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At Merkin Pastoral Holdings Pty Limited (‘Merkin’ or ‘The Merkin Group’) we have, in preparing this information, used our best endeavours to ensure that the information contained therein is true and accurate, but accept no responsibility and disclaim all liability in respect of any errors, inaccuracies or omissions contained herein.
Users of this website should make their own inquiries to verify the information contained herein.

Terms and Conditions

Please thoroughly read the Merkin Pastoral Pty Limited (‘Merkin’ or ‘The Merkin Group’) Terms and Conditions. We ask that you do not use our website or service until you have familiarised yourself with these Terms and Conditions. If you are using or have used our service, it is understood that you have agreed to the Terms and Conditions set forth in this document. If you visit or use any of our companies other websites we ask that you do not use that website or service until you have familiarised yourself with those Terms and Conditions. If you are using or have used those services, it is understood that you have agreed to the Terms and Conditions set forth in this document.

Definitions
“we”, “us”, “our” means Merkin Pastoral Pty Limited’Merkin’ or ‘The Merkin Group’) of P O Box 1242 , Noosa Heads QLD 4567, Australia or if you are using or have used any of our other companies websites we refer you to that website’s policy. It can also include Advisor Plus Pty Ltd, BoxRED Corporate, Investor Signals, Merkin Advisory Pty Ltd, Merkin Management Pty Ltd, Noosa Downtown Beverage Co, Pinefilm Entertainment,The Merkin Group or TMG.

“you”, “your” means the person accessing the website and/or subscribing for or purchasing the service as an organiser, attendee, consumer, seller or in any other capacity.

“service” means the content and related goods and services offered by us from time to time.

“website” means the website operated by us for the purpose of providing the service.

Introduction
To the extent that we are bound by the provisions of the many Commonwealth and State Privacy Legislation and the National Privacy principles we will observe and comply with them.

In providing the service we enlist the services of various third parties, consultants and contractors.

Important Financial Disclaimers

Any information is for general information purposes only and is not intended to be relied upon for the purpose of making an investment decision. The information does not constitute an offer of any financial product or an invitation or solicitation to buy or sell financial products including securities to any person. Potential investors should seek independent financial and taxation advice before making any investment decisions.

The information provided within this website is not intended to be a complete description of matters described, and should not be relied upon for any purpose. If you require further information about any of the matters described on this website, please contact us.

We, our directors, officers and employees do not warrant the accuracy, reliability or completeness of information contained in the website. To the extent permitted by law,we, our directors, officers and employees disclaim all responsibility for any loss or damage arising in any way from any representation or any error or omission in the information or from any resulting loss or damage (whether direct or indirect) suffered as a result of the use of any material on this website by any person.

Except to the extent permitted by law, the materials contained may not be reproduced, distributed or transmitted or incorporated into any other document or material, without the express written permission us. We have made every effort to ensure the reliability of the views and recommendations expressed in this material. The information presented is based upon information known to us or information obtained from sources external to us, which we believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publication but we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy, or warrant any results from the use of the information. Past performance is not a guaranteed indicator of future performance.

Any information is prepared for the general information of the general public,clients,professional and sophisticated and other exempt persons (normally investors) in any jurisdiction where it is lawful to do so. This information is not for traders and investors. The information does not take into consideration the specific needs, investment objectives or financial situations of any person. Any individual reading this should discuss, with their financial planner or advisor, the merits of any recommendation or offer presented in this material for their own specific circumstances and realise that not all investments are appropriate for every individual and indeed may not be lawful for many individuals.

SPECIFICALLY : We can offer advice and services where it is lawful to do so on an exempt and unlicensed basis in an unregulated environment. We can facilitate introductions through Chamber of Commerce , Government , business or financial service industry professionals and sophisticated and professional investors in certain circumstances in certain jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so – globally. As a consultant we can assist you in an unregulated and unlicensed capacity in a buy sell or other transaction but we make no legal warranties or representations of any kind as to the Buyer, Seller or Transaction.

We can also facilitate introductions to licensed entities in regulated regimes where required and can both represent and assist any party in those regimes.

We do not offer financial advice.

Personal Information

Your personal information held by us or our consultants, contractors or agents in various places (including in places outside of Australia) including on a database (depending on your form of contact with us) may include:

information submitted by you as part of any registration or transaction or subscription process such as your legal name, or known name, date of birth, address, email address, telephone number, Horizon user name and/or password
details on your use of the service (such as content and goods and services purchased)
a record of your visit to our website such as your server address, your domain name, the date and time of your visits, the pages you accessed and documents you downloaded, the previous site you visited and the type of browser you are using.

You may also provide information to us about other people and if you do so, you should obtain their permission to do so.

Collecting Information
We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:

when you access and browse our website
when you subscribe to register for any goods or service
when you use or purchase any goods or service
when you contact us
when you pay for any goods or service
from third parties such as financial institutions and credit reporting agencies when undertaking checks in relation to billing, payment and credit checks
from publicly available sources of such information
to verify your identity and the veracity of other information provided
when legally required to do so.

