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These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern participation in any martial arts, fitness, or personal training services provided by GFTeam Bondi (Barefoot Warrior Pty Ltd, ABN 44621007949), either in-person or online. By taking part in our classes or allowing your child to participate, you agree to these Terms.

1. Enrolment and Eligibility

1.1. All participants must complete and sign the Waiver of Liability (including health declaration) before participating.

1.2. Participants under 18 must have consent from a parent or legal guardian.

1.3. You must inform GFTeam Bondi of any changes to your or your child’s health that may affect safe participation.

2. Assumption of Risk

2.1. You acknowledge that martial arts involve physical contact and carry inherent risks of injury, including serious injury or death.

2.2. You participate voluntarily and accept full responsibility for any injuries or harm that may arise.

2.3. You agree to follow all safety instructions and conduct yourself in a respectful and responsible manner.

3. Code of Conduct

3.1. All participants and their parents/guardians must treat instructors, staff, and fellow members with respect.

3.2. Aggressive, disruptive, abusive, or inappropriate behaviour (in class, via communication, or online) will not be tolerated.

3.3. Breaches of conduct may result in suspension or cancellation of membership without refund.

4. Termination of Membership

4.1. GFTeam Bondi reserves the right to suspend or terminate a membership at its sole discretion, including if:

• There is a breakdown in trust or confidence;

• Behaviour of a member or their parent/guardian is aggressive, abusive, or inconsistent with GFTeam Bondi’s values;

• The member breaches these Terms or any safety rules;

• Fees remain unpaid beyond the due date.

4.2. If membership is terminated by GFTeam Bondi, a refund may be issued for unused, prepaid sessions, unless the termination arises from a breach of these Terms, in which case no refund will be given.

5. Payment and Fees

5.1. Fees must be paid in advance, as per your membership option.

5.2. Failure to pay fees on time may result in suspension of access to classes.

5.3. GFTeam Bondi may change pricing at its discretion with reasonable notice.

6. Cancellations, suspension and Refunds

6.1. You may cancel your membership at any time by providing at least 4 weeks written notice on email to info@gfteambondi.com.au.

6.2. Refunds for unused sessions may be granted at the discretion of GFTeam Bondi, but are not guaranteed.

6.3. Missed classes are not refundable but may be rescheduled if allowed under your membership plan.

6.4. You may suspend your membership by providing at least 2 weeks written notice on email to info@gfteambondi.com.au. Minimum suspension period of two weeks. Suspension to and from date must be advised, you may not suspend indefintiely. If you suspend and then decide to cancel, the cancellation period must be adhered to in addition to the suspension period (i.e. Suspension time will not be included).

7. Emergency Medical Care

You authorise GFTeam Bondi to seek medical treatment on your or your child’s behalf in case of an emergency, and agree to bear all associated costs.

8. Photography and Video

8.1. You consent to GFTeam Bondi recording classes and using images or videos of participants (including CCTV) for safety, training, and promotional purposes.

8.2. You may request in writing to exclude yourself or your child from promotional use.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by law, GFTeam Bondi is not liable for any loss, injury, or damage arising from participation in training, unless caused by gross negligence. This includes, but is not limited to, loss of income, medical costs, or property damage.

Statutory Warning under Section 139A of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth):

You acknowledge that participation in martial arts is a recreational activity involving risk. By agreeing to these Terms, you waive any right to sue GFTeam Bondi for death or injury caused by a failure to comply with consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law, except where gross negligence is proven.

10. Privacy

All personal information collected is treated confidentially and handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.

12. Acceptance of Terms

By attending or participating in any GFTeam Bondi class, training session, seminar, or event (in person or online), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Service, including our Waiver of Liability. This applies whether participation is ongoing, casual, or part of a membership.

If the participant is under 18 years of age, a parent or legal guardian agrees to these Terms on their behalf.

1. Introduction - This disclaimer governs your use of our website; by using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full. If you disagree with any part of this disclaimer, do not use our website.

2. Intellectual Property Rights - Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all our intellectual property rights are reserved.

3. Licence to Use Website - You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website, provided that:

   (a) You must not republish material from this website (including republication on another website), or reproduce or store material from this website in any public or private electronic retrieval system. (Though we encourage fair use for academic / non commercial purposes)

   (b) You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit our website or material on our website for a commercial purpose, without our express written consent;

4. Limitations of Liability - We shall not be liable for any loss or injury suffered by the copying, mimicking or imitating the movements or exercises shown in pictures or videos contained on this website.

The movements depicted in the photographs and/or videos require significant levels of fitness, agility and practice. They should not be attempted by you alone or unsupervised by someone familiar with GFTeam Jiu Jitsu and Functional Training techniques. We will not be liable for any loss, damage or injury suffered as a result of ignoring this advice.

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we not commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on this website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill).

Our liability is limited and excluded to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. We will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising under this disclaimer or in connection with our website, whether arising in tort, contract, or otherwise - including, without limitation, any loss of profit, contracts, business, goodwill, data, income, revenue or anticipated savings.

However, nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

5. Third party websites - The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of third party websites.

6. Variation - We reserve the right to revise this disclaimer.

7. Entire agreement - This disclaimer constitutes the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersedes all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

8. Law and Jurisdiction - This notice will be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian law, and any disputes relating to this notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia.

We do not actually collect any information from our users other than the standard information that our website statistics automatically gathers (Google Analytics). The following is a standard Privacy Policy agreement.

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1. What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

(a) information about your visits to and use of this website;

(b) information about any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;

(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our website services and/or email notifications.

2. Information about website visits

We may collect information about your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability, and for marketing purposes.

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our website, and to personalise our website for you. Our advertisers may also send you cookies.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

2. Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

(a) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;

(b) send information (other than marketing communications) to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology;

(c) send to you marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by Emailing us.

(d) provide other companies with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user. We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

4. Other Disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and

(d) to the purchaser or seller (or prospective purchaser or seller) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling or purchasing.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

5. International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

6. Security of Your Personal Data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

7. Policy Amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

8. Third Party Websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies (or content) of third party websites.