Terms of Use

Our guides, articles, glossary, templates, tools and other website content are general information about Australian employment law and HR practice. This content:

• does not take into account your circumstances, your business, or the award or agreement that applies to your employees
• is not legal advice or professional advice, and should not be relied on as a substitute for advice about your situation
• is current only at the date shown on the page or, if there is no date, the date it was published. Employment law, pay rates and thresholds change often, so the content may be out of date when you read it.

We take care with our content, but we do not guarantee that it is complete, accurate or up to date. For advice about your situation, call us on 1300 144 002.

Using the website does not make you our client

Using the website, reading our content or sending us an enquiry does not create an adviser-client relationship between you and Employment Compass. We act for you only after we have confirmed in writing that we will, for example when you accept our proposal or sign a service agreement.

Prices and service information

Service descriptions, prices and offers on the website are a general guide and may change. They are not an offer to provide services on particular terms. The services, fees and terms that apply to you are set out in your proposal or service agreement.

Intellectual property

We own, or have permission to use, the copyright and other intellectual property in the website and its content, including text, guides, templates, graphics, logos and design. The Employment Compass name and logo are our brand, and you must not use them in a way that suggests we endorse or are connected with you or your business without our written permission. Third-party names, logos and content shown on the website belong to their owners.

You may view, download and print content from the website for your own information or for internal use in your business, and you may adapt templates we make available for use in your own business. You must not otherwise copy, reproduce, republish, sell, adapt or distribute any content from the website, or present it as your own product, without our written permission, except as allowed by law, such as the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

Acceptable use

When you use the website, you must not:

• use it for any unlawful purpose or in a way that infringes anyone’s rights
• submit false, misleading, offensive or defamatory information, or another person’s personal information without their permission
• send spam, or upload anything that contains viruses or other harmful code
• try to gain unauthorised access to the website or its systems or data, or interfere with how the website works
• use automated tools such as scrapers or bots to copy or collect content or data from the website, including to train artificial intelligence systems, without our written permission (normal search engine indexing is allowed).

We may restrict or block access to the website if we reasonably believe you have breached these terms.

Information you send us

When you send us information through the website, please make sure it is accurate and that you are allowed to share it, including any personal information about other people.

Until we have agreed to act for you, please do not send us confidential or sensitive information through the website. Tell us briefly what your enquiry is about, and we will ask for what we need. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle the information you send us.

Reviews and testimonials

Client reviews and testimonials on the website reflect the experience and views of the clients who gave them. Some are shown through a third-party reviews widget. Every workplace matter is different, and the outcome of yours will depend on its facts.

Links to other websites

The website links to, and displays content from, other websites and services, such as the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Fair Work Commission, our social media pages and third-party widgets. We provide these for convenience. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement.

Website availability and security

We aim to keep the website available and working properly, but we do not promise that it will always be available or free of errors, viruses or interruptions. We may change, suspend or remove any part of the website at any time. Please use up-to-date security software to protect your own devices and systems.

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified (your non-excludable rights).

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, and subject to your non-excludable rights:

• we provide the website and its content “as is”, and we exclude all warranties and representations about them that are not set out in these terms
• we are not liable for any loss or damage, including indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit or loss of data, arising from your use of, or reliance on, the website, its content or any linked website, however it is caused (including by negligence)
• where our liability for failing to comply with a consumer guarantee can be limited, it is limited to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.

This section does not limit our responsibilities to our clients under a proposal or service agreement, which sets out the terms that apply to our services.

Indemnity

If you use the website for the purposes of a business, you agree to compensate us for (indemnify us against) any loss, damage or reasonable costs we suffer because you breach these terms or use the website unlawfully, except to the extent that we caused or contributed to the loss, damage or costs. This section does not apply if you use the website as a consumer under the Australian Consumer Law, and it does not limit your non-excludable rights.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, including information collected through our website forms, cookies, analytics, session recording and marketing attribution tools.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms at any time by publishing an updated version on this page. The changes apply from the effective date shown at the top, and the version shown on this page when you use the website is the one that applies. Please check this page from time to time.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts that can hear appeals from them.

If any part of these terms is invalid or cannot be enforced, it will be read down or severed, and the rest of these terms will continue to apply. If we do not enforce a part of these terms straight away, we can still enforce it later.

Contact us

Employment Compass is a business name of Progredi Pty Ltd ABN 47 667 125 788. If you have a question about these terms, please contact us:

• Phone: 1300 144 002
• Email: info@employmentcompass.com.au
• Post: Employment Compass, Suite 4.01, 7 Charles Street, Parramatta NSW 2150

Our offices are at Suite 4.01, 7 Charles Street, Parramatta NSW 2150 and 11 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000.