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Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE AUTISTICS’ GUIDE TO ADULTHOOD WEBSITE. Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood is operated by the Autism Association of South Australia ACN 164 545 215 (Autism SA).

If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy notice, govern our relationship with you in relation to your use of this website.

By using this website, you signify your acceptance of these terms and conditions of use. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, “Us”, “Our” and “We” refers to Autism SA and “You” and “Your” refers to you, the client, visitor, website user or person using our website.

The Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood is operated via the LMS platform, run by TalentLMS. In using the Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood, you may also be subject to LMS’ Terms of Use available at https://www.talentlms.com/terms. 

The document sets out the Terms & Conditions of your relationship with Autism SA in relation to the Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood website.

You must be over 18 years of age to use this website and to purchase any goods or services.

Amendment of terms

We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms regularly prior to using our website to ensure you are aware of any changes. We will endeavour to highlight any significant or substantive changes to you where possible. If you choose to use our website, then we will regard that use as conclusive evidence of your agreement and acceptance that these terms govern your and Autism SA’s rights and obligations to each other.

Limitation of liability

It is an essential pre-condition to you using our website that you agree and accept that Autism SA is not legally responsible for any loss or damage you might suffer related to your use of the website, whether from errors or from omissions in our documents or information, any goods, or services we may offer or from any other use of the website. This includes your use or reliance on any third-party content, links, comments or advertisements. Your use of, or reliance on, any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we will not be liable.

It is your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services, or information available through this website meet your specific, personal requirements. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. 

In no event will we be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Competition and Consumer Act

For the purposes of Schedule 2 of the Australian Consumer Law, in particular Sections 51 to 53, 64 and 64A of Part 3-2, Division 1, Subdivision A of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Autism SA’s liability for any breach of a term of this agreement is limited to: 

  • in the case of goods, to any one of the following as determined by us:
    • the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods; or
    • the repair of the goods; or
    • the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
    • the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired.
  • in the case of services, to any one of the following as determined by us:
    • the supplying of the services again; or
    • the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

Delivery of goods

Digital goods are delivered immediately. Please be aware there are inherent risks associated with downloading any software and digital goods. Should you have any technical problems downloading any of our goods, please contact us so we may try to assist you.

Returns and refunds

Except as required by law, Autism SA is not required to accept returns of any goods, or otherwise provide any refunds in respect of Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood.  Any such steps are at the sole discretion of Autism SA.  

Where required by the Australian Consumer Law, Autism SA will handle returns and processes refunds in accordance with that legislation.

Any refunds will be processed promptly, and payment made by the same method that you made payment. 

Links to other websites

Autism SA may from time to time provide on its website, links to other websites, advertisements, and information on those websites for your convenience. This does not necessarily imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval or arrangement between Autism SA and the owners of those websites. Autism SA takes no responsibility for any of the content found on the linked websites.

Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood website may contain information or advertisements provided by third parties for which Autism SA accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any information or advice provided to you directly by third parties. We are making a ‘recommendation’ only and are not providing any advice nor do we take any responsibility for any advice received in this regard. 

Disclaimer

All information provided by us via Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood is provided in good faith. You accept that any information provided by us is general information and is not in the nature of advice, medical or otherwise.  

We derive our information from sources which we believe to be accurate and up to date as at the date of publication.  We nevertheless reserve the right to update this information at any time.  In addition, we do not make any representations or warranties that the information we provide is reliable, accurate, suitable, or complete or that your access to that information will be uninterrupted, timely or secure. Autism SA reserves the right to deactivate your account at any point.  

Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.  We are not liable for any loss resulting from any action taken or reliance made by you on any information or material posted by us.  You should make your own inquiries and seek independent advice from relevant medical professionals before acting or relying on any information or material which is made available to you pursuant to Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Autism SA absolutely disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. Autism SA gives no warranty that the documents, goods, or services will be free of errors, or that defects will be corrected, or that our website or its server is free of viruses or any other harmful components.

Whilst we, at all times endeavour to have the most accurate, reliable and up-to-date information on our website, we do not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the result of the use of any document, product, service, link or information in its website or as to their correctness, suitability, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. 

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Autism SA takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

It is your sole responsibility and not the responsibility of Autism SA to bear any and all costs of servicing, repairs, or correction. The applicable law in your state or territory may not permit these exclusions, particularly the exclusions of some implied warranties. Some of the above may not apply to you but you must ensure you are aware of any risk you may be taking by using this website or any products or services that may be offered through it. It is your responsibility to do so.

Autism SA reserves the right to deactivate accounts at any time.

Your privacy

At Autism SA we are committed to protecting your privacy. Please refer to our Privacy Notice for further information on how personal information is collected and stored by Autism SA as part of operating Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood.  

Exclusion of competitors

Autism SA reserves the right to exclude and deny any person access to our website, services, or information in our sole discretion.

If you are in the business of creating documents, goods or services similar to those available on Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood or the purpose of providing them for a fee to users, whether they be business users or domestic users, then we consider that you are a competitor of Autism SA 

Autism SA expressly excludes and does not permit you to use or access our website, to download any documents or information from our website or obtain any such documents or information through a third party. If you breach this term, then Autism SA will hold you fully responsible for any loss that we may sustain and further hold you accountable for all profits that you might make from such unpermitted and improper use. 

Copyright, Trademark and Restrictions of use

Copyright notice

Copyright Autism Association of South Australia – © Ⓟ 2023. All rights reserved.

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the content, design, layout, look, appearance, trademarks, and graphics. You are not permitted to reproduce the documents, information, or materials on the website for the purposes of sale or use by any third party. 

In particular you are not permitted to republish, upload, transmit electronically or otherwise or distribute any of the materials, documents or products that may be available for download from time to time on this website.

Autism SA expressly reserves all copyright and trademark rights in all documents, information, and materials on our website and we reserve the right to take action against you if you breach any of these terms.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: 

  • you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only; and 
  • you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge autisticsguide.org.au as the source of the material.

You may not distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood may include content which is the copyright material of TalentLMS.

TalentLMS is the copyright of Epignosis LLC . All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Whole agreement

These terms and conditions represent the whole agreement between you and Autism SA concerning your use and access to Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood website and your use and access to the documents and information on it. No other term is to be included in this agreement except where it is required to be included by any legislation of the Commonwealth of Australia or any State or Territory of Australia. All implied terms except those implied by statute and which cannot be expressly excluded are hereby expressly excluded.

Exclusion of unenforceable terms

Where any clause or term above would by any applicable statute be illegal, void, or unenforceable in any State or Territory then such a clause does not apply in that State or Territory and will be deemed never to have been included in these terms and conditions in that State or Territory. Such a clause if legal and enforceable in any other State or Territory shall continue to be fully enforceable and part of this agreement in those other States and Territories. The deemed exclusion of any term pursuant to this paragraph will not affect or modify the full enforceability and construction of the other clauses of these terms and conditions.

Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions and the Autistics’ Guide to Adulthood website are subject to the laws of South Australia and Australia. If there is a dispute between you and Autism SA that results in litigation, then you must submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Australia.