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PART 1 - START HERE

1. Important - read this first

These Terms are a legal agreement between you and the operator of this website. By creating an account or using this website in any way you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use this website.

The most important sections are at the front. Part 2 tells you what this website is and is not. Part 3 tells you what we are not responsible for. Please actually read Parts 2 and 3 - they are short, they are in plain English, and they are the basis on which membership is offered.

2. About these Terms and who operates this website

• This website is operated under our registered business name Contractors Contacts (ABN 17 056 040 513) ("we", "us", "our").
• e-contract.com.au is our website address only - it is not a business name, and the name of our business is Contractors Contacts. In these Terms, "Contractors Contacts noticeboard", "e-contract.com.au noticeboard" and "this website" all mean the website at the address e-contract.com.au.
• "Member" and "you" mean any person who creates an account or uses this website in any way.
• These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about this website. Nothing said anywhere else - including but not limited to emails, messages, marketing or word of mouth - adds to or changes them.
• These Terms are governed by the laws of South Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia (section 40).
• Each version of these Terms carries a version number and date. The version you accept is recorded against your account.

3. Your acknowledgement

By creating an account, posting an ad, responding to an ad, contacting any member, or using this website in any way, each member acknowledges, understands and agrees that:

• Contractors Contacts provides an online noticeboard and optional communication, administrative and record-keeping tools - the platform, not the people, the agreement or the work;
• we are not a party to anything that happens between you and any other member, and we take no part in your decisions, your agreement or your work;
• we do not check, verify or vouch for any member, or anything any member posts;
• licences, tickets, qualifications and insurance shown on this website are not verified by us;
• every agreement, job, engagement and payment is directly between the members involved;
• you are responsible for your own checks, your own decisions and your own agreements;
• you accept the risk of dealing with other members, on and off this website;
• the tools on this website are optional aids for members' own information and record-keeping - nothing on this website is a contract created by us (section 24);
• you have read and understood this section, and you accept it on your own judgement.

Both parties to any dealing arranged through this website acknowledge this, and neither may claim that we represented, promised, assured or implied anything to the contrary.

Where you tick a box acknowledging any part of these Terms - at sign-up or anywhere else on this website - the tick, the date and the version of the Terms you accepted are recorded against your account, and you agree that record is evidence of your acceptance.

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PART 2 - WHAT THIS IS

4. Contractors Contacts - e-contract.com.au noticeboard IS...

Contractors Contacts - the e-contract.com.au noticeboard - provides:

• a noticeboard;
• a place where members post ads;
• a place where members read ads;
• a place where members put up their own information, and read information other members have put up;
• a way for members to contact and communicate with each other directly;
• an optional set of tools members may use to organise, record and keep information about their own dealings (section 24);
• free to join, and free to post a job.

In plain words: members post jobs and availability, find each other, contact each other, agree their own deal and book the work in - between themselves. The job details, dates, rates, messages and records they enter along the way help them keep track of it (section 24).

We provide the platform and the tools. Members provide the people, the decisions, the agreement and the work. Everything that happens between members is between those members.

5. Contractors Contacts - e-contract.com.au noticeboard IS NOT...

Contractors Contacts is not, including but not limited to:

Not an employer or supplier of labour

• an employer of any member;
• a labour hire provider, labour hire agency or labour hire licensee;
• a recruitment agency, recruiter or headhunter;
• an employment agency or employment agent;
• a placement, staffing or temp agency;
• a group training organisation, apprenticeship provider or host employer;
• a contractor, sub-contractor, builder, trade business or supplier of labour;
• a supervisor, site manager or project manager.

Not a party or a go-between

• a party to any agreement, job, quote, engagement or transaction between members;
• an agent, representative, broker or intermediary for any member;
• a party to any employment or contracting relationship between members;
• a guarantor, surety, warrantor or debt collector.

