Resooma Terms of Use

The Resooma Bills Platform allows you and all your housemates to pay your utility bills in one monthly payment.

You and your housemates must all agree to the terms and conditions of this agreement if you want to use the Resooma Bills Service. Resooma Bills is a product sold by Resooma and by agreeing to the Resooma Bills Terms of Use, you also agree to the Resooma Website Terms & Conditions which can be found here: https://resooma.com/terms. By registering an account and ticking the tick-box containing this document, you confirm that you agree to the terms of this agreement.

The terms of this Agreement form a legal agreement between you and Future Residential Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 09326175 and registered office at 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff, CF10 5EQ (we or us) for your use of the Services.

As part of the Resooma Bills Service, you are required to send us information from time to time. You should send such information to customerservice@resooma.com.

Address: the address that you have provided to us for the purposes of the Resooma Bills Service;

Effective Date: the date on which you register an account and agree to the terms of this Agreement by clicking the “Agree” button;

IP Rights: any patent, trade mark, registered design or any application for registration of the same, or the right to apply for registration of the same, any copyright or related rights, database right, design rights, rights in trade, business or domain names, rights in trade dress, rights in inventions, rights in confidential information or know-how or any similar of equivalent rights in any part of the world;

Resooma Bills Plan: the monthly bill that we send to you under the One Bill Service;

Resooma Bills Service: the service that we provide to you under the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

Platform: the Resooma platform operated by us including all updates and upgrades;

Users, you: all and any of the individuals living at the Address who are required to pay a Utility Bill;

Utility Bill: any sums due from a Utility Company for the Address; and

Utility Companies: the companies providing utility services to you from time to time that are part of the Resooma Bills Service that we select from time to time.

Any references to clauses are to other clauses of this Agreement. Words in the singular include the plural. The clause headings are for reference only. General words shall not be given a narrow interpretation because they are preceded or followed by words suggesting a particular type of matters or things.

When signing up to the Resooma Bills Service, you do so on the basis that the quote you have received is based on an estimate and is subject to change before you begin paying for the Resooma Bills Service. The change in price will be communicated to you before you are charged.

To receive the Resooma Bills Service for Utility Companies at an Address (a) all Users must sign up for the Resooma Bills Service (b) at least 2 (two) utility service providers for the Address must be a Utility Company for the purposes of the Resooma Bills Service; (c) no User is the subject of a bankruptcy order; and (d) no sums can be outstanding in respect of a Utility Bill or otherwise in relation to the occupation of the Address;

The first User to sign up must provide the name, email address and telephone number for all Users. The first User shall ensure that they have the permission of all Users to provide such data to us. Once the final User signs up for the Resooma Bills Service, one of the Users shall send to us a photograph of the then current meter readings to Resooma from the meter supplied by the Utility Companies confirming the date of the reading. If you fail to provide a current meter reading, we shall have no obligation to provide the Resooma Bills Service.

You agree that some Utility Companies will require the Utility Bill to be in our name or that of our partner company. Accordingly, you shall provide such assistance and documentation as is required by any such Utility Company to transfer the account into our name. However, you agree that even though the Utility Bill is in our name, you remain liable for the payment of the Utility Bill.

You agree you must pay any set up costs due to the Utility Company, including installation of a telephone line or other internet connection and the costs of providing, installing and delivering an Internet router. These set up costs will be included in the first Utility Bill you receive.

You agree that upon submission of an order for the Resooma Bills Service, you will be granting Resooma full authority to contact Utility Companies to enable Resooma to transfer and/or commence the Utilities with effect from the Effective Date. You also agree and confirm that by entering into the Resooma Bills Service, you give us full authority to act on your behalf from the date of the order for the purposes of providing the Resooma Bills Service.

In consideration of you agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, we shall provide the Resooma Bills Service with reasonable skill and care and in a timely manner.

Resooma are partnered with a number of bill management companies in order to provide the Resooma Bills Service and you agree that Resooma will be allowed to share your data with those parties in order to carry out the services required. These partners include but are not restricted to, Billing Better, Virgin Media, Tru Energy, Green Energy, Plusnet, Sky TV, Regional Water Company and TV Licensing.

In order to enable us to provide the Resooma Bills Service (a) we shall contact Users via email or by telephone, and accordingly you agree to read and where necessary respond to the messages, written or voicemail, that we send from time to time; and (b) on or around the 15th day of each month, you shall, or shall procure that a User shall, send to us a photograph of the then current meter readings for any meter supplied by the Utility Companies confirming the date of the reading. If you fail to provide a current meter reading we may telephone you or any of your Users to remind you to do so, or we may estimate your meter reading.

