Introduction

These terms and conditions (Terms) are entered into between ARC Business Group Pty Ltd (ACN 653 619 973) (we, us or our) and you, together the Parties and each a Party.

We provide an application that allows you to connect with other individuals in public and private communities, and to access content provided as part of our business coaching and development services (where you have a separate agreement with us for our services) (Platform).

These Terms apply from when you sign up for an Account, until the date on which your Account is terminated in accordance with these Terms. We grant you a right to use our Platform for this period of time only.

You must be at least 18 years old to use our Platform.

Acceptance and Platform Licence

By clicking on “I accept” (or similar button or checkbox) or by using or accessing the Platform, you accept these Terms.

We may amend these Terms at any time, by providing written notice to you. By accepting or continuing to use the Platform after the notice or 30 days after notification (whichever date is earlier), you agree to the amended Terms. If you do not agree to the amendment, you may cease accessing the Platform.

You must sign up for an Account in order to access and use our Platform. You may register for an Account using your Apple, Google or Meta account (Single-Sign On Account). If you use your Account using a Single-Sign On Account, you authorise us to access information from your Single-Sign On Account including your name and contact information.

While you have an Account with us, you agree to:

• Keep your information up-to-date (and ensure it remains true, accurate and complete);
• Keep usernames and passwords secure and confidential, and protect them from misuse or being stolen; and
• Notify us if you become aware of, or have reason to suspect, any unauthorised access to your Account or any logins linked to your Account.

If you access or download our mobile application from (1) the Apple App Store, you agree to any Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms of Service.

If you access or download our mobile application from the Google Play Store, you agree to the Android, Google Inc. Terms and Conditions including the Google Apps Terms of Service.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, worldwide, non-transferable licence to use our Platform in accordance with these Terms. All other uses are prohibited without our prior written consent.

When using the Platform, you must not do or attempt to do anything that is improper, unlawful or inappropriate, including:

• Anything that would constitute a breach of an individual’s privacy (including uploading private or personal information without an individual’s consent) or any other legal rights, or gives rise to any civil or criminal liability;
• Interfere with or interrupt the supply of the Platform, or any other person’s access to or use of the Platform;
• Using the Platform to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person, including using the Platform to send unsolicited electronic messages;
• Tampering with or modifying the Platform (including by transmitting viruses and using trojan horses);
• Using data mining, robots, screen scraping or similar data gathering and extraction tools on the Platform;
• Facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

Access to the Platform

You may be required to register on the Platform to access the Platform’s features.

You may be invited to a public or private community within our Platform where you can share content and communicate with other users (depending on whether or not you hold a separate services agreement with us to access a particular community) (Community).

When interacting with any other members of the communities in the Community, you represent and warrant that:

• The posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmission of any content you post in the Community will not infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation;
• The content you post will not be objectionable, abusive, obscene, explicit, illegal, defamatory, offensive, threatening, or otherwise harmful to any person;
• You will not use the Community to post any form of advertising;
• You will not use the Community to harass, threaten, menace or offend any person, including using the Community to send unsolicited electronic messages;
• You will not use the Community to privately spam or message other users;
• You will not make a post containing the personal contact details or confidential information of any person without their prior written consent; and
• You will not share any content of the Community with any third party or reproduce the content in any way.

We reserve the right to, at any time, remove any content you share in the Community, and remove your access to the Community, where you are or we reasonably suspect you are in breach of these Terms.

We may revoke your access to the Community at any time by giving written notice to you.

We do not endorse or approve any content posted by any user of the Community.

All personal information you provide to us will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

You agree not to share your login details with any other person. Your login is personal and you must not transfer or provide it to others.

You are responsible for keeping your login details and your username and password confidential and you will be liable for all activity via your login. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your login.

Our Intellectual Property

You acknowledge and agree that any Intellectual Property or content (including copyright and trademarks) available on the Platform, the Platform itself, and any algorithms or machine learning models used on the Platform (Our Intellectual Property) will at all times vest, or remain vested, in us or our licensors.

We authorise you to use Our Intellectual Property solely for your personal use. You must not exploit Our Intellectual Property for any other purpose, nor allow, aid or facilitate such use by any third party.

You must not, without our prior written consent:

• Copy, in whole or in part, any of Our Intellectual Property;
• Reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any of Our Intellectual Property to any third party; or
• Breached any intellectual property rights connected with the Platform, including (without limitation) altering or modifying any of Our Intellectual Property, causing any of Our Intellectual Property to be framed or embedded in another website, or creating derivative works from any of Our Intellectual Property.

