Terms and Conditions (‘Terms’)
Last updated 1st August 2023
Please read these Terms and Conditions (‘Terms’, ‘Terms and Conditions’) carefully before using the www.shininglighthypnotherapy.com.au website. This website is operated by Shining Light Hypnotherapy and Counselling. Throughout the site, the terms “I”,"we", "us" and "our" refer to Shining Light Hypnotherapy and Counselling. Shining Light Hypnotherapy and Counselling offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.
By visiting our site and/ or purchasing something from us, you engage in our "Service" and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service", "Terms").
Consent
By accessing and using this site you agree to these Terms. Please read these Terms carefully and if cease use if you do not agree with Terms.
Variations
We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied Terms on our site. We recommend you check the site regularly to ensure that you are aware of our current Terms. Any material and information on this site (Content) are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on our site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to our site.
Cancellations
If you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment, we require at least 48 hours' notice. Failure to provide the required notice may result in being charged the full fee for the scheduled session.
Prohibited Conduct
You must not do or attempt to do anything: that is unlawful; prohibited by any laws applicable to our site; anything that we would consider inappropriate; or which might bring us or our site into disrepute, including but without limitation:
1. Anything that would constitute a breach of an individual’s privacy (including uploading private or personal information without an individual’s consent) or any other legal rights
2. Using our site to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person
3. Interfering with any user using our site
4. Tampering with or modifying our site, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our site, including using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our site
5. Using our site to end unsolicited email messages
6. Facilitating or assisting in third party to do any of the above acts
Exclusion of Competitors
You are excluded from using our site, including all of its content, in any way that competes with our business.
Information
The material on this site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this site is at your own risk. This site may contain certain historical information. Historical information, necessarily, is not current and is provided for your reference only.
Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise indicated, we own or licence all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in our site and all the content. Your use of our site and access to any content does not grant or transfer to you any rights, title or interest in relation to our site or the content.
You agree to not:
1. Copy or use, in whole or in part, any content
2. Reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any content to any third party
3. Breach any intellectual property rights connected with our site or the content, including and without limitation altering or modifying any of the content, causing any of the content to be framed or embedded in another website or platform, or creating derivative works from the content
Third Party Sites
Our site may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Unless stated otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites. It is the sole responsibility of the user to complete their own investigations into the suitability of other websites.
Discontinuance
We may at any time and without notice to you the user, discontinue our site. We may also exclude any person/person’s from using our site at any time, and at our discretion, without providing notice. We are not responsible for any liability you may experience arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.
Warranties and Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our site or the content, including (without limitation) that:
1. Access will be uninterrupted, free from viruses
2. Our site will be secure
You read, use and act on our site and the content at your own risk.
Limitation to Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, however arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (liability) suffered by you or any third part, arising from or in connection with your use of the site and/or the content.
Indemnity
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you must indemnify us, and hold us harmless, against any liability suffered or incurred by us arising from or in connection with your use of our site or any breach of these Terms and applicable laws by you. This indemnity is a continuing obligation under these Terms and continues after these Terms end. It is not necessary for to suffer or incur any liability before enforcing a right of indemnity under these Terms.
Termination
These terms are effective until terminated by us, which we may do at any time without notice to you. In the event of termination, all restrictions imposed on you by these Terms and limitations of liability set out in these Terms will survive.
Disputes
In the event of any dispute arising from, or in connection with, these Terms, the party claiming there is a dispute must give written notice to the other party setting out the details of the dispute and proposing a resolution. Within 7 days after receiving the notice, the parties – who are authorised delegates with authority to reach a resolution on behalf of the party, must meet at least once to attempt to resolve the dispute or agree on the method of resolving the dispute by other means, in good faith. All aspects of every such conference, except the facts of the occurrence of the conference, will be privileged. If the parties do not resolve the dispute or agree on an alternative method to resolve the dispute within 21 days after receiving the notice the dispute may be referred by either party (by notice in writing to the other party) to litigation.
Site
Our site may be accessed throughout Australia and overseas. We make no representation that our site complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside Australia. If you access our site from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our site.