Not a checker or approver

• a verification, screening or background-checking service;
• a police check, licence check or reference-checking service;
• a licensing authority, regulator, registrar or accreditation body;
• a quality assurance, inspection, certification or auditing service;
• a work health and safety adviser, auditor or regulator;
• a training provider or registered training organisation;
• a job-matching, ranking or recommendation service;
• the author of anything a member posts.

Not money or advice

• a bank, payment processor, escrow service or handler of money between members;
• an insurer, insurance broker or provider of any insurance to any member;
• a legal, tax, accounting, financial, migration, insurance, safety or employment adviser;
• a mediator, arbitrator, adjudicator, conciliator or dispute resolution service;
• a union, employer association or industrial body.

Not a party to, or legal adviser for, member agreements

• a party to, or the creator of, any agreement members make with each other - including but not limited to an agreement made using a template, pack, form or tool we provide (section 24);
• a negotiator, selector or drafter of legal terms for any member;
• a legal adviser, or a determiner of the legal effect, enforceability or suitability of any member arrangement;
• an approver, validator or enforcer of any agreement between members.

Not responsible for the parties

• responsible for any member's wages, superannuation, PAYG, tax, leave, workers' compensation or Fair Work obligations;
• responsible for classifying anyone as an employee or a contractor.

If it is not listed in section 4, Contractors Contacts does not provide it and is not it.

6. What Contractors Contacts - e-contract.com.au noticeboard IS responsible for

We are clear about what we don't do, so it is only fair to be clear about what we do undertake. We are responsible for:

• Running the noticeboard and its tools. We will use reasonable care and skill to keep the website and its tools available and working. We cannot guarantee they will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free.
• Your personal information. We will handle it in line with our Privacy Policy and the Australian Privacy Principles, and take reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, loss and unauthorised access.
• Your privacy settings. Your phone number stays private by default, and is only made visible in the ways described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
• Not selling your information. We do not sell your personal information.
• Deleting your account. If you ask us to delete your account we will do so within 30 days.
• Data breaches. If a data breach likely to cause serious harm occurs, we will respond in line with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, including notifying affected members and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner where required.
• Acting on reports. We may remove content and suspend or close accounts that breach these Terms. We do not monitor the noticeboard and we are not obliged to review anything. You can report content or conduct to us, and we may review and act on a report at our discretion. Choosing to look at a report is not a duty we owe anyone, and it does not make us responsible for any member or their conduct (section 15).
• The law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right, guarantee or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

That is the extent of our responsibility. It does not extend to any member, any job, any workmanship, any workplace or any agreement.

Our service is the operation of this website - the noticeboard and its optional tools. Our service does not include the worker, the hiring party, the work, the workplace, the supervision of anything, any payment between members, or the performance of any member's agreement.

7. What the MEMBER is responsible for

Everything else is yours. As a member you are responsible for, including but not limited to:

Your own checks

• checking the identity, licences, tickets, qualifications, accreditations, insurance, references and ABN of anyone you deal with;
• checking them directly with the issuing or licensing authority, before any work starts;
• deciding for yourself whether a person, a job or an agreement is suitable for you.

Your own information

• everything you enter, and keeping it accurate, current and honest;
• deciding what you make public - what you set to public is visible to other logged-in members;
• keeping your login confidential, and everything done under your account;
• updating or removing your own information, or asking us to delete your account.

Your own deals

• negotiating, agreeing, recording and performing your own arrangements;
• payment, invoicing, GST, receipts and chasing anything you are owed;
• reading and understanding any agreement, quote or document before you accept it;
• keeping your own records;
• resolving any dispute directly with the other member.

Your own legal obligations

• if you are hiring: wages, superannuation, PAYG and tax, leave, workers' compensation, work health and safety, insurance, awards, Fair Work compliance, and correctly classifying the worker (employee or contractor, and avoiding sham contracting);
• if you are working: your own licences, tickets, insurance, qualifications, tax affairs including ABN and GST, your lawful right to work in Australia, your own safety and your own protective equipment;
• being at least 18 years of age and legally able to be a party to a contract;
• obtaining your own legal, tax, financial, insurance and employment advice.

