AiMCO Accreditation

We have some TERMS AND CONDITIONS we would like to share with you. 

Acceptance of website Terms & Conditions of Use of Website

The website https://aimcoaccreditation.thinkific.com (Website) is owned and operated by Audited Media Association of Australia Ltd trading as the Australian Influencer Marketing Council ('AiMCO', 'we', 'us', 'our', and similar grammatical forms).

You ('you', 'your', and similar grammatical forms) are wishing to purchase one or more 'seats', or ‘place’, or other access in the AiMCO Accreditation Program.

By purchasing a seat, place, or other access in the AiMCO Accreditation program and using and accessing this Website, you agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions. 

AiMCO Accreditation Course Registration

Information on how to register for an AiMCO course form part of these Terms and Conditions. Registration for an AiMCO course is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

If you are under 18 years of age, you cannot place orders or purchase any services or product through this Website. By using this Website, you represent and warrant to us that you are over the age of 18 years. Should we suffer any damage or other losses as a result of a transaction entered into by a minor, we reserve the right to seek compensation for such losses from their parents or guardians.

Subject to these Terms and Conditions, registration is open to all residents of Australia:

1. Companies who purchase seats must register individuals to obtain appropriate logins to the platform to access the course
2. To register, follow the prompts as provided by AiMCO Accreditation ‘Register Now’ process. 
3. You will need to provide your name, company, and a preferred email address.
4. All attendee names must be registered prior to commencement, failure to register prior to the course commencement can result in a cancellation of your seat on the training with no refund applicable.
   

Payment Terms

AiMCO reserves the right to change the prices for products/services displayed in this Website at any time before you place an order.

Australian Dollars

Prices will be charged in Australian dollars.

GST Inclusive 

All amounts payable through your use of this site are expressed to be inclusive of GST. Other documentation may show the fees as exclusive of GST.

For these purposes, the term "GST" has the meaning given to it in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).

Credit Cards

AiMCO Payment Terms are payment by credit card (Visa or Mastercard only) at time of registration or by invoice in a chosen semester.

Payment via Invoice

If payment via invoice is required, please email [email protected] as prompted on the website. The invoice will detail the available payment methods and payment options. Please note that payment via an invoice may delay participant registration until payment is received by AiMCO. 

Payment must be made in full prior to the start of a course.

Overdue Invoices

All AiMCO Accreditation course fees must be paid by the invoice due date and prior to the commencement of any course or event. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer an extension to this date.

If fees remain unpaid, without exception the following will occur:

1. the orders will be cancelled with immediate effect
2. attendees nominated and/or registered will have their enrolment discontinued due to the non-payment of fees

AiMCO Membership

AiMCO membership provides savings on attendance of AiMCO Accreditation.
If your organisation is not an AiMCO member and you would like to organise for it to become a member, simply email the address below with the subject of “Membership” and we’ll be in contact.  

Email enquiries to [email protected]

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Without limitation to the rights under Australian Consumer Law (ACL), no refund is provided for change of mind. 

Course refunds will be provided in the case of cancellation of a course by AiMCO. If this were to occur, you will be informed via email prior to the commencement date and offered an alternative course date or we will refund in full the event or course fee. 

AiMCO reserves the right to alter or change course dates and format as required.

AiMCO reserves the right to restructure the course in any way due to a change in the business structure of the Audited Media Association of Australia Ltd, and in this case to assign contracts of attendees accordingly or to refund course fees if a course is cancelled. 

Further information on the steps that AiMCO will take to remedy any breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee is provided under the heading "Remedies limited" in these Website Terms and Conditions below.

Exclusion of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the AiMCO and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates exclude all liability to you or any other person for any loss, cost, expense, claim or damage (whether arising in contract, negligence, tort, equity, statute or otherwise, and for any loss, whether it be consequential, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary or otherwise, including any loss of profits, loss or corruption of data or loss of goodwill) arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection with, these Terms and Conditions or the use of this Website by you or any other person.

Remedies Limited

To the maximum extent permitted by law, AiMCO and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners, and affiliates expressly limit their liability for breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee implied by virtue of any legislation to the following remedies (the choice of which is to be at the AiMCO's sole discretion):

1. in the case of goods, to any of the following:
2. the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods;
3. the repair of the goods;
4. the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
5. the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and
6. in the case of services:
7. the supply of the services again; or
8. the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

Release

You agree that your use of this Website is at your own discretion and risk. You agree to release AiMCO and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners, and affiliates from any claim, demand, or cause of action that you may have against any of them arising from these Website Terms and Conditions or the use of this site by you or any other person. AiMCO may plead this release as a bar and complete defence to any claims or proceedings.

Attendee Cancellation / Deferment 

AiMCO may also need to postpone or change courses or events. 

