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Customer Terms ("Terms")
These Terms and any document(s) referred to in them constitute the
entire agreement about TB's supply of the Products and services to
Customer and supersedes all prior understandings, arrangements and
agreements.
Words with special meanings are defined in clause 1. A reference in
these Terms to:
- the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
- the word "including" means "including, but not limited to," and
the word "includes" means "includes, without limitation,";
- A reference to a gender includes all genders; and
- a reference to a person (including a party) includes an
individual, company, other body corporate, partnership, firm, joint
venture, or a trust.
1) Definitions
In these terms:
"Customer" means the person, business or company that
is the purchaser of the Products;
"Products" means any products (including software) or
services (where applicable) supplied to Customer by TB and described in
TB's invoice;
"Sales Contract" means any sales contract or
distribution agreement entered into by Customer and TB in respect of
the Products and services supplied to Customer in which these Terms are
deemed to be incorporated; and
"TB" means Tri benedict Software (ABN 30 057 387 612).
2) Orders
- All orders for Products placed by Customer:
- are subject to acceptance by TB, and no order will be deemed
to have been accepted by TB unless Products are supplied or a
back-order or delivery delay is confirmed in writing by an authorised
representative of TB to Customer.
- TB may reject any order placed by Customer if there is an
insufficient supply of Products which prevents TB from being able to
fulfill such order.
- TB will not be bound by any terms attaching to Customer's order
and, unless those terms are expressly agreed to in writing by an
authorised representative of TB, Customer agrees that those terms are
hereby excluded.
3) Payment
- The price of the Products will be TB's quoted price.
- Payment is required prior to delivery of the Products to Customer
unless agreed otherwise in writing by an authorised officer of TB. If
Customer fails to make payment in accordance with this clause 3(b)
after demand for payment by TB, all amounts owing by Customer to TB on
any account will immediately become due and payable together with legal
costs of enforcement.
- TB may, in its sole discretion:
- suspend the provision of credit to Customer until all amounts
owing are paid for in full; and
- from time to time and at any time, vary or cancel any credit
facility it makes available to Customer.
- Customer will be liable to pay interest on any overdue amount at
the annual rate of 2% above the prevailing base lending rate quoted by
the Westpac Banking Corporation. Interest will accrue daily from the
date payment became overdue until TB has received payment of the
overdue amount, together with any interest accrued.
- Unless stated otherwise in these Terms (or in writing by TB's
authorised representative), all prices quoted for Products are
exclusive of all taxes, handling, delivery, agents' charges and any
other charge, duty or impost.
- Customer must pay TB, on demand, any tax (other than income tax)
payable under these Terms, any matter or thing done under these Terms
or any payment, receipt or other transaction contemplated by these
Terms, including any goods and services or value-added tax, customs
duty, sales tax, excise duty, stamp duty, other duty, governmental
charge, fee, levy or impost, together with any fine, penalty or
interest payable because of a default by Customer.
- Customer must pay to TB any amount Customer must pay under clause
3(f) in full, despite any right of set-off that Customer may have.
- Customer shall pay the full amount due to TB under this clause
and shall not deduct from that amount any tax in relation to purchase
of the Products. Customer shall reimburse TB for any taxes TB pays on
its behalf.
4) Delivery
Delivery times advised to Customer are estimates only and TB will not
be liable for any loss, damage or delay suffered or incurred by
Customer or its customers arising from late or non-delivery of the
Products.
5) Part deliveries
TB may make part deliveries of any order, and each part delivery will
constitute a separate supply of the Products upon these Terms.
6) Software
- To the extent that a Product supplied under these Terms is a
software Product then, in addition to these Terms, that Product will be
supplied subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant licence
agreement applicable to it.
- Software licence agreements may be packaged with the software,
may be separately provided to Customer for execution or may require
on-screen acceptance by Customer. Customer agrees to use the software
Product in accordance with the terms and conditions of the relevant
licence agreement.
