Terms & Conditions

Welcome to Hungry Ghost Social Club
Hungry Ghost Social Club (we, us, our) operates hungryghostsocialclub.com and all of its subdomains (the Site), and various third party social media and messaging sites, channels, pages, groups and forums (collectively with our Site, our Services).
Acceptance and Variation of Terms
Your permission to access and use our Services is conditional upon you agreeing to the terms and conditions set out below (Terms). You must read these Terms carefully.
By clicking an ‘accept’ or ‘mint’ button, creating an account, or accessing or using any part of our Services, you accept, or are deemed to have accepted (as the case may be), all of these Terms, as varied, modified or amended by us from time to time.
You agree that these Terms are legally enforceable and binding in the same manner as any written negotiated contract bearing your signature or seal. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not create an account and must not access or use any part of our Services.
We reserve the right to modify, permanently or temporarily disable, or discontinue any part of our Services and to alter, amend or withdraw any part of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or any information or material appearing on our Services at any time, without liability or further notice to you. Your continued use of our Services will constitute an automatic acceptance of any alterations, withdrawals or amendments made by us.
Acceptable Use
You agree that you are only authorised to use our Services for your own personal use and for the following activities:
  1. accessing and using our Services; and
  2. any other purpose which we make known to you.
Unless otherwise approved by us, you must not use our Services:
  1. to provide advice (financial or otherwise) regarding any share, security, or financial product or instrument, or an offer, solicitation, recommendation, or invitation, to buy, sell or deal in any way with any of those things; or
  2. for any illegal purpose or activity, including but not limited to any act which causes, or may be likely to cause, physical harm to any person.
Your access and use of our Services are subject to these Terms and any other terms and conditions of use that appear on our Services (including third party terms of use, such as those adopted by social media websites and platforms) and any click and accept end user licence terms, together with privacy policy terms and acceptable use standards.
Risks Relating to Digital Assets
The legal status of cryptographic coins, tokens, and digital assets (Digital Assets) remains uncertain in many countries and jurisdictions around the world. We take no formal position on the legal status of any Digital Assets. It is your responsibility to undertake your own investigations and enquiries, and to satisfy yourself in that regard.
Digital Assets which give the holder a right to own, or participate in, the assets or profits of a person, entity, fund or scheme may be legally prohibited in certain countries or jurisdictions, or be subject to specific restrictions and limitations with which you are solely responsible for complying at your own risk and expense.
By accessing and using our Services, you acknowledge and agree that:
  1. investing, speculating, holding, or trading in Digital Assets involves considerable risk and you risk losing all of your money, for which you will be solely responsible;
  2. Digital Asset markets are extremely volatile, unpredictable, and largely unregulated (and so may be subject to predatory practices, such as market manipulation);
  3. purchasing, holding and selling Digital Assets involves the use of sophisticated computer software and/or hardware, the correct use of which requires a significant level of understanding of the underlying technologies and innovations;
  4. your access to and use of our Services involves considerable risk of monetary loss due to reasons including, but not limited to:
    1. user error;
    2. hardware and/or software failure or malfunction; and
    3. the risk of cyber crime, hacking, or fraud;
  5. we do not set or influence the price of any Digital Asset is tradeable on any secondary market;
  6. we do no warrant or guarantee that you will generate any financial return over any time period by using our Services, or purchasing any Digital Assets from us.
No Financial Advice
All text, images, audio recordings, video recordings, and other information and content, including but not limited to, market or trading information, tools, indicators, and materials (Content) hosted or made available on or through our Services is provided:
  1. for general information purposes only; and
  2. without any regard whatsoever to the personal circumstances of any person.
Any user-created Content which is hosted or made available on or through our Services is provided for, and on behalf of, the relevant user who created or supplied such Content.
No Content hosted or made available on or through our Services is intended to constitute advice (financial or otherwise) regarding any share, security, or financial product or instrument, or an offer, solicitation, recommendation, or invitation, to buy, sell or deal in any way with any of those things.
All statements, representations, estimations, projections, or forecasts made in or through our Services by any person (whether relating to the present or the future) are expressions of opinion only, and do not necessarily represent our opinion or have our endorsement.
Unless otherwise expressly stated by us, we, and any other person using our Services, are not professional or qualified advisors (such as lawyers or accountants), financial advisors, financial service providers, or financial services licence holders.
Before acting on, or relying upon, any Content hosted or made available on or through our Services, we strongly recommend that you:
  1. undertake your own investigations and enquiries; and
  2. seek independent legal, accounting, tax, financial, business, technical and other professional advice from an appropriately qualified professional advisor.
