The following terms and conditions govern your use of this Website. Use of our Website will mean that you accept these terms and conditions.
Your use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers set in our "Terms and Conditions". Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions.
Access to some services or content may require registration. This will result in you being allocated a username and password that must be used whenever requested. That username and password is personal to you and you agree at all times to maintain the confidentiality of your username and password and not to disclose them to any third party. You agree that you are solely responsible for any use of our Website by any person using your username and password. You agree to indemnify the Green Building Council of Australia (We or Us) against any and all claims arising out of your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your username or password.
You understand that we may for security and technical reasons at any time in our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, prohibit or restrict your access to our Website. We will notify you as soon as possible of any restriction to your access rights.
For online bookings, numbered tax invoices are generated automatically when you purchase any any of our services. Paid invoices will be marked as such, a separate receipt will not be issued.
Manual service booking forms that total to less than AUD$1000 can be used as a tax invoice. Services booked should be paid prior to service being rendered.
If you are no longer able to attend the event you have registered for, a substitute delegate may take your place. The request must be submitted in writing to education@gbca.org.au containing the replacement guest name, business name and email address.
We reserve the right to cancel any unpaid bookings.
Refunds will not be given in any circumstances except as required by law.
We reserve the right to cancel an event if minimum numbers are not reached. We also reserve the right to change the venue of an event.
We do not store credit card information on our website or in our database. No actual card data is held or used by us. In some instances we take credit card payments over the phone. In these instances, credit card details are not stored in GBCA's computer systems.
We will comply with our Privacy Policy and you accept this policy as governing our use of the personal information we receive about you as an individual.
We either own or otherwise have the right to use the intellectual property rights with respect to the content as well as in relation to our products and services (Intellectual Property). You acknowledge and accept that we are either the owner, or otherwise have the right to use our Intellectual Property and that you will not assert any claim or interest in or to our Intellectual Property, other than in relation to those rights which are expressly provided to you in these Website terms and conditions. You may make any copies of any information reasonably incidental to your viewing of our Website and may retain a single permanent copy for your personal reference. The information may not otherwise be used, copied, reproduced, published, altered, transmitted in any form or by any means in whole or in part (except where by law such use cannot be prohibited) without our prior written approval.
All names, logos and trade marks are owned by us or by the third parties who have contributed to the Website. Nothing on the Website should be interpreted as granting any rights to use or distribute any names, logos or trade marks, without our express written agreement or that of the relevant contributor. Nothing displayed on the Website should be construed as granting any licence or right to use any trade mark without our express permission, or the express permission of the relevant third party contributor.
We are the copyright owner of the content of the Website or are licensed by the copyright owner to use the content on the Website. Except as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) no part of the Website may be reproduced, adapted, performed in public or transmitted in any form by any process (graphic, electronic or mechanical, including further copying, recording, taping or by a storage and information retrieval system) without our prior written consent.
We do not represent that any information (including any file) obtained from or through the Website is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. It is your responsibility to scan any such information for computer viruses. We will not be liable to you or to any other person for any loss or damage (whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic), however caused and whether by negligence or otherwise, which may result directly or indirectly from any such information. To the extent that any liability may be imposed on us, it shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying that information.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New South Wales, Australia. You agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the state of New South Wales, Australia.
We may immediately terminate this agreement without liability if we reasonably believe you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if we wish to withdraw the Website or any part of it.
We may change these Terms and Conditions at any time. Any revised Terms and Conditions displayed on our Website from time to time will apply to your use of our Website, its content and any products or services we offer or supply.
If a court of competent jurisdiction rules that any part of these Terms and Conditions are unenforceable for any reason, then such ruling will not affect the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions which will remain in full force and effect at all times.