TERMS OF USE & SERVICE
IMPORTANT! THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS) GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS SITE, WHICH IS
PROVIDED BY OUR COMPANY. BY ACCESSING THIS SITE, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF
THESE TERMS OF USE. THESE TERMS OF USE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY OUR COMPANY AT ANY TIME IN ITS
DISCRETION. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AFTER SUCH CHANGES ARE IMPLEMENTED CONSTITUTES YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGES. PLEASE CONSULT THESE TERMS OF USE REGULARLY.
Access To This Site
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN
YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR
USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA)
AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
To access this site or some of the resources it has to offer, you may be asked to provide
certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of this site that all the
information you provide on this site will be correct, current, and complete. If our Company believes the
information you provide is not correct, current, or complete, we have the right to refuse you access to this site
or any of its resources, and to terminate or suspend your access at any time, without notice.
Restrictions On Use
You may use this site for purposes expressly permitted by this site. You may not use
this site for any other purpose, including any commercial purpose, without our Company's express prior written
consent. For example, you may not (and may not authorize any other party to) (i) co-brand this site, or (ii)
frame this site, or (iii) hyper-link to this site, without the express prior written permission of an authorized
representative of our Company. For purposes of these Terms of Use, "co-branding" means to display a name,
logo, trademark, or other means of attribution or identification of any party in such a manner as is reasonably
likely to give a user the impression that such other party has the right to display, publish, or distribute this
site or content accessible within this site. You agree to cooperate with our Company in causing any
unauthorized co-branding, framing or hyper-linking immediately to cease.
Proprietary Information
The material and content (hereinafter referred to as the "Content") accessible from this
site, and any other World Wide Web site owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by our Company is the proprietary
information of our Company or the party that provided the Content to our Company, and our Company or the party that
provided the Content to our Company retains all right, title, and interest in the Content. Accordingly, the
Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way without the prior
written consent of our Company, or unless authorized in writing elsewhere on our site, except that you may print
out a copy of the Content solely for your personal use. In doing so, you may not remove or alter, or cause to
be removed or altered, any copyright, trademark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary notice or
legend appearing on any of the Content. Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in
these Terms of Use violates our Company's intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual
property rights are transferred to you by access to this site.
Hyper-Links
This site may be hyper-linked to other sites which are not maintained by, or related to, our
Company. Hyper-links to such sites are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated
with this site or our Company. Our Company has not reviewed any or all of such sites and is not responsible
for the content of those sites. Hyper-links are to be accessed at the user's own risk, and our Company makes
no representations or warranties about the content, completeness or accuracy of these hyper-links or the sites
hyper-linked to this site. Further, the inclusion of any hyper-link to a third-party site does not
necessarily imply endorsement by our Company of that site.
Submissions
You hereby grant to our Company the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide,
non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from,
distribute, perform, and display all content, remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information
communicated to our Company through this site (together, hereinafter known as the "Submission"), and to incorporate
any Submission in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. Our Company
will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and may use any Submission in its business (including
without limitation, for products or advertising) without incurring any liability for royalties or any other
consideration of any kind, and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in
future Company operations.
Our Company will treat any personal information that you submit through this site in
accordance with its Privacy Policy as set forth on this site.
Disclaimer
You understand that our Company cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files
available for downloading from the Internet will be free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that may
manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures
and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining
a means external to this site for the reconstruction of any lost data. Our Company does not assume any
responsibility or risk for your use of the Internet.
The Content is not necessarily complete and up-to-date and should not be used to replace any
written reports, statements, or notices provided by Company. Investors, borrowers, and other persons should
use the Content in the same manner as any other educational medium and should not rely on the Content to the
exclusion of their own professional judgment. Information obtained by using this site is not exhaustive and
does not cover all issues, topics, or facts that may be relevant to your goals.
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. The Content is provided “as is” and without
warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied. Our Company disclaims all warranties, including any
implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Our
Company does not warrant that the functions OR CONTENT contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error-free,
that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or
other harmful components. Our Company does not warrant or make any representation regarding use, or the
result of use, of the content in terms of accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. The content may include
technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and Company may make changes or improvements at any time.
