Terms of Use
TERMS OF USE
BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE; IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
This Web site, including any sub-site accessible through the homepage, is operated by Star Residential Care (“Star Residential Care”), its subsidiaries, affiliates and/or related entities (collectively, the “Site”). Star Residential Care offers this Site, including all information, tools and services available from this Site, to you, the user, conditional upon your acceptance of all the terms, conditions, policies and notices as stated here.
Star Residential Care reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your sole responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for any changes that may have been made. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any of these changes will mean that you accept and agree to those changes. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, Star Residential Care grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.
No Obligation For Information
Star Residential Care is not responsible if information made available on this Site is not accurate, complete or current for any reason whatsoever. The material on this Site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making any decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this Site is strictly at your own risk. This Site may contain certain historical information. Historical information is not necessarily current and is provided for your reference only. Star Residential Care reserves the right to modify the content of this Site at any time, but has no obligation to update any information on the Site. You acknowledge and unconditionally agree that it is your responsibility to monitor any changes to this Site.
General Use of This Site
All content on this Site including, without limitation, documents, text, design, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio and or video clips, downloads, interfaces, code and software, as well as the selection and arrangement thereof (the “Content”) is the exclusive property of and owned by Star Residential Care, its licensors or its service or content providers and is protected by copyright, trademark and other applicable laws.
You may access, copy, download and print the material contained on the Site for your personal and non-commercial use, provided you do not modify or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice that appears on the material you access, copy, download or print.
Any other use of Content on the Site, including but not limited to the modification, distribution, transmission, performance, broadcast, publication, uploading, licensing, reverse engineering, transfer or sale of, or the creation of derivative works from, any material, information, software, products or services obtained from the Site, or use of the Site for purposes competitive to Star Residential Care, is expressly prohibited. You agree to abide by all additional restrictions displayed on the Site as it may be updated from time to time.
Star Residential Care reserves the right to refuse or cancel any person’s registration for this Site, remove any person from this Site or prohibit any person from using this Site for any reason whatsoever and in its sole discretion. Star Residential Care, or its licensors or content providers, retain full and complete title to the material provided on the Site, including all associated intellectual property rights, and provide this material to you under a license that is revocable at any time in Star Residential Care’ s sole discretion. Star Residential Care neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials on this Site will not infringe rights of third parties not affiliated with Star Residential Care.
You may not use any device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Site, or any other systems or networks connected to the Site or to any Star Residential Care server, or to any of the services offered on or through the Site, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.
You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to the Site, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Site or any network connected to the Site. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the Site, or any other customer of Star Residential Care, including any Star Residential Care account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit the Site or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Site, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Site.
You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Site or Star Residential Care’ s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Site or to Star Residential Care. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any transaction being conducted on the Site, or with any other person’s use of the Site. You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to Star Residential Care on or through the Site or any service offered on or through the Site. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.
You may not use the Site or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of Star Residential Care or others.
You may not use contact information provided on the Site for unauthorized purposes, including marketing. You may not use any hardware or software intended to damage or interfere with the proper working of the Site or to surreptitiously intercept any system, data or personal information from the Site. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Site in any way. Star Residential Care reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit or terminate your access to or use of the Site at any time without notice. Termination of your access or use will not waive or affect any other right or relief to which Star Residential Care may be entitled at law or in equity.
User Supplied Material
You acknowledge that you are responsible for any material you may submit via the Site, including the legality, appropriateness, reliability, originality and copyright of any such material. You may not upload to, distribute or otherwise publish through this Site any Content that (i) is confidential, proprietary, false, fraudulent, libellous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, infringing on intellectual property rights, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable; (ii) may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law; or (iii) may contain software viruses, political campaigning, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false email address or other identifying information, impersonate any person or entity or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Content. You may not upload commercial content onto the Site.
If you do submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Star Residential Care and its affiliates an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable and fully sub licence rights to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such material throughout the world in any media. You further agree that Star Residential Care is free to use any ideas, concepts or know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to Star Residential Care. You grant Star Residential Care and its affiliates the right to use the name you submit in connection with such material, if they so choose. All personal information provided via this Site will be handled in accordance with the Site’s online Privacy Policy. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all the rights to the content you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate any provision herein and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Star Residential Care for all claims resulting from content you supply.
Star Residential Care is under no obligation to post, forward, transmit, distribute or otherwise provide any material available on this Site, including material you provide to us, and so we have an absolute right to remove any material from the Site in our sole discretion at any time.
3rd Party Links On Site
This Site may contain links to other websites, some of which are operated by Star Residential Care or its affiliates and others of which are operated by third parties. These links are provided as a convenience to you and as an additional avenue of access to the information contained therein. Star Residential Care is not responsible for the content of those or any other websites or any products or services that may be offered through those or any other websites. Links from this Site to any other website do not mean that Star Residential Care approves of, endorses, or recommends that website. Different terms and conditions may apply to your use of any linked websites. Star Residential Care is not responsible for any losses, damages or other liabilities incurred as a result of your use of any linked websites.
