The Global Poll

Website Terms and Conditions

The Global Poll Pty Limited ABN 22 324 134 006 (we, us and other similar expressions) welcomes you, the viewer of our website.

1 Acceptance of terms
1.1 We provide this website subject to these terms of use. Before you browse or use any facilities on this website, it is important that you read, understand, and agree to these terms of use.

2 Territorial limitation
2.1 We make no representation that the content available on or through the website is appropriate or available for use outside the Commonwealth of Australia.

2.2 You must ensure that your access to this website is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you.

3 Privacy
3.1 We treat all personal information submitted to us in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is available online for you to read or print out. For more information about our Privacy Policy, please click on the Privacy Policy link at the bottom of this web page.

4 Variations
4.1 We may change these terms of use from time to time without notice to you. It is important that you regularly review the most up to date version of these terms of use, as they will be the terms on which you access and use this website at any time.

5 Registered user
5.1 In order to vote on a poll, access various parts of this website or access particular content available on this website, you must become a registered user.

5.2 To become a registered user, you must complete your registration details as described on this website.

5.3 We reserve the right to terminate your registration at any time for any reason.

5.4 You must ensure that your registration details are true and accurate at all times and must notify us of any change to your registration details as originally supplied.

5.5 Upon registration, you will be provided with a password and account designation.

5.6 You agree that:

(a) you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account;
(b) you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account;
(c) you must immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security;
(d) you must create no more than one user account at the website;
(e) we, or our agents, may require access to your user account to respond to service or technical issues;
(f) we or any providers of the linked websites or other services offered from this website may send emails, newsletters and other information to your user account.

6 Restricted use
6.1 You are provided with access to this website for your personal use only. You are authorised to print a copy of any content available on or accessible from this website (Content) for your personal use only, except where otherwise expressly prohibited.

6.2 You must not, without our prior written approval, on-sell Content obtained from this website.

6.3 You agree to use the Content for lawful purposes only.

7 Content
7.1 All Content is provided by us or by others in good faith. You accept that the Content provided by us is general information and is not in the nature of advice. We have derived the Content from sources which we believe to be accurate and up to date as at the date of publication.

7.2 We make no representation about the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the Content or its fitness for any particular purposes, nor do we undertake to keep this website or the Content up to date. This applies to Content provided by us and to Content provided by others.

7.3 Where the Content provided by others contains opinions or judgements of third parties, we do not purport to endorse those opinions or judgements, nor the accuracy or reliability of them.

7.4 You must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with the use of Content, whether provided by us or by others, including your reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of it. By using the website you agree that we (our related corporations and the officers, employees and agents of each) are not responsible for:

(a) the accuracy or otherwise of the content displayed or omitted from the website;
(b) any person’s reliance on content available or omitted from the website;
(c) any loss in connection with the use of the website.

7.5 You should make your own enquiries and seek independent advice from relevant industry professionals before acting or relying on any Content, whether provided by us or by others.

8 Ordering goods or services
8.1 You may offer to buy goods or services from us as described on this website for the price set out on this website.

8.2 Your order must contain your name, email address, credit card details and any other ordering information set out on this website.

8.3 We may, at our discretion, accept or reject your offer. You may not cancel an order once it has been submitted, even if our acceptance or rejection of your offer is still pending.

8.4 We are not required to give reasons for rejecting your offer. If we reject your offer to buy the goods or services for any reason, neither of us will be under any further liability to the other arising out of your original offer or our non-acceptance of that offer.

8.5 We give no undertaking as to the availability of goods or services advertised on this website.

8.6 Delivery of goods and services to you will be made in the manner described on this website.

8.7 Title in any goods does not pass to you until payment has been received.

8.8 Risk of loss or damage to the goods passes to you upon despatch.

8.9 Payment must be made in the manner described on the website. Prices are exclusive of goods and services tax.

8.10 We make no warranty that goods or services acquired from us over this website will meet your requirements.

8.11 Details contained on this website relating to goods or services have been prepared in accordance with Australian law and may not satisfy the laws of any other country. It is your responsibility to determine whether these details satisfy the laws of the jurisdiction where you reside (if that jurisdiction is outside Australia) and if the details do not satisfy the laws of your jurisdiction, you must not order any goods or services from this website.

9 Advertisements
9.1 Responsibility for the content of advertisements appearing on this website (including hyperlinks to advertiser’s own websites) rests solely with the advertisers. The placement of advertisements on this website does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement by us of the advertiser’s products and each advertiser is solely responsible for any representations made in connection with its advertisement.

10 Copyright
10.1 Copyright in the Content and this website (including text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings and software) is owned or licensed by us.

10.2 Other than for the purposes of, and subject to the conditions prescribed under, the Copyright Act 1968 of the Commonwealth of Australia and similar legislation which applies in your location, and except as expressly authorised by these terms of use, you may not in any form or by any means:

(a) adapt, reproduce, distribute, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of this website; or
(b) commercialise any Content, goods or services obtained from any part of this website, without our prior written approval.

11 Trade Marks
11.1 The name “The Global Poll” and “The Global Poll” logo are our trade marks. Our trade marks may not be used without our prior written approval.

11.2 This website may also display other names and logos that are trade marks of other third parties. You must not use those trade marks without our prior written approval or the prior written approval of the relevant third party owner.

12 Blogging and communication with us and others
12.1 This website contains blogs and communication facilities which allow you to communicate with us and others, and may contain other electronic messaging and notice services (Communication Facilities).

12.2 When using the Communication Facilities or this website, you must not post or transmit any information, image, text or other material of any kind whatsoever;

(a) that is not original material in which you own copyright, unless you are authorised by the copyright owner to post or transmit that material on this website;
(b) that violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person;
(c) that contains personal information of any other person, such as phone numbers, mail or email addresses;
(d) that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, profane or indecent or that is sexual or pornographic in nature;
(e) that vilifies, insults or humiliates any person on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability;
(f) that contains a virus or other harmful component or;
(g) that advertises or promotes any goods or services, websites, competitions or schemes or otherwise for commercial purposes.

12.3 We may, but are under no obligation to, monitor or review the contents the blogs on this website or our Communication Facilities and may edit, refuse to post or to remove any materials (in whole or in part) that in our sole discretion is in any way objectionable or in violation of any applicable law or these terms of use.

12.4 Responsibility for the content of blogs, or other material posted on this website rests solely with the person who posts it. Where that content contains opinions or judgements of third parties, we do not purport to endorse those opinions or judgements, nor the accuracy or reliability of them.

13 User licence to us
13.1 By submitting any information or other material to us (including inputting data or engaging in any other form of communication), you grant to us a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide licence to do the following in respect of the information or material:

(a) use, copy, sublicense, redistribute, edit, adapt, transmit, publish and/or broadcast, publicly perform or display; and
(b) sublicense to any third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the rights granted in paragraph (a).

13.2 The licence in the previous clause includes the right to exploit all proprietary rights in that information or other material including but not limited to rights under copyright, trade mark, service mark or patent laws under any jurisdiction worldwide.

13.3 You unconditionally and irrevocably consent to all acts and omissions by us, or people authorised by us, which would otherwise amount to an infringement of your moral rights in that information or other material. This includes consent to change the information or other material even if the change amounts to a “derogatory treatment” of the information or other material as that term is defined in Division 4 of Part 9 of the Copyright Act 1968 of the Commonwealth of Australia.

13.4 At our request and expense, you will execute and deliver to us such instruments and take such other actions as may be required to give full legal effect to this grant of licence and consent.

14 Viruses
14.1 You must make your own precautions to ensure that the process which you use for accessing this website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system.

14.2 We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your use of this website or any linked website.

15 Security of information
15.1 Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. While we strive to protect information we transmit and receive, we do not warrant and cannot assure the security of any information which you transmit to us.

16 Linked sites
16.1 The website may be linked to other websites over which we have no control. Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained.

16.2 We do not sponsor, endorse, adopt, confirm, guarantee or approve the content or representations made on those websites. We make no representations about the accuracy of content contained on those websites. We are not liable for the content on those websites.

16.3 No links from external websites to this website are permitted without our prior written approval.

17 Limitation of Liability
17.1 Terms, conditions and warranties implied by law which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified apply to these terms and your use of the website to the extent required by that law.

17.2 We exclude to the extent permitted by law all other terms, conditions and warranties which might be implied into these terms.

17.3 Our sole liability for breach of any terms, conditions and warranties implied by law is limited at our option to one or more of the following:

(a) if the breach relates to goods:

(i) the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods,
(ii) the repair of such goods,
(iii) the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods, or
(iv) the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and

(b) if the breach relates to services:

(i) the supplying of the services again, or
(ii) the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

17.4 You do not rely on any representation, warranty or other provision made by us or on our behalf which is not expressly stated in these terms of use. In particular, we make no warranty or representation that the website will always be available, accessible, secure or operate without error.

17.5 Subject to clause 17.3:

(a) we do not accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of this web site or any linked web site, nor do we accept any responsibility for any loss arising out of your use of or reliance on Content;
(b) we are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special and/or consequential damage, loss, claim, expense or loss of profits whatsoever or any loss of data which result from any use or access, or any inability to use or access, or misuse by you or any other party, of the website or otherwise in connection with any Content.

18 Indemnity
18.1 You agree to hold harmless and indemnify us and our subsidiaries, officers, agents and employees from and against any loss, damage or costs that we, or any of our subsidiaries, officers, agents and employees, may incur in connection with your breach of these website terms and conditions or any other legal obligation by you or your use of this website and the Communication Facilities.

19 General information
19.1 These terms of use supersede any prior agreements between you and us in respect of your use of the website. You may also be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use particular services available on or through the website.

19.2 These terms of use and the relationship between you and us are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal and non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the State of New South Wales.

19.3 Headings in these terms of use are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

19.4 Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms of use must not be treated as a waiver of the right or provision.

19.5 If any provision of these terms of use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, then the provision is deemed deleted but the court should try to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision. The other provisions of these terms of use are to remain in full force and effect.

19.6 There is no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between us and any user simply by the existence or use of this website.

19.7 Your rights and obligations under these terms of use are personal and may not be assigned or dealt with in any way without our approval, which we may withhold in our absolute discretion.