Introduction
1.1
Cyber Clinic allows mental health practitioners (Practitioners)
to:
(a) List their services on the Directory;
(b) Take Bookings
24/7;
(c) Provide Online Consultations to Users 24/7; and
(d)
Receive payment for Bookings and Consultations;
1.2
Cyber Clinic allows personal users (Users) to:
(a) Use the content
services (Content Services) that include:
i Access information on
mental health diagnoses and treatment;
ii Access personally
tailored information by answering questionnaires;
iii Access any
other mental health treatment services that are available through
Cyber Clinic from time to time.
iv Seek and receive an Online
Consultation with a Practitioner 24/7; and
v Pay for Online
Consultations.
(b) Use the referral services (Referral Services)
that include:
i Find and be referred to suitable Practitioners in
the Personal User’s App using the Cyber Clinic Directory;
ii
Make a Booking for a Personal Consultation;
iii Pay for a Personal
Consultation; and
iv Communicate with Practitioners.
Important Terms
A.
KEY DEFINITIONS
A.1 The following terms are used regularly
throughout these Terms of Service and have a particular meaning
(additional definitions are found in the General Conditions):
(a)
Agreement means these Terms of Service.
(b) Booking means a
booking for a Personal Consultation that will take place in the
future with a Practitioner online.
(c) Company means Cyber Clinic
Pty Ltd ACN 30 612 905 478.
(d) Consultation means a counselling
or therapy session conducted by a Practitioner.
(e) Content
Services means the mental health services that are conducted or
accessed using the Cyber Clinic platform, but excludes Referral
Services.
(f) Directory means the directory of Practitioners
curated by the Company and accessed using Cyber Clinic.
(g) EHR
(Electronic Health Record) means the record of an Individual’s
Health Information in Cyber Clinic.
(h) Fee means any fee payable
by a User for access to, or use of Cyber Clinic.
(i) Health
Information has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 (but
generally refers to information about the health, injury or a
disability of an Individual at any time).
(j) Individual means a
Personal User with an EHR about them in Cyber Clinic.
(k) Online
Consultation means a Consultation that takes place using the Cyber
Clinic platform.
(l) Organisation means a Practitioner that is
(without limitation) a counselling practice, clinical psychology
practice, psychiatry practice, psychotherapy practice, mental health
assistance organisation or other organised or incorporated body.
(m)
Personal Consultation means a Consultation that takes place with a
Practitioner online.
(n)
Personal User means a user of Cyber Clinic that is not a Practitioner
or a Staff member.
(o) Practitioner means (without limitation) a
counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, mental
health social worker, mental health nurse or other mental health
professional who:
v Is a User of Cyber Clinic; and
vi Is
suitably qualified to provide mental health advice, counselling
and/or therapy; and
vii Is authorised to access an Individual’s
EHR.
(p) Privacy Policy means Cyber Clinic’s privacy policy as
updated from time-to-time, which can be found at
www.cyberlcinic.com.au
(q) Referral Services means the directory,
booking and payment Services for Personal Consultations.
(r) Staff
Member means any employee or other personnel of an Organisation that
may be authorised to access an Individual’s EHR but are not
qualified to provide mental health advice or therapy.
(s) Third
Party means any person that is not a User.
(t) Cyber Clinic means
the:
i Web application accessible from www.cyberclinic.com.au
ii
The Cyber Clinic mobile application available from the Apple® App
Store®, Google Play® and other mobile application marketplaces.
(u)
User means any Practitioner, Personal User or Staff Member that uses
Cyber Clinic.
B.
AGREEMENT
B.1 This Agreement governs the use of Cyber Clinic by
any User and limits the liability of the Company to any User. This
Agreement has specific terms of use (in addition to the General
Conditions) that apply to:
(a) Personal Users and Individuals
(Item C)
(b) Practitioners and Organisations (Item D)
(c) Staff
Members (Item E)
B.2 In addition to any other express or implied
consents, by using Cyber Clinic the User accepts and agrees to the
terms of:
(a) This Agreement; and
(b) The Privacy Policy.
C.
PERSONAL USERS & INDIVIDUALS TERMS OF USE
C.1 Cyber Clinic may
enable Personal Users and Individuals to:
(a) Use the content
services (Content Services) that include:
i Access information on
mental health diagnoses and treatment;
ii Access personally
tailored information by answering questionnaires;
iii Access any
other mental health treatment services that are available through
Cyber Clinic from time to time.
iv Print information stored in
Cyber Clinic;
v Seek and receive an Online Consultation with a
Practitioner 24/7; and
vi Pay for Online Consultations.
vii
Edit the Personal User’s EHR;
viii Make the Personal User’s
EHR available to a Practitioner; and
ix Communicate with a
Practitioner and its Staff Members.
