WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Welcome to the website of BizSense Pty Ltd (ABN 54 668 786 347) ("we", "us" or the "Company"), a professional services firm providing accounting and taxation (and related) services.
This website is located on the web via the domain https://bizsense.net.au/ and includes all of the files located in that domain ("this site").
Agreement to these Website Terms of Use
By accessing this site, our social media channels and any other materials and information made available to you (including but not limited to guides, blogs, free downloads, information booklets, podcasts, checklists, free consultations, template documents, videos ("Online Services"), you agree to be bound by these terms of use ("Website Terms of Use").
These Website Terms of Use constitute a binding agreement between you and the Company and govern your use of this site. We may update them from time to time and your continued use of this site will, on each occasion, indicate an acceptance of these Website Terms of Use in their form as at the time of your use. If you do not agree to these Website Terms of Use, you must immediately cease using it.
Privacy Policy
As part of these Website Terms of Use, your use of this site is also subject to our Privacy Policy (located at https://bizsense.net.au/privacy-policy/), which is incorporated by reference into these Website Terms of Use.
Legal capacity to transact
If you are under 18 years of age, you cannot place orders for goods or services through this site. By using this site you represent and warrant to the Company that you are over the age of 18 years. Should the Company suffer any damage or other losses as a result of a transaction entered into by a minor, we reserve the right to seek compensation for such losses from the parents or legal guardians of the minor user.
Professional Advice & Services
You agree that your use of this website or any use or purchase of the Online Services does not constitute the provision of any professional services (accounting, taxation, financial, advisory or other similar or related services) and creates no fiduciary or professional relationship between you and us. Information on this site is not professional advice, does not take into account your specific circumstances or needs, is general in nature only and no fiduciary or other relationship is created between you and the Company.
You agree that information, recommendations and/or advice shared during Discovery Calls is preliminary in nature and subject to change pending your further engagement of the Company and the provision of further information and documents required or requested by us in order to provide you with specific and personalised advice.
For avoidance of doubt, NO CLIENT/ADVISOR RELATIONSHIP IS FORMED until such time as a separate engagement document which specifies the services we are to provide you with, the cost of those services, your obligations, our obligations and the authorities you grant to us as your professional advisors is provided by the Company to you, and you indicate or communicate your acceptance of the terms of that engagement to the Company, as required by that engagement.
Restrictions on use
Prohibited conduct
Your use of this site is subject to the rules set out in Schedule 1 below.
Violations of these Website Terms of Use
Without limiting any other remedies available to the Company at law or in equity, the Company reserves the right to, without notice:
temporarily or indefinitely suspend, or terminate, your access to this site or refuse to provide products or services to you if:
you breach any provision of these Website Terms of Use;
the Company is unable to verify or authenticate any information that you provide to us; or
the Company believes that your actions may cause damage and/or legal liability to the Company, any of its customers or suppliers or any other person; and
remove or block access to any information and/or materials (in whole or in part) that the Company, at its sole and absolute discretion, regards in any way to be objectionable or in violation of any applicable law, any person's intellectual property rights or these Website Terms of Use.
Indemnity
You indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, contractors, licensors, partners and affiliates from and against any losses, liabilities, costs, expenses or damages (including actual losses or damages, including all legal fees on a solicitor-client basis) suffered or incurred by any of them due to, arising out of, or in any way related to (directly or indirectly):
any material or information that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through this site;
your use of, or connection to, this site; or
your negligence or misconduct, breach of these Website Terms of Use or violation of any law or the rights of any person.
Orders
Order constitutes offer
By placing an order through this site, you make an offer to us to purchase the products/services that you have selected pursuant to these Website Terms of Use. Information contained in this site constitutes an invitation to treat only. No information in this site constitutes an offer by us to supply any products/services to you – however, the Company will endeavour to supply your selected products/services to you.
We will not commence processing any order made through this site unless and until:
payment for the order has been received by us in full; and
the order has passed our internal validation procedures, which are undertaken in order to verify the bona fides of each order for the purpose of preventing credit card and other fraud.
We reserve the right at our discretion to:
at any time prior to your order being accepted in accordance with these Website Terms of Use, cancel all or part of your order; and
at any time:
refuse to provide products or services to you;
terminate your access to this site; and/or
remove or edit any content on this site.
Acceptance of orders
Acceptance of each order will take place if and when the Company:
in the case of digital items, either:
sends the requested items to you, at the time at which the items are sent by the Company; or
notifies you in writing that the requested items are available for download by you, at the time at which such notification is sent by the Company,
and title to, and risk in, the items will pass from the Company to you at that time; or
in the case of services, either:
provides the services to you, at the time at which the Company commences providing the services; or
notifies you in writing that your order has been accepted, at the time at which such notification is sent by the Company.
