- Ownership
The website located at www.gamespace.com.au ("our website"), and the services provided through our website ("our services"), are owned and operated by Netspace Online Systems Pty Ltd ACN 067 116 269 ("we", "us", etc).
- Terms apply to our services
Use by any person ("you", "your", etc) of our services is subject to these terms and conditions.
- Registration and membership
You must be a member to use our services. To become a member you must complete our registration process, which requires the selection of a user name and password and the provision by you of other information. All information provided by you during the registration process must be true. Any personal information that you provide to us will be handled in accordance with our privacy policy. We may reject your username if it is offensive, racist, obscene or otherwise unlawful. You agree to keep your password safe at all times and not to disclose it to any other person. You are solely responsible for the security of your computer system. We may terminate your membership, and / or block your access to our website and / or our services, at any time and without warning.
- Games
We provide free games as part of our services. Before playing some games, you may be required to read and accept additional terms and conditions. Your use of such games is subject to those additional terms and conditions and these terms and conditions. Any inconsistencies between the additional terms and conditions and these terms and conditions will be settled by us at our sole discretion. All forms of cheating (including the use of aimbots, map exploits and graphic hacks) are strictly forbidden. Any cheats or errors which you discover must be reported immediately to us.
- Chat and forum facilities
We provide free chat and forum facilities as part of our services. When using the chat or forum facilities you must not:
- impersonate any other person (whether they are a member or not);
- use any language which may be considered by others to be offensive, racist or obscene, or otherwise infringes the rights of third parties;
- use the chat or forum facilities to harass, threaten, scam or deceive other members;
- use the chat or forum facilities to advertise other web sites or products;
- post, transmit, promote or distribute content that is harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy rights, or otherwise illegal;
- promote or encourage any illegal activity (including hacking, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software); or
- upload files that contain a virus or other harmful computer code.
For the purpose of preventing offensive language and cheating, we may automatically or manually censor the chat or forum content as we see fit, and we may record or monitor the chat or forum content to help us identify offenders. Sexually harassing, threatening, stalking or otherwise harassing others may result in legal action being taken against you.
Once you post or send any content via our chat or forum facilities, you grant us the right to quote, re-post, use, reproduce, modify, distribute, and otherwise communicate and publicly display the content in any form, anywhere, with or without attribution to your user name, at our sole discretion and without any notice or compensation to you of any kind.
- Use of services
When using our services, you must not (knowingly or by any negligent act or omission):
- harass, threaten or embarrass another member;
- attempt or do anything that interferes with the ability of other members to enjoy using our services in accordance with these terms or conditions;
- attempt or do anything that interferes with the network or equipment used to provide our services, or the network or equipment of any other person;
- post or communicate any member?s real-world personal information within the chat or forum facilities;
- use our services to collect information about other members or use such information to send unsolicited e-mail or for any other purpose;
- use our services trade in child pornography or other material that is illegal under Victorian State or Australian Federal law; or
- otherwise do engage in any activities that may expose us or any of our third party service providers to the risk of any legal or administrative action, including prosecution under any law.
- Linking from our web site
If our web site includes any links to other web sites, they are for convenience only. We do not endorse, approve, sponsor or adopt the contents of any linked web site. We make no representation that any material on a linked web site is true, accurate or suitable, or that linked sites are free from viruses or other harmful computer code. You use those web sites entirely at your own risk.
- Availability
We will make reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that our web site and our services are available 24 hours per day without any interruptions. However, we may make our web site and / or our services unavailable at any time or restrict access to parts or all of our web site and / or our services without notice.
- Support
If you require assistance or have any questions in relation to our services, you may contact our help desk. You must not contact any of our third party service providers.
- Copyright
Some of the content that is on our web site and / or provided through our services may be copyright to third parties and is used by permission. We own copyright in the whole of the rest of our web site and our services and the materials in them. You may not view, reproduce, adapt, distribute or otherwise use our web site, our services or any materials in them except as these terms and conditions expressly permit.
- Trade marks
Some trade marks on our web site may be owned by third parties and are used by permission. We own all other trade marks, registered or unregistered. Unauthorised use of any trade mark is prohibited.
- Your liability
If you use our services for any illegal purpose or for any purpose other than that expressly permitted by these terms and conditions or otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions, you will be liable to:
- indemnify us in full for any loss, liability or costs which we incur; and
- indemnify our third party service providers in full for any loss, liability or costs which they incur,
arising from or in connection with such use or alleged use.
- Limitation of liability
Our web site and our services are provided as-is, and without any kind of express or implied warranty.
We make no express or implied representation or warranty about the accuracy, currency, completeness, merchantability or fitness for purpose of any materials or information in our web site or provided through our services, and disclaim all such representations and warranties.
We make no express or implied representation or warranty that our web site or our services are free from viruses, defects or errors. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your computer system can defend itself against any such things.
As far as the law permits, you release us and our servants, agents and third party service providers from any claim arising in any way from your viewing or use of our web site or our services or any materials or information in our website or provided through our services. Neither we nor any of our third party service providers are liable to you for any loss or damage arising out of your use or inability to use our web site or our services. This limitation of liability extends, without limitation, to special, consequential, direct and indirect loss or damage and loss of income or profits, loss of information, business interruption and damage to property.
- Applicable law
Our web site is operated from Victoria, Australia. Any legal action in relation to our web site or our services must be taken in the courts of Victoria, Australia. Your use of our web site and our services, and these terms and conditions, are subject to the laws of Victoria, Australia.
- Foreign laws
Our web site may be viewed, and our services may be accessed, from jurisdictions other than Victoria, Australia. We do not represent that they comply with the laws of any other jurisdiction. If you view or use our web site or our services from another jurisdiction, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your viewing and use are lawful in that jurisdiction.
- Amendments to these terms