(b) Use the referral services
(Referral Services) that include:
i Find and be referred to
Practitioners in the Personal User’s local area using the Cyber
Clinic Directory;
ii Make a Booking for a Personal
Consultation;
iii Pay for a Personal Consultation; and
iv
Communicate with Practitioners.
C.2 The Personal User agrees and
accepts that:
(a) The Personal User uses Cyber Clinic at its own
risk. To the extent permitted by law, under no circumstance will
Cyber Clinic be liable for any injury, illness, death or damage to
property resulting from the use of Cyber Clinic.
(b) It is the
Personal User’s responsibility to follow the advice prescribed by a
Practitioner during a Consultation. Any claim based on injury,
illness, death or damage to property that results from a Personal
User or Individual’s Consultation must be directed to the relevant
Practitioner.
(c) To the extent permitted by law, the Company
accepts no liability for the accuracy of any information made
available using Cyber Clinic. Any reliance on the information
available through Cyber Clinic is at the Personal User’s own
risk.
(d) The Personal User indemnifies Cyber Clinic against all
costs, claims damages and expenses for any injury or damage caused to
the person or property of a Third Party as a result of the Personal
User’s use of Cyber Clinic;
(e) Cyber Clinic may share the EHR
and other personal information of the Individual with any
Practitioner authorised by the Personal User and/or Individual;
(f)
Any information shared by Cyber Clinic with a Practitioner authorised
by the Personal User and/or Individual may be retained by the
Practitioner for the purpose of updating their administrative
records;
(g) Cyber Clinic may send the Personal User and/or
Individual emails, text messages, push notifications and other alerts
on behalf of Practitioners and their Staff Members;
(h) Any
consent made by a Personal User and/or Individual through Cyber
Clinic is valid and binding unless and until revoked by the Personal
User and/or Individual, and a Practitioner may rely on a consent made
through Cyber Clinic without any need to further verify the veracity
of that consent;
(i) All information about an Individual is used
and controlled by the Personal User, Individual or Practitioner, not
Cyber Clinic;
(j) All information input to Cyber Clinic about an
Individual is provided with that Individual’s consent.
(k) The
Practitioner authorised by the Personal User and/or Individual to
receive the EHR and other personal information may have its own
policy governing access to this information and the use of Cyber
Clinic by its Staff Members.
(l) Cyber Clinic may be hosted on
servers located outside Australia and may also use email servers
located outside of Australia. Such services may host or transmit a
Personal User’s EHR.
D.
PRACTITIONER & ORGANISATION TERMS OF USE
D.1 The Practitioner
agrees and accepts that:
(a) Cyber Clinic will be hosted on
servers located within Australia and may also use email servers
located outside of Australia. Such services may host or transmit a
Personal User’s EHR.
(b) The Practitioner is solely responsible
for ensuring that its use of Cyber Clinic and storage of EHRs in
Cyber Clinic is compliant with the local laws of the Practitioner
and/or the Practitioner’s Personal Users; and
(c) The
Practitioner must ensure that its own privacy policy and other
statements about how it handles Personal User information are
accurate in respect of the Practitioner’s use of Cyber Clinic.
D.2
Cyber Clinic may enable a Practitioner to:
(a) List their services
on the Directory;
(b) Take Bookings 24/7;
(c) Provide Online
Consultations to Personal Users 24/7;
(d) Receive payment for
Bookings and Consultations;
(e) Print information stored in Cyber
Clinic;
(f) Authorise Staff Members to access and use Cyber
Clinic;
(g) Communicate with Personal Users.
D.3 The
Practitioner agrees and warrants that:
(a) If the Practitioner is
an Organisation, it must pay the applicable Fee for all Practitioners
in that Organisation that use Cyber Clinic.
(b) To the extent
permitted by law the Practitioner indemnifies and will hold the
Company harmless against all costs, claims damages and expenses for
any:
i Penalty imposed upon the Practitioner;
ii Injury,
illness or death caused to a Personal User, Individual or Third
Party;
iii Damage to the property of any Personal User, Individual
or Third Party;
iv Claim of infringement of intellectual property
rights made by a Third Party;
v Claim of breach of confidentiality
by any Third Party;
As a result of the Practitioner’s use of
Cyber Clinic.
(c) It shall not store or record any Health
Information that it can access through Cyber Clinic unless it is
fully compliant with the Privacy Act;
(d) It shall ensure that all
information that makes available through Cyber Clinic is accurate and
up to date, including (but not limited to) information supplied
for:
i Creating an account;
ii Directory services;
iii
Providing Consultations; and
iv Any other information that may be
accessed by the Company, a Personal User or an Individual;
(e) It
shall not disclose any information, other than to its authorised
Staff Members, about an Individual to any other person or party other
than as authorised by the Individual or the Personal User;
(f) It
shall ensure all personal information it has access to through its
use of Cyber Clinic is kept and used in accordance with applicable
privacy laws in the jurisdiction;
(g) It shall only use Cyber
Clinic for its intended purpose as set out in this Agreement;
(h)
It shall comply with all anti-SPAM legislation in its
jurisdiction;
(i) It grants Cyber Clinic a royalty free licence to
use any logos in any form, media or technology for the purposes of
listing on the Directory and promoting or marketing Cyber Clinic;
and
(j) It’s licence to use Cyber Clinic, as provided for in the
General Conditions, is subject to the payment of all necessary
Fees.
