PRIVACY POLICY AND DISCLAIMER
Use of this website is subject to the following Terms of Use, Disclaimers and Legal Notices, which you acknowledge as constituting a binding agreement (the “Agreement”) between you and Absolutely Melbourne made in consideration of this site being made available to you by Absolutely Melbourne Your use of this website indicates your acceptance of this Agreement.
OWNERSHIP
Copyright and Contents of Site
Absolutely Melbourne is owned and published by RIPEFRUIT MEDIA PTY LTD
Copyright © 2007-2020 Absolutely Melbourne All rights reserved.
The content of this website is generally owned by Absolutely Melbourne or is made available to you by Absolutely Melbourne under license from the owner. Absolutely Melbourne permits you to have access to the contents of this website but you acknowledge that your use of that content is governed by applicable copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property law and agree that the content of this site may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, modified or re-posted to other sites.
DISCLAIMER
This website is provided “as is”. Absolutely Melbourne makes no representations or warranties about this website or any of its contents, including without limitation, any warranties as to the availability or stability of this website or the accuracy or timeliness of its contents or the merchantability or fitness of any such information or content for any particular purpose. Any implied warranties, whether statutory or otherwise, on any such matters are hereby expressly excluded to the full extent permitted by applicable law.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
In no event shall Absolutely Melbourne or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates or subsidiaries be liable to you or any other person or entity for any damages (whether general, direct, indirect, special, punitive, exemplary or incidental) arising directly or indirectly out of the use or unavailability of this website, even if such persons have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify Absolutely Melbourne and its directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and subsidiaries against all liability resulting from any violation of any law in your use of this website to the full extent permitted by applicable law.
AMENDMENT
Absolutely Melbourne may amend this Agreement or the contents of this website at any time without your consent and without notice to you.
SEVERABILITY
If any provision of this Agreement is wholly or partially unenforceable for any reason, such unenforceable provision or part shall be deemed to be omitted from this Agreement without in any way invalidating or impairing the other provisions of this Agreement.
OTHER MATTERS
Links to Other Sites
Links to other websites found on this website are for convenience only and no endorsement of the content of any such linked website or any products or services described therein is intended by the provision of a link from this website.
SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION
Any personal details (including contact details) are treated with respect. They will never be sold or used in an unethical manner. Absolutely Melbourne may contact you from time to time with information and offers if appropriate.
Any information that is submitted to Absolutely Melbourne through this website becomes the exclusive property of Absolutely Melbourne and may be used by Absolutely Melbourne for any purpose without restriction or compensation.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Absolutely Melbourne and its staff are committed to protecting your private information.
Our procedures for protecting your personal information do not in anyway diminish our obligation of confidentiality to you, nor do these procedures take away any legal professional privilege to which you may be entitled.
COLLECTING AND USING INFORMATION
Personal information is collected by us in the course of providing information about our membership packages and events that we conduct. Most personal information is provided directly by the owner of that information for a specific purpose. We use the personal information only for the designated specific purpose for which it was collected and for related secondary purposes. If we use personal information for any other purpose, it will only be in one of three situations: (1) with your prior consent, (2) where you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information in such a way, or (3) where we are required by law to do so.
Examples of situations in which we collect personal information include when you request to be placed on a mailing list or ask about our membership packages or events.
We normally collect personal information and financial information so that we can collect payment for the membership packages we offer or for attendance at one of our events. Your information may also be supplied for the subject of a credit check conducted by a credit agency to protect our ability to recover any outstanding charges.
Examples of secondary purposes for which we use personal information include where we conduct a credit check or where we send you bulletins or information about other products and services that we provide or maybe involved with.
Where we use “cookies” technology on our web site, it is done to allow us to identify your movements around our site, which provides us with needed information for improving our service to members and visitors. We do not use cookies to determine the identity of individual users.
We do not collect information about your sexual preference, race and/or religion, unless you have consented to provide the same or where we are permitted or required by law to do so.
SECURING INFORMATION
We take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information remains secure. Our staff are bound by confidentiality undertakings to you that support this privacy statement. Our databases, that house your personal information, have in place the necessary access restrictions to limit control and access to permitted personnel of Absolutely Melbourne.
We keep your personal information for the time period necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and for permitted secondary purposes.
YOUR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
We will provide you with access to your personal information that we have on file upon your request. Please provide us with as much detail as you can about the particular information to which you seek access, in order to help us meet your request. An access fee may be charged to cover our costs of providing the information to you.