Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use (Terms) carefully. By accessing this site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to the Terms, do not access this site.

This website including all webpages located at the domain name www.pollardenglish.edu.au  (Website) is the Website of the Sydney Institute of Interpreting and Translating (Pollard English).

The website is available for you to access and provides information about Pollard English. By continuing to access the Website and continuing to provide information, you are agreeing to the Terms. The material on the Website is the copyright of Pollard English. All rights reserved.

1.0  General

a) Except for the limited use set out in clause 1 (b) you may not use the Website, or the material contained on it, for any purpose, including:

1. The reproduction of the material in any material form.
2. The distribution of the material in any material form.
3. Re-transmission of the material by any medium of communication.
4. Uploading or reposting the material to any other site on the worldwide web.
5. “Framing” the material on the Website with other material on any other website.

The above are unlawful in any jurisdiction and are specifically prohibited by these Terms.

b) Notwithstanding the above restrictions on the use of material on the Website, you may download material from the Website for your personal, non-commercial use provided you do not remove any copyright and trade mark notices contained in the material.

c) You may access the Website only when manually conducted, discrete, individual search and retrieval activities.

d) Access to and use of the Website via mechanical, programmatic, robotic, scripted or any other automated means is strictly prohibited.

e) You may not use any automated system or software to extract, crawl, cache or index data or content from the Website.

f) You may not modify or copy:

1. the layout of the Website; or
2. any computer software and code contained in the Website.

g) Pollard English reserves all intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to, copyright in material and/or services provided by it. The material provided on the Website is provided for personal use only and may not be:

1. Re-sold or re-distributed in any material form;
2. Stored in any storage media; or
3. Re-transmitted in any media, without the prior written consent of Pollard English.

2.0  Links to Other Websites

a) The Website contains links to sites on the worldwide web owned and operated by third parties and which are not under the control of Pollard English.

b) In relation to the other sites on the worldwide web, which are linked to the Website, Pollard English:

1. Provides the links to other sites as a convenience to you and the existence of a link to other sites does not imply any endorsement by Pollard English of the linked site; and
2. Is not responsible for the material contained on those linked sites.

3.0  Uploading Information

You represent and warrant in relation to any material or information you provide to the Website, or any linked websites, that:

1. You are authorised to provide the material or information;
2. The material or information is not defamatory or a malicious falsehood in relation to any product, service, person or corporation;
3. The material or information does not infringe any intellectual property right including, but not limited to, trademarks, service marks or business names (whether registered or unregistered), confidential information and copyright; and
4. The material or information does not infringe any legislation or regulations of the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales including, but not limited to, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010and any other parliament competent to legislate in relation to the Website or any law in any country where the material or information is or will be available electronically to users of this Website.

4.0 Licence to Use Intellectual Property

By uploading any material which is intellectual property, including but not limited to, copyrighted works, trademarks and service marks (Intellectual Property) on to the Website or any linked website, you are granting Pollard English a perpetual, non-exclusive and payment-free licence throughout the world to:

1. Reproduce, use and exploit the Intellectual Property, as part of the Website, to the full extent permitted by Intellectual Property law in any jurisdiction in which the Website is available to users; and
2. Allow Pollard English to sub-licence others the same rights granted to Pollard English in (a) above.

5.0  Removal of Information

In relation to any material or information included on the Website, or any linked website, Pollard English may remove any material or information, including but not limited to links to other sites on the worldwide web and content supplied by you, at any time without giving any explanation or justification for removing the material or information.

6.0 Limit of Liability in Respect of Removal of Information

Pollard English and its respective officers, employees and agents have no liability for any costs, losses or damages of any kind, which you may incur, arising whether directly or indirectly.

This applies:

1. In relation to or in connection with any material or information supplied in respect of advertising on the Website; and
2. As a consequence of removing any material or information from the Website.

7.0 Indemnity

You will at all times indemnify and keep indemnified Pollard English and its respective officers, employees and agents (Those Indemnified) from and against any loss (including reasonable legal costs and expenses) or liability incurred by any of Those Indemnified arising from any claim, demand, suit, action or proceeding by any person against any of Those Indemnified where such loss or liability arose out of, in connection with or in respect of:

1. Any breach of these Terms by you; and
2. Publication of or distribution of the material or information supplied by you.

8.0 Suspension of Access

Pollard English may from time to time, and without notice, suspend the Website or disconnect or deny you access to the Website during any technical failure, modification or maintenance involved in the Website. Pollard English will use its reasonable endeavours to procure the resumption of the Website as soon as reasonably practicable.

9.0 Termination of Access

Pollard English may terminate access to the Website at any time without giving any explanation or justification for the termination of access, and Pollard English has no liability for any costs, losses or damages of any kind arising as a consequence of terminating access to the Website.

10.0 Alteration of Terms of Access

1. Pollard English may vary these terms at any time by general notice on the homepage of the Website.
2. These terms constitute the Terms in its entirety and supersede prior terms of use.

11.0 Limitation of Liability

a) Clause 3 (Disclaimer) may not apply to you in jurisdictions in which limitations on or exclusions of warranties or liabilities are not permitted by law. Pollard English’s liability for any implied warranty or condition is limited, subject to any obligations under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

b) Pollard English or people authorised by it may gather and process the information:

1. Which you may provide when accessing the Website, such as your name, address, e-mail address and other personal information about you; and
2. Regarding the way in which you use the Website including, without limitation, information acquired through the use of “cookies” programmed during the accessing of the Website.

c) Pollard English may authorise others to offer you goods and services using the information acquired through paragraph (b) in accordance with the Pollard English Privacy Policy.

12.0 Privacy

You agree to the terms of the Pollard English Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time as available on our website. You also agree that Pollard English may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in the Pollard English Privacy Policy.

13.0 Relevant Jurisdiction

1. If any part of these Terms to be void, unlawful, or unenforceable then that part will be deemed to be severable from the balance of these Terms and the severed part will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
2. These Terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the law of New South Wales, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
3. You agree to the jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales to determine any dispute arising out of these Terms.