terms of sale

 

The following terms of sale agreement shall apply between us, flux space (ABN 32 452 942 599) and you / the person / business / representative named on our quotation or Sales Order regarding the sale of goods or services.

If you do not accept these Terms of Sale, then we will not be able to process your Sales Order.

Our Sales Agreement is subject to any special conditions which we will state in our Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice, in addition to our standard Terms of Sale below and our Privacy Policy, regardless of whether you make your order over the phone, via email or through our Online Shop. 

No other terms and conditions will apply to the Agreement, including any you purport to make when placing an order with us.

An Agreement may only be cancelled or varied with our prior written consent.

2. Definitions and interpretation

1. In these Terms of Sale unless the context otherwise requires:

- Agreement means a contract between us and you for the sale and purchase of the Goods or Services on and subject to the terms and conditions referred to above under 'Terms of Sale'.
- Anticipated Delivery Date is deemed to be the greater of either your requested delivery date or our achievable delivery date.
- Goods mean the goods (if any) agreed in the Agreement to be supplied by us to you
- Payment has the meaning given in clause 8.1
- Quotation means the form, tender or proposal submitted by us to you regarding Goods and/or Services
- Sales Order means the schedule detailing the Goods or Services ordered on your behalf that have been confirmed by you and are to be delivered in accordance with these terms and conditions
- Sales Invoice means the sales invoice issued by us to you which is subject to these terms and conditions, and
- Services mean the services (if any) agreed in the Agreement to be performed by us to you.

2. The expression Person includes an individual, the estate of an individual, a government body, a corporation, an association (incorporated or unincorporated) and a statutory or other authority.

3. Quotations, Sales Orders and Sales Invoices

- A Quotation is valid for 14 days or such other period as stated in the Quotation, unless it has been withdrawn by us.
- A Quotation is not an obligation to sell, but is merely a proposal to supply. No contractual relationship arises from a Quotation until your approval / order has been accepted by us in writing, and after you have made full payment where required in accordance with clause 4.
- Any special conditions specified in a Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice will take precedence over these Terms of Sale to the extent that they are inconsistent with these Terms of Sale.
- Every Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice is subject to and conditional on obtaining all necessary items, components and parts that make up the finished and total quantity required. If we cannot obtain any such items, we reserve the right to cancel the Quotation or Sales Invoice, without liability to you, except we will promptly return to you any part / full payment you have paid us under a Sales Invoice.


4. Conformity to description

1. Whilst reasonable efforts are made by us to:

- supply Goods with correct sizes, slight variations in size may occur maintain consistency, variations from sample in colour and quantity may occur
- supply material in accordance with the quality of any samples submitted to you or quoted for, the quality cannot be guaranteed, and
- supply Goods to specific colours, variations from colour may occur (ie. colours may vary slightly from what you see on your monitor, depending on your monitor settings), and
- we will not be liable to you for any such variations or inconsistencies.

2. Photographs, drawings, illustrations and any other particulars associated with or given in descriptive literature or a catalogue of ours, approximate the Goods or Services offered by us, and cannot be relied on by you.
3. Any performance data provided by us or a manufacturer is an estimate only and should be construed accordingly.

5. Price

1. All prices for Goods or Services are quoted in AUD and include GST, unless otherwise noted.
2. Unless otherwise stated by us in writing, the prices quoted in a Quotation or Sales Order or set out in a Sales Invoice exclude delivery, installation, insurance in transit, packaging, crating, handling charges, agents' charges and any other charge for a Good or Service.

 

6. Terms of payment

1. All prices are in AUD and must be also paid in AUD.
2. All electronic orders are to be (securely) paid in full via our online shop (www.fluxspace.com.au) prior to dispatch. 
3. All manual orders (either retail, commercial or trade) are to be paid in full via electronic funds transfer (EFT) upon the issue of a sales invoice. Once cleared payment has been received, your order will then be processed for supply/manufacture. All goods shall remain the property of flux space until such time as the goods are paid in full.
4. We accept payment via direct debit, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Apple Pay. 5. All private information we receive in processing your payments under this Agreement will be held and used in compliance with our strict Privacy Policy.
6. Failure to pay on time will entitle us to:
- suspend any outstanding delivery
- cancel the Agreement and seek damages for breach of contract and our costs of recovery

