General Terms and Conditions

This website  www.cheesecurds.com.au  is owned and operated by Pure Dairy Pty, Ltd with ABN 47 143 962 529

Your Acceptance

1.1 By using and/or visiting the Cheese Curds Website (collectively, including all content and functionality available through the Cheese Curds Website, such as ordering a product or making payments), you signify your agreement to:

a) these terms of use (the “Terms of Use”); and
b)theCheese Curds’ privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”), found at www.cheesecurds.com.au/privacy-policy.

The Privacy Policy provides details of how the Cheese Curds will store, handle and use any personal information that you provide to the Cheese Curds. If you do not agree to any of these Terms of Use, or you are not satisfied with the Privacy Policy, do not use the Cheese Curds Website.

Importantly, by using and/or visiting the Cheese Curds Website, you affirm that you are either 18 years of age or older, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent. You also affirm that you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms of Use, and to abide by and comply with these Terms of Use.

1.2 The Cheese Curds may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise these Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, or any of its other policies at any time without notification, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions. The Cheese Curds recommends that you periodically revisit the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to ensure that you are kept up-to-date with any changes made. Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits unless otherwise specified.

Intellectual Property and your use of the Cheese Curds Website

2.1 The Cheese Curds hereby grants you permission to access and use the Cheese Curds Website as set forth in these Terms of Use, provided that:

i) You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Cheese Curds Website, including but not limited to User Content (defined below), without the Cheese Curds’ authorization.

ii) You agree not to access User Content (defined below) or any other content provided on the Cheese Curds Website through any technology or means other than those provided on the publicly accessible pages of the Cheese Curds Website itself.

iii) You agree not to use the Cheese Curds Website for any commercial use, without the prior written authorization of theCheese Curds. Prohibited commercial uses include any of the following actions taken without the Cheese Curds’ express approval:

• sale of access to the Cheese Curds Website or its related services on another website;
• use of the Cheese Curds Website or its related services for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue;
• the sale of advertising on the Cheese Curds Website or any third-party website, targeted to specific User Content or other content; and
• any use of the Cheese Curds Website or its related services that the Cheese Curds finds, in its sole discretion, to use the Cheese Curds’ resources or User Content with the effect of competing with or displacing the market for the Cheese Curds’ product.

iv) You agree not to use or launch any automated system (including but not limited to “robots”, “spiders”, or “offline readers”), that accesses the Cheese Curds Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the Cheese Curds servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information from the Cheese Curds Website, for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Cheese Curds Website with respect to their User Content.

2.2 Further to the above, you agree that you will use the Cheese Curds Website in accordance with these Terms of Use and that you will not use the Cheese Curds Website for any unlawful purpose.

2.3 All content on the Cheese Curds Website except User Content (as defined below), including without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, and the like (“Website Content”) and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein (“Website Marks”), are owned by or licensed to the Cheese Curds, and are subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under the law. Website Content and User Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. The Cheese Curds reserves all rights (expressly and not expressly granted) in and to the Cheese Curds Website and the Website Content and Website Marks.

2.4 You may access Website Content and User Content solely:

– for your information and personal use; and
– as intended through the normal functionality of the Cheese Curds Website.

2.5 You may access Website Content, User Content and other content only as permitted under these Terms of Use.

2.6 You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Website Content or User Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Content obtained through the Cheese Curds Website for any commercial purposes.

2.7 You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Cheese Curds Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Website Content or User Content or enforce limitations on use of the Cheese Curds Website or the Website Content or User Content therein.

2.8 You understand that when using the Cheese CurdsWebsite you will be exposed to User Content from a variety of sources, and that the Cheese Curds is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such User Content. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate, or for whatever reason objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against the Cheese Curds with respect thereto, and agree to indemnify and hold the Cheese Curds, its Owners/Operators, affiliates, and/or licensors, harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your use of the site.

2.9 “User Content” and User Conduct

As a user of the Cheese Curds Website you may submit video(s), image(s), recipe(s) or other such content (“User Content”). You understand that whether or not such User Content is published on the Cheese Curds Website, the Cheese Curds does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Content.

You shall be solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it, and the Cheese Curds will have no liability in this regard, to the full extent permitted by law. In connection with User Content, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that:

a. you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize the Cheese Curds to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Content to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by the Cheese Curds Website and these Terms of Use;

b. you will not submit any User Content that is unlawful, fraudulent, inaccurate, false, misleading or deceptive, or that the Cheese Curds may deem to be in breach of any intellectual property, trade secret, privacy, publicity or other rights, defamatory, obscene, derogatory, pornographic, sexually inappropriate, violent, abusive, harassing, threatening, hateful, discriminatory, objectionable with respect to race, religion, origin or gender, not suitable for children aged under 15, or otherwise unsuitable for publication;

c. you will obtain prior consent from any person or property that may appear in your User Content;

d. your User Content shall not contain viruses or cause injury or harm to any person or entity; and

e. you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation, those governing copyright, content, defamation, privacy, publicity and the access or use of others’ computer or communication systems.

