Terms & Conditions

General provisions

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All blog and/or inspirational articles and supporting imagery are the author's interpretation of the style or topic discussed. Images on this website are for visual representation only and may not provide an exact representation of a particular product or look.

These Terms of Use constitute an agreement made by and between Carpet Court Australia Limited, ("Carpet Court") and you ("you," "your" or "user").  This agreement contains the terms and conditions that govern your use of this website.

By accessing, visiting, browsing, using or attempting to interact with any part of this website, or other Carpet Court services, websites or any of Carpet Court's licensees services or software (collectively "services"), you agree that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by this agreement. If you do not agree to be bound by this agreement, please do not access or use any part of this website.

Carpet Court reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to make changes to this agreement in Carpet Court's sole discretion. Continued use of any part of this website constitutes your acceptance of such changes. The most current version of this agreement, which supersedes all previous versions, can be reviewed by clicking on the "terms of use" hyperlink located at the bottom of each page on any Carpet Court website.

Access to this site

To access this website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of this website that all the information you provide on this website will be correct, current, and complete. If Carpet Court believes the information you provide is not correct, current, or complete, Carpet Court has the right to refuse you access to this website or any of its resources, and to terminate or suspend your access at any time.

Restriction on use

You may use this website for purposes expressly permitted by this site. As a condition of your use of Carpet Court website, you warrant to Carpet Court that you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. For example, you may not (and may not authorise any party to):
(a)    co-brand this website; or
(b)    frame this website; or
(c)    hyperlink to this website, without the express prior written permission of an authorised representative of Carpet Court. 

For purposes of these Terms of Use, "co-branding" means to display a name, logo, trade mark, or other means of attribution or identification of any party in such a manner as is reasonably likely to give a user the impression that such other party has the right to display, publish, or distribute this website or content accessible within this website. 

You agree to cooperate with Carpet Court in causing any unauthorised co-branding, framing or hyperlinking immediately to cease. In addition, you may not use this website in any manner which could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, content, or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the website.

Personal and non-commercial use limitation

This website is for your personal and non-commercial use, unless otherwise specified. You may not use this website for any other purpose, including any commercial purpose, without Carpet Court’s express prior written consent. You may not modify, copy, distribute, display, send, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, content, software, products or services obtained from or otherwise connected to this website.

Proprietary information

The material and content accessible from this website, and any other website owned, operated, licensed, or otherwise controlled by Carpet Court (the "Content") is the proprietary information of Carpet Court or the party that provided or licensed the Content to Carpet Court, whereby such providing party retains all right, title, and interest in the Content. 

Accordingly, the Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of Carpet Court, except that you may print out a copy of the Content solely for your personal use. In doing so, you may not remove or alter, or cause to be removed or altered, any copyright, trade mark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary notice or legend appearing on any of the Content. 

Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use violates Carpet Court’s intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual property rights are transferred to you by access to this site.

Prices, payment and GST

All prices displayed on our website are in Australian dollars and include GST.

Prices, offers and product availability may vary between this website and your local store.

All prices are subject to change effective immediately upon posting to our website or any other form of notification.

Any advertised savings are calculated against recommended retail prices and may vary in your local store.

Although Carpet Court works closely with suppliers to ensure that all details, descriptions and prices that appear on the website are accurate, errors including processing errors may occur. We reserve the right to correct any errors to advertised prices published on our website or cancel any resulting orders.

All advertised prices for carpet and hard flooring are calculated using RRP for product cost only and based on preset room sizes. This price does not include underlay, accessories, packing, freight or installation costs and is intended to be a guide only. Pricing in regional areas may vary due to freight costs. For an accurate quote that includes an accurate onsite measure and assessment, please contact your local store.

All payments for online rug purchases through the website are processed in Australian dollars. Payment for rugs via the website is accepted by various methods, including by credit card (Visa and MasterCard), Paypal and Afterpay. Payment options vary in-store. Please contact your nearest store to confirm in-store payment options.

Hyperlinks

This website may be hyperlinked to other sites that are not maintained by, or related to, Carpet Court. Hyperlinks to such websites are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with this website or Carpet Court. Carpet Court has not reviewed any or all of such websites and is not responsible for the content of those websites. Carpet Court is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any hyperlinked site. 

Hyperlinks are to be accessed at the user's own risk, and Carpet Court makes no representations or warranties about the content, completeness or accuracy of these hyperlinks or the websites hyperlinked to this website. Carpet Court provides hyperlinks as a convenience, and the inclusion of any hyperlink to a third party website does not necessarily imply endorsement by Carpet Court of that website or any association with its operators.

Use of communication services

Carpet Court’s websites may contain forums, bulletin board services, chat areas, message boards, news groups, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to allow you to communicate with the Internet community or with a group (collectively, "Communications Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and content that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

Among other actions, when using a Communication Service, you agree that you will not post, send, submit, publish, or transmit in connection with this website any material that:

  • you do not have the right to post, including proprietary material of any third party, such as files containing software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity);
  • advocates illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal act;
  • is vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or indecent;
  • does not pertain directly to this website;
  • threatens or abuses others, libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks, is obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening or offensive;
  • seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;
  • harvests or otherwise collects information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
  • violates any law or may be considered to violate any law;
  • impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;
  • falsifies or deletes any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded;
  • advertises any commercial endeavour (eg offering for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in any commercial activity (eg conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as may be specifically authorised on this website;
  • solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
  • includes programs that contain viruses, worms and/or Trojan or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications;
  • disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage in real time activities via this website;
  • includes MP3 format files;
  • amounts to a "pyramid" or other like scheme, including contests, chain letters, and surveys;
  • disobeys any policy or regulations including any code of conduct or other guidelines, established from time to time regarding use of this website or any networks connected to this website; or
  • contains hyperlinks to other websites that contain content that falls within the descriptions outlined above.


