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terms & conditions

These Terms & Conditions apply to all Online, SMS and Mobile services offered by my247 through this website, and associated sites. Your access to these services is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms & conditions, contained in this document and elsewhere on my247. Your use of, and/or access to, my247 websites and mobile services constitutes your agreement to these Terms & Conditions.

my247 reserves the right to amend these Terms & Conditions at any time. Since you are bound by these Terms & Conditions, you should periodically refer to them in this document.

Copyright & Intellectual Property
Unless explicitly stated, all content on my247 websites and mobile services is Copyright my247. The Content is protected by Australian and International copyright and trademark laws. Content on my247 is published in real-time, and you must not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, frame, upload to a third party, post, transmit or distribute this Content in any way except as expressly provided for on my247 or expressly authorised in writing by my247 or its Partners. You must not use my247 or its Content in any manner or for any purpose which is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of my247 or a Partner or which is prohibited by these Terms & Conditions.

Disclaimer
my247 takes all reasonable care to ensure that the details on its websites and mobile services are correct, however many details are added directly by users and the venues themselves, and venues are continually closing, moving and re-opening. Please confirm the suitability of the venue before setting off, as my247 is not liable for any expenses or damages incurred by you as a result of information on this website .

Netiquette
My247 contains electronic bulletin boards, chat rooms, forms, e-mail addresses and other services which provide for feedback by users to my247 and its clients, real-time interaction between users, and other electronic messaging services. It is a condition of your use of any of these services, and your access to my247 that you do not do any of the following:
- restrict or inhibit any other user from using or enjoying any part of my247;
- post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information or material of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law;
- post or transmit any material of any kind which violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person, including material which is an invasion of any privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or any other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or relevant right holder;
- post or transmit any material of any kind which contains a virus or other harmful component; post, transmit or in any way exploit any material of any kind for commercial purposes, or which contains any promotional material or advertising; delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded; or
- download any file posted by any other user of a Forum if you know, or reasonably ought to know, that the file cannot legally be distributed in such manner.

my247 may from time to time monitor or review the contents of its services. While my247 reserves its right to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information and/or materials (in whole or in part) that in my247's sole discretion is in any way objectionable or in violation of any applicable law or the Terms & Conditions, my247 has no obligation whatsoever to monitor any of its services, or to edit, delete or refuse to post such contents, nor is my247 responsible for any contents in any of its services. You expressly acknowledge and agree that my247's services provide a means of public and not private communications. my247 reserves the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authority in any jurisdiction in respect of any lawful direction or request to disclose the identity or other information in respect of anyone posting any materials which violate any applicable or relevant law.

User licence to my247
By placing any information or other material on my247 (including posting messages, uploading files/photos/video, inputting data or engaging in any other form of communication), you grant to my247 a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide licence to do the following in respect of the information or material:
- use, copy, sublicense, redistribute, adapt, transmit, publish and/or broadcast, publicly perform or display, and
- sublicense to any third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted.
The foregoing grant includes the right to exploit all proprietary rights in any such information or other material including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any jurisdiction worldwide. You expressly waive in favour of my247 and any other party authorised by my247 all moral rights and any similar rights in any jurisdiction which you may have or hereafter acquire in respect of any relevant communication or other material. At the request and expense of my247, you will execute and deliver to my247 such instruments and take such other actions as may be required to carry out this grant of licence and waiver.

Specific Terms & Conditions for SMS & Mobile Services


To use these service you must be, or have the permission of, the person responsible for paying the bills for the handset. Services will only be supplied to the handset that has requested them.

One-Off Services

“Save to my phone” Service
This service allows you to save details of a venue or event to your phone via SMS. Information supplied will be summarized to fit within the SMS format. The text you will receive can be viewed on the website before making your request.

You can request this service by sending the relevant codes found on my247 websites to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247). You must ensure that you use the correct codes, failure to do so may result in you receiving the wrong information. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the request.

You will be charged AU$0.55 for each use of the “Save to my phone” service. This is charged through your mobile phone carrier's billing system. This covers the transmission of our message to your phone, and includes GST. The cost of your incoming message request is not covered by this service.


