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Any references to products, processes, services or organisations does not necessarily constitute or imply Limbs 4 Life endorsement, recommendation or favouring. Limbs 4 Life cannot verify the quality of products, services or organisations referred to on this site.
This online Privacy Policy is provided to make you aware of how Limbs 4 Life collects, uses and manages information of visitors to its Internet website. Limbs 4 Life, the publisher of www.limbs4life.org.au, view the personal privacy of users as an important issue, and are committed to maintaining the security of personal information provided to Limbs 4 Life by users in accessing www.limbs4life.org.au. This policy forms part of the terms of use of the website, and describes how Limbs 4 Life treats personal information that it receives through your use of the website.
Please note: Limbs 4 Life makes some other websites available to you from hyperlinks in www.limbs4life.org.au. These websites are not subject to Limbs 4 Life Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policy of each individual website you access via hyperlinks from this website, and assess whether the policy of each website is satisfactory to you before you use the other websites.
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Limbs 4 Life collects the following information regarding visitors to our website: domain name, name, information regarding what pages are accessed, information volunteered by you, such as survey information, e-mail address, or website registrations, and your preferred means of communication. Limbs 4 Life collects and logs this information for statistical purposes.
Other than stated in the preceding, no attempt is made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect logs, or where Limbs 4 Life believes it is required to collect and produce relevant electronic documentation to fulfil its obligations to third parties, including statutory organisations under local law.
Limbs 4 Life endeavours to use and disclose your personal information only in limited circumstances. Limbs 4 Life will do so if it is necessary to protect any copyright or intellectual property in the material in the website, or if it is necessary to enforce the Limbs 4 Life website Terms and Conditions of Use.
Except as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information with a company that is not associated with Limbs 4 Life.
While Limbs 4 Life has endeavoured to ensure that all information provided on www.limbs4life.org.au is accurate and up to date Limbs 4 Life takes no responsibility for any error or omission relating to this information. To the maximum extent permitted by law Limbs 4 Life will not be liable for any cost, loss or damage suffered by you through your use of Limbs 4 Life Internet website or Limbs 4 Life failure to provide access to these Internet Web sites or information updates.
Your use of the website is governed by the Limbs 4 Life website Terms and Conditions of Use. As a user of the Limbs 4 Life website ('www.limbs4life.org.au'), you are bound by the following terms and conditions. Accordingly, you should review them in relation to all or part(s) of the website.
By allowing you to access the website, Limbs 4 Life grants to you a licence. By accessing the website, you accept the terms and conditions of this licence. Pursuant to this licence and subject to the absolute right of Limbs 4 Life to vary access to all or any part(s) of the website, you acquire a non-exclusive right to:
You hereby undertake the following obligations:
Limbs 4 Life does not warrant that the material in the website is accurate, complete or up to date. The existence of inaccurate, incomplete or superceded material in the website will not cause Limbs 4 Life to be in breach of the terms of this licence.
Limbs 4 Life reserves the right to change, add or remove any material in or from the website without notice.
Limbs 4 Life does not warrant that the functions contained in the website or third-party websites will be uninterrupted or without error, that defects will be corrected, or that electronic material in the website and other third-party websites are free of viruses or other harmful components.
To the extent permitted by law, all implied terms are excluded. If any statute implies terms into this licence, which cannot be lawfully excluded, such terms will apply to this licence, save that the liability of Limbs 4 Life for breach of any such implied term will be limited, at the option of Limbs 4 Life, to any one or more of the following:
Limbs 4 Life will not be liable for any indirect or consequential losses arising out of a breach of this licence, or arising out of the supply of a defective program or incorrect materials.
When deciding to visit the website, you acknowledge that you have exercised your independent judgment and have not relied on any representation made by Limbs 4 Life which has not been stated expressly in this licence or upon any descriptions or illustrations or specifications contained in any document including catalogues or publicity material produced by Limbs 4 Life (which material may be out of date or superceded).
You acknowledge that the material in the website is the subject of copyright© and that it is the subject of other intellectual property and legal rights (including third-party rights).
You must not, during or at any time after the expiry or termination of this licence, permit any act which infringes any of those rights and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you specifically acknowledge that you may not copy the material in the website, except as otherwise expressly authorised by this licence.
You must indemnify and keep Limbs 4 Life indemnified fully against all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, costs and expenses, which Limbs 4 Life may incur to a third party or you as a result of your breach of the provisions of this licence.
This website may contain hyperlinks to other websites operated by third parties. You accept that Limbs 4 Life has no control over, and is not responsible for, any material contained on any third-party websites. You may be required to comply with all requirements of any third party over the conditions of use of that third party's website.
You accept that Limbs 4 Life takes no responsibility for any error or omission relating to the material contained in the website.
You accept that Limbs 4 Life makes no undertakings to provide access to the website at any particular time, or for any particular length of time. You agree that Limbs 4 Life will not be held liable for any lapse in the website's accessibility, or any consequences whatsoever that flow from the unavailability of the website.
This licence commences upon your accessing the website and is granted in perpetuity. However, the licence may be terminated without notice by Limbs 4 Life if you are in breach of any terms of this licence.
Upon termination, you or your representative must destroy any copies, electronic and printed, of material obtained from the website that you have in your possession or under your control or otherwise return or dispose of such material in the manner directed by Limbs 4 Life.
Termination pursuant to this clause shall not affect any rights or remedies, which Limbs 4 Life may otherwise have under this licence or at law.
These are the current terms and conditions of the licence.
Limbs 4 Life may at any time vary and amend the terms and conditions of this licence by publishing the varied Terms and Conditions of Use on the website. You accept that by doing this, Limbs 4 Life has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation and amendment.
It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the current terms and conditions each time you visit the website.
Failure or neglect by Limbs 4 Life to enforce at any time any of the provisions of this licence shall not be construed or deemed to be a waiver of the rights of Limbs 4 Life under this licence. Jurisdiction This licence shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the state of Victoria, Australia.
'Hyperlink' means any mechanism of providing a link from one location on the Internet (or a web page) to another location on the Internet (or a different web page, or a different location on the same web page), and includes any mechanism for linking to, or providing access to, files via the Internet.
'Intellectual Property' means all intellectual property rights as defined by Article 2 of the World Intellectual Property Organisation Convention of 1967, in any inventions, designs, trademarks, trade names, circuit layouts, plant varieties, business and domain names, logos and get-up, confidential information, matter, materials or works accessible on or via the Limbs 4 Life website.
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