Terms of Use

In these Terms of Use certain words, many of which are capitalised, have specific meanings which are defined under the “Definitions” heading below.

Intellectual Property Rights

All intellectual property rights existing in this Web Site including, but not limited to, copyright, trade marks and design are exclusively owned by us or licensed to us and all these rights are reserved. You are provided with access to this Web Site for your personal and non-commercial use and may not, in any form or by any means, copy, adapt, distribute, reproduce, store, display, perform, transmit, print, publish or create derivative works from any part of this Web Site beyond that permitted by law or without our written permission.

You may not, in any form or by any means, commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this Web Site without our written permission.

Corporate Governance Charter

The trade marks above .and other EG products and services referred to on this Web Site are trade marks of EG. If you use any of our trade marks in reference to our activities, products or services, you must include a statement attributing that trade mark to us. You must not use any of our trade marks as your own trade marks, in connection with any which are not ours, in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive or in a manner that disparages us or our information, products or services, including this Web Site.

Disclaimers of Liability

We are not liable to you or anyone else for any Loss in connection with use of this Web Site or a Linked Web Site. This disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any of the following specific warnings and disclaimers.

The information contained on this Web Site is not intended to be comprehensive or current and should not be relied upon in place of professional advice. Your use of this Web Site is not intended to, nor will it, create any relationship of client and consultant between you and us.

We make no warranties nor representations about any content, product or information on this Web Site and to the extent permitted by law, all representations, warranties and other terms are excluded.

We are not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with use of this Web Site or a Linked Web Site. You must take appropriate action to ensure that whatever you select for your use from this Web Site is free of viruses or anything else (such as, but not limited to, trojan horses or worms) that may interfere with or damage your computer system.

You indemnify us against all actions, claims, suits, demands, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses arising out of or in any way connected to the use of this Web Site.

Linked Web Sites

This Web Site may contain links to Linked Web Sites and may on occasion display content or information from other web sites. This should not be construed as any endorsement, approval, recommendation, preference or responsibility by us for the content, information, owners or operators of the Linked Web Sites nor the products or services referred to on those Linked Web Sites. Unless stated otherwise on this Web Site, we have no control over, nor rights in, those Linked Web Sites.

Privacy

Any personal information you provide when requesting a copy of the Corporate Governance Bulletin or other EG product will be protected by EG in compliance with the National Privacy Principles which are in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

General

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws in force in Queensland, Australia and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland, Australia and any courts which may hear appeals from those courts in respect of any proceedings in connection with these Terms of Use or this Web Site. You waive any right to seek another court based on the grounds of inconvenience.

Nothing contained in these Terms of Use derogates from EG’s right to comply with law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this Web Site or information provided to or gathered by EG with respect to that use.

Definitions

“EG” stands for Effective Governance Pty Ltd (ABN 78 844 998 218) and includes any of its directors, officers, consultants, employees and any other person who contribute to this Web Site.

“Loss” means any loss or damage suffered directly, indirectly or consequentially and caused in any way including negligence.

“Linked Web Site” means any web site, other than this Web Site, which is produced, owned or maintained by persons other than EG to which hyperlinks are provided from this Web Site.

“this Web Site” means all of the web pages or parts there of located at www.effectivegovernance.com.au including the underlying code elements, text, designs, graphics, animations or any other content on this Web Site.

“we”, “our” and “us” refer to EG.