No Minors
Our Services are designed for use only by people who are 18 years of age or older. Persons under 18 years of age must only use our Services with the consent of their parent or legal guardian. We may, in our discretion, request you to provide evidence of such consent, if applicable.
Restricted International Users
Your access to and use of our Services may be subject to international export controls and financial export requirements. By accessing or using our Services, you declare and undertake that you are aware of and subject to these requirements. Without limitation, you are not entitled to access or use our Services if:
  1. you are a citizen or resident, or you intend to supply any Digital Asset to any citizen or resident, of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria or any other country subject to United States of America (US) embargo, United Nations sanctions, the Her Majesty’s Treasury of United Kingdom (HM) financial sanctions regime; or
  2. you are on the list of specific citizens published by the US Ministry of Finances, or the list of people denied by the US Ministry of Trade, a non-verified list, or a person subject to the HM financial sanctions regime, or you intend to supply any Digital Asset to any such person.
NFT Purchase Terms
  1. We may release or sell certain cryptographic non-fungible tokens representing digital creative works and digital collectibles (NFTs) on or through our Services.
  2. Unless otherwise stated, all of our NFTs will exist only on the Ethereum / Polygon public blockchain network and we do not support any other system whatsoever. We will publicly disclose the relevant smart contract address/es for our NFTs. Any NFTs which are not originally minted from our publicly disclosed smart contract/s have no association affiliation with us, or endorsement by us, whatsoever.
  3. Where we sell any NFT directly to you, we will have no obligation to transfer the NFT you to until such time as receive payment in full of the specified valuable consideration (i.e. payment), in the correct denomination.
  4. If any consideration provided by you is reversed or becomes invalid for any reason, you must immediately return to us any NFTs for which the consideration provided by you is no longer retained by us in full.
  5. All title and risk in any NFTs which we sell directly to you, passes to you immediately upon us receiving the relevant consideration in full.
No Refunds
To the greatest extent permitted by law, subject to anything in these Terms to the contrary, all transactions are non-refundable and irreversible immediately upon execution.
Any transactions between you and us involving Digital Assets will be executed solely on the Ethereum public blockchain network. We will have no insight into or control over these payments or transactions, nor do we have the ability to reverse any transactions. You are solely responsible for the payment of any transactions costs (such as gas fees) associated with any transactions which you initiate with us.
To the extent that we are liable under the law for any defect or issue, our liability is limited to the total amount paid by you to us. Subject to law, we may, in our discretion determine to discharge any liability in any denomination whatsoever, including any Digital Asset, and we are not responsible for any difference in fiat currency value of any Digital Asset.
Promotions and Discounts
We may offer promotions and discounts from time to time. All promotions and discounts are offered subject to these Terms and any other terms and conditions specified by us.
NFT Licence Terms
  1. Any NFT that you purchase, or was originally purchased, directly from us on or through our Services (Original NFTs) is owned by the current holder absolutely and we have no right or ability to seize, freeze, or otherwise modify the ownership of any of our Original NFTs.
  2. However, subject to the licence terms below, you acknowledge and agree that we retain full ownership of, and commercial rights in, all intellectual property rights in any creative work which is represented by our Original NFTs (Original Creative Work), including but not limited to the rights to exploit, market, promote, develop, integrate, research, modify, manufacture, sell or supply, and to sublicense for such purposes, for our own commercial profit.
  3. (Personal Use Licence to Current Holders) Subject to your ongoing compliance with these Terms, we grant to the current holder (and not any previous holder) of an Original NFT a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable (except in the case of a lawful transfer of the Original NFT) licence to use, copy, and display the Original Creative Work represented by the Original NFT held, solely for the following purposes:
    1. for your own personal, non-commercial use;
    2. as part of a third party NFT marketplace that permits the sale of our Original NFTs, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each holder’s right to display the Original Creative Work for their Original NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Original Creative Work; or
    3. as part of a third party website or application

      (Third Party App)

      that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of our Original NFTs, provided that the Third Party App cryptographically verifies each holder’s right to display the Original Creative Work for their Original NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Original Creative Work, and provided that the Original Creative Work is no longer visible once the holder of the Original NFT leaves or disconnects from the Third Party App.
