Terms and Conditions

Terms of Use and Content

The content included on this web site, including all the text, graphics, photographs, logos, icons, buttons and images (“Content”), is the property of Steel Construction New Zealand Incorporated (“SCNZ”) or its affiliates and is protected by New Zealand and international copyright and trademark laws. The compilation, collection, selection, arrangement, assembly, and coordination of all Content available on this web site is the exclusive property of SCNZ and protected by New Zealand and international copyright laws.
All Content on this web site may only be used by you for personal use and information gathering. You may make copies of selected portions of the Content, provided that such copies are made only for your personal use and only if you maintain any proprietary notices contained in such Content. Any other use of the Content, including but not limited to, the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication or display for any other purposes is strictly prohibited.

Disclaimer of Warranty
Although we will strive to maintain the accuracy and usefulness of this website and update it regularly, you should be aware of the following constraints affecting the information we provide:

  1. The Content includes content provided by third parties and users. Our articles are drawn from third party publications and quotes.  If they publish the wrong data or quote inaccurately, then our articles could also be wrong.  To combat this, we endeavour to update our data regularly and invite publishers to correct any incorrect data. SCNZ makes no warranty as to the completeness, accuracy, currency, or reliability of information published on this web site.
  2. Our articles are not comprehensive or contain all engineering information that may be relevant. Content provided in this web site is only general engineering information and is only intended to facilitate communication between you and your engineer. We provide no warranty or guarantee for any information provided by our website or by any other form of communication. Content is not a substitute for professional engineering advice.
  3. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information expressed or made available by third parties are those of the respective authors or distributors of such content and not of SCNZ.
  4. You acknowledge, by your use of this web site, that your use of this web site is at your sole risk, that you assume full responsibility for all risk associated with any of your use of this web site, including responsibility for all costs associated with all necessary servicing or repairs of any equipment you use in connection with your use of this web site.

Limitation of Liability
We shall not be liable – whether in contract, tort or otherwise – for any consequential, indirect or special damage or loss of any kind whatsoever suffered by you in connection with you using or relying upon this web site or its content.

Submissions
We appreciate hearing from our customers. By submitting your ideas, inventions, suggestions or other materials (your “submission”) you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display your submission (in whole or in part) worldwide and to incorporate your submission in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed without any notice or compensation to you.

Changes to Content
We reserve the right to make changes to our web site and the policies and conditions that govern the use of our web site at any time. We encourage you to review the web site and these terms regularly for any updates or changes. Your continued access or use of our web site shall be deemed your acceptance of these changes and the reasonableness of these standards for notice of changes.