Terms & Conditions
Tribe Social Fitness Pty Ltd
Terms and Conditions for use of the Website and for use of the ‘Tribe Social Fitness’ Programs
1. Terms and Conditions of use of the Program
1.1. The following terms and conditions (the ‘Terms of Use’) apply to the use of www.tribesocialfitness.com (the ‘Website’) and use of the Tribe Social Fitness Pty Ltd (‘Tribe’, ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘Our’) ‘TRIAL’.
1.2. In these Terms of Use the term ‘Program’ or ‘Trial’ is to be given its widest meaning and includes use of the Website, including the blog, services as specified on the Website, the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook pages or Instagram account and any material in any form (including printed, electronic or otherwise) which is provided to you by us or our employees or contractors.
1.3. By clicking “submit” you agree to pay for the Trial at the rate and in the manner specified on the Website as amended from time to time. All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and are inclusive of GST.
1.4. If you breach the Terms of Use, we may immediately suspend or terminate your use of the Trial, without refund, and take appropriate legal action against you. We may suspend or terminate your use the Program at any time if we consider that you have brought, or may bring, the reputation of Tribe Social Fitness into disrepute.
2. Seek advice from Medical Professional
2.1. By clicking “submit” you warrant that before beginning the Trial you have consulted a health care professional to ensure that you are mindful of your current health, any restrictions that are appropriate for you, and that you are satisfied that the Program is suitable for you. You should immediately seek medical attention if there are any unanticipated changes to your physical condition at any time.
2.2. No information contained in the Program is intended to be used as medical advice and the Program is not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical or mental health condition or for any therapeutic purposes. Before relying on any information in the Program, you should carefully evaluate the accuracy and relevance of the information for their purposes and obtain appropriate professional medical advice.
2.3. By clicking “submit” you agree to consult a qualified medical professional if you have any questions concerning your medical condition or any injury.
3. The Program
3.1. The ‘Trial’ Program will be delivered to you as described on the Website as updated from time to time.
4. Information Provided on Website
4.1. To the extent permitted by law, we do not make any representations or warranties that any information we provide is reliable, accurate or complete and we make no guarantees of any specific result from use of the Program. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from any action taken or reliance by you on any information or material of the Program or on the Website.
4.2. We may provide health, fitness or nutritional information for educational purposes. We do not offer or provide professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or rehabilitation.
4.3. The Website, Tribe Social Fitness Facebook pages or Instagram account may contain hyperlinks to other third party websites. Such links are provided for convenience only and we take no responsibility for the content of any hyperlink.
5. Nutritional Information
5.1. Nutritional information provided as part of the Program may be taken from sources provided by third parties. Before relying on any nutritional information as part of the Program, you should carefully evaluate the accuracy, completeness and relevance of this information for your own needs, and obtain appropriate expert medical advice relevant to your circumstances. We give no warranty that the Program is free from error or suitable for your needs.
5.2. Nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, changes in formulation, processing practices and ingredient source.
6. Recommendations
6.1. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable or responsible for any recommendations provided to you as part of the Program.
7. Injury
7.1. You are responsible for making your own inquiries and agree to seek independent advice from a healthcare professional before acting on any information or material made available to you as part of the Program. The Program may not be suitable for your particular circumstances and is not a substitute for obtaining specific advice from a qualified health care professional.
7.2. You agree that the Program is an information service only, and that you are solely responsible for (at your own discretion) following (or not following) the Program.
7.3. We are not responsible for any injuries that you may suffer as a result of the Program.
7.4. To the extent that we supply any ‘recreational services’ or ‘recreational activities’ within the meaning of the Competition and Consumer Act (2010) (Cth) or any State or Territory civil liability or consumer protection legislation or corresponding services or activities under any other applicable local law from your jurisdiction), you acknowledge that your participation in the recreational services and activities may involve risks, including personal injury and death. Prior to participating in the recreational services and activities, you must assess all the risks involved, including risks that may be caused by your own acts or omissions, your health condition, and risks that are not known to you or are not readily foreseeable at the time of participating in the recreational services and activities. By participating, you are doing so voluntarily and at your own risk. To the extent permitted and required by law, this is a risk warning pursuant to the various civil liability and consumer protection legislation. You assume all risks in connection with your participation in any recreational services and activities that we may provide as part of the Program. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability arising from or in connection with any recreational services or activities for: (1) death; (2) physical or mental injury (including the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of such an injury); (3) the contraction, aggravation or acceleration of a disease; and (4) the coming into existence, the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of any other condition, circumstance, occurrence, activity, form of behaviour, course of conduct or state of affairs: (a) that is or may be harmful or disadvantageous to you or the community; or (b) that may result in harm or disadvantage to you or the community, resulting from the supply of recreational services or recreational activities, but we do not exclude our liability to significant personal injury which is caused by our reckless conduct in the supply of recreational services or activities as part of the Program.