Carpet Court reserves the right to monitor use of this website to determine compliance with these Terms of Use, as well as the right to remove or refuse any information for any reason. Carpet Court reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. Carpet Court also reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion. Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limits on use, reproduction and/or dissemination and you are responsible for abiding by such limitations with respect to your submissions, including any downloaded materials.

Notwithstanding these rights, you remain solely responsible for the content of your submissions. You acknowledge and agree that neither Carpet Court nor any third party that provides Content to Carpet Court will assume or have any liability for any action or inaction by Carpet Court or such third party with respect to any submission. 

Carpet Court cautions you against giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Carpet Court does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, consequently, Carpet Court specifically disclaims any liability with respect to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Commentators and hosts are not authorised Carpet Court spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Carpet Court.

Submissions

You hereby grant to Carpet Court the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display all content, remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to Carpet Court through this website (together, the "Submission"), and to incorporate any Submission in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. Carpet Court will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and may use any Submission in its business (including without limitation, for products or advertising) without incurring any liability for royalties or any other consideration of any kind, and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future Carpet Court operations.

Carpet Court will treat any personal information that you submit through this website in accordance with its Privacy Policy.  Carpet Court encourages you to review its Privacy Policy, which can be accessed at the bottom of each page on this site.

Disclaimer

You understand that Carpet Court cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Internet will be free of viruses, worms, trojan or other code that may manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to this website for any reconstruction of any lost data. Carpet Court does not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of the Internet.

The Content is not necessarily complete and up-to-date and should not be used to replace any reports, statements, or notices provided by Carpet Court relevant to such Content.

Your use of this website is at your own risk. The content is provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied. Carpet Court disclaims all warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement. Carpet Court does not warrant that the functions or content contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Carpet Court does not warrant or make any representation regarding use, or the result of use, of the content in terms of accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. The content may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and Carpet Court may make changes or improvements at any time. You, and not Carpet Court, assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction in the event of any loss or damage arising from the use of this website or its content. Carpet Court makes no warranties that your use of the content will not infringe the rights of others and assumes no liability or responsibility for errors or omissions in such content.

All of the information in this website, whether historical in nature or forward-looking, speaks only as of the date the information is posted on this website, and Carpet Court does not undertake any obligation to update such information after it is posted or to remove such information from this website if it is not, or is no longer accurate or complete.

Limitation on liability

Carpet Court, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, employees, agents, officers, and directors will not be liable for any incidental, direct, indirect, punitive, actual, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages, including loss of revenue or income, pain and suffering, emotional distress, or similar damages, even if Carpet Court has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event will the collective liability of Carpet Court and its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, employees, agents, officers, and directors to any party (regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) exceed the amount you have paid directly to Carpet Court for the applicable content or service out of which liability arose.

Termination or restriction of access

Carpet Court reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to any or all of Carpet Court’s websites and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold Carpet Court, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, content providers, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors, and contractors (the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from any breach of these Terms of Use by you, including any use of Content other than as expressly authorised in these Terms of Use. 

You agree that the Indemnified Parties will have no liability in connection with any such breach or unauthorized use, and you agree to indemnify any and all resulting loss, damages, judgments, awards, costs, expenses, and attorneys' fees of the Indemnified Parties in connection therewith. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information accessed from this website.

Trade marks and copyrights

Trade marks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works appearing in this website are the property of Carpet Court or the party that provided the trade marks, services marks, logos, and copyrighted works to Carpet Court. Carpet Court and any party that provided trade marks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works to Carpet Court retain all rights with respect to any of their respective trade marks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works appearing in this site.

All contents of Carpet Court’s websites are: Copyright ©2011 Carpet Court. All rights reserved.

Security

Any passwords used for this website are for individual use only. You will be responsible for the security of your password (if any). Carpet Court will be entitled to monitor your password and, at its discretion, require you to change it. If you use a password that Carpet Court considers insecure, Carpet Court will be entitled to require the password to be changed.

You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this website to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (eg password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, Carpet Court reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents. Carpet Court reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use.

Carpet Court reserves the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Carpet Court to disclose the identity of anyone posting any email messages, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed by Carpet Court in its sole discretion to violate these Terms of Use. By accepting this agreement you waive and hold harmless Carpet Court from any claims resulting from any action taken by Carpet Court during or as a result of its investigations and/or from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either Carpet Court or law enforcement authorities.

Miscellaneous

These Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of Queensland, Australia notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of law. You specifically consent to personal jurisdiction in Queensland in connection with any dispute between you and Carpet Court arising out of these Terms of Use or pertaining to the subject matter hereof. The parties to these Terms of Use each agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute between the parties arising out of these Terms of Use will be in the state and federal courts in Queensland.
If any part of these Terms of Use is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Carpet Court as a result of this agreement or use of Carpet Court’s website.

These Terms of Use along with any additional terms and conditions included by Carpet Court on this website together constitute the entire agreement among the parties relating to this subject matter, superseding all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Carpet Court with respect to Carpet Court’s websites.

A printed version of such documents and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to the agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, any additional terms and conditions on this website will govern any additional items to which they pertain.
Carpet Court may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting without notice to you.

Disclaimer

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of the information on this Site, neither Carpet Court nor any of its officers, employees or agents accept any responsibility or liability for any loss occasioned by a person relying on the information or statements contained on it.