- Where the term "supply" is used in these Terms to refer to a
software Product, such term means the sale and purchase of the licence
to use that software Product.
7) Inspection and acceptance
Customer must
- in the case of all Products ordered (other than software
Products), inspect such Products upon delivery to Customer's premises;
or,
- in the case of software Products, test or inspect such software
Products upon those Products being authorised by TB for downloading by
Customer, and must, within 7 days of delivery or downloading (as the
case may be), give written notice to TB of any matter or thing by which
Customer alleges that the Products do not accord with Customer's order.
Failing such notice and to the extent permitted by law, the Products
will be deemed to have been accepted by Customer.
8) Title and risk
- Products supplied by TB to Customer will be at Customer's risk
immediately upon:
- delivery of the Products to the Customer, Customer's agent or
into the Customer's custody or control; or
- collection of the Products by the Customer's nominated
carrier or agent.
- Customer must:
- effect and maintain with a reputable insurance company
insurance for the Products, at its cost, against all risks as it thinks
appropriate;
- note the interest of TB on the insurance policy; and
- produce a certificate of currency of the insurance effected
by Customer under this clause 8(b) to TB, upon request.
- Risk in the Products will remain with Customer at all times
unless TB retakes possession of the Products in accordance with clause
8(f)(ii).
- Title in the Products supplied by TB to Customer will not pass to
Customer and will remain the absolute property of TB until such time as
TB has been paid by Customer all monies due and owing to it by the
Customer in relation to any account. Title to those Products which are
software remains with TB and/or the applicable third party licensor(s)
at all times.
- Until the Products have been paid for:
- Customer must properly segregate and store the Products in
such manner as to clearly indicate that they are the property of TB;
and
- Customer may sell the Products and shall keep records of the
Products in the ordinary course of its business as fiduciary agent for
TB and Customer agrees to deposit all proceeds of any such sale
(including any proceeds received from any insurance claims) in a
separate bank account and agrees not to mix the proceeds with any other
monies and hold the monies on trust for TB and shall immediately
account for such proceeds to TB.
- If Customer has breached these Terms or the terms of any relevant
Sales Contract, Customer authorises TB, at any time, to enter onto any
premises upon which TB's Products are stored to enable TB to:
- inspect the Products; and/or
- reclaim the Products.
- If Customer sells, disposes of or otherwise deals with Products
or any part thereof before full payment has been received by TB,
Customer must advise TB in writing, at such times as TB may request,
specifying full details of the Products sold, disposed of, utilised or
otherwise dealt with.
- Customer acknowledges that in the case of software Products, any
refusal or failure to pay may result in cancellation of the licence to
use the software Product.
- Customer agrees that the provisions of this clause 8 apply
despite any arrangement under which TB grants credit to Customer.
9) Returns
- Customer must notify TB in writing of any Products it wishes to
return within 30 days from the date of the invoice relating to those
Products.
- Each claim for the return of Products by Customer will be dealt
with in accordance with the Returns Policy. Any substitute Products to
be shipped to Customer in accordance with the Returns Policy will be
sent by TB to Customer by ordinary freight pre-paid.
- TB will not be liable for any damage or defects in the Products
that have been caused by the improper storage, warehousing or
transport, or by any neglect, abuse or improper use, installation,
maintenance or
- The provisions of this clause 9 do not extend to any Products
which have been added to, varied, or otherwise modified by, any person
other than TB.
10) Force majeure
If the performance of TB's obligations under these Terms or any
relevant Sales Contract is prevented, restricted or affected by force
majeure including strike, lock out, raw material shortage, breakdown of
plant, transport or equipment or any other cause beyond the reasonable
control of TB, TB will give notice of such cause to Customer and after
60 days from the receipt by Customer of such notice, either party may
terminate the relevant Sales Contract without penalty.
11) Customer's cancellation
- Unless otherwise agreed in writing by an authorised officer of
TB, Customer may not cancel an order which has been accepted by TB.
