Terms and Conditions

The Terms and Conditions is the contract you enter into with Hometime Group Pty Ltd (“HOMETIME” “we” or “us”) concerning the use of our proprietary software platform.

By accepting this Agreement, either by accessing or using a Service, or authorising or permitting any Agent to access or use a Service, You agree to be bound by this Agreement. If You are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company, organisation, or another legal entity (an “Entity”), You are agreeing to this Agreement for that Entity and representing to Company that You have the authority to bind such Entity and its Affiliates to this Agreement, in which case the terms Customer,” “You,” “Your” or a related capitalised term herein shall refer to such Entity and its Affiliates. If You do not have such authority, or if You do not agree with this Agreement, You must not accept this Agreement and may not use any of the Services.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

Account: means any accounts or instances created by or on behalf of Subscriber or its Agents within the Services.

Active Listing: means a Listing that has been the subject of at least one check-in by End-Users within the past 30 days.

Affiliate: means, with respect to a Party, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Party, whereby “control” (including, with correlative meaning, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct, or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.

Agent: means an individual authorised to use a Service through Your Account as an agent and/or administrator as identified through a unique login.

Agreement: means the current Subscription Agreement together with any and all Supplements, Additional Terms and Order Forms.

Beta Services: means a product, service or functionality provided by Hometime Group Pty Ltd that may be made available to You to try at Your option at no additional charge which is clearly designated as beta, pilot, limited release, non-production, early access, evaluation or by a similar description.

Confidential Information: means all information disclosed by You to Hometime Group Pty Ltd or by Hometime Group Pty Ltd to You which is in tangible form and labeled “confidential” (or with a similar legend) or which a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given the nature of the information and circumstances of disclosure, including, but not limited to, information relating to Hometime Group Pty Ltd’s security policies and procedures. For purposes of this Agreement, this Agreement as well as Service Data shall be deemed Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that (a) was already known to the receiving Party at the time of disclosure by the disclosing Party; (b) was or is obtained by the receiving Party by a third party not known by the receiving Party to be under an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such information; (c) is or becomes generally available to the public other than by violation of this Agreement or another valid agreement between the Parties; or (d) was or is independently developed by the receiving Party without use of the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information.

Consulting Services: means consulting and professional services (including any training, success or implementation services) provided by Hometime Group Pty Ltd or its authorised subcontractors as indicated on an Order Form or other written document such as a statement of work “SOW”, as defined below.

Directive: means Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data.

Documentation: means any written or electronic documentation, images, video, text or sounds specifying the functionalities of the Services or describing Service Plans, as applicable, provided or made available by Hometime Group Pty Ltd to You in the applicable help center(s).

End-User: means any person or entity other than Customer or Agents with whom Customer or its Agents interact using a Service or Other Services.

Listing: means any advertisement of an accommodation for short-term rentals on Other Services.

Order Form: means any of Our service order forms executed or approved by You with respect to Your subscription to a Service, which form may detail, among other things, the number of Agents authorised to use a Service under Your subscription to a Service and the Service Plan applicable to Your subscription to a Service.

Other Services: means third party products, applications, services, software, products, networks, systems, directories, websites, databases and information which a Service links to, or which You may connect to or enable in conjunction with a Service, including, without limitation, Other Services which may be integrated directly into Your Account by You or at Your direction.

Payment Agent: means Hometime Group Pty Ltd or a payment agent designated by Hometime Group Pty Ltd. Personal Data: means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person where an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to their physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

Personnel: means employees and/or non-employee service providers and contractors of the Hometime Group Pty Ltd engaged by the Hometime Group Pty Ltd in connection with performance hereunder.

Processing/To Process/Processed: means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organisation, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.

Service(s): means the products and services that are ordered by You online through a link or via an Order Form referencing this Agreement, whether on a trial or paid basis, and made available online by Us, via the applicable subscriber login link and other web pages designated by Us, including, individually and collectively, the applicable Software, Updates, API, Documentation, and all applicable Associated Services that You have purchased or deployed . “Services” exclude Other Services as that term is defined in this Agreement. From time to time the names and descriptions of the Services or any individual Service may be changed. To the extent Subscriber is given access to such Service as so described by virtue of a prior Order Form or other prior acceptance of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be deemed to apply to such Service as newly named or described.