Your own conduct

• using this website lawfully, honestly and in good faith;
• not posting false, misleading or fraudulent ads, and not impersonating anyone;
• respecting other members' privacy and keeping confidential information confidential;
• not harassing, defrauding, spamming, scraping or misusing this website or its members;
• reporting anything to us that breaches these Terms.

Your own risk

• deciding whether to proceed with any member, job or agreement;
• everything that happens away from this website;
• accepting that you deal with other members at your own risk.

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PART 3 - WHAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR

8. What we do NOT do

Section 5 lists what Contractors Contacts is not. This section lists what we do not do. The overlap is deliberate - each section is written to stand on its own.

We do not, including but not limited to:

• employ, engage, supply, place, direct, supervise or pay any member;
• recruit for anyone, or find work or workers on anyone's behalf;
• check, verify or validate anything - including but not limited to identity, licences, insurance, qualifications, ABNs, experience, police checks, or anything a member tells you (section 9 covers this in detail);
• recommend, match, select, rank, endorse or vouch for any member;
• approve, inspect or oversee any job, quote, agreement or engagement, or take any part in the decisions, negotiation or performance of any of them;
• inspect, assess or supervise any workplace, worksite, work or workmanship;
• hold, handle, process or guarantee any money between members;
• arrange, provide or check any insurance for any member;
• provide any training, induction or supervision;
• guarantee, warrant or stand behind the quality, standard, workmanship, timeliness or completeness of any work;
• make good, rectify, repair or pay for any work, workmanship, damage or loss;
• mediate, arbitrate or resolve disputes between members;
• give legal, tax, financial, insurance, safety or employment advice.

9. Licences, insurance and credentials are not verified

Any licence, ticket, certificate, registration, accreditation, insurance, qualification or other credential shown anywhere on this website has been entered by the member themselves.

Contractors Contacts does not, including but not limited to:

• check, verify or validate any licence, ticket, qualification or credential;
• confirm that it is genuine, current, valid or unsuspended;
• confirm that it is actually held by the person displaying it;
• confirm that it covers the work being advertised or performed;
• confirm that any insurance shown exists, is current, or covers anything.

Many trades and occupations require a licence by law. It is entirely your responsibility to check, before any work starts, that the person you engage holds a current and valid licence for that work - by checking directly with the relevant licensing authority, not by relying on anything shown on this website.

If you engage anyone without checking, you do so at your own risk.

Records, statuses and reminders are aids - not verification. Members may use this website to enter, upload, store and manage information about licences, insurance, qualifications, tickets and other credentials, including expiry dates. Where such a feature is available, the website may use the information a member has recorded to display a status, note a recorded expiry, or send a reminder or notification. These are administrative and record-keeping tools working from member-supplied information. Unless we expressly state that a particular item has been independently verified by us, no record, status, tick, reminder or notification means that we have checked anything with any insurer, licensing authority or other source - including but not limited to whether a policy, licence or credential exists, is genuine, is current, has been cancelled or suspended, is paid for, or covers particular work. We do not guarantee that any reminder or notification will be generated, delivered or received. You remain responsible for checking credentials yourself before work starts and during an engagement, and for keeping the information you record accurate and current. If we ever expressly verify a particular item, we will describe exactly what was checked, against what source and when - and that check is accurate only at the moment it was made.

10. Injury, safety and harm - we are not responsible

We are not responsible for the safety of any person, any workplace, any worksite or any work arranged through this website.

We are not liable for any injury, illness, disease, psychological harm, death or any other harm to any person - however caused, including but not limited to negligence - arising directly or indirectly out of, including but not limited to:

• any job, engagement, work, task or workmanship arranged, advertised or found through this website;
• any workplace, worksite, premises, vehicle, tool, plant or equipment;
• the acts, omissions, negligence or conduct of any member or any other person;
• any dealing, meeting or communication between members, on or off this website.

