Terms and conditions

Equip Networks Terms and Conditions

Acceptance

The “equipnetworks.com.au” website (“website”) is operated by Equip Networks Pty Ltd; ABN 44 607 933 399 (” Equip Networks”). Your use of the website is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers set out below (“Terms and Conditions”). The Terms and Conditions govern your use of the website and the materials and information accessible on or from the website. You should read the Terms and Conditions now. Equip Networks reserves the right to amend the website and the Terms and Conditions at any time and from time to time without notice to you. Your continued use of the website after any amendment to the Terms and Conditions constitutes an agreement by you to abide and be bound by the Terms and Conditions, as so amended. Your use of the website means you accept these Terms and Conditions. You must not access, browse or use this website unless you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions set out below. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions you must not visit or use the website.

Capacity

The products on the website are only available for sale to individuals who can make legally binding contracts. The products are not available to persons under the age of 18 years and any other persons who are legally prohibited from entering into binding contracts. By making an on-line purchase, you accept these terms and conditions and acknowledge that you are over the age of eighteen (18) years.

Should Equip Networks suffer any loss or damage as a result of a transaction entered into by a minor, Equip Networks reserves the right to seek compensation and to take legal action for such losses from the parents or guardians of the minor who caused the order to be placed.

Orders

Customer may order Products and Services from Equip Networks submitting an electronic purchase order (“Order”) through the Equip Networks (“Website”).

By placing an Order Customer agrees to be bound by these Terms of Supply (“Terms”) and any additional terms specified in the Order. If Equip Networks accepts an Order then these Terms and any additional terms specified in the Order constitute an agreement for the supply of the Products and Services (“Agreement”).

The parties agree that if there is any inconsistency between these Terms and a term specified in an Order then the term specified in the Order will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

Any order placed by you in the manner described on this website is an offer by you to purchase a particular product for the price (including the delivery and other charges and taxes) specified on this website at the time you place your order. Equip Networks reserves the right to accept or reject your offer for any reason, including, without limitation, the unavailability of any product, an error in the price or the product description posted on this website, or an error in your order.

The rejection of any offer by Equip Networks is at the sole discretion of Equip Networks. Your contract with Equip Networks only comes into existence when Equip Networks forwards to you confirmation of receipt of your order and payment.

Prices

All prices displayed on the website, including but not limited to prices of products and services and delivery and other charges, are quoted in Australian Dollars and are current at the time of issue, but may change at any time without notice and are subject to availability. Any changes to prices displayed on the website are at the sole discretion of Equip Networks.

Payment

The pricing of Products will be as specified on the Website at the time Customer submits the Order. Sundry charges; freight, handling and insurance costs etc may be additional to the purchase price and may be shown separately on Equip Networks invoices.

Customer acknowledges that after order submission any cancellation will be at the absolute discretion of Equip Networks. If Equip Networks does consent to the cancellation of an Order, Customer must pay all fees and costs incurred by Equip Networks, including without limitation any cancellation fee or rescheduling fee due to a supplier of Equip Networks as a consequence of Equip Networks cancelling an order placed with its supplier in fulfilling the cancelled Order.

Customer acknowledges that Equip Networks may charge Customer’s credit card (or such other payment method as is made available to Equip Networks through the Website by Customer) all amounts payable in connection with an Order at any time after an Order is submitted.

Goods and Services (“GST”) and Other Taxes

Prices displayed on this website are exclusive of GST. The GST applied rate of 10% is added to the cost of purchase at the point of checkout and is added to the order and invoice.

You are responsible for the payment of any and all taxes, duties, charges, imposts or other liabilities imposed by any government agency, government taxation agency or other government body, including without limitation, any customs duty, any additional GST payable or any value added tax imposed on any products or services acquired or ordered by you from this website.

Delivery

Please read the Delivery Information contained in the website. The delivery times are indicative only and Equip Networks will not be liable for any failure to observe these delivery times.

Risk and Title

Equip Networks will retain title to all products you order until you have made payment in full for those products but all risk in the products will pass to you upon the delivery of the products to, or the collection of the products by, a postal or courier service. You should consider whether to obtain any suitable insurance in respect of the products.

