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PEXA Community Rules

Property Exchange Australia Limited (PEXA) is an electronic lodgement network operator. The PEXA Community Forum is operated and managed by PEXA.

These Community Rules govern your use of the PEXA Community Forum. In these Community Rules, any reference to “PEXA”, “we”, or “us” is a reference to PEXA.

 A reference to “Lithium” is a reference to “Lithium Technologies Inc”.

1. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

You must take reasonable steps to protect your username and password and access to your device. You agree that you are responsible and liable for your use of the PEXA Community Forum, and for any use of your username and password by any other person.

You must maintain your Community Forum contact details.

You agree that PEXA may contact you by email at the email address you supply for registration.

You must not improperly interfere with the PEXA website or PEXA Community Forum, including submission of viruses, worms, malware or other code which may disrupt or damage any of PEXA’s systems or websites.

You grant to PEXA a non-exclusive, transferrable, irrevocable, royalty free licence to store, use and disclose the content of your posts on the PEXA Community Forum.

2. USE OF THE PEXA COMMUNITY FORUM

You must not use, or authorise or allow anyone else to use, the Community Forum in any manner which:

1. identifies your client or parties to a transaction or includes any personal, confidential or privileged information or information which may otherwise be used to identify a person or an organisation;
2. uses trademarks, logos, company names, copyrighted material or brands of any third party;
3. includes advertising or promotional material;
4. contains content which is illegal, misleading or fictitious;
5. contains any offensive, abusive, obscene, indecent or socially insensitive material;
6. is threatening, harassing, discriminatory or defamatory;
7. infringes the intellectual property rights of PEXA or any other person or organisation; or
8. is for any reason whatsoever, inappropriate, racist or offensive for display.

In addition,

1. All posts must be professionally courteous.

3. MODERATION AND ENFORCEMENT

All information and material that a user places on the PEXA Community Forum may be viewed by any person. PEXA reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to accept, reject, edit or approve without amendment any questions, responses, testimonials or posts submitted to the PEXA Community Forum, including, but not limited to, posts or submissions which contravene your responsibilities regarding use of the PEXA Community Forum.

PEXA reserves the right to refuse an account, delete accounts or block access of users who have contravened the above responsibilities, in its sole discretion.

PEXA need not notify you of the exercise of PEXA’s rights of moderation or enforcement of these rules.

4. LIABILITY, EXCLUSION OF WARRANTY and INDEMNITY

PEXA is not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with use of the PEXA Community Forum.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, all representations, warranties and other terms are excluded. You must ensure that your access to this Community Forum is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you or in your location.

PEXA retains all intellectual property in the PEXA System and this website and grants you a limited, revocable and non-transferrable licence to access the PEXA Community Forum.

PEXA makes no representation or warranty as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information contained in the PEXA Community Forum or that the application will be uninterrupted or error free. While PEXA will monitor the material on the PEXA Community Forum for compliance with these Community Rules, PEXA does not endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any information in a posting and is not responsible for any material posted on by users.

You should not act on the basis of any information contained in this Community Forum without first obtaining specific professional advice.

You agree to indemnify and hold PEXA harmless from any claims, demands, damages or direct losses arising from your breach of these Community Rules.

Neither PEXA nor “Lithium” will be responsible or liable to any person for any content posted by a user if PEXA and Lithium comply with any notice of claimed infringement and counter-notices and any court orders relating to take down or put back, as if the provisions of Regulations 20I to 20W of the Copyright Regulations 1969 (Cth) applies to PEXA and Lithium (with reference in those Regulations to “carriage service provider” being read as a reference to PEXA and Lithium.

5. GENERAL

All postings express the views of the user who made the posting and not those of PEXA.

These Community Rules may be altered by PEXA from time to time. Any amended terms or conditions will apply to your use of the PEXA Community Forum from the time at which the changes are published on the Community Forum website.

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws in force in Victoria, Australia and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia and any courts which may hear appeals from those courts in respect of any proceedings in connection with the PEXA Community Forum or the Community Rules.

Lithium owns all copyright and other intellectual property rights in this software application, applicable documentation and programming and user interfaces (other than software provided by PEXA or materials added to the user interface by PEXA).

6. Privacy Collection Statement

In the course of operating the PEXA Community Forum, PEXA will collect Personal Information (as defined in the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth)) about you. You must provide your Personal Information such as full name, email address and to create an account to use this Community Forum. PEXA may disclose your Personal Information to Lithium for use by Lithium in providing hosting services to PEXA. If you do not provide your details, PEXA will be unable to provide you with an account to use this Community Forum. Other than to register an account and maintain your profile details, you should not be providing Personal Information about yourself or others in this forum. If you do provide Personal Information in a Community Forum post, it will be visible (disclosed by PEXA) to all other users and readers of the PEXA Community Forum. You will be responsible for the use by third parties of any Personal Information disclosed by you to the PEXA Community Forum, regardless of whether such use is permitted by you or not. You indemnify PEXA and Lithium against any claims that may arise as a result of such disclosure or use.

More information about PEXA’s collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information can be found in PEXA’s privacy policy available at www.pexa.com.au/privacy-policy.

You acknowledge that your use of the PEXA Community Forum indicates acceptance of these PEXA Community Rules.

For PEXA Support Centre contact:

Phone: 1300 084 515
Email: support@pexa.com.au
Hours: 7.00am - 10.00pm AEST