acceptance of those changes. Your continued use of our Services after changes have been notified to you in this way indicates your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the changes you may exercise your right to terminate this agreement. If the change has a material detrimental impact on you, no early exit fee will apply if you wish to terminate the agreement under this clause.
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Meeting our responsibilities through agents and service providers
We may have any Related Company, or an agent approved by us or any service provider approved by us perform any of our rights and obligations under this agreement. In that case, each of those companies or agents or service providers and their officers, employees, contractors and agents will have the benefit of any terms of this agreement which confer benefits on us.
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Transferring our responsibilities
We may transfer to someone else all or any part of our side of the agreement you have with us, for example if our company ownership and/or structure changes.
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More than one customer
Every person named as the customer in your application to use the Services must meet all of the customers responsibilities under this agreement, including the payment of any amounts owing to us by the customer in accordance with this agreement.
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Severability
Each term of this agreement is separately binding. If for any reason any term is not legally effective all other terms shall remain binding and we can replace the term that is not legally effective with a term of similar meaning that is lawful and effective.
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Waiver
A failure or delay by you or us to enforce any rights or powers under this agreement shall not operate as a waiver of that right or power. A waiver of any breach of this agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
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Governing Law
This agreement is governed by the laws of New Zealand and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand in respect of any dispute or proceeding arising out of it.
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Social Media Terms of Use
In using our Social Media pages/channels, you agree and adhere to these terms of use, as well as those set out by the Social Media service provider (FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM).
We reserve the right to delete and/or hide profane, harassing, abusive, inappropriate and spam posts or stuff that isn't relevant to this page or the members of our community, and if required we will block repeat offenders. This also includes, but is not limited to content we deem:
- is abusive, profane, defamatory or obscene to us or a member of the public
- is spam, fraudulent, deceptive or misleading
- is in violation of another's intellectual property right or any law or regulation
- is or could be seen to be in any other way offensive, defamatory or derogatory
- reveals personal information about another user, a staff member, someone we highlight, or a customer
- solicitations, advertisements, or endorsements of any financial, commercial organisations
- as off-topic posts
- repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users.
Our Social channels are family friendly, and as such, by interacting with our pages, you agree to keep any comments or content shared acceptable for a family audience. We run a fairly strong level of profanity filter that filters most offensive words and variations of them, but it will never capture everything. We are not responsible for the personal, political, organisational or religious beliefs of our friends, fans or followers across all social networks.
In 2012, the NZ Advertising Standards Authority released a guidance note on social media which says that user-generated content on a company’s Facebook page can be considered advertising. This means that companies could be liable for any comments posted on their pages that are untrue or offensive. You can access the guidance note from the Advertising Standards Authority's website (www.asa.co.nz).
While we encourage and welcome input from all of our customers & followers, we moderate our social media accounts for comments or posts that might be seen as advertising, or that might be untrue or offensive. We reserve the right to remove any posts or comments that we think (in our discretion) could be viewed in this way.
All of these are in place to ensure we can deliver and operate safe and respectful channels, which are welcoming to all.
Service terms
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These Terms apply to customers who sign up to Skinny services. If you’ve signed up to Skinny services and subscribed to your Prepaid Plan these terms will apply to you as long as you keep renewing your Prepaid Plan.
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Introduction
The following terms (the Service Terms) describe the terms and conditions that apply to Skinny Prepaid Services and Additional Services. The Skinny Customer Terms apply in addition to these Skinny Service Terms. Any defined terms used in these Service Terms have the same meaning as given to those terms in the Skinny Customer Terms.
If you have a Skinny Prepaid connection that operates on the Network, then you will need to read and understand these Service Terms.
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Changes to these terms
From time to time Skinny may need to change these Services Terms, and/or Services and Charges. Any changes will be made, and notified to you, in accordance with clause 13 of the Customer Terms.
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Personal use only
Skinny's Services are for personal use only, which means that they are for an individual person to use for reasonable personal and private use only. Any use of our Services for business use, or for large organisations or groups, is not personal use and is prohibited.
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Details
You can choose to be either on a Skinny Prepaid Plan, or a Prepaid Plan with Add-Ons, or choose to use Skinny's Standard rates. Unless you select a Skinny Prepaid Plan, Skinny's Standard Rates automatically apply to any usage.
For Four Week (28 day) Prepaid Plans, included mins, texts, and data are valid for 28 days from purchase. Four Week Prepaid Plans will auto-renew every 28 days if you have enough credit (unless cancelled) or your Set and Forget auto payment is successful.
For Weekly (7 day) Prepaid Plans, included mins, texts, and data are valid for 7 days from purchase. Weekly Prepaid Plans auto-renew every 7 days if you have enough credit (unless cancelled) or your Set and Forget auto payment is successful.
For 30 day Prepaid Plans, included mins, texts, and data are valid for 30 days from purchase. 30 day Prepaid Plans will auto-renew every 30 days if you have enough credit (unless cancelled) or your Set and Forget auto payment is successful.
Included data, text and calling minutes are for personal use only. Any non-personal, commercial, business, machine generated or automated use is prohibited.
Calling minutes exclude calls to 0900 numbers, special numbers (such as 018 numbers) premium rate numbers, numbers provided through calling cards, international numbers (unless expressly included in your plan), international toll-free numbers and satellite phones, which will be charged at rates specified by the relevant service provider.
Included texts does not include SMS messages to short codes, premium rate numbers, international numbers (unless expressly included in your plan) and satellite phones, which will be charged at rates specified by the relevant service provider.
Exceeding your Prepaid Plan’s allowance
If you have used up all of the minutes or texts included in your Prepaid Plan, you will pay Skinny’s overage rates if you continue to use the Skinny Prepaid Services. You can view these overage rates here. Alternatively, you can purchase an add-on of minutes or text, or purchase another Plan. If you have used up all of the MBs included in your Prepaid Plan, your data will stop. You will need to purchase a data add-on or another Skinny Prepaid Plan that includes data allowance to be able to use data.
Prepaid Plan Renewal
If you’ve subscribed to a Prepaid Plan and you have sufficient credit in your Skinny Prepaid Account, or you have a Set and Forget auto payment, your Prepaid Plan will automatically renew when the Prepaid Plan expires. If you have a Skinny Prepaid Accounts credit balance, this balance will reduce by the value of that Prepaid Plan. If you have a Set and Forget auto payment, your registered payment card will be debited by the value of the Prepaid Plan. If you have selected a 7 day or 28 day Add-On in addition to your Prepaid Plan your Add-On will renew 7 or 28 days after purchase if you have sufficient credit in your Skinny Prepaid Account and your Prepaid Plan has auto renewed and is active.
Auto Renew Bonus
The auto renew bonus is available with the $5 Weekly Prepaid Plan. The bonus is awarded each time the Prepaid Plan auto renews. The bonus lasts 7 days. You must have sufficient credit for your Prepaid Plan to auto renew.
Cancelling Prepaid Plan
You can cancel your Prepaid Plan via the Skinny Mobile Menu, the Skinny App, on your Dashboard page on the Skinny Website or by contacting Skinny Customer Services. Once you cancel your Prepaid Plan, you are no longer on an active Prepaid Plan, it is immediately deactivated. Despite that Prepaid Plan no longer being active, you can still use any unused calls, texts and/or data quota that remain on that cancelled Prepaid Plan, and on any associated Add-On, until its expiry date/time. However, you will no longer be entitled to any special rates or products that are only available for ‘active’ Prepaid Plans i.e. Cheap International Calling Rates. If you cancel a Skinny Prepaid Plan, any associated Add-Ons, will also be cancelled. Neither your Prepaid Plan nor Add-On will auto renew once your Prepaid Plan has been cancelled.
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Prepaid Plan Inclusions
Unlimited Skinny to Skinny Calling Mins and Unlimited NZ & AU Mins
Unlimited Skinny Minutes are for standard person-to-person voice calls to standard NZ Skinny numbers (you need to be talking to another person). Unlimited NZ & AU Minutes are for standard person-to-person voice calls to standard NZ & AU numbers. Excludes calls to premium and special numbers. Unlimited Minutes cannot be used for multiple simultaneous calling, re-supply, call centre usage, telemarketing, bulk messaging, application-to-person communication, continuously call forwarding, auto-dialing, machine-to-machine communication (including by using your SIM card in any other device), Cellular Trunking Units (CTUs), or any other activity that Skinny considers to be non-standard personal usage (“Prohibited Usage”). If we consider that you are engaging in Prohibited Usage we may contact you and ask you to stop such usage. If such Prohibited Usage continues despite notification from us, we may remove your Prepaid Plan immediately without notice. Premium rate numbers mean any international calls (including international toll-free calls), 0900 calls, premium number calls, operator assisted calls, directory related services, chargeable special short code numbers and Prohibited Usage.
Rollover Data
Rollover Data only applies to the included data on the $16 and $26 Prepaid Plans. Data in any Add-On with one of these Prepaid Plans does not rollover. If you have any unused included data on your Prepaid Plan renewal date, it will rollover provided your Prepaid Plan auto-renews. If you move to another eligible Prepaid Plan your Rollover Data remains valid. However, if you move to a non-eligible Prepaid Plan, or if your eligible Prepaid Plan failed to renew at the end of its cycle, your Rollover Data will be frozen. You can continue using your Rollover Data if you activate an eligible Prepaid Plan. You can keep and use any Rollover Data for 12 months from the date of original purchase. Rollover Data on the $16 and $26 Prepaid Plans is for data usage in NZ only.
Rollover Minutes
Rollover minutes only apply to the NZ and Australian included Rollover minutes on the $16 and $26 Prepaid Plans. Minutes in any Add-Ons with one of these Prepaid Plans do not rollover. If you have any unused included Rollover minutes on your Prepaid Plan renewal date, they will rollover provided your Prepaid Plan auto-renews. If you move to another eligible Prepaid Plan your Rollover Minutes remain valid. If you move to a non-eligible Prepaid Plan, or if your eligible Prepaid Plan failed to renew at the end of its cycle, your Rollover Minutes will be frozen. You can continue using your Rollover Minutes if you activate an eligible Prepaid Plan. You can keep and use all your Rollover Minutes for 12 months from purchase. Rollover minutes on the $16 and $26 and Unlimited Minutes on Endless Mobile Plans are for voice calls in NZ to any NZ and Australian standard landlines and mobile networks. Excludes premium rate numbers, other international numbers and satellite phones. Standard person to person calls, any non-personal, commercial, business, machine generated or automated use is prohibited.
Cheap International Calling Rates
You need to have an active Skinny Prepaid Plan, weekly or 28 day, to get Skinny’s Cheap International Calling Rates. If you cancel your Prepaid Plan, or your Prepaid Plan fails to renew (for example due to insufficient Skinny prepaid account credit), you are no longer on an active Prepaid Plan - it is immediately deactivated - and you will no longer be entitled to these Cheap International Calling Rates. These Cheap International Calling Rates apply to person to person calls made in NZ to standard landline and mobiles in selected countries as specified on the Skinny website. Cheap International Calling Rates do not apply to premium rate landline and mobile numbers or to international toll free numbers. If calling from outside NZ, roaming charges apply.You can view our International Call and Text charges here.
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Add-Ons
New Zealand Add-Ons and International Calling Add-Ons
You can view our Add-On pricing and eligibility rules here.
You can view our International Add-Ons here.
You can add Add-Ons to your 28 day or Weekly Prepaid Plan, unless stated otherwise. You will be charged the full amount for your Add-On and receive the full included quota at the time of purchase. All 28 day and 7 day Add-Ons (except Roaming and International Add-Ons) will auto-renew every 28 days or 7 days from purchase if your Prepaid Plan has auto renewed, is still active and you have enough credit to buy the Add-On. If you change Prepaid Plan to a different eligible Prepaid Plan, your Add-On will remain active and will still renew on its planned renewal date provided the Prepaid Plan is active and you have enough credit for the Add-On. Roaming and International Add-Ons don’t auto renew.
If you want to purchase the same Add-On more than once during your Prepaid Plan cycle, you'll need to cancel the existing Add-On first and then purchase a new one using the Skinny Mobile Menu, App or our website. You'll keep any quota remaining from the original Add-On until its expiry date.
Your Add-On renewal date will change accordingly.
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International Calling Add-Ons
• Aussie Chat Add-On gives you 120 minutes to use for calling landlines and mobiles in Australia. Calls will be rounded up to the closest minute.
• Overseas Chat Add-On gives you 300 minutes to use for calling landlines and mobiles in China, Hong Kong, India, UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands or South Africa. Calls will be rounded up to the closest minute.
• The Aussie and Overseas Chat Add-ons will be valid for 30 days from purchase and will not roll over.
• If you have used up your Aussie and Overseas Chat minutes allocation, standard charges will apply.
• You cannot use your Aussie and Overseas Chat minutes allocation if you are roaming. Standard roaming rates will apply, or purchase an Overseas Roaming Add-On.
• Calls to international toll-free numbers will be charged from your Aussie or Overseas Chat minutes allocation. If you have used up your Aussie or Overseas Chat allocation standard charges for international calls will apply. For example, calls to +1 800 USA toll free numbers will be charged from your Overseas Chat allocation if you have purchased the Overseas Chat Add-On, or the standard international rate for the USA if you have no Add-on.
Roaming Add-Ons
You can view our Overseas Roaming Add-Ons here.