D.4 Any person who registers an Organisation in Cyber Clinic
warrants that he or she is an authorised representative of that
Organisation, with the requisite authority to bind the Organisation
to this Agreement.
E.
STAFF MEMBER TERMS OF USE
E.1 Staff Members agree to use Cyber
Clinic in accordance with the rights and obligations of the
Organisation that authorises their access with the following
exclusions:
(a) A Staff Member may not use Cyber Clinic to:
i
Conduct Consultations; or
ii Provide advice to Personal Users.
F.
INDIVIDUAL TERMS OF USE
F.1 Cyber Clinic can enable an Individual
to access information:
(a) Uploaded by the Individual’s
Practitioner; or
(b) Uploaded by the Individual.
F.2 If an
Individual is a under the age of 18 he or she must obtain consent
from their parent before using Cyber Clinic.
G.
FEES
G.1 Fees apply as advertised to the use of Cyber Clinic, and
the terms of those Fees are set out in the General Conditions.
G.2
Where a Fee is paid for a particular term of access to Cyber Clinic,
the User shall not be entitled to a pro-rata refund of any Fees if it
elects to stop using Cyber Clinic within that term.
H.
ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS
H.1 The User agrees that when it provides
any consent, authority or agreement through Cyber Clinic it does so
as an electronic transaction and warrants that such transaction shall
be binding on the party.
H.2 The User agrees that any request for
a consent, authority or agreement it sends to other Users through
Cyber Clinic as an electronic transaction shall be sent directly from
its email address.
I.
VERIFICATION
I.1 The User is solely responsible for verifying the
identity of a signatory to any electronic transaction it is a party
to.
I.2 The Company does not guarantee the validity of any
electronic transaction.
J.
TERM & LIMITATIONS
J.1 Term.
The User’s license to access
Cyber Clinic shall be ongoing until terminated by the Company in
accordance with this Agreement.
J.2 Limitations on Use.
The
Company may limit or restrict access to Cyber Clinic from
time-to-time as it sees fit, including (but not limited to):
(a)
Entities. The Company may restrict access only to reputable and/or
registered Organisations; and
(b) Location. The Company may
restrict access to Cyber Clinic to certain jurisdictions where it is
able to offer Cyber Clinic.
K.
REGISTRATION
K.1 Registration.
(a) The User must register an
account in Cyber Clinic to use Cyber Clinic.
(b) The Company may
set any registration requirements in its absolute discretion.
L.
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
L.1 The Company will keep confidential
all information that it becomes aware of regarding the User’s:
(a)
Health Information;
(b) Personal information;
(c) Business,
employees and contractors;
M.
TERMINATION
M.1 This Agreement may be terminated at any time
by:
(a) Written notice of one party to the other; or
(b) By
cancelling or otherwise terminating your account through Cyber
Clinic.
M.2 Deleting Cyber Clinic does not constitute termination
of this Agreement, although the Company may terminate this Agreement
in the event it determines in its reasonable discretion that Cyber
Clinic has been deleted and the User’s intention is to cancel or
terminate their account and this Agreement.
M.3 The User agrees
and accepts that deletion of Cyber Clinic may result in loss of data
for which the Company is in no way liable.
N.
DISCLAIMER – THIRD PARTY INFORMATION & SERVICES
N.1 The User
acknowledges that Cyber Clinic:
(a) Is dependent on third-party
services, including but not limited to:
i Banks, credit card
providers, Stripe;
ii Telecommunications services;
iii Hosting
services;
iv Email services; and
v Analytics services.
(b)
Provides links to third party websites containing (without
limitation) health information.
N.2 The User agrees that the
Company shall not be responsible or liable in any way for:
(a)
Interruptions to the availability of Cyber Clinic due to third-party
services; or
(b) Information contained on any linked third party
website.
O.
GENERAL
O.1 Governing Law. Victoria, Australia
O.2 Reference
City. Melbourne.
General Conditions
1.
BACKGROUND
1.1 The User wishes to access Cyber Clinic provided by
The Company.
1.2 The terms and conditions in this Agreement govern
the provision of Cyber Clinic to the User by the Company.
2.
INTERPRETATION
2.1 The following definitions apply in this
document:
(a) ABN means Australian Business Number.
(b) ACN
means Australian Company Number.
