Terms of Use

OWNERSHIP OF THE SITE

The owner of the www.qbd.com.au website (the “Site”) is QBD Books ABN 54 614 038 765 (“QBD”). Please read these Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using this Site. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. In these Terms of Use, the expressions we, us and our are a reference to QBD Books.

AGREEMENT TO TERMS OF USE

These Terms of and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) apply to the Site, including the purchase of goods and services over the Site. These Terms of Use must be read in conjunction with all other applicable terms and conditions governing the use of the Site.

BY USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM USING THE SITE.

AMENDMENTS TO TERMS OF USE

We may, in our sole discretion, amend these Terms of Use at any time. By continuing to use the Site following any such amendments, you agree to the Terms of Use, as amended.

ORDERS

The goods and services available at the Site are only for sale to persons who can make legally binding contracts (and not persons barred from receiving services under the federal laws of Australia or other applicable jurisdiction).

We give no undertakings as to the availability of goods and services advertised on the Site.

Subject to these Terms of Use, you may offer to purchase goods or services described on the Site for the price specified on the Site. Your order must contain the order information specified on the Site, including your name, address and payment details. We are not liable for any orders that go missing due to incorrect delivery information provided by you.

We will at our discretion accept or reject your offer to purchase.

Title in the goods does not pass to you until payment has been received.

Risk of loss or damage to the goods passes to you on despatch.

Further details regarding online orders, payment, shipping and delivery, viewing and changing your order and returns and refunds may be found at the Site and applicable terms and conditions referred to at the Site are incorporated into these Terms of Use by reference.

PRICES

Prices are in Australian dollars unless otherwise indicated.

Prices and stock availability may vary between the Site and QBD Books stores.

For all products prices may be set by the publisher not QBD Books. Publishers reserve the right to alter pricing at any time. It is possible that in the time between adding an item to your shopping cart and completing your purchase, QBD Books may have received a direction from a publisher to alter the price of the product. We must, upon receiving a request to alter the price of products, comply with that direction. Where compliance with the direction by QBD Books will alter the price of product in your shopping cart, we will alert you to the price change and provide an opportunity for you to remove the item before completing your transaction.

GST

Where a title is shipped from Australia, its price (including any applicable delivery and order charge) is inclusive of Australian goods and services tax. Where a title is shipped from outside Australia its price (including any applicable delivery and order charge) is exclusive of Australian goods and services tax. Where goods and services tax is required to be included, prices are inclusive of goods and services tax.

CANCELLATION DUE TO ERROR

You acknowledge that, despite our reasonable precautions, products may be listed at an incorrect price or with incorrect information due to typographical error or like oversight. In these circumstances, we reserve the right to cancel the transaction, notwithstanding that your order has been confirmed and payment has been taken. If a cancellation of this nature occurs after payment has been taken for the purchase, we will issue a refund for the amount in question.

REGISTERED USERS

Certain portions of the Site (including purchases or access to loyalty benefits) are only available to individuals who register with us (each, a "Registered User ").

Registered Users will receive an account name and password upon completing the registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account details and all activity that occurs under your account.

If you are a Registered User:
  • you represent that you are a person who can make legally binding contracts (and are not a person barred from receiving services under the federal laws of Australia or other applicable jurisdiction); and
  • you agree to:
  • provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by any registration forms on the Site (the "Registration Data");
  • maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete;
  • immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and
  • ensure that you logout from your account at the end of each session.

To register and manage your account, please click on the following link: Account Login

RESTRICTIONS ON USE

Without our prior written consent, you may only access the Site for your personal, non-commercial use. You are authorised to print a copy of any information contained on the Site for those purposes only unless such printing is expressly prohibited. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not without our prior written consent on-sell information obtained from the Site. You must not engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site.

You must not obscure or misrepresent your geographical location, forge headers, use proxies, use IP spoofing or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send on or through the Site. You must not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.

You must not violate or attempt to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation by:
  • accessing data not intended for you, including logging into a server or account which you are not authorised to access;
  • attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network to breach security or authentication measures without authorisation;
  • using any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site;
  • conducting a reverse look-up, tracing or seeking to trace any information on any other user or visitor to the Site, or any other customer of QBD Books, to its source, or exploit the Site or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Site, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Site;
  • taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Site or our systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Site or to our systems or networks;
  • disrupt network nodes or network services or otherwise restrict, inhibit, disrupt or impede our ability to monitor or make available the Site;
  • forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting;
  • attempting to interfere with, disrupt or disable service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of “denial of service” attacks, overloading, “flooding”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”; or
  • taking any action in order to obtain services to which you are not entitled.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright in the Site (including titles, text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings and software) is owned or licenced by us. Except as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (and similar legislation which applies in your location) or expressly permitted by these Terms of Use, you may not:
  • adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of the Site; or
  • commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of the Site;
without our prior written consent.

TRADE MARKS

The Site includes registered trade marks owned by us (or our licensors) and trade marks that may be the subject of applications for registration by us (or our licensors).

