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WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This document governs the relationship between you and Macquarie
Institute and the parent companies inclusive and all websites
& content when you use any of our online services.
TERMS OF SERVICE
We provide our online services to you subject to the following
terms and conditions. You must read these terms and conditions
before using the online services. By using the online services
you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out
below, which may be updated by us from time to time. In addition,
when using particular services or entering competitions, you
shall be subject to any further guidelines and rules applicable
to such services which may be posted by us from time to time.
All such guidelines and rules are hereby incorporated by reference
into these terms. In the case of any inconsistency between
any such guideline or rule and these terms, the guideline
or rule shall prevail. If you do not wish to be bound by these
terms and conditions, you may not use the online services.
1 DEFINITIONS
"Contract" means this agreement;
"Information" means all material delivered by us through the
Website;
"Registration means the form you must complete in order to
Form" receive newsletters, participate in any MACQUARIE INSTITUTE
online competition and/or register on the Website for any
other reason;
"Registration means all personally identifiable information
collected Information" by us when a user registers on the
Website and/or participates in any MACQUARIE INSTITUTE online
competition and/or registers for any other reason;
"Service" means the provision by us to you of access to the
Information through this Website;
"we", "us", "our" means Skill Zone Macquarie Institute and
the WWS International network of companies;
"Website" means the relevant website situated at www.skillzone.com.au;
www.macquarieinstitute.com.au, www.wwsinternantional.com.au
and www. wwsinternantional.net; and
"you", "your", means you, the Service end-user. "yourself"
2 REGISTRATION, PASSWORD, SECURITY AND USE
To sign up to receive newsletters and to access all areas
of the Website, you must complete the online registration
process by clicking on the "Register" button and providing
us with true, accurate, current and complete information about
yourself (as prompted by the Registration Form). You will
need to submit various details including your name and email
address and choose a password and a user name. You are entirely
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password
and other account details. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible
for any and all activities that occur under your account.
You agree to: (a) notify us immediately of any unauthorised
use of your account or any other breach of security; and (b)
exit from your account at the end of each session. We cannot
and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from
your failure to comply with this paragraph 2. If you provide
any information that is untrue, inaccurate, or not current
or complete, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that
such information is untrue, inaccurate, or not current or
complete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your access
to those parts of the Service requiring registration.
You acknowledge that we may establish general practices and
limits concerning use of the Service, including without limitation
the maximum number of days that message board postings or
other uploaded content will be retained by the Website and
the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for
which) you may access the Service in a given period of time.
You agree that we have no responsibility or liability for
the deletion of or failure to store any messages and other
communications or other content maintained or transmitted
by the Service. You further acknowledge that we reserve the
right to change these general practices and limits at any
time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice.
3 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis
and we make no warranties or representations, whether express
or implied, in relation to the Service, including but not
limited to implied warranties or conditions of completeness,
accuracy, satisfactory quality and/or fitness for a particular
purpose.
You acknowledge that: (a) it is technically impossible to
provide the Service free of faults and that we do not undertake
to do so; (b) faults may lead to temporary unavailability
of the Service; (c) the results that may be obtained from
the use of the Service may include inaccuracies or typographical
errors; and (d) the operation of the Service may be adversely
affected by conditions and performances outside our control,
including without limitation, transmission and telecommunications
links between us and you, between different parts of our network,
and between us and other systems and networks.
You further acknowledge that some of the Information, for
example software, is supplied to us by third parties and accordingly
we offer no warranty of whatever nature in relation to such
Information.
We will not be liable to you for failures, defects or delays
in the Service in any circumstances, including without limitation
where: (a) you have provided incorrect information in connection
with the Service; (b) you accidentally erase an element of
the Service provided to you; or (c) your failure to comply
with the instructions for use of the Service as explained
by us.
4 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You agree that, except for death and personal injury arising
from our negligence, we shall not be liable in contract, tort,
negligence, statutory duty or otherwise, for any loss or damage
whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with this
Contract or the use or performance of the Service or Website,
including without limitation, damage for loss of business,
loss of profits, business interruption, loss of business information,
or any other pecuniary loss (even where we have been advised
of the possibility of such loss or damage).
5 RIGHTS GRANTED/ RIGHTS RESERVED
We provide the Information to you solely for your personal,
non-commercial purposes and you may download the Information
onto only one (1) computer hard drive for such purposes. The
Information may not be used for any other purpose including
without limitation, publication, reproduction or transmission
without our express written permission, subject to which you
may upload and/ or send material derived from the Information
or other material to us. By uploading or sending any material
to us, you thereby grant to us an irrevocable, unconditional,
world-wide, royalty free licence to use such material or any
part of it in perpetuity in any and all media and in any manner
we may determine in our sole discretion. Furthermore, you
thereby waive all so-called moral rights or other similar
rights in such material. You agree not to copy, modify, create
a derivative work, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise
attempt to discover the source code, sell, assign, sub-license,
grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right
in the Information.
All rights not expressly granted are reserved to us.