We shall supply the meter readings to the relevant Utility Company, and following receipt of all Utility Bills for your Address we shall submit to you and your housemates the receipts through email.

Resooma collect payment from you and your Housemates in equal shares by 1st month via Direct Debit, via our payment providers Letz Pay and Modulr. Accordingly, you agree to comply with the direct debit mandate. If you do not have sufficient funds in your account and as a result payment of all or part of a Resooma Bills Plan is not received, we reserve the right to add to the sums due to us an additional £10 for each payment not received in respect of our administration costs and managing the payment of the sums due to the Utility Companies.

You agree that you are jointly and severally liable with your Users to pay the Resooma. This means that if one User fails to pay their share, the other Users must pay that share. In practice, if any User fails to pay their share of the Resooma by the due date, we shall telephone the User who has failed to pay and ask them to do so. If that User fails to respond, or in any event fails to pay their share of the Resooma Bills Service by the time the next Resooma Bills Service is due to be sent, then the outstanding sum shall be payable by the other Users as part of the next Resooma Bills Service.

If you wish to obtain a copy of a Utility Bill, please contact us at customerservice@resooma.com. Please note that it is not always possible to provide copies of the original bills, because the bills go into our company name and are often bulk bills with multiple property details which we cannot share, for data protection reasons. If you reasonably believe that all or part of a Utility Bill is incorrect, please provide us written evidence to dispute the bill and we shall use our reasonable endeavours to resolve the dispute with the Utility Company in question. However, you agree that until such dispute is resolved, you and your Users shall pay the Resooma in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Any refund from a Utility Company following such a dispute shall be shared equally between the Users in the next Resooma.

Initial Monthly Quote - Resooma quote you a price that is an estimate for your energy and water bills. Upon signing up, Resooma will source the accurate prices for these services, meaning that your monthly price may change after signing up.

Increase of monthly payments - During your tenancy, Resooma will monitor your energy and water usages by asking for photos of your gas, electricity and water meters. If your home's usage is higher than the price you are paying for energy and water, your bill will increase to cover the cost of the bill.

End of tenancy bills/refunds - Once final meter readings are sent to Resooma at the end of the tenancy, Resooma will endeavour to produce a final bill to cover your usage. If your usage equates to less than the price you have been paying, Resooma will refund you the amount owed. Once your tenancy has finished, you have two calendar months from the date of the end of your tenancy to request any credit owed to your home. This is requested by sending an email to customerservice@resooma.com, providing your property address and allocating a single bank account to refund the funds to.

If you’ve included council tax as part of your package, you have been quoted for band D for your postcode. This means that if your property is not band D, the price may either increase or decrease. The price doesn’t include a single person's discount, which we will apply on your account if you are the only person living in the property. Councils update their prices at the end of April each year, your price will be updated accordingly.

In order to set up your council tax, we need to receive a copy of the bills from you or the council. If you receive the bill in the post, please send this to your account manager.

Resooma cannot take over any existing contracts taken out for the property for services such as broadband and Sky TV.

You agree that you cannot change Utility Company at any time during the term of your Resooma Bills Services.

If you intend to change Address at any time, you shall give to us at least 30 days’ notice with details of the new Address, together with a meter reading at the date of change for all Utility Companies at the old Address and for any Utility Company at the new Address. You agree that we shall be entitled to prepare a Resooma Bills Plan solely for fees due to the Utility Companies at the old Address.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Clause 4, if you change Address, you shall comply with all requirements of any affected Utility Company.

If any User leaves the Address, you shall immediately notify us with details of the new User, if any. You agree that we shall continue to provide the Resooma Bills Service to all the remaining Users, and the Single Bill will be divided to reflect any change in the number of Users.

You agree that in consideration of the provision of the Resooma Bills Services, we shall add to each Resooma Bills Plan, our fee of £8.50 a month for the Resooma Bills Service.

Each User has 14 days from the Effective Date to cancel their Resooma Bills Plan without the payment of any fee for the Resooma Bills Service. If you wish to exercise this right, you should contact us in writing. You agree that you will remain liable for all costs of the Utility Company notwithstanding cancellation of the Resooma account.

You can terminate your Resooma Bills Services on 30 days’ notice at any time, provided that if you do so all Users shall be deemed to have terminated their Resooma Bills Plan.

We may terminate all Users’ right to use the Resooma Bills Services if (a) any User fails to pay their share of a Resooma Bills Plan for 2 (two) consecutive months; (b) we do not receive a meter reading for 2 (two) consecutive months; (c) any User is the subject of a bankruptcy order; and/or (d) any User breaches the terms of supply of any Utility Company.

