CONDITIONS OF USE

Welcome to Academic and General Bookshop's website. Academic and General provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit or shop at Academic and General, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future Academic and General service or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with us, whether or not included in the Academic and General Web site, you also will be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to such service or business. If these conditions are inconsistent with such guidelines and conditions, such guidelines and conditions will control.

A&G reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice. A&G is not responsible for photographic or typographic errors.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you visit Academic and General or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

Academic and General grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Academic and General. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Academic and General. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Academic and General and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Academic and General's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Academic and General. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Academic and General. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of Academic and General so long as the link does not portray Academic and General, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Academic and General logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

YOUR ACCOUNT

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. Academic and General does sell products for children, but it sells them to adults, who can purchase with a credit card. If you are under 18, you may use Academic and General only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Academic and General and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Academic & General believes that the responsible use of personal information collected on its website is critical to its business objectives and reputation. As part of our commitment to privacy, we have adopted this Online Privacy Statement.

COLLECTION

Academic & General collects the personal data that you volunteer on our website, or through other forms, or by email.

This information will only be collected by lawful and fair means.

In order to register with the Academic & General Website we require some basic information about you. We also allow you to provide additional non-required information on registration and at other times. Only information marked, as ‘required' during registration is needed to use services on the Website. This information is used for identification purposes and to contact you when necessary.

As you browse the Academic & General Website we may log the IP address of your computer, session details, and domain name to evaluate which parts of the Website you visit and how long you stay there. We do not link your computer's IP address with any other information you have submitted to us. While a user's session may be tracked, all users remain anonymous when tracked.

Use and disclosure

Academic & General requires you to provide certain information about yourself in order to provide services to you. We will not rent, sell or exchange information about you to third parties (other than related parties) except where you consent, or except where you would expect the information to be disclosed, or except where we have indicated we may disclose; or except where we are legally obliged to disclose such information.

Data quality

Academic & General will take reasonable steps to ensure that information we have about you is accurate, complete and up to date when we collect and use it.

Data security

Academic & General will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is kept secure at all times.

Academic & General will limit access to your personal information to employees and data processors that need it to carry out the service provided by us except where we inform you otherwise. Our employees and data processors are obliged to respect the confidentiality of clients' and website visitors' personal data. Academic & General will reinforce with other employees the policies and practices in relation to safeguarding personal information of clients and visitors, preventing its unauthorised access, use or disclosure, and ensuring its proper handling.

Our website has policies, rules and measures in place to protect the visitor's personal data from:

Unauthorised access;

Improper use;

Alteration;

Unlawful or accidental destruction; and

Accidental loss.

Openness

Academic & General will be honest and open with you about the type of personal information that is collected about you and the actual use of any such information.

Access and correction

If you provide us with satisfactory personal identification, such as your login details, Academic & General will let you have access to the information we keep about you and give you the opportunity to have that information corrected if it is found to be incorrect.

Further, if Academic & General is not able to release details of personal information to you, then we will provide you with reasons for any denial of access or correction.

Anonymity

You can access our web site home page and browse the public area of the Academic & General Website without disclosing personal information.

Academic & General will, wherever it is lawful and practicable, give you the option of not identifying yourself to us except where it is necessary to use our Website services.

Transfer of Data

Academic & General will take reasonable steps to ensure that if any information you give us about you will remain subject to the protection given by our Privacy Statement or another statute or binding scheme which is substantially similar to this Privacy Statement.

Sensitive information

Academic & General will not collect information that is considered highly personal or highly sensitive about you. For example, information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or in relation to your health will not be collected by us.

Cookies

Academic & General uses cookies to hold session information, improve security during a visitor's session online, ensure effective advertising tailored to the visitor's needs, and provide you with your information.

We store the following information in cookies: your unique user ID

You can use your browser to disable cookies; Academic & General is not liable for any errors which may be encountered with the Website as a result.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content; submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. Academic and General reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Academic and General and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Academic and General and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Academic and General or its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Academic and General has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Academic and General takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

Academic and General and its affiliates attempt to be as accurate as possible. However, Academic and General does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by Academic and General itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY ACADEMIC AND GENERAL ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ACADEMIC AND GENERAL MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, ACADEMIC AND GENERAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ACADEMIC AND GENERAL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM ACADEMIC AND GENERAL ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ACADEMIC AND GENERAL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

APPLICABLE LAW

By visiting Academic and General, you agree that the laws of the state of Victoria, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Academic and General or its affiliates.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

OUR ADDRESS

Academic and General Bookshops.

259 Swanston Street , Melbourne , 3000, AUSTRALIA.

http://www.academicbooks.com.au