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Terms and Conditions

Important

This page sets out the terms and conditions upon which Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global (“We”, “Our” and “Us”) will provide Services to its customers (“You” and “Your”).

This page creates important legal rights and obligation upon Us, as well as You.

By clicking on the “Create Account” or “I Agree” button (see below) you offer to enter into the following terms and conditions with Us.

If you do not agree with these terms and conditions You should not click on the “Create Account” or “I Agree” button.

If You decide to use the Services by clicking on the “Create Account” or “I Agree” button, these terms and conditions become a legally binding agreement between You and Us (“Our Agreement”).

DEFINITIONS

In Our Agreement, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

API means the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Application Programming Interface which allows remote access to the Services.

Availability means Your ability to access the Services on the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Server(s).

Business Day means a day upon which banks are ordinarily open for business in Melbourne, Vistoria.

Commencement Date means the date that You clicked on the “Create Account”or “I Agree” button.

Content means documents, data, information, images, and all other content that You put onto the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers.

Direct Debit Agreement means an agreement between us to administer payments by you to us for the purposes of settling outstanding invoices.

Fees – Our Fees apply once you have opted to upgrade to a plan. Fees are shown on Our website and are accessible from within the Services and may change from time to time. Any other Fees You and We agree upon at Our prevailing rates for any other Services.

Force Majeure means a circumstance beyond Our reasonable control results in Us being unable to observe or perform on time an obligation in Our Agreement, including:-

a) acts of God, lightning strikes, earthquakes, floods, storms, explosions, fires, power supply disruptions (howsoever caused), internet downtime and any natural disaster;
b) acts of war, acts of public enemies, terrorism, riots, civil commotion, malicious damage, sabotage and revolution; and
c) industrial action or strikes.
Harmful Code means viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, malware, backdoor, and other computer programs and software code that harm a computer or a computer program, or operate in some other harmful or destructive way to hardware, software, data, or communications systems.

ISP means Internet Service Provider being a company that offers its customers access to the Internet

Online Self-Help Knowledge Base and Support Portal means the online help application forming part of the Services.

Post Paid Customer means You have been issued with an Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global debtor account where Your invoices will be raised and Your subsequent payments will be recorded against.

Programming Services means computer programming services the scope of which is agreed upon in writing from time to time between Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global and You.

RRP (Recommended Retail Price) means all fees exclusive of local taxes (where applicable).

Services means Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global’s applications product for Digital Mailbox services, including all modules and features of the application created from time to time and accessible by internet from the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers or any other server, including data hosting and data management features. Data Plan Credits are required to store Data within the Services. Data Plan Credits are pre-paid and non-refundable.

Support Services means the Support and Training Services We provide to You as described on Our website.

System Maintenance Time means the time that the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers are inaccessible for reasons of systems maintenance, improvement, or upgrading.

Term means the term of Our Agreement, from the Commencement Date, until Our Agreement is terminated in accordance with clause 4.

Training Services means the personal training services the scope of which is agreed upon in writing from time to time between Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global and You.

Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Server(s) means the hardware infrastructure where We host the Services.

Intellectual Property means all intellectual property rights, including without limitation all Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global logos, business names, copyrights, patents, products, Services, source codes, rights in software and technology designs, registered designs, trademarks, agreements, training, marketing and support materials and the right to have confidential information kept confidential

INTERPRETATION

In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears:-

a) words in the singular number include the plural and vice versa;

b) words importing a gender include any other gender;

c) a reference to a person includes bodies corporate and unincorporated associations and partnerships;

d) where a word or phrase is given a particular meaning, other parts of speech and grammatical forms of that word or phrase have corresponding meanings;

e) a reference to a party includes its successors and assigns (where permitted);

f) a reference to the any schedule includes a reference to any part of that schedule which is incorporated by reference;

g) the recitals to this Agreement do not form part of the Agreement;

h) monetary references are references to Australian currency.

 If any term, covenant, clause or condition of this Agreement, or the application of it to any person or circumstance, is deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms, covenants and conditions will not be affected and will be valid and enforceable.

TERM AND TERMINATION

  1. Our Agreement commences on the Commencement Date.
  2. Our Agreement continues until it is terminated by either party. If by You, in writing or via email to Us. If by Us, where practical, giving prior written notice to You terminating Our Agreement. Following termination Your Data will be deleted within the confines of our Backup Cycles. No residual credit will be generated by termination or closing your account.
  3.  You or We may terminate Our Agreement at any time, without giving any reason for termination.
  4. Notwithstanding the termination of Our Agreement, You must pay all amounts owing to Us for Services provided up to the time of termination which date is determined by clause 2
  5. Subject to clause 4.4, after the date of termination, any Content required to be extracted, where possible, from the Services will attract additional Fees.