SMS Search service
This service allows you to find details of a venue by performing a search via SMS. If more than one venue is retrieved, you will be supplied Venue name, Phone Number for each listing retrieved. If too many results are found, you will receive a second SMS with the remainder. If the results will not fit within two SMS messages, you will need to perform a new, tighter search, which will incur further charges.
Note that my247 only lists selected lifestyle venues, focusing on Food, Drink & Entertainment – do not perform searches looking for plumbers, builders or mechanics! If your search does not return a result, we will let you know – you'll receive the message “no results were found for Venue Name, Suburb/City , please try again”. You will be charged for this service.

You can request this service by sending your search to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247). You must ensure that you use the correct format, failure to do so may result in you receiving the wrong information. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the request. The correct format is “FIND Venue Name Suburb/City” e.g. “FIND Freestyle Brisbane”

You will be charged AU$0.55 for each use of the “SMS Search” service. This is charged through your mobile phone carrier's billing system. This covers the transmission of our message to your phone, and includes GST. The cost of your incoming message request is not covered by this service.


Subscription Services
Information Subscriptions
This service sends you information on a weekly basis (or more often if you select that option). There are a variety of topics you can choose to receive, including weather, happy hours (not available for Queensland venues), dining specials, gig listings etc.

You can request this service by sending the relevant codes found on my247 websites to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247). You must ensure that you use the correct codes, failure to do so may result in you receiving the wrong information. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the subscription until it is cancelled.

To cancel a subscription service you simply send in the relevant codes found on the my247 website to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247), or login and unsubscribe directly from the website. You must ensure that you use the correct codes, failure to do so may result in you continuing to receive the subscription. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the subscription until it is cancelled.

You will be charged AU$0.55/week for each subscription. This is charged through your mobile phone carrier's billing system. This covers the transmission of our message to your phone, and includes GST. The cost of your incoming subscription request is not covered by this service.

Full my247 Subscriptions
This service allows you live access to a slimmed-down version of my247 city sites. Most my247 information will be available, although some (menus, photos, etc) may not be suitable for your particular mobile device, and will therefore be unavailable.

You can request this service by sending the relevant codes found on my247 websites to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247). You must ensure that you use the correct codes, failure to do so may result in you receiving the wrong information. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the subscription until it is cancelled.

To cancel a subscription service you simply send in the relevant codes found on the my247 website to 19 SMS 247 (19 767 247), or login and unsubscribe directly from the website. You must ensure that you use the correct codes, failure to do so may result in you continuing to receive the subscription. If you do make an error you will still be charged for the subscription until it is cancelled.

You will be charged AU$0.55/week for this subscription. This is charged through your mobile phone carrier's billing system. This covers the transmission of our message to your phone, and includes GST. The cost of your incoming subscription request is not covered by this service. Your carrier may charge an additional data transfer fee for this service.

Privacy Policy


my247 takes your privacy seriously. Our Privacy Policy reflects the way that we would like our own information to be treated:

Scope of our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy covers my247's use of any personally identifiable information that my247 collects when you are on my247 sites, and when you use my247's services. This policy also covers my247's use of any personally identifiable information that my247's business partners share with my247 or that my247 may collect on one of our partners' sites. This policy does not apply to companies that my247 does not own or control, or to people that my247 does not employ or manage.

What do we collect and why?
my247 collects personally identifiable information when you register for my247 membership, when you use certain my247 products or services, and when you enter promotions or competitions, and purchase items through our shops. my247 may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you register with a my247 A-List, we ask for your name, email address, birthday, gender, address, and personal interests. Once you register with my247 and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. my247 also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, my247 cookie information, and the page you requested. my247 uses information for three general purposes: to ensure that the advertising and content you see on our pages is most appropriate to our audience, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services - e.g. newsletters, and to contact you about specials and new products.

Who do we tell?
my247 will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone - as surfers, we feel very strongly about this!. my247 will only send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
- We have your consent to share the information;
- We need to share your information in order to provide the product or service you have requested, for example to despatch goods won or purchased;
- We need to send the information to companies that work on behalf of my247 to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or
- We find that your actions on our web sites violate my247 Terms of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Cookies
my247 may set and access my247 cookies on your computer. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to my247's cookies.

What have we got on you?
For some time now, my247 has given you the ability to edit your my247 membership information and preferences at any time - you can login at any time. You may request deletion of your my247 account by emailing us (use the contact link in the footer of this page), verifying your password once more and confirming your choice to terminate the account.

Security
Your my247 Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas my247 uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
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