- Included Countries
Our roaming Add-Ons allow you to roam in the following countries
Australia, Argentina, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA, US Virgin Island, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, UK, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, India, Vietnam, American Samoa, Qatar, Switzerland, South Africa
- 3 and 7 Day Packs
Incoming calling allowances have been included to allow you to receive calls on your mobile when in one of the countries stated in paragraph above. The outgoing calling allowance allows you to make calls from within any of the countries stated in paragraph above . The included texts allowance is for sending texts to numbers within included destinations as well as sending messages to other countries when you are in any of the destinations stated in paragraph above.
You can only purchase the 3 and 7 day packs as a one-off and these packs will not automatically renew. Once your pack has expired, you will revert to casual rates for text and calling in that country. Casual data rates are not available from Skinny. The inclusions within these packs apply for Prepaid roaming usage in included countries only – allowances are not valid within New Zealand, or in other roaming destinations (including cruise ships or flights).
3 and 7 day packs will be activated immediately after your purchase in New Zealand or overseas, whenever the purchase is made, and will expire 3 days or 7 days , respectively, after purchase, or full consumption of inclusions. In order to avoid your Add-On being consumed outside of your roaming destination it is recommended you purchase it once you land at your roaming destination.
This Roaming Add-On is in addition to any New Zealand Prepaid Plan or Add-On you already
- 7 day Data Pack
Add-On is available for 7 days, and is a one-off purchase.
Once you have used the Add-On you will need to purchase another Overseas Roaming Add-On if you want to continue to use data roaming. Casual data rates are not available from Skinny.
The data inclusion within this pack applies for prepaid and roaming usage in included countries only – allowances are not valid within New Zealand, or other roaming destinations (including cruise ships or flights)
The 7 day Data Pack will be activated immediately after your purchase in New Zealand or overseas, whenever the purchase is made, or after full consumption of inclusions. In order to avoid your Add-On being consumed outside of your roaming destinations it is recommended you purchase it once you land at your roaming destination.
This Data Add-On is in addition to any New Zealand Prepaid Plan or Add-On you already have.
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Data Binge
Data Binge allows you to buy prepay mobile data in time-restricted data sessions. To buy a Data Binge you need to be an active Skinny Mobile customer, with sufficient top up credit. Data Binge can be purchased via the Skinny Mobile app, or by texting DATABINGE to 2424. Data Binge cannot be purchased via any other channel. Roaming data excluded.
Data Binge is for personal use only on your mobile phone device while you are in New Zealand. Prohibited usage: Data Binge is not to be used for machine to machine services, tethering, mobile hotspots or any other similar activity that Skinny considers to be non-standard personal usage, and is not to be used on tablets, laptops, t-sticks, modems, hotspots, computers and any other non-mobile devices, or outside New Zealand. If we consider, acting reasonably, that you are using Data Binge in these prohibited ways we may contact you, and/or withdraw, suspend or terminate your access to Data Binge.
Data Binge, and its features, may change in whole or part from time to time.
Data Binge session will commence from the moment of the purchase, and will continue running until expiry. You cannot pause your Data Binge session once started. Any Data Binge sessions purchased while another Data Binge session is active, will not start until the end of your current active session.
Once your Data Binge session has finished, normal mobile data usage will apply. This means that:
• if you have data allowances available from a purchase of a Prepaid Plan, Add-On, or Skinny Collect Bonus, this data will be available to use again.
• if you are a Prepaid Plan customer with no data allowance remaining, no further data usage or charges will apply
• if you’re a Standard Rates customer, standard data rates will apply
Skinny will endeavour to provide you with two Data Binge expiry notifications via Skinny Mobile App and a text message – one sent 2 minutes prior to expiry, and a second one sent once your session has expired. If you are using consecutive Data Binge sessions (i.e. you’ve purchased additional sessions while another Data Binge session was active), the notifications will be sent when your total available Data Binge minutes expire.
Your ability to receive notifications will depend on various factors outside our control, such as network conditions and/or if you enable receipt of notifications on your device or via the Skinny App. Not receiving an expiry notification does not release you from any responsibility to pay additional charges incurred from the use of data outside your Data Binge session. To change how your account is set up to receive the Data Binge notifications, log in to your Skinny dashboard, choose Settings, and click “Change your notifications”.
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Standard Rates, Overage, and Other Charges
You can view our Standard Rates, Overage Charges, and other charges here.
- Call Charges
Skinny's calling Standard rates apply when you do not have a current Skinny Prepaid Plan e.g. you don't have a current Prepaid Plan, calling Add-On, other Skinny Prepaid Plan that has remaining calling minutes included. Skinny's overage rates apply if you consume all the included minutes in your Skinny Prepaid Plan before its renewal date. If your included national voice calling allocation expires during a call, the remainder of the call will be charged at the overage rate. The minimum call charge for your Standard calling rates will be the full minute rate for each minute or part minute. To be able to initiate or continue a call you must have the equivalent of at least one minute worth of calling credit remaining on your Skinny Prepaid Account, or at least one included minute remaining on your Skinny Prepaid Plans included minutes. If there is no answer you won't be charged for the call (note, calls answered by a message service or answering machine are chargeable).
- Text Charges
Skinny’s text Standard rates apply when you do not have a current Skinny Prepaid Plan, text Add-On, other Skinny Prepaid Plan that has remaining texts included. Skinny's overage rates apply if you consume all the included texts in your Skinny Prepaid Plan before its renewal date. All text messages are deducted from your Skinny Prepaid Accounts credit balance, or your Skinny Prepaid Plans included texts, once sent. It is your responsibility to ensure numbers are valid and correct. To be able to initiate a text you must have the equivalent of at least one texts worth of credit remaining on your Skinny Prepaid Account, or at least one included text remaining on your Skinny Prepaid Plans included texts.
A single text message is up to 160 standard characters. Most mobile phones can send text messages longer than 160 standard characters. To do this the text messages are adjoined into multiple text segments, with each text segment having a lower standard character count (usually 153 standard characters per text segment). Each text segment is charged as one text which results in a 161 to 306 standard character text being charged as two texts, 307 to 459 three texts, 460 to 612 four texts, and so on. However, some devices are configured to automatically convert long text messages into a MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service, or picture message), and as our charges are based on the type of message that is sent from the device, you will be charged for an MMS as a result. Non-standard characters such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Cyrillic and emoticons (e.g. coloured smiley, grumpy or jumpy faces) use more capacity and therefore reduce the maximum character capacity of text messages further. For international texts or when roaming, a single text message or text segment standard character count can vary, but not below 140 standard characters per text.
- MMS Charges
MMS is the multimedia messaging service, which allows various media such as pictures, video and audio to be sent and received by your Mobile Device. MMS video messages are not the same as video calling. Information on video calling is included under the “Other Services” heading in these Service Terms. Skinny’s standard MMS rates apply to any MMS messages sent to NZ mobile networks from your mobile phone. Skinny does not currently have any Prepaid Plans that include a MMS message allowance. MMS messages cost 50c per message to any NZ network. All charges for MMS messages are deducted from your Skinny Prepaid Account’s credit balance if a MMS message is sent from your Mobile Device (e.g. you press ‘send’ and the mobile indicates the MMS is sent). To be able to initiate a MMS message, you must have at least 50c credit remaining on your Skinny Prepaid Account. The maximum file size of a MMS message is 600KB. If you attempt to send a file larger than 600KB, the message may be rejected and/or you may be charged for multiple MMS messages. If your MMS message takes longer than 60 seconds to send, the message may be rejected and/or you may be charged for multiple MMS messages. It is your responsibility to check that your Mobile Device is capable of sending, and is configured correctly to be able to send, MMS messages. Your Mobile Device and/or our MMS system may scale MMS messages to fit within the maximum 600KB size. It is your responsibility to ensure MMS messages you attempt to send are not larger than 600KB. MMS messages may be scaled to suit the recipient’s device’s specifications such as screen size and screen resolution.
- Operator assisted calls
You will be charged the full minute rate for each minute or part minute.
- 0900, premium numbers and short codes
Calls to 0900 numbers are not supported. Calls to other premium numbers are charged the full minute rate for each minute or part minute. Certain short codes are available for use and the charges can be found on here.
- Voicemail
Any number of voicemail messages may be checked per access. Calls to your voicemail account from your mobile phone will be charged at 18 cents regardless of duration. This charge applies when you are on a Skinny Prepaid Plan, or when you are using standard rates. Calls to Voicemail when on an active $20, $36, $46 or $70 Endless Mobile Plan are included and will not be charged.
Calling and checking voicemail while roaming overseas is charged at the same roaming rate as a call to NZ from your overseas destination. While roaming you may incur charges for voicemail messages when your device is connected to an overseas network, regardless if the device is switched on or off.
- Video Calling
Video Calling is only available when you make video calls to other video calling capable mobiles on the Skinny Network within New Zealand, or video-capable mobiles on a supported international mobile network in a video-capable coverage area. Video calling is charged at the same rate as our standard rates for voice calling. You can view our standard rates here.
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Travel SIM terms
As at 25th October 2018, the following plans will be in market as our only Travel Plans
$28 30-day Mobile Pack
All data, minutes and text allocations are valid for 30 days from activation. For use in New Zealand only. NZ/AUS minutes and text apply to standard New Zealand and Australia numbers. Overseas minutes can be used to call standard numbers in China, Hong Kong, India, UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, Fiji, or South Africa. Top up required for use of any services not included in the Pack. See skinny.co.nz/holidaysim for details. Skinny compatible device required, and Skinny terms and conditions apply.
$48 60-day Mobile Pack
All data, minutes and text allocations are valid for 60 days from activation. For use in New Zealand only. NZ/AUS minutes and text apply to standard New Zealand and Australia numbers. Overseas minutes can be used to call standard numbers in China, Hong Kong, India, UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, Fiji, or South Africa. Top up required for use of any services not included in the Pack. See skinny.co.nz/holidaysim for details. Skinny compatible device required, and Skinny terms and conditions apply.
$88 60-day Data Only Mobile Pack
All data allocations are valid for 60 days from activation. For use in New Zealand only. Top up required for use of any services not included in the Pack. See skinny.co.nz/holidaysim for details. Skinny compatible device required, and Skinny terms and conditions apply.
Other Services
Call Me Back service
Call Me Back is a service where Skinny customers (who do not have enough credit to make a call) are able to use the Skinny Mobile Menu to send a text message to other mobile users on any New Zealand network with a request to call you back. Call Me Back requests is only available to Skinny customers who have an active Skinny Prepaid Account. The service is limited to a maximum of 3 Call Me Back messages per Skinny customer per day.
Skinny Gifting
You can transfer rollover data, rollover minutes, or top-up credit from your Skinny Prepaid account to another Skinny Prepaid account.
Both the giver and receiver need to be on active Skinny Prepaid accounts. Skinny Gifting is not available to/from Skinny Direct or Skinny Broadband accounts, or Skinny Prepaid accounts that are inactive (i.e. deactivated because the customer has not added credit for 12 months), expired, terminated, disconnected, suspended or blocked. Data and minute gifting is not available on Endless Mobile Plans.
Gifts of top-up credit:
• Gifts of top-up credit need to be in whole dollars amounts.
• You can gift a maximum of $60 in any 7 day period.
• To gift credit, use the Skinny App, Dashboard, or Skinny Mobile Menu (dial *888#, then select “other stuff” from the menu).
• Skinny’s normal terms for expiry of account credit apply.
Rollover data and rollover minutes:
• To gift rollover data or rollover minutes, you need to be on an active Skinny Rollover Prepaid Plan and have spare rollover data or rollover minutes available. The receiver does not have to be on a Skinny Rollover Prepaid Plan.
• Gifts of rollover data or rollover minutes can only be made on the Skinny App.
• A charge of $0.50 per transaction applies.
• Each gift needs to be in a block of 100, 200, or 500 MBs of rollover data, or 20, 100, or 200 rollover minutes.
• All gifted rollover data and rollover minutes expire 7 days from the time of the gift.
• If you used to be on a rollover Prepaid Plan and get a gift of rollover data or rollover minutes, any rollover allowances you have left over from that time will also be ‘unlocked’ for 7 days. Rollover data or rollover minutes will be used in order of expiry, with the next expiring allowance used up first.
Your new Skinny SIM
The Orange and White Standard/Micro and Nano SIMs are pre-provisioned onto Skinny’s standard rates default tariff unless stated otherwise. To make the most out of your prepay credit, purchase a 28 Day or Weekly Prepaid Plan and eligible Add-Ons.
Topping up
You can add additional credit to your Skinny Prepaid account by using one of the methods available here. If you are topping up by using a voucher please note that these cannot be used after their expiry date. You must add credit to your account at least once every twelve months, otherwise your Skinny Prepaid Account will be deactivated. It is your responsibility to ensure any information, phone number, or amount you enter when topping up is correct, as if you make a mistake it is not refundable.
SIM Unlocking and Fee
If you have a Mobile Device that is SIM locked to our Network (a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device), it is to be used exclusively on our Network and must not be unofficially unlocked, interfered with, or disassembled without our prior written approval. A Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device may only be unlocked by obtaining the manufacturers unlock code. An unlock fee applies if network locking is removed from any Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device within the first nine months of being used on our Network (e.g. from the first time the Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device is turned on and connects to our Network). The unlock fee is usually $30 (including GST), unless otherwise stated. After that time, it is free to unlock your phone.
To unlock your Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device go to your Dashboard on the Skinny Website, or contact us.
There is a limited number of times an unlock code can be entered and attempted in a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device, so care must be taken to ensure the unlock code is entered correctly and in accordance with our authorised unlocking process. Exceeding the limited number of chances to correctly enter the unlock code, or any attempts by any person to unlock a Skinny SIM Locked Mobile Device without using our authorised unlocking process will render any applicable warranty associated with that Mobile Device void, and may cause technical issues and damage to the Mobile Device or Services for which we will not be responsible or liable.