You must not use any of our trade marks or company names or business names:
  • in or as the whole or part of your own trade marks or business name or company name;
  • in connection with activities, products or services which are not ours;
  • in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive; or
  • in a manner that disparages us or our information, products or services (including the Site).
You must not authorise or assist any person to do any of the above.

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Some of the literary works offered on the Site have been identified as being in the public domain by certain content providers. We do not verify the accuracy of public domain designations and are not liable for any damage that may result from the downloading or other use of such literary works by you. If you do not reside in the relevant jurisdiction for which the public domain designation has been made, it is your responsibility to check the laws of your country of residence prior to downloading or accessing such literary works.

MONITORING

We may monitor usage of the Site to determine compliance with these Terms of Use.

ACCESS

We may immediately terminate your access to the Site and/or delete your user account without notice. The disclaimer in these Terms of Use survives any such termination or deletion. You agree that your only right with respect to any dissatisfaction with the Site is to cease using the Site and to delete your account.

SPECIFIC WARNINGS

You must take precautions to ensure that the process which you adopt for accessing the Site does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your computer system. To avoid doubt, we do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your computer system which arises in connection with the Site or any linked website.

We do not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information appearing on the Site, nor do we undertake to keep the Site updated. We do not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance by you upon the accuracy or currency of such information.

You acknowledge that, despite reasonable precautions on our part, there is a risk of unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data or of information contained on your computer system or the Site. We do not accept responsibility or liability of any nature for any such losses which you may sustain as a result of such activity.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which is transmitted to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information. Further details of our security policy can be found at the following link: Privacy Policy

DISCLAIMER

We do not accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may suffer in connection with your use of the Site or any linked website, nor do we accept any responsibility for any such loss arising out of your use of or reliance on information contained on or accessed through the Site.

We will not be liable to you for indirect or consequential loss (including without limitation for loss of revenue, loss of profits, failure to realise expected profits or savings and any other commercial or economic loss of any kind) or loss or corruption of data, in contract, tort, under any statute or otherwise arising from or connected to the Site or these Terms of Use.

To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these Terms of Use is excluded. If legislation implies any condition or warranty, and that legislation voids or prohibits us from excluding or modifying any such term, that term will be deemed included in these Terms of Use.

Nothing in this disclaimer is intended to limit or exclude any liability that cannot be lawfully excluded.

WARRANTIES

Australian Consumer Law protects consumers by providing certain guaranteed rights when purchasing goods and services. These rights, which automatically apply whenever goods or services are supplied to a consumer, are called ‘Consumer Guarantees’.

Under Australian Consumer Law, these Consumer Guarantees cannot be excluded. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of “acceptable quality” and the failure does not amount to a major failure.

If you believe that a product that you have purchased from the QBD Books Online Store is faulty please see our Returns policies below which sets out the remedies that the QBD Books Online Store will provide to you if you buy a faulty product from us.

INDEMNITY

You agree that you will not use this Site for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless QBD Books and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Site and/or your breach of these Terms of Use.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event shall we or our partners or affiliates, or contributors to this Site, be liable for any loss or injury, or any damages, whether direct, special, indirect, punitive, incidental, exemplary, consequential, or otherwise, whether based on breach of contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise, resulting from your access or use of this Site. You hereby waive any and all such claims against us, our partners, affiliates, and contributors. You agree that the limitations set forth above are fundamental elements of this agreement, and that the site and its materials would not be provided to you absent such limitations. Some state statutes may restrict this limitation of liability.

LINKED WEBSITES

The Site may contain links to other websites (linked websites). Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices associated with linked websites. Our links with linked websites should not be construed as an endorsement, approval or recommendation by us of the owners or operators of those linked websites, or of any information, graphics, materials, products or services referred to or contained on, those linked websites, unless and to the extent otherwise indicated. You acknowledge and agree that your linking to other sites, your use of such sites, and your use of any information, material, products and services offered by such sites, are solely at your own risk.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT

Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties are those of the respective authors or distributors and not of QBD Books. In many instances, the content available through the Site represents the opinions and judgments of the respective content provider. We neither endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Site by anyone other than authorised QBD Books spokespersons while acting in their official capacities.

QBD BOOKS LOYALTY PROGRAM

The terms and conditions of the QBD Books Loyalty Program may be found at the following link (and such terms and conditions are incorporated into these Terms of Use by reference): Loyalty Terms

PRIVACY

Our privacy and security policy may be found at the following link:: Privacy Policy

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of New South Wales. You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New South Wales.

GENERAL

We accept no liability for any failure by us to comply with these Terms of Use where such failure is due to circumstances beyond our control.

The non-exercise or delay in performance of a right under these Terms of Use does not constitute a waiver. If we waive any rights available to us under these Terms of Use on one occasion, it does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion.

Headings in these Terms of Use are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

If any of these Terms of Use are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining Terms of Use will continue in full force.

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.