Product selection assistance/consultancy

Equip Networks offers a level of product assistance and consultancy as a part of the service. Customer may request assistance from Equip Networks with regard to the purchase of any Products. Customer acknowledges the following

  • Any such assistance is provided solely as a convenience to Customer and without obligation or liability on the part of Equip Networks;
  • Any such assistance does not constitute professional advice, and must not be relied upon by Customer or by any other person;
  • Customer must make enquiries independently of Equip Networks as to requirements for Products and Services, and must validate that any Products or Services ordered are appropriate to meet those requirements; and
  • Customer releases Equip Networks from any liability for any costs or losses Customer may incur in connection with the purchase of Products or Services, even if even if Equip Networks provided Product consultancy and selection assistance to Customer.

Returns

It is at the absolute discretion of Equip Networks to agree to accept the return of Products purchased though the Equip Networks Website. Equip Networks will only consider accepting the return of Products if the following specified conditions are satisfied.

Products can only be returned to Equip Networks for credit within 7 days from the date that the Products were invoiced to Customer.

Returned products will only be credited to Customer at the lower of the amount invoiced and the current market value of the Products at the date of return, such value to be determined by Equip Networks at Equip Networks’ absolute discretion.

All Products to be returned must have a returns authorisation (RA) number clearly visible on the outside of the package. The product must be unopened and in saleable condition as determined by Equip Networks. Damaged goods are not eligible for return.

Once approved, all Product returns must be returned to Equip Networks within 3 days of the RA number being issued or the returned Products will be declined.

A minimum 10% restocking fee will be applied to all returns, payable prior to Equip Networks accepting the returned Product from Customer.

Warranty

Equip Networks may make certain warranties with regard to Products and Services The sale invoice supplied to customer will have these warranties specified within.

Equip Networks does not warrant nor represent that Products are supplied with a valid software licence. Furthermore, Equip Networks does not warrant that third party software supplied is of a particular type or quality.

Manufacturer’s Software Licence provision

Customer acknowledges that:

Products purchased from Equip Networks may be supplied with software owned or controlled by third parties.

It is at the sole discretion of the Customer to ensure that rights to use any software or other such materials required to use the product are properly acquired and legally. The cost of third party vendor software licences which may be required to operate the product are not included in the price charged by Equip Networks for the Products or Services through the Website.

Support for products must be obtained directly from the manufacturer or from an authorised vendor, dealer or distributor.

Limitation of liability

Equip Networks will in no way be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damage (including loss of profits, revenue, production, opportunity, access to markets, goodwill, reputation, use or any indirect, remote, abnormal or unforeseeable loss), resulting from use or inability to use the website or for the cost of procurement of substitute products or resulting from any products purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through the website or resulting from unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data or of any information contained on this website, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangible, even if Equip Networks or related entities of Equip Networks have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage.

Where any Act of Parliament implies in the Terms and Conditions any term, condition or warranty, and that Act avoids or prohibits provisions in a contract excluding or modifying the application of or exercise of, or liability under such term, condition or warranty, such term, condition or warranty shall be deemed to be included in the Terms and Conditions, however, the liability of Equip Networks for any breach of such term, condition or warranty shall be limited, at the option of Equip Networks, to any one or more of the following:

  • if the breach relates to goods:
  • the replacement of the goods or supply of equivalent goods;
  • the repair of such goods;
  • the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
  • the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired
  • if the breach to relates to services:
  • the supplying of the services again; or
  • the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

Disclaimer

You agree that your access to, and use of, this website is subject to these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws, and is at your own risk. While the information and material contained on the website is believed to be accurate and current, it is provided by Equip Networks in good faith on an “as is” basis. Equip Networks, related entities of Equip Networks and the directors, officers and employees of Equip Networks accept no responsibility for and make no representations or warranties to you or to any other person as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information contained on the website. Any reference to products or services on this website is for information purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement or a recommendation of those products or services by Equip Networks. Subject to any non-excludable provisions in the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), Equip Networks expressly disclaims any implied or express warranties or conditions of any kind, including warranties of merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, or non infringement of intellectual property rights relating to information or materials accessible from or on this website. Equip Networks shall not be liable to you for any damage resulting from use of or reliance on the materials or information on the website or any other loss or damage whatsoever including, but without limitation, special, indirect, consequential or incidental loss or damage (including loss of profits, revenue, production, opportunity, access to markets, goodwill, reputation, use or any indirect, remote, abnormal or unforeseeable loss), or any loss or damage relating to business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information systems or costs of replacement goods, or otherwise, even if Equip Networks is expressly advised of the possibility of such loss or damage. To the extent (if any) that the content of the website does not satisfy the laws of a country other than Australia, it is not directed to persons in those countries and they should not use the website.