Dashboard
Logging-in to your Dashboard with Facebook or Google+
If you log-in to your Dashboard using your Facebook or Google+ credentials, you authorise us to collect the following information:
a) Facebook - first name, last name, email address and your friends list. Skinny Mobile does not use the friends list. For more information please refer to the following website www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications
b) Google+ - first name, last name, public profile URL, photo, gender, country, language, timezone and email address.
You understand and agree that Facebook’s or Google+’s use of information they collect from you is governed by their own privacy policies (Google+ and Facebook).
Skinny Mobiles use of such information is governed by Skinny Mobile’s Customer Terms, and Privacy Policy.
You can access and amend the information Skinny Mobile receives and retains about you as a result of logging-in via Facebook or Google+ through your settings on those accounts. To remove log-in functionality apps from your accounts please see here: for Facebook, for Google+ (you'll need to login to complete these actions).
To change or delete any other data that Skinny Mobile may retain about you as part of this log-in process, please contact Skinny Mobile.
Skinny Collect
As of April 2020 the Skinny Collect service is no longer available. For Skinny Collect terms & conditions, please refer to our retired terms and conditions.
12. Linked Account
Skinny Linked Account service allows Skinny customers to:
• link their Skinny accounts under one account management portal (e.g. a mobile phone SIM and data only SIM for a device such as an iPad and wireless broadband modem); or
• allow one Skinny customer to manage other Skinny customer’s accounts (e.g. families, employees, etc.); or
• a mixture of both.
A Skinny customer who will be managing each account must first create a primary online account called the “Parent account” which will be used to manage their own Skinny mobile or wireless broadband account.
The Parent account can then link up to 9 other Skinny accounts (“Child accounts”) so that they can manage each Child account via a single online portal access.
By creating a Linked Account the Parent and Child agree to these Linked Account terms and conditions.
Verification and Consent
Skinny customers who have created a Parent account must obtain consent from the owner of each Child account to access and manage their accounts.
Skinny will send a verification code via SMS to each Child account in order to verify consent. The Child account, including those using data only devices, must be able to access Skinny’s verification code in order to be able to link it to a Parent account. Each Skinny SIM can only be part of a single Linked Account group either as a Child account or Parent account.
Skinny’s Linked Accounts service is not available to Skinny Jump customers who sign up after 14 December 2020.
The Service
Parent accounts have full access and management rights over the Child account except that they cannot change the Child account’s [name/description] password.
The Child continues to have full access and management rights over the Child account provided they have their own Skinny Dashboard or the Skinny app. They are also able to change their [name/description] password. Below are the list of functions and access a parent and child account has:
Charges and Billing
Both the Parent and the Child are responsible and liable for all charges associated with their Child account and for complying with Skinny’s Terms & Conditions.
Each Parent and Child account must have a positive credit. There is no automatic sharing of credit between Linked Accounts.
If a Prepaid Plan and/or Add-On, is not active on the Child account (e.g. they just have existing credit) the Child will continue to be charged standard rates until such time that a Prepaid Plan and/or Add-On has been activated either by the Parent or the Child.
Cancellation
Skinny reserves the right to unlink any Parent and Child account at any time and without prior notification.
Either the Parent or the Child may unlink their account at any time without consent of the other party via any of the following:
• By logging in to their Skinny account and selecting to ‘Unlink’ their account. Note that only the Parent account can unlink the Child account in their online Dashboard on skinny.co.nz. However, the Child account can log into their account by downloading the Skinny app and unlinking from the app.
• By calling the Skinny Help Centre. If Child / Parent would like to unlink their account at any time they can place a call to the Skinny Helpdesk on 0800 475 4669. For mobile, a Customer Service Representative will send an SMS to the Child advising of the cancellation.
• Either Parent account or Child account ports out the SIM number associated with the relevant account
• Either the Parent account or the Child account is cancelled
• The Parent account’s Skinny Dashboard is cancelled.
After the accounts are unlinked:
· The Parent account will have no management rights to the previously linked Child account(s) via the Parent’s skinny.co.nz portal.
· The Child will regain sole access and management rights to their online account.
Skinny will inform the Child account(s) via SMS or email that their Skinny account is no longer a linked account.
All auto top ups, set and forget settings and any credit/debit cards that the Parent account had stored or set up against the Child account(s) will not be cancelled when the Child account is unlinked.
If the Child account does not have a username and password set up (and therefore have never logged in to see their Skinny account online) they will be required to do so when they first log in to skinny.co.nz.
13. Skinny device repairs policy
As a consumer customer you have rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (“CGA”) and Skinny will honour its legal obligations to you. If you would like to make a claim under the CGA, Skinny asks that you follow the below steps to return your goods to Skinny for CGA assessment and, depending on the nature of your claim, repair or replacement:
• Visit our Skinny Returns Page and log your CGA repair claim. Select the ‘It’s not working’ section on the returns page.
• As part of logging your CGA repair claim, you will have a $55 Assessment Bond ‘held’ with your credit or debit card. This Assessment Bond will be released if you have a valid claim under the CGA. If it is found that your claim is not covered by the CGA, e.g. because you have misused or caused damage to your device, because the CGA warranty period has lapsed, or because your device has been purchased for the purposes of a business, then you will be charged the $55 Assessment Bond.
• You will need to fill in the form on the Skinny Dashboard ‘Returns & Repair’ tab, which you will then print out and send to our repair agency (Telegistics) at your own cost. Telegistics address is
ATTN: Telegistics Repair
117 Carbine Road
Mt Wellington 1060
Auckland
• Make sure you take out your SIM before you send us your device as SIMs will not be returned following device repair or replacement, for your protection.
• Following receipt of your device, Skinny’s nominated repair agent will assess your CGA claim and device.
• a. If it is determined that you have a valid claim under the CGA then your device will either be repaired or replaced, depending on the nature of the defect in your device. Following repair/replacement, your device will be returned to you and you will have your $55 Assessment Bond released.
• b. If it is determined that you do not have a valid claim under the CGA and your claim is rejected, we will contact you to discuss next steps. These will involve either returning your device to you or agreeing with you to repair your device at an additional cost to you. If your claim is rejected, the $55 Assessment Bond will be charged.
Please remove your SIM from your device before you send it to Skinny’s repair agent, as all SIMs received will not be returned in accordance with internal policy and for your protection. We also suggest backing up your device before sending it in for repair as any information saved to the device may be wiped as a part of the repair process.
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Online purchases change of mind policy
Once you've submitted the form, your computer will automatically download a summary for you. You will need to print this out and pop it into a courier bag with your device so we can identify it. If you don't have a printer, please add a note with your reference number (you can find this on the last page of this process) and attach it to your device. You'll need to purchase a courier bag and send the modem & printed form to:
Telegistics Repair
117 Carbine Road
Mt Wellington 1060
Auckland
We also reserve the right to refuse any returns that do not adhere to the above conditions. If your return is rejected, we will return the device to you with no refund.
14. Excluded usage and services
• SMS Delivery Status Reports are not currently supported.
• The Grace Period is no longer available. Therefore, if you do not have enough credit when your Prepaid Plan expires, your Prepaid Plan and any Add-Ons will not renew, and you will need to reactivate them.
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is not supported, and we cannot guarantee that access or performance levels will be maintained.
• 3 Way Calling and Call transfer are not supported.
• Any applications you accept for use on your device are your own responsibility. Skinny cannot accept responsibility for the effect of applications or content downloaded to your device, or misuse of your personal information, through use of those third party applications.
Roaming terms
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Global Roaming Terms and Conditions
Skinny offers a Global Roaming service, which enables you to make and receive voice calls, send and receive text messages and for data, access packet and WAP data in countries that are included within Skinny's Roaming Add-Ons. Data Roaming in countries which are not part of Skinny Roaming Add-Ons is not currently available.
The roaming services that are available for you are dependent on the overseas network you have access to, the specific device you own as well as the Skinny rates you are signed up to. For more information on where you can roam and what services you have access to please go to the roaming Pricing tool located at the Skinny Overseas Roaming page here.
Service
Roaming relies on the use of overseas Telecommunications networks which we do not control and therefore we cannot offer any guarantees about the quality of roaming services. Some services, such as video calling, may not be available while roaming. The use by you of overseas Telecommunication networks will be subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant overseas network operator. Those terms and conditions will apply in addition to the terms and conditions contained in this agreement.
If you are travelling through the service range of a network not supported by the Skinny roaming partner alliance you will only have access to emergency services - e.g. you will not be able to make or receive voice calls/texts, make a data connection or have access to voicemail. If you attempt to access roaming services on a network that is not supported by the Skinny roaming partner alliance you will get an operator notification.
At sea and in-flight roaming is not available on Prepaid.
Charges and Zone Based Pricing
You can view our Overseas Roaming Rates here.
Roaming charges vary by call type and by country. Charges listed for incoming and outgoing calls while roaming are charged per minute (you pay the full minute rate for each minute or part minute) and are subject to change without notice. Please check our Overseas Roaming Rates regularly for the most up-to-date charges.
The charges that apply to roaming are in addition to any other charges which apply to your mobile Prepaid Plan or standard rates.
The charges for roaming may include charges for voice calls and other messages sent and received or for accessing VAS/WAP and Internet services. The charges for Roaming will be determined by Skinny and/or the overseas network operator.
Your Skinny 28 Day or Weekly Prepaid Plan includes minutes used for calls made within New Zealand and cannot be used while roaming.
Skinny reserves the right to change the Overseas Roaming pricing from time to time and we will endeavour to give you at least 10 days notice of any change by posting the amendments on our website.
Additional charges may be incurred when calling premium or other special numbers (e.g. 0900, 0172 etc) while roaming.
Some VAS / Data services that are free in NZ are charged while roaming.
All Data services accessed while roaming through the menu will be charged the applicable NZ rates inclusive of NZ GST and will also include an underlying roaming data charge which will be GST exclusive.
For Roaming Pack and Roaming casual rates, all charges are nil GST. All roaming charges are listed in New Zealand currency and do not attract GST.
Texts sent while roaming should be limited to 160 characters or else they will be split and sent as two texts. If this occurs you will be charged for each text.
Data roaming requires a Data Roaming Add-On, and is charged in 10kb increments and will be deducted from your Overseas Roaming Add-On data allowance.
Skinny websites or Apps are zero-rated while in New Zealand and overseas while roaming so you don’t incur any charges browsing skinny.co.nz or using the Skinny mobile app.
Roaming Add-Ons
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- Included Countries
Our roaming Add-Ons allow you to roam in the following countries
Australia, Argentina, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA, US Virgin Island, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, UK, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, India, Vietnam, American Samoa, Qatar, Switzerland, South Africa
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- 3 and 7 Day Packs
Incoming calling allowances have been included to allow you to receive calls on your mobile when in one of the countries stated in paragraph above. The outgoing calling allowance allows you to make calls from within any of the countries stated in paragraph above . The included texts allowance is for sending texts to numbers within included destinations as well as sending messages to other countries when you are in any of the destinations stated in paragraph above.
You can only purchase the 3 and 7 day packs as a one-off and these packs will not automatically renew. Once your pack has expired, you will revert to casual rates for text and calling in that country. Casual data rates are not available from Skinny. The inclusions within these packs apply for Prepaid roaming usage in included countries only – allowances are not valid within New Zealand, or in other roaming destinations (including cruise ships or flights).
3 and 7 day packs will be activated immediately after your purchase in New Zealand or overseas, whenever the purchase is made, and will expire 3 days or 7 days , respectively, after purchase, or full consumption of inclusions. In order to avoid your Add-On being consumed outside of your roaming destination it is recommended you purchase it once you land at your roaming destination.
This Roaming Add-On is in addition to any New Zealand Prepaid Plan or Add-On you already have.
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- 7 day Data Pack
Add-On is available for 7 days, and is a one-off purchase.
Once you have used the Add-On you will need to purchase another Overseas Roaming Add-On if you want to continue to use data roaming. Casual data rates are not available from Skinny.
The data inclusion within this pack applies for prepaid and roaming usage in included countries only – allowances are not valid within New Zealand, or other roaming destinations (including cruise ships or flights)
The 7 day Data Pack will be activated immediately after your purchase in New Zealand or overseas, whenever the purchase is made, or after full consumption of inclusions. In order to avoid your Add-On being consumed outside of your roaming destinations it is recommended you purchase it once you land at your roaming destination.
This Data Add-On is in addition to any New Zealand Prepaid Plan or Add-On you already have.
Billing
Your roaming charges will be deducted on a pay-as-you-go basis from your prepaid account balance. If you purchase an Overseas Roaming Add-On, your usage will be deducted as you use your allowance until it is used up.
Prepaid customers may incur charges for voicemail deposits when their device is connected to an overseas network, regardless if the device is switched on or off.
There can be a delay for billing roaming services because the information must first be provided to Skinny from the overseas network operator. Note that this could take up to 8 weeks in some cases. Any delay in billing does not affect Skinny's right to charge you for your roaming charges, and you agree to pay all charges in full when they are due.
You are liable for all charges deducted from your prepaid balance while roaming. If your phone or Skinny SIM is lost or stolen while overseas, you must advise us immediately. To do so, contact the Helpdesk on 0800 475 4669 from within New Zealand or on +64 3 371 0866 from overseas. The account holder is responsible for all charges incurred through the use of their phone or SIM up until the time you advise us that it has been stolen or lost.