Service Data: means electronic data, text, messages, communications or other materials processed by, submitted to or stored within a Service by You and Agents in connection with Your use of such Service, which may include, without limitation, Personal Data. In particular, Service Data may be extracted from a Channel on your behalf.

Service Plan(s): means the packaged service plan(s) and the functionality and services associated therewith (as detailed on the Site applicable to the Service) for the Services to which You subscribe.

Site: means a website operated by Hometime Group Pty Ltd, including www.hometimeapp.io, and all its sub-domains, including app.hometime.io, as well as all other websites that Hometime Group Pty Ltd operates.

Hometime: means Hometime Group Pty Ltd, a private limited company domiciled in Australia (ABN 62 605 983 373), or any of its successors or assignees.

Software: means software provided by Hometime Group Pty Ltd (either by download or access through the internet) that allows Agents or End-Users to use any functionality in connection with the applicable Service.

Subscription Term: means the period during which You have agreed to subscribe to a Service.

Supplemental Terms: means the additional terms and conditions that are (a) contained in this Agreement under the Section entitled, “Supplemental Terms and Conditions” which apply and are incorporated into this Agreement with certain Services, features, or functionality; (b) included or incorporated on an Order Form (e.g. when a Deployed Associated Service is purchased); or (c) applicable to Consulting Services when purchased by You.

Usage Data: means aggregated encoded or anonymised data that Hometime Group Pty Ltd may collect about a group or category of services, features or users while You, Your Agents or End-Users use a Service for certain purposes, including analytics, and which does not contain Personal Data.

“We,” “Us” or “Our”: means Hometime Group Pty Ltd as defined.

2. General conditions

2.1 During the Subscription Term and subject to compliance by You and Agents with this Agreement, You have the limited right to access and use a Service consistent with the Service Plan(s) that You subscribe to, together with all applicable Deployed Associated Services, for Your internal business purposes. We will

• (a) make the Services and Service Data available to You pursuant to this Agreement and the applicable Order Forms;
• (b) provide applicable standard customer support for the Services to You at no additional charge as detailed on the applicable Site and Documentation and/or upgraded support if purchased;

• (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except

  • (i) during planned downtime for upgrades and maintenance to the Services (of which We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify You in advance both through Our Site and a notice to Your Account owner and Agents) (“Planned Downtime”); and
  • (ii) for any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, including, for example, an act of God, act of government, flood, fire, earthquake, civil unrest, act of terror, strike or other labor problem (other than one involving Our employees), Internet service provider failure or delay, Other Services, or acts undertaken by third parties, including without limitation, denial of service attack.

2.2 A high speed Internet connection is required for proper transmission of the Services. You are responsible for procuring and maintaining the network connections that connect Your network to the Services, including, but not limited to, “browser” software that supports protocols used by Hometime Group Pty Ltd, including the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol or other protocols accepted by Hometime Group Pty Ltd, and to follow procedures for accessing services that support such protocols. We are not responsible for notifying You, Agents or End-Users of any upgrades, fixes or enhancements to any such software or for any compromise of data, including Service Data, transmitted across computer networks or telecommunications facilities (including but not limited to the Internet) which are not owned, operated or controlled by Hometime Group Pty Ltd. We assume no responsibility for the reliability or performance of any connections as described in this section.

2.3 In addition to complying with the other terms, conditions and restrictions set forth below in this Agreement, You agree not to

• (a) license, sublicense, sell, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, time share or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Services available to any third party, other than authorised Agents in furtherance of Your internal business purposes as expressly permitted by this Agreement;
• (b) use the Services to Process data on behalf of any third party other than Agents or End-Users;
• (c) modify, adapt, or hack the Services or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Services or related systems or networks;
• (d) falsely imply any sponsorship or association with Hometime Group Pty Ltd,
• (e) use the Services in any unlawful manner, including, but not limited to, violation of any person’s privacy rights;
• (f) use the Services to send unsolicited or unauthorised bulk mail, junk mail, spam, pyramid schemes or other forms of duplicitous or unsolicited messages;
• (g) use the Services to store or transmit files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringes on any person’s intellectual property rights;
• (h) use the Services in any manner that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Services and its components;
• (i) attempt to decipher, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise discover the source code of any Software making up the Services;
• (j) use the Services to knowingly post, transmit, upload, link to, send or store any content that is unlawful, racist, hateful, abusive, libelous, obscene, or discriminatory;
• (k) use the Services to store or transmit any “protected health information”;
• (l) use the Services to knowingly post transmit, upload, link to, send or store any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, time bombs, or any other similar harmful software (“Malicious Software”);
• (m) use or launch any automated system that accesses a Service (i.e., bot) in a manner that sends more request messages to a Service server in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser; or
• (n) attempt to use, or use the Services in violation of this Agreement.

