Terms and Conditions

INTRODUCTION

The Terms of Use will govern your use of this website, including all pages within this website (D&N Geotechnical Website). The Terms of Use of the D&N Geotechnical Website include these Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and any other terms and conditions that appear in or are linked to the D&N Geotechnical Website (Additional Terms and Conditions). Since these Additional Terms and Conditions form part of the Terms of Use, you are bound by them and should review them wherever they are relevant to you when using the D&N Geotechnical Website.

By using the D&N Geotechnical Website, you acknowledge and agree to all the Terms of Use. You must not use the D&N Geotechnical Website, if you do not agree, or have any objection, to any of the Terms of Use.

WEBSITE ACCESS

D&N Geotechnical does not guarantee that access to the D&N Geotechnical Website will be uninterrupted or that the D&N Geotechnical Website is free from viruses or anything else that may damage any computer, server, system, network or hardware (System) used to access the D&N Geotechnical Website (Access System) or any data, code or software on an Access System, or a System that is linked to the Access System (Linked System) or any data, code or software that is on any such Linked System.

Certain areas of the D&N Geotechnical Website may be restricted from access by you and D&N Geotechnical may further restrict your access to any areas of the D&N Geotechnical Website, at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The D&N Geotechnical Website is provided “as is,” and D&N Geotechnical makes no express or implied representations or warranties, of any kind related to the D&N Geotechnical Website or its content. D&N Geotechnical does not warrant the accuracy, reliability, adequacy or completeness of any of the D&N Geotechnical Website content. You acknowledge and accept that the D&N Geotechnical Website content may include faults, inaccuracies and errors.

Nothing contained on the D&N Geotechnical Website will be construed as providing advice to you. It is your responsibility to enquire with us directly or to undertake your own enquiries to determine the accuracy, reliability, adequacy, completeness and currency of the content on the D&N Geotechnical Website you wish to rely upon.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, including the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), D&N Geotechnical excludes all liability for, and neither D&N Geotechnical nor its officers, employees or contractors will be liable to you for, any claim, demand, loss, expense, or damage of any kind (including special, indirect or consequential loss and loss of business profits) arising directly or indirectly, and whether in contract, tort or otherwise, out of or in connection with:

your use of, or reliance on, the D&N Geotechnical Website or its content; or
the performance or failure of the D&N Geotechnical Website.

You hereby indemnify D&N Geotechnical from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, claims, causes of action, damages and expenses (including reasonable lawyer’s fees) arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to, your use of the D&N Geotechnical Website, its content or breach of any of the provisions of the Terms of Use.

Where the law (including without limitation the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) implies a warranty or guarantee into the Terms of Use that may not lawfully be excluded, then D&N Geotechnical’s liability for breach of such a warranty or guarantee will be limited, at its option, to any one or more of the following:

in the case of goods:
replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods;
repair of the goods or payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; or
payment of the cost of replacing the goods or acquiring equivalent goods; and
in the case of services, to either resupplying the services or payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The content on the D&N Geotechnical Website, including without limitation all applications, information, video, audio, film, text, data, forms, images, photographs, illustrations, artwork, diagrams and other graphic materials (Content), and the names, logos and trademarks (Brands), are the property of D&N Geotechnical or have been made available for use by D&N Geotechnical and are protected by copyright, trademark, moral rights and other intellectual property laws. Content may be displayed and printed solely for your own personal, non-commercial use or for use internally for non-commercial purposes within your organisation provided that its source is acknowledged and any copyright notice or Brands on what you display or print are not removed. You must not:

copy, reproduce, perform, adapt, modify or translate the Content; or
retransmit, distribute, sub-license, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate (whether electronically, digitally or in print or other form) any of the Content to any third party,

without the express prior written consent of D&N Geotechnical. Alternatively, you should direct the third party to the D&N Geotechnical Website and the relevant Content on the D&N Geotechnical Website.

D&N Geotechnical does not grant any licence or right in, or assign all or part of, its intellectual property rights in the Content or Brands or in the user interface of the D&N Geotechnical Website except as granted in these Terms of Use or as expressly granted by D&N Geotechnical in writing.

SUBMISSIONS

Any material, including but not limited to, information, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, video, audio, film, text, data, forms, images, photographs, illustrations, artwork, diagrams or other graphic materials you send to us on or via the D&N Geotechnical Website (Your Content) will be deemed to be non-confidential and non-proprietary. D&N Geotechnical will be entitled to use any of Your Content for any purpose without compensation to you.

Your Content must be your own and must not infringe any third party’s rights. You grant D&N Geotechnical a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, disseminate, broadcast and distribute Your Content in any and all forms and media, including on the D&N Geotechnical Website.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The D&N Geotechnical Website may contain links to other websites operated, controlled or produced by third parties. Unless otherwise indicated, D&N Geotechnical does not control, endorse, sponsor or approve any such third party websites or their content or any products or services offered on or through those websites. D&N Geotechnical does not provide any warranty or take any responsibility whatsoever for any aspect of those websites or their content or any reliance you may place on those websites or their content or any products or services you may acquire on or through those websites.

LINKS TO D&N Geotechnical WEBSITE

If you wish to establish a link to this website, you must first seek approval from D&N Geotechnical. Please email D&N Geotechnical with your request at contactus@dngeotechnical.com. You must not establish a link to the D&N Geotechnical website without D&N Geotechnical’s express written approval.

If D&N Geotechnical agrees to your proposed link, you must comply with any terms and conditions imposed by D&N Geotechnical as a condition of such agreement. If the nature and/or content of your website changes in any significant way, you must contact D&N Geotechnical and provide a new description of your website and seek D&N Geotechnical’s written approval to retain the link to the D&N Geotechnical Website.

D&N Geotechnical may at any time withdraw its approval to your link by notifying you in writing. If D&N Geotechnical notifies you that its approval has been withdrawn you must immediately remove the link to the D&N Geotechnical Website.

INTERFERENCE WITH WEBSITE

You must not attempt to change, add to, remove, deface, hack or otherwise interfere with the D&N Geotechnical Website or any of its Content or Brands.

You must not:

use the D&N Geotechnical Website in any way that is, or may be, damaging to the D&N Geotechnical Website or to D&N Geotechnical or in a way that causes, or may cause, harm to D&N Geotechnical, the D&N Geotechnical Website or to any person or entity;
use the D&N Geotechnical Website in any way that impacts with user access to the D&N Geotechnical Website;
use the D&N Geotechnical Website contrary to applicable laws or regulations;
engage in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to the D&N Geotechnical Website or its Content or while using the D&N Geotechnical Website or its Content; or
use the D&N Geotechnical Website to engage in any advertising or marketing.

JURISDICTION

These Terms of Use are governed by and construed in accordance with the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. If a dispute arises from the Terms of Use, you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Canberra (ACT), Australia.

VARIATION OF TERMS

D&N Geotechnical is permitted to revise these Terms of Use at any time as it sees fit, and by using the D&N Geotechnical Website you are expected to review such Terms on a regular basis to ensure you understand all the Terms of Use governing use of the D&N Geotechnical Website.

ASSIGNMENT

D&N Geotechnical may assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under the Terms of Use without any notification or consent required. However, you must not assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use.