There may be a delay for roaming services charges to appear on your account because the information must first be provided to Skinny from the overseas network operator. Note that this may take weeks in some cases. Any delay in roaming services charges does not affect Skinny's right to charge you for your roaming charges, and you agree to pay all charges in full when they are due. You can check out how much data you'll need while roaming here.
Skinny SIMs
Skinny SIMs are valuable pieces of hardware and are linked to your Skinny Mobile account. If your mobile has a Skinny SIM you should treat it like a credit or bank card, and keep it secure at all times. If your Skinny SIM is lost or stolen while overseas you must contact the Overseas Roaming Helpdesk immediately or on +64 3 371 0866 to deactivate your card, otherwise it could be used by others to incur charges.
Online Shop terms
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Online Purchases Change of Mind Policy
If you've bought a device from our online store and change your mind about your purchase, you can return a new device for a full refund, provided you enter your request within 30 days of the date on the packing slip you receive with your new Skinny device. The box containing the device should be unopened, undamaged, all external wrapping and seals intact and in pristine condition. To return the device, login to your online account and go to the ‘Phone, SIM & Number’ section. Go to ‘Send your device’ back and select ‘I’ve changed my mind’ and fill in the form.
Once you've submitted the form, your computer will automatically download a summary for you. You will need to print this out and pop it into a courier bag with your device so we can identify it. If you don't have a printer, please add a note with your reference number (you can find this on the last page of this process) and attach it to your device. You'll need to purchase a courier bag and send the modem & printed form to:
Telegistics Repair
117 Carbine Road
Mt Wellington 1060
Auckland
We also reserve the right to refuse any returns that do not adhere to the above conditions. If your return is rejected, we will return the device to you with no refund.
Retired Terms and Conditions
To find out more about our retired terms and conditions click here.
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SPECIFIC TERMS FOR PARTICULAR PLANS OR PRODUCTS
Endless Mobile Plan Terms
Skinny’s standard terms and conditions apply in addition to those below.
Our Endless Mobile Plans include varying amounts of Max Speed data, for either 28 days or 7 days.
Your Data: Endless Mobile Plans include endless data for personal NZ use on your mobile only. Excludes Roaming data. Max speeds reduced after included allowance of data usage per renewal cycle. Speeds will be reduced to a maximum of 1.2Mbps once your plan’s full speed data allowance has been exceeded. You will still be able to use your data like you did before but you will experience some degradation (such as lower video resolution) when watching video, streaming or loading images. There is no rollover allowances of data or voice gifting on Skinny Endless Mobile Plans. If you move to a non-eligible Prepaid Plan your Endless Data will no longer be available.
Endless data may be used for standard personal use only. Hotspotting and tethering included. Machine to machine services, or any other similar activity that Skinny considers to be non-standard personal usage is prohibited (“Prohibited Usage”).
Calls & Texts: You get unlimited calls and texts to standard NZ and Australian numbers (you need to be calling or texting another person). Excludes premium and special numbers and roaming.
Unlimited calls and texts cannot be used for re-supply, call centre usage, telemarketing, bulk messaging, application-to-person communication, machine to machine communication (including by using your SIM card in any other device), Cellular Trunking Units (CTUs), or any other activity that Skinny considers to be non-standard personal usage ("Prohibited Usage").
If we consider you are engaging in Prohibited Usage we may ask you to stop such usage and if it continues, suspend your service immediately with notice.
Network Management:
Service may be slowed, suspended, terminated, or restricted for misuse or interference with our network. Skinny reserves the right to remove the offer or the plan from the market (and recommend migration to the best alternative plan) in accordance with our standard terms.
Skinny Wireless Broadband Terms and Offer Summary
Updated 5th November 2020
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The following terms along with the Skinny Customer Terms and the Skinny Service Terms form the terms and conditions for the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband service. These terms will prevail to the extent that they are inconsistent with the Skinny Customer Terms and/or the Skinny Service Terms.
30 day money back network guarantee
In the event that the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband Service (“Service”) is not available at your location or the quality of the Service is not of an acceptable quality you can take us up on our 30 Day Money Back Network Guarantee.
To do this you need to let us know about your service issues within 30 days of receiving the Skinny Broadband Wireless Modem (“Modem”) by filling out the online form at skinny.co.nz/returns and return your Modem.
The Modem must be returned in good working order and as good as new. This means the Modem must be fully functional, that you have not tampered with the Modem in any way, including but not limited to attempting to open the Modem, and that the Modem is free from any scratches or visible marks. Once we have received your Modem back we will provide you with a full refund of the purchase price of the Modem to the credit card you used when signing up to the Service. The refund excludes any plan fees, additional data charges and other costs.
Our Network Guarantee is available once per customer per address.
Skinny reserves its right to remove the Network Guarantee at any time. However, any customers who joined the Service within 30 days of Skinny removing the Network Guarantee will still be able to take advantage of the Network Guarantee.
Our Network Guarantee does not seek to limit any other rights or remedies you may have available to you under law, such as under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.
Modem returns
If you've bought a Modem from our online store and change your mind about your purchase, the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband Service (“Service”) is not available at your location, or the quality of the Service is not of an acceptable quality you can return a new device for a full refund, provided you enter your request within 30 days of the date on the packing slip you receive with your new Skinny device. This right of return does not impact the rights you have as a consumer customer under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. The Modem must be returned in good working order and as good as new. This means the Modem must be fully functional, that you have not tampered with the Modem in any way, including but not limited to attempting to open the Modem, and that the Modem is free from any scratches or visible marks. It must also be returned with the box, cables and power supply in full working order. To return the device, login to your online account and go to the ‘Phone, SIM & Number’ section. Go to ‘Send your device’ back and select ‘I’ve changed my mind’ and fill in the form.
Once you've submitted the form, your computer will automatically download a summary for you. You will need to print this out and pop it into a courier bag with your modem so we can identify it. If you don't have a printer, please add a note with your reference number (you can find this on the last page of this process) and attach it to your device. You'll need to purchase a courier bag and send the phone & printed form to:
Telegistics Repair Limited
19 Gabador Pl
Mt Wellington 1060
Auckland
We also reserve the right to refuse any returns that do not adhere to the above conditions. If your return is rejected, we will return the device to you with no refund.
General terms and conditions
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- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is only available in certain 4G coverage areas. 4G coverage is not available everywhere. Although there will be more coverage rolled out over time, Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is not available everywhere yet. So to check if you can get it at your place, and for what you need, check out http://www.skinny.co.nz/broadband
- You can only use your Modem to receive the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband service at the location you entered into the address checker when you signed up to Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband (the installed location).
- If we become aware that you are using your Modem at a location other than the installed location, we reserve the right to terminate your Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband service without notice. The reason we retain this right is that we need to be able to manage the network to ensure that all customers using the network receive a reliable a consistent service.
- If you are moving and would like to use your Modem at your new address contact us and we will let you know if you can continue to use the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband at your new place.
- Skinny does not guarantee that the service can be supplied at a particular location. In the event that service is not available at your location, you can return your Modem to Skinny within 30 days of receiving the Modem for a full refund of the purchase price and first 30 days access fees, if you paid for them (excludes purchases of additional data). See our 30 day money back guarantee for full information.
- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband requires a Modem. Sorry, the Modem can only be used at the address you used when you first signed up to get Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband. The Modem costs $99 but we courier it to you free of charge.
- The super-duper Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband 60GB, 120GB, and 300GB Plans automatically renews every 30 days (unless you decide to cancel it first). Any unused data expires after 30 days and does not rollover.
- Once you've used all the data in your Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband 60GB, 120GB, and 300GB Plans, your data will come to a complete stop. To get going again you will need to buy a Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband 60GB, 120GB, or 300GB Plan again or a Broadband 10GB Add-On. Just sign into your Skinny dashboard to buy.
- Unfortunately, Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband customers are not eligible for offers and promotions that are available to Skinny Mobile customers, unless it says so in those terms and conditions.
- If you don’t use Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband for 24 months, it will stop working altogether you’ll need to call our Care team to fire it up again.
- The Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband SIM was only made to be used in the Modem that it came with. It won’t work in another data device. It also can’t be used for calling, texting, MMS, or checking voicemail.
- If you cancel your Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband Plan during the 30 days, or it fails to renew due to insufficient credit, never fear, you'll keep any remaining quota until its expiry date.
- If you have an existing broadband connection with another provider, you are responsible for arranging for disconnection of this service.
- The Modem contains a SIM card. You may not use this SIM card in any other device. It remains our property and you must return it to Skinny on request.
- The Modem requires mains power. In the event of a power failure, service will not be available, including access to emergency services.
- Charging for Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband starts once your service is connected to the network.
- Skinny's data rates for included data with the Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband 60GB, 120GB, and 300GB Plans are calculated based on usage and billed in 24 hour periods, with a minimum 256KB block from first data use and then per KB of usage after until the end of the 24 hour period. Each new 24 hour period will reset with a minimum 256KB block following the first data use. (Where: 8 bits (b) = 1 Byte (B); 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB); 1024 KB = 1 Megabyte (MB)).
- Any unused data within a 30 day data bundle will not be carried forward to the following 30 days.
- The Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband service is not able to be used as a gateway server.
- Static IP is not available on Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband plans.
- Upstream and downstream speeds are based on a theoretical maximum, and actual speeds will be affected by various factors including NZ and overseas networks, your modem and computer technology, and other environmental factors.
- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband does not include landline or phone number.
- Services such as medic alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs are incompatible.
- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is not a static IP address so it can’t be used as a gateway server or for hosting particular games.
- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband can’t do VOIP.
Unlimited Data Boost
Unlimited Data Boost (UDB) allows you to buy unlimited data usage on your Skinny Wireless Broadband connection for 24 hours. To buy UDB you must be an active Skinny Wireless Broadband customer, with a registered credit/debit card. Your card will be charged at the time of purchase.
A UDB session starts from the moment you purchase it and will continue running until it expires. You cannot pause your UDB session once it has started; and you cannot purchase another UDB session while a UDB session is active. Once your UDB session has finished, normal broadband data usage will apply.
We will send a notification to your registered email once your session has expired. Please ensure the email address you've registered with us is up to date, and add skinny@email.skinny.co.nz to safe senders list.
You can only buy UDB from the Add-Ons page on your Skinny 4G Wireless Broadband dashboard. UDB is not available to Skinny Mobile, Skinny Direct or Skinny Fixed Line Broadband customers.
The availability of the add-on and number of allowed repurchases are subject to change.
Uncapped Wireless Broadband Terms
These terms apply in addition to the Wireless Broadband Terms, the Customer Terms and the Service Terms. But the bit below is the most specific rule that just applies to this plan.
Our uncapped wireless broadband plan has a fair use policy. This policy is based on how most people use the service and helps us make sure everyone using it gets to enjoy it. If you engage in overly excessive or unreasonable usage, we will contact you. If this usage continues, you will be given the choice to move to another plan or have your service managed to protect the experience of other customers. If you consider that the change to the new plan or the management of your service under this fair use policy has a negative impact on you or your use of the service (or new service) you can exercise your right to terminate the service.
Wireless Broadband Offer Summary
SERVICE OVERVIEW
Skinny Wireless Broadband is a fast broadband service for residential customers in urban areas.
It connects your home to our network via a 4G wireless connection to your house. That means the throughput on your connection should be higher than ADSL broadband.
Skinny Broadband runs on the Spark 4G network.
Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is broadband only. You don't get a landline or phone number.
AVAILABILITY
Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is only available in certain areas within the Spark 4G coverage area.
SERVICE CHARGES
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Monthly Data allowance
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Charges
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| 60GB data cap |
$45/month |
| 120GB data cap |
$55/month |
| Uncapped data |
$65/month |
ADDITIONAL DATA CHARGES
If you reach your monthly data cap, you have two options:
- Purchase an extra 10GB of data for $20.
- Cancel your current Monthly Plan and purchase the Plan again.
SET UP CHARGES
- There are no set up charges other than the $99 for the modem.
- The modem can only be delivered to a New Zealand address and delivery is free of charge.
ACCESS TYPE
Mobile
- For more information about access types, click here.
- For more information about broadband speeds and performance, click here.
OTHER INFORMATION
Minimum Contract Period
- Skinny Wireless 4G Broadband is prepaid so you can cancel the service any time.
Early Termination Fee
- There is no cancellation fee if you stop using Skinny Broadband.
Notice Period
- There is no notice period if you want to cancel your broadband service.
Traffic Management
- We reserve the right to manage traffic at peak times, to ensure all customers get the best possible experience even at busy times. Overall, this should have a positive benefit for our customers. If we make any changes to this policy which will have a material impact on you we will let you know.
Fair Use
- So that we can manage network traffic, we have a fair use policy on our Uncapped plan. This means you cannot use the service in a way that is overly excessive or unreasonable. See the Uncapped Wireless Terms for more information
Effects On Other Services
- Skinny Broadband does not include landline or phone number.
- Services such as medic alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs are incompatible.
- Skinny Broadband is not a static IP address so it can't be used as a gateway server or for hosting particular games.
- Skinny Broadband can't do VOIP.
Other Charges
- There are no additional charges for Skinny Broadband.
Disputes
- Skinny Mobile, part of the Spark Group, is a member of the Telecommunication Dispute Resolution Scheme.
- All prices include GST.
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Terms and Offer Summary
Updated 5th November 2020
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1. Our agreement
If you have a Skinny Fixed Line Broadband connection then you will need to read these Customer Terms which govern our contractual relationship with you for the provision of Skinny Fixed Line Broadband (the “Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service(s)”) on our network. The Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services are provided to you for your own legitimate uses as described under these Customer Terms.
