Terms of Use

Welcome to our website. We have prepared these Terms of Use as a guide to assist you to get the most out of our website.

Your use of our website indicates that you accept these Terms of Use below. If you use our website in the course of your business or work, you are also agreeing to our Terms of Use on behalf of that business.

These Terms of Use apply only to our website and do not apply to any websites or services outside of the www.aprtanks.com.au domain.

1. About Us

The APR tanks website www.aprtanks.com.au is operated by Lokan Nominees Pty Ltd as trustee for APR Trust trading as APR Tanks (A.B.N. 75 858 453 725). Our registered office is located at 29-33 Woomera Avenue, Edinburgh SA 5111 Australia.

2. Accessing our website

You acknowledge that these Terms of Use are reasonable. You further acknowledge that such consideration includes your use of our website and receipt of data, content and information available at or through our website.

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service of our website without notice. We may change or delete the content or any features at any time, in any way, for any or no reason. We will not be liable if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period. We may in exceptional circumstances cease to publish the website and/or the website content. If we do so, then we will have no further obligation to you. By accessing our website, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs and expenses (including legal fees) arising from or in connection with your use of or inability to use our website.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use, and that they comply with them.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

All information, materials, functions and other content contained on our website are our copyrighted property or the copyrighted property of our clients. All such rights are reserved. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, and trade dress are proprietary to us and/or our clients. 

You may print off one copy of any page from our website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others, including, within your organisation to material posted on our website.

Except as set out above, no part of our website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission.

4. Reliance on Information posted

Information, materials, functions and/or other content posted on our website is not intended to amount to advice on which you should place any reliance. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on information, materials, functions and/or other content by you and/or any visitor to our website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of it.

Any of the material on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

5. Our Liability

The information, materials, functions and/or other content displayed on our website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

◦ loss of income or revenue;

◦ loss of business;

◦ loss of profits or contracts;

◦ loss of anticipated savings;

◦ loss of data;

◦ loss of goodwill;

◦ wasted management or office time;

◦ and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

6. Viruses, Hacking and other Offences

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you commit a criminal offence. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You should take all appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is accessed through or downloaded from our website is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage your computer system, software or data.

7. Links

You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. If we request, you must remove or modify any link to our website.

Our website must not be framed on any other website. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Our website may contain hyperlinks to other websites and services from time to time. These links are provided for information and convenience only and we take no responsibility for our content and maintenance of, or privacy compliance by, any linked website or service.

Unless otherwise indicated, any hyperlink on our website to another website or service does not imply our endorsement, support, or sponsorship of the operator of that website nor of the information, services and/or goods which they provide.

8. Cookies and data activity

We may use standard technology called ‘cookies’ and similar technologies on our website. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer when you visit a particular app or website, which allow your web browser to remember certain information.

By using our website, you agree to our use of cookies and our website will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website. You may disable cookies by turning them off in your browser, however some functions of our website will not be available to you if you do this.

Sometimes information that you upload is provided with associated metadata. If you do not want us to use the metadata you must remove it before uploading it onto our website and other applications and tools.

We may collect data that is associated with your visit, including the pages you visit, the activities you do and the purchases you make etc. We may also collect information relating to the mobile phone or other device including the device type, the browser, location, IP address and search words used. We may collect, use and disclose and store this information in any of the ways set out in our Privacy Policy (also available on our website).

9. Email communication

We may correspond with you by electronic means, such as email or via our website. As you are aware, electronic communication is not secure and may be read, copied or interfered with in transit or impaired. You agree to assume the risks associated with transmission of data, and to release us from any claim you may have arising from transmission defects.

By creating a user account, you agree that we may send you communications as part of the normal operation of our website and associated services. You may opt-out of receiving communications from us at any time. You acknowledge that opting out of receiving communications may impact your use of our website or provision of services.

You are responsible for obtaining the data network access necessary to use our website and to receive communications from us. Your mobile network’s data and messaging rates and fees may apply if you access or use our website from a wireless-enabled device. You are responsible for such rates and fees.

You are responsible for acquiring and updating compatible hardware or devices necessary to access and use our website. We do not guarantee that our website, or any portion thereof, will function on any particular hardware or devices. In addition, our website and any communications may be subject to malfunctions and delays inherent in the use of the internet and electronic communications.

10. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by the law of the State of New South Wales, Australia. Any dispute or claim shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country. 

We make no representation that the website or the content on the website is appropriate or available for use in any particular location. If you choose to access our website you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws including any applicable local laws.

11. Events Outside Our Control

We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or a delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (“Force Majeure Event”).

A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:

• Strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action.
• Civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war.
• Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster.
• Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
• Impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks.
• The acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.

Our performance is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.

12. General Provisions

Variations: We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are required to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our website. The Terms of Use (as varied) will be binding on you and us from the date the variation is posted on our website.

Severability: If any of these Terms of Use are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Waiver: If we fail to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under any of these Terms of Use, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default. No waiver by us of any of these Terms of Use shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing.

Interpretation: Headings in these conditions shall not affect their interpretation. A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as it is in force for the time being, taking account of any amendment, extension, or re-enactment and includes any subordinate legislation for the time being in force made under it.

Suspension or termination of access: We may suspend or terminate your right to access and use our website at any time if you breach these terms.

13. Dispute resolution

Any dispute that arises out of these terms must first be referred to us for resolution using the contact email address at the end of these terms. You must provide us with details of the dispute together with your name and phone number. We will do our best to resolve this dispute by discussion with you within 20 working days of being notified.

If we are not able to resolve the dispute in that time frame, then it may be referred to a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction.

14. Contact us

For any queries, complaints or requests regarding these terms, please contact us at sales@aprtanks.com.au.

Last updated on 30.4.21