SOUL Website Terms of Use
SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY LAWYERS LTD WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
This website (“our website”) is owned operated by the Society of University Lawyers Ltd ABN 22 606 266 693. Each reference in these terms of use to “our website” includes all materials that we make available to you on our website.
By using our website, you accept and agree to comply with these terms of use. Please check this page each time you use our website, as we may update these terms from time to time.
If you carry out any transaction through our website (such as by ordering goods or services through our website), that transaction may be subject to additional terms and conditions which you will be asked to read and accept at the relevant time.
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Your obligations
You must comply with any instructions we give you about how to use our website and must not do anything that interferes with or adversely affects the normal operation of the website (including the ability of other users to access or use the website).
You are responsible for ensuring the security of the systems and devices that you use to access our website, including through use of appropriate virus-checking and other security software.
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Registering an account
You may need to register or open an account with us in order to access certain parts of our website. In this case, we will issue you with a user name and password, or other appropriate log-in details for your account. You are responsible for keeping your log-in details confidential so that they cannot be used without your permission. You will be responsible for any use of our website by anyone using your log-in details.
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No viruses or other interference
You must not transmit to or via our website any virus or other information or material or otherwise use our website in a way which:
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tampers with, hinders the operation of or makes unauthorised modifications to our website
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inhibits any other user from using or enjoying our website
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breaches any laws or regulations, infringes a third party's rights or privacy or is contrary to any relevant standards or codes
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defames, harasses, threatens, menaces or offends any person
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contains obscene, indecent, inflammatory or pornographic material or material that could give rise to civil or criminal proceedings
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You must also not permit or enable another person to do any of those things.
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Your content
To the extent that our website includes functionality that allows you to upload content to our website (“your content”):
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you remain the owner of your content
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you grant us an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce and communicate to the public your content for the purposes of operating our website and providing services to you
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you must ensure that your content does not include anything that is illegal, offensive, obscene, defamatory, breaches the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of any other person, or otherwise breaches any acceptable use rules that we post on our website from time to time
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we may reject or take down your content at any time, including if we think in our discretion that it breaches these terms of use or otherwise is not appropriate for inclusion on our website
You indemnify us against any loss, damage or expense we suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with our use of your content in accordance with the licence granted to us.
We may monitor or review your content, but we are not obliged to do so. We may also remove, alter or take down any of your content at any time.
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Rights to suspend or terminate access
We may suspend, terminate or block your access to all or any part of our website at any time and without prior notice to you.
Intellectual property
All of the intellectual property rights in and to our website (except for any of your content or content uploaded by other members), belong to us and our licensors. We may update and change the materials available on our website, including by removing materials, at any time in our discretion.
You may download or print sections of our website if needed for your own personal use, but otherwise you may not reproduce any part of our website without our express prior consent. To the extent that our website contains functionality that allows you to access or download specific materials through our website, your use of that functionality and the downloaded materials may be subject to separate terms and conditions which you will be asked to read and accept at the relevant time.
Website links
Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties who are not associated with us, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over those websites or the services made available through them, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
You may provide a link to the home page of our website on any website you operate, as long as you do not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our express prior permission and you promptly delete the link at our request.
Except as set out in this clause, you may not link to our website.
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Liability
While we will use reasonable care and skill in operating our website, we cannot promise that our website will always be available or completely free of faults or errors.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, except as expressly set out in these terms of use, we exclude:
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all conditions, representations, warranties and statutory guarantees, whether express or implied, in relation to our website (including as to the accuracy, reliability, suitability, completeness or quality of the content on our website); and
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any liability (whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise) for any indirect or consequential loss, damage or expense incurred by you or any other user in connection with our website.
To the extent we are unable by law to exclude any implied condition, representation, warranty or statutory guarantee in relation to the provision of goods or services through our website, we limit our liability for a breach to the re-supply of those goods or services, or payment for such re-supply.
Privacy
We will manage any personal information that we collect through our website in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Governing law
These terms of use are governed by the laws in force in Victoria, Australia and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Victoria, Australia.
These Website Terms of Use were last updated in November 2024.