Due to the self-paced delivery format and access to AiMCO online courses, except as expressly provided otherwise in these Terms and Conditions, all amounts paid through this Website are non-refundable. However, we provide attendee substitution and deferment opportunities if notified according to these Terms and Conditions. 

Unable to attend an AiMCO Accreditation Course or Event you have paid for?
 
Outlined below are the measures that may be taken if you are unable to attend an AiMCO Accreditation Course or event that you had paid for. 

Nominate a Substitute Attendee
 
If an individual withdraws from the program after payment and registration, another person can be substituted for that person. Sending a substitute is the best way to ensure you or your organisation retains the full value for its capability development investment. 

1. Written notification of a substitute attendee must be received a minimum of 14 days prior to the course or event. 
2. All written notifications must include your name and company details, the course or event name, timing, the name and contact information for your substitute and the original invoice number.

For the avoidance of doubt, requests made for substitute once an AiMCO Accreditation course has commenced, are not permitted, and will not be granted.
 
Deferment
 
If a substitute is unavailable, then you may apply for a deferment prior to commencement of the course semester. 

1. Written notification requesting deferment must be received a minimum of 14 days prior to the start of the online course. 
2. The written notification must include your name and the course or event name and the original tax invoice number or a copy of the original tax invoice receipt.
3. Deferments are not applicable to one-off live events. 
4. Deferments are strictly non-transferable between businesses.

AiMCO courses deferred: a credit with a 6-month expiry (from the original commencement date) is issued.

Individual commences but is unable to complete the course

AiMCO provides for attendees to do catch up modules in order to complete a course and undertake the course knowledge tests.

Content Modules and Catch-Up Modules 

The content in the AiMCO Accreditation is provided via the Thinkific platform in a ‘drip feed’ format for self-completion of modules and course tests.

The content is made available for 3 months for participants; to access content after this date catch up fees may apply. 

Registration provides access to the specific course content provided at that date and does not entitle attendees to course updates or changed course content. 

Legal and regulatory information and content included in the AiMCO Accreditation program is for general information purposes only, should not be considered legal advice, and should not be relied upon as a substitute for specific legal advice. 

AiMCO recommends that parties obtain legal advice in relation to specific issues and campaigns, as what may appear to be a minor detail, can significantly change the legal position from that generally discussed in any content provided in the program.  

Catch Up Modules

A fee is applicable for AiMCO Accreditation catch up modules and progression to accreditation status.

Written notification is required from the attendee so that we can determine the status of their course completion to date.

Members fee is $220 including GST and non-members is $440 including GST is payable to access course additional content in order to repeat or finish an AiMCO Accreditation program and progress to completion and the chance to attain the AiMCO Accreditation Badge.

Force Majeure

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and without limiting any other provision of these Website Terms and Conditions, AiMCO excludes liability for any delay in performing any of its obligations under these Website Terms and Conditions where such delay is caused by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of AiMCO, and AiMCO shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of time for the performance of such obligations.

In the event of a force majeure, AiMCO reserves the right to cancel events following guidelines issued by local and international authorities. AiMCO will act in good faith in delivering the AiMCO Accreditation where possible.

AiMCO Accreditation Digital Badge

The AiMCO Accreditation Badge is only available to individuals who have completed the full program and passed the applicable tests to the prescribed pass level. 

This allows the participant to show and promote that they have completed and passed the applicable AiMCO Accreditation course.

You acknowledge that AiMCO Accreditation provides training as an industry developed course and not a university accredited course.

AiMCO uses Accredible Platform (accredible.com) a credentials software that provides unique badges to the successful attendees. 

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on the Accredible platform. This link to verified data makes the badges more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. 

You can share your digital badge directly from the Accredible platform to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

You can also choose a badge or a certificate as Accredible provides both:

1. If you want your credential to be widely shared, use a Digital Badge.
2. If you want specific details to appear on your credentials, like names and issue dates, use a certificate.

Once awarded with a badge you can download it via Accredible's Retrieve Credentials Tool a page that will fetch any credentials associated with a recipient's email address and send them links to each credential.

You can learn more about Accredible here. 

Copyright & Confidentiality Notice

AiMCO Accreditation Copyright © Australian Influencer Marketing Council (AiMCO). All rights reserved. AiMCO is a division of Audited Media Association of Australia Ltd (AMAA)
 
The AiMCO is the owner of the copyright subsisting in the content in all forms appearing in the AiMCO Accreditation Programs. The course materials are released only to specific individuals that agree to the terms and conditions and have registered individually to participate in the program.  
 
No part of the downloadable materials may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted, or provided to any unauthorised recipient in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, micro-copying, photocopying, recording, storage in a retrieval system or otherwise), without the prior written consent of AiMCO.  

