Welcome to The Apex Group website. The Apex Group website is owned and operated by Apex Building Products Pty Ltd ABN 27 078 974 115 (“Apex Group”, “we” or “us”) on behalf of itself and its related bodies corporate.
The following Terms and Conditions apply to your use of the The Apex Group website and your relationship with us.
1 Acceptance of Terms and conditions
1.1 Portal Terms & Conditions
By accessing, browsing, or using this Portal you (“you”, “your”, “user”) agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, The Apex Group website privacy statement and all other policies and/or agreements made available on the The Apex Group website. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to comply with the privacy statement and all other policies and/or agreements made available on the The Apex Group website, you must not continue to use the The Apex Group website.
1.2 Terms & Conditions apply to all devices
These Terms and Conditions, the privacy statement and all other policies apply whenever you access the The Apex Group website, regardless of how you access the The Apex Group website, including but not limited to access by way of the internet, tablets, smart phones, mobile phones and RSS feeds.
1.3 Terms & Conditions may be amended
We may revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this document. The revised Terms and Conditions will take effect when they are posted. By continuing to use the The Apex Group website after any amendment becomes effective you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions as amended. You should periodically visit this page to determine the current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.
2 Membership/Contact requirements
2.1 We may contact you
We retain the right to contact you on the email address you provide at our discretion. We will never provide your email to third-parties without your consent, except as required by law.
2.2 We may receive fees
The Apex Group may receive fees or commissions (or both) from third parties in relation to some of the content, products or services which we advertise, promote or make available through The Apex Group website. You acknowledge and consent to us receiving those fees and commissions.
3 Use of The Apex Group website
3.1 Accessing The Apex Group website
(a) The Apex Group website may include interactive facilities from time to time, including interactive facilities that allow you to post, transmit, and exchange information, comments and reviews, engage in forum discussions and advertise for goods, services, job tenders or employment opportunities.
(b) You will not post, communicate, transmit or download any content on, to and from the interactive facilities provided on The Apex Group website or anywhere else on The Apex Group website that:
(i) is unoriginal, or in which you do not own the copyright, or which in any way violates or infringes (or could reasonably be expected to violate or infringe) the copyright, registered trademark or intellectual property rights of another person or infringes any law;
(ii) is, or could reasonably be expected to be, obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, libellous, contemptuous, pornographic, vulgar, profane, indecent or unlawful;
(iii) is, or could reasonably be expected to be, defamatory of any person;
(iv) racially or religiously vilifies, incites violence or hatred, or is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability;
(v) you know or suspect, or ought reasonably to have known or suspected, to be false, misleading or deceptive or otherwise constitute a breach of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth);
(vi) includes any personal or sensitive information about another person;
(vii) contains a survey, contest, pyramid scheme or improper question;
(viii) is considered a commercial, unsolicited or bulk electronic message which would constitute an infringement of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth);
(ix) you know, or reasonably ought to know, cannot be legally posted, communicated, transmitted or downloaded in that manner;
(x) restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying The Apex Group website ;
(xi) encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law;
(xii) contains viruses, worms, “Trojan horses” or any other harmful, contaminating or destructive features; or
(xiii) affects the functionality or operation of The Apex Group website or its servers or the functionality or operation of any users’ computer systems (for example, by transmitting a computer virus or other harmful component, whether or not knowingly).
(c) In exchange for allowing you to post and upload content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence to reproduce, publish, host, store, copy modify, adapt, edit, translate, sub-license and otherwise deal with the content you submit to us by any means whatsoever (including, without limitation, in print and electronic format).
(d) You represent and warrant that you are the creator of all content that you submit to The Apex Group website and such content is true, accurate and not confidential to or is not a trade secret or owned by any other person.
(e) You represent and warrant that you have (and will continue to have during your use of The Apex Group website ) all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions which are required to enable us to use the content uploaded by you.
(f) To the fullest extent of the law, you waive any moral rights in the content that you post or attempt to post to The Apex Group website for the purposes of its submission to and publication on The Apex Group website.
(g) You acknowledge that all communications are public and not private communications and you are solely responsible for any content posted by you.
3.3 Portal Use and Conduct;
(a) You are permitted to display, copy, distribute, download and print in hard copy portions of The Apex Group website for the purposes of:
(i) placing an order with The Apex Group or a related entity; or
(ii) an information source for your own purposes.