2. The Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services are described in
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- these Customer Terms (which describe, for example, any service limitations and what charges may apply);
- the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband product pages, as set out on our website (describing the Service); and
- the “frequently asked questions” about Skinny Fixed Line Broadband on our website (describing the Service)
Together these make up the “Service Description” for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. Links to the pages on our website which set out more detail about the features, prices and other matters about our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services are here.
3. Changes to Terms, Charges and Services
3.1 Changes to terms: From time to time we may need to change the terms of this Agreement by changing or removing existing terms or by adding new ones. Changes may take the form of completely new terms. If we determine, acting reasonable and in good faith, that a change will have, or is likely to have a detrimental impact on you, we will give you at least two weeks’ notice of the change. We will tell you about any changes to the terms of this Agreement by emailing you, and will publish the change on our website. Your continued use of Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services after changes have been notified to you in this way indicates your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the changes you may exercise your right to terminate this agreement.
3.2 Changes to Charges: We may change our Charges from time to time. When we decrease charges for any Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services we may make the change immediately and we will tell you about the change as soon as possible after the change has been made by emailing you, and publishing the change on our website. When we increase Charges for any Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services (including introducing charges for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services that are currently free) and you are impacted by the change, we will give you one month’s notice of these changes. We will notify you of these changes by emailing you, and publishing the change on our website.
3.3 Changes to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services: We may alter our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services from time to time. If we reasonably consider that a change to our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services is likely to benefit you or have a neutral impact on you we may make that change immediately and will tell you about the change as soon as possible after the change has been made by emailing you, and publishing the change on our website. Examples of changes that will benefit you include inclusion of additional benefits in your existing Skinny Fixed Line Broadband plan. Examples of changes that will have a neutral impact on include changing the name of your existing Skinny Fixed Line Broadband plan, or other products.
3.4 If we alter our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services in a way that reduces the service offering currently received by you and the change is within our control we will provide you one month’s notice, of such alterations. However, if the change is outside of our control, and it is possible, we will provide you notice of the change beforehand. If the change is outside of our control and we are unable to provide you notice of the change beforehand we will provide you notice as soon as possible after the change has been made. We will tell you about any such alterations by emailing you, and publishing the change on our website.
3.5 We may change you to a new Skinny Fixed Line Broadband plan or product if we consider, acting reasonably and in good faith, that you will be better off, and will give you one month’s notice of such a change by emailing you, and publishing the change on our website. 3.6 Right to Terminate: If you do not agree to any changes made in accordance with this clause, you may exercise your right to terminate this Agreement by cancelling your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services.
4. Getting set up
Customers wishing to sign up to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband must complete the online sign-up form found at skinny.co.nz/broadband
5. Connection and availability
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is not available in all areas. Occasionally factors like the distance of our equipment from a particular site or address mean we are unable to deliver Skinny Fixed Line Broadband, even where Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is available in your area. Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is naked broadband, so when you connect to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband your fixed land line will be disconnected. This means that any additional services that you have running over your fixed land line, such as voicemail and caller display will no longer work. Services that require a fixed land line to operate, such as medical alarms, fax machines and pay per view movies through your Sky box (Landline Dependant Services) will not work without a fixed land line. If you have Landline Dependant Services at your house and you want to continue to use them then you should not connect to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband. It is your responsibility to check whether you have any Landline Dependant Services before you sign up for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
6. Connection and installation
Our standard connection does not generally require a home visit, however a technician may visit your home to confirm your connection is working. In some cases you will require a non-standard installation to use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service and there may be additional charges for this. A technician approved by Skinny Broadband will visit your home to carry out the installation to get Skinny Fixed Line Broadband working at your place. It is generally only required for new builds, or areas where a Spark copper line is not present. We will let you know ahead of time if this is likely to be the case, and an estimate of the cost. We reserve the right to reject orders for non-standard installations on a case by case basis. Other points to note:
• The activation of your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service will result in you experiencing a temporary loss of your broadband connection. Normal service is usually resumed within an hour.
• If, despite our reasonable efforts, your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband installation fails (e.g. the technician is unable to get the service running), any equipment will remain at your premises and you will not be charged for the installation.
• If you decide to cancel your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband order, through no fault of ours or the installer, after you have accepted your order and have been provided an installation date for a non-standard installation, we may charge you a cancellation fee. This will not apply where you do not agree to any additional work or costs.
• If you have an existing broadband connection with another provider, you are responsible for cancelling your account with them. A cancellation notice period may apply – check with your provider. Skinny cannot request account cancellation on your behalf.
7. Speed
Broadband is not available in all areas and broadband speeds do vary. Factors which impact on speed include how close your premises are to an exchange, your computer’s capability, modem, connection and wiring, Wi-Fi, interference from electrical devices, the location and quality of the websites you choose to view, and any software you may have downloaded (malicious or otherwise). The day-to-day performance will also be affected by the number of users in your household and also on our network or the network of third parties that we use to provide the service to you. For further information about how your broadband speed is effected by these things, see our troubleshooting guide found in the support section of our website.
8. Modem
You will need a modem to use a Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service.
The Skinny Fixed Line Broadband modem/router and its included accessories are certified for use on the Chorus network with a Telepermit. All accessories and cables required to connect to ADSL or VDSL broadband are included in the box.
Ultra Fast Broadband requires a fibre capable modem/router. The Skinny Fixed Line Broadband modem/router is fully fibre capable, and all required cables needed for use on UFB are included in the box.
You will own the modem purchased from Skinny Fixed Line Broadband and Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is not responsible for it (without limiting your rights under Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and Fair Trading Act 1986). As a consumer customer under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under that law. For more information on your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 see https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/general-help/consumer-laws/consumer-guarantees-act/.
Warranty and Returns
Skinny Broadband will replace any defective Skinny Broadband hardware within 24 months from the time it was purchased. This warranty is in addition to your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, or other New Zealand legislation. If there are defects in the hardware of your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Modem within the first 24 months from the date you purchased it, you can return it to us for a replacement in accordance with our Return Policy.
Please note that installing custom firmware on (also known as “flashing”) your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband hardware will void your warranty. We will not accept returns of devices that have been flashed or otherwise have had custom firmware installed.
Returns Policy
In addition to your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, or other New Zealand legislation, if there are defects in the hardware of your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Modem within the first 24 months from the date you purchased it, you can return it to us for a replacement if you comply with this Returns Policy. The purchase of your Skinny modem is completed at the successful delivery of your modem. To be eligible to return the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Modem in accordance with this Returns Policy, please follow these steps:
• You will be sent a courier bag in which to return your equipment. The equipment must be returned to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband, or our nominated agent, and received at the address we provide within 18 days after you receive the courier bag.
• We will send a replacement for the returned equipment, the replacement may be new or refurbished stock.
• If you do not return the equipment you consider to be defective back to us in accordance with this Returns Policy, or we do not find a defect in the equipment (acting reasonably and in good faith), Skinny Fixed Line Broadband may charge you for the retail price of any equipment it has sent you as a replacement.
• Replacement items are not subject to a new 24-month replacement period; the original 24 month timeframe that started when you first purchased the equipment remains.
Please note that installing custom firmware on (also known as “flashing”) your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Modem hardware will void your warranty. We will not accept returns of devices that have been flashed or otherwise have had custom firmware installed.
9. Charges
Charging for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is on a monthly prepaid basis. Your first payment will be taken from your nominated credit or debit card on the day of your connection in accordance with the plan you have signed up with, and on the same date every month following, or next business day in the event of a public holiday or other interruption. For Example: If you connect with Skinny Fixed Line Broadband on the 3rd of Feb, your payment for 3rd Feb-2nd March will be taken on 3rd Feb. Your next payment, for 3rd March-2nd April will be taken on 3rd March. If your payment fails (e.g. due to credit card expiry, no available funds etc) we will attempt to take payment 2 days later. If this fails, then your account will be suspended for 5 days, giving you an opportunity to update your credit card, but without access to the rest of the internet, before one final attempt will be made. If this also fails your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband service will be disconnected and you will be unable to re-sign with Skinny Fixed Line Broadband for a period of 2 weeks, and must pay any outstanding invoices upon re-sign. Any money paid is not refundable in the event that you decide to leave Skinny Fixed Line Broadband before the end of your billing month.
10. Changing Broadband plans
A plan change may be requested either through email or by calling us. If you are moving from our 12 month plan transfer fees of $199 may apply
11. Withholding, suspending, restricting or disconnect Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services
11.1 We may withhold, suspend or restrict your use of any or all of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services or disconnect you from using them without warning if:
• you or anyone who uses them in any way that does not comply with these Customer Terms or any other terms and conditions relating to the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, or puts our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services at risk;
• you harass, abuse or threaten our staff.
11.2 We may also need to suspend your use of Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services without warning if our services and systems require urgent maintenance, upgrading, or protection, to manage network traffic or access to network services (for example, to manage peer to peer traffic types), to improve functionality and attributes of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, or where it is reasonably necessary for us to do so.
11.3 When we withhold, suspend, restrict or disconnect a Service for the reasons set out in clause 11.1 above, you may have to pay a reconnection fee before you can use the Services again.
11.4 Please note that Skinny Fixed Line Broadband accounts that are inactive, expired, terminated, disconnected, suspended or blocked will not be entitled to any credit remaining on the account.
11.5 In most cases, normal charges continue to apply during the suspension or restriction of any Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service.
11.6 You acknowledge that we reserve the right to suspend, sign out, disconnect, terminate, or delete your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services accounts (including sub accounts) or any communication session for any particular Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service that is “inactive” for a period of time. “Inactive” means that you have not used a particular Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service for a continuous 6 months’ period.
12. Giving up or ending services
12.1 You may end this agreement at any time for any reason by cancelling your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services.
12.2 We may end this agreement immediately without notice to you if:
• 12.2.1 we have the right to suspend your access to the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services for any of the reasons set out in clause 11.1 above that have not been rectified within two weeks;
• 12.2.2 you breach this agreement in a material way (for example, if you do something that could negatively impact on our services or network) and do not put it right within seven days of us asking you to, or
• 12.2.3 you become insolvent or bankrupt, or a receiver, manager and receiver, or statutory manager is appointed over any or all of your assets, or any resolution is passed, or any proceeding is commenced to wind you up or liquidate you, or your poor payment history indicated, acting reasonably and in good faith, that you are unable to pay charges owing.
Our disclaimers relating to Broadband
13. Availability of Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services
The configuration of your computer, device, systems server or other communication equipment (“Systems”) you use to receive our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services may affect, not only your use of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, but our provision of it. For example, certain SMTP service configurations leave you vulnerable to relaying spam; spam may overload our systems. Our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services will only be delivered to your relevant Systems when you have the required connection to receive the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service and will be subject to any service availability limitations and any functionality limitations of your Systems.
14. Content disclaimer
We do not and cannot in any way supervise, edit or control the way in which you or other end users use the content, information or other material accessed through the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services we provide to you. You acknowledge and agree that we will not be held responsible in any way for the content, information or other material accessed or provided by means of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. You are responsible for all content, information or other material that you upload, download, post, email, or otherwise transmit, access or make available through the use of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. We have not reviewed all or any of the sites linked to the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services and we are not responsible for the content of any of those sites.
15. Third party infrastructure, systems and services
The Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services are delivered to you using other providers’ infrastructure and systems, for example, that of Chorus and Enable for Christchurch. These other providers’ infrastructures and systems are outside of our control, and we therefore are not liable or responsible for anything which occurs as a result of other providers’ infrastructure and systems. Many of the products and services offered for sale or advertised on, and much of the information provided in connection with, our websites and other services, are the products, services and information of third parties. Third party products, services and information are not provided or endorsed by us and your legal relationship is with the third party supplier. You must make your own inquiries with the relevant third party supplier directly before relying on the third party information or entering into a transaction in relation to third party products and services supplied by means of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. You should check with the third party supplier whether there are additional charges and terms which may apply.
16. Communication Services
If the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services include email services, information services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, groups, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (collectively “Communication Services”), you agree to use and access the Communication Services in accordance with these Customer Terms and any applicable specific product terms, and only to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit or access messages and material that are permitted in accordance with those terms. You (and not Skinny Fixed Line Broadband) assume the entire cost of any necessary verification, maintenance, repair correction and/or removal of any relevant Communication Service messages and material. We are not under any obligation to monitor the Communication Services, but we reserve the right at all times to review messages and materials transmitted and accessed through a Communication Service and to disclose any information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, governmental request or code, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any message or materials, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to terminate your use of and access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
17. Data usage
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband does not have data caps. However, the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service is only for residential purposes. It is not intended for business purposes, running server farms, or the like. We expect you to use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services in a responsible and fair manner so that your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services does not impact other customers. When using the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service, you should take into account:
• The effect your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services may have on networks, equipment and other parties; and
• Compliance with “netiquette” and internet conventions; and
• The fact that such use must not interfere with the availability of any of the services to others or any other services offered by us and other internet providers and carriers to others.
• Illegal Uses – You must not use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services in ways that constitute criminal or civil breaches of any statute, regulations, government requirements or any other law (including general or common law) of any country. Those breaches include, without limitation, breach of intellectual property rights (such as copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets and confidential information); defamation; breach of obscenity laws and laws as to objectionable publications, such as pornography and hateful materials; fraud; theft; misappropriation of money, credit card details or personal information; breaches of privacy obligations; and breaches of trade practices legislation, examples of which are the Fair Trading and Consumer Guarantees Acts (New Zealand).
