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Legal & Privacy Statement

Membership Fees.

All monetary amounts stated are exclusive of GST and are payable in Australian dollars, unless otherwise stated.

Cancellation and Refund Policy.

A refund of the full cost of goods purchased or events booked will be granted less an administration fee of $50 provided the goods are returned in the same condition as received within 7 days of receipt. Refunds for event cancellations will be granted, less administration fee providing written notification is received at least 7 days prior to the event. There are no refunds for membership subscriptions.

Terms & Conditions of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WITH CARE. BY VIEWING ANY OF ARAMA QLD INC’S WEBSITES AND/OR USING ANY OF ARAMA QLD’S ONLINE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (“TERMS”). IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OF THESE TERMS, PLEASE DISCONTINUE YOUR ACCESS TO THE ARAMA QLD INC SITE AND ONLINE SERVICES (SUCH AS MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENT). WE MAY AT ANY TIME REVISE THESE TERMS BY UPDATING THIS VERSION. BY USING ARAMA QLD WEBSITE AND/OR ONLINE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ANY SUCH REVISIONS. PLEASE THEREFORE VISIT THIS WEB PAGE PERIODICALLY TO DETERMINE ANY CHANGES TO THESE TERMS.

Copyright & Trademark

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all copyrights, trademarks, tradenames, logos, service marks and other intellectual property or proprietary rights in the contents (including, but not limited to, all information, text, sound, music, software, photographs, videos, graphics, data, messages and materials) on ARAMA websites are the property of ARAMA INC, its affiliates and/or third party licensors. You may view and use these contents for personal and non-commercial purposes only. These contents may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, published, displayed, broadcast, stored, adapted, licensed, altered, hyperlinked or otherwise used in any manner or by any means without ARAMA’s prior written consent. You may not, without ARAMA’s prior written consent, insert a hyperlink to ARAMA’s websites (or any part thereof) on any other website or “mirror” or frame any content contained on ARAMA’s websites on any other server or website.

No license or right is granted to you and your access to ARAMA’s website (s) and/or use of ARAMA’s online services should not be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use the trademarks, tradenames, logos or service marks appearing on such websites without ARAMA’s prior written consent. You may not, without ARAMA’s prior written consent, use any of such trademarks, tradenames, logos or service marks as a hyperlink to any ARAMA’s website or any other website.

Privacy

ARAMA takes the issue of your privacy seriously. Generally, you can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, there are services offered on our website whereby you may subscribe to by providing to us your personal information as requested. Personal information refers to all and any information relating to you obtained by us in the course of and as a result of the provision of the services by us. Such personal information includes your name, mailing address, phone number and email address. We may use your personal information for the purposes of: planning, provisioning, and billing for services; managing bad debt and preventing fraud; facilitating interconnection and inter-operability between service providers; rendering assistance to law enforcement, governmental or regulatory agencies; or complying with any applicable laws or any order of court. With your consent, we may also use your personal information for other lawful purposes, including without limitation, research; customer benefits and retention programme; to support your customer relationship with us.

Please do not send us any confidential or proprietary information via the internet. Any information (including feedback, data, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like) that ARAMA receives through its websites, other than your personal information, will be regarded as non-confidential. ARAMA may from time to time conduct online surveys and request for information about your interests and your views about specific matters in an effort to improve its services to you. You may choose not to respond. By sending to ARAMA’s non-personal information via our website or through any other electronic means, you grant to ARAMA an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, modify, perform and distribute such non-personal information in any manner and for any purpose as ARAMA shall deem fit.

The privacy and confidentiality of user information is important to ARAMA. We are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your user information. ARAMA will not disclose identifiable user information to any third party without prior consent from you.
ARAMA is committed to safeguarding your privacy while visiting the website. Our goal is to provide you with an Internet experience that delivers the information, resources and services that are most relevant to you. To achieve this goal, part of the operation of the Site includes the gathering of certain types of information about Site users. Because we understand that your privacy is important, we wish to explain the types of information we gather and the way in which we use it. This Privacy Policy applies to the Site.

This Privacy Policy covers two types of information gathered at the Site, personal and aggregated. The term “personal information” refers to data you voluntarily provide in connection with use of the Site that identifies you and/or the company on whose behalf you are accessing and using the Site. Personal information includes, e.g., data submitted in connection with our services, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, company affiliation, physical address and/or certain other personal information. The term “aggregated data” refers to general information regarding visitors and users of the Site that relates to use of the Site, e.g., traffic patterns, number of visits to certain pages, visits from other web sites or to third-party web sites linked to the Site, use of particular services and interest in services, information or features of the Site or other parties made available through or found at the Site.

Data Security

ARAMA undertakes to store your data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.

ARAMA undertakes to transmit your data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.

