LocalFitness.com.au Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy Welcome to LocalFitness.com.au, a fitness-related website that allows you to easily find fitness solutions that fit your lifestyle. The LocalFitness.com.au service and network (collectively, "LocalFitness.com.au" or "the Service") is operated by LocalFitness Pty Ltd (collectively, "us", "we", "LocalFitness" or "the Company"). By accessing or using our web site at www.localfitness.com.au or the mobile version thereof (together the "Site), you (the "User") acknowledge and warrant that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"), whether or not you are a registered member or business listed with LocaFitness.com.au. All content on the Site and available through the Service, including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of the Company, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved.

No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without the Company's prior written permission, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally post on the Site. Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and the Site Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact.

Except for your own User Content, you may not upload or republish Site Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly prohibited. You agree not to copy, republish, frame, download, transmit, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, license, sublicense, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on the Site or its Materials or their selection and arrangement, except as expressly authorised herein.

In addition, you agree not to use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction methods in connection with the Site. The Site or any portion of the Site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent. Any use of the Site or the Site Content other than as specifically authorised herein, without the prior written permission of Company, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorised use may also violate applicable laws including without limitation copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes.

Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause. You are solely responsible for the photos, profiles, messages, notes, text, information, music, video, advertisements, listings, and other content that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on or through the Service or the Site, or transmit to or share with other users (collectively the "User Content"). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site or Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree that the Company may, but is not obligated to, review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Site Content or User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including without limitation User Content that in the sole judgment of the Company violates this Agreement or the LocalFitness Abuse Policy, or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content you post or store on the Site or provide to the Company. The parties agree that insofar as permitted by law, the Company retains ownership in all Site Content & User Content posted on the site and has the final right to determine what may or may not be posted on the site.

When you post User Content to the Site, you authorise and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. We know that your privacy is important to you, so your privacy as you use our site is very important to us. This Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. We will comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to any personal information you provide. If you have any questions please email us To take advantage of any ‘Voucher or Special Offer’ listed by registered businesses at the Site, we ask you to provide details including your name and phone number. This information is personally identifiable information because it allows us to contact you and distinguish you. This information is used for aggregate reporting to businesses who have listed the vouchers and is deleted from our system periodically.

We may receive additional personally identifiable information from you through communications with the Site. If so, we will use that information to fulfil your request and for aggregate reporting before deleting it from our active system. For example, if you email us to offer suggestions about our service or website, we will use that information to give you an answer. But we will also use that information to make our service better by reporting your request, without any personally identifying information, in our monthly site reviews. In order to maintain and improve the Site, we gather some statistical data when you visit the Site. The exact information we collect may vary, but can include the date and time of an access to our site, the Internet Protocol address of a computer requesting a page, the pages requested, and computer and connection information such as browser type and operating system. We do not associate this statistical information with your personally identifiable information. In addition, if you respond to a poll or a research questionnaire, we will aggregate your responses with those of other the Site users but we do not associate your response with any personally identifiable information. There are many ways to submit information to be posted on the Site including participating in our forums. In each of these circumstances, the Site gathers information from you. Be aware that anything you submit to the Site through these services may be made public, so please remember not to include any information you want kept private. Information submitted to forums can be read, recorded and used by any third party or by the Site. Like many web sites, we may use "cookies", which are stored on your computer and contain small amounts of information sent by the Site to your computer and read by the Site when you visit the different pages of our website. For example, cookies allow us to remember usernames and passwords (if applicable) as you navigate around our site. We also use AdWords' conversion tracking feature which uses cookies - see here for more information.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used by these companies, click here. Like many web sites, the Site may also use web beacons, also known as pixel tags, spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding of site traffic, visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns, as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement. We may also implement pixel tags provided by other companies, for the same purpose. Information collected through the use of activity tags on our site is never linked to any personally identifiable information The Site is not directed to children under the age of fourteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of fourteen. In order to access certain parts of this Site, or process certain transactions offered on this Site, you must become a registered user. We reserve the right to terminate your registration and to withdraw your access to the Site at any time if you breach these terms and conditions, or if we consider that you are using the services provided on the Site in an inappropriate manner. You agree to pay for the services provided on the Site in the manner specified on the Site. We do not rent, sell, transfer or otherwise disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party, except as expressly stated below. As noted, we gather the information discussed above for purposes of providing and improving the Site. For example, we may use the information we gather to make decisions about system upgrades and to communicate with you about updates and new features.

