Below are our retired terms and conditions. These are terms for past promotions, offers and general legal stuff. Our lawyers tell us we need to keep these.
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Latest updates
We've updated our ADSL, VDSL and Fibre Broadband terms and conditions (as of 16 March 2023).
What's changed is the early termination fee you'll pay if you leave while you're still in a 12 month fixed term:
That's all folks.
These terms applied between 14 July 2022 and 15 March 2023.
Service Overview
Service description:
This standalone plan provides a data connection to the internet delivered over a Copper ADSL connection..
Availability: This 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 this plan. Use our address checker to see what is available to you.
Service Charge: $78 per month – Unlimited data allowance. (The price shown is valid until 31 July 2024. On 1 August 2024 it will go up by $5 per month (incl. GST) for all new and existing customers).
Additional data charges: None.
Set up charge: No pesky term: A $99 Skinny Smart Modem will need to be purchased and a $49 Connection Fee (to cover administrative costs) will apply.
12 month fixed term: No Modem or Connection Fee.
There is a $10 Shipping and Handling Fee.
See ‘Other Charges” for additional setup charges that may apply.
Other charges: In some cases, additional wiring costs apply (e.g. you have a new home without wiring or an old home with old wiring). The standard wiring charge is $199. If non-standard wiring is required, this wiring charge may be higher. If line installation is required at a new address, additional charges will apply which will be discussed prior to installation.
Broadband performance
Broadband performance can be affected by many factors and the broadband speeds you experience could be different. Factors such as the performance of your modem, location of the server you’re connected to, the performance of your device and your in-home Wi-Fi setup can impact the speeds experienced. For more about this visit our FAQs.
See Measuring Broadband NZ for independent information on broadband performance across different providers, plans and technologies.
Access type: Copper ADSL. For more information about the different access types visit www.tcf.org.nz/broadband
For an estimate of the DSL speed at your premise visit https://www.skinny.co.nz/broadband/
Other Information
Minimum contract period:
No pesky term: 1 month.
12 month fixed term: 12 months.
Early termination fee:
No pesky term: No fee.
12 month fixed term: Early termination charge applies if you leave or move from one broadband technology to another (e.g. wireless to fibre) before the end of the term. The fee will be charged directly to your credit card. The fee is $199 if you leave within months 0 - 6 after connecting your plan or $99 if you leave within the months 7 - 12 after connecting your plan.
Notice period: If you end your plan at any time before your next monthly billing due date you will need to give us at least 24 hours’ notice of the end date. You will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to that billing date and any early termination or plan transfers fees outlined. If ‘12 month fixed term option’ chosen then at the end of your 12 month contract period, you will automatically be transferred to the ‘No pesky term’ month to month plan at the price current as at the end of the contract.
Other requirements: None.
Traffic management: We may need to suspend your use this plan 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 Skinny broadband services, or where it is reasonably necessary for us to do so. See clause 5.7 of our General Terms for more details.
Service restrictions: We have some service restrictions which may impact you. See clauses 5.7 - 5.12 of our General Terms for more details.
Fair use: We do not have a Fair Use policy for this plan but may do so in the future.
Effects on other services:
Your broadband service requires mains power to operate. If power is not available (e.g. during an outage), your 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 voice services, medical alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, the interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs do not work with this plan.
Complaints: You can find out more about making a complaint to Skinny.
Disputes: Skinny is a member of the Telecommunication Dispute Resolution scheme www.tdr.org.nz.
Prices quotes are inclusive of GST.
Other legal terms and conditions for this plan can be found at https://www.skinny.co.nz/skinny-terms/
These terms applied between 14 July 2022 and 15 March 2023.
Service Overview
Service description: This standalone plan provides a data connection to the internet delivered over a Copper VDSL connection.
Availability: This 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 this plan. Use our address checker to see what is available to you.
Service Charge: $78 per month – Unlimited data allowance. (The price shown is valid until 31 July 2024. On 1 August 2024 it will go up by $5 per month (incl. GST) for all new and existing customers).
Additional data charges: None.