ARAMA undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of your data against inappropriate behaviour by ARAMA’s staff members and contractors. These include:

  • training for staff in relation to privacy;
  • access control, to limit access to your data to those staff and contractors who have legitimate reasons to access it;
  • declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in the event of inappropriate behaviour
  • clear communication of policies and sanctions; and
  • processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions.

Disclaimer of liability

ARAMA and its affiliates and agents expressly disclaim all and any liability to any person in respect of anything and the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done by any person in whole or partial reliance on all or any part of the information accessed at or through this Website.

The materials provided at this Website (and any links from this Website) are provided “as is”. To the maximum extent permitted under the law, ARAMA makes no representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including (without limitation) warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement of intellectual property. ARAMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of information accessed at or through this Website.

ARAMA may make changes to the materials at this Website at any time without notice. The materials at this Website may be out of date, and ARAMA makes no commitment to update the materials at this Website.

ARAMA is not responsible in any way for the way in which downloadable material is used by the user. ARAMA provides users with many downloadable items but ARAMA is not responsible for any action taken or made by a user.

You agree that:

  1. All content transmitted or made available via ARAMA’s websites and/or online services, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated;
  2. ARAMA will not be liable in any way for any third party content, products or services which you may access, use or acquire via ARAMA’s website and/or online services;
  3. You are solely responsible for all content that you transmit or make available via ARAMA’s websites, online services or on any website;
  4. ARAMA does not control any third party content, products or services which you may access, use or acquire through ARAMA’s websites and/or online services. Further, ARAMA does not endorse or guarantee the accuracy, reliability, integrity, legality or quality of such content, products or services;
  5. By using ARAMA’s websites and/or online services, you may be exposed to third party content that may be defamatory, offensive, indecent, objectionable or illegal;
  6. ARAMA may, at its discretion, remove or modify any content (which you transmit or make available via ARAMA’s website and/or online services or on any website) that may be defamatory, offensive, indecent, objectionable or illegal or may have infringed any party’s intellectual property rights without notice to you;
  7. ARAMA may, at its discretion, deny access to or remove any third party content, products or services that may be defamatory, offensive, indecent or objectionable or illegal or may have infringed any party’s intellectual property rights, without notice to you; and
  8. Without prejudice or paragraph (7) above, ARAMA may, at its discretion, remove, modify, suspend or terminate any third party content, products or services which you may access, use or acquire via ARAMA’s website and/or online services without notice to you, and ARAMA will not be liable to you or any third party under any of paragraphs (1) to (7) above.
  9. In addition, ARAMA will not be liable in any way if you encounter any problems with the goods and services that you obtain from the advertisers or any third parties on ARAMA’s websites or through ARAMA’s online services. ARAMA assumes no liability or responsibility for the acts or defaults of such advertisers or third parties or for any non-delivery, non-performance or defects in any such goods and services.

Links to third party websites

ARAMA’s website may also include hyperlinks to websites which are owned or operated by third parties. Such third party websites are not under our control. ARAMA cannot accept responsibility for the contents of or the consequences of accessing any such third party websites or any link contained in such websites. The hyperlinks found in ARAMA’s website shall not be construed as an endorsement or verification of such third party websites or the contents found therein by ARAMA. You agree that your access to and/or use of such third party websites is at your sole risk and subject to these terms and conditions of access and/or use of such third party websites.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ARAMA BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, EXPENSES, COSTS OR LIABILITIES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY) ARISING FROM YOUR ACCESS AND/OR USE OF ANY OF ARAMA’s WEBSITE OR ONLINE SERVICES, EVEN IF ARAMA HAS BEEN INFORMED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Viruses

ARAMA cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that any files available for downloading through this Website will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifests 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 an appropriate means for the reconstruction of any lost data.

Secure Transactions

Some services offered on ARAMA’s websites are provided via a secure server. All orders placed and information provided by you are provided to us via the secure server software (“SSL”). The SSL encrypts all information provided by you before they are sent to us. Further, all personal data we collect is subject to our Privacy Policy as set herein.

By clicking on the “Submit”, “I Accept” or similar buttons, you indicate your acceptance and confirmation of your order (s) and information provided to us and you shall be liable for any payment, if any, incurred by you arising out of such order (s) or information.

Please note that all prices quoted are in AUD.

Applicable Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Queensland, Australia, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Any legal proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use of this Website must be commenced in the appropriate court in Queensland. If you use this Website from locations outside of Queensland, you are solely responsible for compliance with your local laws.

If any provision of these Terms is unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severed from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

ARAMA may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You are bound by such revisions and should therefore regularly revisit this page to review the then current Terms by which you are bound.

Policy Modifications & Contacting Hotel

ARAMA reserves the right to change this Privacy & Disclaimer Policy at any time; notice of changes will be published on this page. Changes will always be prospective, not retroactive. If you have questions about our policies, please contact ARAMA on +61 7 3257 3927.