(c) Business Day means a day
(other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) on which banks are
open for general banking business in the Reference City set out in
item O of the Important Terms.
(d) Confidential Information means
all information (whether or not it is described as confidential) in
any form or medium concerning any past, present or future business,
operations or affairs of either party, including, without
limitation:
i All technical or non-technical data, formulae,
patterns, programs, devices, methods, techniques, plans, drawings,
models and processes, source and object code, software and computer
records;
ii All business and marketing plans and projections,
details of agreements and arrangements with third parties, and
customer and supplier information and lists;
iii All financial
information, pricing schedules and structures, product margins,
remuneration details and investment outlays;
iv All information
concerning any employee, customer, contractor, supplier or agent of
the relevant party;
v The party’s policies and procedures;
and
vi All information contained in this document,
But excludes
information that the other party can establish:
vii Is known by or
is in the other party’s possession or control other than through a
breach of this document and is not subject to any obligation of
confidence; or
viii Is in the public domain other than by a breach
of this document or any obligations of confidence.
(e)
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
(f) Fees
mean the fees and charges as set out in the Important Terms.
(g)
Force Majeure means an event or cause beyond the reasonable control
of the party claiming force majeure. It includes each of the
following, to the extent it is beyond the reasonable control of that
party:
i Act of God, lightning, storm, flood, fire, earthquake or
explosion cyclone, tidal wave, landslide, adverse weather
conditions;
ii Act of public enemy, war (declared or undeclared),
terrorism, sabotage, blockade, revolution, riot, insurrection, civil
commotion, epidemic;
iii The effect of any change in applicable
laws, orders, rules or regulations of any government or other
competent authority; and
iv Embargo, inability to obtain necessary
materials, equipment or facilities, or power or water shortage.
(h)
General Conditions means the terms and conditions set out in the
section of this Agreement entitled “General Conditions”.
(i)
GST has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services
Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
(j) Intellectual Property means all
copyright, patents, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, product
formulations, designs, circuit layouts, databases, registered or
unregistered trademarks, brand names, business names, domain names
and other forms of intellectual property;
(k) Intellectual
Property Rights means, for the duration of the rights in any part of
the world, any Moral Rights, industrial or intellectual property
rights, whether registrable or not, including in respect of
Intellectual Property, applications for the registration of any
Intellectual Property and any improvements, enhancements or
modifications to any Intellectual Property registrations.
(l)
Health Information has the meaning given to it in the Privacy
Act.
(m) Moral Rights means:
i Moral rights pursuant to the
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth);
ii Or any rights analogous to the rights
set out in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention for Protection of
Literary and Artistic Works 1886 (as amended from time to time).
(n)
Important Terms means this Agreement’s details and variables set
out in the section of this Agreement entitled “Important
Terms”.
(o) Pricing means the pricing as notified to the User in
writing by the Company from time-to-time.
(p) Privacy Act means
the Privacy Act 1989 (Cth).
(q) Solution means the solution called
Cyber Clinic described in the Important Terms.
(r) Special
Conditions means the terms and conditions set out in the section of
this agreement entitled “Special Conditions”.
(s) Tax Invoice
has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services
Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
(t) User Content means data that is uploaded
or input into Cyber Clinic by the User or that forms part of the
User’s Intellectual Property.
2.2 Headings are only for
convenience and do not affect interpretation. The following rules
apply unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) The singular
includes the plural and the opposite also applies.
(a) If a word
or phrase is defined, any other grammatical form of that word or
phrase has a corresponding meaning.
(b) A reference to a clause
refers to clauses in this Agreement.
(c) A reference to
legislation is to that legislation as amended, re enacted or
replaced, and includes any subordinate legislation issued under
it.
(d) Mentioning anything after includes, including, or similar
expressions, does not limit anything else that might be included.
(e)
A reference to a party to this Agreement or another agreement or
document includes that party’s successors and permitted substitutes
and assigns (and, where applicable, the party’s legal personal
representatives).
(f) A reference to a person, corporation, trust,
partnership, unincorporated body or other entity includes any of
them.
(g) A reference to information is to information of any kind
in any form or medium, whether formal or informal, written or
unwritten, for example, computer software or programs, concepts,
data, drawings, ideas, knowledge, procedures, source codes or object
codes, technology or trade secrets.
3.
APPLICATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
3.1 This Agreement applies to use of
and access to Cyber Clinic.
3.2 Where the User does not accept the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the User must immediately
cease using Cyber Clinic.
3.3 This Agreement may be updated by the
Company at its absolute discretion from time-to-time, and unless
stated otherwise by the Company in writing, such updates shall come
into effect for use of Cyber Clinic at the User’s next login after
the User receives written notice of the update(s).
4.
THE CYBER CLINIC PRODUCT
4.1 Cyber Clinic is the product described
in the Important Terms.