Set up charge:
No pesky term: A $99 Skinny Smart Modem will need to be purchased and a $49 Connection Fee (to cover administrative costs) will apply.
12 month fixed term: No Modem or Connection Fee.
There is a $10 Shipping and Handling Fee.
See ‘Other Charges” for additional setup charges that may apply.
Other charges: In some cases, additional wiring costs apply (e.g. you have a new home without wiring or an old home with old wiring). The standard wiring charge is $199. If non-standard wiring is required, this wiring charge may be higher. If line installation is required at a new address, additional charges will apply which will be discussed prior to installation.
Broadband performance
Broadband performance can be affected by many factors and the broadband speeds you experience could be different. Factors such as the performance of your modem, location of the server you’re connected to, the performance of your device and your in-home Wi-Fi setup can impact the speeds experienced. For more about this visit our FAQs.
See Measuring Broadband NZ for independent information on broadband performance across different providers, plans and technologies.
Access type: Copper VDSL. For more information about the different access types visit www.tcf.org.nz/broadband.
For an estimate of the DSL speed at your premise visit skinny.co.nz/broadband/
Other Information
Minimum contract period:
No pesky term: 1 month.
12 month fixed term: 12 months.
Early termination fee:
No pesky term: No fee
12 month fixed term: Early termination charge applies if you leave or move from one broadband technology to another (e.g. wireless to fibre) before the end of the term. The fee will be charged directly to your credit card. The fee is $199 if you leave within months 0 - 6 after connecting your plan or $99 if you leave within the months 7 - 12 after connecting your plan.
Notice period: If you end your plan at any time before your next monthly billing due date you will need to give us at least 24 hours’ notice of the end date. You will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to that billing date and any early termination or plan transfers fees outlined. If ’12 month fixed term option’ chosen then at the end of your 12 month contract period, you will automatically be transferred to the ‘No pesky term’ month to month plan at the price current as at the end of the contract.
Other requirements: None.
Traffic management: We may need to suspend your use of this plan 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 Skinny broadband services, or where it is reasonably necessary for us to do so. See clause 5.7 of our General Terms for more details.
Service restrictions: We have some service restrictions which may impact you. See clauses 5.7 - 5.12 of our General Terms for more details.
Fair use: We do not have a Fair Use policy for this plan but may do so in the future.
Effects on other services:
Your broadband service requires mains power to operate. If power is not available (e.g. during an outage), your 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 voice services, medical alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, the interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs do not work with this plan.
Complaints: You can find out more about making a complaint to Skinny.
Disputes: Skinny is a member of the Telecommunication Dispute Resolution scheme www.tdr.org.nz
Prices quotes are inclusive of GST.
Other legal terms and conditions for this plan can be found at https://www.skinny.co.nz/skinny-terms/
These terms applied between 14 July 2022 and 15 March 2023.
Service Overview
Service description: This standalone plan provides a data connection to the internet delivered over a Fibre connection.
Availability: This 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 this plan. Use our address checker to see what is available to you.
Service Charge:
· $78 per month – Unlimited data allowance on Fibre300. (The price shown is valid until 31 July 2024. On 1 August 2024 it will go up by $5 per month (incl. GST) for all new and existing customers).
· $98 per month – Unlimited data allowance on FibreMax. (The price shown is valid until 31 July 2024. On 1 August 2024 it will go up by $5 per month (incl. GST) for all new and existing customers).
Additional data charges: None.
Set up charge:
No pesky term: A $99 Skinny Smart Modem will need to be purchased and a $49 Connection Fee (to cover administrative costs) will apply.
12 month fixed term: No Modem or Connection Fee.
There is a $10 Shipping and Handling Fee.
See ‘Other Charges” for additional setup charges that may apply.
Other charges: Non-standard installation charges (including for properties that are 200 or more metres away from the road), incur additional charges. A price can be provided following assessment. There can also be a $199 charge if you wish to move an ONT to another property. This may be higher in some cases.
Broadband performance
Broadband performance can be affected by many factors and the broadband speeds you experience could be different. Factors such as the performance of your modem, location of the server you’re connected to, the performance of your device and your in-home Wi-Fi setup can impact the speeds experienced. For more about this visit our FAQs.