8. Quality of the Program
8.1. You can email us anytime with any questions, concerns or thoughts during the Program. We will use our best endeavours to respond to your questions, concerns or thoughts as soon as possible.
8.2. You acknowledge that the Program may not be error-free or uninterrupted. We do not warrant that any computer files as part of the Program will be free of viruses or contamination or destructive features. Receipt of emails, or other communications such as via Facebook or Instagram from us cannot be guaranteed. However, we will use our best endeavours to provide an alternative form of communication wherever possible.
9. Security of Information
9.1. No data transmission can be guaranteed as secure. While we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information.
10. Third party products or services
10.1. Members and third parties are not permitted to advertise or promote their products or services, or the products or services of others, on any part of the Website or on the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook pages or Instagram account; without prior written consent from us. If in our opinion you are engaged in advertising, promotion or providing advice to other members of the Program, then we reserve the right to suspend or terminate any member from participating in the Program.
11. Liability
11.1. We do not accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with or arising from use of the Program including acts, omissions and conduct of any person. Where information is made available to you by third parties, for example via the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook page, we do not purport to endorse the contents of that opinion or advice, nor do we guarantee the accuracy or completeness of that content, and we will not accept liability for loss or damage arising from your reliance upon any information obtained through the Program. It remains your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any such information.
11.2. The Program is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute or replacement for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation. The Program could contain a range of content including marketing materials, testimonials, recipes, encouragement, and interesting articles on third party sites.
11.3. To the extent permitted by law, in no event will we (or our employees, agents and subcontractors) be liable to you for indirect, special or incidental, punitive, exemplary or consequential loss, costs, expenses and damages (or any loss of revenue, loss of data, loss of profits or loss of opportunity whether the losses be direct or indirect), suffered or incurred by you and arising out of or in connection with your access to or use of the Program; regardless of whether liability is based on any breach of contract, tort (including negligence) or warranty, arises under statute, or any other basis of liability.
11.4. To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms is excluded. Where legislation implies any condition or warranty, and that legislation prohibits us from excluding or modifying the application of, or our liability under, any such condition or warranty, that condition or warranty will be deemed included but our liability will be limited for a breach of that condition or warranty to, at our option:
11.4.1. if the breach relates to goods, replacing, repairing or supplying goods equivalent to, those goods or paying the cost of replacing or repairing them or acquiring equivalent goods; or
11.4.2. if the breach relates to services, re-supplying, or paying the cost of re-supplying, those services.
11.5. To the extent permitted by law, our total liability in respect of all claims in connection with this agreement and the Program (whether based in negligence or any other tort, contract, statutory liability or otherwise) will be the total sum of all fees paid or payable by you under this agreement up until and including the date the cause of action accrued.
11.6. The limitation of liability set out in these Terms of Use does not attempt or purport to exclude liability arising under statute if, and to the extent, such liability cannot be lawfully excluded.
12. Indemnity
12.1. You agree to indemnify and keep us, our employees, agents and subcontractors, indemnified from and against any claims and all losses, expenses, damages and costs (including reasonable legal fees incurred on a solicitor/client basis) suffered or incurred by us, our employees, agents and subcontractors, or any third party, which arises as a result of your breach of these Terms of Use or as a result.
12.2. You agree to indemnity and hold us, our employees, agents and subcontractors, harmless against all demands, claims, causes of action, interest and costs which we, our employees, agents and subcontractors, may suffer as a result of your negligent actions and omissions.
12.3. You agree to indemnity us and our employees, agents and subcontractors, against all liability for loss, costs, damages, interest and expenses (including all legal costs incurred by us on a full indemnity basis) which may be paid, suffered or incurred by us, our employees, agents and subcontractors, in connection with any proceedings commenced by any person against us in any way relating to your conduct. Any such amounts will be payable by you on demand by us.
13. Intellectual Property
13.1. Unless otherwise indicated, the Program (including but not limited to its content, materials, recipes, exercise programs, text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings, video, software and advertisements) is owned or licensed by us.
13.2. We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to access, view, listen to, use the Program solely for your personal, non-commercial purposes and only for those purposes. No part of the Program may be reproduced, reused, retransmitted, adapted, published, broadcast or distributed without our prior written permission.
13.3. You must not:
13.3.1. share the Program with any other persons;
13.3.2. publish or post any of the Program’s content (such as recipes or exercise programs) on any other website, including on social media pages or websites;
13.3.3. use the Program to describe, market, endorse or promote any goods or services (including but not limited to goods and services such as meal plans and personal training services); and
13.3.4. register or maintain any social media pages or websites that misrepresent or are reasonably likely to misrepresent any affiliation with, or endorsement by, us or Tribe Social Fitness.
13.4. Despite anything in the preceding clause you can share information which is publicly available on the Tribe Social Facebook page or Instagram account, so long as in our opinion you do not bring the reputation of Tribe Social Fitness into disrepute
14. User-Generated Content
14.1. You may post information, photos, content, and/or upload materials to the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook page (User Content). We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor and review User Content from time to time and we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, remove or edit any of your User Content for any reason (or for no reason at all).