We have no role in work health and safety. We do not carry out risk assessments, site inspections, safety inductions or supervision, and nothing on this website is a safety assessment or an assurance that any job, site, person or workmanship is safe.

The hiring party is responsible for the work health and safety duties, workers' compensation, insurance and other employer or principal obligations that the law imposes on it, and warrants to us that it will provide a safe workplace and hold the insurance the law requires of it.

Each worker is responsible for their own safety, licences, tickets, competency, protective equipment and insurance, and for every duty the law imposes on them.

Each member remains responsible for every work health and safety duty imposed on that member by law. Nothing in these Terms transfers, excludes or limits any work health and safety duty that cannot lawfully be transferred, excluded or limited.

You acknowledge that meeting and working with people you find through a noticeboard carries real risks to your person and property - including but not limited to the risk of dealing with someone who is not who they say they are, is not licensed, is not insured, or is not competent - and you accept those risks.

If you take a job or engage a worker, you do so entirely at your own risk.

This section applies to the maximum extent permitted by law. Nothing in it excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded (section 31).

11. Workmanship, damage and loss - we are not responsible

We are not responsible for the workmanship of anyone you find through this website, or for any damage or loss they cause.

We are not liable for any loss of, damage to, or destruction of any property - however caused, including but not limited to negligence - or for any defective work or workmanship, arising directly or indirectly out of any job, work or dealing arranged, advertised or found through this website. This includes but is not limited to:

• faulty, defective, poor, incomplete or non-compliant workmanship or work, and the cost of rectifying, repairing, replacing, completing or re-doing it;
• work that does not comply with any law, standard, code, licence condition, approval or specification;
• damage to any home, building, premises, land, fixtures or fittings;
• damage to any vehicle, tool, plant, equipment, goods, materials or stock;
• theft, misuse or unauthorised removal of any property;
• any consequential loss, including but not limited to loss of use, loss of income, loss of profit, delay costs, or the cost of engaging someone else.

We do not guarantee anyone's workmanship and we will not pay for it, fix it, or make it good. If a member causes damage or does bad work, your claim is against that member - not against us. Any consumer guarantee, warranty or statutory right you have in respect of work performed applies against the member who performed the work, who is solely responsible for it.

This section applies to the maximum extent permitted by law. Nothing in it excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded (section 31).

12. Away from this website - we are not involved and not liable

The deal itself - the meeting, the work and the payment - happens away from this website. We are not there, we take no part in it, we do not supervise it, and we are not liable for any of it.

Members may choose to use our tools to communicate about, organise or record their dealing (section 24). That is record-keeping on our platform - it does not put us at the meeting, at the workplace or in the deal, and it does not mean we saw, monitored, supervised or approved anything.

We are not liable for anything that happens away from this website, including but not limited to:

• any phone call, text message, email, meeting, site visit or any other communication or contact between members outside this website;
• any job, work, task or workmanship carried out anywhere;
• any agreement, quote or arrangement made away from this website;
• any payment, non-payment, deposit, cash job or invoice;
• any conduct or behaviour of any person, including but not limited to dishonesty, misrepresentation, harassment, threats, intimidation, discrimination, theft, violence or assault;
• any accident, injury, illness, death, damage or loss;
• anything that happens at any home, premises, workplace, worksite, vehicle or any other place.

The moment you leave this website to deal with another member, you do so entirely at your own risk.

For the avoidance of doubt, we also do not monitor, review, moderate or check messages, ads, profiles or any other content sent or posted through this website. Nothing in this section implies that we supervise anything that happens on it.

13. No-shows, non-performance and non-payment - we are not responsible

We are not responsible for, including but not limited to:

• who turns up and who doesn't - attendance, no-shows, lateness, cancellations or walk-offs;
• whether any work is done, done properly, done on time, or paid for;
• whether any member honours any agreement, quote, booking or promise;
• any deposit, payment, non-payment, underpayment or debt between members;
• any cost, loss or inconvenience caused by any of the above, including but not limited to the cost of finding someone else.