Use of Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information:

so we can provide the service to you pursuant to your agreement (if any) with us to ensure you abide by your agreement with us
to make credit and credit card checks
to bill and collect debts
for website usage analysis
for planning, research, product development and/or strategic, financial or other business purposes
to promote and market any goods or service and third party products and services to you (by direct mail, via email, telemarketing, SMS, MMS or any other media). We do this to keep you informed of our goods and services, the goods and services of third parties and/or special offers. If you do not wish us to promote or market any goods services to you, please:
carefully consider and select any options provided to you to “opt in” or “opt out” during any purchase or registration process for any goods or service; or
contact us at [email protected]
to provide to people or organisations outside of our organisation including our consultants, contractors, agents and/or third party suppliers with whom we have arrangements from time to time in relation to the service. We may provide your personal information to these people or organisations (some outside of your country) to help us with the above
to provide to Government and/or Regulatory Authorities and/or Law Enforcement Agencies in accordance with their lawful duties
to provide to our content suppliers and other rights holders in relation to content, including in relation to anti-piracy reporting and action
to use as required or permitted by Law or for us to protect our legal rights, for instance by Court Order or in litigation
to your authorised representatives or legal advisers (when requested to do so)

Cookies
We use cookies on our website. In some cases cookies may collect and store personal information about you. A cookie is a small text file placed on the user’s computer when a website is accessed to recognise the cookie when the same computer returns to the website on a later occasion.

Right of Access
You may ask us to access your personal information in certain circumstances provided by Law (subject to exceptions allowed by Law). We ask you to put any such request in writing and pay any reasonable fees levied by us for this

Our Billing Procedure for Memberships/Subscriptions/Purchases
You will be billed at the time you register online for your membership/subscription/purchase, via the Bendigo Bank Secured Payment Gateway or any other Gateway. Upon successful completion of your payment transaction, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address supplied by you, with the option to print a GST compliant Tax Invoice/Receipt for your personal records.

Our Refund Policy for Memberships/Subscriptions/Purchases
Should circumstances prevail where you wish to cancel your membership/subscription/purchase where you have already registered, please refer to the terms and conditions of the website or to arrange any applicable refund.

Our Billing Procedure for Event Registration
You will be billed at the time you register online for an event, via the Bendigo Bank Secured Payment Gateway. Upon successful completion of your payment transaction, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address supplied by you, with the option to print a GST compliant Tax Invoice/Receipt for your personal records.

Our Refund Policy for Event Entrants
Should circumstances prevail where you wish to deregister for any event where you have already registered, please please refer to the terms and conditions of the website or to arrange any applicable refund.

Our Intellectual Property
Our website remains the property of Merkin Pastoral Pty Ltd at all times. The coding, programming, website designs, graphic design and intellectual property making up the site is owned by us.

Website Content
Websites from Merkin can not be used to disseminate, communicate, store or transmit:

content sexually-explicit in nature
information that contains virus, worms or malicious elements
Copyright infringing data
trade secret protected data
data that infringes on any intellectual property, publicity rights or privacy rights
is defamatory, harassing or threatening
relates to illegal business operations or schemes
contains deliberately misleading, incomplete or deceptive content
is deemed inappropriate by Merkin.

Fair Use Policy
We employ a fair use policy to our Websites. If we believe, for any reason, that you are behaving in a manner expected of a Merkin customer, then we reserve the right to terminate your account – effective immediately.

Accessibility
We make every effort to ensure that our website, online help and all of our services are online 24×7 every day of the year. However, this will not always be the case as there are times when our website will be down, sometimes in circumstances that we cannot control. When our service is offline we will do our best to get it online as soon as possible. We will not be held responsible for damage, events or losses directly or indirectly related to our website being offline.

Liability
We will not be held liable for any action or inaction relating to our service. We offer our unique service at highly competitive rates. We believe that our system is highly secure from the actions of hackers, viruses and other problems on the internet but can make no guarantees. It is up to you to back-up and ensure the integrity of your data offline. If your website is offline then please contact us and we will endeavour to fix the problem as soon as possible. We will not be liable for loss of sales, leads or reputation from using our service.

Jurisdiction
This Website is governed by the Laws of the State of Queensland, Australia. Any dispute arising from the use of this Website will be settled in this jurisdiction.

Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Merkin Pastoral Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved. All artworks used are copyright protected and are the property of their respective owners. Logos & other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

Contact Us
If you have any concerns about the way we have dealt with your personal information, please contact us on [email protected]

Organisers and Sporting Associations
Organisers and Sporting Associations and other similar business customers should refer to the RegMe Pty Limited Terms & Conditions found under the Organiser section of that website for the Terms & Conditions as they specifically relate to Organisers and Sporting Associations and other business to business customers.