You agree that we do not warrant that a Utility Company will remain part of the Resooma Bills Service, and accordingly, if any Utility Company ceases to operate within the Resooma Bills Service, we shall select another Utility Company for the Address.

If your Resooma Bills Service is terminated, then (a) for all Utility Company accounts that are in our name, you shall provide such assistance and documentation, including all meter readings, as required to terminate the account or transfer the account into the name of a User; (b) all sums due to Utility Companies shall immediately become due and payable and you agree that this means that the fees for any unused term of a fixed term service agreement provided by a Utility Company shall immediately become due and payable; and (c) you are liable for all Utility Bills for the Address, including those that we receive notwithstanding cancellation or termination of the Resooma Bills Service.

Termination of this Agreement by either party and for any reason will not affect any rights that may have arisen as at the date of termination or which arise following the termination of this Agreement.

If you terminate your Resooma Bills Plan within your tenancy and 14 days after the effective date, you are liable to pay the following; (a) a termination fee to Resooma. The termination fee amounts to £10.00 + VAT per month, for the remainder of the tenancy up until and including the final month of the tenancy, (b) the outstanding gas/electricity/water balance up to the effective date of cancellation, (c) if applicable, the payment amount in full for your internet and Sky TV subscription included within your Resooma Bills Plan until the end of your tenancy.

We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Platform on the terms of this Agreement from the Effective Date until it is terminated. You must not use the Platform for commercial purposes without obtaining our written permission to do so.

You acknowledge that the rights granted in Clause 7.1 do not give you any rights to sub-license the Platform to any other person, and we retain all IP Rights in the Platform.

You agree that your use of the Platform is and will at all times be in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

There may be occasions when access to the Platform may be interrupted, including for scheduled maintenance or upgrades, for emergency repairs, or due to failure of telecommunications links and/or equipment.

You acknowledge that all IP Rights in the Platform belong to us or are licensed to us, that the IP Rights in the Platform are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, the Platform other than the right to use it in accordance with this Agreement. Therefore, you shall not, and shall not permit or assist any third party to:

modify, translate, adapt or copy the whole or any part of the Platform, nor arrange or create derivative works based on the Platform;

reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive or determine the source code for the Platform (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction);

make for any purpose including error correction, any modifications, adaptations, additions or enhancements to the Platform;

combine, match or merge the whole or any part of the Platform with or incorporate the Platform into any third party code;

sell, purport to assign or license access to the Platform;

access and use the Platform in order to develop a competitive platform;

remove or alter any copyright trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notices, legends, symbols or labels or other proprietary notice on any of the Platform.

You agree that we have no liability for any (a) error in a Resooma Bills Plan as a result of an act or omission of a User, a Utility Company or other third party; and (b) failure by a Utility Company properly to supply services to the Address or any other act or omission of a Utility Company; and/or (c) any act or omission of any other User.

Subject to Clause 9.3 and 9.4, our maximum aggregate liability under or in connection with this Agreement whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall in all circumstances be limited to the Fee paid by you for the Resooma Bills Service in the 6 months before the data the claim arose.

Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as excluding or limiting our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or for any other liability that cannot be excluded by English law.

The foregoing provisions shall be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law but do not affect your consumer statutory rights. For further information about your legal rights in the UK, contact your local authority Trading Standards Department or Citizens Advice Bureau.

If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

We may assign or otherwise transfer our rights and obligations under this Agreement to any third parties.

If you have any complaint or wish to raise a dispute under this Agreement or otherwise in relation to the Resooma Bills Services please follow this link http://ec.europa.eu/odr.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

If you miss a payment with Resooma and do not notify Resooma before the payment has been missed you are liable to a £10.00 late payment fee. If your payment is missed for a second time, you will be charged an additional £20.00 late payment fee. If your payment is missed for a third time, then you will be charged an additional £30.00 late payment fee.

If a housemate does not pay for the Resooma Bills Service, Resooma can do the following, in no particular order:

i - Charge a late payment fee as stated in 12.1 to the non-payer.

ii - Turn off the internet at the property.

iii - Retrieve the funds from the remaining housemates in the property.

iv - Retrieve the funds from the holding deposit working in accordance with the landlord or letting agent.

v - Proceed with debt collection measures with the individual who has not paid.

Resooma Limited reserves the right to update the terms of use at any time. Any User signing up to a Resooma Bills Plan agrees to this.

Contact Citizens Advice if you need help with an energy problem – for example with your bills or meters, or if you’re struggling to pay for the energy you use. They’re the official source of free and independent energy advice and support.

Go to: citizensadvice.org.uk/energy or call their consumer service on 0808 223 1133. Calls are free.