Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern KO-GEAR’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘KO-GEAR’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is . Our ABN is 49292022638. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

 

WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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DATED: THE 9th DAY OF March 2018
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WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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In these terms and conditions, “we” “us” and “our” refers to ko-gear.  Your access to and use of all information on this website including purchase of our product/s is provided subject to the following terms and conditions.  The information is intended for residents of Australia only.

We reserve the right to amend this Notice at any time and your use of the website following any amendments will represent your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions as amended.  We therefore recommend that each time you access our website you read these terms and conditions.

Members

In order to access the services provided on this website, you can become a member. You can complete registration by providing certain information as set out on our membership/registration page.Please refer to our Privacy Policy linked on our home page for information relating to our collection, storage and use of the details you provide on registration.

You agree to ensure that your registration details are true and accurate at all times and you undertake to update your registration details from time to time when they change.

On registration, you will be required to provide a password and valid email. On registration you agree to pay for our services as set out on our website.

We reserve the right to terminate your membership at any time if you breach these terms and conditions.

Our services are intended to be used by members within Australia only.

Our Website Services

Our services are provided to adults over the age of eighteen (18) years.By proceeding to purchase through our website, you acknowledge that you are over 18 years of age.

All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and are inclusive of GST.We endeavour to ensure that our price list is current.Our price list can be accessed from our home page and we reserve the right to amend our prices at any time.If you have placed an order, we undertake to fulfil your order at the price listed at the time you ordered.

Product Descriptions

We strive to ensure that our products are described as accurately as possible on our website, however we do not warrant that the description is accurate.Where we become aware of any misdescription, we reserve the right to correct any error or omission.

Images have been provided for illustrative purposes only and we do not guarantee that any image will reproduce in true colour nor that any given image will reflect or portray the full design or options relating to that product.

Product Orders

Our products are for sale to adults over the age of eighteen (18) years.By proceeding to purchase through our website, you acknowledge that you are over 18 years of age.

We supply and despatch our products to customers within Australia and selected International locations only. Order Fulfilment. Except for events of force majeure and out of stock items, orders with in-stock items will be shipped out the next 1 or 2 business days, unless otherwise stated.

We endeavour to ensure that our product list is current however we give no undertaking as to the availability of any product advertised on our website.

All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and are inclusive of GST. Our price list can be accessed from our home page and we reserve the right to amend our prices at any time.

Packaging and postage is an additional charge, calculated at time of purchase.

When you order from us, we require you to provide your name, address for delivery, your email address, telephone contact and credit card details.We undertake to take due care with this information; however in providing us with such information you accept that we are not liable for its misuse due to error in transmission or virus or malware.

We undertake to accept or reject your order within Seven (7) days.If we have not responded to you within Seven (7) days, your offer is deemed to be rejected.We are not required to give reasons for rejecting your offer to purchase however the most likely reason for rejecting your offer will be that we do not currently have that product in stock.

Delivery of your ordered product/s will be as set out on our website.Title in the goods passes to you when we have received payment.Our terms of payment are set out on the order page.

All risk of loss or damage to the goods passes to you when we despatch the goods.

Order Cancellation Due To Error

Where a product has been listed at the incorrect price or with incorrect descriptive information or image due to typographical error or similar oversight, we reserve the right to cancel a transaction.Where your credit card has been charged, we will immediately refund your credit card for the total amount debited.

Product Returns

We undertake to replace you for any product delivered to you that is faulty or is in a damaged condition.If you wish to return a faulty or damaged product, you must notify us through our designated “contact us” webpage where we set out our requirements relating to return of such goods.

If we are unable at the time of return to replace or exchange returned goods, we undertake to reimburse your credit card for the amount initially debited for the purchase including packaging and postage charges.

Site Access

When you visit our website, we give you a limited licence to access and use our information for personal use.

You are permitted to download a copy of the information on this website to your computer for your personal use only provided that you do not delete or change any copyright symbol, trade mark or other proprietary notice.Your use of our content in any other way infringes our intellectual property rights.

Except as permitted under the 1968 (Cth), you are not permitted to copy, reproduce, republish, distribute or display any of the information on this website without our prior written permission.

The licence to access and use the information on our website does not include the right to use any data mining robots or other extraction tools.The licence also does not permit you to metatag or mirror our website without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to serve you with notice if we become aware of your metatag or mirroring of our website.

Hyperlinks

This website may from time to time contain hyperlinks to other websites.Such links are provided for convenience only and we take no responsibility for the content and maintenance of or privacy compliance by any linked website.Any hyperlink on our website to another website does not imply our endorsement, support, or sponsorship of the operator of that website nor of the information and/or products which they provide.

Linking our website is not permitted without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to serve you with notice if we become aware of such linking.

Intellectual Property Rights

The copyright to all content on this website including applets, graphics, images, layouts and text belongs to us or we have a licence to use those materials.

All trade marks, brands and logos generally identified either with the symbols TM or ® which are used on this website are either owned by us or we have a licence to use them. Your access to our website does not license you to use those marks in any commercial way without our prior written permission.

Any comment, feedback, idea or suggestion (called “Comments”) which you provide to us through this website becomes our property.If in future we use your Comments in promoting our website or in any other way, we will not be liable for any similarities which may appear from such use.Furthermore, you agree that we are entitled to use your Comments for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without compensation to you or to any other person who has transmitted your Comments.

If you provide us with Comments, you acknowledge that you are responsible for the content of such material including its legality, originality and copyright.

