Welcome to https://www.grantthornton.com.au (the Site).
The Site is owned and operated by Grant Thornton Australia Limited ABN 41 127 556 389 (collectively, us or we).
The term you refers to the person accessing or using the Site or our Services (as defined below), and any company or organisation on whose behalf that person accesses the Site or our Services.
These terms and conditions (Terms of Use) incorporate the Site's privacy policy which explains how we collect, use and disclose information that pertains to your privacy (the Privacy Policy) and should be read together with these Terms of Use. The provisions of the Privacy Policy apply as if set out in full in these Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy is at https://www.grantthornton.com.au/privacy/.
Please carefully read the following Terms of Use before using the Site.
1. Acceptance of terms
These Terms of Use, including the Privacy Policy, govern your access to and use of the Site, including any Site Content (as defined below) and services provided through or in connection with the Site (the Services).
By browsing, accessing or using the Site or by using any facilities or services made available through it or by transacting through or on it, you acknowledge and warrant that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and any additional terms and conditions notified to you from time to time. These Terms of Use form a legally binding agreement between us and you. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must immediately exit and not access or use the Site or the Services.
2. Changes to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
We may from time to time (with or without notice to you) update or amend these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy at our sole discretion by posting the changes on the Site. The then current version of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will apply each time you use our Site. Your continued use of the Site after any such change or entering personal information constitutes an acceptance of any new Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We will endeavour to keep you updated on any change to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, however, you are responsible for keeping up to date of any changes by regularly reviewing these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
3. Use of the Site
The Site is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Subject to these Terms of Use, any person may access or use the Site via the internet without registering with or disclosing any personally identifying information to us.
4. Prohibited activities
As a user of the Site, you must not:
(a) infringe any intellectual property right (including copyright, database right or trade mark right) of any person or be in breach of any legal duty owed to any person, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
(b) reproduce any Site Content (as defined below) without our express written permission, which we may grant or withhold at our absolute discretion;
(c) seek reimbursement from any other party for access to the Site or on-sell any information obtained from the Site;
(d) deceive or be likely to deceive any person, impersonate any other person while using the Site, conduct yourself in an offensive manner while using the Site, or use the Site for any illegal, immoral or harmful purpose;
(e) submit, post, upload, email or otherwise send or transmit to the Site, or any user, anything that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, harm, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or equipment linked directly or indirectly to the Site;
(f) interfere with the Site or the servers or networks underlying or connected to the Site or violate any of the procedures, policies or regulations of the Site or any networks connected to the Site; or
(g) disclose your login user name or password for the Site to any other person.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password and are responsible for all activities that are carried out under them. If such disclosure has or you believe that such disclosure may have occurred (whether intentionally or accidentally), then you must immediately inform us.
5. Proprietary rights
The entire contents and design subsisting in, relating to or arising out of the Site and available through or in connection with the Site including copyright, logos, trade marks, designs, text, graphics, images, information, applications and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the Site Content), are the proprietary property of us, our content providers or our licensors with all rights reserved. You must not do anything, or omit to do anything, which may infringe our intellectual property rights except where expressly authorised in these Terms of Use.
No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, communicated, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, sold, assigned, duplicated or licensed in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent. In addition, you agree not to use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction methods in connection with the Site.
Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited licence to access and use the Site and the Site Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. No other licence to intellectual property rights is conferred. This licence is revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause.
Any use of the Site or the Site Content other than as specifically authorised, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the licence granted.
6. Links
The Site may contain links to other websites. Links to third party websites, including the links to our social media accounts, are provided on the Site for convenience only. By clicking on a third-party link, you will leave the Site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices associated with linked websites. You should review the terms and conditions and privacy policy of every internet site you access or use.
Links on the Site to linked websites should not be construed as an endorsement, approval or recommendation by us of the owners or operators of those linked websites, or of any information, graphics, materials, products or services referred to or contained on those linked websites, unless and to the extent stipulated to the contrary.
Information procured from a third party may be the subject of copyright owned by that third party. We expressly disclaim any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party sites.
7. Disclaimer
The Site Content is general and has not been prepared having regard to any person's specific objectives or needs. While every effort is taken to ensure the information is accurate, we do not represent or warrant that this information is correct, current, complete, reliable or suitable for any purpose and it must not be relied on by you or any other person as a substitute for appropriate audit, tax, risk, financial or other advice tailored to specific circumstances.
We do not accept any responsibility or liability to any person for the information or advice (or the use of such information or advice), which is provided on the Site or incorporated into it by reference. The information on the Site is provided on the basis that all persons accessing the Site are responsible for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. We disclaim all responsibility and liability for any direct or indirect loss, damage, cost or expense in the use of or reliance on this information.
