Terms and Conditions of Use
The terms and conditions herein set down are deemed to apply to all who use this website and its associated services. Your use of the website and/or its contents (as authorized herein) is an acknowledgement of your absolute and unqualified agreement to such terms and conditions. If you do not agree, please EXIT THE SITE NOW.
Advice/Endorsement Denied
You agree and accept that:
(a) Advanced Publishing Systems (APS) can provide no advice, endorsement or opinion of any kind on the value or suitability of any transaction or course of action you embark on as a result of your use of this website;
(b) Simply because information is available on the site does not constitute a recommendation by APS to enter into any transaction or follow any course of action;
(c) Any such decision made by you is to be based solely on your own assessment of the accuracy, currency or reliability of any information on the site and you acknowledge that APS strongly recommends you make such a personal judgment and obtain any relevant independent professional advice before relying on the information or making any transaction.
Information and warranties
APS, its information contributors and associated service providers give no warranty whatsoever, express or implied, including without limitation as to availability, correctness, completeness, timeliness or reliability of any information or services available on the site and the above parties expressly disclaim (to the maximum extent permitted in law) all liability for any damage or loss arising from your use of or reliance on the site or site information. All site services and information are on an "as is" basis. In particular, APS can and does make no warranty whatsoever that this site is free of viruses or of any kind of unauthorised or malicious programme or code at any or all times.
Linked sites
You agree that all access to site links and linked sites in the content of this site is at your own risk without any endorsement whatsoever from APS and without any implied responsibility by APS for any linked material. You further agree to indemnify APS fully and without reservation against any liability arising from your access to any linked material herein.
Intellectual Property
Copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights in all content (text, graphics, images, software and other material) displayed or able to be accessed via the site are either owned outright by APS or APS is the authorised user – your entry to the site is conditional on your unqualified acknowledgement of this statement. Unauthorised use of content is strictly prohibited and may infringe intellectual property rights. Unless you have the prior written permission of APS, you are not permitted to reproduce, publish or transmit in any manner whatsoever any portion of site content. Specifically, but without limitation, this prohibition (unless you have our prior written permission) prevents you from:
redistributing or republishing any portion of content ; or
archiving any portion of content, no matter how small; or
creating any link to our site including (without limitation) linking in any way which frames the site, replicates the site or gives a misleading impression of association with the site or an association with APS whether implicit or express; or
forming a database, whether electronically or otherwise, by systematically downloading or storing any portion of content, no matter how small.
Technical Hitches
A prior condition of your entering our site is your agreement that the site and associated services may be subject to interruption or delay. APS and our service providers make no warranty of any kind that the site or services will be error free, without interruption or delay, or free from design or engineering defects.
Termination
If APS has reason to believe you are in breach of these Terms and Conditions, or if APS wishes to suspend or withdraw the site or any part of it, then APS reserves the absolute right to terminate your access to and/or use of the site (or any part of it) immediately, without notice to you.
You Indemnify Us Against All Liability
To the fullest extent of the law, you agree without limitation to indemnify and hold APS harmless from any and all claims over your use of the site or its use by any person on your behalf. For the purposes of this stipulation, 'site' means and includes any linked site.
Privacy
You acknowledge that you have read and fully accept the terms of our Privacy Statement, which comprise part of these terms and Conditions of Use.
User Content Policy Agreement
You acknowledge that you have read and fully accept our User Content Policy Agreement, which comprises part of these terms and Conditions of Use.
Law
These Terms and Conditions and your use of the site fall under the absolute jurisdiction of the laws of Australia and your entry to, and use of, the site is strictly subject to your prior agreement to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Australian Courts.
Severability
Any portion of these Terms and Conditions subsequently found in law to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable shall not negate the legality, validity or enforceability of remaining Terms and Conditions.
Variations
APS reserves the absolute right in its sole discretion to alter, amend, vary, substitute or add to these Terms and Conditions at any time. Your continued site use after any such alteration, amendment, variation, substitution or addition has been posted on the site or after you have been informed of same in any alternative way constitutes your agreement to the modified Terms and Conditions.
User Content Policy Agreement
When you make any use whatsoever of our site's user-generated content sections, including comments, publishing or making available any material on this website, all such contributions are STRICTLY SUBJECT to your agreement to the terms and conditions below. By using the site and/or content, you acknowledge your absolute and unqualified agreement to such terms and conditions. Please read this agreement carefully and completely.
Your Ownership Warranty: Sending contributions to our site is strictly subject to your personal guarantee that such material will not breach any copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property rights owned by other parties. In contributing, you are promising us that you are the owner or creator of the material submitted – or if a third party is the author or creator of some or all of the material, that you are submitting it with their explicit consent. If you steal material from others in an unauthorised way for site contributions, you may be legally liable.
Other No-Nos
In contributing to our site, you agree without qualification NOT to:
Solicit others. You cannot contribute for the purposes of advertising or to persuade anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to ask for donations of any kind or to promote other websites, without our prior written approval unless expressly permitted. This ban includes, but is not limited to, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation.
Contribute material containing viruses or any other computer code, files or content designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any software or hardware, telecommunications, or other equipment.
Pretend to be someone else.
Release any private information regarding other users.
Release any confidential information.Defame any person or organisation.
Breach any legislation or other law.
Breach any order of the Courts of Australia, including without limitation any suppression order.
Your contributions and our rights
Posting your content and your thoughts on www.advancedpublishing.com.au automatically gives APS and www.advancedpublishing.com.au a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, disseminate, perform, transmit and display such content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. If you are not the owner of such content, you shall be deemed to have warranted to APS that the owner of the content has expressly granted to you a similar licence. We retain the right to revoke without notice the access privileges of anyone we believe has violated any of these Terms and Conditions for any reason whatsoever and without any requirement to inform a user of those reasons.
Breach of the User Content Agreement
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that you breach any aspect of this User Contract Policy Agreement that will comprise a breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use. We will then have the rights and remedies that arise under the Terms and Conditions of Use.
Questions and Comments
If you have any questions or comments about these Terms and Conditions please email webmaster@advancedpublishing.com.au