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2.4 You are responsible for compliance with the provisions of this Agreement by Agents and for any and all activities that occur under Your Account, as well as for all Service Data. Without limiting the foregoing, You are solely responsible for ensuring that use of the Services to store and transmit Service Data is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations as well as any and all privacy policies, agreements or other obligations You may maintain or enter into with Agents or End-Users. You also maintain all responsibility for determining whether the Services or the information generated thereby is accurate or sufficient for Your purposes. Subject to any limitation on the number of individual Agents available under the applicable Service Plan(s) to which You subscribed or applicable Deployed Associated Service, access to and use of the Services is restricted to the specified number of individual Agents permitted under Your subscription to the applicable Service.

2.5 We reserve the right, in Our reasonable discretion, to temporarily suspend Your access to and use of a Service if We suspect or detect any Malicious Software connected to Your Account or use of a Service by You or Agents.

2.6 You acknowledge that Hometime Group Pty Ltd may modify the features and functionality of the Services during the Subscription Term.

2.7 You may not access the Services if You are a direct competitor of the Hometime Group Pty Ltd, except with Hometime Group Pty Ltd’s prior written consent. You may not access the Services for the purposes of monitoring performance, availability, functionality, or for any benchmarking or competitive purposes.

2.8 If You register for a free trial for any of the Services, We will make such Services available to You on a trial basis free of charge until the earlier of

• (a) the end of the free trial period for which You registered to use the applicable Service(s);
• (b) the start date of any subscription to such Service purchased by You for such Service(s); or
• (c) termination of the trial by Us in our sole discretion. Additional trial terms and conditions may appear on the trial registration web page. Any such additional terms and conditions are incorporated into this Agreement by reference and are legally binding. Please review the applicable Documentation during the trial period so that You become familiar with the features and functions of the Services under applicable Service Plans before You make Your purchase.

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2.9 We may make Beta Services available to You at no charge. You may choose to try such Beta Services in Your sole discretion. Beta Services are intended for evaluation purposes and not for production use, are not supported, and may be subject to additional terms that will be presented to You. Beta Services are not considered “Services” under this Agreement; however, all restrictions, Our reservation of rights and Your obligations concerning the Service, and use of any Other Services shall apply equally to Your use of Beta Services. Unless otherwise stated, any Beta Services trial period will expire upon the earlier of one year from the trial start date or the date that a version of the Beta Services becomes generally available without the applicable Beta Services designation. We may discontinue Beta Services at any time in Our sole discretion and may never make them generally available. We will have no liability for any harm or damage arising out of or in connection with a Beta Service.

3. Confidentiality; Security and Privacy

3.1 Subject to the express permissions of this Agreement, each Party will protect each other’s Confidential Information from unauthorised use, access or disclosure in the same manner as each protects its own Confidential Information, but with no less than reasonable care. Except as otherwise expressly permitted pursuant to this Agreement, each of us may use each other’s Confidential Information solely to exercise our respective rights and perform our respective obligations under this Agreement and shall disclose such Confidential Information (a) solely to the Personnel who have a need to know such Confidential Information for such purposes and who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of, and not misuse, such Confidential Information; (b) as necessary to comply with an order or subpoena of any administrative agency or court of competent jurisdiction; or (c) as reasonably necessary to comply with any applicable law or regulation. The provisions of this Section 3.1 shall supersede any non-disclosure agreement by and between the Parties that would purport to address the confidentiality and security of Service Data and such agreement shall have no further force or effect with respect to Service Data.

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3.2 Hometime Group Pty Ltd will maintain reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of Service Data, as described in the Agreement, the Supplemental Terms entitled, “How We Protect Service Data” attached hereto, and Supplemental Terms for the Deployed Associated Services, as applicable. Those safeguards will include, but will not be limited to, measures for preventing access, use, modification or disclosure of Service Data by Personnel except (a) to provide the Services and prevent or address service, support or technical problems; (b) as compelled by law in accordance with Section 3.1 above; or (c) as You expressly permit in writing. Hometime Group Pty Ltd compliance with the provisions of Sections 3.2 through 3.5 shall be deemed compliance with the Hometime Group Pty Ltd’s obligations to protect Service Data as set forth in the Agreement.

