Terms and Conditions
General Terms and Conditions
Application
Before you begin using Glimmer, please read our General Terms and Conditions to ensure that you are informed of the appropriate use of our Platform.
These are the general terms and conditions for using our platform and services. Additional Terms and Conditions apply to Business Accounts and Events features.
When you create an account, you accept these Terms and Conditions.
We reserve the right to amend our Terms and Privacy Policy from time to time. You will be notified of amendments. By continuing to use our platform and services you agree to the amended Terms and Privacy Policy.
Parties
Us (we or our) or Glimmer means Glimmer World Pty Ltd ABN 44 645 962 036.
You means an account holder on the Glimmer platform.
Disclosures
By accepting these Terms, you agree that:
- Subject to your consumer law rights, you must indemnify us against any Liability suffered by us arising from or in connection with your use of our Platform or any breach of these Terms, including our Privacy Policy or any applicable laws by you.
- At any time, we may discontinue the Platform or exclude any person from the Platform, for which we will not be responsible for any loss or damage.
- You must be 16 years and older to use the Platform. If you are under 18 years old, you represent and warrant that you have verified permission from your parent or legal guardian to access and use the Platform, and they have accepted these Terms and Conditions on your behalf.
The laws of Victoria, Australia, govern your use of our Platform and these Terms.
Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.
Definitions
Account: This means your account as a user of our Platform. There are 2 different types of accounts:
- Well-wisher Account for individuals
- Business Account for businesses and organisations. Refer to our Business Accounts Terms and Conditions for more information.
Content: The text, photos, videos, and other material that you or Glimmer post on our Platform.
Circle: A group, created by a Well-wisher or a business or organisation. A circle may be centred around a shared interest, location, or goal. It provides a space for Well-wishers to connect, share information, discuss topics, and build relationships with others who have similar interests. Circles can be public, private, or closed, offering different levels of accessibility and privacy.
Events: A physical or online gathering or occurrence created and shared by users.
Follow or following: To subscribe to a Well-wisher’s content. This action typically enables the Well-wisher to see the followed account’s posts, updates, and other shared content in their own feed.
Glows: These are reactions that allow you to respond to a post.
Glowing: This means trending. Posts, comments or topics that become popular through increased in-app interactions and are mentioned at a higher rate than others.
Glowboard: This means the feed for your account. This includes promoted posts presented in various formats.
Liability: This refers to any kind of financial burden, legal responsibility, harm, or dispute, regardless of its cause, timing, or the parties involved.
Platform or Glimmer Platform: This means our digital platform available through our mobile applications and our website.
Services: These are the features and functions available on our platform.
Terms: These terms and conditions, including any policies or other terms set out on the Platform.
Us (we or our) or Glimmer: This means Glimmer World Pty Ltd ABN 44 645 962 036.
Well-wisher: An individual account holder.
You: This means (as applicable) either the Well-wisher or Business Account holder.
Provision of the Glimmer Platform and Services
We provide and operate the Glimmer Platform and our services for users to connect and communicate.
The services we provide are:
- Posts
- Circles
- Follows
- Glowboard
- Glows and reactions
- Comments
- Messages and inbox
- Notifications
- App-to-app communication, via chat, between linked accounts
- Business subscriptions which allow you to boost your posts
- Apple is not responsible for our Platform. Refer to the Apple App Store Terms and Conditions for more information.
- You must create an account to use our platform. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during the registration process and on your profile.
- Businesses and organisations must first register a Well-wisher Account which will remained linked to the Business Account. Refer to our Business Accounts Terms and Conditions for more information.
- Well-wisher Accounts cannot be transferred between individuals.
- You are responsible for keeping your account details and password confidential and will be liable for all activity on your account, including payments made using your account details. You agree to notify us of any unauthorised use of your account immediately
- At our sole discretion, we may refuse to allow any person, business, or organisation to register or create an account.
- At our sole discretion, we may suspend your account or delete your account without notice to you if you are in material breach of these Terms.
Content
- All posted content must be related to sustainability and well-being topics aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- All content must be safe, respectful and abide by our Community Guidelines. Our Community Guidelines form part of these Terms and Conditions.
- Content must not contain any commercial advertising.
- The content uploaded to the platform is monitored. At our sole discretion, we may remove content without notice to you if you are in material breach of these Terms. Private messages between people are not monitored. They are encrypted and can be read if required for legal purposes.
- Whilst we strive to verify that Business Accounts abide by relevant sustainability legislation and guidelines, we cannot guarantee these claims.
Liability and Limited Liability
Whilst we provide the facility to promote events, Glimmer is not responsible or liable for any aspect of these events. This is the responsibility of the organiser. Refer to the Event Organisers Terms and Conditions for more information.
We are not liable for anything outside our control, including:
- any use of your account by someone other than you
- the platform being unavailable, or any delay in us providing our services to you, for whatever reason
- any aspect of your interaction with any other user.
Our liability is limited to us resupplying our platform and services to you or, at our sole discretion, to us repaying you the amount of any fees you have paid to use our services.
We will not be liable to you for any loss of profit (including anticipated profit), loss of benefit (including anticipated benefit), loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of savings (including anticipated savings), loss of reputation, loss of use and/or loss or corruption of data.
Intellectual Property
- The Glimmer logo is our own intellectual property and must not be reproduced for any purpose.
- Glimmer content may be reposted on other platforms with appropriate credit and links provided.
- Glimmer blog articles can be republished for free under a Creative Commons License 4.0 and subject to the following guidelines.
Guidelines for republishing
By republishing our article, you are agreeing to the following guidelines.
- Credit Glimmer and the author.
- Link to where the article came from.
- Do not edit the article unless you obtain approval from the author.
- Our available articles cannot be sold but can be republished on a page containing advertisements.
- You will need to use your own images, unless the images belong to the author of the article. Royalty free images can be published, but you will need to check the licence is still current.
For any questions and notices, please contact us at:
Glimmer World Pty Ltd ABN 44 645 962 036
Email: [email protected]
Last update: Sep 2024