- If Customer's right of cancellation is agreed to by an authorised
officer of TB in writing, the right must be exercised by notice in
writing from Customer to TB not later than 7 days before the estimated
date of shipment by the manufacturer or TB (as the case may be).
- Unless otherwise agreed between Customer and TB, upon
cancellation prior to shipment, any deposit paid by Customer will be
forfeited to TB.
12) Default of Customer
- Without prejudice to any of TB's other rights under these Terms,
if Customer fails to make any payment due to TB under these Terms, TB
may, in its sole discretion, and without further liability to Customer:
- refuse to make further supplies to Customer under the
relevant Sales Contract; and/or
- terminate the Sales Contract without notice.
13) Warranty
- Products are covered by manufacturers' warranty. To the extent
permitted by law, TB's entire responsibility with respect to warranties
for the Products is to pass on to Customer the benefit of any such
warranties. Subject to clause 13(c), software Products are not
warranted by TB under these Terms. Such software Products are warranted
in accordance with the relevant licence agreements governing their use.
- To the extent permitted by law, the manufacturers' warranties
referred to in clause 13(a) are in substitution for all other terms,
conditions and warranties, whether implied by statute or otherwise
(including implied warranties with respect to merchantability and
fitness for purpose) and all such terms, conditions and warranties are
expressly excluded.
- Certain legislation may imply warranties or conditions or impose
obligations upon TB which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified or
cannot be excluded, restricted or modified except to a limited extent.
These Terms must be read subject to those statutory provisions. If
those statutory provisions apply, to the extent to which TB is able to
do so, its liability will be limited, at its option, to:
- in the case of products: the replacement of the products or
resupply of equivalent products; repair of the products; payment of the
cost of replacing the products or acquiring equivalent products; or the
payment of the cost of having the products repaired; and
- in the case of services: the supply of the services again; or
the payment of the reasonable cost of having the services supplied
again.
- TB does not warrant that repair facilities or parts will be
available in respect of any of the Products.
14) Liability
- To the extent permitted by law, TB will not be liable to Customer
or any other person under any circumstances for any loss of use,
profit, revenue, interest, goodwill or data, or for any injury or death
to any person, or for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages
sustained or incurred by Customer, whether such liability arises
directly or indirectly as a result of:
- any negligent act or omission or willful misconduct of TB or
its employees or agents;
- the supply, performance or use of any Products or services;
or
- any breach by TB of its obligations under these Terms or any
relevant Sales Contract.
15) Credit assessment
- If any Products are supplied to Customer on credit, TB may need
to disclose to a credit reporting agency certain information referred
to in clause 15(c) about Customer when assessing Customer's application
for credit and managing Customer's account with TB. Customer authorises
TB to disclose such information to a credit reporting agency for these
purposes.
- Subject to TB's obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as
amended and any other applicable laws, TB may provide the information
referred to in clause 15(c) to a credit reporting agency to obtain a
consumer credit report about Customer or to allow the credit reporting
agency to create or maintain a credit information file about Customer.
Customer agrees that TB may disclose a credit report about it to any
credit provider, debt collecting agency or TB's insurers for the
purposes of assessing Customer's creditworthiness or to collect any
overdue payments (as the case may be).
- TB may disclose the following information relating to Customer in
accordance with clauses 16(a) and (b):
- Customer's name and address;
- credit limits on Customer's accounts;
- the amount of any payments which are overdue for at least 60
days;
- where an overdue payment has been previously reported, advice
that the payment is no longer overdue;
- Any method of payment including, but not limited to, cheques,
electronic funds transfer, Bpay, credit card payments which have been
dishonoured;
- information that, in the opinion of TB, Customer has
committed a serious credit infringement; and
- information that TB has ceased to supply the Products and
services to Customer.
- Customer agrees that TB may obtain information about Customer
from any business which provides information about the commercial
creditworthiness of persons for the purposes of assessing Customer's
application to purchase the Products on credit and collecting any
overdue amounts.
- TB may refuse to supply the Products to Customer on credit on the
basis of TB's credit assessment of Customer.