SERVICES

  1. We will promptly provide to You all necessary login codes to access the Services on the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers.
  2. For the Term, We will provide the Services to You by enabling You (through the login codes notified by Us to You) to access the Services in accordance with Our Agreement.
  3.  You acknowledge that internet servers and links are susceptible to hacking, crashes and down time.
  4. Subject to a Force Majeure Event, and to System Maintenance Time, We will ensure (by ping test) that the Servers are available through the internet, 24 hours per day, for at least 99.8% of the time.
  5. We do not warrant any response rate or download time in relation to the Services.
  6.  Keeping the Services up and running with as little interruption to your access is extremely important for both of us. We go out of our way to ensure whenever we need to perform maintenance we firstly explore ways in which this can be done without any interruption to the Services. In the event we cannot avoid disruption, We may, at Our own discretion, temporarily suspend the Services for the purpose of system repair, maintenance or improvement.
  7. When it is reasonably practicable under the circumstances, We will provide You prior notice of any System Maintenance Time, the time of its commencement, and likely duration.
  8. In the event of any service outage, We will restore the Services as soon as is reasonably practicable.
  9. You acknowledge that it is impossible to maintain flawless security, but We will take reasonable steps to prevent security breaches in Your server’s interaction with the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers.
  10. You and We must comply with the Australian Privacy Principles, and Our privacy policy (as it appears on Our website) in relation to the use of the Content.
  11. Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global will comply with Chapter 2 of the Information Privacy Act 2009.
  12. You acknowledge that any Content uploaded for public view in the Online Knowledge Base is free of copyright and We may edit, redisplay or remove that Content at Our sole discretion at any time.
  13. As an email service provider with thousands of customers just like you, we feel it’s our duty to protect You and Us from any spam related activity. Where the Services are used for spam we get blocked by major ISPs which directly affects Your ability to send emails. So here are a few things we do to protect us all:

a) We, our employees and contractors may view, copy and transmit copies of your emails to help build monitoring tools, educational material, content for training courses and to spot problem accounts.
b) We and Our employees monitor bulk uploading of contacts and individual accounts that result in high bounce rates. We may view email addresses to look for patterns consistent with bought lists, lists procured by prohibited methods, or lists that can cause damage to Our and Your reputation. In the event that we uncover this type of activity, We reserve the right to suspend or terminate Your access to the Services.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. You must comply with the Privacy Act and any other similar law in all countries of the world.
  2. You must ensure the security of Your login codes to the Services, and that only properly authorised persons have access to those codes.
  3.  You must pay the Fees in relation to the Data Services accessed with Your login codes by any person to whom You have provided Your login codes or who obtained those login codes from You, whether authorised by You or not.
  4. You will procure that Your employees and other persons authorised by You to access the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers comply with Our Agreement.
  5. You agree that You are solely responsible for implementing Your own procedures to satisfy Your own requirements for accuracy of data input and output and Content, and for maintaining a means external to Us for the reconstruction of any of Your lost data or Content.
  6. You warrant that the Content will not infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of another person.
  7. You must not disseminate through the Services any Content that is:
    a) abusive, harassing or obscene,
    b) unsolicited,
    c) illegal in Australia,
    d) illegal in any country to which the dissemination occurs,
    e) Harmful Code, or,
    f) defamatory or offensive.
  8.  When sending Information, requests to an Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global User You should ensure that each recipient on Your list has given You permission to receive emails from You. When You send Information to people who have not given You permission, Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global may block future access from Your company.
  9. You indemnify Us from and against any loss or damage (including loss of profits) that We may suffer arising from:
    a) Any breach by You of the terms of Our Agreement,
    b) Any misuse of Your login codes by You, or by any person whose access to Your login codes was from You, or Your failure to maintain the security of Your login codes, including any misuse that results in Content loss or misuse or Harmful Code upon the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers, or
  10. To ensure you can access our Services in the quickest and most efficient manner, it’s important You do not cause an overload through improper usage. Therefore You agree to use the Services in an acceptable manner where Your usage is concurrent with expected usage which includes, among other things:
    a) Prohibiting the use of automated methods to extract data from the Services (not including the API)
    b) Not causing inbound data, excluding Content uploaded into the file manager that has its own rates above 50Mb, to the Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global Servers to exceed 100Mb per month, where excess data will be charged at a rate published within Our API, web site or other documentation.
  11. If You integrate with Our Services using the API, You must use efficient programming methods that will not cause too many requests to be made over a short period of time. If We feel Your usage of Our API is unacceptable, We reserve the right to throttle Your API connections or suspend or terminate Your access to the Services. Please refer to the API website for the most efficient methods to use when integrating with the API.
  12.  You are responsible for Your and any of Your clients Content and shall be responsible for maintaining a backup copy of the Content.
  13.  You agree not to use the Service for any other purpose than that for which it is intended.

SUPPORT SERVICES

  1. We will provide the Support Services during usual business hours between 8.30am and 5.00pm on Business Days.
  2. Support Services will be provided in the first instance by on line help accessible within the Services, in the second instance by email, and in the third instance by telephone (contact details available on Our webpage).
  3. Free Support Services are limited to “How To” questions on product usage. Other Support Services may attract fees. At all times You will be notified prior to any fees being charged to You.

OTHER SERVICES

    1. You and We may agree in writing that We will undertake Programming Services, Training Services, or specific Support Services.
    2.  Any such agreement in writing will set out

a) the scope of the work to be undertaken,
b) the remuneration to be paid by You to Us, and
c) the timeframe for the work to be undertaken.