  4. (Commercial Use Licence to Current Holders) Subject to your ongoing compliance with these Terms, we grant to the current holder (and not any previous holder) of an Original NFT an unlimited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable (except in the case of a lawful transfer of the Original NFT) licence to use, copy, and display the Original Creative Work represented by the Original NFT held, solely for the purposes of creating derivative works based upon the Original Creative Work, such as producing merchandise products (such as clothing, etc.) displaying the Original Creative Work.
  5. To avoid doubt, nothing in these Terms restricts the current holder of an Original NFT from owning, operating, or earning revenue from:
    1. a marketplace that permits the use and sale of our Original NFTs, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each holder’s right to display the Original Creative Work for their Original NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Original Creative Work; or
    2. a website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of our Original NFTs, provided that the website or application cryptographically verifies each holder’s right to display the Original Creative Work for their Original NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Original Creative Work, and provided that the Original Creative Work is no longer visible once the holder of the of the Original NFT leaves or disconnects from the website or application.
  6. You acknowledge and agree that we may terminate the above licenses if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, you will lose all rights in relation to all relevant Original Creative Works, except for any physical objects you have created which you may retain for personal and non-commercial uses only.
Security
You acknowledge however that no transmission of data or information over the Internet is completely secure and you agree that we will not be liable for any damage, loss, cost, liability, expense, injury or death of any kind and however arising including penalties, fines and interest whether prospective or contingent and any amounts that for the time being are not ascertained or ascertainable (Loss) suffered by you or any third party should our security measures (or those of any of our third party service providers) be overcome or breached. We are not responsible for the security of any data stored on any personal computer, laptop, mobile or other device owned or controlled by you.
No Interference
You agree that you will not:
  1. use our Services in any way that could damage our reputation or goodwill;
  2. permit any person to access and use our Services other than in accordance with these Terms;
  3. disable, tamper with or otherwise attempt to circumvent any billing mechanism that meters the use of our Services by you or any other person;
  4. except to the extent that any applicable laws (including but not limited to copyright laws) prevent us from restraining you from doing so:
    1. reproduce, make error corrections to or otherwise modify or adapt our Services or create any derivative works based upon our Services; or
    2. decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer our Services or permit or facilitate any third party to do so;
  5. when accessing and using our Services:
    1. attempt to undermine the security or integrity of our computing systems or networks or, where our Services are hosted or operated by a third party, the third party's computing systems and networks;
    2. use, or misuse, our Services in any way which may impair its functionality, or the functionality of any other system used to deliver our Services, or impair the ability of any third party to lawfully use our Services;
    3. attempt to gain unauthorised access to any materials other than those to which you have been given express permission to access or to the computer system on which our Services are hosted or stored;
    4. transmit, or input into our Services any information, data, files or other material that may damage any other person's computing devices or software, may be offensive, or which is in violation of any law (including material protected by copyright or trade secrets which you do not have the right to use);
    5. attempt to modify, copy, adapt, reproduce, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer any computer programs used to deliver or operate our Services, except as is strictly necessary to use either of them for normal operation;
    6. remove or modify any program markings or any notice of proprietary rights, including those of any third party;
    7. use any automated processes or means to access our Services;
    8. use any software or manual repetition that will or is likely to interfere with our Services; or
    9. attempt to cause stress or detriment to the proper working of our Services, such as by:
      1. acting in any way likely to cause an unreasonable strain to the infrastructure of our Services;
      2. reloading or refreshing transaction pages more than once every 5 seconds; or
      3. requesting any page of the Site or the App more than 1000 times in aggregate in any 24-hour period.
Availability
We will use our best endeavours to ensure that our Services are accessible on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, we may, without notice, suspend all or part of any access to our Services immediately, including where:
  1. there is a malfunction or breakdown of any of our equipment or if we are required to undertake the repair, maintenance or service of any part of our Services;
  2. it is reasonably required to reduce or prevent fraud or interference with our Services;
  3. we are required to comply with an order, instruction or request of a government authority, or other such competent body; or
  4. we are otherwise prevented from making our Services available by circumstances outside our reasonable control.
You acknowledge and agree that access to our Services is reliant upon various factors outside our control, including, without limitation, you meeting the minimum technical requirements of our Services, your Internet service provider or telecommunications provider, the speed and bandwidth of your Internet connection, the equipment or devices which you use to access and use our Services, our hosting and web server (to the extent that we engage third party service providers) and other factors which may impact upon the delivery of our Services to you via the Internet.
While we will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that you have continuous access to our Services, we will not be liable to you or any other person for any Loss suffered due to our Services not being accessible. We reserve the right to restrict of remove access to our Services for the purpose of undertaking maintenance and updating of our Services.