4.2 Cyber Clinic is only accessible to the
User for the term set out in the Important Terms.
4.3 The User
agrees and accepts that Cyber Clinic is:
(a) Hosted by the Company
and shall only be installed, accessed and maintained by the Company,
accessed using the internet or other connection to the Company
servers and is not available ‘locally’ from the User’s systems;
and
(b) Managed and supported exclusively by the Company from the
Company servers and that no ‘back-end’ access to Cyber Clinic is
available to the User unless expressly agreed in writing.
4.4 As a
hosted and managed service, the Company reserves the right to
upgrade, maintain, tune, backup, amend, add or remove features and
Exercises, redesign, improve or otherwise alter Cyber Clinic.
4.5
The Company shall not exercise its rights under clause 4.4 in a
manner that would intentionally cause the User to lose access to User
Content or fundamentally decrease the utility of Cyber Clinic to the
User, other than in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.
LICENSE
5.1 By accepting the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, the User is granted a limited, non-exclusive and revocable
license to access and use Cyber Clinic for the duration of this
Agreement, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
5.2 The Company may issue the license to the User on
the further terms or limitations (including the number of users or
volume of use or transactions) as it sees fit.
5.3 The Company may
revoke or suspend the User’s license(s) in its absolute discretion
for any reason that it sees fit, including for breach of the terms
and conditions in this Agreement by the User or any of its users. The
Company will ordinarily advise the User of any suspension or
revocation however it is under no obligation to do so.
6.
USE
6.1 The User agrees that it shall only use Cyber Clinic for
legal purposes and shall not use it to engage any conduct that is
unlawful, immoral, threatening, abusive or in a way that is deemed
unreasonable by the Company in its discretion.
7.
AUTHORISED USERS
7.1 The User shall authorise users to access
Cyber Clinic in its absolute discretion. The Company accepts no
liability for access to User Content by users authorised by the User
or using login details of users authorised by the User.
7.2 The
User is solely responsible for the security of its username and
password for access to Cyber Clinic.
7.3 The User shall notify the
Company as soon as it becomes aware of any unauthorised access of its
Cyber Clinic account.
8.
CUSTOMER DATA
8.1 The Company obtains no right, title or interest
in User Content including any Intellectual Property found within it.
The Company accepts no liability for the content of User Content.
8.2
The User is responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of
User Content and the User’s acquisition of it, and the users that
create, access and/or use User Content.
8.3 Despite clause 8.1 the
Company shall be authorised to permanently delete User Content where
outstanding Fees remain unpaid in accordance with clauses 10 and
11.
8.4 The Company shall not access, use, modify or otherwise
deal with User Content except where required by compulsion of law or
upon the User’s authority (such as to provide support for Cyber
Clinic).
9.
PRIVACY
9.1 The Company maintains the Privacy Policy in compliance
with the provisions of the Privacy Act for data that it collects
about the User and other customers.
9.2 The Privacy Policy does
not apply to how an Organisation handles personal information. It is
the Organisation’s responsibility to meet the obligations of the
Privacy Act by implementing a privacy policy in accordance with
law.
9.3 The Company makes no warranty as to the suitability of
Cyber Clinic in regards to the Organisation’s privacy obligations
at law or contract, and it is the Organisation’s responsibility to
determine whether Cyber Clinic is appropriate for the Organisation’s
circumstances.
9.4 The Cyber Clinic website may use cookies (a
small tracking code in your browser) to improve a User’s experience
while browsing, while also sending browsing information back to the
Company. The User may manage how it handles cookies in its own
browser settings.
10.
FEES
10.1 The User agrees to pay all Fees as and when they fall
due and to the extent permissible by law. Fees are non-cancellable
and/or non-refundable once ordered or paid.
10.2 The Company may
introduce new services with corresponding Fees by giving the User
written notice of their availability and applicability.
10.3 The
Company shall maintain all Fees for the term of the licence paid for
by the Organisation.
10.4 The Company shall notify the User of any
changes to existing Fees no less than 14 days before the end of the
term of the Organisation’s licence.
10.5 The Company may revoke
or suspend the User’s license to access Cyber Clinic for unpaid
Fees without liability.
10.6 Where the Company:
(a) Is required
to perform any services for the User outside of what is set out in
this Agreement or otherwise in writing; and
(b) Is subject to
delays caused by changes or complexities outside of its control (and
not caused by its breach of this Agreement); then
The User agrees
that the Company shall be entitled to charge the User an additional
amount that is reasonable for the service performed.
10.7 All
transactions are processed in Australian dollars and conversion rates
may apply for foreign currencies.
10.8 GST is applicable to any
Fees charged by the Company to Users within Australia. Unless
expressed otherwise, all Fees shall be deemed exclusive of GST. The
Company will provide the User with a Tax Invoice for its
payment.