FINANCIAL TERMS

  1. You must pay the Fees to Us inclusive of the RRP (plus any applicable taxes for Australian Based Customers) as specified in Our invoices.
  2. Australian based clients will be provided with an invoice complying with the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.
  3.  If You are using a prepaid service all invoices are due and payable when issued. You are required to record a credit card on Your account to use this service. We will direct debit Your credit card in accordance with Clause 9.6.
  4. If You are a Post Paid Customer You must pay invoices within the time notified upon Our invoices. Alternatively, where You have provided credit card details we will direct debit Your credit card in accordance with Clause 6.
  5. Should Your account become overdue or Your prepaid direct debit fail, Your Service functionality will be reduced until payment is received. You will still be able to access the Services to update Your credit card details. Should Your account remain unpaid for 30 days we reserve the right to deactivate Your account in accordance with Clause 4.
  6. By recording Your credit card on Your account You authorise for your credit card to be credit/debit, with any associated invoices, fees, chargebacks, corrections and negative settlements created in relation to the provision of the service on the invoice issue date or shortly thereafter.
  7. You are responsible for keeping Your credit card details up to date and that there are sufficient funds available on Your credit card for Us to obtain payment in accordance with this Agreement. You allow Us the option of contacting You in the event of a direct debit failure, and as a reminder that Your credit card details will be shortly expiring.

EXCLUSION AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

  1. You use the Services, including the Services entirely at Your own risk.
  2.  You acknowledge that We have not made any representation or warranty that is not expressly contained in Our Agreement.
  3. You do not rely upon any statement or representation by Us or on Our behalf that is not expressly contained in Our Agreement.
  4. You acknowledge that We have not made any warranty or representation as to
    a) the suitability of any Service for any purpose or any particular purpose;
    b) whether any Service is of merchantable quality; or
    c) whether any Service will be free of errors or bugs.
  5. We exclude any liability for any Harmful Code that You may download from Our website.
  6.  We shall have no liability to You arising from any system downtime, any System Maintenance Time, or any Force Majeure Event, and You are not entitled to any setoff, discount, refund or credit arising from any of the foregoing.
  7.  Our maximum liability to You for any loss or damage whatsoever shall be the re-performance of the Services.

CONFIDENTIALITY

  1. We will maintain the Content in confidence, and will not disclose the Content without Your prior written consent.
  2.  Clause 1 does not apply to the extent that We have a legal obligation to disclose the Content.
  3. We will not sell the Content to any person.
  4. You acknowledge that some of Your Content (such as email addresses in your database/s) may at the same time be part of the content of Our other customers.
  5. You acknowledge that We have an obligation to report any illegal act by You, and accordingly We are under no obligation of confidentiality in relation to any such illegal act by You.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

This agreement does not grant you a licence of the Services or supporting documentation. You will not make any attempt to reverse engineer, discover, reproduce, modify or copy in any form Our Intellectual Property. In the event of expiry or termination of Our Agreement, You will cease to use any of Our Intellectual Property You have obtained during, or prior to, this Agreement

DISPUTES

  1. We will promptly notify each other in writing of any dispute in connection with Our Agreement.
  2. Upon the written notification of a dispute, You and We shall use our best endeavours to resolve the dispute in good faith, and expeditiously.
  3.  If a dispute has not been resolved within 5 Business Days, You and We will refer the matter to our respective Chief Executive Officers (or a senior person delegated by a Chief Executive Officer), who shall use their best endeavours to resolve the dispute in good faith, and expeditiously.
  4. If the dispute has still not been resolved with a further 5 Business Days, You and We will use our best endeavours in good faith to within a further 5 Business Days agree upon an alternative dispute resolution process (such as mediation, arbitration, conciliation, or expert determination) to resolve the dispute, and shall in good faith implement that alternative dispute resolution process.
  5. Neither You nor We may commence legal proceedings against the other until You and We have complied with clauses 1 to 4.
  6. Clause 5 does not apply to any urgent interlocutory relief.

VARIATION OF OUR AGREEMENT

  1. We may vary any term of Our Agreement at any time. Notification of any variation will be posted within the Services.
  2. The variation takes effect 30 days after notice of the variation is posted.
  3. If You do not agree to be bound by the variation, You may by logging into the Services, terminate this Agreement before the expiration of that 30 day period.

ASSIGNMENT

We may assign or transfer this Agreement to any other entity at Our sole discretion.

SERVICE OF NOTICES

  1. Any notice (including a notice under clause (VARIATION OF OUR AGREEMENT) may be served by delivery to, or sending it by post or facsimile to the party to be served, or by sending it by email:
    a) if to Us, send to our email or any other email We may post, or
    b) if to You, to an email address notified by You to Us in Your management of Your online Sustainable Indigenous Systems Global account.
  2. A notice that is posted shall be deemed received seven days after the date of posting.

GOVERNING LAW

  1. Our Agreement is governed by and to be construed according to the law of Victoria.

  2. You and We irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria.