- Northrop Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd (Northrop, we) own and operates this website (Website).
- The following terms of use (Terms of Use) govern your access to and use of the Website and the services and products available through this Website (Services and Products).
- By using this Website and any related Services and Products, you are agreeing to all of the Terms of Use, current at the time of your use of the Website.
4. Northrop reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use from time to time at our absolute discretion (Amendments). Amendments will be effective immediately. Your continued use of the Website following any Amendments will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Amendments. We suggest you check the Terms of Use regularly to ensure you are aware of the most up to date Terms of Use.
5. Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary and limited basis for the purpose of browsing the Website and interacting with Northrop. We reserve the right at our absolute discretion to withdraw or amend the Website and any Services and Products listed on the Website at any time and without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts or all of the Website.
6. The Website may contain links to other websites (Linked Sites), which are not operated by Northrop. Northrop does not necessarily endorse or approve of the content on the Linked Sites. We have no control over the Linked Sites. The information on the Linked Sites may not be complete or current and we make no representations or warranties regarding the quality, accuracy, merchantability or fitness for purpose of the information on the Linked Sites. We accept no responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of the Linked Sites. Your use of the Linked Sites will be subject to any terms of use contained within each such Linked Site.
7. Our privacy policy, which sets out how we collect, use, disclose, and store personal information and your rights regarding personal information can be found at //insert link to privacy policy//.
8. Access to the Website is provided to you on the basis that you must not misuse this Website. Accordingly, you will not do any of the following:
- commit or encourage a criminal offence;
- transmit or distribute any material, code or content which is malicious, technologically harmful, or designed to disrupt damage or gain unauthorised access to systems, data or personal information, including but not limited to any virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb, ransomware, spyware, adware, rootkits, keyloggers, or malware;
- hack into any aspect of the Website, corrupt data, or cause annoyance to other users;
- maliciously interrupt the purchase of Services and Products from the Website;
- infringe upon the rights of any other person’s proprietary rights;
- send any unsolicited advertising or promotional material (spam); or
- attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of or accessed through this Website.
9. You acknowledge that breaching this prohibitions clause will constitute a criminal offence and, if breached, Northrop will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and disclose your identity to them.
10. Northrop will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any Linked Sites.
11. The intellectual property rights in all software, the Services and Products content (including photographic images) made available to you on or through the Website will remain the property of Northrop or our licensors and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. Northrop and our licensors (where appropriate) reserve all such rights. You may store, print and display the content supplied solely for your own personal use. You are not permitted to publish, manipulate, distribute or otherwise reproduce, in any format, any of the content or copies of the content supplied to you or which appears on the Website and may not use any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise.
12. Subject to any non-excludable consumer guarantees and other consumer protection provisions set out in the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), the material displayed on the Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
13. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Northrop expressly excludes all warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or equity and must not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including but without limitation to any direct, indirect, special , consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute Services and Products, arising out of or related to the use, inability to use, performance or failures of the Website or the Linked Sites and any materials posted on those sites, irrespective of whether such damages were foreseeable or arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise.
14. This disclaimer does not affect Northrop’s liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under the ACL or other law.
15. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Northrop, our directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, and affiliates, from any and all third party claims, liability, damages or costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees on a solicitor/client basis) arising from your use of the Website or your breach of the Terms of Use.
16. If any part of the Terms of Use is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms of Use will not be affected and all other clauses remain in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause or sub-clause or part of a clause or sub-clause can be severed to render the remaining part valid, the clause must be interpreted accordingly. Alternatively you agree that the clause must be rectified and interpreted in such a way that closely resembles the original meaning of the clause or sub-clause as is permitted by law.
17. You may link to our home page, provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you. The Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of the Website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.