Discovery Calls
The Company may offer 30 minute initial calls (“Discovery Calls”). The Discovery Calls are purely for introductory purposes. Any information, advice or recommendations shared during those calls are preliminary in nature only, and subject to change pending you engaging the Company to assist you with your tax, accounting and/or bookkeeping needs. Your reliance on the information we share with you during Discovery Calls is entirely at your own risk.
By booking a Discovery Call, you acknowledge and agree:
You do not become a client of the Company.
Any information, advice or recommendations we make is preliminary in nature, based on the limited information obtained from you during the call.
Any information, advice or recommendations we make are subject to change pending the provision of further and more detailed information from you under a separate engagement.
You will only become a client once you engage us via a separate engagement document, which we will provide to you separately.
Where you purchase a service from us or engage us to provide you with other services offered on our site, separate terms and conditions will be made available to you which will apply to that engagement.
The Discovery Call is $111.00 only for the initial call and provided on a per person basis. This means that you may only book one Discovery Call and are not permitted to book in multiple Discovery Calls. Where you book more than one Discovery Call, we reserve the right to charge each subsequent call at the rate of [insert] per hour, pro-rated.
We allocate time internally to fulfil all bookings and services booked through our website. If you do not attend your call and fail to provide us with 48 hours’ notice of cancellation or a rescheduling request, that call shall be treated as a fulfilled initial discovery call, no refunds shall apply unless in our absolute discretion, and any subsequent Discovery Call booked by you shall be charged at our regular hourly rates in accordance with these terms.
Prices
The Company reserves the right to change the prices for products/services displayed in this site at any time before you place an order.
GST
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all amounts payable through your use of this site are expressed to be inclusive of GST. For these purposes, the term "GST" has the meaning given to it in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth). Payment of GST will be made at the same time and in the same manner as payment for the goods and services is required to be made.
Payment methods
Payment for orders placed through this site may be made by credit card (Visa or MasterCard only) processed online using secure Stripe payment gateway.
Stripe secure payment gateway
The Company uses the third-party payment gateway provided by Stripe Payments Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 66 160 180 343) trading as "Stripe" for its secure online payment transactions. Payments made through Stripe are subject to Stripe’s own terms and conditions and privacy policy. For more information about Stripe, see the Stripe website (http://www.stripe.com/).
By proceeding to make a payment through Stripe, you represent to us that you have reviewed the relevant provider’s terms and conditions and privacy policy, that you agree with them, and that you release us from any liability arising in connection with the payment transaction.
Unless you expressly consent otherwise, we do not see or have access to any personal information that you may provide to Stripe, other than information that is required in order to process your order and deliver your purchased items to you (eg, your name, email address and billing address).
Credit and debit card payments
Only VISA and MasterCard are accepted. Please note that we may be unable to accept credit cards issued by banks outside of Australia in some cases. Additional transaction fees may apply if paying by credit card, in which case the additional charges will be specified at checkout.
Refunds and other remedies
Except as expressly provided otherwise in these Website Terms of Use and required under the Australian Consumer Law, all amounts paid through this site are non-refundable. Further information on the steps that the Company will take to remedy any breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee is provided under the heading "Remedies limited" in these Website Terms of Use below.
Where you have booked and paid for an Online Service, we permit cancellations up to 14 days before the booking date, rescheduling up to 4 days before the booking date, otherwise no changes to bookings can be made unless authorised by us (in our absolute discretion) and all payments are non-refundable. Discovery Calls may be rescheduled in accordance with the terms set out under the heading “Discovery Calls”.
Security
While our website hosting providers employ secure technology for transactions with our customers, we will not be responsible for any damages, including consequential losses (whether direct or indirect), that may be suffered by a customer whose credit or debit card or bank account information is used in a fraudulent or unauthorised manner by any person other than the Company.
The Company may request further information from you, such as a copy of your credit card and/or other identification documentation, as part of our internal validation procedures. These procedures help protect bank and credit card account holders from online fraud. Until your order has passed our internal fraud prevention checks, your order may remain on pending status. If further information is requested and you do not provide the requested information within such time as the Company considers appropriate at its discretion, your order will be cancelled and, if your payment has been received, it will be refunded back to you.