Use of Trademarks
Trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on this Site are registered and unregistered trademarks of Star Residential Care, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors or content providers, or other third parties. All of these trademarks, logos and service marks are the property of their respective owners. Nothing on this Site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, logo or service mark displayed on the Site without the owner’s prior written permission, except as otherwise described herein. Star Residential Care reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site and its Content.
Warranties/ Limitation of Liability
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. Star Residential Care RESERVES THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE OR ANY FEATURE OR PART THEREOF AT ANY TIME. Star Residential Care EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTIES THAT MATERIALS ON THE SITE ARE NONINFRINGING, AS WELL AS WARRANTIES IMPLIED FROM A COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR COURSE OF DEALING; THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; THAT THE SITE WILL BE SECURE; THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SITE AVAILABLE WILL BE VIRUS-FREE; OR THAT INFORMATION ON THE SITE WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCURATE OR TIMELY. IF YOU DOWNLOAD ANY MATERIALS FROM THIS SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIALS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM Star Residential Care OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. Star Residential Care DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. IN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS, THE LAW MAY NOT PERMIT THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU SEND OR RECEIVE DURING YOUR USE OF THE SITE MAY NOT BE SECURE AND MAY BE INTERCEPTED BY UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT THE SITE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT NO CHARGE. RECOGNIZING SUCH, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER Star Residential Care NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SITE, OR ANY OTHER SITE YOU ACCESS THROUGH A LINK FROM THIS SITE OR FROM ANY ACTIONS WE TAKE OR FAIL TO TAKE AS A RESULT OF COMMUNICATIONS YOU SEND TO US, OR THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ADVERTISED IN OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, REMOVAL OR DELETION OF ANY MATERIALS SUBMITTED OR POSTED ON ITS SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF Star Residential Care , ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY ARISING FROM ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUSES, FILE CORRUPTION, COMMUNICATION-LINE FAILURE, NETWORK OR SYSTEM OUTAGE, YOUR LOSS OF PROFITS, OR THEFT, DESTRUCTION, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, LOSS OR USE OF ANY RECORD OR DATA, AND ANY OTHER TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE LOSS. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT NEITHER Star Residential Care NOR ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER OF THE SITE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CLAIMS OR ANY DISPUTE WITH Star Residential Care IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU AND Star Residential Care AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES OR THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Star Residential Care and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, subcontractors and suppliers from and against any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable Solicitors’ fees and court costs, arising or resulting from your use of the Site and any violation of these Terms of Use. If you cause a technical disruption of the Site or the systems transmitting the Site to you or others, you agree to be responsible for any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable Solicitors” fees and court costs, arising or resulting from that disruption. Star Residential Care reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and, in such case, you agree to cooperate with Star Residential Care in the defence of such matter.
Jurisdiction
The laws of the State of Victoria, Australia govern these Terms of Use and your use of the Site, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the State of Victoria for any action arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use. Star Residential Care recognizes that it is possible for you to obtain access to this Site from any jurisdiction in the world, but we have no practical ability to prevent such access. This Site has been designed to comply with the laws of the State of Victoria. If any material on this Site, or your use of the Site, is contrary to the laws of the place where you are when you access it, the Site is not intended for you, and we ask you not to use the Site. You are responsible for informing yourself of the laws of your jurisdiction and complying with them.
Changes to Terms
Star Residential Care may add to, change, or remove any part of these Terms of Use at any time, without notice. Any changes to these Terms of Use or any terms posted on this Site apply as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use this Site after any changes are posted, you are indicating your acceptance of those changes. Star Residential Care may add, change, discontinue, remove, or suspend any other Content posted on this Site, including features and specifications of products described or depicted on the Site, temporarily or permanently, at any time, without notice and without liability.
Entire Agreement
This agreement and any policies or operating rules posted on this Site constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Star Residential Care with respect to the subject matter thereof and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between the parties with respect to such subject matter. A printed version of these Terms of Use shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based on or relating to use of the Site to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this Site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. If any provision of this agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the agreement will remain in place.
General
Some features that may be available on this Site require registration. By registering at and in consideration of your use of the Site you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. Some features on this Site require use of a password. You are responsible for protecting your password. You agree that you will be responsible for any and all statements made, and acts or omissions that occur, through the use of your password. If you have any reason to believe or become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your password, notify Star Residential Care immediately. Star Residential Care may assume that any communications Star Residential Care receives under your password have been made by you unless Star Residential Care receives notice otherwise.
If any of the provisions of these Terms of Use are held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and replaced with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of these Terms of Use, so that these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Star Residential Care with regard to your use of the Site, and any and all other written or oral agreements or understandings previously existing between you and Star Residential Care with respect to such use are hereby superseded and cancelled. Other than as provided in a purchase agreement you enter into with Star Residential Care, Star Residential Care will not accept any counter-offers to these Terms of Use, and all such offers are hereby categorically rejected. Star Residential Care’s failure to insist on or enforce strict performance of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver by Star Residential Care of any provision or any right it has to enforce these Terms of Use, nor shall any course of conduct between Star Residential Care and you or any other party be deemed to modify any provision of these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use shall not be interpreted or construed to confer any rights or remedies on any third parties.