10.9 No refunds of Fees are offered other than as
specified in this Agreement or as required by law.
11.
INVOICING & PAYMENTS
11.1 The Company shall issue the User a
Tax Invoice for all Fees for which GST applies.
11.2 The terms of
payment set out in the Fees shall apply.
11.3 Should the User
dispute a Tax Invoice, the User must notify the Company of the
disputed item within 5 Business Days of the date of the Tax Invoice.
The User must pay the amount of the Tax Invoice not in dispute within
the prescribed payment period.
11.4 Overdue Tax Invoices shall
accrue interest at the rate of 1.5% per month, or in default, the
maximum rate of penalty interest prescribed under law.
11.5 The
User authorises the Company to use the User’s information for the
purposes of obtaining a credit assessment or to otherwise make
investigations as to the User’s payment history.
12.
DATA
12.1 Security. The Company takes the security of Cyber Clinic
and the privacy of its users very seriously. The User agrees that the
User shall not do anything to prejudice the security or privacy of
the Company’s systems or the information on them.
12.2
Transmission. The Company shall do all things reasonable to ensure
that the transmission of data occurs according to accepted industry
standards. It is up to the User to ensure that any transmission
standards meet the User’s operating and legal requirements.
12.3
Storage. The Company may limit the amount of data that the User
stores in Cyber Clinic, and shall advise the User of such. Data that
is stored with Cyber Clinic shall be stored according to accepted
industry standards.
12.4 Backup. The Company shall perform backups
of Cyber Clinic in as reasonable manner at such times and intervals
as are reasonable for its business purposes. The Company does not
warrant that it is able to backup or recover specific User Content
from any period of time unless so stated in writing by the Company.
13.
ACCESS
13.1 By accepting the terms of this Agreement the User
agrees that the Company shall provide access to Cyber Clinic to the
best of its abilities, however:
(a) Access to Cyber Clinic may be
prevented by issues outside of its control; and
(b) It accepts no
responsibility for ongoing access to Cyber Clinic.
13.2 Users may
prepare for unscheduled unavailability of Cyber Clinic by:
(a)
Keeping their Cyber Clinic mobile app up to date, which will store
local copies of the data; and
(b) Printing hard copies of reports.
14.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
14.1 Trademarks. The Company has moral &
registered rights in its trade marks and the User shall not copy,
alter, use or otherwise deal in the marks without the prior written
consent of the Company.
14.2 Proprietary Information. The Company
may use software and other proprietary systems and Intellectual
Property for which the Company has appropriate authority to use, and
the User agrees that such is protected by copyright, trademarks,
patents, proprietary rights and other laws, both domestically and
internationally. The User warrants that it shall not infringe on any
third-party rights through the use of Cyber Clinic.
14.3 The Cyber
Clinic Application. The User agrees and accepts that Cyber Clinic is
the Intellectual Property of the Company and the User further
warrants that by using Cyber Clinic the User will not:
(a) Copy
Cyber Clinic or the services that it provides for the User’s own
commercial purposes; and
(b) Directly or indirectly copy,
recreate, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain, modify or
use any source or object code, architecture, algorithms contained in
Cyber Clinic or any documentation associated with it.
14.4
Content. All content (with the exception of User Content) remains the
Intellectual Property of the Company, including (without limitation)
any source code, analytics, insights, ideas, enhancements, feature
requests, suggestions or other information provided by the User or
any other party with respect to Cyber Clinic.
15.
CONFIDENTIALITY
15.1 The information and classes of information
set out in the Important Terms are Confidential Information for the
purposes of this Agreement. In default, information relating to the
business operations, personal information and other information that
should be confidential is Confidential Information.
15.2 Each
party acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) The Confidential
Information is secret, confidential and valuable to the disclosing
party (Discloser);
(b) It owes an obligation of confidence to the
Discloser concerning the Confidential Information;
(c) It must not
disclose the Confidential Information to a third party except as
permitted in this Agreement;
(d) All Intellectual Property rights
remain vested in the Discloser but disclosure of Confidential
Information does not in any way transfer or assign any rights or
interests in the Intellectual Property to the receiving party;
and
(e) Any breach or threatened breach by the receiving party of
an obligation under this Agreement may cause the Discloser immediate
and irreparable harm for which damages alone may not be an adequate
remedy. Consequently the Discloser has the right, in addition to
other remedies available at law or in equity, to seek injunctive
relief against the receiving party (and its agents, assigns,
employees, officers and directors, personally) or to compel specific
performance of this clause.
15.3 A party must notify the Discloser
in writing, giving full details known to it immediately, when it
becomes aware of:
(a) Any actual, suspected, likely or threatened
breach by it of clause 15.1;
(b) Any actual, suspected, likely or
threatened breach by any person of any obligation in relation to the
Confidential Information; or
(c) Any actual, suspected, likely or
threatened theft, loss, damage, or unauthorised access, use or
disclosure of or to any Confidential Information.