• Security and Protection of the Network – You must not use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services to breach, or attempt to breach, the security and operation of any network, equipment or any other system. This includes: hacking, cracking into, monitoring, or using systems without authority; scanning ports (including scanning for open relays); improper configuration of mail servers and FTP servers enabling distribution of spam or unlicensed material by others; interference of service to any user or network (or activities that might encourage such interference by others) including mail-bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks; denial of service attacks or activities which might encourage denial of service attacks by others; unnecessarily excessive traffic (including excessive pings); distributing viruses, or other harmful material or software; any communications across the services which do not accurately identify (or disclose in a manner that is misleading) addresses, headers, names and other relevant details; and using our network in any way as a staging ground for any of those breaches or to disable or “crack” other systems.
• Industry Codes – You must not use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services in a way that breaches any material standard, code and content requirements produced by any relevant authority or industry body.
• Threats – You may not use the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services to transmit content of a threatening nature including threats of death, physical harm and defamation.
• SPAM – Sending spam is not permitted.
18. Technical requirements
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband uses dynamic IP addresses. This will not interfere with most uses of the internet. Static IP addresses are not available on Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
19. Service Reliability
Because of the nature of telecommunications services, Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is unable to provide specific performance guarantees. While we always strive to provide a consistent and reliable service, there are a number of factors that influence reliability of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. For this reason, we do not guarantee continuous or fault-free services, service availability at a particular location, connection speed bandwidth, latency (delay) or bit rate through the network that we use to provide our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services at any one point in time. As the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services can occasionally go down, you should take this into account when choosing this product and what you will want to use it for. While we do use reasonable endeavours to resolve any service issues, we cannot guarantee how quickly we can arrange for resolution of any problems with the provision of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service is not designed to support commercial grade use and quality of service (QoS) for VoiP or similar services.
20. Support
The stability and performance of your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service can be affected by a number of potential faults. A fault can commonly originate from the network, phone line, your modem, or your computer. Faults can be raised by calling 0800 4 SKINNY.
21. Consumer Protection Legislation and Liability
21.1 As a consumer, it is important that you understand that any rights you may have, or obligations we may have to you, under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 apply alongside these Terms, and are not impacted by anything in this clause 21. The website https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz is a useful place to visit to help you understand your rights under this legislation.
21.2 If you are acquiring the Services for the purposes of a business as defined in the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 you acknowledge that the provisions of that Act do not apply to the Services that that we provide to you under this agreement.
21.3 Your liability to us:
- you accept your liability to us for breach of contract or negligence, and
- you are not liable for any loss to the extent that it is caused by us (for example, through our breach of contract or negligence).
- If you are ever liable to us your liability is limited to: 1. $5,000 for any event or series of related events; and 2.A total of $10,000 in respect of all events in any 12 month period, provided we notify you of our claim within 12 months after we reasonably become aware of the occurrence of the relevant event or series of events that gave rise to our claim. These limitations do not apply to your obligation to pay any charges, for any loss or damage caused by fraud, gross negligence, wilful breach or wilful damage.
21.4 We may become aware that we have suffered loss before you do. If we suffer any loss as a result of this agreement, we agree to take reasonable steps to avoid or minimise our loss and that you are not liable for any loss that results from our failure to take reasonable steps to do so.
21.5 Our liability to you:
- we accept our liability to you for breach of contract or negligence, and, subject to clause 21.2 above, for our breach of consumer protection laws, such as the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986.
- we are not liable for any loss to the extent that it is caused by you (for example, through your breach of contract or negligence).
21.6 We are not liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, business or anticipated business or anticipated profits or savings.
21.7 You may become aware that you have suffered loss before we do. If you suffer any loss as a result of this agreement, you agree to take reasonable steps to avoid or minimise your loss and that we are not liable for any loss that results from your failure to take reasonable steps to do so.
21.8 We aim to provide quality services to you at all times, and exercise reasonable skill and care in performing our obligations to you. However, if we are prevented from performing any obligation in these Terms by reason of any act of God, act of State, riot, insurrection, civil commotion, strike, sanctions, boycott, embargo or any other circumstance beyond our reasonable control, we will try to advise you of the existence of the circumstances and its expected duration, and the obligations that are impacted by the circumstances. Our performance of these Terms and provision of Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services to you will, to the extent that it is made impossible or impracticable by such circumstances (despite us taking reasonable steps to provide the services be suspended until such circumstances cease to exist. We are not liable to you for any failure or delay in performing any obligation set out in these Terms in the circumstances contemplated by this clause
21.9 You will not be required to pay any Charges for any Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services to the extent that such Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services are not provided by us due to the circumstances contemplated by this clause 21.9.
21.10 No other Spark company, network operator and/or third party supplier (including their officers, employees, contractors and agents) will be liable to you for loss or damage of any kind arising from your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. This clause creates a right and benefit that other Spark companies, network operators and/or suppliers can enforce as a defence to any claim.
21.11 If we or any of the other parties listed in clause 21.10 are ever liable to you for any reason, the maximum combined amount we and all the other parties listed in clause 21.10 (together) will have to pay you and anyone else who uses the Services we provide for you (together), will be:
- $5,000 for any event or for any series of related events; and
- a total of $10,000 in respect of all events in any 12 month period,
provided that you notify us of your claim within 12 months after you reasonably became aware of the occurrence of the relevant event or series or events that gave rise to your claim. These limitations do not limit any rights you may have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986.
22. Information about you
Your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services involves the collection by us of personal information about you, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your age, gender, preferences, and interests. Information collected by us may be combined with information obtained by our related companies. This information is used by us for the operation of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, to maintain quality of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services and to assist us to deliver customised content and advertising to our customers. Where possible, information will be obtained directly from you, but otherwise it may be provided from others (with your consent), or generated within or by the systems used to provide our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services. You may decide not to provide information to us. However, if you do not provide it, we may not be able to provide our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services to you. You may ask to see any information we hold about you and we will provide it as long as we have such information and can readily retrieve it. You may also ask us to correct any incorrect information we hold about you. We may charge you for the reasonable costs of retrieving and providing this information. We may occasionally monitor telephone calls between existing and new customers and our personnel to help train our personnel to provide better customer service. We may also monitor communications between our customers and third parties to maintain and support our systems and to safeguard the security and integrity of our services. We may provide your personal information to our related companies, our contractors, credit reference and debt collection agencies, communications network operators and selected business partners to:
- Provide our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services for you and others
- Recover money you owe
- Keep you informed of and conduct, sales and marketing activities in relation to services available to, or planned for, you from us and other people
- Exercise any lawful right we or any of our related companies, our contractors, credit reference and debt collection agencies, communications network operators and selected business partners has
Although we may publish aggregated information relating to your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, such as usage patterns, we do not disclose information in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify you, without your prior permission. Personal information collected in relation to your use of the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services may be stored and processed in New Zealand or any other country in which we or our related companies or agents maintain facilities, and by using our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of New Zealand.
23. Disclosure of information
We may disclose information about you or your use of our websites and/or services without your prior permission if we have, acting reasonably, a good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
• Conform to legal requirements (including, but not limited to, requirements in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or government request) or comply with legal process, or to help maintain the law
• Protect our rights or property or those of our related companies
• Enforce our Customer Terms
• Act to protect the interests of our, or our related companies, customers or others
We do not sell, rent or lease our visitor or customer information to third parties.
24. Sending notices
We may send you notices by sending you a text, by emailing or writing to you, by calling you, by publishing the notice on our website or by issuing a public notice in the major newspapers.
25. Meeting our responsibilities through agents and service providers
We may have any related company or an agent approved by us or any service provider approved by us perform any of our rights and obligations under this agreement. In that case, each of those companies or agents or service providers and their officers, employees, contractors and agents will have the benefit of any terms of this agreement which confer benefits on us.
26. Transferring our responsibilities
We may transfer to someone else all or any part of our side of the agreement you have with us, for example where are company ownership structure changes. This agreement is personal to you and you may not transfer this agreement or any benefit or obligation of it to any other person.
27. Severability
Each term of this agreement is separately binding. If for any reason any term is not legally effective all other terms shall remain binding and we can replace the term that is not legally effective with a term of similar meaning that is lawful and effective.
28. Waiver
A failure or delay by you or us to enforce any rights or powers under this agreement shall not operate as a waiver of that right or power. A waiver of any breach of this agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
29. Governing Law
This agreement is governed by the laws of New Zealand and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand in respect of any dispute or proceeding arising out of it.
Fixed Line Broadband Offer Summary (12 month term)
Updated 11th September 2018
These terms and conditions apply in addition to our Fixed Line Terms and Conditions, and any other specific terms and conditions applying to your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband
Access type
We will offer you the best connection type (ADSL < VDSL < UFB) available at your address. Where UFB is available, we'll offer all the UFB speed options available through Skinny Fixed Line.
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is not available in all areas. Occasionally factors like the distance of our equipment from a particular site or address mean we are unable to deliver Skinny Fixed Line Broadband, even where Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is available in your area, however we'll let you know if this is the case
Charging
Charging for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is on a monthly prepaid basis. Your first payment will be taken from your nominated credit or debit card on the day of your connection in accordance with the plan you have signed up with, and on the same date every month
If you sign up to a Skinny Fixed Line Broadband 12 month plan your monthly Plan charge will be:
- $73 per month for Unlimited ADSL, Unlimited VDSL and Unlimited Fibre 30
- $78 per month for Unlimited Fibre 100 (not available to Canterbury customers connected to the Enable Fibre network)
- $88 per month for Unlimited Fibre 200
- $98 per month for Unlimited Fibre Ultra
Canterbury customers connected to the Enable Fibre network:
- $78 per month for Unlimited Fibre 200
Notice period (termination)
If you end your plan at any time before your next monthly billing due date you will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to that billing date and any early termination or plan transfers fees outlined below
At the end of your 12 month contract period, you will automatically be transferred to the Skinny Fixed Line month to month plan at the price current as at the end of the contract
Early Termination Fee
An early termination charge of $199 applies if you leave or move from the Fixed Line Broadband Plan before the end of the term. For purposes of clarity this also includes transferring to any other Skinny Broadband plan. The fee will be charged directly to your credit card.
Plan Transfer Fee
A plan transfer fee of $199 applies if plan transfer from Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Plan before the end of the term to any other Skinny broadband plan. This will be charged directly to your credit card.
Set Up Charge
There is no set up charge for the Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Plan.
You'll get a free standard connection and a modem on a 12 month plan.
Fair Use
We don't run a Fair Use Policy on any of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband plans.
Traffic Management
No traffic management policies apply on Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
Speed Disclaimer
The ADSL, VDSL and Fibre speeds on Skinny Fixed Line Broadband represent theoretical maximums and are subject to a large number of real-world factors, many outside of Skinny’s control, which may affect performance.
Effects On Other Services
Your broadband service requires mains power to operate. If power is not available (e.g. during an outage), your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service may stop working.
This service does not come with a phone line. This means that services that use a landline phone line, such as some medical alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, the interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs are incompatible with Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
Overdue Collections
We reserve the right to charge you for the reasonable costs we incur in the enforcement of any rights contained in this Agreement, including any reasonable legal fees or reasonable costs incurred to collect any overdue Charges from you. These costs are payable on demand.
Prices are current as at 28 June 2018 and are subject to change.
All prices quoted are inclusive of GST.
For more information, give us a bell on 0800 475 4669 (0800 4 SKINNY) or flick us an email
Offer Summary (no contract term)
Updated 11th September 2018
These terms and conditions apply in addition to our Fixed Line Terms and Conditions, and any other specific terms and conditions applying to your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
Access type
We will offer you the best connection type (ADSL < VDSL < UFB) available at your address. Where UFB is available, we’ll offer all the UFB speed options available through Skinny Fixed Line.
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is not available in all areas. Occasionally factors like the distance of our equipment from a particular site or address mean we are unable to deliver Skinny Fixed Line Broadband, even where Skinny Fixed Line is available in your area, however we’ll let you know if this is the case
Charging
Charging for Skinny Fixed Line Broadband is on a monthly prepaid basis. Your first payment will be taken from your nominated credit or debit card on the day of your connection in accordance with the plan you have signed up with, and on the same date every month
If you sign up to Skinny Fixed Line Broadband [no contract option] your monthly Plan charge will be:
- $73 per month for Unlimited ADSL, Unlimited VDSL and Unlimited Fibre 30
- $78 per month for Unlimited Fibre 100 (not available to Canterbury customers connected to the Enable Fibre network)
- $88 per month for Unlimited Fibre 200
- $98 per month for Unlimited Fibre Ultra
Canterbury customers connected to the Enable Fibre network:
- $78 per month for Unlimited Fibre 200
Notice period (termination)
You can end your plan at any time before your next monthly billing due date but you will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to that billing date
Set Up Charge
Skinny Fixed Line Broadband requires the use of Skinny Modem. You will incur a modem charge of $99 and connection fee of $49 upon signup.
Fair Use
We don't run a Fair Use Policy on any of our Skinny Fixed Line Broadband plans.
Traffic Management
No traffic management policies apply on Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
Speed Disclaimer
The ADSL, VDSL and Fibre speeds on Skinny Fixed Line Broadband represent theoretical maximums and are subject to a large number of real-world factors, many outside of Skinny's control, which may affect performance.
Effects On Other Services
Your broadband service requires mains power to operate. If power is not available (e.g. during an outage), your Skinny Fixed Line Broadband Service may stop working.
This service does not come with a phone line. This means that services that use a landline phone line, such as some medical alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, the interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs are incompatible with Skinny Fixed Line Broadband.