We do not warrant that any part of our Services is or will be completely error free or free of defects. Certain parts of our Services may be made available on an ‘alpha’ or ‘beta’ basis for testing purposes prior to full release and may be withdrawn or removed at any time by us without notice to you. We may not identify which parts of our Services are released on such an ‘alpha’ or ‘beta’ basis. We are not responsible for any Loss to property or persons incurred as a result of the use by any person of any parts of our Services which are released on an ‘alpha’ or ‘beta’ basis.
Copyright
Except as expressly stated by us, the information and Content contained within our Services (including its coding, wording, design, graphics and logos) are owned by us or our affiliates and are protected by international copyright and trademark laws (as applicable).
Intellectual Property
Subject to any rights granted under our NFT Licence Terms above, you acknowledge and agree that we or our affiliates own all rights, title and interest, including intellectual property rights and moral rights (IP Rights) in our Services, Digital Assets created by us (including our Original NFTs), our trade marks (including, without limitation, to Hungry Ghost Social Club, HGSB, and the associated logos), and any Content hosted or made available on or through our Services (including content produced or provided by other users), and that nothing in these Terms has the effect of, or should be construed as having the effect of, passing ownership of any such IP Rights, or those of any third party, to you or any other person whatsoever.
You further acknowledge and agree that we at all times retain ownership of all IP Rights created by or for us (whether or not related to our Services or Digital Assets created by us and whether created before or after the commencement of our agreement with you under these Terms) and, to the extent that any such IP Rights vest in you (by operation of law or otherwise), you hereby irrevocably assign, transfer and dispose of all such IP Rights to us with effect immediately upon such rights arising or vesting in you (as the case may be). To the extent that such assignment, transfer or disposal is not possible under the law, you irrevocably grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, modify, redevelop, sublicense, exploit and commercialise all such IP Rights as we see fit.
You must not knowingly do any act or thing in relation to data which would infringe any third party’s IP Rights. You are solely responsible for obtaining any consent, approval, authority or licence from the holders of any IP Rights required to enable you to deal with any relevant data or to do any act or thing in relation to those IP Rights.
Privacy
These Terms are subject to our Privacy Policy which is incorporated by reference. By using our Services, you consent to us collecting your personal information. Please read our Privacy Policy so that you are aware of how we collect and use personal information.
If, as a result of these Terms, a person (other than us) collects, or is able to access, any personal information about identifiable individuals, then that person must:
  1. comply with all relevant and applicable privacy laws and such other data protection laws as may be in force from time to time which regulate the collection, storage, use and disclosure of information, as if they were regulated by these laws;
  2. comply with any applicable privacy code or policy which has been adopted by the person who collected the personal information as if it were bound by that code or policy;
  3. take all reasonable measures to ensure that such personal information is protected against loss and against unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse and that only authorised representatives, employees and officers have access to it; and
  4. co-operate with the other person in the resolution of any complaint under, or relating to, any of the laws, codes or policies referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above.
Third Party Sites and Content
Our Services may contain links to third party websites outside our control (Third Party Sites). Our Services may also make available to you Content hosted by Third Party Sites (Third Party Content). We take no responsibility for content contained in any Third Party Sites, or any Third Party Content made available by us to you. We do not endorse any aspect of any Third Party Sites or Third Party Content. We provide links to Third Party Sites, or access to Third Party Content, for convenience only. You access and use all Third Party Sites and Third Party Content entirely at your own risk.
If you choose to purchase goods or services from a third party, including from a Third Party Site accessed from or through our Services, you are entering a separate agreement with that third party, and expressly agree that we are not a party to any such transaction.
Continued Development
You consent to us soliciting comments, information, requests, data, ideas, enhancement requests, recommendations, description of processes, or other information concerning our Services from you or any person (Feedback). We own all IP Rights in any Feedback and may use such Feedback for purposes related to our Services or the carrying out of services by us generally in our business activities without further approval or acknowledgement, and you hereby assign to us all IP Rights in any such Feedback.
Off-Site Conduct
It is a direct violation of these Terms for you to engage in an activity using information and Content obtained from our Services to contact, abuse, advertise, sell to, harass or harm any other person.
Consequences for Violation
If you violate these Terms in any way, you agree that we may in our sole discretion and without notice to you:
  1. take any legal action we may have available against you;
  2. block your use of our Services;
  3. suspend, deactivate, or delete your account/s on our Services; and/or
  4. disclose information about you and your use of the Site or the App for investigation by any enforcement body for your unlawful activity.
