Terms And Privacy

Terms of Use

Welcome to The Working Party, which is operated by The Working Party Services Pty Ltd ACN 165 670 744 (The Working Party, we, us or our).

1. Services

1.1. By accessing or using The Working Party site (Services), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use.  

1.2. We may, on notice to you, vary these Terms of Use. Your continued use of the Services following any changes indicates your acceptance of the changes.

1.3. You must use the Services for lawful purposes and in a way which does not infringe the rights of any third party or restrict or inhibit anyone’s use of the Services. 

1.4. We do not represent or warrant that the operation of the Services will be secure, confidential, uninterrupted, error-free, accurate, complete or current.

2. Acceptable use

You must not: 
(a) copy, modify, or create derivative works based on the content available through the Services; 
(b) infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy or confidentiality of any third party;
(c) engage in any activity that may result in injury, death, property damage, and/or liability of any kind; or
(d) post or transmit any unauthorised material, including material that is (in our opinion) offensive, inflammatory, defamatory, racist, obscene or threatening.

3. Intellectual property rights

3.1. We own, or are the licensee of, the intellectual property rights in the content available on the site, including text, graphics, photographs, logos, icons, sound recordings and software.  These Terms of Use do not transfer any intellectual property rights from us to you or any third parties.  

3.2. You must not (without our consent): 
(a) adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of the content or material downloaded from the site; or
(b) use our name, logo, graphics, icons and imagery which appear on the site.

4. Linked websites

4.1. The Services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services.  

4.2. We do not make any representations or warranties in relation to, and we exclude all liability from, third party websites, products and services.  

5. Liability

5.1. Your use of the Services is entirely at your own risk. None of the information provided through the Services is in the nature of advice.  

5.2. To the extent permitted by law the Services and all third party content available to you through the Services are provided "as is" and "as available" for your use without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

6. Maintenance

We may at any time and without notice, modify, suspend or terminate the operation of, or access to the Services, or any part of, for any reason, to interrupt the operation of the Services, or any part of, as necessary to perform maintenance, error correction or other changes.

7. General

7.1. Nothing in these Terms of Use will be taken as giving rise to a relationship of employment, agency, partnership or joint venture.

7.2. These Terms of Use contain the entire understanding between you and us concerning the subject matter of the agreement and supersedes all prior communications. 

7.3. Any failure by us at any time to enforce these Terms of Use or any rights will not be a waiver of such rights, or affect the validity of these Terms of Use.

7.4. If any provision of these Terms of Use are held by a court to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under the applicable law, that term or provision will be severed from these Terms of Use and the remaining terms and conditions will be unaffected. 

7.5 These Terms of Use are governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of Victoria, Australia and the courts of the jurisdiction will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these Terms of Use. 

Privacy Policy

In the course of carrying out our activities The Working Party Services Pty Ltd (ACN 165 670 744) (The Working Party, we, us or our), and our subsidiaries and related bodies corporate, will collect, store, use and disclose personal information. We are committed to the protection of your personal information and to compliance with Australian privacy law.

Personal information

Personal information is information or an opinion about an identified or reasonably identifiable individual, whether or not the information or opinion is true and whether or not the information is recorded in a material form. 

Types of personal information we collect and hold

We collect and hold personal information about individuals for the provision of our services and purposes connected to those services. 

Consistent with the provision of our services, the types of personal information we may collect and hold include individuals’ name, address, telephone number, email address, city/country of residence, job title, experience and financial information.

How we collect and hold personal information

We may collect personal information directly from you in the course of providing our services, from our website and/or directly from you. 

Personal information is held securely, is subject to various security protections and is held only for as long as the information remains relevant to the purpose for which it was collected.

Purposes for which we hold, use and disclose information

We will not use or disclose personal information for any secondary purpose, unless that secondary purpose is related to the primary purpose for which we have collected that information, and you would reasonably expect the disclosure in the circumstances, or unless you consent to that use or disclosure.

The purposes for which we hold, use and disclose information include:
(a) conducting our business;
(b) responding to enquiries submitted to us;
(c) to communicate information about our products and services or third party products or services that may be of interest to you; and
(d) for our internal administrative, research, planning, marketing and product development.

Access and correction

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure any personal data we collect, use or disclose is up to date and accurate.  If you believe personal information we hold about you is not up to date or accurate, you may ask us to correct it.

You may ask us to provide you with details of the personal information we hold about you, and copies of that information.  We will respond to your request and attempt to provide you with the data within 30 days of receipt of your request.

If we provide you with copies of the information you have requested, we may charge you a reasonable fee to cover the administrative costs of providing you with that information.
Please direct all request for access and correction to office@theworkingparty.com.au

Overseas disclosure

We use cloud-based software, tools, and services to conduct our business (Netlify, Google Analytics, Campaign Monitor). These cloud services store data in the following countries, and others from time to time: Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom.

This means that in our use of such cloud services, we are likely to disclose personal information to entities in the same countries. The cloud services may, from time to time, change where they store data and we will review and update this list as we become aware of such changes, in accordance with the ‘changes to this policy’ section set out below.

Changes to this policy

We will review and update this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how we collect, hold, store and use personal information.

Complaints

If you consider a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) has occurred, you may direct your query to our Privacy Officer at office@theworkingparty.com.au and we will attempt to resolve your complaint.

If you do not consider our response satisfactory, you may contact the Australian Privacy Commissioner at its website www.oaic.giv.au or by telephone on 1300 363 992.