See Measuring Broadband NZ for independent information on broadband performance across different providers, plans and technologies.
Access type: Fibre. For more information about the different access types visit www.tcf.org.nz/broadband.
Other Information
Minimum contract period:
No pesky term: 1 month.
12 month fixed term: 12 months.
Early termination fee:
No pesky term: No fee.
12 month fixed term: Early termination charge applies if you leave or move from one broadband technology to another (e.g. wireless to fibre) before the end of the term. The fee will be charged directly to your credit card. The fee is $199 if you leave within months 0 - 6 after connecting your plan or $99 if you leave within the months 7 - 12 after connecting your plan.
Notice period: If you end your plan at any time before your next monthly billing due date you will need to give us at least 24 hours’ notice of the end date. You will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to that billing date and any early termination or plan transfers fees outlined. If ’12 month fixed term’ option chosen then at the end of your 12 month contract period, you will automatically be transferred to the ‘No pesky term’ month to month plan at the price current as at the end of the contract.
Other requirements: None.
Traffic management: We may need to suspend your use of this plan 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 Skinny broadband services, or where it is reasonably necessary for us to do so. See clause 5.7 of our General Terms for more details.
Service restrictions: We have some service restrictions which may impact you. See clauses 5.7 - 5.12 of our General Terms for more details.
Fair use: We do not have a Fair Use policy for this plan but may do so in the future.
Effects on other services:
Your broadband service requires mains power to operate. If power is not available (e.g. during an outage), your 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 voice services, medical alerts, monitored home alarms, faxes, the interactive features of SKY digital or PABXs do not work with this plan.
Complaints: You can find out more about making a complaint to Skinny.
Disputes: Skinny is a member of the Telecommunication Dispute Resolution scheme www.tdr.org.nz
Prices quotes are inclusive of GST.
Other legal terms and conditions for this plan can be found at https://www.skinny.co.nz/skinny-terms/
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.
1. Our agreement
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Provision of Services
5. Mobile phone numbers
6. Wireless data and content
7. Mobile phone and SIM
8. Charges and your account
Data Consumed
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Data Deducted From Your Plan Balance
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0-64KB | 1KB |
65-128KB | 65KB |
129-192KB | 129KB |
193- 256KB | 193KB |
9. Withholding, suspending or restricting services
10. Giving up or ending services
11. Consumer Protection Legislation and Liability
12. 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
13. Changing these terms, Charges and Services
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
Updated 23rd April 2020
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.
Free Data Weekdays - valid from 10th April 2020
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:
The Promoter of this Prize Draw is Skinny Mobile (“Skinny”), a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited.
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.
The entry for this Prize Draw commences on 09/03/2020 and ends at 11.59pm on 13/03/2020.
All valid entries received by 11.59pm on 13/03/2020 will go into the draw.
To enter the Prize Draw you must fill in all the fields in the provided entry form at the end of the survey.
Only one entry per person is permitted. All late entries are deemed invalid.
Skinny is not responsible or liable for any late, lost or misdirected entries caused by you (provided you have taken all necessary steps to enter the promotion), which may result in delay or failure to enter you into the draw.
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.
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.
Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash. Skinny takes no responsibility for entries or prizes that are lost or destroyed.
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.
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.
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 Unlimited two months free broadband - Terms and Conditions
The two months free broadband offer (“the offer”) applies to your first two months base plan charges on your new Skinny Unlimited 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 to customers who sign up from 13/02/2020 to 30/06/2020.
Offer applies to new Skinny customers signing up to any of the following plans, on a 12-month term:
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 two months 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 to customers who sign up from 18 Dec 2019 to 30 June 2020.
Offer applies to new Skinny customers signing up to any of the following plans:
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:
Double Data December - valid from 1 December 2019 - 31 December 2019
Double Data and Double Minutes for $9 Plan & $5 Plan Customers - valid from 8 November 2019
Samsung Battery Pack Redemption Promotion - valid from 4th November 2019
Be in to win Samsung Galaxy S10 promo - valid from 10 December - 13 December 2019
Porting Offer - valid from 30 September 2019
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 caused by you (provided you have taken all necessary steps to enter the promotion), 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.