Intellectual property
Copyright
In these Website Terms of Use, the term "Proprietary Content" means:
this site;
all of its content (including all of the text, graphics, designs, software, data, sound and video files and other information contained in this site, and the selection and arrangement thereof); and
all software, systems and other information owned or used by the Company in connection with the products and services offered through this site (whether hosted on the same server as this site or otherwise).
All Proprietary Content is the property of the Company or its licensors (as applicable) and is protected by Australian and international copyright laws. You must not reproduce, transmit, republish or prepare derivative works from any of the Proprietary Content, except as expressly authorised by these Website Terms of Use or with the prior written consent of the Company or other copyright owner (as applicable).
You may download and print out content from this site only for your own personal and non-commercial use and provided that you do not remove or modify any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices.
Trademarks
The Company’s logo and the phrase "BizSense" are trade marks of the Company. The look and feel of this site (including all button icons, scripts, custom graphics and headers) are the trade marks, service marks and/or trade dress of the Company. These trade marks, service marks and trade dress may not be used, copied or imitated, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the Company.
User Content
In these Website Terms of Use, the term "User Content" means any and all content that is submitted, posted or otherwise added to this site by any user, such as comments, forum posts, chat room messages, reviews, ratings and feedback.
This site contains some features that enable you and other users to upload User Content. The Company reserves the right to display, refuse to display, remove and/or amend all or any part of any User Content at its absolute discretion. In respect of any User Content that you upload, you:
represent and warranty to the Company that your sharing of that User Content does not infringe any copyright or other legal right of any other person; and
grant to the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform and otherwise exploit all or any part of that User Content in any way at the Company’s absolute discretion.
Copyright claims
If you believe that our site contains any material that infringes upon any copyright that you hold or control, or that users are directed through a link on this site to a third party website that you believe is infringing upon any copyright that you hold or control, you may send a notification of such alleged infringement to us in writing. Such notification should identify the works that are allegedly being infringed upon and the allegedly infringing material and give particulars of the alleged infringement.
In response to such a notification, we will give a written notice of a claim of copyright infringement to the provider of the allegedly infringing material. If the provider of that material does not respond to us in writing denying the alleged infringement within 14 days after receipt of that notice, we will remove or block the allegedly infringing material as soon as is reasonably practicable. If the provider of that material responds to us in writing denying the alleged infringement, we will, as soon as is reasonably practicable, send a copy of that response to the original notifying party. If the original notifying party does not, within a further 14 days, file an action seeking a court order against the provider of the allegedly infringing material, we may restore any removed or blocked material at our discretion. If the original notifying party files such a legal action, we will remove or block the allegedly infringing material pending resolution of that legal action.
Disclaimer
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, CONSULTANTS, LICENSORS, PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE) IN RELATION TO THIS SITE AND ANY PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THIS SITE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY/GUARANTEE OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
This site is provided strictly on an "as is" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates make no representation, warranty or guarantee as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy or completeness of this site or any of its content, and in particular do not represent, warrant or guarantee that:
the use of this site will be secure, timely, uninterrupted or error-free or operate in combination with any other hardware, software, system or data;
this site will meet your requirements or expectations;
anything on this site, or on any third-party website referred or linked to in this site, is reliable, accurate, complete or up-to-date;
the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained through this site will meet any particular requirements or expectations;
errors or defects will be corrected; or
this site or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
The information shared on this Site is general in nature and does not constitute financial, accounting, tax or other professional advice. Any authors or publishers of information or content on this Site are not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, financial, tax, or otherwise professional or advisory services. Nothing on this Site is, or is represented or intended to be, a substitute for consultation with professional accounting, tax, financial, legal or other competent advisers. You agree and accept that your reliance on information we share is at your own risk and we take no responsibility and are not liable to you for any consequences of such reliance, even if advised of the possibility of that consequence.
Limitation of liability
Exclusion of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, contractors, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates exclude all liability to you or any other person for any loss, cost, expense, claim or damage (whether arising in contract, negligence, tort, equity, statute or otherwise, and for any loss, whether it be consequential, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary or otherwise, including any loss of profits, loss or corruption of data or loss of goodwill) arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection with, these Website Terms of Use or the use of this site by you or any other person.
Remedies limited
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates expressly limit their liability for breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee implied by virtue of any legislation to the following remedies (the choice of which is to be at the Company's sole discretion):
in the case of goods, to any of the following:
the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods;
the repair of the goods;
the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and
in the case of services:
the supply of the services again; or
the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
Release
You agree that your use of this site is at your own discretion and risk. You agree to release the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, contractors, licensors, partners and affiliates from any claim, demand or cause of action that you may have against any of them arising from these Website Terms of Use or the use of this site by you or any other person. The Company may plead this release as a bar and complete defence to any claims or proceedings.
