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Access is only available by payment of an annual subscription for unlimited access. Use of the Data Metallogenica web site indicates that you have read and agreed to the contents of this disclaimer, the detailed Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy

This Policy explains what personal information Data Metallogenica collects both online (including through apps) and offline and how we use it. Please read it carefully.

Generally, we collect information about you if you create an account, from your purchase of subscription, when you email or call us, and when you use our websites, apps and social media. We use that and other information to provide better services, marketing and support to you and our other customers (including by analysing your information to provide you with a personalised experience).

When you, for example, create an account, purchase a subscription, download one of our apps or contact us on the phone, we may ask your consent to use your information for certain purposes. Data Metallogenica is a data controller (i.e. a person responsible for the processing of your personal information) in respect of all of the information which Data Metallogenica collects and receives about you when you use our services.

Data Metallogenica is bound by, and uses your information in accordance with, the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 and subsequent Privacy Amendment Act 2001.

Cookies Notice

In common with many online businesses, we use cookies (i.e. small text files that are placed on your computer by our website).

We collect your information in different ways

Directly from you.

For example, if you register for access, create an account, post a comment on our website, ask us a question, email us or interact with Data Metallogenica's support.

Through your use of our websites and apps.

You may view and use our websites and apps via a computer, phone, tablet or other device. We use tracking tools like browser cookies and web beacons on our websites and apps to collect information about your usage.

From third parties.

For example, if you choose to use an integrated social media feature on our websites or apps, the third-party social media site will give us certain information about you. This could include your name and email address. Your activities on our sites and apps may be posted to the social media platforms.

Information we may hold about you

We use the following information for the purposes described in this Policy:

Your contact and account information.

We will hold contact information you provide to us (e.g. name, address, phone number, email, country of residence, preferred language) when you create a Data Metallogenica account and/or participate in our competitions or promotions.

Information you post online.

For example, we hold information you post on our website or on a third-party social media site to which we have access (including reviews you post or surveys you complete). When you post information online, you must not infringe the rights of others (including privacy rights) and you should be aware that others may use, tag and/or re-publish your information in ways that you might not expect (including in ways that are unlawful). You understand that we and other may use and re-publish any data you post online publicly, on our website or when using apps or social media tools.

Website usage information.

If you use our websites, we may collect information about the browser you're using and your IP address (this is a number that identifies a specific network device on the internet and is required for your device to communicate with websites). We might look at what site you came from, what you did and didn't use our site for, or what site you visit when you leave us.

App(s) usage information.

If you use our app(s), we may collect your GPS location or your device's unique identifier. We might also collect the type of device you are using, or the version of the operating system your computer or device is running. We might look at, for example, how often you use the app and where you downloaded it.

Email response information.

In relation to emails we send you, we may collect information on how you respond to such emails, for example, the number of times the email is opened or the links in them are clicked.

Other information about your interactions with us.

For example, if you interact with us via a box office, email, telephone or social media (e.g. Facebook).

We may use your information in the following ways and for the following purposes

To provide you with products, services, account information and support.

For example, we might use your information to confirm your registration for an event. If you give us your friend's information, we will use it to provide services you request from us. Before you give us a friend's information, please do make sure that you have your friend's permission to share that information with us.

To send you communications in connection with your transaction.

For example, we might send you emails about your account or ask you if you would like to review an event you attended. We might also contact you about this Policy or any of our other policies or terms.

To identify trends and interests.

We use your information to get to know what your preferences might be so we can improve our offering to you and so that your experience with us is more relevant and personal. We may combine information we get from you with information about you we get from third parties, including to analyse customer behaviour.

To monitor and improve our products, services, and websites.

We analyse your information to improve our understanding of you and our customer base in general. We do this so that we can make better decisions about our services, advertising, products and content, based on a more informed picture of how our customers use our current services, and to provide you with a more customised experience.

To prevent or detect unlawful behaviour or to protect or enforce legal rights.

For example, we may use your information to prevent misuse of our intellectual property or fraud (including credit card fraud) or other crimes.

For security purposes.

We may use your information to protect the security of our company, employees, our customers, third parties and/or our/their property (as permitted by law).

For market research purposes.

We may contact you as part of market research we are carrying out. You may choose not to participate.

To provide you with tailored advertising and online behavioural advertising.

We may work with other companies to show you advertisements we think you may find relevant and useful. This may include advertisements displayed on our own websites or apps, or advertisements from us displayed on other companies' sites. The advertisements you see may be based on information collected by us or third parties and/or may be based on your activities on our websites or third party sites. The second type of advertising is called ' online or third party behavioural advertising'.