You agree that monetary damages may not be sufficient where your actions cause damage to us, whether by tarnishing our goodwill, causing a loss to sales or increasing our expenses and in such a case you consent to us obtaining injunctive or other equitable relief against you as a consequence of your violation.
Disclaimer
Our Services are delivered on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis, subject to all latent and patent defects (if any). In this context, we do not warrant that our Services will be error-free or uninterrupted.
Whilst all due care has been taken in providing our Services, to the greatest extent permitted by law:
  1. we make no representations, and we do not give any warranties or make any guarantees, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, including but not limited to financial investment purposes, whether or not such use or purpose is described by you to us or our representatives prior to these Terms taking effect; and
  2. any condition, guarantee, or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is excluded.
All due care is taken in ensuring that our Services are free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse and/or malware, however we are not responsible for any damage to your computer system or device which arises in connection with your use of our Services or any Third Party Site.
We accept no liability whatsoever in relation to any third party services or third party software or hardware which you may purchase or use in connection with our Services, including but not limited to any Digital Asset wallet software or service, any hardware Digital Asset wallet, and any third party Digital Asset marketplace or decentralised application.
We undertake to take all due care with any information which you may provide when accessing our Services and to preserve such information in a secure manner in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We, however, do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you may provide and information you transmit to our Services is entirely at your own risk.
We provide no warranty as to the accuracy or currency of the account information or other information or data uploaded to our Services by any other person.
Our Services may dynamically source Content from third party sites and services using application programming interfaces (APIs) and other technologies. We give no warranties and make no guarantees as to the accuracy or currency of any such data, the responsibility for which at all times remains with the relevant third party sites and services.
From time to time, we may host third party content on our Services such as advertisements and endorsements. Responsibility for the content of such material rests with those third parties and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions in such material or any damage caused either directly or indirectly by them.
Limitation of Liability
You acknowledge and agree that, to the greatest extent permitted by law:
  1. you access and use our Services, and any systems operated by us, at your own risk and expense; and
  2. you are solely liable for your own acts, omissions and negligence.
You acknowledge and agree that, to the greatest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any Loss (as that term is defined in these Terms) to property or persons as a result of, whether directly or indirectly:
  1. any wilful act, omission or neglect by you, or any other person;
  2. the use, non-use or misuse of our Services by you, or any other person;
  3. our Services failing, malfunctioning, or not functioning as you expect;
  4. your reliance, or the reliance by any other person, on:
    1. any Content hosted or made available through our Services;
    2. any investment, business, accounting, tax, or financial advice or service provided by any person in contravention of these Terms;
  5. any loss of fiat currency or Digital Assets resulting from malicious attacks against you, us, our affiliates, or our Services, including but not limited to, cyber attacks, hacking, and fraud;
  6. any infringement of any third party’s IP Rights by you, or any other person; and
  7. any breach of these Terms by you, or any other person.
TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE LIABLE WHATSOEVER FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR CONTINGENT LOSS, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF CONTRACT OR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS, LOSS OF REPUTATION OR GOODWILL.
TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL OUR LIABILITY EXCEED THE total amount paid by you to us.
Indemnity and Release
Indemnity
To the greatest extent permitted by law, you will at all times indemnify and keep indemnified us and our respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and representatives from and against any and all Loss (as that term is defined in these Terms) (including legal costs and expenses on a solicitor and own client basis) incurred by any of those indemnified or released (as the case may be) arising from any action, claim, demand, suit, or proceeding made or brought by any person against any of those indemnified or released (as the case may be) where such Loss arose out of, in connection with, or in respect of:
  1. any wilful act, omission or neglect by you;
  2. your use, non-use or misuse of our Services;
  3. your reliance on:
    1. any Content hosted or made available through our Services;
    2. any investment, business, accounting, tax, or financial advice or service provided by any person in contravention of these Terms; and
  4. any liability for any tax, duty, imposition, fee or charge incurred by you as a result of your use of our Services;
  5. any infringement of any third party’s IP Rights by you; and
  6. any breach of these Terms by you.
Release
You release us and our respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and representatives from all liability in relation to the following matters:
  1. any wilful act, omission or neglect by you, or any other person;
  2. the use, non-use or misuse of our Services by you, or any other person;
  3. our Services failing, malfunctioning, or not functioning as you expect;
  4. your reliance, or the reliance by any other person, on:
    1. any Content hosted or made available through our Services;
    2. any investment, business, accounting, tax, or financial advice or service provided by any person in contravention of these Terms; and
  5. any loss of fiat currency or Digital Assets resulting from malicious attacks against you, us, our affiliates, or our Services, including but not limited to, cyber attacks, hacking, and fraud;
  6. any infringement of any third party’s IP Rights by you, or any other person; and
  7. any breach of these Terms by you, or any other person.