Members are in charge of their own deals. If a member lets you down, your remedy is against that member - not against us. We do not chase, collect, refund, compensate or make good.

14. Checks are your responsibility

Before you deal with any member, verify everything yourself - including but not limited to identity, licences, insurance, qualifications, workmanship, references, and anything else that matters to you.

Any automated check we may run (such as an ABN lookup) is a convenience only, is accurate only at the moment it is run, and is not a guarantee of anything.

15. Nothing is implied

If it is not listed in sections 4 to 8, we do not do it.

Nothing on this website - including but not limited to any listing, profile, search result, ranking, ordering, message, reminder or notification - is a recommendation, endorsement, approval, assurance or assessment of any member, any job, any workmanship, any workplace or any agreement.

The order in which ads or profiles appear is not a ranking or endorsement. A member having many jobs, many contacts or a long history on this website is not an endorsement.

Nothing we do voluntarily - including but not limited to looking at a report, removing content, or answering a question - by itself means that we undertake an ongoing obligation to monitor, investigate or supervise members, content, workplaces or work. This section is subject to any obligation imposed on us by law.

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PART 4 - USING THE NOTICEBOARD

16. Your account

• You must be at least 18 years of age and legally able to enter into contracts.
• You may hold one account, in your own name (or your business's name). Your account is yours alone - it cannot be sold, transferred or shared.
• The information you give us must be accurate, current and honest, and kept that way.
• You are responsible for keeping your login confidential and for everything done under your account. Tell us straight away if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.
• Accounts must be operated by a real person. Automated access - including but not limited to bots, scripts and scrapers - is not permitted.

17. What other members can see

• Your profile and your ads are visible to other logged-in members, according to your settings.
• What you set to public is public to members. You choose what to enter and what to display. Anything you make visible can be read, and may be remembered or copied, by any member who sees it - we cannot retrieve information other members have already seen.
• We may show limited, non-identifying information on pages visible to people who are not logged in (for example, that jobs of a certain type exist in a certain region).
• You can change your settings, or remove your information, at any time.

18. Phone numbers

Your phone number stays private by default. It is only made visible in the ways described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy, according to your settings and your own choices.

19. References

• References shown on a profile are provided by the referee member or entered with the referee's consent, confirmed by email before display.
• A reference is that person's opinion, not ours. We do not check, verify or stand behind any reference.
• Section 9 (Licences, insurance and credentials are not verified) and section 15 (Nothing is implied) apply to references.

20. Reviews and ratings

If and when reviews or star ratings are offered on this website:

• a review or rating is the opinion of the member who gave it, not ours;
• we do not check, verify, endorse or adopt any review or rating;
• we may remove reviews that breach these Terms, but we are not obliged to monitor, check or referee them;
• sections 14 (Checks are your responsibility) and 15 (Nothing is implied) apply to reviews and ratings.

21. Content you post

• Everything you post remains yours. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display and distribute it on this website for the purpose of running the noticeboard, for as long as you keep it posted.
• You warrant that everything you post, including but not limited to every ad, profile, message, photo and reference: is yours to post; is true, accurate and not misleading; is lawful; and does not infringe anyone else's rights, including but not limited to privacy, confidentiality and intellectual property.
• If you post a job ad you additionally warrant that it is for a genuine job, and that the ad and any hiring you do from it comply with all applicable laws, including but not limited to anti-discrimination, equal opportunity and employment-advertising law.
• You must not post content that is, including but not limited to: false or fraudulent; defamatory, abusive, obscene or menacing; discriminatory; or advertising anything other than genuine work or genuine availability for work.
• We may remove any content that breaches these Terms, and we may (but are not obliged to) remove any content we reasonably consider inappropriate, with notice to you where practicable.

