Ignite Your Thinking Terms of Use

Introduction

In these terms, Blog means the Ignite Your Thinking blog located at http://www.beca.com/ignite-your-thinking (“Blog”).

The Blog, Blog site and the corresponding blogging services are made available to you by Beca Corporate Holdings Limited, 21 Pitt Street, Auckland, New Zealand (“Beca”) subject to the following terms of access and use. These terms of use incorporate, and are to be read in conjunction with, Beca’s General Terms of Use and privacy policy available at http://www.beca.com/about_beca/general_terms_of_use.aspx (together the “Terms”). In these Terms “you” and “your” refers to any person accessing this website, and “we”, our” and “us” refers to Beca.

By accessing, creating or contributing to the Blog site you accept and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use this Blog site. Beca reserves the right to modify these Terms, at any time, at our sole discretion. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms and your continued use of the Blog site constitutes your agreement to such Terms as modified.

Blog Content

The Blog and any information made available on or in connection with the Blog (“Blog Content”) is provided on an “as-is” basis and is not, and is not intended as, advice on any specific issue or situation. No Blog Content constitutes, or may be relied on as, legal or other professional advice. We make no representation or warranty as to its accuracy, reliability, adequacy or completeness.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties (express or implied) in relation to the Blog, the Blog site and Blog Content, including (without limitation) warranties as to accuracy, reliability, adequacy, completeness or fitness for any purpose and without any express or implied representation or warranty in relation to any contract which may be entered into.

Your use of any Blog Content is at your own sole risk. You understand that all content posted to http://beca.wpengine.com is the sole responsibility of the individual /entity who originally posted the content and that all opinions expressed by users of this Blog are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of any member of the Beca group of companies. You agree that you will evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Blog Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

Posting

Users may post content freely to the Blog site provided that such content:

• is not indecent, obscene, defamatory or otherwise threatening;
• is not illegal;
• does not to impersonate any other person or falsely claim to represent any other person;
• does not invade the personal privacy of any person;
• does not infringe the intellectual property rights of others; or
• is not otherwise objectionable, as determined at Beca’s sole discretion.

We reserve the right to(i) remove any Blog Content and / or (ii) deny any user or entity’s access to the Blog site where that user posts Blog Content which violates these Terms or otherwise uses the Blog in contravention of these Terms.

Your permission to post content to the Blog site does not constitute our endorsement of any content posted.

Our Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we and all other members and joint ventures with members of the Beca group of companies are not and will not be liable to you or any other person for any damages, liabilities, losses (including, without limitation, loss of profits, business or data), costs or expenses of any kind, whether direct or indirect, which arise out of, result from or otherwise relate to our relationship with you, including without limitation your access to, use of or reliance on, or inability to access, use or rely on, the Blog and/or its contents, any linked website and/or its contents, or any link contained in a linked website.

You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified us and all other members and joint ventures with members of the Beca group of companies against all damages, liabilities, losses (including, without limitation, loss of profits), costs or expenses of any kind, whether direct or indirect, whether in tort, contract, equity or otherwise, which arise out of or result from your access to or use of this Blog in contravention of these Terms.

Intellectual Property

By posting any content to the Blog site you:

• grant Beca a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use such content in connection with the operation of the Blog site and any corresponding blogging services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat that content;
• warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control the rights to that Blog Content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post or upload that content;
• agree to indemnify and keep indemnified us and all other members and joint ventures with members of the Beca group of companies for any and all claims resulting from content you supply. If your contribution includes material in which the copyright or other intellectual property is owned by another person or entity, you warrant that you have the right to contribute such materials and agree to indemnify us and all other members and joint ventures with members of the Beca group of companies against any loss, liability, claim, demand, damage or expense (including legal fees) asserted by any third party (including yourself).