Any unauthorised person or entity coming into possession of documents (in any manner) that are part of the AiMCO Accreditation program or any other program or activity of AiMCO does so as trustee of the AiMCO and on this basis must not use or disclose the document and any of its content in any manner (directly or indirectly) and must immediately notify AiMCO of the fact of receipt and delete and/or destroy all copies of the documents in its possession or control.

By participating in the AiMCO Accreditation Program, accessing the Website, and downloading supporting documents and tools, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by the terms and conditions of this Copyright & Confidentiality Notice.

Intellectual Property 

All AiMCO logos, brands and course/program names and module content are owned by AiMCO, unless otherwise stated.

All content on this Website including logos, brand names, text, photographs, information, statistics, images, and other material is protected by copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws in Australia.

AiMCO's logos must not be reproduced or used in any way unless AiMCO provides its prior approval in writing.

Attendees have a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-assignable right to use the course for personal education purposes only. No right to modify, duplicate, edit, recreate, or create derivative works or infringe or remove the copyright of this course content.

By participating in the AiMCO Accreditation Program attendees agree that:

1. They access the content for individual personal use only;
2. They must not share passwords to non-participants; 
3. They must not access the content to use for multiple persons; 
4. They must not share the content with non-registered participants;
5. They must not make it publicly available in any way; and 
6. They must not take screen grabs and other electronic images or videos of content that is not provided as downloadable content.

User Content

In these Terms and Conditions, the term "User Content" means any and all content that is submitted, posted, or otherwise added to this site by any user, such as comments, forum posts, chat room or video conferencing messages, reviews, ratings, and feedback.

This Website may contain some features that enable you and other users to upload User Content. AiMCO reserves the right to display, refuse to display, remove and/or amend all or any part of any User Content at its absolute discretion. In respect of any User Content that you upload, you:

1. represent and warrant to AiMCO that your sharing of that User Content does not infringe any copyright or other legal right of any other person; and
2. grant to AiMCO a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit all or any part of that User Content in any way at AiMCO’s absolute discretion.

Indemnity

You indemnify and hold harmless AiMCO and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates from and against any losses, liabilities, costs, expenses or damages (including actual, special, indirect and consequential losses or damages of every kind and nature, including all legal fees on a solicitor-client basis) suffered or incurred by any of them due to, arising out of, or in any way related to (directly or indirectly):

1. any material or information that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through this Website;
2. your use of, or connection to, this Website; or
3. your negligence or misconduct, breach of these Website Terms and Conditions or violation of any law or the rights of any person.

AiMCO Accreditation

If the system that houses the content becomes unavailable, AiMCO reserves the right to migrate the content to a suitable alternative software platform.

Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted under any applicable law, AiMCO disclaims all warranties, representations, and conditions, whether express or implied, including any warranties, representations, and conditions that any information made available by AiMCO, or services or goods offered, are merchantable, of satisfactory quality, reliable, accurate, complete, suitable, or fit for a particular purpose or need, or are free of defects, omissions, or errors.

This Website is provided strictly on an "as is" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, AiMCO and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners, and affiliates make no representation, warranty, or guarantee as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy or completeness of this Website or any of its content, and in particular do not represent, warrant or guarantee that:

1. the use of this Website will be secure, timely, uninterrupted, or error-free or operate in combination with any other hardware, software, system, or data;
2. this Website will meet your requirements or expectations;
3. anything on this Website, or on any third-party website referred or linked to in this site, is reliable, accurate, complete, or up to date;
4. the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained through this Website will meet any particular requirements or expectations;
5. errors or defects will be corrected; or
6. this Website or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components.

You acknowledge and agree that any material accessed or made available by AiMCO may not be complete, accurate, suitable, appropriate for you or any third-party company or organisation that you may be associated with and that professional advice from experienced and independent professionals should be obtained in your circumstances.   

Prohibited Conduct

Your use of this Website is subject to the rules set out below:

YOU MUST NOT:

