THIRD PARTY CONTENT
The products and services offered for sale or advertised through this Website are the products, services and information of third parties.
The third party products, services and information are not provided by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB). MCB provides an interactive environment in which users who are interested in sourcing competitive products or services can find and select businesses from one of our third party member organisations. Your legal relationship is with the third-party supplier and not MCB.
MCB makes no representation or warranty in relation to the standard, class or fitness for purpose of any accommodation or service, nor does it endorse or in any respect warrant any products or services by virtue of any information, material or content referred to or included on, or linked from or to this site. MCB does not control the legality, quality, safety or timeliness of any product or service that is purchased as a result of the use of information or links contained on this web site. MCB is not a broker acting on behalf of any user, nor is it an agent acting on behalf of any third party supplier.
There may be technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, programming bugs or computer viruses in this website or its contents. MCB makes no representations or warranties as to timeliness, availability, accuracy or completeness of any information contained on this website. Like any written materials, the information provided on this website may become outdated. MCB makes no guarantees to update or correct any information or content on this website. All website content is provided 'as is' without the benefit of any warranties as to title, satisfactory quality, merchantability, fitness for purpose or non-infringement which are all expressly disclaimed to the extent permissible by law. MCB is not liable for any injury or death, or any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or other categories of damages, losses (including loss of business opportunity, revenue or profit) or damage to goodwill arising out of content on this website.
PARTNER ACCESS
If you are a Partner of MCB you will be issued with User ID and Password restrictions to prevent
unauthorised access to restricted areas of this website and to features and segments within it.
It is your responsibility to maintain User ID and Password restrictions confidential. MCB accepts no responsibility or liability arising from unauthorised access to restricted areas of this web site. You must report as soon as practicable the unauthorised use of your User ID and Password of any kind.
COOKIES
A ‘cookie’ is a small text file stored in your web browser by websites. Like most websites, our websites use cookies and similar methods (such as ‘pixels’, which are small image files) to improve user experience, understand how our websites are used, and deliver targeted advertising. Unless you delete or block them, cookies and pixels may remain in your browser as a record for future visits to this website.
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Our websites need some cookies to perform their basic functions – for example, remembering which page you are on. These cookies do not track you or collect any personal information.
Functional cookies
Our websites use some cookies to perform extra functions, and personalise and improve your experience – for example, to enable animations.
Analytics cookies
Our websites use some cookies to anonymously log user activity for analytical, statistical and security purposes only. This helps us understand which pages are the most and least popular and how users move around our websites. Log information may include a user’s IP address, approximate location (such as state or country), date and time of visit to the site, pages accessed and documents downloaded, previous site visited, and type of device and browser.
We may use location information to show content tailored to the user’s location or likely language needs. We use web analytics services provided by third party providers including DotDigital, Facebook, Linkedin, Google, and Hotjar, Tealium, and Twitter.
Advertising cookies
We work with third party online advertising partners to show you personalised advertising. Our partners use cookies and pixels on our websites to better understand your interests and show you personalised ads on our websites and on other websites. These cookies and pixels do not identify you directly, but do uniquely identify your device and browser. Our ad management partners include Doubleclick, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
If you have signed up for one of our newsletters, we may link advertising cookies with your email address to help us show you more relevant information. You can find out more about your privacy rights in our Privacy Policy.
COPYRIGHT
All contents of this web site, including the software, design, text and graphics are owned by or licensed to MCB or its Partner businesses and are protected by copyright under the laws of Australia and other countries. You are authorised to view, download or print material from this website for your personal, non-commercial use. You must not reproduce, transmit, adapt, distribute, sell, modify or publish or otherwise use any of the material on this web site without the prior written consent of MCB and where appropriate the relevant Partner business.
TRADE MARKS
This web site includes trade marks which are registered or the subject of pending applications or which are otherwise protected by law. The 'Melbourne Convention Bureau' name and logos are trade marks of MCB. All rights are reserved for these logos. All other trade marks appearing on this website are the property of their respective owners. You may not use these trade marks without the consent of MCB and where appropriate the relevant Partner business.
Please email enquiries and requests for use permission to the [email protected]
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
To the extent permitted by law, MCB excludes all:
warranties, conditions and representations whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, relating in any way to this web site, your use of this web site and the products and services advertised on this web site; and- liability (including for negligence) to you or anyone else in respect of any loss or damage (including special, indirect or consequential loss or damage), costs and expenses suffered by you or claims made against you arising from or in connection with any use of the information, products or services supplied, offered to be supplied or advertised or accessed through this web site for any reason whatsoever (including negligence).
Liability (including for negligence) to you or anyone else in respect of any loss or damage (including special, indirect or consequential loss or damage), costs and expenses suffered by you or claims made against you arising from or in connection with any use of the information, products or services supplied, offered to be supplied or advertised or accessed through this web site for any reason whatsoever (including negligence).
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify MCB and its partners, agents, officers, employees and other authorised representatives against all claims, suits, demands, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses arising in any way out of or in any way connected to your use of this website.
UNACCEPTABLE USE AND RESTRICTIONS
You must not inappropriately use, attempt to use or allow our website or services to be used for any acts which may or do result in a breach of a law or degradation of performance impacting on the website or other users of our website. Examples of such unacceptable and inappropriate use include: Hacking or modifying the website or another website to falsely imply an association with our website/s; unauthorised penetration or load testing; unauthorised SEO scanning; content scraping; posting of obscene or otherwise objectionable material or links which would be classified RC, X18+ or R18+ by the Classification Board of Australia; violation of any party's intellectual property; abuse, harassment, threats, flaming or intimidation of any person or organisation; denial of service or distributed denial of service flooding to the extent that it impacts on website performance; use of derogatory, discriminatory or excessively graphic language; providing information that is false, misleading or inaccurate; phishing or transmitting viruses or other malware; sending unsolicited or unwanted personal or commercial messages (spamming); undertake activities which cause or may cause third party service providers to place MCB's IP addresses on a ban list and/or block those IP addresses.
Failure to observe and abide by these legal notices may result in your public IP address being restricted or blocked from accessing our website or your IP address may be reported to the relevant internet service provider or legal authorities for investigation and potential legal action.
GOVERNING LAW
Any legal issues arising out of the use of this web site will be governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia and by using this website you submit to the j