Warranties

You represent, warrant and agree that:

• You will not use our Platform, including Our Intellectual Property, in any way that competes with our business;
• There are no legal restrictions preventing you from entering into these Terms;
• All information and documentation that you provide to us in connection with these Terms is true, correct and complete; and
• You have not relied on any representations or warranties made by us in relation to the Platform (including as to whether the Platform is or will be fit or suitable for your particular purposes), unless expressly stipulated in these Terms.

Liability

Despite anything to the contrary, without limiting any rights you may have as a consumer under the Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (Australian Consumer Law):

• Neither Party will be liable for Consequential Loss;
• Each Party’s liability for any Liability under these Terms will be reduced proportionately to the extent the relevant Liability was caused or contributed to by the acts or omissions of the other Party or any of that Party’s personnel, including any failure by that Party to mitigate its losses;
• We will have no Liability towards you in relation to this Agreement or your use of the Platform.

Access

We may revoke your access to the Platform at any time by giving 7 days’ written notice to you.

Should we suspect that you are in breach of these Terms, we may suspend your access to the Platform while we investigate the suspected breach. Should we determine that you are in breach of these Terms, your access to the Platform will be terminated immediately.

You may terminate these Terms at any time by notifying us through your Account or to our email for notices (as set out below), and termination will take effect immediately.

Notice Regarding Apple

To the extent that you are using or accessing our Platform on an iOS device, you further acknowledge and agree to the terms of this clause. You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us only, not with Apple Inc. (Apple), and Apple is not responsible for the Platform and any content available on the Platform.

Apple has no obligation to furnish you with any maintenance and support services with respect to our Platform.

If our mobile application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price of the mobile application to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the mobile application and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our responsibility.

Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to our mobile application or your use of our mobile application, including but not limited to: (1) product liability claims; (2) any claim that our mobile application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (3) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.

Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that our mobile application infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights.

You agree to comply with any applicable third-party terms when using our mobile application.

Apple and Apple subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of these Terms.

You hereby represent and warrant that: (1) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (2) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

General

Assignment

You must not assign or deal with the whole or any part of your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

Confidentiality

You agree to maintain the confidentiality of any proprietary or confidential information shared via our Platform (either by us or by any third party using our Platform).

Disputes

A Party may not commence court proceedings relating to a dispute without first meeting with the other Party to seek (in good faith) to resolve the dispute, failing which the Parties agree to engage a mediator to attempt to resolve the dispute. The costs of the mediation will be shared equally between the Parties. Nothing in this clause will operate to prevent a Party from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief from a court of appropriate jurisdiction.

Force Majeure

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we shall have no Liability for any event or circumstance outside of our reasonable control.

Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of New South Wales. Each Party irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in New South Wales and any courts entitled to hear appeals from those courts and waives any right to object to proceedings being brought in those courts.

Notices

Any notice given under these Terms must be in writing addressed to us at the details set out below or to you at the details provided when you sign up to the Platform. Any notice may be sent by standard post or email, and will be deemed to have been served on the expiry of 48 hours in the case of post, or at the time of transmission in the case of transmission by email.

Severance

If a provision of these Terms is held to be void, invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision is to be read down as narrowly as necessary to allow it to be valid or enforceable, failing which, that provision (or that part of that provision) will be severed from these Terms without affecting the validity or enforceability of the remainder of that provision or the other provisions in these Terms.

Definitions

Consequential Loss

Consequential Loss includes any consequential loss, indirect loss, real or anticipated loss of profit, loss of benefit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of savings, loss of reputation, loss of use and/or loss or corruption of data, whether under statute, contract, equity, tort (including negligence), indemnity or otherwise.

Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights means any and all existing and future rights throughout the world conferred by statute, common law, equity or any corresponding law in relation to any copyright, designs, patents or trade marks, domain names, know-how, inventions, processes, trade secrets (including the right to keep confidential information confidential), circuit layouts, software, computer programs, databases or source codes, including any application, or right to apply, for registration of, and any improvements, enhancements or modifications of, the foregoing, whether or not registered or registrable.

Liability

Liability means any expense, cost, liability, loss, damage, claim, notice, entitlement, investigation, demand, proceeding or judgment (whether under statute, contract, equity, tort (including negligence), indemnity or otherwise), howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent and whether involving a third party or a party to these Terms or otherwise.

For any questions or notices, please contact us at:

ARC Business Group Pty Ltd (ACN 653 619 973)
Email: [email protected]

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