You, and not our Company, assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction IN THE EVENT OF
ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENT. Our COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT
YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR
ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH CONTENT.
All of the information in this site, whether historical in nature or forward-looking, speaks
only as of the date the information is posted on this site, and Company does not undertake any obligation to update
such information after it is posted or to remove such information from this site if it is not, or is no longer,
accurate or complete.
Limitation On Liability
COMPANY, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS,
EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE,
ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF REVENUE OR INCOME, PAIN AND
SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL THE COLLECTIVE LIABILITY OF COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS,
SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS, TO ANY PARTY (REGARDLESS OF THE
FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO
COMPANY FOR THE APPLICABLE CONTENT, PRODUCT OR SERVICE OUT OF WHICH LIABILITY AROSE.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, content
providers, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors, and contractors (hereinafter known as the
"Indemnified Parties") harmless from any breach of these Terms of Use by you, including any use of Content other
than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use. You agree that the Indemnified Parties will have no
liability in connection with any such breach or unauthorized use, and you agree to indemnify any and all resulting
loss, damages, judgments, awards, costs, expenses, and attorney's fees of the Indemnified Parties in connection
therewith. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims
brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information accessed from this site.
Trademarks
Trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing in this site are the property of Company or
the party that provided the trademarks, service marks, and logos to Company. Company and any party that
provided trademarks, service marks, and logos to Company retain all rights with respect to any of their respective
trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing in this site.
Information You Provide
You may not post, send, submit, publish, or transmit in connection with this site any
material that:
* you do not have the right to post, including proprietary material of
any third party;
* advocates illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal act;
* is vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or indecent;
* does not pertain directly to this site;
* threatens or abuses others, libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks, is obscene,
pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening or offensive;
* seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for
personally identifiable details or otherwise;
* infringes any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person, including
violating anyone’s copyrights or trademarks or their rights of publicity;
* violates any law or may be considered to violate any law;
* impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise
manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;
* advertises any commercial endeavor (e.g., offering for sale products or services) or otherwise
engages in any commercial activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, and/or
soliciting goods or services) except as may be specifically authorized on this site;
* solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
* includes programs which contain viruses, worms and/or Trojan horses or any other computer
code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications;
* disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are
able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage in real time activities
via this site;
* includes MP3 format files;
* amounts to a 'pyramid' or similar scheme;
* disobeys any policy or regulations established from time to time regarding use of this site or
any networks connected to this site; or
* contains hyper-links to other sites that contain content that falls within the descriptions
set forth above.
Although under no obligation to do so, our Company reserves the right to monitor use of this
site to determine compliance with these Terms of Use, as well the right to remove or refuse any information for any
reason. Notwithstanding these rights, you remain solely responsible for the content of your
submissions. You acknowledge and agree that neither Company nor any third party that provides Content to
Company will assume or have any liability for any action or inaction by Company or such third party with respect to
any submission.
Security
Any passwords used for this site are for individual use only. You will be responsible for
the security of your password (if any). Company will be entitled to monitor your password and, at its
discretion, require you to change it. If you use a password that Company considers insecure, Company will be
entitled to require the password to be changed and/or terminate your account.
You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this
site to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools
designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools) is
strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, Company reserves the right to
release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security
incidents. Company reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use.
Company reserves the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court
order requesting or directing Company to disclose the identity of anyone posting any e-mail messages, or publishing
or otherwise making available any materials that are believed to violate these Terms of Use.
BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS COMPANY FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING
FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY COMPANY DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A
CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER [COMPANY] OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of Queensland,
Australia, notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of law. You specifically consent to personal
jurisdiction in Queensland in connection with any dispute between you and Company arising out of these Terms of Use
or pertaining to the subject matter hereof. The parties to these Terms of Use each agree that the exclusive
venue for any dispute between the parties arising out of these Terms of Use or pertaining to the subject matter of
these Terms of Use will be in the state and federal courts in Queensland, Australia. If any part of these
Terms of Use is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the
validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement among
the parties relating to this subject matter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any additional terms and
conditions on this site will govern the items to which they pertain. Company may revise these Terms of Use at
any time by updating this posting.
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