Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

 Accepting our terms

By using our site you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (Terms) and our Privacy Policy (as may be amended from time to time). Please read these Terms carefully and do not continue to use our site if you do not agree to them or do not understand them.

 Updates to our Terms

We may update or otherwise vary these Terms at any time and any such changes will be posted to this site. Please check the terms regularly to ensure you are up to date.

Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations and give no guarantees or warranties about our Site or its Content, including (without limitation) that  the content is complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose.

In using this site you recognize and acknowledge:

  • The town planning system is complex, with many variables which change from property to property and from one development proposal to another. DA Next Door cannot, and does not, purport to cover every variable or individual circumstance.

  • DA Next Door provides general information only which may not cover or address matters particular to an individual development application or property. It does not consider your individual or specific needs, objectives or circumstances.

  • In order to simplify and make accessible the information offered to persons unfamiliar with the planning system, details, which may be important to you, may be omitted or modified in a way that affects their usefulness or accuracy to you. In some circumstances, the general information offered may not be accurate or appropriate to your needs and circumstances.

  • Legislation affecting town planning controls changes frequently. DA Next Door is updated from time to time but we explicitly do not purport to catch revisions to legislation as and when they occur.  

  • To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representation and give no guarantee or warranty about our site and its content, including, without limitation, that the information provided is accurate, current and reliable for any particular purpose.

  • You read, use and act on our Site and the Content at your own risk.

  • Only by engaging a qualified and experienced professional will you have assurance that all circumstances relevant to you are taken into account.

Goods and services mentioned on our site.

DA Next Door does not endorse or recommend any good or service which might be mentioned or featured on this site (including any advertised good or service), nor do we vouch for the quality, appropriateness or accuracy of any such good or service. You must make your own enquiries and satisfy yourself as to the quality, accuracy and appropriateness of any good or service to your needs.

 Licence to use DA Next Door

We grant you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, non-transferable licence to use this site in accordance with these Terms. All other uses are prohibited without our prior written consent.

  • The DA Next Door is for your personal use only. You must not use our site, or any of its content, for commercial purposes, without written permission from us, provided beforehand.

  • DA Next Door’s content is protected by copyright. You must not reproduce it without our written permission. You may not distribute, sell, publish or circulate any content from this site without our written permission.

  • You are prohibited from using our site, including its content, in any way that competes with our business.

 Security

Whilst we use our best endeavours to ensure your privacy and security, it’s an unfortunate fact of life that no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure. In using our website you agree to not expose yourself to unreasonable risk (for example by entering your personal details on publicly visible, non secure networks) and you acknowledge that for reasons outside of our control:

  • the use of internet-based services inherently involves privacy and security limitations in which your data may be inadvertently revealed to a third party without your knowledge or consent, ; and

  • data transmitted by you may be recorded or tampered with by unauthorised third parties, and cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

 We do not guarantee

  • Access to our site site be uninterrupted, error-free and free of viruses; or

  • Our site is secure.

Limitation on Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, however arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (Liability) suffered by you or any third party, arising from or in connection with your use of our site and/or its content and/or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage and/or any loss or corruption of data and/or the fact that the Content is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.

 Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you must indemnify us, and hold us harmless, against any Liability suffered or incurred arising from or in connection with your use of our Site or any breach of these Terms or any applicable laws by you. This indemnity is a continuing obligation, independent from the other obligations under these Terms, and continues after these Terms end. It is not necessary for any Liability to be incurred before enforcing a right of indemnity under these Terms.

 Termination and discontinuance

We may at any time and without notice, discontinue our site. We may also preclude access to any person, at our sole discretion and without disclosing the reason for that exclusion to you. We are not responsible for any Liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.

 In the event of Termination of the DA Next Door, or of our Terms or any part thereof, all restrictions and obligations imposed by these Terms and limitations of liability will survive.

 Severance

If any provision of these Terms is held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable or otherwise becomes illegal, in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions of these Terms and the remainder of the provisions in question shall not be affected.

 No Waiver

Neither the failure by us nor your failure to enforce any part of these Terms constitutes a waiver of such Terms. Such failure will in no way affect the right to later enforce a part of these Terms.

 Jurisdiction

DA Next Door addresses the planning system in NSW Australia only and information provided is not relevant to other states, nor other countries

Privacy Policy

We understand your privacy is important to you.

 When you browse our site this will occur anonymously - in that we are unable to see your personal details. We are, however, able to determine your IP address which we may use in aggregate figures to help us improve our business including measuring use of, or diagnosing problems or areas where we could improve our website and our business.

  • You may, of your choice, provide us your email address and we reserve the right to use your email address to send you details of new products or offers. We promise:

  • Not to clog up your inbox with pointless advertising. We’ll only contact you when we’ve got something worthwhile to tell or offer you.

  • We won’t sell or make available your email address to any third party without your knowledge and agreement.

You will have the choice of removing your email, name and contact details from our current records, in which case, limited only by technological constraints, we will endeavour to ensure your details are permanently removed. Please note, however, that we cannot remove past transaction details or details that we are required by law to maintain and nor are we able to remove your details from backed up copies of our computer systems.

DA Next Door’s website may contain links to other websites. We recommend you read and understand the privacy policy of those websites prior to use or browsing as we are not responsible for them, or their content.

In some cases, we, and our service providers, may receive certain information associated with you and/or your device(s) as part of your use of our Site through browser or device-based tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, tags, beacons, scripts, or other technology. By using our Site you consent to our use of these technologies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy (available on our Site).

By using this website, you are agreeing to the terms of DA Next Door’s privacy and security policies. We reserve the right to modify our privacy and security policies at any time and we will post the current version of our policies on our website. By continuing to use our website after changes to our privacy and security policies have been posted you are taken to have agreed to be bound by the policies as amended by us.