Legal statement

This website is provided by Berlitz (Australia) Pty Ltd. (the “Company”) Any user of this website is requested to carefully read this Legal Statement when logging on to this website. If you do not accept terms and conditions set out in this Legal Statement or amendments thereto, please cease to use services provided by this website. By using any content provided by this website, including but not limited to viewing information on and downloading any content from and using third party links provided by this website, you are deemed to understand and agree to all terms and conditions set out in this Legal Statement.

Use of this Site

Unless applicable laws and regulations permit or the Company otherwise agrees, information on this website and any part thereof shall not be reedited, reproduced, simulated, copied or used for any commercial purpose unpermitted by the Company. If the Company confirms that any user acts illegally or against the interests of this website and the Company, the Company reserves the right to refuse to provide services, freeze or delete the member account and take relevant legal measures, among others.

Links

Links to Third Party Sites
Where necessary, this website will provide hyperlinks or directing services to other sites operated by third parties or provide content of third party sites on this website by framing or other means. Such “content” includes but not limited to any materials, documents, information, communications, software, graphics, logos, design, audio records, video records and voices contained in or available from this website and any other information provided by this website.

Links to third party sites are only for your convenience. The Company reserves the right to terminate links to third party sites at any time. Websites linked to this websites and their content as well as the products and services they describe or provide are beyond control of the Company. So the Company is not responsible for such websites and their content and products or services thereon (including further links to third party links). When deciding to access or use any site linked, you shall be aware of restrictions imposed by any terms and conditions applicable to the site and take discretionary preventive measures to avoid virus or other disruptive factors at the time of accessing or using the site. Any loss arising out of your access to or use of sites linked to this website is your own liability.

The Company makes no warranties or representations with respect to, and provides no endorsement, recommendation, approval or testimonial of, any site linked to this website and the content or descriptions displayed or any products or services provided on such sites. Unless the Company otherwise stipulates or agrees, the Company will not be a party to any agreement you enter into with the provider of any website linked to this website. The Company is not liable for any damage or loss (direct, indirect, special or incidental) arising out of any disruption, delay, omission or negligence of any content, product or services provided on any site linked to this website. Links to third party sites that appear on this website do not imply any affiliation with the Company or this website or any authorization to use any trademarks, trade names, logos or copyrights displayed on these sites linked to this website or directed by these links.

Links from Third Party Sites
If a third party links to this website, it is not necessarily an indication of an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, affiliation, joint venture or partnership by or with the Company. In most cases, the Company is not aware that a third party has linked to this website.

Forward-looking Statements

This website may contain some forward-looking statements, which include but not limited to statements with respect to the Company’s business operation strategy; statements with respect to the network expansion plan (including proposed capital investment relating thereto); statements with respect to the new-generation communication technology and other technologies the Company plans to develop and related applications; statements with respect to anticipated impact of fee changes on operating results of the Company; statements with respect to the impact of competition on operating results of the Company; statements of future development of the telecom industry in Australia (including industry restructuring and governmental policy changes); and other statements with respect to future business development and operating results of the Company. When statements contain “anticipate”, “believe”, project”, “expect”, “intend” and other similar words, all these words imply forward-looking statements as long as they relate to the Company.

These forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties. The Company does not guarantee ongoing updating of these forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements represent the Company’s current views of future events and do not constitute any guarantee of future performance of business. Actual results may materially deviate from forward-looking statements due to many factors, which include but not limited to: further restructuring of the telecom industry in Australia; changes in regulatory policies of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other relevant government agencies that have an impact on governmental approvals and permissions required, connection and transmission line arrangements, fee policy, priority level of capital investments and spectrum allocation; impact of competition on telecom services provided by the Company and prices; changes in telecom technology and related technologies that have an impact on the survivability and competitiveness of the communication network of the Company; and changes in politics, economy, law and society in Australia, including changes in Australia government’s policies on telecom industry access, foreign investment in the telecom industry and foreign companies’ entry into Australia telecom market, economic growth, inflation, foreign exchange and available line of credit. In addition, future network expansion and other capital investments and development plans of the Company are subject to many factors, including but not limited to the availability of sufficient financing on acceptable terms and conditions; availability of sufficient space to install network equipment on reasonable commercial conditions; our ability to develop and acquire new technologies and their applications; and availability of qualified managerial and technical personnel.

Protection of Privacy

Collection of Personal Information
Users may anonymously visit this website and acquire information. Before this website requests any personal information from users, this website will explain uses of such information. The Company collects personal information of users in a fair and legitimate manner only for lawful purposes relating to its businesses and operating activities. This website may send free data and information to users based on the user names, addresses, phone numbers and emails collected or make calls to users through valid, true phone numbers provided by users. Users have the discretion to decide how to dispose of any data and information from us or reject calls we made. The Company is not liable for any loss users suffer and/or cause due to their discretionary disposal or rejection of our calls.

When registering on this website, users must provide their true, correct, latest and complete data according to instructions contained in the service registry and update their personal information from time to time. The Company is not liable for any damage users sustain due to any incorrect, incomplete or outdated personal information provided by users. The Company reserves the right to recover from users any losses it sustains as a result of any incorrect, incomplete or outdated personal information provided by users.

Use of Personal Information
The Company has the right to use your personal information you provide for internal business purposes, such as promoting businesses of the Company and day-to-day management and operation of services and products the Company supplies to clients, monitoring use and security of this website, implementing internal control and preparing statistical data, planning and research; or designing services and products for use by clients; or promotion (including direct selling and market survey); or confirming, checking and/or recording and maintaining the contact lists with respect to communication and promotion; or solving disputes, eliminating problems and enforcing this Legal Statement; or enabling participants, associated participants or transferees in any business or operational activities of the Company to evaluate the related transfer projects and participation or associated participation projects; and any other purposes directly related to any of the foregoing items.

Persons entitled to use personal information of users for the foregoing purposes shall not be limited to the Company alone; rather, they shall include any affiliates, joint ventures, partners and advisors of the Company who have obtains due authorization from the Company and are connected with the business and operational activities of the Company, and any agents, contractors or third-party service providers who provide administration, telecom, computer, payment, content, information, information service and other services to the Company with respect to its business and operational activities.

Disclosure of Personal Information
This website will take reasonable security measures to protect the personal information provided by users. Without prior consent of users, this website will not provide personal information of users to any irrelevant third parties, unless:

  1. Otherwise required by competent authorities according to the laws and regulations.
  2. Non-open information of users is disclosed due to improper protection by users of their own information.
  3. Information is disclosed, lost, stolen or interpolated due to failures of the network lines, hackers attacks or computer viruses.
  4. For the purpose of protecting the rights and properties of users of this website.
  5. For the safety of this website, individual users or the public in emergencies.
  6. In other special circumstances or emergencies

The domain names, trademarks, trade names, information, texts, graphics, images, voices, links, software and all the other contents available on this website are provided by the Company, its content providers or third party licensees. The intellectual property (IP) rights in the foregoing contents are owned by the Company, its content providers or third party licensees, as the case may be.

Unless otherwise provided by law or agreed by both parties, the contents on the website shall not be copied, displayed, modified, transferred, distributed, republished, downloaded, pasted or transmitted in any format or by any means (including but not limited to reprography, xerography or recording) without prior written consent of the Company and/or other owners of the IP rights. The Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to any warranties of security, accuracy, integrity, merchantability, no infringement or fitness for any particular purpose or no computer viruses. You shall assume all liabilities and risks with respect to your use of this website.