16) Privacy
- Customer agrees to TB collecting, using and disclosing
information about Customer of the kind referred to in clause 15(c) for
various purposes, including to:
- assess creditworthiness as outlined in clause 15;
- supply the Products and services to Customer and the
management of Customer's account, including suppliers;
- communicate with Customer about the Products and services
which TB or its partners or affiliates may provide to Customer;
- implement these Terms and any Sales Contract; and
- comply with relevant laws.
- TB, at the written request of Customer, will:
- provide Customer with access to any personal information
relating to Customer held by TB; and
- correct or amend any personal information relating to
Customer held by TB which is inaccurate or out of date.
- TB will handle Customer's personal information in accordance with
relevant laws.
17) Intellectual Property
- Customer acknowledges that:
- all trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property
rights ("Intellectual Property") embodied in or in connection with the
Products and any related documentation, parts or software are the sole
property of TB or its suppliers; and
- all Intellectual Property of TB or its suppliers may only be
used by Customer with the express written consent of TB or its
suppliers, during the continuance of any relevant Sales Contract, and
such consent extends only to use essential for the purposes stated in
it.
- Customer must not register or use any trade marks, trade name,
domain name, trading style or commercial designation or design used by
TB or its suppliers in connection with the Products.
- Customer will indemnify TB against all liabilities, damages,
costs and expenses which TB may suffer or incur as a result of any work
performed by TB in accordance with Customer's specifications or as a
result of the combination or use of the Products with other equipment,
parts or software not supplied by TB, and which results in the
infringement of any Intellectual Property of any person.
18) Confidentiality
- Customer acknowledges that TB has disclosed and may from time to
time disclose to Customer certain confidential information and
documentation of TB relating to the Products, their marketing, use,
maintenance and software, including technical specifications
("Confidential Information").
- Subject to clause 18(e), Customer must:
- only use the Confidential Information solely for the purposes
contemplated under any relevant Sales Contract; and
- not, during the continuation of such Sales Contract or
thereafter, disclose (whether directly or indirectly) to any third
party the Confidential Information, other than is required to carry out
such purposes.
- If disclosure of Confidential Information to third parties is
necessary, Customer will obtain from such third parties binding
agreements to maintain in confidence the Confidential Information
disclosed at least to the same extent as Customer is bound to protect
TB's Confidential Information under this clause 18.
- Upon the expiry or termination of any relevant Sales Contract,
Customer must cease to use and must return or destroy (as TB may
instruct) TB's Confidential Information in its possession or control.
- The provisions of this clause 18 do not extend to any information
which is:
- at the time of disclosure, rightfully known to or in the
possession or control of Customer and which is not subject to an
obligation or confidentiality;
- public knowledge (otherwise than as a result of a breach of
this clause 18 or any other obligation of confidentiality);
- approved in writing by an authorised officer of TB to be
disclosed; or
- required to be disclosed by a government authority or by
relevant laws provided that notice of any such required disclosure is
first given to TB.
19) General
- TB may amend these Terms at any time, by giving Customer notice
by mail, e-mail or by posting a notice on TB's public website. By
continuing to place orders for Products, Customer will be deemed to
have accepted the revised Terms.
- Any provision of these Terms which is invalid or unenforceable
will be read down to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions
will continue unaffected.
- Customer acknowledges that some Products may be controlled under
export laws in force at the time of the Sales Contract. Customer shall
not export, re-export, or distribute Products, in violation of any such
export control laws or regulations.
- Customer acknowledges that certain Products may be subject to
license requirements or other restrictions specific to certain
transactions. Where applicable, Customer agrees to be bound by any such
terms and conditions and/or restrictions and shall indemnify Ingram for
any liability suffered by it arising from Customer's breach.
- Customer may not assign or attempt to assign any of its rights
and obligations under these Terms.
- These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New South
Wales and the courts of the state of New South Wales shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to hear any disputes arising from or relating to
this agreement.
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