Welcome to localsydney.com (further referred as Local Sydney).
By continuing to browse and use the Local sydney website at localsydney.com, you are agreeing to comply with and are bound by the following terms and condtions set forth below.
The content on the pages of this website is for users' general information and use only; where the term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Registered Member.
Local Sydney has no export restrictions and provides services to Users on the global basis.
Local Sydney may modify this agreement at any time without notification, and such modifications shall be immediately effective. By continued usage of the website, you agree to review this agreement frequently for such modifications.
This Agreement includes localsydney.com's policy for acceptable use of the Local Sydney Website and Content posted on the localsydney.com, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the website and privacy policy.
The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:
- Intellectual Property Protection
The owners of the intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks are Local Sydney, its affiliates or other third party licensors. Users may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute, in any manner, the material on the site, including text, graphics, code and/or software. Unauthorised use of this website may give to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
- Content on Local Sydney
Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s). Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the Local Sydney website.
- Local Sydney Community Forums and Comments
Please choose carefully the information you post on localsydney.com and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite this warning, Local Sydney does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that users post to the Local Sydney Website. Information provided by local sydney members may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and Localsydney.com takes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the Local Sydney Website by any person, please contact us immediately. Local Sydney reserves the right (which it may exercise at its sole discretion without notice) to delete, move or edit any posts by members and to terminate access to and use of the forums.
Users represent and warrant that:
(i) they own the Content posted by them on or through the Local Sydney, and
(ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Local Sydney Website does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the Local Sydney Website. Localsydney.com expressly reserves the right to remove your subscription and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of the Local Sydney website if any inappropriate behaviour is found.
As a member of the community forums, prohibited content includes, but are not limited to content that,
- patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
- solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;
- promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices.
- involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
- contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- transmit any Messages that contain software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site or any computer software or equipment;
- furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
- impersonate any person or entity (including Local Sydney employees or Forum guests or hosts) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity;
- involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
- Licence Fee, Payment, Shipment and Transactions
Access to certain contents on Local Sydney may be subject to a fee. All payments must be made in advance in Australian Dollars unless specified, and do not include GST. All transactions are made in Australian Dollars. Members are responsible for the payment of all charges associated with the use of the Local Sydney website.
- Membership
If the web master terminates your use of the Site, you will be not entitled to receive a refund of any credits or pre-payments, which remain unused at the time of termination. You will continue to be responsible for any fees or other charges incurred by you prior to such termination. You acknowledge that Local Sydney reserves the right to charge for the subscriptions and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion.
- Password
When you sign up to become a Member, you will be sent a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify Local Sydney immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
- Copyright Policy
You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of Local Sydney to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to Local Sydney by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Local Sydney Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our web master with the following information:
(i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
(ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Local Sydney Website;
(iv) your address, telephone number, and email address;
(v) a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
(vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
- Limitation on Liability
In no event will Local Sydney be liable to any user or third party for indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profit damages arising from your use of Local Sydney services, even if Local Sydney was already advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Local Sydney's liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to Local Sydney, for the services during the term of membership.
- Disputes
If there is any dispute about or that involves Local Sydney in any way, users agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of Australia without regard to conflict of law provisions and users agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in Australia.
- Indemnity
Users agree to indemnify, defend and hold Local Sydney, its directors, employees, officers, affiliates, agents, partners, licensors, suppliers and any third party providers, from any loss, liability, claim, demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from violations of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of their representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any content posted on the Local Sydney website causes Local Sydney to be liable to another
- Security Capabilities
Local Sydney guarantees the use at all times of a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) of 128-bit encryption or higher, or 3D Secure (Verified By Visa and MasterCard Secure Code) to establish a secure browser session between Local Sydney and Users when receiving cardholder information via the internet.
- Privacy Policy and Personal Information
Local Sydney does not collect any personal information about you through this website unless you provide that information voluntarily by sending an email, responding to a survey, or registering on the website by completing an online form. When you visit Local Sydney website our servers automatically collect and store information about your visit, which is collected for the purposes of creating summary statistics that assist us to make our site more useful to Users. No attempt will be made to identify Users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider's logs. The information is not collected for the commercial marketing purposes of the third parties and Local Sydney will not sell or otherwise disclose the information collected from the website for commercial marketing purposes of the third parties.
When registering on the website, you automatically agree to receive information about our services and updates on the website in the newsletter form. If don't wish to continue receiving such information from us, you have an option to unsubscribe from this service provided to you.
- Other
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Local Sydney Website and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Local Sydney regarding the use of the Local Sydney Website. The failure of Local Sydney to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are a basic guideline only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement. - Contact information
Local Sydney
info "at" localsydney "dot" com
The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on Local Sydney and through your use of the website. Local Sydney reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Local Sydney's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to: criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets; advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members.
It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Local Sydney to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent.
If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Local Sydney Website you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Local Sydney and other members, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay Local Sydney for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the Local Sydney Website; any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages; using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account; selling or otherwise transferring your profile; using any information obtained from the Local Sydney Website to harass, abuse, or harm another person; displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the Local Sydney website on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or using the Local Sydney Website in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