For marketing purposes.

Where you've agreed, you may be contacted by us by email, text message, telephone or other means with information or offers regarding our upcoming events, products or services (including newsletters). We may also send you information or offers on behalf of other businesses, but when we do this, we do not give those businesses your name and address.

As otherwise permitted by law.

In limited circumstances, we may also use your information for other purposes where permitted by law.

You have certain choices about how we use your information

When you create an account, purchase a subscription or download our apps, we may ask for your consent in order to collect, process or use your personal information for specified purposes.

If you wish to withdraw any consent you have provided to us for such use of your personal information, please write to us or tell us by contacting us at support@dmgeode.com.

Third parties who provide goods and services purchased by you.

Your information may also be shared with relevant third parties offering goods and services you have purchased through our website so that they can process and fulfil your orders (including by contacting you).

If we think we have to in order to comply with legal or regulatory requirements or to protect ourselves or third parties.

here permitted by law, we may also share information requested by a government agency or other authorised body or organisation, to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of any third party, or in the detection and prevention of fraud and other crimes.

Our sites and apps are not intended for children.

Our sites and apps are meant for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us information, you can email us. You can also write to us.

We use standard security measures

We have security measures in place to protect your information. The standard security measures we use will depend on the type of information collected. However, the Internet is not 100% secure. We cannot promise that your use of our sites will be completely safe. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet. This includes not sharing your passwords.

We may transfer your information to other countries

The transfer of your information for use in line with this Policy and Cookies Policy may involve the transfer of your information to other countries (including outside Australasia). The laws of other countries to which your information is transferred may not provide the same level of protection for your personal information as the law of your home country. We do, however, put in place appropriate technical and contractual protections for your personal information in accordance with applicable laws.

We may link to third party sites or services we don't control

If you click on one of those links, you will be taken to websites we do not control.

This Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those websites. Read the privacy policy of other websites carefully. We are not responsible for these third party sites.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, complaints or require a copy of information we hold about you

If you have any questions or complaints about this Policy or any privacy concerns, or would like to request copies of the information we hold about you, please email us. Please do not include your credit card number or other financial or sensitive information in your email.

What we will do if there is an update to this policy

From time to time we may change our privacy practices. We will post an updated copy on our website. Please check our site periodically for updates.

Terms of Use

Welcome to Data Metallogenica

The following are the rules or "Terms" that govern use of the Data Metallogenica Web site ("Site"). By using or visiting the Site, you expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and to follow these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations governing the Site. DataMetallogenica.com reserves the right to change these Terms at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Please check this page of the Site periodically. We will note when there are updates to the Terms of Use at the bottom of the Terms. If you violate these Terms of Use, Data Metallogenica may terminate your use of the Site, bar you from future use of the Site, cancel your ticket order, and/or take appropriate legal action against you.

Permitted Use

You agree that you are only authorised to visit, view and to retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use, and that you shall not duplicate, download, publish, modify or otherwise distribute the material on this Site for any purpose other than to review information, for personal use, unless otherwise specifically authorised by Data Metallogenica to do so. You also agree not to deep-link to the site for any purpose, unless specifically authorised by Data Metallogenica to do so. The content and software on this Site is the property of Data Metallogenica and/or its suppliers and is protected by Australian and international copyright laws. We post a legal notice and various credits on pages of the Site, which may not be removed. Please do not remove this notice or these credits, or any additional information contained along with the notices and credits.

User Contributions to the Site

From time to time, the Site may provide you with opportunities to contribute to the Site, which may include, but not be limited to, uploading your user profile, participating in chats and using bulletin boards. Anything that is contributed to the Site by you or other Site users will be referred to in these Terms as "User Content". Data Metallogenica is not liable or responsible for any User Content. The contributions of third parties do not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Data Metallogenica. Data Metallogenica cannot preview User Content before it appears. Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited User Content they provide to the Site, including among other things, infringing, defamatory or offensive materials. If you discover this kind of material on the Site, please notify us at support@dmgeode.com. We will investigate your claim and may then take the actions deemed appropriate.

Links and Search Results

The Site may automatically produce search results that reference or link to third party sites throughout the World Wide Web. Data Metallogenica has no control over these sites or the content within them. Data Metallogenica cannot guarantee, represent or warrant that the content contained in the sites is accurate, legal and/or inoffensive. Data Metallogenica does not endorse the content of any third party site, nor do we warrant that they will not contain viruses or otherwise impact your computer. By using the Site to search for or link to another site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against Data Metallogenica for any damages or losses, whatsoever, resulting from your use of the Site to obtain search results or to link to another site. If you have a problem with a link from the Site, please notify us at support@dmgeode.com and we will investigate your claim and take any actions we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.

