Terms & Conditions

This website (Website) is operated by Claudia Rachel Maw as Trustee for The CRM legal Trust trading as Demeter Legal (ABN 70 115 548 464) (we, our or us).  It is available at: https://www.demeterlegal.com.au and may be available through other addresses or channels.

Consent: By accessing, using and/or browsing our Website, you agree to these terms of use and our Privacy Policy (available on our Website) (Terms). Please read these Terms carefully and immediately cease using our Website if you do not agree to them.

Personal information: You may be required to provide personal information such as your full name and email address. You agree that all details that you have provided in accessing our Content or making a booking are true and correct.

Your personal information is kept in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which can be accessed on our Website.

Variations: We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied terms on our Website. We recommend you check our Website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current terms. Materials and information on this Website (Content) are subject to change without notice. We do not undertake to keep our Website up-to-date and we are not liable if any Content is inaccurate or out-of-date.

Licence to use our Website: We grant you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, worldwide, non-transferable licence to use our Website in accordance with these Terms.  All other uses are prohibited without our prior written consent.

Prohibited conduct: You must not do or attempt to do anything: that is unlawful; prohibited by any laws applicable to our Website; which we would consider inappropriate; or which might bring us or our Website into disrepute, including (without limitation):

• anything that would constitute a breach of an individual’s privacy (including uploading private or personal information without an individual’s consent) or any other legal rights;
• using our Website to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person
• interfering with any user using our Website;
• tampering with or modifying our Website, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our Website, including (without limitation) using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our Website;
• using our Website to send unsolicited email messages; or
• facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

Exclusion of competitors: You are prohibited from using our Website, including the Content, in any way that competes with our business. 

No commercial use: Our Website is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not use our Website, or any of the Content, for commercial purposes, including any advertising or advertising revenue generation activity on your own website or any other platform, without obtaining a licence to do so from us.

Information: The Content is not comprehensive and is for general information purposes only.  It does not take into account your specific needs, objectives or circumstances, and it is not legal advice. We recommend you seek independent legal advice prior to relying on any information or documentation provided on the Website.

While we use reasonable attempts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Content, we make no representation or warranty in relation to it, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We will not be liable in any way for your use of, or reliance upon, the Content. All Content is prepared so that it is current at the date of writing or recording. It should be noted that such information can become out of date and you rely on the information wholly at your own risk.

To the extent permissible by law, we will not be liable for any expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damages) or costs which might be incurred as a result of the information being inaccurate or incomplete in any way and for any reason or your reliance on the information or advince in the Content.

Mailing list registration: You will be given the option to register for our email mailing list (Mailing List). If you choose to register for the Mailing List you agree to receive promotional material, updates and other content from us at periodic intervals.

Intellectual Property rights: Unless otherwise indicated, we own or licence all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in our Website and all of the Content. Your use of our Website and your use of and access to any Content does not grant or transfer to you any rights, title or interest in relation to our Website or the Content. You must not:

• copy or use, in whole or in part, any Content;
• reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any Content to any third party; or
• breach any intellectual property rights connected with our Website or the Content, including (without limitation) altering or modifying any of the Content, causing any of the Content to be framed or embedded in another website or platform, or creating derivative works from the Content.

User Content: You may be permitted to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit relevant information and content (User Content) on our Website.  By making available any User Content on or through our Website, you grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free licence to use the User Content, with the right to use, view, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, communicate, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, or otherwise exploit such User Content on, through or by means of our Website.

You agree that you are solely responsible for all User Content that you make available on or through our Website.  You represent and warrant that:

• you are either the sole and exclusive owner of all User Content or you have all rights, licences, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to us the rights in such User Content (as contemplated by these Terms); and
• neither the User Content nor the posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmission of the User Content or our use of the User Content on, through or by means of our Website will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

We do not endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, any User Content. We may, at any time (at our sole discretion), remove any User Content.

Third party sites: Our Website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.  Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites.  You should make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those websites. 

Discontinuance: We may, at any time and without notice to you, discontinue our Website, in whole or in part.  We may also exclude any person from using our Website, at any time and at our sole discretion. We are not responsible for any Liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.

Warranties and disclaimers: To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our Website or the Content, including (without limitation) that:

• they are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;
• access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses; or
• our Website will be secure.

You read, use and act on our Website and the Content at your own risk.

Limitation of liability: To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (Liability) suffered by you or any third party, arising from or in connection with your use of our Website and/or the Content and/or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage of our Website and/or any loss or corruption of data and/or the fact that the Content is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.

Such damage shall include, but is not limited to, any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, and/or any other intangible loss.

Indemnity: You agree to indemnify us, our affiliates, employees, agents, contributors, third party content providers and licensors from and against:

• all actions, suits, claims, demands, liabilities, costs, expenses, loss and damage (including legal fees on a full indemnity basis) incurred, suffered or arising out of or in connection with any User Content you post through the Website;
• any direct or indirect consequences of you accessing, using or transacting on the Website or attempts to do so and any breach by you or your agents of these Terms; and/or
• any breach of the Terms.

Termination: These Terms are effective until terminated by us, which we may do at any time and without notice to you.  In the event of termination, all restrictions imposed on you by these Terms and limitations of liability set out in these Terms will survive.

Disputes: In the event of any dispute arising from, or in connection with, these Terms (Dispute), the party claiming there is a Dispute must give written notice to the other party setting out the details of the Dispute and proposing a resolution. Within 7 days after receiving the notice, the parties must, by their senior executives or senior managers (who have the authority to reach a resolution on behalf of the party), meet at least once to attempt to resolve the Dispute or agree on the method of resolving the Dispute by other means, in good faith.  All aspects of every such conference, except the fact of the occurrence of the conference, will be privileged. If the parties do not resolve the Dispute, or (if the Dispute is not resolved) agree on an alternate method to resolve the Dispute, within 21 days after receipt of the notice, the Dispute may be referred by either party (by notice in writing to the other party) to litigation.

Severance: If a provision of these Terms is held to be void, invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision must be read down as narrowly as necessary to allow it to be valid or enforceable. If it is not possible to read down a provision (in whole or in part), that provision (or that part of that provision) is severed from these Terms without affecting the validity or enforceability of the remainder of that provision or the other provisions in these Terms.

Jurisdiction: Your use of our Website and these Terms is governed by the laws of Western Australia. You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in Western Australia and any courts entitled to hear appeals from those courts and waive any right to object to proceedings being brought in those courts.

Our Website may be accessed throughout Australia and overseas.  We make no representation that our Website complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside Australia.  If you access our Website from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our Website.

No conflict of interest: You understand, agree and warrant that by subscribing to our mailing list, and/or by accessing or downloading any resources from the website you are not engaging us to provide professional services to you, nor will you become a client of ours. You further understand, agree and warrant that any access to or download of resources from the Website will not in any way give rise to a conflict of interest, either direct, indirect or perceived, which may prevent us from acting in any legal matter to which you are a party.