Skinny Buddy Rewards as of 29/10/2019
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 higher 28 Day 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 Rollover 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 30/06/2020. 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 more 28 day Prepaid Plan; and
d. Redeems your promo code before the date that is 30 days after they join Skinny and by 30/06/2020.
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 the $77 Unlimited Mobile Plan with a buddy rewards code, will get the 4GB rollover data but will not be able to use it unless they move to an active Rollover plan. Rollover data expires in 365 days.
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. Any reward (either an account credit or Rollover Data) that you earn with your promo code expires 12 months from the date it is applied to your account.
10. The Skinny Buddy Rewards promo code is available for all Skinny Mobile Prepaid products, it is not available for Skinny Direct products, Skinny Unlimited 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.
Enable Fibre Promotion
1. Speed upgrade provided to customers on the Unlimited Fibre 100 plan who are connected via the Enable network in the Christchurch region only.
2. The Unlimited 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 Unlimited Fibre 200 plan who are connected to the Enable network in the Christchurch region.
5. Existing customers already on the Unlimited 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 Unlimited Fibre 100 plan and Unlimited 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.
Skinny Collect terms and conditions
For Skinny Collect terms & conditions, please refer to https://www.skinny.co.nz/collect/collect-terms/
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.
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.
Updated 26th July 2021
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 of an acceptable quality you can take us up on our 30 Day Satisfaction 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 contacting our care team and returning 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, if you are on an open term plan, 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.
If you’re on a term contract we’ll let you leave your contract early without charging a termination fee. The refund excludes any plan fees, additional data charges and other costs. Our satisfaction is available once per customer per address.
Skinny reserves its right to remove the satisfaction guarantee at any time. However, any customers who joined the Service within 30 days of Skinny removing the satisfaction guarantee will still be able to take advantage of the satisfaction guarantee Our satisfaction 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
· 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 and modem shipping and handling fee applies.
· 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.
Unlimited 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 unlimited 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’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.
Updated 26th July 2021
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 of an acceptable quality you can take us up on our 30 Day Satisfaction 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 contacting our care team and returning 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, if you are on an open term plan, 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.
If you’re on a term contract we’ll let you leave your contract early without charging a termination fee. The refund excludes any plan fees, additional data charges and other costs. Our satisfaction is available once per customer per address.
Skinny reserves its right to remove the satisfaction guarantee at any time. However, any customers who joined the Service within 30 days of Skinny removing the satisfaction guarantee will still be able to take advantage of the satisfaction guarantee Our satisfaction 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
· 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 and modem shipping and handling fee applies.
· 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.
Unlimited 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 unlimited 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.
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.
Phones paid over 36 months interest free.
1. Only available on phones purchased at skinny.co.nz
2. Only available on selected Skinny mobile service plans.
3. Only one phone can be put on 36 months interest free per Skinny mobile service plan.
4. Skinny is not responsible for phones on interest free which are lost or stolen and if this happens your payment obligations to Gem Visa will continue. This does not affect your legal rights, including under the Fair Trading Act or Consumer Guarantees Act.
5. If you leave Skinny during your interest free term, your payment obligations to Gem Visa will continue.
Important – Gem Visa Terms apply to your interest free payments.
Full Gem Visa Terms:
36 months instalment interest free.
Minimum purchase $1000. From no deposit. 36 months of equal interest free instalments with Gem Visa as an instalment plan advance (Gem Visa). Amount payable will be shown on your monthly statement. Credit and lending criteria and fees, including a Gem Visa $55 establishment fee and annual fees ($52 Gem Visa), apply. Prevailing interest rate (currently Gem Visa 25.99% p.a.) applies after any interest free term ends. Credit provided by Latitude Financial Services Limited.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, $26, $36, $46 and $66 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, $26, $36, $46 and $66 Prepaid Plans is for data usage in NZ only. Unlimited Data on the $77 Unlimited Mobile Plan 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 the $36, $46, $66 and $77 Unlimited 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.