Prohibited Content

The following is a partial list of the kind of User Content which is illegal or prohibited on the Site. It includes User Content that:

  • Is patently offensive to the online community, such as User Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; could be harmful to minors;
  • Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  • Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
  • Promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  • Promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  • Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  • Displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
  • Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
  • Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  • Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and
  • Engages in commercial activities without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

Offline Conduct

Although Data Metallogenica cannot monitor the conduct of users off the Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from this Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any Site user without their prior explicit consent.

Commercial Use

No bulletin board, chat or other areas of this Site may be used by our visitors for any commercial purposes such as to conduct sales of, merchandise or services of any kind. You must obtain our prior written consent to make commercial offers of any kind, whether by advertising, solicitations, links, or any other form of communication. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the Site to resell or link to other sites for the purpose of selling information of any kind. We reserve the right to block access to this Site or Data Metallogenica's other services, or cancel an order with respect to any person believed to be, or believed to be acting in concert with any person who is believed to be, violating the law or these Terms or Data Metallogenica's rights, or utilising automated means to process or place information, or who has ordered information that exceeds the stated limit. Violating any limitations or terms on the Site will be deemed to be a violation of these Terms.

Access and Interference

You agree that you will not use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Site. Nor shall you use any manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorised purpose without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Site nor shall you attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree that you will not access, reload or "refresh" transactional event or ticketing pages, or make any other request to transactional servers, more than once during any three second interval. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for your own personal, non-commercial use) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of Data Metallogenica.

Unauthorised Use of the Site

Any illegal or unauthorised use of the Site shall constitute a violation of these Terms of Use. You do not have permission to access the Site in any way that violates, or in the course of violating, these Terms of Use. Illegal or unauthorised use of the Site includes, but is not limited to, using the site to facilitate illegal ticket sales, unauthorised framing of or linking to the Site, or unauthorised use of any robot, spider or other automated process on the Site. It shall also be a violation of these Terms of Use: (a) for any individual (or group of individuals acting in concert) to request, more than 1000 pages of the Site in any twenty-four hour period (hereafter referred to as "Abusive Use"); or (b) to use any passcode or password, regardless of whether or not such password or passcode is unique, to participate in a pre-sale or other offer on the Site if you are not the original recipient of such passcode or password (i.e., if you did not receive the passcode or password from Data Metallogenica, or from the organisation with whom Data Metallogenica is working to enable such pre-sale or offer) or if your participation in such pre-sale or other offer is inconsistent with such pre-sale's or offer's terms.

Suspected Violation of these Terms of Use or Law; Injunctive, Equitable Relief, and Liquidated Damages

Violations of these Terms of Use, including Unauthorised Use of the Site, may be investigated and appropriate legal action may be taken, including without limitation civil, criminal and injunctive redress. You understand and agree that in Data Metallogenica's sole discretion, and without prior notice, Data Metallogenica may terminate your access to the Site, cancel your ticket order or tickets acquired through your ticket order, cancel your ticket postings, remove any unauthorised User Content or exercise any other remedy available, if Data Metallogenica believes that your conduct or the conduct of any person with whom Data Metallogenica believes you act in concert, or the User Content you provide, or any resale of such tickets purchased through Data Metallogenica, violates or is inconsistent with these Terms or the law, or violates the rights of Data Metallogenica, a client of Data Metallogenica or another user of the Site. You agree that monetary damages may not provide a sufficient remedy to Data Metallogenica for violations of these Terms and you consent to injunctive or other equitable relief for such violations. You agree that Abusive Use of the Site, as defined above, causes damage and harm to Data Metallogenica in the form of, among other things, impaired goodwill, lost sales, and increased expenses associated with responding to Abusive Use of the Site. You further agree that monetary damages for Abusive Use of the Site are difficult to ascertain and that proof of monetary damages for Abusive Use would be costly and inconvenient to calculate. Accordingly you agree that liquidated damages are warranted for Abusive Use. Therefore, you agree that if you, or others acting in concert with you, alone or collectively request more than 1000 pages of the Site in any twenty-four hour period, you, and those acting in concert with you, will be jointly and severally liable for liquidated damages in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00) per page request each time that a page request is made after that first 1000 during that twenty-four hour period. You also agree that this will be the measure of damages for any Abusive Use that occurred prior to this provision of these Terms of Use being in effect. Data Metallogenica is not required to provide any refund to you if it exercises any of its rights or remedies because you have violated these Terms or any of Data Metallogenica's rights. Additionally, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, suspend or discontinue any part of this Site at any time, with or without notice to you. We also reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to impose limits on certain features and services and to restrict access to any part or to all of the Site without notice to you. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any claim or cause of action arising out of our exercise of the foregoing rights.

