Terms and Conditions of IBF Website

Our commitment to you

1. Although we endeavour to keep our website and its content up to date and accurate, we do not represent or warrant that all Content displayed on our website is up to date or accurate at all times.

Your responsibilities
2.Whilst using our website, any content or services, you must:
a) Comply with these terms and conditions at all times;
b) Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and codes including but not limited to the Crimes Act 1961, Fair Trading Act 1986, Copyright Act 1994, Defamation Act 1992 and the Privacy Act 1993;
c) Ensure that anyone who uses our services as supplied to you, does so in accordance with these terms and conditions.
d) Ensure that any Security Information is kept confidential at all times and not disclosed to third parties.

Use of our website, its content and services
3. You may only use our website and its Content:
a) To learn about us and our business partners, and the products and services we offer from time to time;
b) To register for services which we offer from time to time, to the extent that we enable you to do any of these activities online;
c) as may be expressly directed in our website;
d) for your own personal use, or, if you are a business customer, for your own internal business purposes.
4. You may use any third party website which we link to our website provided that you comply with the relevant third party's terms of use for its website. However, we are not liable for any content on any third party website.
5. You must not use our website, any of its Content, or any of our services:
a) In breach of any legislative or regulatory provision or for any other unlawful act;
b) To damage or disrupt our website, its content, or any of the services offered by us or in any way effect them;
c) To access, use or interfere with anybody else’s computer system or data whether by hacking or by any other means;
d) To intercept or in any other way deal with email or other communications which are not intended by the sender to be received by you;
e) For sending spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, hoaxes or other similar unsolicited communications of any kind;
f) To abuse, defame, threaten, stalk or harass others;
g) For sending objectionable language, content, or any expressions of hatred, racism or anti-religious remarks of any kind;
h) For running any network scanning software, spiders, spyware software, robots, open relay software, or any such similar software;
i) For introducing any viruses, worms, trojan horses, time bombs or bots or any other harmful or destructive items or in any other way interfere with our, or anyone else’s network or computer system;
l) Using a false identity for the purpose of misleading others as to the identity of the sender or origin of any message;

Intellectual Property
6. We either own or otherwise have the right to use the intellectual property rights with respect to the content. You acknowledge and accept that we are either the owner, or otherwise have the right to use our Intellectual Property and that you will not assert any claim or interest in or to our Intellectual Property, other than in relation to those rights which are expressly provided to you in these website terms and conditions. In particular but without limitation, our Intellectual Property extends to copyright, Trademarks and design rights which we either own or otherwise have the right to use.
7. You must not copy or reproduce (whether digitally, electronically, by framing or linking, or in hard copy or by any means whatsoever) or in any way use any of our Intellectual Property without our prior written consent.

Disclaimers
8. The content of any third party website which may be linked to our website at any time. The links to such sites which we include in our website are merely for convenience for you and we do not necessarily endorse the content of those third party sites;
9. Information which is obtained from third parties and which we may post on our website at any time. We provide such information to you merely for convenience, and we do not necessarily endorse the products or services referred to in the information;

Your Privacy
10. We will comply with the Privacy Act and you accept this Act as governing our use of the personal information we receive about you as an individual.
Changes to these terms & conditions
11. You accept that we may change these terms and conditions at any time and that any revised terms and conditions displayed on our website from time to time will apply to your use of our website, its Content, and any services we offer or supply.

General
12. These terms and conditions are governed and construed in accordance with New Zealand law and you accept the exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.

Copyright
All the content of this website have all rights reserved 2007. Independent Business Foundation is either the owner or licensee of all rights to such content.