$20 Unlimited Mobile Plan
Skinny’s standard terms and conditions apply in addition to those below.
Your Data: Unlimited data for personal NZ use on your mobile only. Excludes Roaming data. Max speeds reduced after 10GB of data usage per billing cycle. 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. No rollover, purchase of Data Binge or gifting on Skinny Unlimited Mobile.
Unlimited data may be used for standard personal use only. 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.
Discounts and offers:
Plan may not be eligible for offers, credits, or discounts.
There is no rollover, purchase of data binge, or gifting available on the $20 Weekly Unlimited Mobile Plan.
$77 Unlimited Mobile Plan
Skinny’s standard terms and conditions apply in addition to those below.
Your Data: Unlimited data for personal NZ use on your mobile only. Excludes Roaming data. Max speeds reduced after 40GB of data usage per billing cycle. 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. No rollover, purchase of Data Binge or gifting on Skinny Unlimited Mobile.
Unlimited data may be used for standard personal use only. 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.
Discounts and offers:
Plan may not be eligible for offers, credits, or discounts.
There is no rollover, purchase of data binge, or gifting available on the $77 Unlimited Mobile Plan.
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.
International Calling Add-Ons
You can view our International Calling Add-Ons here.
• 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.
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 is not available on the $20 and $77 Unlimited Mobile Plan.
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”.
Standard Rates, Overage, and Other Charges
You can view our Standard Rates, Overage Charges, and other charges here.
Roaming
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.
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.
Travel SIM terms
As at 25th October, 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 the $20 and $77 Unlimited Mobile Plan.
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
For Skinny Collect terms & conditions, please refer to https://www.skinny.co.nz/collect/collect-terms/
Linked Account
Skinny Mobile Linked Account service allows Skinny customers to:
• link all of their Skinny accounts under one account management portal (e.g. a Device SIM and an iPad SIM); or
• allow one Skinny customer to manage other Skinny customer’s accounts (e.g. families, employees, flatmates, 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 number.
The Parent account can then link up to 9 other Skinny Mobile numbers (“Child accounts”) in order to have full access to and manage each account via single online portal access.
Eligibility
The Service
Application and Access
Charges and Billing
1. Every account/ SIM managed under the Skinny Mobile Linked Accounts service must have its own credit – there is no automatic sharing of credit between accounts/ SIMs or any sharing of quota between numbers.
2. 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 on the website or the Child via USSD or IVR.
Cancellation
1. Skinny reserves the right to unlink any Parent and Child relationship at any time and without prior notification.
2. Each party may choose to unlink their account, without consent of the other(s), via any of the following:
• 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 and a Customer Service Representative will send their SMS a Cancellation notification inclusive of a verification code for the Child to quote for unlinking purposes.
• Either Parent account or Child account ports out the SIM number associated with the relevant account
• Parent account or Child accounts are cancelled
• Parent online account or Child online accounts are cancelled.
• Parent account ONLY can unlink the Child account in their online Dashboard on skinny.co.nz
• In the event that the Accounts are no longer linked:
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.
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.
Excluded usage and services
• SMS Delivery Status Reports are not currently supported.Updated 17th December 2019
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
• 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 Unlimited Broadband customers.
The availability of the add-on and number of allowed repurchases are subject to change.
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
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, by calling us or submitting a request through the dashboard. 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.
Our agreement
Interpretation
This agreement contains various words and expressions that have defined meanings. These defined words and expressions have the meanings set out below: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.Provision of Services
Mobile phone numbers
Wireless data and content
Mobile phone and SIM
Charges and your account
Data Consumed |
Data Deducted From Your Plan Balance |
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0-64KB | 1KB |
65-128KB | 65KB |
129-192KB | 129KB |
193- 256KB | 193KB |
Withholding, suspending or restricting services
Consumer Protection Legislation and Liability
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
Changing these terms, Charges and Services
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.
Linked Accounts giveaway
Linked Accounts giveaway
By participating in this Prize Draw (the “Prize Draw”), you are deemed to accept and agree to these Competition Terms:
1. The Promoter of this Prize Draw is Skinny Mobile (“Skinny”), a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited.
