Terms of Use
General
The Pacific Gas website is a service provided by Pacific Gas for the following purposes:
- informing its customers,
- enabling Customers to provide information to Pacific Gas, and
- providing information and commercial services to business partners.
By accessing or otherwise using the Pacific Gas website you agree to be bound by these conditions of use and you acknowledge that Pacific Gas provides the Pacific Gas website to you on these conditions of use. Pacific Gas is entitled at its sole discretion to change, modify, amend, add or remove any part of these conditions of use and to change, amend or delete any features of the Pacific Gas website at any time without notice. Your continued use of the Pacific Gas website after this time constitutes an agreement by you to abide by and be bound by these conditions of use, as so amended.
Intellectual Property Protection
Pacific Gas owns all intellectual property in the Pacific Gas website, unless indicated otherwise. Subject to these conditions of use, Pacific Gas grants to you a non-exclusive and nontransferable limited licence to do the following:
- View and download information directly accessible through the Pacific Gas website.
- Use information directly accessible through the Pacific Gas website.
You agree that, subject to your use of the Pacific Gas website in accordance with the limited licence granted to you, you will not infringe Pacific Gas’ intellectual property in the Pacific Gas website and will not modify, copy, republish, frame, distribute or communicate any part of the Pacific Gas website or any information contained therein or otherwise use them in a way which will infringe Pacific Gas’ intellectual property or other property rights.
Disclaimer
Except as provided by law, the Pacific Gas website is provided “as is” and without any warranty or condition, express or implied. Pacific Gas does not warrant that the information contained in or accessible through the Pacific Gas website is accurate, suitable for your purposes or without errors, omissions or viruses nor does Pacific Gas guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to the Pacific Gas website.
You acknowledge that access and use of the Pacific Gas website (including the software operating in connection with the Pacific Gas website) may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of Pacific Gas’ control. Pacific Gas does not warrant the accuracy of any advice, opinion, statement, representation or other information displayed on or accessible through the Pacific Gas website. Subject to the provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Pacific Gas makes no representations or warranties in respect of the information and materials available on the Pacific Gas website or the means of accessing that information and material (including the software operating in connection with the Pacific Gas website).
Pacific Gas makes no warranty or representation and accepts no responsibility for any websites operated or controlled by entities other than Pacific Gas which are or may become linked or framed to or from the Pacific Gas website.
Use of Information
If you upload or otherwise provide any information or content in the course of accessing or using the Pacific Gas website, you agree that such content will be available to Pacific Gas to use in any manner it thinks fit, subject to applicable provisions of any legislation including (without limitation) privacy legislation. You agree that you will not upload or otherwise provide any content which:
- Is defamatory, fraudulent, unlawful, threatening, intimidating, harassing, harmful, hateful, abusive, tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, sexist, racist, homophobic, violent, degrading; or
- Infringes the intellectual or other proprietary interests of third parties; or
- Impersonates another person or entity, attempts to solicit personal information from another user, contains sexually explicit language or images, advertises or promotes the sale of products or services such as firearms, tobacco or alcohol, adult products and services and any other products or services Pacific Gas considers to be inappropriate; or
- Contains spam, chain letters, pyramid and other such selling and marketing schemes, computer viruses, computer code, files or programs or other harmful components that are designed to interrupt, destroy, change or limit the functionality of the Pacific Gas website or any other computer software, hardware or other electronic equipment, information which in any way impinges on another user’s use or enjoyment of the Pacific Gas website or otherwise breaches or encourages other users to breach these terms of use; or
- Violates any law, statute or regulation; or
- Forges information to disguise the origin of any content; and
- Encourages or incites any other customer to engage in any of the above behaviour.
You agree to grant Pacific Gas a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty- free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright you have in any content, in all media now known or not currently known. You also agree to waive any moral rights or similar rights you may have or may acquire in the future in that content in our favour.
Limitation of Liability
You agree that Pacific Gas is not liable to you or anyone else for any loss or damages (including direct, indirect, special or consequential loss) arising out of or in connection with the use of the Pacific Gas website, the use by Pacific Gas of information provided by you to Pacific Gas through the Pacific Gas website or any such loss or damage which may arise should you be unable to access the Pacific Gas website, for whatever reason and however arising, including negligence.
To the extent that Pacific Gas is able to limit the remedies available under these conditions of use, Pacific Gas expressly limits its liability for breach of a condition or warranty implied by virtue of any legislation to the following remedies (the choice of which is to be at Pacific Gas ‘s sole discretion):
- In the case of goods, any one or more of the following:
- The replacement of the goods or supply of equivalent goods;
- The repair of the goods;
- The payment of the costs of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
- The payment of the costs of having the goods repaired; and
- In the case of services:
- Supply of the services again; or
- The payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
You indemnify Pacific Gas against any action, liability, claim, loss, damage, proceeding, expense (including legal costs) suffered or incurred by us, arising from, or which is directly or indirectly, related to:
- Your breach or non-observance of any term of these conditions of use; or
- Any breach or inaccuracy in any of your representations or warranties.
Breach and Termination
If you breach any provision of these terms of use Pacific Gas may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend or permanently prevent your access to all or certain parts of the Pacific Gas website.
In any event, Pacific Gas may terminate these terms of use (and your right to use the Pacific Gas website) at any time and for any reason without prior notice to you.