15.4 The
receiving party must promptly take all steps that the Discloser may
reasonably require and must co-operate with any investigation,
litigation or other action of the Discloser or of a related body
corporate if there is:
(a) Any actual, suspected, likely or
threatened breach of a term of this Agreement; or
(b) Any theft,
loss, damage or unauthorised access, use or disclosure of or to any
Confidential Information that is or was in its possession or control.
16.
LIABILITY & INDEMNITY
16.1 The User agrees that it uses Cyber
Clinic at its own risk.
16.2 The User acknowledges that Cyber
Clinic does not provide mental health or psychological advice, nor
does it hold itself out to provide such advice.
16.3 The User
agrees that it has had reasonable opportunity to obtain legal advice
on this Agreement.
16.4 The User acknowledges that the Company is
not responsible for the conduct or activities of any user and that
the Company is not liable for such under any circumstances.
16.5
The User agrees to indemnify the Company for any loss, damage, cost
or expense that the Company may suffer or incur as a result of or in
connection with the User’s use of or conduct in connection with
Cyber Clinic, including any breach by the User of these Terms.
16.6
In no circumstances will the Company be liable for any direct,
incidental, consequential or indirect damages, loss or corruption of
data, loss of profits, goodwill, bargain or opportunity, loss of
anticipated savings or any other similar or analogous loss resulting
from the User’s access to, or use of, or inability to use Cyber
Clinic or any content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort,
negligence, in equity or any other legal theory, and whether or not
the Company knew or should have known of the possibility of such
damage, to business interruption of any type, whether in tort,
contract or otherwise.
16.7 Certain rights and remedies may be
available under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or
similar legislation of other States or Territories and may not be
permitted to be excluded, restricted or modified. Apart from those
that cannot be excluded, the Company and the Company’s related
entities exclude all conditions and warranties that may be implied by
law. To the extent permitted by law, the Company’s liability for
breach of any implied warranty or condition that cannot be excluded
is restricted, at the Company’s option to:
(a) The re-supply of
services or payment of the cost of re-supply of services; or
(b)
The replacement or repair of goods or payment of the cost of
replacement or repair.
17.
BREACH
17.1 Where a party is in breach of this Agreement, the
other party may issue a written notice (Breach Notice) requiring the
party in breach that must set out:
(a) The nature of the
breach;
(b) The provisions of the Agreement that are alleged to
have been breached;
(c) A reasonable timeframe to remedy the
breach in no less than 10 Business Days; and
(d) The action
required to remedy the breach.
17.2 Where a party issues a
compliant Breach Notice in accordance with clause 17.1, the receiving
party shall be required to respond and/or remedy the breach as so set
out in the Breach Notice. Failure to respond in writing setting
out:
(a) The steps taken to remedy the breach; or
(b) Why the
party believes it is not in breach as put forward in the Breach
Notice,
(c) Shall not in itself confirm the alleged breach but
shall be in itself a breach of this Agreement.
17.3 Failure to
remedy a breach set out in a Breach Notice shall be a material breach
of this Agreement (Material Breach).
18.
TERMINATION
18.1 Breach. Where a party is in Material Breach of
this Agreement, the other party may terminate this Agreement by
giving written notice of termination, which shall become effective 5
Business Days after the date of the notice.
18.2 Insolvency.
Either party may terminate this Agreement immediately by notice, if
either party:
(a) Stops or suspends or threatens to stop or
suspend payment of all or a class of its debts;
(b) Is insolvent
within the meaning of section 95A of the Corporations Act;
(c)
Fails to comply with a statutory demand (within the meaning of
section 459F(1) of the Corporations Act) unless:
i The debt to
which the statutory demand relates is discharged within 15 Business
Days of the date of the failure; or
ii The party demonstrates to
the satisfaction of the other party (acting reasonably) that it is
able to pay all its debts as and when they become due and
payable;
(d) Has an administrator appointed in respect of it;
(e)
Has a controller within the meaning of section 9 of the Corporations
Act or similar officer appointed to the whole or a substantial part
of its assets or undertaking and that controller or similar officer
is not removed within 15 Business Days of the appointment;
(f) Has
an order made or a resolution passed for its winding up or
dissolution or it enters into an arrangement, compromise or
composition with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or a
class of them;
(g) Has any security enforced over, or a distress,
execution or other similar process levied or served against, the
whole or a substantial part of its assets or undertaking; or
(h)
Is subject to any event, which, under the law of any relevant
jurisdiction, has an analogous or equivalent effect to any of the
events listed above.
18.3 Expiry or termination of this Agreement
is without prejudice to and does not affect the accrued rights or
remedies of any of the parties arising in any way out of this
Agreement up to the date of expiry or termination.