2. This Prize Draw is only open to:
a. Current Skinny customers who have both Skinny Mobile and Skinny Wireless Broadband and have Linked the Accounts as at 07/05/021.
b. Current Skinny customers who have both Skinny Mobile and Skinny Fixed line Broadband and have the same email address on both Accounts as at 07/05/2021.
c. Customers 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.
3. The entry for this Prize Draw commences on 28/04/2021 and ends at 11.59pm on 07/05/2021.
4. All valid entries received by 11.59pm on 07/05/2021 will go into the draw.
5. To enter the Prize Draw you must either ‘Link’ a Skinny Mobile and Skinny Wireless Broadband account in your Skinny Dashboard. Fixed line customers will need to make sure the email in your Mobile account and the email on your Broadband account are the same.
6. Only one entry per person is permitted. All late entries are deemed invalid.
7. 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.
8. A total of three prize winners will be selected by random draw (“Winners”). The three Winners will receive either a Samsung Galaxy S21 Series 5 or a $1,500 Prezzy Card.
9. Skinny will notify each of the prize winners by email on or before 14/05/2021. 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.
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. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
Online EFTPOS promotion Terms & Conditions - valid from 1st April 2021
· The Online EFTPOS competition is made up of three monthly prize draws in April, May and June 2021.
· Customers will be sent an SMS when they top up over $20 via Online EFTPOS to fill out their details and enter into the draw. Customers will receive the SMS the following day to topping up. All subsequent eligible top ups during the eligibility period will automatically be entered into the draw. Each draw is subject to the following conditions.
· The Promoter of this Competition is Skinny, a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited (“Spark”)
· These draws are only open to New Zealand residents 18 years and above and is not open to employees of Spark, its agents, contractors, consultants, or their families (including de facto spouses) or to other persons assisting with this Competition.
· These are drawn monthly. The first draw for April commences on 1/4/2021 and ends at 11:59pm on 30/4/2021. The second draw in May commences on 1/5/2021 and ends at 11:59pm on 31/5/2021. The final draw in June commences on 1/6/2021 and ends at 11:59pm on 30/6/2021.
· Entrants must fill in all of the fields in the entry form sent via SMS after an eligible top up.
· Customers will have two days after the monthly draw closes to enter their details into the draw. Customers must fill out their details by 11:59pm 3/5/2021 for the April draw, by 11:59pm 3/6/2021 for the May draw and by 11:59pm 3/7/2021 for the June draw to be eligible.
· Every eligible top up over $20 with Online EFTPOS by 11:59pm on the last day of the month of the draw will be eligible to enter into the draw. Every top up on Skinny Mobile over $20 counts
as one entry. If a customer tops up more than once in a given month, they will be able to enter in the draw more than once.
· There are 2 winners of 5 winners of 1 JBL Link Music for the month of April, 1 Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G 256GB for the month of May, and 10 winners of 1 Google Nest Mini for the month of June.
· Winners for each month will be drawn at random and notified either in person or by phone and/or email by the 20th of the month following the date of the draw.
· Spark 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.
· Each prize winner will receive either one of a JBL Link Music, Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 256GB or a Google Nest Mini (the “prize”). Spark 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.
· Spark will endeavour to notify selected winners by text, phone or email and deliver prizes by courier, but reserves the right to notify selected winners and deliver prizes by other means.
· Spark 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 7 days from the first contact attempt; the prize will be redrawn in his or her place without liability to any person.
· Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash. Spark takes no responsibility for entries or prizes that are lost or destroyed.
· The decisions of Spark on all matters relating to these draws are final and no correspondence will be entered into. 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. Spark 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.
· To the extent permitted by law, Spark excludes any liability it may have to you arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with these draws.
· Any personal information collected as part of these draws will be held by Spark in accordance with its privacy policy. You have the right to access, update and correct such information.
· These draws are in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
· By engaging in these draws, you understand and agree that:
· You are providing your information to Spark and not to Facebook; and
· Facebook nor Apple is in any way responsible or liable to you for anything arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection with, your involvement with this Competition.