7. Shipment and delivery

1. Upon approval to proceed with an order, we may confirm the period of shipment or delivery and notify you of any excessive variation from the website quoted lead time(s). Unless you object in writing within 7 days of that notification to you, the period of shipment or delivery notified to you will be the contractual period for shipment or delivery.
2. Delivery lead times commence on the date of (cleared) full payment / deposit amount owing, whichever is the later. We may extend the quoted period if you request any variation to the drawings and finishes after that date.
3. We will not accept any liability or responsibility for delays in the delivery of Goods. 
4. Quotes of deliveries are given with best intentions but are not guaranteed. Time is not of the essence regarding the delivery of the Goods or the Anticipated Delivery Date, unless the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice expressly states otherwise. Time for delivery cannot be made of the essence by notice from you.
5. Delivery will be deemed to be made when the Goods are delivered to the place specified in the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice. If the customer has requested that goods be left unattended, or with a third party representative no responsibility will be taken for loss or damage by flux space or our freight partners. We reserve the right to make part deliveries of any order and each part delivery will constitute a separate sale of Goods on these Terms of Sale and may be invoiced separately. A part delivery of an order will not invalidate the balance of an order.
6. If for any reason you do not accept delivery of the Goods or performance of the Services when they are ready for delivery or performance, or we cannot deliver the Goods or perform the Services on time because you have not provided us with appropriate instructions, documents, licences or authorisations, we reserve the right to:
- invoice you all outstanding of the total amount of the Sales Invoice, and
- charge you a weekly storage fee that will be calculated in weekly increments of $30 per cubic metre, per week, from the Anticipated Delivery Date until the date of delivery.
7. If delivery of your goods has been made and turned away due to sites not being ready or access not being possible or the designated receiver of the goods not available, we are entitled to charge a fair fee to cover the additional transportation costs. 

8. Title and risk

1. Title to the Goods will not be transferred to you (or any financial institution and or agent facilitating the acquisition of the Goods by you) until the total purchase Price and any other sums due to us under these

Terms of Sale, including any late payment charge payable, has been duly paid in cleared funds to us (Payment).

2. Unless and until such Payment is so made:
- you will hold the Goods and any money received by you in respect of the sale or disposal of them (or if any part of the whole thereof has been damaged or destroyed, any insurance or other compensation moneys received) on trust for us, and
- you will store the Goods or hold such money in such manner as to show clearly that they are our property.
3. Until Payment has been made, you irrevocably authorise us at any time to enter onto any premises on which:
- our Goods are stored or held to enable us to inspect the Goods and/or if you are in default under clause 6, to reclaim the Goods. You indemnify us and hold us as not liable in respect of any action taken pursuant to our rights under this Agreement, and
- you have retained records concerning the Goods being held, so as to permit us to inspect and copy such records where necessary.

4. The risk in the Goods will pass to you on delivery. You accept the responsibility for insurance for the Goods from that time, but delivery does not make you the owner of the Goods until Payment in full.
5. Until final Payment is made in accordance with these Terms of Sale, neither you nor any administrator appointed pursuant to any section of the Corporations Act will move any part of the Goods from the location to which it was delivered by us nor will you sell or contract to sell, mortgage, charge, lease or otherwise dispose of the same or part with possession of the same.
6. We reserve the right to register any retention of title security interest in Goods on the PPSR, and you agree to provide all such assistance to us to enable us to make any such PPSR registration. 

9. Inspection and Acceptance

1. You must inspect all Goods upon delivery to you.
2. You must notify us if the Goods or Services are not in accordance with the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice within 24 hours of delivery or performance. Failing such notice and to the extent permitted by statute, the Goods or Services and their condition will be deemed to have been delivered or performed and accepted by you.

10. Cancellations and Returns

1. We will not accept the return of the Goods delivered to you if the Goods delivered have been accepted or deemed accepted by you or you wish to change your mind and cancel the Sales Order, unless we choose to do so in our sole discretion.
2. If we do accept a cancellation of your Sales Order, you agree to arrange a return of the Goods, at your cost and risk, to our nominated returns depot or store, as we nominate, and you agree to return the Goods in their original condition, in their original unopened and sealed packaging, accompanied by the original Sales Order docket receipt or another form of proof of purchase. You also agree that we are entitled to deduct from any refund of the Payment made by you, the cost of the original delivery and an amount that we reasonable believe reflects the loss to us in accepting the cancellation, including any storage costs and any mark down of the price of the Goods.
3. If, after you have made full payment of the deposit where required in accordance with the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice but before the goods are delivered to you, you wish to change your mind and cancel the Sales Order and we do accept such cancellation, you agree that we are entitled to forfeit the whole of the deposit paid by you, and charge you with any additional amount that we reasonable believe reflects the loss to us in accepting the cancellation, including any administration fees, transportation or storage costs and any mark down of the price of the Goods.

11. Warranties

1. Our Goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and for compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the Goods repaired or replaced if the Goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.
2. In addition to all rights and remedies to which you may be entitled under the ACL and any other relevant legislation, we offer, on behalf of the manufacturers of the Goods, the respective manufacturers' warranties for those Goods as outlined on the Warranties section of our website. A manufacturer warranty does not exclude, restrict or modify any of your statutory rights or remedies.

12. Important exclusions and limitations of liability

1. Subject to any manufacturer's Warranties and any guarantees we are required to provide under the ACL, and any other applicable laws that cannot be excluded, we will not be liable to you or anyone else, to the maximum extent permitted under law, for:

- any liability, damage, loss, cost or expense that is beyond the normal measure that you suffer or incur from a breach of this Agreement or that is consequential or following, immediate or eventual, flowing from a breach of this Agreement
- expenses incurred by you due to any breach of the Agreement
- a decision, action or inaction taken in reliance on any information provided by us or connected with our website, or
- loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of production, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of contract, loss in replacing or restoring data, loss of anticipated saving, or loss for any financing costs or increase in operating costs, whether any such loss is direct or indirect, or normal or consequential, in nature (or on any other basis).