18.4 The rights
and obligations under the relevant provisions of clauses 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 21.6 survive termination of
this Agreement.
19.
DISPUTES
19.1 All disputes shall be handled in accordance with the
Company’s dispute resolution policy.
19.2 Where the Company does
not have a relevant dispute resolution policy for a type of dispute,
the following process shall apply:
(a) Negotiation. If there is a
dispute between the parties relating to or arising out of this
Agreement, then within 5 Business Days of a party notifying the other
party of a dispute, senior representatives from each party must meet
(or discuss directly via the telephone or internet) and use all
reasonable endeavours acting in good faith to resolve the dispute by
joint discussions;
(b) Mediation. If the dispute between the
parties relating to or arising out of this Agreement is not resolved
within five Business Days of notification of the dispute under Clause
19.1, the parties must agree to submit the dispute to mediation,
administered by lawyers engaged in alternative dispute
resolution;
(c) Arbitration. If the dispute between the parties
relating to or arising out of this Agreement is not settled by
mediation under Clause (b), either party may by written notice to the
other refer the dispute to arbitration administered by the Institute
of Arbitrators Australia. The arbitrator will be agreed between the
parties from a panel suggested by the President of the Institute of
Arbitrators Australia or failing Agreement, an arbitrator will be
appointed by the President of the Institute of Arbitrators Australia;
and
(d) Court proceedings. A party may not commence court
proceedings in relation to a dispute relating to or arising out of
this Agreement until it has exhausted the procedures in this clause
(d) unless the party seeks appropriate injunctive or other
interlocutory relief to preserve property or rights or to avoid
losses that are not compensable in damages.
20.
FORCE MAJEURE
20.1 If a party is prevented in whole or in part
from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of
Force Majeure, it will promptly notify the other party accordingly.
The notice must:
(a) Specify the obligations and the extent to
which it cannot perform those obligations;
(b) Fully describe the
event of Force Majeure;
(c) Estimate the time during which the
Force Majeure will continue; and
(d) Specify the measures proposed
to be adopted to remedy or abate the Force Majeure.
20.2 Following
a notice of Force Majeure in accordance with clause 20.1 and while
the Force Majeure continues, the obligations which cannot be
performed because of the Force Majeure will be suspended, other than
obligations to pay money that is due and payable.
20.3 The party
that is prevented from carrying out its obligations under this
Agreement as a result of Force Majeure must remedy the Force Majeure
to the extent reasonably practicable and resume performance of its
obligations as soon as reasonably possible.
20.4 The party that is
prevented from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a
result of Force Majeure must take all action reasonably practicable
to mitigate any loss suffered by the other party as a result of the
party’s failure to carry out its obligations under this
Agreement.
20.5 The term of this Agreement will not be extended by
the period of Force Majeure.
21.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, AMENDMENT AND ASSIGNMENT
21.1 The words
in this clause that are defined in the Electronic Transactions Act
1999 (Cth) have the same meaning.
21.2 The User can direct
notices, enquiries, complaints and so forth to the Company as set out
in this Agreement. The Company will notify the User of a change of
details from time-to-time.
21.3 The Company will send the User
notices and other correspondence to the details that the User submits
to the Company, or that the User notifies the Company of from
time-to-time. It is the User’s responsibility to update its contact
details as they change.
21.4 A consent, notice or communication
under this Agreement is effective if it is sent as an electronic
communication unless required to be physically delivered under
law.
21.5 Notices must be sent to the parties’ most recent known
contact details.
21.6 The User may not assign or otherwise create
an interest in this Agreement.
21.7 The Company may assign or
otherwise create an interest in its rights under this Agreement by
giving written notice to the User.
22.
GENERAL
22.1 Special Conditions. The parties may agree to any
Special Conditions to this Agreement in writing.
22.2 Prevalence.
To the extent that the Important Terms are inconsistent with the
General Conditions, the terms of the Important Terms will prevail. To
the extent that the Special Conditions are inconsistent with the
Important Terms, the Special Conditions will prevail.
22.3
Disclaimer. Each party acknowledges that it has not relied on any
representation, warranty or statement made by any other party, other
than as set out in this Agreement.
22.4 Relationship. The
relationship of the parties to this Agreement does not form a joint
venture or partnership.
22.5 Waiver. No clause of this Agreement
will be deemed waived and no breach excused unless such waiver or
consent is provided in writing.
22.6 Further Assurances. Each
party must do anything necessary (including executing agreements and
documents) to give full effect to this Agreement and the transaction
facilitated by it.
22.7 Governing Law. This Agreement is governed
by the laws of the state set out in item O of the Important Terms.
Each of the parties hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction
of courts with jurisdiction there.
22.8 Severability. Any clause
of this Agreement, which is invalid or unenforceable, is ineffective
to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability without affecting
the remaining clauses of this Agreement.