These Terms govern your use of BribieNow. They preserve your non-excludable rights under the Australian Consumer Law and are governed by the laws of Queensland.
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Effective: 25 May 2026
Last updated: 30 August 2026
These Terms and Conditions (Terms) govern your access to and use of the BribieNow website at https://bribienow.com.au and any related services (the Service). They form a binding agreement between you and Joshua Raymond Shiels, ABN 93 758 544 313, a sole trader based in Queensland, Australia, who operates the service branded as BribieNow (BribieNow, we, us, our).
By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
BribieNow is a free, community-focused local dashboard for Bribie Island. It provides conditions information (weather, tides, marine and traffic), an events calendar, a directory of local businesses and tradespeople, community submissions (garage sales, missing pets), and locally-curated guides.
BribieNow is operated by a single sole trader. It is not a government service, an emergency service, or a marine-safety service.
You may use the public, read-only parts of the Service without an account. To submit content, save items or use account features, you must:
We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms, that we reasonably believe are being used to abuse the Service, or that have been inactive for an extended period after reasonable notice where practicable.
When you submit content to the Service, an event, garage sale, business listing, missing-pet listing, pet sighting, comment, photo or any other material (User Content), you remain the owner of that content. However:
We may reasonably moderate, edit, decline or remove User Content, particularly if it breaches these Terms, applicable law, or our community standards. We do not pre-screen all User Content and we are not responsible for User Content except where the law says otherwise. If you believe User Content on the Service is unlawful or infringes your rights, contact privacy@bribienow.com.au.
You must not:
robots.txt permits.When you apply for or manage a business listing, you confirm that you have authority to apply for the business, that the information supplied is accurate and kept up to date, and that you have permission to use and publish any logo or other content you provide. Contact us if information needs correction or removal.
We compare the supplied ABN and business details with public ABN Lookup information. An active result means only that the public ABN registration was current at the time checked. It does not confirm identity, licences, insurance, workmanship, safety, availability, suitability, a street address, or endorsement.
Listings are subject to a manual local eligibility review against the directory criteria. We may decline, correct, unpublish or remove a listing where the supplied information does not meet those criteria, is inaccurate or infringes another person's rights. A listing and our review are not a recommendation or guarantee.
BribieNow is not a party to any arrangement you make with a business or tradesperson listed in the directory. Any dealings, contracts or disputes are between you and the relevant business.
The conditions surfaces (weather, tides, marine, swell, traffic and bridge route times) are provided for general information only. They are derived from third-party data sources and routing tools, and may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed or unavailable.
You use this information at your own risk.
The Service, including all source code, designs, layouts, text, graphics, logos, and aggregated/curated content, is owned by or licensed to BribieNow and is protected by Australian and international intellectual property laws. You may view and use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, or create derivative works of any part of the Service except with our prior written consent, or where permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
User Content remains owned by the user that submitted it, see clause 4.
The Service contains links to third-party websites and services, including event ticket pages, business websites, and weather provider sources. Those sites are operated by third parties and BribieNow has no control over them. Following a link is your decision and your risk, and any dealings you have with the third party are between you and the third party.
Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer right, guarantee, warranty or remedy you may have under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), including the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), or under any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Where the ACL or another law allows us to limit a remedy for a service supplied by us, our liability for any breach of a non-excludable guarantee is limited, at our option, to:
Subject to clause 12, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not warrant that:
You acknowledge that BribieNow relies on third-party data feeds that may fail, change or become unavailable, and on user submissions that we do not independently verify.
Nothing in clauses 13 or 14 excludes, restricts or modifies any liability, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified, including the non-excludable rights in clause 12.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to clause 12, BribieNow is not responsible for loss or damage that was not a reasonably foreseeable result of our breach or failure to use reasonable care, that was caused by your unlawful or prohibited use of the Service, or that arose from a third-party service outside our reasonable control. This does not remove any remedy available under applicable law.
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify BribieNow against third-party claims, losses, liabilities or expenses (including reasonable legal costs) to the extent caused by:
You may stop using the Service or delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service (in whole or in part) at any time if you breach these Terms, if we are required to do so by law, or if continuing to provide the Service to you would expose us to legal or operational risk.
Clauses that by their nature should survive termination, including clauses 4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17, will continue to apply after termination.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. You and BribieNow submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland for any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service.
Before starting court proceedings, we ask that you contact us at privacy@bribienow.com.au so we can try to resolve the dispute informally.
We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top will change when we do. We will give reasonable advance notice of material changes where practicable. Changes apply prospectively; accrued rights and disputes remain governed by the terms in effect when they arose. Where applicable law requires your consent to a change, that change takes effect only after we obtain that consent.
These Terms are written for the current free BribieNow community launch. They should be reviewed before paid features, advertising, or any material change to the Service model.