1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Gold Coast Hinterland Visitor and Lifestyle Guide, a website operated by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

The terms and conditions below are standard terms and conditions applicable to most websites. If you are using this website to browse and search for information, there is no need to read this fine print, and the terms and conditions on this page will apply to you.

However, if you want to re-use or add your content, we suggest you read the following Terms of Use, so that you are aware of your legal rights and obligations with respect to WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

By using hinterlandguide.com.au or submitting a website for inclusion, you signify your irrevocable acceptance of these Terms of Use. WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd has the right to revise the Terms of Use at any time without providing notice to its users. Your continued use of hinterlandguide.com.au shall be deemed irrevocable acceptance of those revisions.

We reserve the right to change, modify, suspend or discontinue any portion of hinterlandguide.com.au at any time. We may also impose limits on certain features or restrict your access to parts or the entire website without notice or liability.

In the case of any violation of the Terms of Use, WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd reserves the right to seek all remedies available to it in law and in equity.

2. PRIVACY

Your privacy is very important to us at WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd. To better protect your rights we have provided our Privacy Policy here to explain our privacy practices in detail.

3. DEFINITIONS

3.1  hinterlandguide.com.au means all elements and all the pages contained within this website.

3.2  Services means all services operated by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd and third parties through hinterlandguide.com.au.

3.3 Materials means all information, communications, documents, files, text, graphics, photographs, images, animations, video, audio, music, logos, software, products, and services.

4. OWNERSHIP

You acknowledge that all elements contained in hinterlandguide.com.au, including but not limited to, the Materials and the intellectual property rights, are provided by and owned by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd or their respective third party authors, developers and vendors.

hinterlandguide.com.au is protected by copyright laws and other international treaties as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties and any unauthorized use of the Materials or Services at this website may violate such laws and the Terms of Use.

Except as expressly provided herein, WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd and its suppliers do not grant any express or implied rights to use the Materials and Services.

Logos and trademarks may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All product names, company names, marks, logos, and symbols may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

5. GRANT OF LICENSE

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd hereby grants you permission to display, cache, and download WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's Materials on hinterlandguide.com.au, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, provided that:

• You display the relevant ownership notices provided with the Materials.
• The use of such Materials is solely for your personal, non-commercial and informational use and will not be used for commercial gain.
• The Materials are not modified in any way.

This permission terminates automatically without notice if you breach any of these terms or conditions. Except as stated herein, none of the Materials may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including but not limited to electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other means, without the prior express written permission of WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd. Also, you may not "mirror" any Materials contained on hinterlandguide.com.au on any other server without WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's prior express written permission. Except where expressly provided otherwise by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, nothing on hinterlandguide.com.au shall be construed to confer any license under any of WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's or any Third Party Provider's intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or otherwise.
You acknowledge sole responsibility for obtaining any such licenses.

Materials provided by Third Party Providers have not been independently reviewed, tested, certified, or authenticated in whole or in part by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd shall not be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or any other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use the products of Third Party Providers.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd does not provide, sell, license, or lease any of the Materials other than those specifically identified as being provided by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

Any unauthorized use of any Materials contained on hinterlandguide.com.au may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

6. TERMINATION OF SERVICES / WEBSITE

Although it is not our intention to do so, WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd may modify or discontinue hinterlandguide.com.au or the Materials provided here at any time, with or without notice to you. WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation. In using hinterlandguide.com.au, including all Services and Materials available through it, you agree:

• Not to disrupt or interfere with any other user's enjoyment of hinterlandguide.com.au or affiliated or linked sites.
• Not to upload, post, or otherwise transmit through hinterlandguide.com.au any viruses or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files.
• Not to disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise cause harm to hinterlandguide.com.au, or any Services, Materials, system resources, servers, or networks connected to or accessible through hinterlandguide.com.au or any affiliated or linked sites.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd reserves the right, in its sole discretion and at any time, to terminate your access to all or part of hinterlandguide.com.au and/or any of its Services without liability to you or any third-party if we have cause to do so (including, without limitation, our good faith belief that you have violated the Terms of Use).

7. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

hinterlandguide.com.au contains links to Websites controlled by parties other than WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd. You understand and acknowledge that:

• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd does not control, endorse, or accept responsibility for any content, products, or services offered by third parties through the site, including, without limitation, third party vendors and third parties accessible through links on the site.
• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd make no representation or warranties whatsoever about any such third parties, their content, products, or services.
• Any dealings you may have with such third parties are at your own risk. WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd shall not be liable or responsible for any content, products, or services offered by third parties.
• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd of the linked Website.
• You should refer to the policies posted by other Websites regarding privacy and other topics before you use them.
• It is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of viruses or other items of a destructive nature.

