APPROVAL OF GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS Competitive Supplier shall cooperate with and assist the Town in the drafting and sending of messages and information to Eligible Consumers concerning the Program or any matter arising under or related to this Agreement or the Program. Competitive Supplier shall, prior to sending any direct mail, advertising, solicitation, bill insert, electronic mail, or other similar written or electronic communication (collectively, “General Communications”) to Participating Consumers (but excluding individually drafted or tailored communications responding to a specific complaint or communication of an individual consumer), provide a copy of such General Communication to the Town for its review (for consistency with the Town’s purposes and goals) and approval. The Town shall have the right to disapprove such General Communications and suggest revisions if it finds the communication inconsistent with the purposes and goals of the Town, factually inaccurate, or likely to mislead provided, however, that: (i) the communication shall be deemed approved if the Town fails to respond within ten (10) Business Days, and (ii) no approval shall be necessary for any communication (a) regarding any emergency situation involving any risk to the public health, safety or welfare; (b) that has been approved by the Department, the DOER; or (c) in the nature of routine monthly or periodic bills, or collection notices, except that any bill insert or message included at the bottom of such bill not within the scope of (a) or (b) above shall require advanced review and approval by the Town; and (iii) no approval or lack of approval shall relieve the Competitive Supplier of its obligations and responsibility for its actions and omissions under this Agreement, or other than as set forth in sub-clause ‘i’ of this Section 7.6, result in a waiver of any rights, remedies or defenses of the Town. The Town may reject or exclude any proposed General Communication that, in its reasonable judgment, is contrary to the interests and objectives of the Program or the Town.
General Communications The type of communications described and defined in Article
Communication to us (a) Unless otherwise provided in this agreement, all communication, requests and instructions from you may be personally delivered to us in writing; or sent by registered post, electronic mail or SMS to us in accordance with our prescribed verification procedure prevailing at the time. (b) We may in good faith and without any liability to you, regard any communication given by you which are referable to you in accordance with our prescribed verification procedure prevailing at that time as authentic and duly authorized and shall be under no obligation to investigate the authenticity or authority of persons sending or purporting to send the communication or to verify the accuracy and completeness thereof. We may, at our discretion, provide for additional security measures or verification procedures, including but not limited to, specific electronic mail and/or SMS confirmatory authorization. The communication given by you to us shall be deemed to be irrevocable and binding on you notwithstanding that they may be given in error, lack clarity or reasonably capable of being misunderstood inaccurate or incomplete. You shall inform us immediately upon your awareness of and/or knowledge of any communication which is unauthorized, given in error, forged, fraudulent, unclear or reasonably capable of being misunderstood, garbled, inaccurate or incomplete and rectify the same promptly. (c) Unless otherwise provided in this agreement, all communication from you will take effect only after one (1) business day or such other period as determined in our reasonable discretion after the actual receipt by our relevant officers in charge of the subject matter of such communication. (d) We will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered or incurred by you howsoever or whatsoever arising from or in connection with: (i) any use of electronic mail or SMS services; or (ii) any failure to follow prevailing instructions, procedures, form and directions prescribed by us for the provision of any communication to us; or (iii) any failure to use electronic mail services and/or SMS procedures or forms which are prescribed by us; or (iv) any failure, suspension, interruption, cessation, delay, disruption, errors, defects or fault in third party equipment, software, hardware, Internet, Internet browsers, online networks, Internet service providers, telecommunication service providers or other service providers, telecommunication, computer or other electronic equipment or system; or (v) any failure, suspension, interruption, cessation, delay, disruption, errors, defects or fault in the transmission of communication to us or authorizations or acknowledgements from us or any wrongful interception of any communication through any online networks, Internet service providers, telecommunication service providers or other service providers, telecommunication, computer or other electronic equipment or system whether or not owned, operated or maintained by you, us or any other person beyond our reasonable control; or (vi) any delay or refusal by us, in our reasonable discretion, to execute any communication that may be validly be given by you or authenticated by you including for reasons due to applicable law; or (vii) any capacity inadequacies, network vulnerabilities, control weaknesses, security shortcomings, malicious attacks and hacking incidents (except in the case of our fraud, gross negligence or wilful default); or (viii) any corruption or loss of any data or communication stored in any equipment or in the course of transmission thereof through online networks, Internet service providers, telecommunication service providers or other service providers, telecommunication, computer or other electronic equipment or system including any errors generated in the transmission of any communication beyond our reasonable control; or (ix) our failure to acknowledge any communication sent by you to us; or (x) your provision of wrong or inaccurate information including your mailing address, electronic mail address or mobile phone number to us or your failure to update us of any change or proposed change in your electronic mail address or mobile phone number; or (xi) your failure to regularly check for correspondence from us in accordance with clause 14.1.
Routine Communications All routine communications related to the Contract shall be sent to the Department’s Contract Manager. If any of the Contractor’s contract information changes during the life of the Contract, the Contractor shall notify the Department’s Contract Manager; such updates do not necessitate a formal amendment to the Contract. Communications relating to a Customer contract or purchase order should be addressed to the contact person identified in the contract or purchase order. Routine communications may be my email, regular mail, or telephone.