3.3 To the extent Service Data constitutes Personal Data, You and Hometime Group Pty Ltd hereby agree that You shall be deemed to be the data controller and Hometime Group Pty Ltd shall be deemed to be the data processor as those terms are understood under the Directive (and any applicable national legislation implementing the Directive). Unless otherwise specifically agreed to by Hometime Group Pty Ltd, Service Data may be hosted by Hometime Group Pty Ltd or their respective authorised third-party service providers in the United States, the EEA or other locations around the world. In providing the Services, Hometime Group Pty Ltd will Process Service Data, including and without limitation, any associated Personal Data pursuant to this Agreement within the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), the United States and in other countries and territories. Under no circumstances will any entity in Hometime Group Pty Ltd be deemed a data controller with respect to Service Data under the Directive or any relevant law or regulation of any Member State as defined in the Directive.

3.4 If Your principal location is in the EEA, We will ensure, pursuant to Article 25 of the Directive that, to the extent that any Service Data constitutes Personal Data, if Service Data is transferred to a country or territory outside of the EEA (a “non-EEA country”), that such transfer will only take place if:

• (a) the non-EEA country in question ensures an adequate level of data protection;
• (b) one of the conditions listed in Article 26(1) of the Directive is satisfied; or
• (c) the transfer is via the EU-US Privacy Shield or Swiss-US Safe Harbor frameworks.

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3.5 You agree that Hometime Group Pty Ltd and the third-party service providers that are utilised by Hometime Group Pty Ltd to assist in providing the Services to You shall have the right to access Your Account and to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, display and disclose Service Data to the extent necessary to provide the Services, including, without limitation, in response to Your support requests. Any third-party service providers utilised by Hometime Group Pty Ltd will only be given access to Your Account and Service Data as is reasonably necessary to provide the Services and will be subject to

• (a) confidentiality obligations which are commercially reasonable and substantially consistent with the standards described in Section 3.2; and
• (b) their agreement to comply with the data transfer restrictions applicable to Personal Data as set forth in Section 3.4.

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3.6 In addition to Service Data, We collect certain information (which may include Personal Data) about You, Agents and End-Users as well as Your and their respective devices, computers and use of the Service. This includes, among other things: Collecting analytics information when You use the Services. In the Services, analytics information may consist of the feature and function of the Service being used, the associated domain name, the username and IP address of Your Agents or End-Users, additional information required to detail the operation of the function, and which parts of a Service are being affected. The analytics information that Hometime Group Pty Ltd collects may include elements of Service Data related to the function the Agents or End-Users are performing.

Collecting Usage Data which is used to help understand trends in usage of the Services. In addition to collecting and using Usage Data ourselves, Hometime Group Pty Ltd may share the Usage Data with third parties, including Our subscribers, partners and service providers, for various purposes, including to help Us better understand Our subscribers’ needs and improve Our Services. We may also publish Usage Data to provide relevant information about the Services and for purposes of marketing.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

Each Party shall retain all rights, title and interest in and to all its respective patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and/or proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”). The rights granted to You, Agents and End-Users to use the Service(s) under this Agreement do not convey any additional rights in the Service(s) or in any Intellectual Property Rights associated therewith. Subject only to limited rights to access and use the Service(s) as expressly stated herein, all rights, title and interest in and to the Services and all hardware, Software and other components of or used to provide the Services, including all related Intellectual Property Rights, will remain with Hometime Group Pty Ltd and belong exclusively to Hometime Group Pty Ltd. Hometime Group Pty Ltd shall have a fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable (through multiple layers), assignable, irrevocable and perpetual license to implement, use, modify, commercially exploit, and/or incorporate into the Services or otherwise use any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback We receive from You, Agents, End-Users, or other third parties acting on Your behalf. Hometime Group Pty Ltd, service names and logos used or displayed in or on the Services are registered or unregistered trademarks of one or more members of Hometime Group Pty Ltd (collectively, “Marks”), and You may only use applicable Marks to identify You as a Subscriber; provided You do not attempt, now or in the future, to claim any rights in the Marks, degrade the distinctiveness of the Marks, or use the Marks to disparage or misrepresent Us, Our services or products.