8. SUBMISSIONS

Except where expressly provided otherwise by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, if without a request from us, you send or post creative suggestions, ideas, notes or concepts or other materials (collectively, "Submissions"), they will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, they will be deemed, and will remain, the property of WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

Disclosure, submissions, or offer of any comments will constitute assignment to WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, at no charge, of all worldwide rights, title, and interest in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in such Submissions.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd may edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any Submissions that you forward to WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, and will own exclusively all such rights, title, and interest and will not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of the Submissions.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for the Submissions that you provide, and that you, not WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, have full responsibility for the Submissions, including their legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from hinterlandguide.com.au any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
   

9. SUBMISSIONS OF LISTINGS FOR INCLUSION ON hinterlandguide.com.au

You acknowledge that when you submit a site to hinterlandguide.com.au it is for consideration only and may be rejected, any review fees paid will be refunded if at the time of your submission WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd deems your site not to meeting the minimum requirements as set out below.

Where applicable WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd will send an electronic invoice through its Third Parties, and will not be required to send you any other form of invoice.

If your submission is accepted into hinterlandguide.com.au then you acknowledge that:

• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd may periodically, manually or automatically, visit your site to verify its eligibility for continued inclusion.
• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd reserves the right to remove without notice any listing that does not meet the minimum requirements for inclusion.
• WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd may at any time modify the listing information as deemed necessary. At WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's sole discretion the submitted website may at anytime be placed in a different or additional website or websites operated by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.
• You may request your listing be removed from hinterlandguide.com.au, by providing either
  a) an email address within the same domain as that of the site to be removed, or
  b) the email address originally used for submission, that can be used for verification.
  WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd will comply with any such request at the earliest opportunity.

If your listing submission is rejected then you may appeal the decision by replying to the original rejection email (all information from the original email MUST be returned). If the request is received by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd within 30 days of the rejection email your site will be reviewed and you will be notified of the final decision. No further appeals or submissions will be considered.

10. MINIMUM LISTING CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION

All listing information submitted to hinterlandguide.com.au must meet the following minimum criteria:

1. The information has to be aimed at visitors to the Gold Coast Hinterland or to locals looking for recreation related information, and must provide information that is useful for any such people.
2. Websites submitted must contain substantively unique content, as determined by WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.
3. Websites submitted must not have a limited lifespan.
4. Websites submitted must not contain any under constructions areas.
5. All links on submitted websites must work, and link to relevant content.
6. Websites submitted must be up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
7. Websites submitted must not contain any content, products, services or other information that, in WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's reasonable determination, may be in violation of any laws, regulations, third-party rights, or that, WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd believes, in its sole discretion, is inflammatory, offensive, or otherwise inconsistent with the spirit of hinterlandguide.com.au.

11. GOODS AND SERVICES TAX

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd's Australian Business Number ("ABN") is 51 095 701 063.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd is registered for the Goods and Services Tax ("GST"), and submission fees include GST if you are an Australian resident entity.

There is no requirement for WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd to issue Tax Invoices because the price of the supply is less than AUD 110.00 GST inclusive.

12. DISCLAIMER

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd has taken every care in the preparation of this document and whilst the information is given in good faith based upon the latest knowledge available to WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, no expressed or implied warranty, representations, guaranties or conditions are given concerning such information, including but not limited to any implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, except to the extent that such disclaimers are held to be legally invalid.

This information must not be taken as establishing any contractual or other commitment on the part of WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, and no liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising from the use of information or programs contained on hinterlandguide.com.au or any other Website referenced by hinterlandguide.com.au.

13. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

hinterlandguide.com.au is provided "as is" and "as available" and is used by you at your sole risk.

WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using, modifying, contributing, copying, distributing, or downloading the materials, or use or inability to use the website.

In no event shall WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, incidental, or consequential damage (including but not limited to loss of business, revenue, profits, use, data or other economic advantage), however it arises, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information available from this website, even if WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd has been previously advised of the possibility of such damage.

hinterlandguide.com.au may contain bugs, errors, problems, viruses or other limitations. WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd assumes no liability or responsibility for any such bugs, errors, problems or viruses or other limitations. You will not make a claim against WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd for lost data, re-run time, inaccurate output, work delays, or lost profits resulting from the use of the Materials. You agree to hold WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd harmless from, and you covenant not to sue WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd for, any claims based on or related to the use of the website. The effectiveness of these limitations is an express precondition to your use of this website.

14. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold WorldWide WiZZard Pty Ltd, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and partners, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal and accounting fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post to, or transmit through hinterlandguide.com.au (including, without limitation, any User Content, Design Content or computer viruses), your use of hinterlandguide.com.au, your connection to hinterlandguide.com.au, your violation of the Terms of Use, your violation of any laws, regulations, or third-party rights or your violation of any rights of another person or entity.

15. MISCELLANEOUS

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian law and the parties hereto agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Australian courts. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be enforced to the greatest extent possible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. Except for other agreements or terms appearing on hinterlandguide.com.au, these Terms set forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any questions relating to hinterlandguide.com.au may be sent through our contact page. We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms at any time. Please check back from time to time to ensure that you are aware of these changes. Your continued use of hinterlandguide.com.au will signify your acceptance of these changes.