Southern Cross Access & Use

Use of this site by you constitutes that you accept these Terms and Conditions. Your acceptance takes effect immediately on your first use of the site. Southern Cross reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at its discretion by posting changes online. It is your own responsibility to review information posted online to obtain timely notice of any such changes. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.

If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions in full, then you do not have permission to access the contents of this website. In such event, you should cease using this website immediately.

All material posted on this site is for the purpose of general information only. It does not constitute legal advice or other professional advice, and it is expressly not intended as, nor should it be treated or construed by you as, a substitute for a full and proper consultation with a qualified IP practitioner. Please therefore abstain from using the material posted on this site as anything else than information of a general nature on IP-related matters.

This site and all of its contents, including any links or references to external internet sites listed, are provided “as is” and on an “is available” basis without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including and not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. In no event will Southern Cross be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages arising whatsoever from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence, or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use of this site. Southern Cross does not warrant that the material contained in this site will be accurate, error-free or reliable, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

All rights, including copyright, in regard of Southern Cross’s website and its contents, are owned by or licensed to Southern Cross, or otherwise used by Southern Cross as permitted by applicable law or by prior and express permission obtained by Southern Cross. Copyright may also be owned by individual authors. In accessing Southern Cross’s web pages, you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own private use but not for any commercial or public use. You may download and use the content, and you may print out a single hard copy for your own personal use, provided you retain all copyright notices. Except as permitted above or otherwise lawfully permitted, you undertake not to copy, download, store in any medium (including in any other website), reproduce, post, republish, distribute, transmit, re-transmit, modify, or otherwise show except with respect to your own personal use any part of Southern Cross’s website without the prior written permission of Southern Cross. If as permitted above or otherwise lawfully permitted you do copy, download, store in any medium, reproduce, post, republish, distribute, transmit, adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of the material contained in this site or use it for any other purpose than for your personal non-commercial use, then you undertake to acknowledge in writing and at the relevant place of expression Southern Cross as the source and author of the material in question.

You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of Southern Cross or of any third party.

If there is any conflict or discrepancy between these Terms and Conditions and specific terms posted elsewhere on this site relating to specific material, then the latter take precedence.

If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the law of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that Term or Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from this clause. The invalidity of any individual Term or Condition shall thus not affect the validity of the remaining Terms and Conditions which shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands. Disputes arising in relation to these Terms and Conditions shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of The Hague, the Netherlands.