Overdue Collections
We reserve the right to charge you for the reasonable costs we incur in the enforcement of any rights contained in this Agreement, including any reasonable legal fees or reasonable costs incurred to collect any overdue Charges from you. These costs are payable on demand.
Prices are current as at 28th June 2018 and are subject to change.
All prices quoted are inclusive of GST.
For more information, give us a bell on 0800 475 4669 (0800 4 SKINNY) or flick us an email
Uncapped Wireless Broadband Terms
These terms apply in addition to the Wireless Broadband Terms, the Customer Terms and the Service Terms. But the bit below is the most specific rule that just applies to this plan.
Our uncapped wireless broadband plan has a fair use policy. This policy is based on how most people use the service and helps us make sure everyone using it gets to enjoy it. If you engage in overly excessive or unreasonable usage, we will contact you. If this usage continues, you will be given the choice to move to another plan or have your service managed to protect the experience of other customers . If you consider that the change to the new plan or the management of your service under this fair use policy has a negative impact on you or your use of the service (or new service) you can exercise your right to terminate the service.
Skinny Jump terms
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Applies from 25 March 2020
Skinny’s standard terms and conditions that apply to wireless broadband, apply in addition to those below.
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- Skinny Jump (Jump) is for homes who currently do not have broadband and cost is a significant barrier and are most at risk of digital exclusion (as identified in the Government’s digital inclusion blueprint). We trust our community partners to work with families on a case by case basis to identify if they eligible for Skinny Jump and determine if Jump is suitable for them. Eligibility for Jump is at the sole discretion of Skinny (or our agents).
- Skinny reserves the right to rescind your eligibility for Skinny Jump if we believe, acting reasonably, that your use of the service does not fit with the intended purpose of Jump. We will give you at a month’s notice if we are going to rescind your eligibility for Jump.
Modem
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- You will be provided with a Modem to connect to Skinny Jump. The Modem remains the property of Skinny and you must return it (including all the parts and information provided) if you leave Skinny Jump. On termination, we will advise you how to return the Modem.
- You may not sell, lease, dispose of, lend or otherwise part with possession of, or modify the Modem in any way.
- The Modem contains a SIM card. You may not use this SIM card in any other device. The SIM card remains the property of Skinny and must be returned with the Modem.
Broadband Data
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- The $5 Jump plan is a Skinny Prepaid Service which entitles you to 30GB of broadband data. Spark Jump is a 30-day Prepaid Plan.
- Provided you have sufficient credit in your Skinny Account, your Jump plan will automatically renew every 30 days (unless you decide to cancel it first). Any unused data expires after 30 days and does not rollover.
- Once you've used all the data in your Jump plan, your data will come to a complete stop. To get going again, you will need to buy another Jump plan. Just sign into your Skinny dashboard to buy. Note you can purchase a maximum of 5 Jump plans in each calendar month. As there are no Add-Ons available in connection with Skinny Jump, if you have purchased 5 Jump plans in a calendar month, you will not be able to purchase any additional data for that month.
- You cannot have a Set and Forget auto payment for Skinny Jump.
- We strongly recommend you use the broadband data usage meter to monitor your broadband data use. You can access the broadband data usage meter when you login to your Skinny account at skinny.co.nz.
OFFER TERMS
Promo Terms
Updated 17th December 2020
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$10 per month Broadband Discount Terms & Conditions - valid from 17 December 2020
- Who is eligible: You are eligible if (1) you already have a Skinny 4-weekly rollover $16, $26, $36, $46 or $66 plan or 4-weekly Endless $36, $46, $70 plan and (2) you join on a Skinny wireless broadband $45, $55 or $65 plan. You must have both plans active on your wireless broadband bill date to get this offer.
- What do you get: Eligible customers get a $10 discount on their wireless broadband plan cost, on their bill date.
- You must renew your mobile plan: To be eligible for this offer, you must have an active eligible mobile plan on the date of your wireless broadband bill date. If you don’t, you will not receive the $10 discount for that entire billing cycle. If you purchase or renew an eligible mobile plan during the following month, you will not get a part discount or rebate. If you switch mobile provider or move to an ineligible plan (even if you’re doing so because of a change we’ve made to your disadvantage), you will lose your $10 discount.
- Only one discount per account: If you have multiple plans with us, you won’t get an additional $10 discount.
- How long does the offer run for: This offer runs from 17 December.
- When activating your modem after you receive it: Make sure you use the email address you used when signing up to the broadband plan, when you’re asked to log in. If you don’t use this email address you won’t receive your $10 per month discount.
Promotional offers available to Skinny Mobile customers in New Zealand will not apply when using the roaming service unless they are specifically related to roaming.
Endless Data Weekends Terms & Conditions 2020/2021 - valid from 6 November 2020
- How long does the offer run for: Endless Data weekends runs from 06 Nov 2020 to 07 Mar 2021.
- What is a 'weekend': Endless Data can be activated any time from 5pm Friday, and once the session is activated it will run until midnight Sunday that weekend. The session cannot be terminated through the mobile app once started; it will need to finish until midnight Sunday. Delays of up to 10 minutes may occur in applying the free data to your account on Friday's, but don't worry it'll happen, we promise.
- Who is eligible: The eligible mobile plans are Skinny 28-day rollover $16 and $26 plans, 28-day Endless $36, $46, $70 plans, and the $20 Endless Weekly plans, and 30-day and 28-day grandfathered rollover plans. To clarify, the following are not eligible mobile plans: Skinny's $9 plan, any $5 weekly plan customers, and any standard rates users.
- If you purchase an eligible mobile plan during the weekend, the 'Endless Data Weekends' will not apply until the next weekend.
- You must renew your plan: To be eligible for the 'Endless Data Weekends' on a specific weekend, you must have an active eligible mobile plan prior to Friday 5PM. If you deactivate the mobile plan at any time during the Endless Data Weekends promotional period (6/11/2020 - 7/03/2021), or if your mobile plan doesn't renew, 'Endless Data Weekends' will not apply until you activate a new eligible mobile plan.
- What do you get: Endless Data Weekends' includes free 2GB of bonus mobile data to be used first starting every Friday 5PM and ends Sunday midnight. That's a total of 55 hours to use up to 2GB of free bonus data if you're on an eligible mobile plan. Once this 2GB of free bonus data is finished, Endless Data can be activated through the Skinny mobile app for the remainder of that weekend by choice for all eligible customers who want to truly enjoy and benefit from not having to worry about running out of data. Endless data means data at reduced speeds of 1.2Mbps. You will still be able to use your data like you did before but you will experience some degradation (such as lower video resolution) when watching video, streaming or loading images. Note all of this data can only be used in New Zealand.
- You must activate endless data, each weekend: Endless Data is built as a free Add-On within the mobile app and the 'Endless Data Weekend' option must be activated for eligible customers to use the Endless Data at reduced speeds. This must be activated every weekend if a customer wishes to use it consistently. If a customer does not wish to use Endless Data that weekend, they simply do not need to activate it through the app.
- If a customer does not activate their Endless Data Weekend, then they will use up their normal plan data allowance after the 2GB free bonus data is used up first.
- To properly benefit from Endless Data Weekends, it is recommended customers activate Endless Data from 5pm Friday so that they can enjoy both the 2GB free bonus data, and falling onto Endless data once that is finished, without the need for any further action.
- No rollover: Endless Data Weekends' 2GB free bonus and free Endless data does not rollover.
Skinny Buddy Rewards as of 26th August 2020
1. Skinny customers (“you” or the “referrer”) may request a Skinny Buddy Rewards promo code (“promo code”) via the Skinny App.
2. If any of your friends then join Skinny on a $16 or above 4-weekly Prepaid Plan and use that promo code, we will give you and each of those friends Skinny Buddy rewards. Skinny Buddy rewards will be either a NZD top-up credit or bonus NZ Data, as stated in your app message. Skinny Buddy rewards are subject to change periodically.
3. Your promo code must be redeemed by your friend(s) by 31/03/2021. Your promo code can be shared with as many of your friends as you like provided that each of your friends (“eligible friend”):
a. Is a real person (sorry, we don’t accept imaginary friends);
b. Is not currently a Skinny customer;
c. Signs up for a $16 or above 4-weekly Prepaid Plan; and
d. Redeems your promo code before the date that is 30 days after they join Skinny and by 31/03/2021.
4. If Skinny identifies or suspects the creation of a ‘fake’ friend in order to claim rewards, we may cancel the rewards given, and/or suspend your Skinny services.
5. As the referrer, you will get the reward for each eligible friend who joins Skinny and uses the promo code
6. Each of your friends who joins Skinny will receive the reward once in respect of that promo code.
7. New customers who buy an Endless mobile plan with a buddy rewards code will get 4GB of bonus data added onto their max speed data allowance. New customers who buy a rollover plan with a buddy rewards code will get the 4GB bonus data as a separate allowance, the 4GB bonus will not add to their rollover balance as it is not rollover data. The 4GB bonus data must be used within 90 days, after which it expires.
8. Skinny Buddy rewards may differ for you (as the referrer) and each of your friends who join Skinny, as stated on your app at the time the code is generated
9. The account credit reward that you earn with your promo code expires 12 months from the date it is applied to your account. The bonus data award earned by an eligible friend expires within 90 days from the date it is awarded through redemption.
10. The Skinny Buddy Rewards promo code is available for Skinny Mobile Prepaid products, it is not available for Skinny Direct products, Skinny Fixed Line Broadband or Skinny Wireless Broadband
11. If your account is deactivated because you have not added credit for 12 months or your account is otherwise expired, terminated, disconnected, suspended, or blocked you and your friend may not receive the Skinny Buddy reward.
12. As of 26/08/2020 the Buddy Rewards Promotion has been extended and all existing codes have had their expiry dates extended from the original 6-month period to 31/03/2021. (Please note Skinny App must be updated to version 2.6.0 or later to view updated Expiry Date) Skinny Customer Terms and Service Terms and charges apply to each Skinny Buddy Rewards promotion.
Bring Your Number Offer - valid from 6 May 2020
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- New mobile customers only
- A customer who activates a new SIM and buys a Rollover mobile plan and brings their number over within 30days from activation of SIM.
- Excludes Skinny Direct customers
- If you are on an Endless Mobile Plan, $9 or weekly plans, you will still receive this porting bonus. However, to use the bonus rollover data you will need to move to one of Skinny’s Rollover plans. Your bonus rollover data will sit in our account for 12 months, unless used prior.
- If you are current Skinny broadband customer you can still claim this offer: if you are new to Skinny mobile.
- It will take approximately 3 hours (or more) to bring your number across from your previous provider to Skinny, as long as all your details are correct at time of porting, and there are no account issues with your provider.
- You may be responsible for unlock fees, porting charges and/or early termination charges to your current telecommunications provider.
- Can I use my phone while I am waiting?
- Yes - If you are using your new Skinny SIM, then you’ll receive a text telling you that your old number has been switched over to Skinny.
- Or you can continue to use your current (non-Skinny) SIM until you can no longer make or receive calls/texts or use your mobile data. When this happens the switch is complete and you can now pop your new Skinny SIM into your phone and your number will be there waiting
- Rollover data expires in 12 months, unless used prior.
- Skinny terms apply.
- Bonus data of 5GB Rollover Data will usually take up to 1 hour or less to be applied to your plan. In some cases, this may take up to 1-3 working days to be applied. You must be on a Skinny mobile rollover plan to use your bonus data. Data is a one off bonus.
Free Data Weekdays - valid from 10th April 2020
- Free Data Weekdays includes free 1GB of bonus mobile data to be used in New Zealand, starting at 9am and finishing at 5pm every weekday.
- Delays of up to 10 minutes may occur in applying the free data to your account each day, but don’t worry it’ll happen, we promise.
- Available to all eligible Skinny customers between 10 April 2020 – 30 April 2020.
- The eligible customers are:
- Skinny Mobile
- Has an active Skinny Mobile connection (i.e. an active connection will have topped up at least once within the last 12 months)
- Are not on an Unlimited Mobile plan
- Skinny Direct
- Those who are on a plan
- Are not on an Unlimited Mobile plan
- To be eligible for the ‘Free Data Weekdays’ on a specific weekday, you must have an active eligible mobile plan prior to 9am.
- If you purchase an eligible mobile plan during a weekday during the promotion, the ‘Free Data Weekday’ will not apply until until the following weekday.
- If your connection becomes inactive (i.e. the length of time since your last top-up becomes a year or longer) during the promotion period, then you will no longer be eligible for this promotion.
- ‘Free Data Weekdays’ data does not rollover.
March 2020 Prezzy Card Draw Terms & Conditions
By participating in this Prize Draw (the “Prize Draw”), you are deemed to accept and agree to these Competition Terms:
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The Promoter of this Prize Draw is Skinny Mobile (“Skinny”), a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited.
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This Prize Draw is only open to current Skinny mobile customers who have been a customer for less than 90 days as at 09/03/2020, who are New Zealand residents and is not open to employees of Skinny, Spark, its agents, contractors, consultants, or their families (including de facto spouses) or to other persons assisting with this Competition.
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The entry for this Prize Draw commences on 09/03/2020 and ends at 11.59pm on 13/03/2020.
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All valid entries received by 11.59pm on 13/03/2020 will go into the draw.
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To enter the Prize Draw you must fill in all the fields in the provided entry form at the end of the survey.
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Only one entry per person is permitted. All late entries are deemed invalid.
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Skinny is not responsible or liable for any late, lost or misdirected entries or for any problems or technical malfunction which may result in delay or failure to enter you into the draw.
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A total of five prize winners will be selected by random draw (“Winners”). The five Winners will each receive a one hundred-dollar Prezzy Card.
