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Website Terms of Use

The growAG. website (“our website”) is owned and operated by Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC) trading as AgriFutures Australia.

Each reference in these terms of use to “our website” includes all materials that we make available to you on our website.

By using our website, you agree to comply with these terms of use and our Cookie Policy. Please check this page each time you use our website, as we may update these terms from time to time.

If you carry out any transaction through our website (such as by booking event tickets or obtaining services through our website), that transaction may be subject to additional terms and conditions which you will be asked to read and accept at the relevant time.

Access to investment opportunities

The investment opportunities on our website are only for the use of persons who are sophisticated investors or professional investors (within the meaning of section 708 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)). The products and services described in the investment opportunities section of our website are not available to any person who is not a sophisticated or professional investor.

No advice provided to you 

The material on our website is published for general informational purposes only. This website is not designed for the purpose of providing financial product or investment advice or technical advice. The information contained in our website does not take into account your particular investment objectives, financial situation or investment needs or other business or technical matters. You should seek personal financial product or investment advice or other agronomic, business or technical advice and consider whether the information contained in our website is appropriate to your particular objectives, situation and needs before making a decision.

The information contained in our website is not a recommendation or statement of opinion, or a report of either of those things intending, or that could be reasonably regarded as intending, to influence a person or persons to invest in any investments, securities or financial products.

We do not guarantee the performance of the opportunities listed on our website or the return of capital to investors. An investment is subject to investment and other risks and you should seek independent professional advice, where appropriate. Your obligations

You must comply with any instructions we give you about how to use our website and must not do anything that interferes with or adversely affects the normal operation of the website (including the ability of other users to access or use the website).

You are responsible for ensuring the security of the systems and devices that you use to access our website, including through use of appropriate virus-checking and other security software.

Account details

You may need to register or open an account with us in order to access certain parts of our website. In this case, we will issue you with a user name and password, or other appropriate log-in details for your account.  You are responsible for keeping your log-in details confidential so that they cannot be used without your permission.  You will be responsible for any use of our website by anyone using your log-in details.

Your content 

To the extent that our website includes functionality that allows you to upload content to our website (“your content”):

  • you remain the owner of your content;
  • you grant us an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce and communicate to the public your content for the purposes of operating our website and providing services to you;
  • you must ensure that your content does not include anything that is illegal, offensive, obscene, defamatory, breaches the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of any other person, or otherwise breaches any acceptable use rules that we post on our website from time to time; and
  • we may reject or take down your content at any time, including if we think in our discretion that it breaches these terms of use or otherwise is not appropriate for inclusion on our website.

Rights to suspend or terminate access

We may suspend, terminate or block your access to all or any part of our website at any time and without prior notice to you. The provisions of these terms regarding privacy and liability survive termination.

Intellectual property

All of the intellectual property rights in and to our website, belongs to us and our licensors.  We may update and change the materials available on our website, including by removing materials, at any time in our discretion.

You may download or print sections of our website if needed for your own personal use, but otherwise you may not reproduce any part of our website without our express prior consent.  To the extent that our website contains functionality that allows you to access or download specific materials through our website, your use of that functionality and the downloaded materials may be subject to separate terms and conditions which you will be asked to read and accept at the relevant time.

Website links

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties who are not associated with us, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over those websites or the services made available through them, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Links to third party websites are provided solely for your convenience and do not indicate, expressly or impliedly, any endorsement by AgriFutures of the websites or the products or services provided in them. Nor does AgriFutures endorse, approve or recommend the owners or operators of the linked websites.

You may provide a link to the home page of our website at, on any website you operate, as long as you do not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our express prior permission and you promptly delete the link at our request.

Liability

While we will use reasonable care and skill in operating our website, we cannot promise that our website will always be available or completely free of faults or errors.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, except as expressly set out in these terms of use:

  • our website is provided on an ‘as is’ basis and all content published on the “Opportunities” section of our website has been submitted by the organisation promoting the opportunity or seeking funding.

AgriFutures does not warrant, guarantee or make any representation regarding the opportunities published on our website, including the correctness, accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of information published on our website;

  • AgriFutures excludes all conditions, representations, warranties and statutory guarantees, whether express or implied, in relation to our website; and
  • AgriFutures excludes any liability (whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise) for any indirect or consequential loss, damage or expense incurred by you or any other user in connection with our website.

To the extent we are unable by law to exclude any implied condition, representation, warranty or statutory guarantee in relation to the provision of goods or services through our website, we limit our liability for a breach to the re-supply of those goods or services, or payment for such re-supply.

Privacy 

We will manage any personal information that we collect through our website in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Collection Statement which you can access https://www.agrifutures.com.au/privacy-statement/ and https://www.growag.com/policies/collection-statement. We may also use cookies to enhance your experience, to track engagement with the website and to help us improve the site in accordance with our Cookie Policy https://www.growag.com/policies/cookie-policy.

You agree that we may send you commercial electronic messages via various channels (including by email, SMS, phone and mail) where you have not opted out from receiving such electronic messages sent to you by us. If you tell us you opt out of the receipt of such material, you will only receive information we are required by law to provide to you or factual information directly about your account, including changes to these terms and/or our Privacy Policy. Your agreement to receive commercial electronic messages from us will be effective until you opt out.

Waiver

Failure or neglect by us to enforce at any time any of these terms will not be construed or deemed to be a waiver of our rights under these terms.

No waiver by us of our rights under these terms will be deemed a waiver of any other term or provision and will be limited to a single waiver limited to the specific circumstances under which such waiver was granted.  

Governing law

These terms of use are governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that place.

Contact us

You can contact AgriFutures Australia at the contact details below at any time:

By email:

[email protected]

In writing:

AgriFutures Australia 

Building 007, Tooma Way

Charles Sturt University

Locked Bag 588

Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

By phone:

+61 026923 6900

Last updated 18 April 2023