5. Third-Party Services

If You decide to enable, access or use Other Services, be advised that Your access and use of such Other Services are governed solely by the terms and conditions of such Other Services, and We do not endorse, are not responsible or liable for, and make no representations as to any aspect of such Other Services, including, without limitation, their content or the manner in which they handle, protect, manage or Process data (including Service Data) or any interaction between You and the provider of such Other Services. We cannot guarantee the continued availability of such Other Service features, and may cease enabling access to them without entitling You to any refund, credit, or other compensation, if, for example and without limitation, the provider of an Other Service ceases to make the Other Service available for interoperation with the corresponding Service in a manner acceptable to Us. You irrevocably waive any claim against Hometime Group Pty Ltd with respect to such Other Services. We are not liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your enablement, access or use of any such Other Services, or Your reliance on the privacy practices, data security processes or other policies of such Other Services. You may be required to register for or log into such Other Services on their respective websites. By enabling any Other Services, You are expressly permitting Hometime Group Pty Ltd to disclose Your Login, as well as Service Data as necessary to facilitate the use or enablement of such Other Services.

6. Billing and Payments

6.1 Unless otherwise indicated on an Order Form referencing this Agreement or in any additional terms referencing this Agreement, all charges associated with Your access to and use of a Service (“Subscription Charges”) are due in full upon commencement of Your Subscription Term, or, with respect to a Deployed Associated Service, at the time such Deployed Associated Service is purchased, subscribed to or otherwise deployed. If You fail to pay Your Subscription we will attempt to charge your nominated credit card four (4) times if not successful. If we are unable to recoup the funds after four (4) attempts, we will provide a three day grace period before we will then cancel your Subscription and you will be downgraded to our free subscription.

6.2 Unless otherwise stated, Our charges do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments, including value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes assessable by any local, state, provincial or foreign jurisdiction (collectively “Taxes”). You are responsible for paying Taxes, except those assessable against Hometime Group Pty Ltd.

6.3 If You pay by credit card, the Services provide an interface for the Account owner to change credit card information (e.g. upon card renewal). The Account owner will receive a receipt upon each receipt of payment by the Payment Agent, or they may obtain a receipt from within the Services to track subscription status. You hereby authorise the Payment Agent to bill Your credit card or other payment instrument in advance on a periodic basis in accordance with the terms of the Service Plan for the Services and for periodic Subscription Charges applicable to Deployed Associated Services to which You subscribe until Your subscription to the Services terminates, and You further agree to pay any Subscription Charges so incurred. If applicable, You hereby authorise Hometime Group Pty Ltd and the Payment Agent to charge Your credit card or other payment instrument to establish such prepaid credit. You agree to promptly update Your Account information with any changes (for example, a change in Your billing address or credit card expiration date) that may occur. The Payment Agent uses a third-party intermediary to manage credit card processing and this intermediary is not permitted to store, retain or use Your billing information except to process Your credit card information for the Payment Agent.

6.4 No refunds or credits for Subscription Charges or other fees or payments will be provided to You if You elect to downgrade Your Service Plan. Downgrading Your Service Plan may cause loss of content, features, or capacity of the Service as available to You under Your Account, and Hometime Group Pty Ltd does not accept any liability for such loss.

6.5 Seven business days before the Subscription Term, We will update your Subscription Charges for the future Subscription Term on the basis of the sum of current Active Listings under your Account. If the Subscription Charges for the future Subscription Term differ in any way from the Subscription Charges for the current Subscription Term, We will notify You by email of any modification to your Subscription Charge for the future Subscription Term.

7. Credits

We may, at Our sole discretion, choose to offer credits for the Services in various ways, including but not limited to, coupons, promotional campaigns and referrals. Hometime Group Pty Ltd reserves the right to award credits at its sole discretion. Credits have no monetary or cash value and can only be used by You to offset Your subsequent payments of Subscription Charges for the applicable Service. Credits may only be applied to Subscription Charges due for the Service specifically identified by Hometime Group Pty Ltd when issuing the credit. Credits can only be used by You and are non-transferable. To the extent that You have been awarded credits, unless the instrument (including any coupon) states an earlier expiration date, credits shall expire and no longer be redeemable twelve (12) months from the date the credit was issued.