(b) You must not, without our prior written permission, exploit The Apex Group website or any of its content for any other purpose or by any other means including, without limitation:
(i) store, publish, distribute, communicate to the public, adapt, reverse engineer or decompile any of the content on The Apex Group website ;
(ii) incorporate any of the content on The Apex Group website with any other material, including advertising or promotional material;
(iii) create HTTP links from The Apex Group website to any other website on the internet, or frame or mirror The Apex Group website ;
(iv) delete, circumvent or alter any author attribution, legal notices, rights management information or technological protection measures;
(v) tamper with, hinder the operation of, or make unauthorised modifications to The Apex Group website or any content on The Apex Group website ;
(vi) transmit any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other disabling feature to or via The Apex Group website ;
(vii) interfere with the computer systems which support The Apex Group website, overload a service, engage in a denial-of-service attack, or attempt to disable a host; or
(viii) attempt to do, or permit another person to do, any of the above acts.
(c) You agree that you will not:
(i) use The Apex Group website, or any facilities available on The Apex Group website, to defame, harass, stalk, threaten, menace or offend any person;
(ii) inhibit or restrict any other use from using The Apex Group website ;
(iii) access or attempt to access information resources you are not authorized to use;
(iv) collect or store personal data about other users of The Apex Group website ;
(v) use another person’s name, username or password on The Apex Group website or to access any content on The Apex Group website ; or
(vi) impersonate or falsely represent your association with any person or organisation.
3.4 Prohibited conduct
You must not carry on any activity which might involve The Apex Group, or its related bodies corporate, in liability, or any activity which uses intellectual property owned by, or licensed to, us, without our written permission.
3.5 Linking to The Apex Group website
You may only link to The Apex Group website, other than by making use of the sharing features on The Apex Group website, with the prior written consent of The Apex Group. Any links, if allowed, must link directly to The Apex Group website home page unless otherwise agreed in writing by The Apex Group. To request permission to link to this site, please email: nlachimea@apexsteel.com.au .
4.1 Reliance
You agree and acknowledge that you shall not rely on any information on The Apex Group website without making your own independent assessment of the information and will not buy, recommend or use any product or services shown on The Apex Group website without making your own enquiries as to the suitability of those products and services for the intended purpose.
4.2 Product information and availability
We reserve the right to alter product specifications and information available through The Apex Group website without notice. Publishing information about a product on The Apex Group website does not mean that the product is necessarily available for sale or in stock.
4.3 Third Party Links
(a) This website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. These third party websites are not under the control of The Apex Group and we are not responsible for the contents of any linked third party website or any hyperlink contained in a linked third party website.
(b) Links are provided to you for convenience only, and the inclusion of any link does not imply any endorsement of the linked third party website by us.
(c) When you access a linked third party website, you do so at your own risk and acknowledge that your use of the third party websites may be governed by separate terms and conditions and privacy policies.
(d) The Apex Group accepts no liability for any loss incurred by you directly or indirectly as a result of your reliance on information on any linked third party website and accepts no liability and disclaims all warranties, express or implied, regarding the purchase or use of goods or services on any linked third party websites.
5 Intellectual property
5.1 Property
The Apex Group retains all right, title and interest in and to The Apex Group website and all related content developed for The Apex Group website. Nothing you do on, or in relation to The Apex Group website, or any of the related content will transfer any intellectual property rights to you, or license to you any intellectual property rights in and to The Apex Group website, unless expressly stated.
5.2 Trade marks
Except where otherwise stated, all registered trademarks used on this site are used with the permission of the relevant trade mark owner. You must not use any trademarks without the prior, specific, written permission of its owner.
5.3 Copyright
(a) All material on The Apex Group website is protected by copyright under the laws of Australia and, through international treaties, in other countries.
(b) Unless otherwise indicated, all rights (including copyright and moral rights) in the content, layout and compilation of The Apex Group website Pages and on-line images including text, graphics, logos, button icons, video images, audio clips and software (including all object source and machine readable code), including navigational software (collectively referred to as the Contents) are owned or controlled for these purposes, and are reserved, by us and our licensors.
(c) You must not copy, mirror, broadcast, reproduce, frame, republish, download, store (in any medium), upload to a third party, transmit, post, broadcast, distribute, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way, The Apex Group website or its contents except as expressly provided in the Terms and Conditions.
(d) No part of the copyright material may be reproduced, re-used, re-transmitted, adapted, published, broadcast or distributed for any purposes whatsoever without our prior written permission.
5.4 No infringement permitted
Except as expressly provided in the Terms and Conditions, you must not, without our prior written permission and the permission of any other owner of rights in content on The Apex Group website, copy, mirror, broadcast, reproduce, frame, republish, download, store (in any medium), upload to a third party, transmit, post, broadcast, distribute, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of, or create a derivative work from, these web pages for any other purpose.
