Terms of use

Terms of use

The Website is operated by XNECT. Access to and use of the Website, or any of its associated Products or Services, is provided by XNECT. Please read these terms and conditions (the ‘Terms’) carefully. By using, browsing and/or reading the Website, this signifies that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the Terms. If you disagree with the Terms, you must cease usage of the Website, or any of the Services, immediately. XNECT reserves the right to review and change any of the Terms by updating this page at its sole discretion. Any changes to the Terms take immediate effect from the date of their publication.

Acceptance of the Terms

You accept the Terms by remaining on the Website. You may also accept the Terms by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms where this option is made available to you in the user interface.

Acceptable use of the Service

This website must only be used lawfully. XNECT reserves the right to suspend, cancel, or otherwise deny access to users and accounts who use the service:
  • To engage in any act that would disrupt the access, availability, and security of this website and other XNECT services, including but not limited to: tampering with, reverse-engineering, hacking our servers, modifying, disabling, compromising the performance, overwhelming, attempting to overwhelm our infrastructure by imposing an unreasonably large load on our systems that consume extraordinary resources or compromising the integrity of our system, including probing, scanning and testing the vulnerability of our system unless expressly permitted by XNECT.
  • For any illegal purpose, or to violate any laws, including and without limitation to data, privacy, and export control laws.
  • To stalk, harass or threaten users and any member of the public.
  • To misrepresent or defraud any user or member of the public through phishing, spoofing, manipulating headers or other identifiers, impersonating anyone else, or falsely implying any sponsorship or association with XNECT or any third-party.
  • To access or search any part of the Service, or any other Service owned by XNECT other than our publicly supported interface, or otherwise allowed for in an applicable Software Licensing Agreement.
  • To post, upload, share, or otherwise circulate content in violation of XNECT’s content policy.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

  1. The Website, the Services and all of the related products of XNECT are subject to copyright. The material on the Website is protected by copyright under the laws of Australia and through international treaties. Unless otherwise indicated, all rights (including copyright) in the Services and compilation of the Website (including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, video images, audio clips, Website, code, scripts, design elements and interactive features) or the Services are owned or controlled for these purposes, and are reserved by XNECT or its contributors.
  2. All trademarks, service marks and trade names are owned, registered and/or licensed by XNECT, who grants to you a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable license whilst you are a User to:
    • use the Website pursuant to the Terms;
    • copy and store the Website and the material contained in the Website in your device’s cache memory; and
    • print pages from the Website for your own personal and non-commercial use.
  3. XNECT does not grant you any other rights whatsoever in relation to the Website or the Services. All other rights are expressly reserved by XNECT.
  4. XNECT retains all rights, title and interest in and to the Website and all related Services. Nothing you do on or in relation to the Website will transfer any:
    • business name, trading name, domain name, trademark, industrial design, patent, registered design or copyright, or
    • a right to use or exploit a business name, trading name, domain name, trademark, or industrial design, or
    • a thing, system or process that is the subject of a patent, registered design, or copyright (or an adaptation or modification of such a thing, system or process), to you.
  5. You may not, without the prior written permission of XNECT and the permission of any other relevant rights owners: broadcast, republish, up-load to a third party, transmit, post, distribute, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the Services or third-party Services for any purpose, unless otherwise provided by these Terms. This prohibition does not extend to materials on the Website, which are freely available for re-use or are in the public domain.

General Disclaimer

  1. Nothing in the Terms limits or excludes any guarantees, warranties, representations, or conditions implied or imposed by law, including the Australian Consumer Law (or any liability under them) which by law may not be limited or excluded.
  2. Subject to this clause, and to the extent permitted by law:
    • all terms, guarantees, warranties, representations, or conditions which are not expressly stated in the Terms are excluded; and
    • XNECT will not be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage (unless such loss or damage is reasonably foreseeable resulting from our failure to meet an applicable Consumer Guarantee), loss of profit or opportunity, or damage to goodwill arising out of or in connection with the Services or these Terms (including as a result of not being able to use the Services or the late supply of the Services), whether at common law, under contract, tort (including negligence), in equity, pursuant to statute or otherwise.
  3. Use of the Website and the Services is at your own risk. Everything on the Website and the Services is provided to you “as is” and “as available” without warranty or condition of any kind. None of the affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contributors, and licensors of XNECT make any express or implied representation or warranty about the Services or any products or Services referred to on the Website, includes (but is not restricted to) loss or damage you might suffer as a result of any of the following:
    • failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, failure to correct defects, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or other harmful component, loss of data, communication line failure, unlawful third-party conduct, or theft, destruction, alteration or unauthorised access to records;
    • the accuracy, suitability or currency of any information on the Website, the Services, or any of its Services related products (including third-party material and advertisements on the Website);
    • costs incurred as a result of you using the Website, the Services or any of the products of XNECT; and
    • the Services or operation in respect to links which are provided for your convenience.

Limitation of Liability

  1. XNECT’s total liability arising out of or in connection with the Services or these Terms, however arising, including under contract, tort (including negligence), in equity, under statute or otherwise, will not exceed the resupply of the Services to you.
  2. You expressly understand and agree that XNECT, its affiliates, employees, agents, contributors and licensors shall not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special consequential or exemplary damages which may be incurred by you, however caused and under any theory of liability. This shall include, but is not limited to, any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation and any other intangible loss.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify XNECT, its affiliates, employees, agents, contributors, third party content providers and licensors from and against:
  • all actions, suits, claims, demands, liabilities, costs, expenses, loss and damage (including legal fees on a full indemnity basis) incurred, suffered or arising out of or in connection with Your Content;
  • any direct or indirect consequences of you accessing, using or transacting on the Website or attempts to do so; and/or any breach of the Terms.

Venue and Jurisdiction

The Services offered by XNECT is intended to be viewed by residents of Australia. In the event of any dispute arising out of or in relation to the Website, you agree that the exclusive venue for resolving any dispute shall be in the courts of New South Wales.

Governing Law

The Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales. Any dispute, controversy, proceeding or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to the Terms and the rights created hereby shall be governed, interpreted and construed by, under and pursuant to the laws of New South Wales, Australia without reference to conflict of law principles, notwithstanding mandatory rules. The validity of this governing law clause is not contested. The Terms shall be binding to the benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and assigns.

Independent Legal Advice

Both parties confirm and declare that the provisions of the Terms are fair and reasonable and both parties having taken the opportunity to obtain independent legal advice and declare the Terms are not against public policy on the grounds of inequality or bargaining power or general grounds of restraint of trade.

Severance

If any part of these Terms is found to be void or unenforceable by a Court of competent jurisdiction, that part shall be severed and the rest of the Terms shall remain in force.