We also aggregate information supplied by users during registration and information about their use of the Site to maintain our services and describe our user base to potential partners, investors, and advertisers. In providing this information, however, we do not reveal any personally identifiable information. We may only supply summary data about our community of users. There are some limited circumstances in which we may need to disclose personally identifiable information about you, and we think it is important that you know about them.

We may employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, such as providing customer service, sending mail, processing credit card payments, hosting message boards or other functions necessary for us to provide services to you. We may need to share your personally identifiable information with these companies. However, we will provide them with only the information necessary to perform their functions, and will not allow them to use that information for any other purposes.

In the interest of enhancing our service, we may form partnerships with other web-based services. Some of these partnerships may include the sharing of some of your personal information with our partners in order to extend these services to you. We require that our partners respect your privacy and not disclose your information to other organisations without your consent, but beyond that, our partners’ use of your information is governed by their privacy policies. We may reveal user information if we believe that a user is harming or interfering with other users of the Site, anyone else, or violating (either intentionally or unintentionally) our Terms & Conditions, or infringing any LocalFitness Pty Ltd's rights, or trespassing on, damaging, or abusing any LocalFitness Pty Ltd properties.

You agree that when providing a mobile number or e-mail address to LocalFitness, unless otherwise requested by you, you agree to receive special offers and promotional material sent to the relevant mobile phone number and/or e-mail address by LocalFitness or LocalFitness' partners.

We will reveal information, including personally identifiable information, to the extent we believe it is required to do so by law. If we are asked by subpoena or other legal means to disclose any of your personally identifiable information we will, if permitted by law, attempt to notify you via the e-mail address you supplied during registration at least ten days before we respond to the request. We may transfer any information, including any personally identifiable information, in connection with a sale of all or most of the assets of the company. We are committed to ensuring that you have control over your personal or business information. You can change your password and login details (business registrants only) and all of your other information by logging into the Account Management section. When you become a registered used, we provide you with a password. Your user account is password protected so that only you may use it. You must keep that password confidential and not provide it to anyone. We will never ask for your password by phone or e-mail. Also, remember to log out from the Site and to close your browser window when you have finished to ensure that others cannot access your account, personal information and correspondence. We have put in place a number of industry standard security measures to make sure your data is safe from loss, misuse, or alteration. These include industry standard encryption, firewall and other data security practices. Our employees and contractors may be given access to member data and if so, only on a password-protected basis. It is our employment policy that this information is to be treated with the utmost confidentiality, and any misuse of this information is grounds for disciplinary action, including termination. We reserve the right to change the Terms of Use at any time by posting the changes on the Site. You are responsible for keeping up to date of any changes by regularly reviewing these Terms of Use. If you access the Site after any changes are posted, you agree to all changes. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our terms & conditions, please email us No claim is made as to the accuracy or authenticity of the content of the Site. We do not accept any liability to any person for the information or advice (or the use of such information or advice), which is provided on the Site or incorporated into it by reference. The information on the Site is provided on the basis that all persons accessing the Site undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content.

We do not accept any liability to any person in reference to using or visiting any facility listed on or registered with the Site and any use of or visit to any facility listed or registered on the Site is at the individual’s own risk. We do not accept any liability to any person in reference to purchasing health and fitness services provided by any facility listed on this Site and any use of or visit to any facility listed following a purchase on this Site is at the individual's own risk.

We cannot accept any responsibility for the loss, damage to equipment, stock or persons during a visit to a facility or external advertiser’s premises as a result of a ‘Voucher or Special Offer’ downloaded from the Site or any purchase from the Site. Any and all conditions of use, must be abided by any individual if visiting a facility or business or service provider that is advertising or is listed on the Site.

The information contained in the Site is not to be displayed, except in full screen format. No liability is accepted for any information or services, which may appear in any other format. No responsibility is taken for any information or services, which may appear on any linked websites. Except as provided by law, a refund of any purchase made from the Site will only be granted in accordance with this Refund Policy.

If you make a purchase of health and fitness services provided by a facility listed on this Site, you may request a full refund within 14 days after you have made the purchase in writing (by email) to LocalFitness. If more than 14 days has passed since the purchase, you are not entitled to any refund.

Upon receipt of your email request, LocalFitness will confirm with the facility that you have not attended the facility. If the facility confirms that you have not attended, LocalFitness will arrange for a full refund of the purchase price to be credited to the credit card or bank account details provided at the time of purchase.