2. To the extent permitted by law, we will not be liable to you if:

- you use the Goods or Services after informing us they are defective
- the defect in the Goods or Services arises because you failed to follow our or the manufacturer's instructions as to storage, installation, commissioning, maintenance or use of the Goods or Services
- you remove any manufacturer's serial number
- the damage or defect is not caused by a defect in workmanship or material, or
- you alter or repair the Goods without our prior written approval.


3. To the extent permitted by law and subject to clause 10, our liability for any non-compliance with a statutory guarantee or loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the supply of the Goods or Services under this Agreement is limited to:

- In the case of Services:
- the resupply of the Services; or
- the payment of the cost of resupply of the Services; and
- In the case of Goods:
- the replacement of the Goods or the supply of equivalent Goods; or
- the repair of the Goods; or
- the payment of the cost of replacing the Goods or of acquiring equivalent Goods; or
- the payment of the cost of having the Goods repaired.

4. Clause 11.2 is not intended to have the effect of excluding, restricting or modifying:

- the application of all or any of the provisions of Part 5-4 of Schedule 2 to the ACL, or
- the exercise of a right conferred by such a provision, or
- any of our liability in relation to a failure to comply with a guarantee that applies under Division 1 of Part 3-2 of the ACL to a supply of goods or services.
5. To the extent permitted by law, if we breach the Terms of Sale, our liability to you (whether in contract, tort, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) will be limited to an amount which will not exceed the total amount paid by you to us under the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice, as up to the date of such a breach.

6. You agree and declare for our benefit that you have relied on your own skill and judgment in entering into the Agreement, and you have not relied on any statement or representation given by any person on behalf of us.

13. Your default

1. If you default by non-payment or non-performance of any obligation under this Agreement or if any proceedings under any bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency laws are started by or against you, we will have the right to exercise any one of the following remedies:

- declare all unpaid amounts of the Sales Invoice to be immediately due and payable
- require you to make available all documentation and to assemble such parts of the Goods which has not been paid for and to make the same available at a time and place reasonably convenient to us
- take possession without demand or notice (where the right to demand or notice is expressly waived by you under this clause) of all parts of the Goods as yet unpaid for
- sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the Goods publicly or privately
- terminate this Agreement in whole or in part, and/or
- pursue any other remedies existing at law or in equity.

2. In addition to any other payment obligations under the Agreement, you agree to pay to us all costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and costs incurred by us, in exercising any of our rights and remedies we are entitled to.

14. Intellectual property protection

1. We indemnify you against any legal action arising out of or in any way connected with any infringement of a patent, registered design or copyright arising out of any Goods or Services provided by us to you.
2. You indemnify us against any legal action arising from any designs furnished by you to us, and warrant that these designs will not cause us to infringe any patent, registered design or copyright, of any third party.
3. You agree that any design, drawing, investigation, bills of material, software, data and general material, or other activities carried out by us specifically associated with the subject of the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice remains our intellectual property, unless otherwise stated in the Sales Invoice.

15. Confidentiality

1. We undertake not to disclose at any time any commercial or technical details associated with the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice, and to keep such material strictly confidential and in compliance with our Privacy Policy.

16. Work site conditions

1. Access: You undertake to provide access to the site as necessary within good time. We will give reasonable notice of the time of commencement on site. We will you advise immediately of any problems with access to the site.
2. Insurances: We undertake to ensure that all persons in our employ are covered by appropriate workers' compensation insurance. We undertake to provide public liability insurance to your satisfaction, within reason. Where required in the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice, we undertake to provide full comprehensive insurance of the Services until acceptance.
3. Site Facilities: Site facilities as described on the face of the Quotation, Sales Order or Sales Invoice will be provided by you. It is your responsibility to check that these site facilities are satisfactory and to make arrangements for further facilities where required. Site tests should be carried out as soon as practicable after placement of site facilities, where you will provide at least 7 days' notice to us prior to testing the readiness of the site.

17. Force majeure

1. If, in the performance or observance of our obligations under this Agreement, we are prevented, restricted or affected by reason of a force majeure event, including strike, lock-out, Covid-19 related events, industrial dispute, raw material shortage, breakdown of plant, transport or equipment or any other cause beyond our reasonable control, we may in our absolute discretion give prompt notice of such cause to you, and we are excused from such performance or observances to the extent of such prevention, restriction or affectation.

18. General

1. The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior representations, agreements, statements and understandings, whether verbal or in writing.
2. No failure to exercise or any delay in exercising any right, power or remedy by a party operates as a waiver. A single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy does not preclude any other or further exercise of that or any other right, power or remedy. A waiver is not valid or binding on the party granting the waiver unless it is made in writing.
3. We may give you notice by electronic mail or personal service. You may give us written notice via email: info@fluxspace.com.au
4. If a provision of these Terms of Sale is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then to the extent of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability, that provision must be ignored in the interpretation of these Terms of Sale All other provisions of these Terms of Use remain in full force and effect.
5. The Agreement is governed by the law applicable in Queensland, Australia and each party irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.