6 USER CONDUCT
We provide the Service to you solely for your personal, private
use. You undertake not to use the Service:
(a) for any unlawful purpose;
(b) in any way so that the Service is interrupted, damaged,
rendered less efficient or the functionality of the Service
is in any way impaired;
(c) in any way that may damage or disrupt another user's computer;
(d) for the transmission, uploading or posting of any computer
viruses or any harmful or deleterious files or programs;
(e) to transmit, upload or post any material which is defamatory,
offensive, racist, vulgar, libellous or of an obscene or menacing
character, or in such a way as to cause annoyance, inconvenience
or needless anxiety;
(f) as a means to threaten, stalk, harass, abuse, or otherwise
insult other users or to collect or store personal data about
other users;
(g) in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement
of any person, firm or company's rights (including, but not
limited to, rights of copyright or confidentiality);
(h) to transmit any material for the purposes of publicity,
promotion and/or advertising without our prior written consent
unless such transmission has been specifically requested by
another user of the Service;
(i) to create a false identity for the purpose of misleading
others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a
message, including, but not limited to impersonating an MACQUARIE
INSTITUTE employee, manager, host or another user; or
(j) to transmit, upload, post or otherwise make available
any solicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials,
"junkmail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or
any duplicative or unsolicited messages.
Notwithstanding this, we do not control the content posted
by you or other users of the Service and as such, do not guarantee
the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. By using
the Service, you acknowledge that you may be exposed to content
that is offensive or objectionable. Furthermore, whilst we
make every effort to test and check Information and content
on the Website, we recommend that you run anti-virus programs
on any Information and/or content obtained via the Service.
Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any
content or any damage incurred as a result of you accessing
any content posted or otherwise transmitted via the Service.
You acknowledge that we do not monitor or pre-view any content
posted via you or other users of the Service, but that we
shall have the right (but not the obligation) to refuse access
to or move any content made available via the Service.
7 PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
We are concerned about the safety and well being of all our
users, but children in particular. Parents who allow their
children to use the Service should take care to supervise
and assist their children. We remind you that the Service
is designed to appeal to a wide audience. As the legal guardians,
we remind parents that it is their responsibility to supervise
children and to determine whether particular areas of the
Website are suitable for your child.
8 INDEMNIFICATION
You further undertake that in the event that you have any
right, claim or action against any other user arising from
the use of the Service, you shall pursue such right, claim
or action independently of, and without recourse to us. You
will fully indemnify and defend us against all claims, liability,
damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising
out of a breach of this Contract or any use of the Service,
the Information or the Website by you. You acknowledge that
we have limited control over the nature and content of Information
and programs transmitted or received by you or others who
use the Service and that we do not examine in any way the
use to which you put the Service. You agree to fully indemnify
us against any claims or legal proceedings arising in connection
with your use of the Service which are brought or threatened
against us by any other person.
9 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
You acknowledge that all copyright, trade marks and all other
intellectual property rights in the Service, Information and
the Website shall remain vested in us or our licensors.
10 SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We shall have the right to immediately terminate this Contract
and/or suspend your access to the Service if you commit a
breach of these terms and conditions.
11 COMPETITIONS
When entering a specific competition we will alert you to
any particular rules and/or restrictions applicable to that
competition. Please click here and ensure that you read our
general competition rules which apply to all of our competitions
in the absence of any specific rules to a competition.
12 USER PRIVACY
If you want to amend your Registration Information or add
or remove your name from an SMS, newsletter or other distribution
list (which you have subscribed to on the Website), you can
click on the "Update Profile" link when logged in on the Website
and amend your profile accordingly.
If you want to remove all of your information from our database,
you may do so by sending an email to www.macquarieinstitute.com.au
(aka info@skillzone.com.au) specifying your name, email address
and telephone number.
This page contains further information on our privacy policy
and our treatment of the Registration Information and/or any
other personal information relating to you that we collect
in the course of providing the Service. Additionally, you
may ask questions about privacy issues by sending an email
to info@skillzone.com.au
13 MACQUARIE INSTITUTE MOBILE SERVICES
Click here for information on our mobile services and additional
terms and conditions applicable when users interact with us
via mobile devices/SMS (for example, when entering competitions
or registering a vote).
14 MESSAGE BOARDS AND CHATROOMS
Click here for information on our Message Board and Chatroom
Code of Conduct.
15 OTHER WEBSITES
This Website may contain links to other websites which are
not controlled by us. This Contract only applies to your use
of this Website and the Service and we shall not be responsible
for any content on any other websites. Any link to any other
website does not amount to an endorsement of that website
or its content.
16 CHANGES TO THIS CONTRACT AND THE SERVICE
We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions of
this Contract from time to time by placing a note of such
change in this file, and your continued use of the Service
following notice of such change shall be deemed to be your
acceptance of any such change. It is your responsibility to
check this file regularly to determine whether this Contract
has been changed. If you do not agree to any change in the
terms and conditions of this Contract then you must immediately
stop using the Service. We also reserve the right to change
and update the Service from time to time.
17 SEVERABILITY
Each provision of this Contract excluding or limiting liability
shall be construed separately, applying and surviving even
if for any reason one or other of those provisions is held
to be inapplicable or unenforceable in any circumstances and
shall remain in force notwithstanding the termination of this
Contract.
18 NO WAIVER
No waiver by us shall be construed as a waiver of any preceding
or succeeding breach of any provision.
19 CHOICE OF LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Contract shall be governed by Australian law and the
parties hereby irrecoverably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Australian courts.
These Terms and Conditions were last updated on 28th August
2008.
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