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Terms of Use

These terms of use, along with our privacy policy and other notices on our web sites, form the basis on which you may access and use our web sites. We reserve the right to change any or all of our terms of use or other conditions for using our web sites at any time by publishing the new terms or conditions on our web sites. Your use of our web sites constitutes your acceptance of those terms. Should you object to any of our terms of use or other notices on our web sites your sole option is to immediately cease your use of the web sites.

Information on our web sites and in any realestate.com.au publication should not be regarded as a substitute for professional legal, financial or real estate advice.

REA Group Ltd and its related entities responsible for maintaining our web sites and all realestate.com.au publications make no warranty as to the accuracy or reliability of the information contained therein and REA Group Ltd and its related entities, directors, officers and agents disclaim all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss or damage which may be suffered by any recipient through relying on anything contained in or omitted from our web sites or publications.

Restrictions on use of web sites

In accessing or using our web sites you agree that you will not:

(a) use any automated device, software, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index our web sites or any content on our web sites;

(b) use any device, software, process or means to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working on our web sites;

(c) undertake any action that will impose a burden or make excessive traffic demands on our infrastructure that we deem, in our sole discretion to be unreasonable or disproportionate site usage;

(d) use any content on, or index our web sites for purposes of constructing or populating a searchable database of properties or competing with us in any manner;

(e) transmit spam, chain letters, contests, junk email, surveys, or other mass messaging, whether commercial in nature or not;

(f) use our web sites or any content from our web sites in any manner which is, in our sole discretion, not reasonable and / or not for the purpose which it is made available;

(g) violate the rights of any person, including copyright, trade secret, privacy right, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;

(h) pose as any person or entity or attempt to solicit money, passwords or personal information from any person;

(i) act in violation of any Term of Use or other condition posed by us or any applicable law;

(j) reproduce, modify, adapt, distribute, translate, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display, sell, trade, or in any way exploit our web sites or any content on our web sites, except as expressly authorised by us; or

(k) transmit or attempt to transmit any computer viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature.

We reserve the right to exercise whatever means we deem necessary to prevent unauthorised access to or use of our web sites, including, but not limited to, instituting technological barriers, or reporting your conduct to any person or entity.

Copyright

The subject matter on and accessible from our web sites and publications is copyright. Apart from fair dealing permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, REA Group Ltd grants visitors to the site permission to download copyright material only for private and non-commercial purposes. For reproduction or use of realestate.com.au copyright material beyond such use, written permission must be obtained directly from REA Group Ltd or the relevant copyright owner. If given, permission will be subject to the requirement that the copyright owner's name and interest in the material be acknowledged when the material is reproduced or quoted, in whole or in part.

Third party links and advertising

Our web sites often include advertisements, hyperlinks and pointers to web sites operated by third parties. Those third party web sites do not form part of the realestate.com.au web sites and are not under the control of or the responsibility of REA Group Ltd or its related entities. When you link to those web sites you leave our web site and do so entirely at your own risk. A display of advertising does not imply an endorsement or recommendation by REA Group Ltd or its related entities.

Policy for Linking to Our Websites

Hyperlinks enhance the user's experience by providing easy access to additional information or original source material, whether on the same site or from an external source. For this reason, we value the use of hyperlinks in our content.

However, in using hyperlinks, we:

  • Attribute the original source of the hyperlink where it points to third party content.
  • Do not claim ownership or rights to content belonging to other parties.

We ask that you observe similar practices when linking to our content. You should be aware that if you do not do this, this may be in breach of our rights or the rights of our licensors or other third parties.

Please do:

  • Link to our content directly. We encourage direct links.
  • Comply with all copyright, trade mark or other applicable laws.
  • Use the title or headline of the content to which you are linking, as long as you link directly to that content.

Please do not:

  • Attribute a link to REA content as being a link to your own or someone else's content (for example, use your own logo to link to our content).
  • Attribute a link to our site and then link somewhere else.
  • Frame our content in such a way as to present it as your own or as belonging to anyone other than us or our licensors.

Limitation of liability

Certain rights and remedies may be available under the Trade Practices Act 1974 or similar legislation of other States or Territories and may not be permitted to be excluded, restricted or modified. Apart from those that cannot be excluded, REA Group Ltd and its related entities exclude all conditions and warranties that may be implied by law. To the extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of any implied warranty or condition that cannot be excluded is restricted, at our option to: the re-supply of services or payment of the cost of re-supply of services; or the replacement or repair of goods or payment of the cost of replacement or repair.

Jurisdiction

Your use of this web site and all of our legal notices will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Australia and by using our Internet sites you irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of those courts.