Terms and conditions

About this website: This is a website operated by SDG Align Pty Ltd (ACN 34 645 295 361) (hereinafter referred to as “Website Owner”) under the domain name “https://sdgalign.com.au” (hereinafter referred to as the “website”) identified by the page local to the website set up to provide access to the website (hereinafter referred to as the “Home Page”) addressed at https://sdgalign.com.au.

1. About these terms of use: These website terms of use (hereinafter the “terms of use”) and the associated Privacy Statement govern your access to and use of the website. You should read these terms of use carefully before using the website.
2. Eligibility: Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. The website is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older. Any registration by, use of or access to the website by anyone under 13 is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using the Service or the website, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and in high school or college, or else that you are 18 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3. Registration Data; Account Security: In consideration of your use of the website, you agree to:
   
   1. provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted by any registration forms on the website (“Registration Data”)
   2. maintain the security of your password and identification
   3. maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, and any other information you provide to the website, to keep it accurate, current and complete, and
   4. be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account.
4. Trademarks and other website’s graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts and service names are registered trademarks, of the Website Owner in Australia. The Website Owner’s trademarks may not be used, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Website Owner.
5. Your access/use implies agreement: The website is available for your use only on condition that you agree to these terms of use. By accessing/using the website, you are signifying your agreement to be bound by these terms. Certain other actions imply agreement to additional terms. In addition to the terms of use, there may also be specific terms (“additional terms”) which govern your use of, and access to, particular sections of the website. Since you are also bound by these additional terms, you should review them wherever they are offered to you. Certain actions, payment or agreement on your part may mean that such services are additional to the normal terms and are subject to a separate agreement. When this happens you shall be offered additional terms through a hyperlink associated with these additional services. Since you are also bound by these additional terms, you should review them wherever they are offered to you.
6. Limited license: The Website Owner grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, revocable license to:
   (a) access and use the website, content and services only; and
   (b) access and use the website, content and services in the manner presented by the website only.
   None of the content and/or information may be reverse-engineered, modified, reproduced, republished, translated into any other language or computer language, re-transmitted in any form or by any means, resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of the Website Owner. You may not make, sell, offer for sale, modify, reproduce, display, publicly perform, import, distribute, retransmit or otherwise use the content in any way, unless expressly permitted to do so by the Website Owner.
7. Modifications to the terms: The Website Owner may revise and update these terms of use at any time. Your continued usage of the website after any changes to these terms of use will mean you accept those changes.
8. Modifications to the information: While the Website Owner has made every effort to ensure that information on the website is free from error, the Website Owner does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of material on the website. All information may be changed, supplemented, deleted or updated without notice at the sole discretion of the Website Owner. The Website Owner recommends that you seek independent advice before acting upon material on the website.
9. Errors and problems: While the Website Owner has made every effort to ensure that systems and information available on the website is and shall be free from error, the Website Owner does not guarantee that the website will be free from viruses, or that access to the website will be uninterrupted.
10. Privacy Policy: The Website Owner’s privacy policy governs the use of information collected from or provided by you at the website. A policy statement prepared by the Website Owner for the purposes of being made available to customers and the general public declaring the company’s commitment to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (hereinafter the “Privacy Act”) for a company that, while not required by law, has decided to opt in to requirements as detailed in the Privacy Act, available at https://sdgalign.com.au/privacy-policy/. With respect to any personal information (related to you or to any other person) provided by you to the website or the Website Owner, you represent to the Website Owner that you consent to and have obtained all necessary consents for the processing of such personal information, including the transfer of such information to Australia to be handled by the Website Owner in a manner as required by the Privacy Act, regardless of the privacy requirements and provisions of its state and country of origin or your or your associate’s state and country of residence.
11. License and ownership: Any and all intellectual property rights (hereinafter called ”intellectual property”) associated with the website and its material and contents (hereinafter called the “content”) are the sole property of the Website Owner. The copyright for the content on the website is owned or licensed by the Website Owner and is protected by copyright and other laws in both Australia and other countries. Except where necessary for viewing the material on the website on your browser, or as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or other applicable laws or these terms of use, no material on this website may be reproduced, adapted, uploaded to a third party, linked to, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by any process without the specific written consent of the Website Owner. “W-O”, and all custom graphics, icons, and other items that appear on the website and all associated trademarks, are trademarks of the Website Owner.
12. Outbound links: The website may contain links to third-party websites and resources (hereinafter referred to as “linked sites”). These linked sites are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Website Owner of the content on such linked sites. The Website Owner makes no representations or warranties regarding the correctness, accuracy, performance or quality of any content, software, service or application found at any linked site. The Website Owner is not responsible for the availability of the linked site or the content or activities of such sites. If you decide to access linked sites, you do so at your own risk. If you do decide to make use of the link you should remember that your use of the linked site is likely to be subject to terms and conditions of use similar to these, including but not limited to, the linked site’s privacy policy. The Website Owner recommends that you review such terms before using the linked site. To the fullest extent possible at law, the Website Owner makes no warranties or representations regarding the quality, accuracy, merchantability or fitness for purpose of third party material or products or services available through linked sites; or that third party material available from a linked site does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person. Without impacting its ability to exclude itself from such responsibilities and warranties the Website Owner may receive payments and/or commissions from operators of linked sites in relation to goods or services supplied by the operator as a result of you linking to the third party website from the website.
13. Inbound links: The Website Owner generally encourages and agrees to your linking to the Home Page through a plain text link on your website without the need for agreement between yourself and the Website Owner, where it does not damage or take advantage of it, suggest any form of false association, approval, or endorsement by us. This website may also provide certain social media features that enable you to:
    
    1. link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Website
    2. send e-mails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this Website, and/or
    3. cause limited portions of content on this Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.

    You may use these features solely as they are provided by us solely with respect to the content they are displayed with and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:

    1. cause the Website or portions of it to be displayed, or appear to be displayed by, for example, framing, deep linking or in-line linking, on any other site
    2. otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this Website that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Use.

    The website from which you are linking, or on which you make certain content accessible, must comply in all respects with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use. You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to cease. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our sole discretion.

14. Submissions: While not refusing to accept ideas from you regarding information available on the website (hereinafter called “comments”) the Website Owner does not encourage you to make such comments. If you do send such comments, you acknowledge that:
    
    1. they will not be considered confidential or proprietary, and
    2. the Website Owner is under no obligation to keep such information confidential, and
    3. the Website Owner will have an unrestricted, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty free right to use, communicate, reproduce, publish, display, distribute and exploit such comments in any manner it chooses.
15. Disclaimer of warranties: To the fullest extent permitted by law the Website Owner makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, security or timeliness of the content, information or services provided by the website and disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement of third parties’ rights, and fitness for a particular purpose.
16. Limitation of liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law and to the extent that the Website Owner is otherwise found responsible for any damages, the Website Owner is responsible for actual damages only. In no event shall the Website Owner, be liable for any incidental, indirect, exemplary, punitive and/or consequential damages, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption resulting from the use of or inability to use the website.
17. Jurisdiction: Unless expressly agreed otherwise:
    
    1. the Australian section is provided for use only by Australian residents. The law applicable to use of the Australian section and to disputes arising out of the Australian section is the law of the State of Tasmania; and
    2. the International Section is provided for use by residents of any country in the world, but to the fullest extent permitted by law the law applicable to use of the International Section and to disputes arising out of the International Section is the law of the State of Tasmania, Australia.
18. Customer service: Questions or comments regarding the website may be submitted to the SDG Align team.
19. Date of Publication – 22 March 2022.