8. Cancellation and Termination

8.1 Either Party may elect to terminate Your Account and subscription to a Service as of the end of Your then current Subscription Term by providing notice, in accordance with this Agreement, on or prior to the date thirty (30) days preceding the end of such Subscription Term. Unless Your Account and subscription to a Service is so terminated, Your subscription to a Service (including any and all Deployed Associated Services) will renew for a Subscription Term equivalent in length to the then expiring Subscription Term. Unless otherwise provided for in an Order Form, the Subscription Charges applicable to Your subscription to a Service for any such subsequent Subscription Term shall be Our standard Subscription Charges for the Service Plan and Deployed Associated Services to which You have subscribed or which You have deployed, as applicable, as of the time such subsequent Subscription Term commences.

8.2 No refunds or credits for Subscription Charges or other fees or payments will be provided to You if You elect to terminate Your subscription to the Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then effective Subscription Term.

8.3 Except for Your termination under Section 8.5, if You terminate Your subscription to a Service or cancel Your Account prior to the end of Your then effective Subscription Term or We effect such termination or cancellation pursuant to Sections 2, 8.4 and 8.5, in addition to other amounts You may owe Hometime Group Pty Ltd, You must immediately pay any then unpaid Subscription Charges associated with the remainder of such Subscription Term. This amount will not be payable by You in the event You terminate Your subscription to a Service or cancel Your Account as a result of a material breach of this Agreement by Hometime Group Pty Ltd, provided that You provide advance notice of such breach to Hometime Group Pty Ltd and afford Hometime Group Pty Ltd not less than thirty (30) days to reasonably cure such breach as provided for in Section 8.5 herein.

8.4 We reserve the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Services (or any part thereof), Your Account or Your and/or Agents’ or End-Users’ rights to access and use the Services, and remove, disable and discard any Service Data if We believe that You, Agents or End-Users have violated this Agreement. This includes the removal or disablement of Service Data. Unless legally prohibited from doing so, We will use commercially reasonable efforts to contact You directly via email to notify You when taking any of the foregoing actions. We shall not be liable to You, Agents, End-Users or any other third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuation of Your rights to access and use the Services. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity by You, Agents or End-Users may be referred to law enforcement authorities at Our sole discretion.

8.5 A Party may terminate this Agreement for cause (a) upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the other Party of a material breach if such breach remains uncured at the expiration of such period; or (b) if the other Party becomes the subject of a petition in bankruptcy or any other proceeding relating to insolvency, receivership, liquidation or assignment for the benefit of creditors. If this Agreement is terminated by You in accordance with this section, We will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, refund You any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the Subscription Term after the effective date of termination. If this Agreement is terminated by Us in accordance with this section, You will pay any unpaid fees covering the remainder of the Subscription Term pursuant to all applicable Order Forms. In no event will termination relieve You of Your obligation to pay any fees payable to Us for the period prior to the effective date of termination.

9. Representations, Disclaimers and Warranties

9.1 Each Party represents that it has validly entered into this Agreement and has the legal power to do so.

9.2 We warrant that during an applicable Subscription Term (a) this Agreement and the Documentation will accurately describe the applicable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of Service Data; and (b) the Services will perform materially in accordance with the applicable Documentation. For any breach of a warranty above, Your exclusive remedies are those described in Section 8.5 herein.

9.3 EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY SET FORTH IN SECTION 9.2, THE SITES AND THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL SERVER AND NETWORK COMPONENTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AND WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

10.1 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) WILL EITHER PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR THEIR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES OR BUSINESS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR FOR ANY TYPE OF INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE LOSS OR DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER LOSS OR DAMAGES INCURRED BY SUCH PARTY OR THIRD PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE SERVICES OR CONSULTING SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH DAMAGES.

10.2 NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THIS AGREEMENT, HOMETIME PTY LTD’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUBSCRIPTION TO, OR USE OR EMPLOYMENT OF THE SERVICES, SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE SUBSCRIPTION CHARGES FOR SUCH SERVICES PAID BY YOU DURING THE SIX (6) MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST EVENT OR OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION 10.2 IS TO ALLOCATE THE RISKS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND LIMIT POTENTIAL LIABILITY GIVEN THE SUBSCRIPTION CHARGES, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER IF WE WERE TO ASSUME ANY FURTHER LIABILITY OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH HEREIN. WE HAVE RELIED ON THESE LIMITATIONS IN DETERMINING WHETHER TO PROVIDE YOU THE RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND USE THE SERVICES PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT.