Online EFTPOS promotion Terms & Conditions - valid from 1st April 2021
$10 per month Broadband Discount Terms & Conditions - valid from 17 December 2020
1. 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 $60 plan. You must have both plans active on your wireless broadband bill date to get this offer.
2. What do you get: Eligible customers get a $10 discount on their wireless broadband plan cost, on their bill date.
3. 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.
4. Only one discount per account: If you have multiple plans with us, you won’t get an additional $10 discount.
5. How long does the offer run for: This offer runs from 17 December.
6. 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
Skinny Buddy Rewards as of 6th May 2021
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 30/09/2021. 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 30/09/2021.
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
Free Data Weekdays - valid from 10th April 2020
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:
The Promoter of this Prize Draw is Skinny Mobile (“Skinny”), a division of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited.
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.
The entry for this Prize Draw commences on 09/03/2020 and ends at 11.59pm on 13/03/2020.
All valid entries received by 11.59pm on 13/03/2020 will go into the draw.
To enter the Prize Draw you must fill in all the fields in the provided entry form at the end of the survey.
Only one entry per person is permitted. All late entries are deemed invalid.
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.
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.
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.
Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged or redeemed for cash. Skinny takes no responsibility for entries or prizes that are lost or destroyed.
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.
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.
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 two months free broadband - Terms and Conditions - updated 11th May 2021
The two months free broadband offer (“the offer”) applies to your first two months 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:
The offer includes a free modem and standard broadband connection for ADSL, VDSL and fibre customers. Non-standard installation charges apply. Modem shipping and handling fee applies.
If you leave Skinny before the end of your 12-month contract, an early exit fee of $199 will apply if you leave in the first 6 months and $99 of you leave in the second 6 months. 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 two months 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:
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.
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:
Double Data December - valid from 1 December 2019 - 31 December 2019
Double Data and Double Minutes for $9 Plan & $5 Plan Customers - valid from 8 November 2019
Samsung Battery Pack Redemption Promotion - valid from 4th November 2019
Be in to win Samsung Galaxy S10 promo - valid from 10 December - 13 December 2019
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 changes.
Updated 1 October 2019
Our agreement If you have a Skinny Unlimited Broadband connection then you will need to read these Customer Terms which govern our contractual relationship with you for the provision of Skinny Unlimited Broadband (the “Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service(s)”) on our network. The Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services are provided to you for your own legitimate uses as described under these Customer Terms.
The Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services are described in • these Customer Terms (which describe, for example, any service limitations and what charges may apply);
• the Skinny Unlimited Broadband product pages, as set out on our website (describing the Service); and
• the “frequently asked questions” about Skinny Unlimited Broadband on our website (describing the Service)
Together these make up the “Service Description” for Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services. Links to the pages on our website which set out more detail about the features, prices and other matters about our Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services are here.
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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services (including introducing charges for Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services: We may alter our Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services from time to time. If we reasonably consider that a change to our Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband plan. Examples of changes that will have a neutral impact on include changing the name of your existing Skinny Unlimited Broadband plan, or other products.
3.4 If we alter our Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services.
Getting set up Customers wishing to sign up to Skinny Unlimited Broadband must complete the online sign-up form found at skinny.co.nz/unlimitedbroadband
Connection and availability Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband, even where Skinny Unlimited Broadband is available in your area. Skinny Unlimited Broadband is naked broadband, so when you connect to Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband. It is your responsibility to check whether you have any Landline Dependant Services before you sign up for Skinny Unlimited Broadband.
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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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.
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.
Modem You will need a modem to use a Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service.
The Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband and Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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.
Charges Charging for Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband service will be disconnected and you will be unable to re-sign with Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband before the end of your billing month.
Changing Broadband plans A plan change may be requested either through email or by calling us. If you are moving from our 24 month plan transfer fees of $249 may apply
Withholding, suspending, restricting or disconnect Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services 11.1 We may withhold, suspend or restrict your use of any or all of the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services, or puts our Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services at risk;
• you harass, abuse or threaten our staff.
