Web Site Usage - Overview
The following rules and regulations apply to all visitors to or users of the hottie.com.au site, the home page of which is at http://www.hottie.com.au. By using this web site, you agree to be bound by these rules and regulations, as they may be modified by hottie.com.au at any time and posted on this web site. In the event of a violation of these rules and regulations, hottie.com.au reserves the right to seek all remedies available by law and in equity.
Limited License
Hottie.com.au's web site and all of its materials, including, but not limited to, its software or HTML code, scripts, text, artwork, photographs and images are the sole property of hottie.com.au. All stated materials are provided by hottie.com.au as a service to its current and prospective customers and may be used only for personal informational and product ordering purposes.
- you may not copy, reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, post, modify, create derivative works from, sell, license or otherwise exploit this site or any of its materials without hottie.com.au's prior written permission
- you may not access or use the hottie.com.au web site for any competitive or commercial purpose
- you will not permit any copying of our materials. Any unauthorised copying, alteration, distribution, transmission, performance, display, or other use of these materials is prohibited.
Usage By Minors
Hottie.com.au cannot prohibit minors (persons under 18) from visiting this site. Hottie.com.au must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising minors to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view. Hottie.com.au requires that all purchases be made by an adult. EACH TIME YOU PURCHASE A PRODUCT AT hottie.com.au, YOU ARE REPRESENTING TO hottie.com.au THAT YOU ARE AN ADULT.
Disclaimer of Warranty
Access to hottie.com.au is provided to our customers and prospective customers "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and without warranty of any kind, whether expressed or implied, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NONINFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. Hottie.com.au reserves the right to block or deny access to the site to anyone at any time for any reason.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This web site (excluding linked sites) is controlled by hottie.com.au from its offices within the State of Western Australia, Australia. By accessing this web site, you and hottie.com.au agree that all matters relating to your access to, or use of, this web site shall be governed by the statutes and laws of the State of Western Australia. You and hottie.com.au also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the State of Western Australia with respect to such matters. Hottie.com.au makes no representation that materials on this web site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so of their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Trademarks
Hottie.com.au and its affiliated companies retain all rights regarding their trade names, brand names and trade dress. These marks, names or trade dress, and all associated logos or images are registered and/or common law trademarks of hottie.com.au and are thus protected by Australian and international laws and treaties. No license to the use of such marks, names or trade dress is granted to you under these terms and conditions or by your use of the hottie.com.au web site. Your misuse of the trademarks displayed on the hottie.com.au web site is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that hottie.com.au will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of civil remedies and criminal prosecution.
Linking
Periodically, links may be established from this web site to one or more external web sites or resources operated by third parties. These links are provided for your convenience only. In addition, certain third party web sites also may provide links to the hottie.com.au web site. None of such links should be deemed to imply that hottie.com.au endorses any third party web sites or any content therein.
Hottie.com.au does not control and is not responsible or liable for any third party web sites or any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such third party web sites. Access to any third party web sites is at your own risk, and hottie.com.au will have no liability arising out of or related to such web sites and/or their content or for any damages or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with any purchase, use of, or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such third party web sites.
Special Notice
Hottie.com.au has a no-tolerance policy regarding the use of our names or trademarks in metatags and/or hidden text. Specifically, the use of our names or trademarks in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of our names or trademarks in page text, metatags, and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search engines is unfair competition. Linking to any hottie.com.au web page is prohibited without express written permission from hottie.com.au. Framing, inline linking or other association of the hottie.com.au web site or its materials with links, advertisements and/or other information not originating from the hottie.com.au web site is expressly prohibited.
Your Communications
Hottie.com.au shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the web site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information. Any personally identifiable information you provide to hottie.com.au through the web site shall be subject to the web site's Privacy Policy [insert link here to privacy policy page].
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL hottie.com.au BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR USE OF THIS SITE OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, COSTS OF REPLACEMENT, BUSINESS INTERRUPTIONS, LOSS OF DATA OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE INFORMATION PRESENT, EVEN IF hottie.com.au IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitations on liability may not apply to you.
Revisions
Hottie.com.au may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this web site, including the availability of any features of the site, at any time and without notice. Hottie.com.au also reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of these terms in whole or in part, at any time and without notice. Hottie.com.au may terminate the authorisation, rights and license given above at any time and without notice. Your continued use of this web site after any changes to these terms are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.
Product Returns
Hottie.com.au hopes that you are happy with your purchase. Please note, hottie.com.au does not accept returns on any items except as required by law.
Privacy
Hottie.com.au collects clients' information to enhance their shopping experience; the information is not shared with any other company for any reason.
General Browsing
Hottie.com.au gathers navigational information about where visitors go on our web site and information about the technical efficiencies of our web site and services (time to connect to our web site, time to download pages). This information allows us to see which areas of the site are visited most and helps us understand our customers' experience at hottie.com.au. This information helps us improve the quality of visitors' online shopping experiences by recognising and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (the domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected, which will provide information regarding a visitor's use of our web site (such as the time of a visitor's last visit to a page on our site).
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
We collect information from you that you provide to us at this site when you establish or update an account, enter a contest, participate in a survey, shop online, play a game, or use our sms facility. Categories of information collected include name, address, email address, recipient's email address, telephone number, credit card information and messages. This information is used to enable hottie.com.au to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfil requests that you have created, to contact you or the recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification, to respond to your inquiries and to deliver services and information about our products or web site to you. If you participate in a survey, we may use the information you provide in your responses to enhance and personalise our product offerings to you. We use third parties to help us provide services such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering and locating emails, and administering drawings or contests.
If you are visiting hottie.com.au from a location outside Australia, your order will be processed in and shipped from Australia, and all information you provide will be maintained in our web servers and/or internal systems located within Australia, and protected as noted in this privacy policy.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our web site, the site, or the public.
Use of Cookies
Hottie.com.au uses a browser feature known as a cookie, a text file placed on your computer and stored in your web browser. Cookies allow us to make our site more responsive to your needs by delivering a better and more personalised experience to you. The cookies are stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by hottie.com.au to help track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within our site. In addition, cookies are employed to help keep track of how many items you put into your shopping bag and to tell us whether you have previously visited our site. We also a technology known as clear gifs, which are typically stored in emails, to help us confirm your receipt of and response to our emails and to provide you with a more personalised experience. If you register with or purchase products through hottie.com.au, navigational information from previous browsing visits may be associated with the personal information you provide.
Updating Personal Information
We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information including billing and shipping information by logging into Your Account [insert link here].
Hottie.com.au. Email
Hottie.com.au Email allows you to receive exclusive information about special offers, media events, new products and much more. If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of our Email, please Click Here [insert link here]. Asking to be removed from our Email will not prevent you from receiving email communications relating to any online order you place or other operational email communications.
Applicability of Privacy Statement
This privacy policy statement applies only to the information collected online at hottie.com.au.
Questions / Changes in Policy
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us [insert link here]. If elements of our Privacy Policy change, we will post the policy changes in our Privacy Policy on this web site. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our site often for this and other important announcements about hottie.com.au.
Security Statement
Hottie.com.au takes the following types of security measures: use of technologies and policies such as limited access data centres, firewall technology, secure socket layer (SSL) certificate authentication, and limitations of administrative access to our systems. In addition, it is our policy not to send your credit card number via email. In fact, this is a practice we recommend you adopt in all of your Internet activities.
We designed hottie.com.au to accept orders only from web browsers that permit communication through SSL technology; for example, 3.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator and versions 3.02 or higher of Internet Explorer. This means you should not be able to inadvertently place an order through an unsecured connection.
While we implement the above security measures on this site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
This privacy statement is effective 1st October 2004.