Class Action Waiver
To the greatest extent permitted by law, you agree that you may only bring a Claim against us in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any putative class, collective and/or representative proceeding, and you hereby waive your right to do so.
Reporting
If you encounter any content on our Services that you find offensive and which you believe violates these Terms, please report the content to us. So that we can efficiently deal with your report, please ensure that your report:
  1. states the reason for your concern/s; and
  2. clearly identifies the content by providing:
    1. a description of it; and
    2. a link to the specific page, post or content (if applicable).
Confidentiality
You agree to keep confidential all Content hosted or made available on or through our Services (including Content generated by other users). If you receive or encounter any information which a reasonable person would consider to be confidential in nature, please contact us through any of our social media channels.
Notices and Notifications
We may send or issue notices to you from time to time through the user interface on our Services. You consent to receiving notices by the above means. We take no responsibility for any failure of delivery of any notice or notification to you for any reason whatsoever.
General
Disputes
Except as permitted by law, in the event of a dispute between you and us, or between you and any other person using our Services, you must:
  1. notify us of the dispute through any of our social media channels;
  2. provide us with full and complete details of the dispute;
  3. providing such supporting information or documents as we reasonably request; and
  4. act reasonably and in good faith with the other parties to the dispute in order to resolve the dispute amicably without formal legal action.
Entire Agreement
These Terms contain the entire agreement between the parties about its subject matter. Any previous representation, understanding, arrangement, agreement, or warranty relating to that subject matter is superseded by these Terms.
Jurisdiction
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Queensland, Australia and each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland.
Severability
Any provision of these Terms that is illegal, void or unenforceable will be read down or severed so as to preserve the remainder of these Terms which will continue in full force and effect.
Waiver
A failure or delay in the exercise or enforcement of any right, power or remedy available by law or under these Terms by any party will not in any way preclude, or operate as a waiver of, any exercise or enforcement of that or any other right, power or remedy. All waivers must be expressly given in writing to be effective and binding. No waiver of a breach of any provision of these Terms will operate as a waiver of another breach of that provision or of a breach of any other provision of these Terms.
Rules of Interpretation
Unless the context otherwise requires, any terms defined in bold text have the meaning allocated to them wherever they appear in these Terms.
The following rules also apply to the interpretation of these Terms, except where the context otherwise requires:
  1. the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
  2. words of any gender include all genders;
  3. alternate grammatical forms of a defined term have a corresponding meaning;
  4. a reference to a clause, paragraph, schedule, annexure, or appendix is a reference to a clause or paragraph of, and a schedule, annexure, or appendix to these Terms;
  5. a reference to a document includes the document as novated, varied, or substituted from time to time;
  6. a reference to a person includes a natural person, partnership, body corporate, association, joint venture, and governmental body, authority, agency or other entity;
  7. a reference to a party is a reference to a party to these Terms and includes the party’s executors, administrators, successors, permitted substitutes (including by novation) and permitted assigns;
  8. a reference to two or more persons is to any of them together and each of them individually;
  9. a reference to legislation or regulations includes all delegated legislation made under it and amendments, consolidations, replacements or re-enactments of any of them;
  10. ‘including’ and similar expressions do not limit the generality of any provision of these Terms;
  11. a rule of construction does not apply to the disadvantage of a party because the party was responsible for the preparation of these Terms or any part of it; and
  12. headings and table of contents are for ease of reference only and do not affect interpretation.

Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement
Hungry Ghost Social Club (we, us, our) considers your privacy to be important. This Privacy Policy (Policy) sets out how we collect, hold, use and disclose information about individuals who deal or interact with us. We treat all personal information collected by us in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and this Policy. If there is any inconsistency between the Privacy Act and this Policy, the Privacy Act will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.
Your Consent
By creating an account with us, signing up to a newsletter, filling out a contact form, or otherwise engaging with us, you consent to us collecting, processing, and using your personal information in accordance with this Policy.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us
Personal Information Collected by Us
Personal information is information or an opinion of an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained. As part of our business, we may collect personal information from you.