Privacy

We believe that your privacy and the privacy of all our users is important. These Terms are subject to the Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Data Metallogenica will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of your contact information, or financial information, by a third party to whom Data Metallogenica is allowed to disclose your contact information under the Privacy Policy. If you post any User Content to the Site, by electronic mail or otherwise, we will treat it as non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. When we say in these Terms "post" we mean the provision of information (including, but not limited to, "User Content") to the Site through features of the Site that are used to make information available to other members of the public (e.g., user reviews, bulletin boards, chat rooms, etc.). Information that is posted to the Site shall not be subject to the Privacy Policy and may be publicly displayed and disclosed and otherwise used by Data Metallogenica or any third party in any way. By posting User Content to the Site, you authorize us to use or allow others to distribute, reproduce or otherwise use such User Content. You should not post information about yourself on the Site that can be used to identify or contact you, including, but not limited to, your name, home or work address, phone numbers, pagers, email address or other such information. If you post such information, Data Metallogenica cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates these Terms, the law, or your personal privacy and safety. By posting such information on the Site, you violate these Terms, and you assume the risks and sole liability for the results of such posting. Data Metallogenica is not liable for any lost data resulting from the operation of the Site or the enforcement of the Terms. We urge all users to maintain their own back up versions of any User Content or other information they submit to the Site.

Copyright Policy

We will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license express consent, valid defence or fair use exemption to do so. In particular, users who submit User Content to this Site, whether articles, images, stories, software or other copyrightable material must ensure that the User Content they upload does not infringe the copyrights or other rights of third parties (including, but not limited, to trademark, trade secret, privacy or publicity rights). After proper notification by the copyright holder or it agent to us, and confirmation through court order or admission by the user that they have used this Site as an instrument of unlawful infringement, we will terminate the infringing users' rights to use and/or access to this Site. We may, also in our sole discretion, decide to terminate a user's rights to use or access to the Site prior to that time if we believe that an alleged infringement has occurred.

Disclaimers

Data Metallogenica does not promise that the site will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that it will provide specific results from use of the site or any content, search or link on it. The site and its content are delivered on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. Data Metallogenica cannot ensure that files you download from the site will be free of viruses or contamination or destructive features. Data Metallogenica disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including also any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Data Metallogenica will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, and punitive and consequential damages. Data Metallogenica makes no guarantee of any specific result from use of this site or use of the data Metallogenica service. Data Metallogenica disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third party users, Data Metallogenica users, advertisers and/or sponsors on the site, in connection with the Data Metallogenica service or otherwise related to your use of the site and/or the Data Metallogenica service. Data Metallogenica is not responsible for the products, services, actions or failure to act of any venue, performer, promoter or other third party in connection with or referenced on the site.

Without limiting the foregoing, you may report the misconduct of users and/or third party advertisers, service and/or product providers referenced on or included in the Site to Data Metallogenica at support@dmgeode.com. Data Metallogenica may investigate the claim and take appropriate action, in its sole discretion.

Limitation on Liability

In no event will Data Metallogenica be liable to you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues or business opportunities, even if Data Metallogenica has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Data Metallogenica and its affiliates, and each of Data Metallogenica's and its affiliates' respective officers, agents, employees, contractors and principals, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site, including also your use of the Site to provide a link to another site or to upload content or other information to the Site.

Ownership

Data Metallogenica DMGeode.com and DataMetallogenica.com are owned by AMIRA International Pty Ltd. This website is operated by AMIRA International Pty Ltd.

Disclaimer

The information on the Data Metallogenica (DM) website has been gathered from a variety of sources. No representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy or reliability of the information, and users of the DM website do so at their own risk in all respects. AMIRA International Limited, its Board, employees and agents are not responsible and have no liability for the consequences of any action taken by any person in reliance upon the information in the DM website or for the accuracy or reliability of any information contained in the DM website or for any error in or omission from such information.

Copyright

Copyright in and title to all information on the website is vested in either AMIRA International or the provider of the information. Access to the information is permitted only for use by the subscriber and not for sale or distribution by any means or in any form to persons or utilities which are not subscribers or their employers. In all use made of such information, its sources must be acknowledged.

For further information, contact Imran Hussain at AMIRA International

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