In particular, but without limitation, in relation to any information made available on the Site that contains opinions or judgements of third parties:
(a) you acknowledge that any opinions, advice, information or content by third parties remain the responsibility of those third parties and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of that content or its fitness for any particular purpose;
(b) we do not purport to endorse the contents of that opinion or advice nor the accuracy or reliability of that opinion or advice; and
(c) we do not accept liability for loss or damage caused by your reliance on any information obtained through this service and it remains your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any such information.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all implied representations, warranties, terms and conditions of any kind (whether implied by common law, statute or otherwise), including any implied representations, warranties, terms or conditions that the Site, the Site Content or the Services are of satisfactory quality or fit for their purpose.
The Site Content is not to be displayed, except in full screen format. No liability is accepted for any information or services, which may appear in any other format. No responsibility is taken for any information or services, which may appear on any linked websites.
8. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to exclude, restrict or modify any condition, guarantee, warranty, right or remedy that the user may have under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA) or any other applicable legislation which may not be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement.
If the CCA or any other applicable legislation provides the user with any non-excludable statutory rights (including any implied representations, warranties, terms or conditions or any statutory guarantees) in respect of any goods or services supplied under these Terms of Use, then the exclusions and limitations on our liability in these Terms of Use do not apply in respect of such non-excludable statutory rights. However, where our liability with respect to such non-excludable rights may be restricted or modified, then, without prejudice to any non‑excludable statutory rights that the user may have which may not be restricted or modified by agreement, our liability is limited, as we may elect in our sole discretion, to:
(a) in the case of goods supplied by us, to do one of the following (at our election): replace the goods or supply equivalent goods, repair the goods, pay the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods, or pay the cost of having the goods repaired; or
(b) in the case of a services supplied or offered by us, to either (at our election), supply the services again or pay the cost of having the services supplied again.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable to you or anyone else (including for negligence, breach of contract or tort) for any loss or damage, including any indirect, consequential or special loss or damage, however caused and which is suffered directly or indirectly in connection with use of the Site or Services provided to you.
9. Limitations on availability
We will not be in breach of these Terms of Use or otherwise liable to you or any other person for any unavailability or failure of the Site, the Site Content or the Services or any delay or other failure by us to comply with these Terms of Use that is caused by or arises from any event or circumstances, whether or not the event is beyond our control.
10. Third party rights
The provisions headed Disclaimer, Limitation of liability and Limitations on availability are for our benefit and the benefit of our officers, directors, employees, agents, partners, advertisers, information providers, licensors and suppliers. Each of these individuals or entities has the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on their own behalf.
11. Security
We use our best endeavours to minimise viruses and bugs infiltrating the Site. However, due to the nature of the internet, you acknowledge the Site may be affected by viruses or bugs from time to time. You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing the Site does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system or other device. We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system or other device which arises in connection with your use of the Site or any linked website.
12. Termination of access
You agree to use our Site for lawful purposes only. We reserve the right to monitor, suspend, restrict, terminate or withdraw your registration and access to the Site at any time without notice at our discretion. If you breach any of the Terms of Use, then your permission to use the Site automatically terminates.
All licences granted by you, our Privacy Policy and all disclaimers by, and limitations of liability of, us will survive termination, however, you will no longer be authorised to access the Site.
13. General
Entire agreement: These Terms of Use, together with any additional terms and conditions set out on the Site from time to time, constitute the whole agreement relating to its subject matter and supersede and extinguish any prior drafts, versions, agreements, undertakings, representations, warranties and arrangements of any nature, whether in writing or oral, relating to such subject matter.
Rights cumulative: The rights, powers, privileges and remedies provided under any provision of these Terms of Use are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights, powers, privileges or remedies provided under any other provision of these Terms of Use or by applicable law or otherwise.
Waiver: No failure to exercise (nor any delay in exercising) by us of any right, power, privilege or remedy under these Terms of Use will impair (or operate as a waiver of) any such right, power, privilege or remedy, in whole or in part. No single or partial exercise of any right, power, privilege or remedy under these Terms of Use will prevent any further or other exercise of such right, power, privilege or remedy, or the exercise of any other right, power, privilege or remedy.
Assignment: You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without our prior written consent.
Notice: Any legal notices or communications regarding your service account will be sent to your nominated email address.
Invalidity: If any provision of these Terms of Use is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, then that provision will be construed, to the extent feasible, to render that provision enforceable. If no feasible interpretation would save that provision, it will be severed from the remainder of these Terms of Use without affecting the enforceability of all remaining provisions.
Interpretation: In these Terms of Use, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) any reference to a “person” includes any individual, company, corporation, firm partnership, joint venture, association, organisation or trust (in each case, whether or not having separate legal personality) and a reference to any one of them includes a reference to the others;
(b) any phrase introduced by the words “including”, “include”, “in particular”, “for example” or any similar expression is construed as illustrative only and must not be construed as limiting the generality of any preceding words;
(c) references to the singular include the plural and vice versa; and
(d) headings and sub-headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the meaning of these Terms of Use.
Governing Law: These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the state of New South Wales, Australia. You are deemed to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
14. Questions
If you have any questions about our Terms of Use or any concerns about the accuracy of the Site or the Site Content, please contact us by visiting our Contact us page here.
