- 1.1 These Rules are intended to facilitate the provision of Services by the Company to its Customers through the use of Electronic Data Interchange by electronically sending and receiving data agreed formats in substitution for conventional paper-based documents. These Rules seek to assure that such transactions are not legally invalid or unenforceable by reason only of their being effected by means of available electronic technologies for the benefit of the parties.
1.2 Terms defined in the Standard Trading Conditions to which these Rules form an Annex but not specifically defined herein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meanings when used in these Rules.
1.3 In these Rules, the following expressions, except where the context otherwise Requires or where it is otherwise stated, shall have the following meanings: -
| "Adopted Protocol" |
means the method for the interchange of Messages based on the [EDIFACT] standard for the presentation and structuring or the communication of Messages, or such other standard as may be specifically agreed upon in writing by the parties, and more particularly defined in the User manual; |
| "Data Log" |
means a complete and chronologically equential record, automatically generated, of all the Messages sent and received by a party and maintained in accordance with the rules stipulated in the User manual; |
| "Message" |
means a communication relating to the provisions of the Services which is structured in accordance with the Adopted Protocol and includes, where the context permits, any part of such communication; also means both EDI Messages and other Messages. |
| "EDI Messages" |
means data structured in accordance with an agreed international standard in a computer readable format and transmitted by electronic, optical or wireless means through the Services provided by 'DAGANG NET TECHNOLOGIES' network or any services provided by any third party for the transmission, receipt and retrieval of Messages in connection with the Subscriber's trading activities. |
| "Writing" |
includes a duly authenticated Message. |
1.4 In these Rules, references to "electronic" include a reference to mechanical, electromechanical, optical, electro-chemical or other medium for the storage or conveyance of transmitted Messages.
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