14.2. Notwithstanding our right to monitor, review and edit any User Content, we are not obliged to do so. We accept no responsibility or liability for any User Content. In particular, you acknowledge and agree that we do not authorise, condone or endorse any User Content of any other user, and are not responsible for the accuracy, legality or decency of such content. You are solely responsible for verifying the veracity of any claims or statements made in any User Content.
14.3. We are not responsible for how other users may use your User Content. You should take care before posting anything sensitive or personal about yourself to any part of the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook page of Instagram account that is accessible to the public or other users of the Program.
14.4. Some User Content may refer to events or activities that are organised by other users of the Program. We are not responsible for organising these events and activities, and do not authorise or endorse them. You are solely responsible for determining whether to participate in these events and activities, at your own risk.
14.5. You are legally responsible for all User Content you submit.
16. Variation
16.1. You agree to be bound by the latest version of the Terms of Use. We may vary, amend or add to these Terms of Use at any time.
17. Personal Information Collection Notice
17.1. In registering for access or using the Program, you may be required to give us certain personal information in which you have certain rights. Personal information relating to you which we collect, use and disclose may include sensitive information, such as information about your health, your details related to how you pay for our services. If you do not provide all of the personal information that we request, then we may not be able to provide all or some of the Program to you.
17.2. We collect, use and disclose your personal information for the reasons set out in our Privacy Policy. We usually disclose personal information that we collect on a confidential basis to our contractors and service providers (including financial service providers) so that they can provide services to us (so that we may provide services to you). Unless you ask us not to, we may also use your personal information to send updated information and other promotional material to you.
17.3. You consent to your personal information being used and/or disclosed for any reasons given to you by us (at the time of collection) in relation to the use and disclosure of your personal information, including the reasons set out in our Privacy Policy. You also consent to us using and disclosing information about your age, name, height and weight for the purposes of displaying your User Content, publicly profiling your fitness on the Website, the Tribe Social Fitness Facebook page or Instagram account, displaying the results of competitions, promoting the service and encouraging other members as well as to financial service providers to allow processing of your payments.
17.4. The Privacy Policy document contains information about how you may access personal information that we hold about you, and how you may notify us about a breach of the privacy laws.
18. Severance & Termination
18.1. We may in our sole and absolute discretion refuse registration, or suspend or terminate the Program at any time and for any reason.
18.2. If a provision of these terms is void, illegal or unenforceable, it may be severed without affecting the enforceability of the other terms.
19. Survival
19.1. The terms underneath the following headings survive the termination and expiry of this agreement: “limitation of liability”, “indemnity”, “intellectual property” and “user-generated content”.
20. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
20.1. This Agreement is governed by the law of the New South Wales, and the parties, submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.
21. Dispute Resolution
21.1. If a dispute arises out of or relates to the Terms of Use or the Program (including any dispute as to breach or termination of the Terms of Use or Program or as to any claim in tort, in equity or pursuant to any statute) neither party may commence any court or arbitration proceedings relating to the dispute unless they have complied with this clause except where they seek urgent interlocutory relief.
21.2. The party claiming that a dispute has arisen under or in relation to the Terms of Use or Program must give written notice to the other party specifying the nature of the dispute.
21.3. On receipt of the notice referred to in this clause by that party, both parties must endeavour to other resolve the dispute expeditiously using informal dispute resolution techniques such as mediation, expert evaluation, or determination or similar techniques agreed by them.
21.4. If the parties do not agree within seven days of receipt of the notice (or such further period as agreed in writing by them) as to:
21.4.1. The dispute resolution technique and procedures to be adopted;
21.4.2. The timetable for all steps in those procedures; and
21.4.3. The selection and compensation of the independent person required for such technique,
then they must mediate the dispute in accordance with the mediation rules of the recognised professional association for solicitors in the State of New South Wales.
21.5. The president of this professional association or the president’s nominee will select the mediator and determine the mediator’s remuneration.
21.6. If the mediation referred to above is not completed within four weeks of reference to a mediator either party may commence any court or arbitration proceedings relating to the dispute as they see fit.
21.7. The costs of the mediation will be borne equally by the parties.
22. General
22.1. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us and governs your use of the Program and supersedes any prior version of these Terms of Use between you and us with respect to the Program.
22.2. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver or relinquishment to any extent of our right to assert or rely upon any such provision or right in that or any other instance, and the same shall be and remain in full force and effect.
22.3. In these Terms of Use references to the parties is to be read as references to or including, as appropriate, their respective successors, transferees and assigns as well as employees, partners, agents and related bodies corporate.
22.4. If a provision, or part of a provision, of these Terms of Use are void or voidable that provision is servable and the remainder of this Agreement has full fare and effect.
22.5. You must not assign any of your obligations under the Terms of Use without our prior written approval. We may assign our obligations under the Terms of Use without prior notice to you.