Terms & Conditions
WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
1.
About the Website
(a)
Welcome to (the 'Website'). The Website
provides you with an opportunity to browse and purchase various products that
have been listed for sale through the Website (the 'Products'). The Website
provides this service by way of granting you access to the content on the
Website (the 'Services').
(b)
The Website is operated by The Bidet Shop Pty Ltd . Access to and use of the Website, or any of its
associated Products or Services, is provided by the Bidet Shop Pty Ltd.. 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 do not
agree with the Terms, you must cease usage of the Website, or any of Services,
immediately.
(c)
The Bidet Shop Pty Ltd reserves the right to
review and change any of the Terms by updating this page at its sole
discretion. When updates the Terms, it will use reasonable endeavours to
provide you with notice of updates to the Terms. Any changes to the Terms take
immediate effect from the date of their publication. Before you continue, we
recommend you keep a copy of the Terms for your records.
2.
Acceptance of the Terms
(a)
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 by in the user interface.
3.
Registration to use the Services
(a)
In order to access the Services, you must first
register as a user of the Website. As part of the registration process, or as
part of your continued use of the Purchase Services, you may be required to
provide personal information about yourself (such as identification or contact
details), including:
(i)
your name, gender, date of birth, age and
contact details; your personal and/or business address;
(ii)
phone number and email address;
(iii)
information from you personally or from any
person authorised to act on your behalf or authorised to provide your information
to The Bidet Shop;
(i)
customer account numbers;
(ii)
warranty claims;
(b)
You warrant that any information you give to in
the course of completing the registration process will always be accurate,
correct and up to date.
(c)
Once you have completed the registration
process, you will be a registered member of the Website ('Member') and
agree to be bound by the Terms. As a Member you will be granted immediate
access to the Purchase Services.
(d)
You may not use the Purchase Services and may
not accept the Terms if:
(a)
you are not of legal age to form a binding
contract with ; or
(b)
you are a person barred from receiving the
Purchase Services under the
laws of
Australia or other countries including the country in which you are resident or
from which you use the Purchase Services.
4.
Your obligations as a Member
(a)
As a Member, you agree to comply with the
following: You will use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by:
(i)
the Terms;
(ii)
any applicable law, regulation or generally
accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions;
(iii)
you have the sole responsibility for protecting
the confidentiality of your password and/or email address. Use of your password
by any other person may result in the immediate cancellation of the Services;
(iv)
any use of your registration information by any
other person, or third parties, is strictly prohibited. You agree to
immediately notify of any unauthorised use of your password or email address or
any breach of security of which you have become aware;
(v)
access and use of the Website is limited,
non-transferable and allows for the sole use of the Website by you for the purposes
of providing the Services;
(vi)
you will not use the Services or Website for any
illegal and/or unauthorised use which includes collecting email addresses of
Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited
email or unauthorised framing of or linking to the Website;
(vii)
you agree that commercial advertisements,
affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from the
Website without notice and may result in termination of the Services.
Appropriate legal action will be taken by for any illegal or unauthorised use
of the Website; and
(viii)
you acknowledge and agree that any automated use
of the Website or its Services is prohibited.
7.
Copyright and Intellectual
Property
(a)
The Website, the Services and all of the related
products of 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 site
content and compilation of the website (including text, graphics, logos, button
icons, video images, audio clips and software) (the 'Content') are owned
or controlled for these purposes, and are reserved by or its contributors.
(b)
retains all rights, title and interest in and to
the Website and all related content. Nothing you do on or in relation to the
Website will transfer to you:
(a)
the business name, trading name, domain name,
trade mark, industrial design, patent, registered design or copyright of ; or
(b)
the right to use or exploit a business name,
trading name, domain name, trade mark or industrial design; or
(c)
a system or process
that is the subject of a patent, registered design or copyright (or an
adaptation or modification of such a system or process).
(c)
You may not, without the prior written
permission of 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 Content or third party
content for any purpose. This prohibition does not extend to materials on the
Website, which are freely available for re-use or are in the public domain.
8.
Privacy
(a)
takes your privacy seriously and any information
provided through your use of the Website and/or the Services are subject to 's
Privacy Policy, which is available on the Website.
9.
General Disclaimer
(a)
You acknowledge that does not make any terms,
guarantees, warranties, representations or conditions whatsoever regarding the
Products other than provided for pursuant to these Terms.
(b)
will make every effort to ensure a Product is
accurately depicted on the Website, however, you acknowledge that sizes,
colours and packaging may differ from what is displayed on the Website.
(c)
Nothing in these
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.
(d)
Subject to this clause, and to the extent
permitted by law:
(i)
all terms, guarantees, warranties,
representations or conditions which are not expressly stated in these Terms are
excluded; and
(ii)
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.