Force majeure
To the maximum extent permitted by law, and without limiting any other provision of these Website Terms of Use, the Company excludes liability for any delay in performing any of its obligations under these Website Terms of Use where such delay is caused by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company, and the Company shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of time for the performance of such obligations.
General
Interpretation
In these Website Terms of Use, the following rules of interpretation apply:
headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit or describe the scope or extent of any provision in these Website Terms of Use;
these Website Terms of Use may not be construed adversely against the Company solely because the Company prepared them;
the singular includes the plural and vice-versa;
a reference to a "person" includes an individual, a firm, a corporation, a body corporate, a partnership, an unincorporated body, an association, a government body or any other entity; and
the meaning of general words is not limited by specific examples introduced by "including", "for example", "in particular" or similar expressions.
Notifications
The Company may provide any notification for the purposes of these Website Terms of Use by email and/or by adding the notification into your user control panel.
Costs
Except as specifically provided in these Website Terms of Use, each party must bear its own legal, accounting and other costs associated with these Website Terms of Use.
Assignment
You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights or obligations under these Website Terms of Use without the Company's prior written consent.
The Company may assign, transfer or sub-contract any of its rights or obligations under these Website Terms of Use at any time without notice to you.
No waiver
Waiver of any power or right under these Website Terms of Use must be in writing signed by the party entitled to the benefit of that power or right and is effective only to the extent set out in that written waiver. Any failure by the Company to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive the Company's right to act with respect to that breach or any subsequent or similar breaches.
Severability
The provisions of these Website Terms of Use are severable and, if any provision of these Website Terms of Use is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future law, such provision may be removed and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.
Variation
The Company reserves the right to amend these Website Terms of Use and any other policy on this site at any time in its sole discretion and any such changes will, unless otherwise noted, be effective immediately. Your continued usage of this site will mean you accept those amendments. We reserve the right, without notice and at our sole discretion, to change, suspend, discontinue or impose limits on any aspect or content of this site or the products/services offered through this site.
You may only vary or amend these Website Terms of Use by written agreement with the Company.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These Website Terms of Use will be governed in all respects by the laws of Western Australia, and the Commonwealth of Australia. The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Western Australia and the courts of appeal from them.
– Prohibited conduct
YOU MUST NOT:
use any device, routine or software that interferes, or attempt to interfere, with the proper working of this site;
engage in any action that requires, or may require, an unreasonable or excessively large load on our infrastructure;
use this site to decipher passwords or security encryption codes, transmit any worms, viruses or Trojan horses, transfer or store illegal, threatening or obscene material or otherwise violate the security of any computer network;
use this site to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, to engage in any misleading or deceptive online marketing practices or for any fraudulent or malicious purposes;
use any spider, robot or search/retrieval application or any screen scraping, data mining or similar data gathering device, process, program or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of this site;
use this site by any automated means;
use this site to transmit junk mail, spam or chain letters or pyramid schemes or engage in other flooding techniques or mass distribution of unsolicited email;
access, retrieve or index any portion of this site for use in constructing or populating any database that is searchable online or for the purpose of soliciting or sharing reviews;
interfere with the display of any advertisements appearing on or in connection with this site;
reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, adapt, modify, translate, frame or reformat any of the material contained on this site;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or store any of the material appearing on this site other than for your own personal and non-commercial use;
falsely imply that any other website is associated with this site;
do anything that leads, or may lead, to a decrease in the value of the Company's intellectual property rights in this site;
use or exploit any of the material appearing on this site for, or in connection with, any business or enterprise (whether for profit or otherwise), including any business or enterprise that is in competition with this site;
release to the public any news release, advertising material, promotional material or any other form of publicity or information relating to the Company without the Company's prior written consent; or
use this site to transmit any information or material that is, or may reasonably be considered to be:
abusive, threatening, harassing, harmful, obscene, indecent, lewd, inflammatory, violent, vulgar, profane, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or offensive in any way;
libellous, defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or plagiarised;
infringing upon or violating any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary right;
in breach of any duty of confidentiality by which you are bound, whether by way of a fiduciary or contractual relationship;
in breach of any person’s privacy or publicity rights;
a misrepresentation of facts, including the impersonation of any person or entity or a misrepresentation of an affiliation with any person or entity (including any sponsorship or endorsement);
in violation of any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encouraging of others to do so;
containing any political campaigning material, advertisements or solicitations; or
likely to bring the Company or any of its staff into disrepute.