We collect a variety of personal information that is reasonably necessary for the purposes of conducting and improving our business and our products and services. This information may be collected in a number of ways, including:
  1. through our website and its subdomains (our Site) and various third party social media and messaging sites, channels, pages, groups and forums (collectively, our Services);
  2. through our products and services;
  3. through marketing research, including surveys and polls;
  4. from competitions and other user participation events;
  5. through any of our other business activities or events;
  6. through a person seeking employment with us, having been employed by us or being employed by us; and/or
  7. by otherwise having some form of contact with a person, such as by personal contact, mail, telephone, email, video teleconferencing, Internet or other forms of telecommunication.
Personal information collected by us may include:
  1. your name;
  2. your title;
  3. your contact details (including street address, postal address, email address, phone number and fax number);
  4. location information;
  5. transactional information (including your method of payment);
  6. nicknames, usernames and passwords that you use to access our Services or any of our products and services;
  7. your reasons for using our Services or any of our products and services;
  8. your preferences and opinions relating to our Services or any of our products and services;
  9. your publicly available information from social media platforms, including but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, Slack, Flock, Reddit and LinkedIn;
  10. any other information that you choose to send to us; and
  11. usage data and logs, which may include information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, device type, make and model, clickstream data, the pages of our Services that you visit, the features and functions of our Services you use, activities or actions you do while using our Services, the time and date of your visit to our Services, the time spent on any pages of our Services, and other log related information relating to your use of our Services.
We endeavour to only collect personal information about you from you, where it is reasonable and practical to do so.
Use of Personal Information
Generally, we use personal information for providing, evaluating, improving, personalising and developing our business, our Services, our other products and services, and to protect our users. More specifically, we use personal information for:
  1. providing and delivering our Services and our other products and services to you;
  2. improving our Services, our other products and services, and user satisfaction;
  3. providing support to you (including technical support) in relation to the use of our Services and our other products and services;
  4. promoting and delivering our Services and our other products to organisations and individuals;
  5. internal research and statistical purposes (including market segmentation and customer value analysis);
  6. internal business operations (including fulfilling any legal requirements); and
  7. enabling us to forward to you other information or material which we believe may be of interest to you, or which you have indicated you may be interested in receiving.
We automatically gather information to monitor the use of our Services and our other products and services. Most of the data we collect is aggregated, and such aggregated information is effectively anonymous to us.
Sometimes you will be asked to confirm that you agree to a particular activity, or the collection of your personal information for a specific purpose. Though we usually collect aggregate data, we will make it clear to you if any information is being collected in a way that could personally identify you.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Use of Personal Information
We do not disclose your personal information to any third party, other than those requiring this information to assist us or those that are directly related to the purposes for which the information was collected, including:
  1. to external service providers, so that they can provide products and services in connection with the operation and improvement of our business;
  2. to our affiliates, including but not limited to other organisations and businesses within our group of organisations;
  3. as permitted under the Privacy Act or any other applicable law;
  4. with your consent; and
  5. if you would reasonably expect that your personal information would be passed to the person to whom the personal information is disclosed.
Information You Make Public
Certain services we provide and features on our Services are open to any other account holder to view, such as our blog (if any), community forum (if any) and certain aspects of your personal user profile. Any information you create or post in these locations may be available and accessible to other users of the Services.
Our Services may also enable you to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute content, information or other data, which may include your personal information. Any information that you choose to disclose by means of such features becomes public information.
We strongly urge you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information by such means. You agree to assume all responsibility for all personal information that you have made public.
Third Party Social Media Services
We may operate one of more forums, groups, chat rooms, or other services and facilities which are hosted on third party social media services and websites, including but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, Slack, Flock, Reddit and LinkedIn.
Your use of, and participation in, such services and facilities is subject always to the terms of service, acceptable use policies, privacy policies, and other terms and conditions adopted by those third party social media services and websites.
Any information which you disclose on any third party social media services and websites is at your own risk and expense. We accept no liability or responsibility whatsoever in relation to the use, non-use or misuse of such third party social media services and websites by you or any other person.
Protecting Your Personal Information
We take reasonable steps to protect all personal information which we hold (including your personal information) from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
The precautionary steps we take to protect personal information may include:
  1. adopting measures to protect our computer systems and networks for storing, processing and transmitting personal information;
  2. adoption of procedural and personnel measures for limiting access to personal information by our staff;
  3. regularly reviewing our information collection, storage and processing practices;
  4. secured encrypted servers, password protection for electronic files, multi-factor authentication procedures, securing paper files in locked cabinets and physical access restrictions.
We also take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate, up-to-date and complete. These steps may include maintaining and updating personal information when it is apparent that updating is required, or we are otherwise advised by you that your personal information has changed.