11.2 We may also need to suspend your use of Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Service.
11.6 You acknowledge that we reserve the right to suspend, sign out, disconnect, terminate, or delete your Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services accounts (including sub accounts) or any communication session for any particular Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service that is “inactive” for a period of time. “Inactive” means that you have not used a particular Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service for a continuous 6 months’ period.
Giving up or ending services 12.1 You may end this agreement at any time for any reason by cancelling your Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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
Availability of Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services The configuration of your computer, device, systems server or other communication equipment (“Systems”) you use to receive our Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services may affect, not only your use of our Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services will only be delivered to your relevant Systems when you have the required connection to receive the Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service and will be subject to any service availability limitations and any functionality limitations of your Systems.
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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services. We have not reviewed all or any of the sites linked to the Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services and we are not responsible for the content of any of those sites.
Third party infrastructure, systems and services The Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services. You should check with the third party supplier whether there are additional charges and terms which may apply.
Communication Services If the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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.
Data usage Skinny Unlimited Broadband does not have data caps. However, the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services in a responsible and fair manner so that your use of the Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services does not impact other customers. When using the Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service, you should take into account:
• The effect your use of the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services to transmit content of a threatening nature including threats of death, physical harm and defamation.
• SPAM – Sending spam is not permitted.
Technical requirements Skinny Unlimited Broadband uses dynamic IP addresses. This will not interfere with most uses of the internet. Static IP addresses are not available on Skinny Unlimited Broadband.
Service Reliability Because of the nature of telecommunications services, Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services at any one point in time. As the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services. Skinny Unlimited Broadband Service is not designed to support commercial grade use and quality of service (QoS) for VoiP or similar services.
Support The stability and performance of your Skinny Unlimited 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.
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 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.
21.8 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.
21.9 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 Unlimited 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
21.10 You will not be required to pay any Charges for any Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services to the extent that such Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services are not provided by us due to the circumstances contemplated by this clause 21.10.
21.11 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 Unlimited 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.
21.12 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.
Information about you Your use of the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services, to maintain quality of the Skinny Unlimited Broadband Services, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Skinny Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited Broadband Services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of New Zealand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1. Our agreement
2. 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 dialling *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.
3. 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.
4. Provision of Services
5. Mobile phone numbers
6. Wireless data and 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.
7. Mobile phone and SIM
8. Charges and your account
9. Withholding, suspending or restricting services
10. Giving up or ending services
2. We may end this agreement immediately without notice to you if:
3. If this agreement ends for one of the reasons in clause 10.1 or 10.2 above:
11. Consumer Protection Legislation and Liability
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.
12. Information about you
From time to time we may contact you about Skinny products and services and/or send you sales and marketing information about Skinny products and services, including within a reasonable time of this agreement ending. You can let us know at any time if you do not want to receive sales and marketing information via the Dashboard section on the Skinny Website or by calling Skinny Customer Services. You also agree that the sales and marketing information we send you electronically need not include an unsubscribe facility.
4. We, and any Related Company, may:
Although we may publish aggregated information about usage patterns, we do not disclose information about individual machines or persons except for the reasons set out below in this section. We do not sell information which identifies you personally. We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned, for example, about security issues. If we think it is necessary, we can disclose information to relevant law enforcement authorities, such as the Police or the Department of Internal Affairs.
If you choose to provide us with personal information such as your email address, for example by filling out an electronic query or order form, we will use the information to communicate with you in relation to all the goods and services which we provide to you or which we consider might be of interest to you. This may include email marketing.
Personal information will be stored and used in accordance with our Terms and Conditions.
Cookies are used to analyse your use of our website and to serve ads when you visit our website. The information we collect and share with third parties through cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous (it does not include personal information which is likely to identify you). The information may be used to serve you ads in relation to our products when you visit our website and third party websites. You can access information about Google's Privacy Policy here.
While we recommend that users enable cookies on their browsers in order to enjoy all the features of our website, the decision remains in the hands of the individual. Most browsers allow you to control management of cookies, this will be different depending on each user's PC - refer to your browser help menu for further information.
13. Changing these terms, Charges and Services
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 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.