22. Acceptable use and conduct

You must, including but not limited to:

• use this website only for its purpose - posting and reading ads, contacting members about work, and organising and recording your own dealings;
• treat other members lawfully and civilly;
• keep other members' contact details and information confidential, and use them only for the dealing that they were shared for;
• comply with all laws that apply to you, including but not limited to privacy and spam law, in anything you do with information obtained from this website.

You must not, including but not limited to:

• harvest, scrape, copy or bulk-download any content, profile or contact information;
• use any content from this website - including but not limited to ads, profiles and messages - to train or develop any artificial-intelligence model, dataset or product, without our written consent;
• use this website to spam, market or recruit for anything other than a genuine job;
• interfere with the operation or security of this website, or attempt to access anyone else's account;
• misrepresent who you are, who you act for, or what you are offering.

We may suspend or close the account of any member who breaches this section (section 36).

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PART 5 - DEALINGS BETWEEN MEMBERS

23. Agreements between members are yours, not ours

• Every agreement, arrangement, engagement or contract formed between members - however and wherever formed - is formed directly between those members. We are in no way a party to it.
• Nothing in these Terms, and nothing on this website, creates any employment, agency, partnership, joint-venture, fiduciary or other relationship between you and us, or between us and anyone you deal with.
• We provide the meeting place and the tools - the noticeboard, the contact point and the optional administrative features. What members build with them - the relationship, the agreement, the work - is entirely theirs.

24. This website does not create your contract

• The name "e-contract.com.au" is the name of the noticeboard. It does not mean this website creates, contains, provides or is a contract of any kind, for anyone.
• Our tools may assist members to, including but not limited to: communicate; exchange information; record agreed details such as rates, dates and scope; keep documents and records; and organise and administer their own arrangements (section 4).
• Members may reach an agreement with each other using those tools, or in any other way they choose - in person, by phone, in writing or anywhere else. Depending on the circumstances, an agreement between members may be a legally binding contract. That is a matter between those members, and any such agreement is theirs alone. We are not a party to it (section 23).
• We do not become a party to, or responsible for, any member agreement - and we do not become an employer, employee, contractor, principal, agent, representative, partner or joint venturer of any member - merely because this website was used to, including but not limited to: introduce the members; advertise the opportunity; facilitate contact; transmit communications; record information; display proposed or agreed details; provide a template, pack or form; record an acknowledgement or tick; store a document or record; send copies, reminders or notifications; or provide any other administrative functionality relating to the members' arrangement.
• Unless we expressly state otherwise for a particular feature, nothing you do on this website is a representation or determination by us that a contract exists. That includes but is not limited to: posting an ad; responding to an ad; sending a message; entering a rate, a date or a job detail; pressing any button (including but not limited to apply, hire, accept or send); changing a job status; or completing any checklist. None of it means that we say an offer has been made or accepted, a contract has been formed, particular terms have been agreed, an employment or contracting relationship exists, or any arrangement is valid, binding or enforceable.
• Members determine and accept the terms of their own arrangements. Members are responsible for understanding those terms, making sure they are appropriate and lawful for their circumstances, performing their obligations, and obtaining independent professional advice where required.
• Unless we expressly state otherwise, we do not independently verify, approve, certify or guarantee anything about any member agreement or record, including but not limited to: the information entered; its accuracy or completeness; the legal effect, enforceability or suitability of any agreement or document; either party's compliance with it; the classification of any worker as employee or contractor; or the satisfaction of any employment, work health and safety, taxation, licensing, insurance, record-keeping or other legal obligation.
• You may use this website to keep your own records, or keep your records anywhere else - that is your choice, and your records are your responsibility (section 7). Anything shown or stored on this website is based on information entered or selected by members. Storing or displaying that information does not mean we have verified, approved or determined its legal effect.
• If there is any difference between something shown on this website and what members actually agreed between themselves, that is a matter between those members. Members are responsible for making sure their own records accurately reflect what they have agreed.