5.5 Infringement
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that content appearing on The Apex Group website violates your, or another party’s, intellectual property rights, please contact us at nlachimea@apexsteel.com.au .
6 Limitations of liability
6.1 Release
You release us from any liability arising as a result of your reliance on any of The Apex Group Content.
6.2 Limitation of Liability
(a) In no event shall any of the The Apex Group Parties be liable in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive loss, injury or damages or any loss or damages whatsoever, including but not limited to, loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in connection with:
(i) the use or access or any ability to use or access The Apex Group website or its contents;
(ii) any transaction, arrangement or agreement entered into by you and another user or third party in respect of the provision of goods, services, job tenders or employment opportunities via The Apex Group website ;
(iii) the goods or services supplied by The Apex Group under these Terms and Conditions; or
(iv) a failure or omission on the part of The Apex Group to comply with its obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
(b) The Apex Group is not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with use of The Apex Group website or any linked third party website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from The Apex Group website or any linked third party website is free of viruses or any other thing that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems.
(c) To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Apex Group’s total liability to you (if any) for breach of any implied warranties or conditions which by law cannot be excluded shall be limited, at our election, to:
(i) in the case of information or services supplied or offered by us – the re-supply of the information or services or payment of the cost of doing this; or
(ii) in the case of goods supplied or offered by us – repair or replacement of the goods, supply of equivalent goods, or payment of the cost of doing this.
(d) We are not liable for loss of any kind (whether direct or consequential) arising from the information at this site, or a linked third party website, being inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, and are not responsible for any interpretation, opinion or conclusion you form from the information. To the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties (including warranties as to merchantability, infringement of intellectual property or fitness for a particular purpose) and conditions are excluded.
7 Indemnity
You agree to fully indemnify and hold The Apex Group and its related body corporate harmless from any claim, cost, demand or damage (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) incurred or which may be incurred arising from:
(a) a breach by you or a person using your username, password or other identifier, of these Terms and Conditions of Use;
(b) reliance by you or a person using your username, password or other identifier, on any information contained in this Portal, or your access to The Apex Group website ;
(c) content contributed to The Apex Group website by you or a person using your username, password or other identifier, which is incorrect, false, misleading, deceptive, a misrepresentation or otherwise in breach of law.
8 General
8.1 Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions will be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Victoria, Australia. You and The Apex Group agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria.
8.2 Severability
If any part of these Terms and Conditions are or become illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any relevant jurisdiction, that or those provisions will be:
(a) interpreted in that jurisdiction, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties; and
(b) if necessary to maintain the effectiveness of these Terms and Conditions, be severed for the purposes of that jurisdiction, with the remaining provisions remaining in full force and effect.
8.3 Waiver
Our failure to exercise or enforce any one or more of our rights under these Terms and Conditions will not constitute a waiver of such rights unless such waiver is granted by us in writing.
8.4 Termination
We may terminate access to this Portal at any time without notice to you or any other party including if we believe you have breached any of these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions will survive termination.
Product Terms & Conditions
ADVERSE CONDITIONS
If the distance is within 1km of salt marine or industrial or corrosive environments, please contact our office for advice.
WARRANTIES
Some of our products are supported by Bluescope Steel Limited and a full warranty is available.
TESTING
Apdeck 685 has been fully tested by Vipac Engineers and Scientists Limited and in accordance with AS1170.2 and AS1562.1. Detailed test results are available upon request.
LENGTHS
Apdeck 685 is available in custom cut lengths to your requirements. Please check with our office as to what is the maximum length we can transport as restrictions apply.
HANDLING
Care should be taken at all times when handling Apdeck 685. Packs must be kept dry and stored above ground level. If sheets do become wet, separate and wipe sheets and place in an area for drying.
COMPATIBILITY
Lead flashings and copper alloy materials are not recommended and should not be used with or in run-off situations with ZINCALUME® sheeting. Lead head nails are also not to be used
CUTTING
Sheets are available cut to length, however, sheets may be cut using a power saw with a metal cutting blade. When cutting COLORBOND® sheeting, sheets must be laid with the coloured surface facing the ground. Ensure any hot particles or debris does not come into contact with the COLORBOND® sheeting.
CLEAN UP
To prevent premature corrosion, after each days work is completed, the sheeting area must be thoroughly cleaned of all debris, including nails, rivets, rags and especially filings from cutting or drilling.
WALKING
Clean soft soled shoes should be worn when walking on sheets.
DELIVERY
Normally delivery can be made to site within 1 to 2 days. To prevent any damage whilst unloading, we require suitable arrangements be made. If crane unloading, ensure load is spread evenly. If no crane is available, people must be on hand to assist in unloading.