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Skinny will notify each of the prize winners by email on 31 March 2020. Skinny will make reasonable attempts to contact the winner, but if the winner is not able to be contacted or is unable to redeem the prize in accordance with the terms and conditions within two days from the first contact attempt; the prize will be redrawn in his or her place without liability to any person.
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Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash. Skinny takes no responsibility for entries or prizes that are lost or destroyed.
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The decisions of Skinny on all matters relating to this Competition are final and no correspondence will be entered into. Skinny reserves the right to verify the validity of an entry or a winner's right to redeem the prize in accordance with these terms and conditions. Skinny reserves the right to amend the prizes offered and these terms and conditions and in its absolute discretion cancel the competition at any time and without prior notice.
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Skinny accepts no responsibility or liability for any prize winner’s enjoyment of any prize or any other costs and expenses that may be incurred by the prize winner relating to the prize or the winner’s enjoyment of that prize.
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Any personal information collected as part of this Competition will be held by Skinny in accordance with its privacy policy. You have the right to access, update and correct such information.
Skinny Fixed Line one month free broadband - Terms and Conditions
The one month free broadband offer (“the offer”) applies to your first month base plan charges on your new Skinny Fixed Line account. The offer is only available to customers who do not currently purchase broadband from Skinny and have not had broadband with Skinny within the last 90 days. The offer is available for a limited time only.
Offer applies to new Skinny customers signing up to any of the following plans, on a 12-month term:
- ADSL
- VDSL
- Uncapped Fibre 30
- Uncapped Fibre 100
- Uncapped Fibre 200
- Uncapped Fibre Ultra
The offer includes a free modem, shipping and standard broadband connection for ADSL, VDSL and fibre customers. Non-standard installation charges apply.
If you leave Skinny before the end of your 12-month contract, an early exit fee of $199 will apply. The offer is subject to change without notice.
The offer will be applied to your Skinny account as a credit for 100% of your base plan charges. The offer does not include any additional services which will be charged at full price, including during the first month of your new Skinny plan.
This offer may not be combined with any other “new customer” promotional offers. It may only be combined with other publicly available offers on the Skinny website (an “other offer”), provided you are eligible for the other offer at the date you sign up, the other offer is not a ‘new customer’ offer and the combination of the other offer and this offer is not prohibited in the terms of the other offer.
Broadband not available everywhere and speeds vary. Local Fibre Company terms apply if you have a fibre connection. Skinny's Broadband Customer Terms and Conditions apply to all Skinny broadband plans.
Skinny Wireless Broadband first month free broadband – Terms and Conditions
The first month free broadband offer (“the offer”) applies to your first month base plan charges on your new Skinny Wireless Broadband account. The offer is only available to customers who do not currently purchase broadband from Skinny and have not had broadband with Skinny within the last 90 days. The offer is available for a limited time only.
Offer applies to new Skinny customers signing up to any of the following plans:
- Skinny Wireless Broadband 60GB
- Skinny Wireless Broadband 120GB
- Skinny Wireless Broadband Uncapped
The offer will be applied to your Skinny account as a credit for 100% of your base plan charges. The offer does not include any additional services which will be charged at full price, including during the first month of your new Skinny plan.
This offer may not be combined with any other “new customer” promotional offers. It may only be combined with other publicly available offers on the Skinny website (an “other offer”), provided you are eligible for the other offer at the date you sign up, the other offer is not a ‘new customer’ offer and the combination of the other offer and this offer is not prohibited in the terms of the other offer.
Broadband not available everywhere and speeds vary. Skinny's Broadband Customer Terms and Conditions apply to all Skinny broadband plans.
Free Data Weekends Terms & Conditions 2019/2020 - valid from 8 November 2019
2GB per weekend. Any mobile rollover plan. All summer long:
- Free Data Weekends’ includes free 2GB of bonus mobile data to be used in New Zealand, starting every Friday 5PM and ends Sunday midnight. That’s a total of 55 hours to use up to 2GB of free bonus data if you’re on an eligible rollover plan
- Delays of up to 10 minutes may occur in applying the free data to your account on Friday’s, but don’t worry it’ll happen, we promise.
- Available to all Skinny customers on an eligible mobile plan between 08 Nov 19 – 01 Mar 20.
- Last free data weekend ends 1 March 20.
- The eligible mobile plans are all Skinny 30 day and 28-day $16, $26, $36, $40, $46, $66 rollover plans.
- To clarify, the following are not eligible mobile plans: all Skinny Direct plans and Skinny’s, $9 plan, $77 unlimited plan, $20 Weekly Unlimited plan and any weekly plan customers.
- To be eligible for the ‘Free Data Weekends’ on a specific weekend, you must have an active eligible mobile plan prior to Friday 5PM.
- If you purchase an eligible mobile plan during the weekend, the ‘Free Data Weekends’ will not apply until the next weekend.
- If you deactivate the mobile plan at any time during the Free Data Weekends promotional period (8/11/2019 – 01/03/2020), or if your mobile plan doesn’t renew, new ‘Free Data Weekends’ will not apply until you activate a new eligible mobile plan.
- ‘Free Data Weekends’ data does not rollover. All summer long means from 08 Nov 2019 to 01 Mar 2020.
- If you successfully refer a friend to Skinny and they join a Skinny $16 or above 28-day rollover plan, you will get a bonus 1GB of free data weekends, taking you to a total of 3GB of free data every weekend for the remainder of the promotion.
Double Data December - valid from 1 December 2019 - 31 December 2019
- Double Data December promotion runs from 1st December 2019 to 31st December 2019.
- All new Skinny customers who activate on a $16-$66 28-Day Plan in December 2019 are eligible to receive double the allocation of rollover data and minutes associated to the eligible plan activated.
- All existing Skinny Mobile customers who buy or renew on a $16 - $66 28-day plan in December 2019 are eligible to receive double the allocation of rollover data and minutes associated to the eligible plan purchased.
- Offer excludes Skinny Weekly Mobile Plans, Skinny Unlimited Plans, Skinny Direct Customers, and Grandfathered Skinny Mobile plans.
- Double Data and Minutes given are rollover and will expire after 365 days.
- Customers may only receive double data and minutes one time during the promotional period.
- Where a customer activates or buys an eligible plan with unlimited minutes the minutes allocation will not be doubled.
Double Data and Double Minutes for $9 Plan & $5 Plan Customers - valid from 8 November 2019
- Double data and double minutes offer only available on the 28-day $9 plan and 7-day $5 Weekly plan.
- If you are on an eligible plan, you will get double data and double mins from the moment you purchase your plan, for the remainder of the plan.
- Double data and double minutes available on every plan renewal from 08/11/2019 to 03/03/2020.
- Data and minutes do not rollover.
- Offer not available on grandfathered 30-day $9 plan, Busy Fingers, Loose Lips and Data Weekly.
- You need to stay active on an eligible plan to get the double data and double minutes.
- Standard Plan T&Cs apply.
Samsung Battery Pack Redemption Promotion - valid from 4th November 2019
- The Battery pack redemption is to be done directly via Samsung http://www.samsungincentives.co.nz/
- The Battery Pack redemption promotion (“Promotion”) applies to purchases of Participating Products between 9.00 am (NZST) on Thursday 24th October 2019 and 11:59pm (NZST) Friday 3rd January 2020 (“Promotional Period”).
- Instructions on how to claim the Promotion form part of these Terms and Conditions. Participation in this Promotion is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. The Promotion is not valid in conjunction with any other offer.
- For the purposes of this Promotion, “Participating Products” means the following Samsung Galaxy A-series phones:
- Galaxy A30
- Galaxy A50
- Galaxy A70
- Galaxy A80
For the avoidance of doubt, the Galaxy A10 is not eligible for this Promotion and Participating Products does not include any accessories related to such products. By way of example, accessories include cases, screen protectors, charging devices and memory cards.
Be in to win Samsung Galaxy S10 promo - valid from 10 December - 13 December 2019
- The Samsung Galaxy S10 promo period starts on 10 Dec and ends on 13 Dec 2019.
- All new and existing customers must purchase at least one Samsung A series device to be eligible and automatically go into the draw to win the Samsung Galaxy S10 black 256GB (RRP $1499). Only one winner will be drawn after the promotion period ends, and only one prize to be claimed.
- This promotion is online only and through Skinny Mobile.
- All valid entries received by midnight 13 Dec 2019 will go into the draw. Winner will be drawn at random and notified via email by the end of 16 December, and the Samsung Galaxy S10 will be delivered to the customer via courier.
- Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash or credit. Skinny takes no responsibility if the prize is lost or destroyed, however Skinny will fulfil its obligation to help manage returns/repairs in the event the prize is faulty or damaged.
- Spark reserves the right to verify the validity of an entry or a winner's right to redeem the prize in accordance with these terms and conditions.
- If the winner is deemed invalid, the prize will be redrawn in his or her place without liability to any person.
Coupons
1. Skinny may generate and distribute coupons to be used only in the online store at skinny.co.nz. These coupons may be single or multiple use and apply to all products, specific products or specific categories of product, at Skinny’s sole discretion. Coupons may expire on a certain date and time.
2. The individual coupon rules will be communicated at the time of the distribution of coupons when possible or specified on the website.
3. Coupons can apply discounts either as dollar amounts or percentages.
4. Coupons may not be transferred, used to purchase credit on your account or exchanged for cash.
5. There is a limit of one coupon to be used per cart purchase. In other words, you cannot enter more than one coupon per payment.
6. Skinny retains the right not to honour a coupon code or to disable it at any time and if you have paid for the coupon Skinny, at its sole discretion, will provide you with either a replacement coupon of the same value or reimbursement for the cancelled coupon.
7. In cases where Skinny suspects attempted abuse of the coupon system in the online store, we may pursue legal action against the person(s) involved and will cancel any orders associated with this activity
Facebook Competitions and Giveaways
1. By participating in any competition or giveaway advertised by Skinny Mobile (“Skinny”) on its Facebook page (the “Competition”), you confirm that you accept and agree to these competition terms.
2. The Promoter of the Competition is Skinny a division of is Spark New Zealand Trading Limited (“Spark”). The Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook. You completely release Facebook from any and all liability associated with this Competition. 3. Employees of Spark and Skinny Mobile are not eligible to enter.
4. Entrants must follow the instructions on the Competition Facebook post to enter this competition.
5. The Competition entry closing and opening dates will be specified on the Competition Facebook post.
6. Skinny is not responsible or liable for any late, lost or misdirected entries or for any problems or technical malfunction which may result in delay or failure to enter you into the draw.
7. All entries to this Competition become the property of Skinny and will not be returned to the entrants.
8. The winner(s) will be drawn as specified by the Facebook Competition post. The prize winner(s) will receive the prize that is advertised on either the Facebook Competition post or the Facebook Competition photo or another prize of equal value. Skinny accepts no responsibility or liability for any prize winner’s enjoyment of any prize or any other costs and expenses that may be incurred by the prize winner relating to the prize or the winner’s enjoyment of that prize (including any travel related costs where relevant and unless otherwise specified in the Facebook Competition post).
9. Skinny will endeavour to notify each of the prize winners by email, text or phone. However, if the winner cannot be reached within three working days, we may redraw a new prize winner without liability to any person. Skinny reserves the right to contact the selected winners by other means.
10. Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash. Skinny takes no responsibility for entries or prizes that are lost or destroyed.
11. Accepting the prize constitutes a winner's consent to be photographed and/or interviewed by Skinny and for Skinny to use his or her name, city/town of residence, competition entry and/or photographs and interviews for Competition or publicity purposes without compensation. This includes on Skinny’s website, direct and social media channels.
12. The winner acknowledges that redemption of some prizes may require the winner to be at least 18 years of age or have parental/ guardian consent. We will let you know on our Facebook Competition post.
13. The decisions of Skinny on all matters relating to this Competition are final and no correspondence will be entered into. Skinny reserves the right to verify the validity of an entry or a winner's right to redeem the prize in accordance with these terms and conditions. Skinny reserves the right to amend the prizes offered and these terms and conditions and in its absolute discretion cancel the competition at any time and without prior notice.
14. To the extent permitted by law, Skinny excludes any liability it may have to you arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with this Competition.
15. Any personal information collected as part of this Competition will be held by Skinny in accordance with its privacy policy. You have the right to access, update and correct such information.
16. All Facebook competitions are restricted to people 18 years and over unless otherwise specified.
Skinny Customer Terms and Service Terms and charges apply to each Skinny Buddy Rewards promotion.
Enable Fibre Promotion
1. Speed upgrade provided to customers on the Fixed Line Fibre 100 plan who are connected via the Enable network in the Christchurch region only.
2. The Fixed Line Fibre 100 plan is no longer available to customers who are eligible for connection to the Enable network. To see whether you can connect to the Enable network see https://www.enable.net.nz/
3. Skinny may decide to make the Fibre 100 Plan available again at its discretion.
4. Discounted price of $78 provided to all customers on the Fixed Line Fibre 200 plan who are connected to the Enable network in the Christchurch region.
5. Existing customers already on the Fixed Line Fibre 200 plan will receive the discounted price from their next bill date after notice from Skinny.
6. New and existing customers are eligible for the speed upgrade and/or price discount.
7. Speed upgrade and/or price discount only apply to the Fixed Line Fibre 100 plan and Fixed Line Fibre 200 plan.
8. Skinny has the right to withdraw and/or amend the speed upgrade and/or price discount at any time.
9. Non Standard install charges apply as explained in our standard terms.
10. Other contract terms do not change.