Disclaimers

Whilst we have taken all due care in providing the information on our website, we do not provide any warranty either express or implied including without limitation warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is excluded.

We also take all due care in ensuring that our website is free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse and/or malware, however we are not responsible for any damage to your computer system which arises in connection with your use of our website or any linked website.

From time to time we may host third party content on our website such as advertisements and endorsements belonging to other traders.Responsibility for the content of such material rests with the owners of that material and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions in such material.

Statutory Guarantees and Warranties to Consumers

Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (“C&C Act”) defines a consumer.  Under the C&C Act we are a supplier of either goods or services or both to you, and as a consumer the C&C Act gives you statutory guarantees.  Attached to the Standard Terms and Conditions are:-

Schedule 2 of the C&C Act; and

those statutory guarantees, all of which are given by us to you if you are a consumer.

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We will repair or replace the goods or any part of them that is defective; or

Provide again or rectify any services or part of them that are defective; or

Wholly or partly recompense you if they are defective.

As a consumer under the C&C Act you may be entitled to receive from us notices under Schedule 2 section 103 of the C&C Act.  In that regard:-

If you are a consumer within the meaning of Schedule 2 of the C&C Act and the goods or services we are providing relate to the repair of consumer goods then we will give you any notice which we are obliged to give you under Schedule 2 section 103 of the C&C Act.

If we are a repairer of goods capable of retaining user-generated data then we hereby give you notice that the repair of those goods may result in the loss of the data.

If we are a repairer and our practice is to supply refurbished goods as an alternative to repairing your defective goods or to use refurbished parts in the repair, then we give you notice that the goods presented by you to us for repair may be replaced by refurbished goods of the same type rather than being repaired.We also give you notice that we may use in the repair of your goods, refurbished parts.

Limitation of Liability

If you are not a consumer within the meaning of Schedule 2 of the C&C Act then this clause applies to you.If you are a consumer within the meaning of the C&C Act then this clause has no effect whatsoever to in any way limit our liability or your rights.If you are not a consumer:-

To the full extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of an implied warranty or condition is limited to the supply of the services again or payment of the costs of having those services supplied again.

We accept no liability for any loss whatsoever including consequential loss suffered by you arising from services we have supplied.

We do not accept liability for anything contained in the post of a user or in any form of communication which originates with a user and not with Us.

We do not participate in any way in the transactions between our users.

Indemnity

By accessing our website, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs and expenses including legal fees arising from or in connection with your use of our website.

Force Majeure

If a Force Majeure event causing delay continues for more than Thirty (30) days, we may terminate this Agreement by giving at least Seven (7) days Notice to you.“Force Majeure” means any act, circumstance or omission over which we could not reasonably have exercised control.

Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Queensland and any claim made by either party against the other which in any way arises out of these terms and conditions will be heard in Queensland and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of those Courts.

If any provision in these terms and conditions is invalid under any law the provision will be limited, narrowed, construed or altered as necessary to render it valid but only to the extent necessary to achieve such validity.If necessary the invalid provision will be deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Privacy

We undertake to take all due care with any information which you may provide to us when accessing our website. However we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you may provide to us.Information you transmit to us is entirely at your own risk although we undertake to take reasonable steps to preserve such information in a secure manner.

Our compliance with privacy legislation is set out in our separate Privacy Policy which may be accessed from our home page.

These Terms and Conditions have been specifically drafted for, and provided to ko-gear by LawLive Pty Ltd (www.lawlive.com.au).

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

 

 

DATED: THE 9th DAY OF March 2018

 

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

This web site is owned and operated by ko-gear and will be referred to as "We", "our" and "us" in this Internet Privacy Policy. By using this site, you agree to the Internet Privacy Policy of this web site ("the web site"), which is set out on this web site page. The Internet Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on the web site.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Internet Privacy Policy at any time. This Internet Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the web site. We do not make any representations about third party web sites that may be linked to the web site.

We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our web site, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual ("personal information"). This Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the web site, will be dealt with. This Internet Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.

Personal Information

1. Personal information about visitors to our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.

Use of Information

1. Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose, unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the web site, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

Collecting information on Registered members

1. As part of registering with us, we collect personal information about you in order for you to take full advantage of our services. To do this it may be necessary for you to provide additional information to us as detailed below.

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   Registration is completely optional. Registration may include submitting your name, email address, address, telephone numbers, option on receiving updates and promotional material and other information. You may access this information at any time by logging in and going to your account.

Credit Card Details

1. Credit Card details are only stored for the processing of payment and will be deleted once payment is processed.

Disclosure

1. Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.

2. We may engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.

Security

1. We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

2. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

3. In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

Collecting Information from Users

1. IP Addresses

Our web servers gather your IP address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services. Again, information is gathered in aggregate only and cannot be traced to an individual user.

1. Cookies and Applets

We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. These cookies allow us to increase your security by storing your session ID and are a way of monitoring single user access.
This aggregate, non-personal information is collated and provided to us to assist in analysing the usage of the site.

Access to Information

1. We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.

2. In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

3. You may request your information be removed / archive / deleted from our Customer / Order data by emailing a request to admin@ko-gear.com.au. 

Links to other sites

1. We provide links to Web sites outside of our web sites, as well as to third party Web sites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that Web site and its privacy statement.

Problems or questions

1. If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our web sites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us.

2. For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site; http://www.privacy.gov.au/.

 

This Privacy Policy has been specifically drafted for and provided to ko-gear by LawLive Pty Ltd (www.lawlive.com.au).