The Cheese Curds reserves the right to refuse to post or display any User Content if the Cheese Curds is of the reasonable opinion that the provisions of this clause 2.9 are breached by you.

2.10 For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Content. However, by submitting User Content to the Cheese Curds, you hereby grant the Cheese Curds a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, edit, adapt, modify, change, add to, detract from, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Content in connection with the Cheese Curds Website and the Cheese Curds’ (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Cheese Curds Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Cheese Curds Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Cheese Curds Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Cheese Curds Website and under these Terms of Use. The above licenses granted by you in User Content terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Content from the Cheese Curds Website. You understand and agree, however, that the Cheese Curds may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Content that have been removed or deleted.

2.11 If you have any moral rights (or similar rights) in respect of User Content that you submit, you consent to the Cheese Curds using the User Content from time to time in any way we wish (even if that use is contrary to those rights), including making material alterations thereto and exploiting them with or without attribution. Immediately on such moral rights beginning to exist, you waive those rights in perpetuity, to the maximum extent permitted by law. If any other person has moral rights in respect of User Content that you submit, you must ensure that they agree to the above before you submit the User Content.

2.12 The Cheese Curds does not endorse any User Content or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and the Cheese Curds expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Content. the Cheese Curds does not permit copyright infringing activities or infringement of any other intellectual property rights on the Cheese Curds Website, and the Cheese Curds will remove any User Content if the Cheese Curds is concerned or is properly notified that such User Content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights, or if the Cheese Curds considers the content to be unsavoury or objectionable. The Cheese Curds reserves the right to remove User Content without prior notice, at its absolute discretion.

2.13 Without limiting any other terms herein, you indemnify the Cheese Curds for any breach of any of the terms or warranties contained herein.

3.1 To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Cheese Curds, its directors, employees, agents and representatives, exclude all liability, howsoever arising (including from negligence), for any loss or damage whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, or for personal injury which is suffered or sustained, by any user, arising in any way out of or in connection with the Cheese Curds Website, including, but not at all limited to such loss, damage or injury arising out of the following:

(a) using the Cheese Curds Website;
(b) any errors or omissions from any information on the Cheese Curds Website including typographical or photographical errors;
(d) any technical malfunction, error, virus, delay or interference on the Cheese Curds Website; or
(e) a failure or omission on the part of the Cheese Curds to comply with its obligations under these Terms of Use.

3.To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cheese Curds and its agents:

3.1 To the extent permitted by law, the Cheese Curds assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, computer viruses, bugs, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, theft or destruction, or unauthorized access to the Cheese Curds Website, or for alteration of any information provided by a Cheese Curds Website user.

3.2 You hereby waive and release any and all claims that you may have against Cheese Curds, its directors, employees, agents and representatives in connection with, or arising out of, or incidental to, your access to the Cheese Curds Website.

3.3 The Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and certain state and territory legislation implies terms, conditions and warranties into some contracts for the supply of goods or services and prohibits the exclusion, restriction and modification of such terms. If the Cheese Curds breaches any of these terms then, their liability for the breach is, where permitted by law and at the Cheese Curds’ election, limited to:
(a) in the case of goods supplied or offered by the Cheese Curds – the repair or replacement of the goods, or supply of equivalent goods, or payment of the cost of doing this; OR (b) in the case of services supplied or offered by the Cheese Curds – the re-supply of the services or payment of the cost of doing this.
Indemnity

4. You indemnify the Cheese Curds, its directors, employees, agents and representatives, from and against all actions, suits, claims, demands, liabilities, costs, expenses, loss and damage (including legal fees on a full indemnity basis) incurred or suffered as a direct or indirect consequence of you using the Cheese Curds Website and/or purchasing and using any products advertised herein.

Links

5.1 The Cheese Curds is not responsible for the content of any site linked to or from the Cheese Curds Website. Any links provided are for your convenience only and are not an endorsement of the companies or products referred to on sites to which this the Cheese Curds Website links and the Cheese Curds has no responsibility for the condition, content or operation of any such sites and shall not be liable for any damages or injury arising out of or resulting from access to or use of such sites. If you click on a link to another site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Termination of Site

6.1 The Cheese Curds reserves the right to modify or suspend services on the Cheese Curds Website, to terminate any or all parts of the Cheese Curds Website (where possible), or to terminate your ability to purchase products from the Cheese Curds Website at any time without notice. In this event, the liability and indemnity provisions provided in these Terms of Use will survive such termination, and all rights of the Cheese Curds granted herein are otherwise reserved.
Governing Law

7.1 These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with of the laws of Victoria, Australia. You irrevocably and unconditionally agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia. If any provision of this legal statement shall be unlawful, void or for any reasons unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.