Notwithstanding that we use our best endeavours to protect all personal information, we cannot completely guarantee the security of your personal information.
When no longer required, personal information is destroyed or deleted in a complete and confidential manner.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s or mobile device’s storage drive.
Like many sites, we use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information and remember your preferences. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies, or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Services or our other products and services.
Web Beacons
Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of users or to access cookies.
Unlike cookies which are stored on the user’s computer or mobile device storage drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages (or in e-mail). Web beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages and to understand usage patterns.
Like many sites, we use web beacons to collect information which is done in accordance with this Policy.
Overseas Disclosure
Overseas IT Service Providers
We may disclose personal information to outsourced information technology service providers, including cloud computing providers and data storage providers, some of which may be based overseas primarily located in the United States of America, Canada and Europe.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure such overseas recipients do not breach the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act (APPs), or are subject to laws or a scheme substantially similar to the APPs.
Disclosure for Analytics
We may use Google Analytics and other third party analytics software to track your usage of our Services. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of our Services, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Personal information collected by Google includes cookies and usage data, which is processed in the United States of America (subject to changes in Google’s data processing policies). You can find Google’s privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Consent to Overseas Disclosure
Other than as contemplated in this Policy, we will only disclose your personal information to an overseas recipient if:
  1. you consent to the transfer; or
  2. the disclosure of the information is required, authorised or permitted by or under an Australian law, other applicable law or a court/tribunal order.
Third Parties
Our Services may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site which you visit.
We confirm that we have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites, products or services whatsoever.
You should be aware that your ability to opt-out of a third party tool or platform will depend on the conditions governing your agreement with that third party.
Competitions
Generally, all competitions run by us are hosted on our servers and are conducted, with respect to the collection and use of personal information, in accordance with this Policy.
Competitions run by third parties, such as competitions run by our affiliates or sponsors, will be hosted on their own servers and the collection of personal information will be subject to the privacy policies of the relevant third parties. We strongly recommend that, before signing up to any third party competition, you carefully review the privacy policy of the relevant third party.
Accessing and Managing Your Personal Information
Right to Access
You have a right, at all times, to obtain from confirmation from us as to whether or not your personal information is being processed by us, where such processing is occurring, and for what purpose.
We will provide you with access to your personal information held by us, unless:
  1. giving access would be unlawful; or
  2. denying access is required under any applicable law.
If you wish to access your personal information, please contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com
Amendment of Personal Information
If you wish to amend personal information that we hold that is not editable through our Services, please contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com. Depending upon the personal information you seek to access, you may be asked:
  1. to put your request in writing with evidence to verify your identity; and/or
  2. to provide further details to assist us in responding to your request in a timely manner.
We will respond to a request for access to personal information within a reasonable period after the request is made (or such other period required by law).
If we elect not to correct your information, we will within a reasonable time (or such other period required by law) notify you of the reason for our refusal, the mechanisms available for you to complain about our refusal and such other matters required by the applicable privacy legislation.
Right to be Forgotten
You have a right, at all times, to have us erase your personal information where possible, and cease further dissemination of your personal information. If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com and we will take all reasonable steps to delete it, unless we are required by law to keep it.
Right to Data Transfer
You have a right, at all times, to require us to provide a copy of your personal information to you, and have such personal information transferred to another party nominated by you. If you wish to have your personal transferred, please contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com and we will take all reasonable steps to do so, unless we are required by law to refuse your request.
International Users
If you are located outside the Australia and choose to provide your personal information to us, your personal information will be transferred to Australia or our overseas outsourced information technology service providers and processed in accordance with this Policy.
If you are located in the European Union at the time you access our Services, or access or use our products or services, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 applies to our relationship with you. The Regulation in its entirety may be accessed in your language at the European Union Law Website.
Complaints
We strive to ensure our compliance with this Policy and to regularly review our practices under it.
If at any time you have a complaint against us regarding our Policy, including a breach of the Privacy Act, we invite you to contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com. All complaints made will be dealt with in confidence. We endeavour to respond within 30 days of receipt of a complaint with a resolution or proposed resolution of the issue raised.
Variations
We reserve the right to vary this Policy from time to time without further notice to you. Any variations made will be updated on our Site. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without using our best endeavours to first provide you with notice. It is your responsibility to check our Policy every now and again to ensure that you are aware of any changes made to it.
Further Information
For any further information about this Policy, please contact us at liamjoel@hungryghostsocialclub.com.