Attendance at any facility within the 14 days, despite not using any of the services available at the facility, will be considered as bringing an end your right to a refund provided by this policy. If this Agreement constitutes a supply of goods or services to a consumer as defined in the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974 or relevant legislation in force in Australian States or Territories ("the Acts") nothing contained in this Agreement excludes, restricts or modifies any condition, warranty, right or remedy pursuant to which the Acts are applicable or is conferred on the Client where to do so is unlawful, in which event our liability (or the liability of any of our affiliates) for any breach of this Agreement, including any liability for consequential loss which the Client may suffer or incur will be limited as we may elect in our sole discretion, in the case of services supplied or offered by us, to either
(a) the supplying of the services again; or
(b) the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again or, in the case of goods supplied or offered by us,
(c) the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods,
(d) the repair of such goods,
(e) the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or acquiring equivalent goods, or
(f) the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired. We use our best endeavours to minimise viruses and bugs from infiltrating the Site, however due to the nature of the internet from time to time the Site may be affected by viruses or bugs. We accept no responsibility for any damage or loss whatsoever which may be caused in relation to same. The entire contents and design of the Site, including all trade marks, text, images and audio and video files, is proprietary to us or our content providers and other companies and is protected by copyright laws. This includes logos & trademarks in all Site content - these being registered®, trademarks™ and/or copyright© by the respective company or corporation. The Site is for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not reproduce, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, communicate, display, publish or use any material contained in the Site and/or our e-newsletters without our express prior written permission or the permission of the relevant copyright owner. You may not use any of the information on the the Site for commercial purposes or to establish, operate or maintain your own product or service offering. Postcode mapping information supplied by, and copyright FindMap.

A select few of the photos that appear on the Site (photos that were taken by LocalFitness and for which LocalFitness owns the copyright) have been contributed by LocalFitness to Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us and our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors and suppliers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable solicitor's fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms and Conditions or any activity related to your service account (including infringement of third parties' intellectual property rights anywhere in the world or negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the Site using your login credentials. You agree that to the extent permitted by law neither we, nor our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors or suppliers shall have any liability to you under any theory of liability or indemnity in connection with your use of the Site. You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have against us or our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors or suppliers (including but not limited to claims based upon our negligence or the negligence of our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors or suppliers) for any loss or damage you sustain in connection with your use of the Site. Except where such limitation is prohibited by law, in no event shall we, our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors or suppliers be liable to you for any loss or damage other than the amount referred to above, and their liability for all other loss or damage, whether direct or indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive, arising from any use of the Site is hereby excluded even if we or our officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers, partners, advertisers, licensors or suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Neither we, nor any of our affiliates, directors, officers or employees, nor any third party vendor will be liable or have any responsibility of any kind for any loss or damage that you incur in the event of any failure or interruption of the Site, or resulting from the act or omission of any other party involved in making the Site or the information contained therein available to you, or from any other cause relating to your access to or your inability to access the Site or that information, whether or not the circumstances giving rise to such cause may have been within our control or the control of any vendor providing software or services support to us. The provisions of Indemnification and the Waiver, Release and Limitation of Liability are for our benefit and the benefit of our officers, directors, employees, agents, partners, advertisers, information providers, licensors and suppliers. Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on its own behalf.

Miscellaneous: Advertisers and sponsors of the Site and/or its e-newsletters have no influence on editorial content or presentation. You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions without our prior written consent. Our relationship with you under these Terms and Conditions is one of independent contractors and not of partnership, joint venture or principal and agent. We will send any legal notices or communications regarding your service account to your nominated email address. Please ensure that a valid email address is recorded at all times. Your primary point of contact with us should be via the “Contact Us” facility on the Site. Any formal notices or communications should be sent to our postal address: LocalFitness.com.au, P0 B0X 19078, Southbank 3006, Melbourne, VIC. A notice sent to you by email or facsimile will be deemed to have been received by you 24 hours after it was sent, regardless of whether or not you have actually read the notice. Notices sent by mail will be deemed to have been received 3 days after the date of mailing (7 days if sent to or from outside Australia). If any clause or provision of these Terms and Conditions is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable or capable of termination by a party in any jurisdiction in which these Terms and Conditions are to operate, then such clause or provision will be construed, to the extent feasible, to render the clause or provision enforceable. If no feasible interpretation would save such clause or provision, it will be severed from the remainder of these Terms and Conditions without affecting the enforceability of all remaining clauses and provisions. These Terms of Use (and the agreement constituted by your use of the Site) and your access to the Site may be terminated at any time by the Company without notice. All licences granted by you and all disclaimers and limitations of liability by the Company will survive termination, however, you will no longer be authorised to access the Site.

If you breach any of the Terms and Conditions, then your permission to use LocalFitness.com.au automatically terminates.

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia.