Terms & Conditions
Melrose Agency Pty Ltd is pleased to set out our Terms and Conditions, which will apply to the work we do for you. These Terms and Conditions and the Quote/Production Estimate supplied to you form the contract between us for the provision of Melrose Agency's services.
1. Definitions
The Agreement, as varied from time to time in writing, applies to all sales of goods and the provision of all services by the Supplier to the Client pursuant to the Agreement.
"Client" or "you" means the entity, acquiring goods or services from us in the Engagement Letter.
"Engagement Letter" means this document including the Terms and Conditions, schedules and annexures set out herein.
"Services" means the scope of the services specified in the Proposal, Engagement Letter, or as varied in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
2. Offers
The Client engages the Supplier to provide the Services as defined in the Proposal. To accept the Supplier's offer to provide the Services, the Client must execute this agreement or pay either the agreed deposit or agree to a payment schedule (any of these acts, individually or combined is considered "Acceptance"). If Acceptance does not take place within 28 days from the date the Agreement is provided to the Client, then the Supplier's offer to provide the Services will expire without further notice to the Client.
3. Services
Only the services which are listed in the attached schedules are included within the scope of our instructions. If there is additional work that you wish us to carry out which is not listed in the schedule, any additional work will be quoted to you before the commencement of said additional work.
Once the scope of the additional work is agreed upon, we will issue an additional or updated letter of engagement via our online proposal system, and will ask you to sign the new agreement before we commence the new work.
Furthermore, the Client agrees that if an unanticipated need arises, this additional work will be performed only after arriving at a mutually agreed-upon price and a Change of Service Request is accepted with a digital signature.
4. Fees
The Client agrees to pay the Supplier the Fees for the Services as contained in the Proposal. The Supplier may, at the cost of the Client, engage the services of a debt recovery agency or law firm to assist it with recovery of the Fees, if payment is more than 30 days late.
7. Confidentiality
A party must not, without the prior written consent of the other party, use or disclose the other party's Confidential Information unless expressly permitted by this Agreement or required to do so by law or regulatory authority.
• use the Confidential Information of the other party solely for the purposes of complying with its obligations and exercising its rights under this Agreement; and
• disclose the Confidential Information to its employees or advisers to the extent necessary for them to know the information for the purposes related to this Agreement but only if reasonable steps are taken to ensure that the confidentiality of the information is retained.
The Client will be in breach of this Agreement upon:
a. failing to pay the Fees in accordance with the Proposal or agreed payment schedule;
b. contravening any obligations pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;
c. failing to respond to the Supplier's communication in a timely manner;
d. failing to act in a professional manner;
e. disparaging the Supplier on social media, forums, reviews or websites;
f. failing to supply adequate access to any of the following: client's website, advertising platforms, email marketing platforms or CMS logins within 14 days of signing the Agreement.
The Supplier may terminate this Agreement if the Client has failed to remedy any breach within 14 days of notice. If the Client cancels any Direct Debit Authority, this does not affect the Client's liability to pay the Fees in full under the Agreement.
6. Breach & Termination
5. Notices
All notices must be in writing and can be given by:
1. Hand delivery; 2. Registered post; or 3. Email.
A notice is deemed to be given and received:
• If delivered in accordance with clause 1, on the next Business Day after delivery;
• If sent in accordance with clause 2, in 5 Business Days after the day of posting; or
• If delivered in accordance with clause 3, on the next Business Day after sending.
10. Warranties
Each party warrants that:
• the execution and delivery of this Agreement has been properly authorised;
• it has full corporate power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement;
• this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of it enforceable in accordance with its terms by appropriate legal remedy;
• other than in relation to material included in the Services by the Client or any third party from time to time, any use of the Services by the Client in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the right of any party and will not breach any applicable law.
In addition, the Client warrants that any material which the Client causes to be published, displayed or contained with the provided Services will not contain any illegal or unethical material and the copyright for all, text, images and materials used is owned by the Client.
11. Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
The technology and content provided by the Supplier, unless specified otherwise in writing is owned by or licensed to the Supplier. Content includes but not limited to text, graphics, logos, icons, images, sound clips, video clips, data compilations, page layout, underlying code and software.
For all content, imagery or photography provided to the Supplier in the provision of the Services, the Client hereby warrants:
a. they own the intellectual property rights in that content;
b. that content does not infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party;
c. that content is not fraudulent, stolen, or otherwise unlawful;
d. that content does not violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, or criminal law);
e. that content is not defamatory, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; and
f. that content does not contain viruses or other computer codes, files or programs which are designed to limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware.
The Supplier at its sole discretion reserves the right to refuse any content it considers to be in contravention with any of the above statements.
The Supplier and its licensors retain all proprietary rights to that content and technology and other intellectual property rights in any work created, commissioned or otherwise acquired by the Supplier during the implementation of the Services until full payment has been received.
Upon full payment, the Supplier hereby agrees to transfer to the Client all rights title and interest in the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all artwork, manuals, information, material reports, source code and other output which is produced, extended or modified during the implementation of the Services.
12. Responsibilities of the Client
The Client acknowledges that if a debit is returned by his/her/its financial institution as unpaid, a failed payment fee is payable by the Client to the Supplier. The Client will also be responsible for any fees and charges applied by his/her/its financial institution for each unsuccessful debit attempt together with any collection fees, including but not limited to any debt recovery agency or law firm's fee, as may be incurred by the Supplier. The Client authorises the Supplier to attempt to re-process any unsuccessful payments after 3 business days. If the payment remains unsuccessful after 14 days, the Client authorises the Supplier to suspend all services, pending full payment. In the event of a failed payment, the Client agrees to pay the Supplier an administrative fee of $12 per failed transaction within 7 days of an invoice being provided.
13. Assignment
No party may assign or otherwise deal in any way with its rights under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party.
Variation
This Agreement may only be amended or varied in writing signed by all the parties.
14. Waiver
Any rights under this Agreement may not be waived or varied except in writing signed by the party to be bound. Unless otherwise expressly stated in the Contract, no waiver or relaxation in whole or in part of any of the terms and conditions of the Agreement will be binding on the Supplier unless in writing and signed.
8. Indemnity
The Client hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to indemnify and keep indemnified the Supplier, its officers, employees and agents against any and all, including Third Party, actions, claims, demands, losses, liabilities or costs (including legal costs) that arise, or result from, or are in any way connected with the Services, including but not limited to the sale of any product or service via the Client's Website.
9. Limitation of Liability
The Supplier excludes all liability in respect of loss of data, interruption of business or any consequential or incidental damages or loss.
To the full extent permitted by law, the Supplier excludes all representations, warranties or terms (whether express or implied) other than those expressly set out in this Agreement or the Proposal. If failure to supply is caused by matters beyond the Supplier's reasonable control including (without limitation) acts of God, acts of any government, war or other hostility, national or international disaster, the elements, fire, explosion, power failure, equipment failure, strikes, lockouts, inability to obtain necessary supplies and any other force majeure occurrence. This Agreement is to be read subject to any legislation, which prohibits or restricts the exclusion, restriction or modification of any implied warranties, conditions or obligations.