1. use any device, routine or software that interferes, or attempt to interfere, with the proper working of this Website;
2. engage in any action that requires, or may require, an unreasonable or excessively large load on our infrastructure;
3. use this Website to decipher passwords or security encryption codes, transmit any worms, viruses, or Trojan horses, transfer, or store illegal, threatening or obscene material or otherwise violate the security of any computer network;
4. use this Website to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, to engage in any misleading or deceptive online marketing practices or for any fraudulent or malicious purposes;
5. use any spider, robot or search/retrieval application or any screen scraping, data mining or similar data gathering device, process, program or means to access, retrieve, or index any portion of this Website;
6. use this Website by any automated means;
7. use this Website to transmit junk mail, spam or chain letters or pyramid schemes or engage in other flooding techniques or mass distribution of unsolicited email; 
8. access, retrieve or index any portion of this site for use in constructing or populating any database that is searchable online or for the purpose of soliciting or sharing reviews;
9. interfere with the display of any advertisements appearing on or in connection with this Website;
10. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, adapt, modify, translate, frame, or reformat any of the material contained on this Website;
11. reproduce, duplicate, copy or store any of the material appearing on this Website (whether to produce a new course of this kind or otherwise) other than for your own personal and non-commercial use;
12. falsely imply that any other website is associated with this Website;
13. do anything that leads, or may lead, to a decrease in the value of AiMCO's intellectual property rights in this Website;
14. use or exploit any of the material appearing on this site for, or in connection with, any business or enterprise (whether for profit or otherwise), including any business or enterprise that is in competition with this Website;
15. release to the public any news release, advertising material, promotional material or any other form of publicity or information relating to AiMCO without its prior written consent; or
16. use this Website to transmit any information or material that is, or may reasonably be considered to be:
    1. abusive, threatening, harassing, harmful, obscene, indecent, lewd, inflammatory, violent, vulgar, profane, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable or offensive in any way;
    2. libellous, defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful, or plagiarised;
    3. infringing upon or violating any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary right;
    4. in breach of any duty of confidentiality by which you are bound, whether by way of a fiduciary or contractual relationship;
    5. in breach of any person’s privacy or publicity rights;
    6. a misrepresentation of facts, including the impersonation of any person or entity or a misrepresentation of an affiliation with any person or entity (including any sponsorship or endorsement);
    7. in violation of any applicable law, statute, ordinance, or regulation, or encouraging of others to do so;
    8. containing any political campaigning material, advertisements, or solicitations; or
    9. likely to bring AiMCO or any of its staff into disrepute.

Violations of these Website Terms of Use

Without limiting any other remedies available to AiMCO at law or in equity, AiMCO reserves the right to, without notice:

1. temporarily or indefinitely suspend, or terminate, your access to this site or refuse to provide products or services to you if:
   1. you breach any provision of these Website Terms and Conditions;
   2. AiMCO is unable to verify or authenticate any information that you provide to us; or
   3. AiMCO believes that your actions may cause damage and/or legal liability to AiMCO, any of its customers, or suppliers, or any other person; and
2. Remove or block access to any information and/or materials (in whole or in part) that AiMCO, at its sole and absolute discretion, regards in any way to be objectionable or in violation of any applicable law, any person’s intellectual property rights or these Website Terms and Conditions.

Privacy 

As part of these Website Terms and Conditions, your use of this site is also subject to our Privacy Policy (located at https://www.aimco.org.au/privacy-policy), which is incorporated by reference into these Website Terms and Conditions. 

Interpretation

In these Website Terms and Conditions, the following rules of interpretation apply:

1. headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, or describe the scope or extent of any provision in these Website Terms and Conditions;
2. these Website Terms and Conditions may not be construed adversely against AiMCO solely because AiMCO prepared them;
3. the singular includes the plural and vice-versa;
4. a reference to a "person" includes an individual, a firm, a corporation, a body corporate, a partnership, an unincorporated body, an association, a government body, or any other entity; and
5. the meaning of general words is not limited by specific examples introduced by "including", "for example", "in particular" or similar expressions.

Notifications

AiMCO may provide any notification for the purposes of these Website Terms and Conditions by email.

Costs

Except as specifically provided in these Website Terms and Conditions, each party must bear its own legal, accounting, and other costs associated with these Website Terms and Conditions.

Assignment

You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights or obligations under these Website Terms and Conditions without AiMCO’s prior written consent.

AiMCO may assign, transfer or sub-contract any of its rights or obligations under these Website Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you.

No Waiver 

Waiver of any power or right under these Website Terms and Conditions must be in writing signed by the party entitled to the benefit of that power or right and is effective only to the extent set out in that written waiver. Any failure by AiMCO to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive AiMCO’s right to act with respect to that breach or any subsequent or similar breaches.

Severability 

The provisions of these Website Terms and Conditions are severable and, if any provision of these Website Terms and Conditions is held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable under present or future law, such provision may be removed, and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

Variation 

AiMCO reserves the right to amend these Website Terms and Conditions and any other policy on this site at any time in its sole discretion and any such changes will, unless otherwise noted, be effective immediately. Your continued usage of this Website will mean you accept those amendments. We reserve the right, without notice and at our sole discretion, to change, suspend, discontinue, or impose limits on any aspect or content of this site or the products/services offered through this Website.

You may only vary or amend these Website Terms and Conditions by written agreement with AiMCO.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction 

These Website Terms and Conditions will be governed in all respects by the laws of New South Wales. The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts of appeal from them.

The Australian Influencer Marketing Council (AiMCO) is a registered business name owned by the Audited Media Association of Australia Ltd. 

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