By using this website and agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you agree to indemnify Equip Networks and its employees, officers, agents, shareholders and other persons involved in the creation of this website and hold Equip Networks and its employees, officers, agents, shareholders and other persons involved in the creation of this website harmless against all loss, actions, proceedings, costs (including legal costs), expenses, claims, penalties, fines, expenses, costs and damages arising from or in relation to any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions, your access and/or use or exploitation of the website or reliance on its contents or information received through it by yourself or any person accessing any content through the website and as a result of any use or exploitation by you of any material posted by any third party or any other website, or both. This indemnification includes, without limitation, liability relating to copyright infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy, trade mark infringement and breaches of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth).

Copyright

Equip Networks is the copyright owner of the content of the website or is licensed by the copyright owner to use the content on the website. Except as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), you must not in any form or by any means:

  • copy, adapt, reproduce, broadcast, store, transmit, distribute, print, publish or create derivative works from any information or material on this website;
  • perform in public or transmit in any form by any process (graphic, electronic or mechanical, including further copying, recording, taping or by a storage and information retrieval system) any of the information or material on this website without the specific prior written consent of Equip Networks;
  • alter, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or modify any material or information that you receive from this website which can be accessed through this website; or
  • use or apply, for commercial purposes any material or information on this website, without the prior written consent of Equip Networks.

Any software which you down load from this website is governed exclusively by the licence terms accompanying the file or the terms of the licence agreement which accompanied the original product licensed by you which you are updating, and by down loading such software you agree to abide the terms of the licence. You must not reproduce or redistribute any software otherwise than in accordance with the relevant software licence.

All trademarks, brands and names appearing on this website are the property of their respective owners.

Nothing contained on this website is intended to grant any express or implied right to you to use or exploit any patent, copyright, trademark or trade secret information.

Confidentiality

You should not send any information or material that you consider to be confidential or proprietary, to Equip Networks or any other person, through this website. Any information or material sent to Equip Networks at, or through this website, is deemed to be not confidential. You are deemed to grant to Equip Networks an unrestricted, irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute all materials or information sent by you to or through this website. Equip Networks is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send to Equip Networks, for any purpose.

Links and Third-Party Statements on this Website

The website contains links to websites not maintained, controlled or associated with Equip Networks. Equip Networks makes no endorsements, representations or warranties about any other website which you may access through this website (“Other Website”). When you access an Other Website, that Other Website is independent from this website, and Equip Networks has no control over the content on that Other Website. Any link to an Other Website is provided as a convenience to users of this website. Other Websites are not under the control of Equip Networks, and Equip Networks is not responsible for the accuracy of any information on any Other Website. Equip Networks does not monitor or review the content of any Other Website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that any Other Website that you access by link from this website is free from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other material of a destructive nature.

Equip Networks will not monitor or review statements made by persons other than Equip Networks (“Third Parties”) on this website. Third Parties may post statements or information on some portion of this website, from time to time (“Third Party Posted Material”). Equip Networks makes no representations to you in relation to about the accuracy, quality, legality, ownership or other aspect of any Third Party Posted Material. Equip Networks expressly disclaims any liability to you for all Third Party Posted Material. Without limitation, Equip Networks is not liable to you or any other person for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages arising out of any use of this website, the use of any other hyper linked website, the use of any Other Website or any Third Party Posted Material, and including but without limitation, any loss of profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if Equip Networks has been expressly advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.

You must indemnify and keep indemnified Equip Networks in respect of all loss and expense suffered by you as a result of any use or exploitation by you of any Third Party Posted Material or any Other Website, or both.

Viruses

Equip Networks does 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. Equip Networks 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 Equip Networks, it shall be limited to the cost of re-supplying that information.

Applicable law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, construed and enforced 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.

This website may be accessed throughout Australia and overseas. Equip Networks makes no representation that the content of this website complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside Australia. If you access this website from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for complying with the laws in the place where you access the website.

Limitations on Use

Equip Networks may revise or alter these terms and conditions at any time. Revisions and alterations will be posted on this website. Users are responsible for reviewing this website from time to time to ensure compliance. If Equip Networks makes a request to you to stop using this website or to promptly return or destroy copies of information provided on this website, you must immediately comply with that request, and confirm in writing to Equip Networks within five (5) business days after that request, that you have done so.

Relevant Parties

Any indemnity, agreement, representation or promise provided by you to Equip Networks as set out in these Terms and Conditions shall be taken to be an indemnity, agreement, representation or promise also provided by you to the employees, officers, agents and shareholders of Equip Networks and any related entity of Equip Networks in relation to this website.

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