Website Terms of Use and Conditions

By using this site, you signify your Assent and Agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use the site.

Restrictions on Use of Materials
Materials in this website are Copyright ©2002-2004 by South Metropolitan Scouts, all rights reserved. Text, graphics, databases, HTML code, and other intellectual property are protected by Australian and International Copyright Laws, and may not be copied, reprinted, published, reengineered, translated, hosted, or otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission. Trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Database Ownership, License, and Use
South Metropolitan Scouts warrants, and you accept, that South Metropolitan Scouts is the owner of the copyright of the Databases of Links to articles and resources available from time to time through southmetscouts.com. South Metropolitan Scouts and its contributors reserve all rights and no intellectual property rights are conferred by this agreement.

South Metropolitan Scouts grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use database(s) accessible to you subject to these Terms and Conditions. The database(s) may only be used by you in the course of using this website in the manner intended. You may not use the database(s) for any other reasons.

Nevertheless, you may on an occasional limited basis download or print out individual pages of information which have been individually selected, to meet a specific, identifiable need for information which is for your personal use only, or is for use in your business only internally, on a confidential basis. You may make such limited number of duplicates of any output, both in machine readable or hard-copy form, as may be reasonable for these purposes only. Nothing herein shall authorise you to create any database, directory or hard copy publication of or from the databases, whether for internal or external distribution or use.

Liability
The materials in this site are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. South Metropolitan Scouts disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. South Metropolitan Scouts does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. South Metropolitan Scouts does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not South Metropolitan Scouts) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall South Metropolitan Scouts be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if South Metropolitan Scouts or a South Metropolitan Scouts authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall South Metropolitan Scouts' total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence) or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

Facts and information at this website are believed to be accurate at the time they were placed on the website. Changes may be made at any time without prior notice. All data provided on this website is to be used for information purposes only. The information contained on this website and pages within, is not intended to provide specific legal, financial or tax advice, or any other advice, whatsoever, for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that regard. The services described on this website are only offered in jurisdictions where they may be legally offered. Information provided in our website is not all inclusive, and is limited to information that is made available to South Metropolitan Scouts and such information should not be relied upon as all inclusive or accurate.

Links and Marks
The owner of this site is not necessarily affiliated with sites which may be linked to this site and is not responsible for their content. The linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Links to other websites or references to products, services or publications other than those of South Metropolitan Scouts and its subsidiaries and affiliates at this website, do not imply the endorsement or approval of such websites, products, services or publications by South Metropolitan Scouts or its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Certain names, graphics, logos, icons, designs, words, titles or phrases at this website may constitute trade names, trademarks or service marks of South Metropolitan Scouts or of other entities. The display of trademarks on this website does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted. Any unauthorized downloading, re-transmission, or other copying of modification of trademarks and/or the contents herein may be a violation of federal common law trademark and/or copy laws and could subject the copier to legal action.

Confidentiality of Codes, Passwords and Information
You agree to treat as strictly private and confidential any Subscriber Code, username, user ID, or password which you may have received from South Metropolitan Scouts, and all information to which you have access through password-protected areas of South Metropolitan Scouts' websites and will not cause or permit any such information to be communicated, copied or otherwise divulged to any other person whatsoever.

Other Legal Stuff
These Terms of Use will apply to every access to southmetscouts.com. South Metropolitan Scouts reserves the right to issue revisions to these Terms of Use by publishing a revised version of this document on this site: that version will then apply to all use by you following the date of publication. Each access of information from South Metropolitan Scouts will be a separate, discrete transaction based on the then prevailing terms.

This Terms of Use and the license granted may not be assigned or sublet by You without South Metropolitan Scouts' written consent in advance.

Termination
These Terms of Use agreement is effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all southmetscouts.com site(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice at South Metropolitan Scouts' sole discretion, should you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and any and all other southmetscouts.com site(s) and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.