(e)
Use of the Website, the Services, and any of the
products, is at your own risk. Everything on the Website, the Services, and the
Products of The Bidet Shop, are provided to you on an "as is" and
"as available" basis, without warranty or condition of any kind. None
of the affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contributors, third
party content providers or licensors of make any express or implied
representation or warranty about its Content or any products or Services (including
the products or Services of ) referred to on the
Website. This includes (but is not restricted to) loss or damage you might
suffer as a result of any of the following:
(i)
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;
(ii)
the accuracy, suitability or currency of any
information on the Website, the Service, or any of its Content related products
(including third party material and advertisements on the Website);
(iii)
costs incurred as a result of you using the
Website, the Services or any of the Products;
(iv)
the Content or operation in respect to links
which are provided for the User's convenience;
(v)
any failure to complete a transaction, or any
loss arising from e-commerce transacted on the Website; or
(vi)
any defamatory,
threatening, offensive or unlawful conduct of third parties or publication of
any materials relating to or constituting such conduct.
10.
Limitation of Liability
(a)
The Bidet Shop'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 most recent Purchase
Price paid by you under these Terms or where you have not paid the Purchase
Price, then the total liability of is the resupply of information or Services
to you.
(b)
You expressly understand and agree that , its
affiliates, employees, agents, contributors, third party content providers 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.
(c)
The Bidet Shop Pty Ltd is not responsible or
liable in any manner for any site content (including the Content and Third
Party Content) posted on the Website or in connection with the Services,
whether posted or caused by users of the website, by third parties or by any of
the Services offered by .
11.
Termination of Contract
(a)
The Terms will continue to apply until
terminated by either you or by as set out below.
(b)
If you want to terminate the Terms, you may do
so by:
(i)
notifying at any time; and
(ii)
closing your accounts for all of the Services
which you use, where has made this option available to you.
(c)
Your notice should be sent, in writing, to via
the 'Contact Us' link on our homepage.
(d)
may at any time, terminate the Terms with you
if:
(i)
you have breached any provision of the Terms or
intend to breach any provision;
(ii)
is required to do so by law;
(iii)
the partner with
whom offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with or ceased
to offer the Services to you;
(iv)
is transitioning to no longer providing the
Services to Users in the country in which you are resident or from which you
use the service; or
(v)
the provision of the Services to you by is, in
the opinion of , no longer commercially viable.
(e)
Subject to local applicable laws, reserves the
right to discontinue or cancel your membership to the Website at any time and
may suspend or deny, in its sole discretion, your access to all or any portion
of the Website or the Services without notice if you breach any provision of
the Terms or any applicable law or if your conduct impacts 's name or
reputation or violates the rights of those of another party.
(f)
When the Terms come to an end, all of the legal
rights, obligations and liabilities that you and have benefited from, been
subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the Terms have been in
force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by
this cessation, and the provisions of this clause shall continue to apply to
such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
12.
Indemnity
(a)
You agree to indemnify , its affiliates,
employees, agents, contributors, third party content providers and licensors
from and against:
(i)
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 any
Content you post through the Website;
(ii)
any direct or indirect consequences of you
accessing, using or transacting on the Website or attempts to do so and any
breach by you or your agents of these Terms; and/or
(iii)
any breach of the Terms.
13.
Dispute Resolution
(a)
Compulsory:
If a dispute
arises out of or relates to the Terms, either party may not commence any
Tribunal or Court proceedings in relation to the dispute, unless the following
clauses have been complied with (except where urgent interlocutory relief is
sought).
(b)
Notice:
A party to the Terms claiming a dispute ('Dispute')
has arisen under the Terms, must give written notice to the other party
detailing the nature of the dispute, the desired outcome and the action
required to settle the Dispute.
(c)
Resolution:
On receipt
of that notice ('Notice') by that other party, the parties to the Terms
('Parties') must:
(i)
Within days of the Notice endeavour in good
faith to resolve the Dispute expeditiously by negotiation or such other means
upon which they may mutually agree;
(ii)
If for any reason whatsoever, days after the
date of the Notice, the Dispute has not been resolved, the Parties must either
agree upon selection of a mediator or request that an appropriate mediator be
appointed by the President of the or his or her nominee;
(iii)
The Parties are equally liable for the fees and
reasonable expenses of a mediator and the cost of the venue of the mediation
and without limiting the foregoing undertake to pay any amounts requested by
the mediator as a pre-condition to the mediation commencing. The Parties must
each pay their own costs associated with the mediation;
(iv)
The mediation will be held in Queensland,
Australia.
(d)
Confidential:
All
communications concerning negotiations made by the Parties arising out of and
in connection with this dispute resolution clause are confidential and to the
extent possible, must be treated as "without prejudice" negotiations
for the purpose of applicable laws of evidence.
(e)
Termination of Mediation:
If have elapsed after the start of a mediation
of the Dispute and the Dispute has not been resolved, either Party may ask the
mediator to terminate the mediation and the mediator must do so.
14.
Venue and Jurisdiction
(a)
The Services offered by 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 Queensland, Australia.
15.
Governing Law
(a)
The Terms are
governed by the laws of Australia. 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 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.
16.
Independent Legal Advice
(a)
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.
17.
Severance
(a)
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.