We provide the platform and the tools. Members make the decisions, enter their own arrangements and do the work. Nothing in this section excludes any responsibility of ours that cannot lawfully be excluded.

25. Disputes between members

• A dispute between members - including but not limited to about work, workmanship, payment, conduct or anything else - is between those members. It is not an issue or dispute with us, and it does not become one because the members met through this website.
• We have no obligation to assist, mediate, adjudicate or take sides. We may, at our discretion, look at reports of conduct breaching these Terms (section 6), but anything we do or decline to do about a report creates no duty and resolves nothing between the members.
• Where the law requires it, we may provide information about a member to a court, tribunal, regulator or law-enforcement agency.

26. Employment, contracting and labour hire

• We are not an employer, employment agent, recruiter or labour hire provider, and we do not supply, place or pay workers (section 5).
• If members enter an employment or contracting relationship with each other, every obligation of that relationship belongs to those members, including but not limited to: wages and entitlements, superannuation, PAYG and tax, workers' compensation, work health and safety, awards and Fair Work compliance, and correct classification of the worker.
• Deciding whether a worker is an employee or a contractor is the hiring member's responsibility. We have no role in it, and nothing on this website - including but not limited to labels such as "contractor", "employee", "job" or "rate" - decides or advises it.

27. Onboarding packs, templates and information

Any pack, template, checklist, article or other information provided on this website is general information only, including but not limited to any onboarding pack or contract template. It is not legal, tax, financial, insurance, safety or employment advice; it may not suit your situation; it may not be current. If you use it, you use it at your own risk and you are responsible for checking it and completing it correctly.

Every pack, template, checklist and form on this website is an optional aid only - you may use it, adapt it, or ignore it and use your own documents and systems instead. A template, pack, checklist or form supplied by us is not itself a contract created by us - members may use it to help record or document an agreement they make with each other (section 24). Using one does not create any agreement with us, does not make us a party to any arrangement, and does not mean we have approved or checked anything.

These tools are meant to be genuinely useful - use them as much as you like. But they are general tools, not advice about your situation: members remain responsible for deciding what applies to their own circumstances.

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PART 6 - THE LEGAL PART

28. Membership and fees

• Membership is currently free, and posting a job is currently free.
• If we introduce fees in the future, any fee will be for advertising space on the noticeboard: payable for the posting of the ad, regardless of the response to it, and regardless of whether any contact, engagement or hire results. A fee will never be a fee for finding, supplying, placing or selecting any worker.
• Workers will never be charged to join, to have a profile, or to respond to an ad. No member may charge, or accept from, another member any fee in connection with applying for or being considered for work advertised on this website.
• Fees, if introduced, will be published on this website before they apply, will only apply to postings made after they take effect, and will include GST where applicable.
• If fees apply and something we charged you for has a major failure, you are entitled to your rights under the Australian Consumer Law, including a refund where the law provides one.

29. Limitation of liability

• Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded (section 31).
• Subject to that, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

- we are not liable for anything set out in Part 3 of these Terms; - we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, including but not limited to loss of profit, loss of income, loss of opportunity, loss of data or wasted expenditure; - our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with this website or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) AUD $100 and (b) the total fees you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; - where our liability for a failure of a service cannot be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied.

• If you use this website in trade or commerce, any claim you wish to make against us must, to the extent permitted by law, be notified to us in writing within 12 months of the events giving rise to it. This time bar does not apply to an individual using this website otherwise than in trade or commerce.

30. Your indemnity to us

You indemnify us against all loss, damage, cost (including reasonable legal costs), claim and liability we suffer or incur arising out of, including but not limited to:

• anything you post on this website;
• your breach of these Terms or of any law;
• any work you perform, fail to perform, or have performed for you, for or by a member found through this website;
• any claim against us by any person arising out of your acts, omissions, work, workmanship or conduct, or those of anyone acting for you.

Your liability under this indemnity is reduced proportionately to the extent that our own negligence, breach or wilful misconduct caused or contributed to the loss, and this indemnity does not apply to any liability of ours that cannot lawfully be excluded.