Choice of Law and Use of Pacific Gas Website
These conditions of use, and the agreement of which they form part, is to be governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales, Australia. Pacific Gas has designed the Pacific Gas website for use only within the Commonwealth of Australia and makes no warranties or representations with regard to use by persons accessing, downloading or otherwise using the Pacific Gas website outside the Commonwealth of Australia. The Pacific Gas website is available only to people in Australia who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law.
No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created between you and Pacific Gas by these terms of use.
Security and Privacy
Pacific Gas constantly strives to improve and make its Online presence more attractive for you. Only by knowing which pages on our website are visited most frequently and how long our visitors spend there can we optimise the contents of the Pacific Gas websites to best suit your requirements. We process personal data collected during visits to our website in accordance with the data protection regulations applicable in the country where the entity responsible for processing the data is based. The websites of Pacific Gas may contain links to websites of other providers not covered by this data protection declaration.
The entity responsible for data processing regarding this website is Pacific Gas, Seaford, VIC, Australia.
Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data
When you access the websites of Pacific Gas, general information is automatically recorded. Such information does for example include the date of your visit, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and your IP address.
This exclusively refers to information which does not allow Pacific Gas to draw any conclusions about your personal identity and which is recorded only for the duration of the visit without being stored beyond the end of your visit. Such data is not merged with data from other sources. Personal data are stored only if you expressly and of your own accord provide them to us, for example within the scope of an enquiry, a registration, reservation, survey, contest or for performing a contract. The personal data collected by Pacific Gas are exclusively used for contract performance. Any other use takes place only with your express prior consent.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are text files containing information. They are stored on the hard drive of your computer without causing any damage there.
We use cookies to make our website more user friendly and access to our members’ area easier. By using cookies, we can provide log-in data upon your next visit as a personal preset feature, which for example enables you to store your password for registration in the members’ area.
For maintaining a log-in session, we therefore use so-called session cookies. Session cookies are small information units containing an arbitrarily generated identification number called Session ID, which are stored in your computer’s memory.
A session cookie furthermore stores information on its origin and storage period. These cookies cannot store any other data. As soon as you log out from the members’ area, the session cookies used are deleted.
Using and Passing on Traffic Data
Pacific Gas analyses the aforementioned data, including cookies, exclusively for statistical purposes and for its technical administration of the website. Data are not passed on to third parties, neither for commercial nor for non-commercial purposes.
You can, of course, also view our websites without cookies. Most Internet browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting the “do not accept cookies” option in your browser settings.
For details on how this works in detail, please consult the instructions provided by your browser manufacturer. You can delete any cookies already set on your computer at any time. However, if you do not accept any cookies certain functions on our website may be restricted.
Web Analysis
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to enable an analysis on how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will as a rule be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
To the extent that your IP address is collected for this purpose, it is always technically reduced and thus anonymised and untraceable. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA to be reduced there.
On our behalf, Google will use this information for analysing your use of the website, for compiling reports on website activities for us, and for providing other services to us relating to website and Internet usage.
Google may also disclose this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You can prevent the installation of the cookies by setting your browser accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you might not be able to fully use all the functions of this website.
Alternatively, you can prevent the collection of data and its transfer to Google by downloading and installing a dedicated browser plug-in: (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=). You will then be able to nonetheless use our website without restriction.
Social Media Integration
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the following social networks:
- facebook.com, operated by Facebook Ireland Limited Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland (“Facebook”)
- Google.com, operated by Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”)
These plugins are marked with the respective logo of the social network operator. When activating the plugins by simply clicking on them, you agree that a direct connection between the browser and the servers of the social networks is established and the respective social media button is loaded from there (e.g. the “Like” button on Facebook). At the same time, the social networks are informed that our website has been opened when you click on the plugins on our website.
If you are simultaneously logged in at the social networks, your visit to the web page can be allocated to your profile. The same also applies to the use of the plugin functions, e.g. by clicking on the “Like” buttons of Facebook. Such information is then also allocated to your respective account at the social networks.
Thus, the social network may collect and store further usage data. You can prevent this by logging out of the respective social network before visiting this website, or by not activating the plugins.
Information on what data are collected in detail by the respective social networks for their own purposes, and further information on the collection and processing of data and on the protection of your privacy, please refer to the data protection declarations provided by your social networks.
Security
Pacific Gas uses technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data in our possession from manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are constantly improved in accordance with new technological developments.
Rights of the Affected Parties
On request, Pacific Gas or the authorised representative responsible for your data will inform you immediately, in writing and in compliance with the applicable legal regulations, whether and what personal data we have stored about you.
If despite our constant efforts to ensure that our information is current and correct any data, we have stored proves to be incorrect, we will correct such information at your request. In addition, you are entitled to having your data blocked and deleted.
Defined Terms
Business Partner: means any distributor who has a current, signed distributor agreement with Pacific Gas.
Customer: means existing or potential customers of Pacific Gas or persons accessing or otherwise using the Pacific Gas Website for domestic or commercial purposes, other than Business Partners.
Pacific Gas: means Supagas Pty Limited ABN 50 074 008 496 trading as Pacific Gas.
Pacific Gas website: means the website accessible through the following address
www.pacgas.com.au operated Supagas Pty Limited ABN 50 074 008 496 trading as Pacific Gas.
You: means Business Partners or Customers of Pacific Gas as the case may be.