10.3 Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply to You. IN THESE JURISDICTIONS, HOMETIME GROUP PTY LTD’S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

10.4 Any claims or damages that You may have against Hometime Group Pty Ltd shall only be enforceable against Hometime Group Pty Ltd and not any other entity or its officers, directors, representatives or agents.

11. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold Hometime Group Pty Ltd harmless against any claim brought by a third party against Hometime Group Pty Ltd arising from or related to use of a Service by You, Agents or End-Users in breach of this Agreement or matters for which You have expressly agreed to be responsible pursuant to this Agreement; provided

• (a) We shall promptly notify You of the threat or notice of such claim;
• (b) You will have the sole and exclusive control and authority to select defense attorneys, and defend and/or settle any such claim (however, You shall not settle or compromise any claim that results in liability or admission of any liability by Us without Our prior written consent); and
• (c) We fully cooperate with You in connection therewith.

12. Assignment, Entire Agreement, and Amendment

12.1 You may not, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, assign all or any part of this Agreement or Your rights under this Agreement or delegate performance of Your duties under this Agreement without Our prior consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. We may, without Your consent, assign Our agreement with You in connection with any merger or change of control of Hometime Group Pty Ltd or the sale of all or substantially all of Our assets provided that any such successor agrees to fulfill its obligations pursuant to this Agreement. Subject to the foregoing restrictions, this Agreement will be fully binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Parties and their respective successors and assigns.

12.2 This Agreement, together with any Order Form(s) and Supplemental Term(s) constitute the entire agreement, and supersede any and all prior agreements between You and Hometime Group Pty Ltd with regard to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement shall apply in lieu of the terms or conditions in any purchase order or other order documentation You or any Entity which You represent provides (all such terms or conditions being null and void), and, except as expressly stated herein, there are no other agreements, representations, warranties, or commitments which may be relied upon by either Party with respect to the subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, additional terms may apply to certain features, functionality, or services as detailed in a Supplement hereto or that We offer as part of or distinct from the Services (the “Additional Terms”). In those instances, We will notify You of such Additional Terms prior to the activation of these features, functionality, or services and the activation of these features, functionality, or services in Your Account will be considered acceptance of the Additional Terms. All such Additional Terms will be considered incorporated into this Agreement when You or any Agent authorised as an administrator in Your Account activate the feature, functionality, or service. Where there is a conflict between this Agreement and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will control.

12.3 We may amend this Agreement from time to time, in which case the new Agreement will supersede prior versions. We will notify You not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of any such amendment and Your continued use of the Services following the effective date of any such amendment may be relied upon by Hometime Group Pty Ltd as Your consent to any such amendment. Our failure to enforce at any time any provision of this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of that provision or of any other provision of this Agreement.

13. Severability

If any provision in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified by the court and interpreted so as to best accomplish the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in effect.

14. Relationship of the parties

The Parties are independent contractors. This Agreement does not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship among the Parties.

15. Notices

All notices to be provided by Hometime Group Pty Ltd to You under this Agreement may be delivered in writing

• (a) by nationally recognised overnight delivery service (“Courier”) or mail to the contact mailing address provided by You on any Order Form; or
• (b) electronic mail to the electronic mail address provided for Your Account owner. You must give notice to Hometime Group Pty Ltd in writing by Courier or mail to Level 4/343 George St, Sydney NSW 2000. All notices shall be deemed to have been given immediately upon delivery by electronic mail; or, if otherwise delivered upon the earlier of receipt or seven (7) business days after being deposited in the mail or with a Courier as permitted above.

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16. Governing Law

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Australia, without reference to conflict of laws principles. Any disputes under this Agreement shall be resolved in a court of general jurisdiction in New South Wales, Australia. You hereby expressly agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of this jurisdiction for the purpose of resolving any dispute relating to this Agreement or access to or use of the Services by You, Agents or End Users.

17. Survival

Sections 1, 3.1, 4 and 9-16 shall survive any termination of our agreement with respect to use of the Services by You, Agents or End Users. Termination of such agreement shall not limit a Party’s liability for obligations accrued as of or prior to such termination or for any breach of this Agreement.