If you are an individual who is not using this website in trade or commerce, your indemnity under this section is limited to loss caused by your fraud, unlawful conduct, wilful misconduct or deliberate breach of these Terms.

31. Australian Consumer Law

• You may have rights under the Australian Consumer Law, including consumer guarantees that services be provided with due care and skill, be fit for purpose, and be supplied within a reasonable time. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies those rights.
• Those guarantees apply to the service we supply to you - which is the operation of this website: the noticeboard and its optional tools. Our service does not include any work performed by any member, the supervision of any workplace, or any payment between members. Any consumer guarantee in respect of work performed applies against the member who performed it.
• Where a failure of our service is not a major failure, we may choose to re-supply the service as the remedy.

32. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we hold, use and disclose it, and your rights, including how to access and correct your information and how to complain. It forms part of your agreement with us. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles.

33. Intellectual property

• This website - including but not limited to its design, code, layout, text we wrote, logos, our business name "Contractors Contacts" and our domain name "e-contract.com.au" - is ours or licensed to us. You may not copy, reproduce or use any of it except as needed to use the noticeboard normally.
• Content posted by members belongs to those members (section 21).
• If you give us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

34. Third party content and links

This website may contain links to, or content from, third parties, including but not limited to licensing authorities, template providers and mapping services. We do not control, endorse or take responsibility for any of it. If you leave this website through a link, you do so at your own risk and on that site's terms.

35. Service availability

• This website is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or always available.
• We may maintain, update, change, suspend or withdraw this website or any feature of it. Where a change materially reduces what the noticeboard does, we will give notice where reasonably practicable.
• We are not liable for any loss caused by this website being unavailable, slow, or containing an error, to the maximum extent permitted by law and subject to section 31.

36. Suspension and termination

• You may close your account at any time, or ask us to delete it (section 6 - deletion within 30 days).
• We may suspend or close your account, or remove your content, if any of the following happens, including but not limited to: you breach these Terms; you post false, misleading or unlawful content; we reasonably believe your account puts other members, us or this website at risk; or the law requires us to.
• Except where the breach is serious, deliberate or a risk to others - in which case we may act immediately - we will tell you what the problem is and give you a reasonable opportunity to fix it before we close your account.
• On closure: your ads and profile come down; these Terms stop applying to your future use; and the sections that by their nature survive - including but not limited to Parts 2 and 3, and sections 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 33, 39 and 40 - continue to apply to everything that happened while you were a member.

37. Changes to these Terms

• We may change these Terms. Each new version will carry a new version number and date.
• For any material change we will give at least 14 days' notice before it takes effect - by notice on this website, by email to your registered address, or both.
• If you keep using this website after a change takes effect, the new version applies to you. If you do not agree with a change, close your account before it takes effect and the change will never have applied to you.
• No change applies retrospectively to anything that happened before it took effect.
• The version of the Terms you accepted, and each version notified to you, is recorded (section 3).

38. Notices

• To you: we may give any notice under these Terms by email to your registered email address, by message to your account, or by notice on this website. An emailed notice is taken to be received the day it is sent to the address you gave us - keeping that address current is your responsibility.
• To us: you may give notice by email to info@e-contract.com.au. A notice is effective when we acknowledge it or 2 business days after you send it, whichever is first.

39. Severability and survival

• If any part of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, invalid or unfair, that part is to be read down to the minimum extent necessary, or severed, and the rest of these Terms continue in full force.
• The parts of these Terms that, by their nature, survive closure of your account or a change of these Terms - including but not limited to the acknowledgements, exclusions, limitations, indemnity and governing-law sections - survive.

40. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of South Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia. You and we each submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Australia and the courts entitled to hear appeals from them.

41. Contact

Operator: Contractors Contacts (ABN 17 056 040 513). Email: info@e-contract.com.au

These Terms: Version 3.0 - 18 August 2026.