Terms and conditions

Terms and Conditions for eTree

THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE LEGALLY BINDING.

PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY.

Definitions

Computershare means Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited ABN 48 078 279 277, the company that will provide the Service.

eTree means the Computershare initiative with Landcare Australia, to give an environmental incentive to holders of securities issued by eTree Members to elect to receive securityholder communications electronically.

eTree Member means an Australian securities issuer (such as a company or managed investment scheme that has agreed with Computershare or any of its related bodies corporate to participate in eTree.

eTree site means the internet site that you accessed to provide Computershare or any of its related bodies corporate with your email address.

Service means the collection of email addresses and the passing of these to those eTree Members you nominate and the notification to you of new eTree Members, as may be appropriate.General

When you access the eTree site, you will be asked to provide an email address to which communications from eTree Members can be sent electronically.

You will also be asked to nominate those eTree Members to which Computershare will provide your email address.

In addition, you will be requested to provide a telephone number for a telephone capable of receiving Short Message Services (SMS) messages. This will be used to contact you in the event an email sent to your nominated email address is unsuccessful or to notify you of other matters relating to your security holding, including but not exclusively, new services offered by Computershare or its related bodies corporate.

Computershare may forward notification either by SMS message or by email to the email address you have provided, as new eTree Members that you own securities in, are available.

Electronic Communication

You will be responsible for maintaining your computer system and for ensuring you can continue to receive electronic communications in that way. Electronic communications from eTree Members will be sent to the email address you have notified to Computershare. Therefore, you need to ensure this email address is maintained and in operation, and that you regularly check for new mail

Whether it is received or not, by transmitting an electronic message to the email address you have notified, eTree Members you have nominated will be deemed to have fulfilled their obligations in respect of the provision of that information.

Provision of the Service

Email communication is not necessarily secure and there is always a risk that email messages will be intercepted or tampered with. In agreeing that the eTree Member can communicate with you by email, you acknowledge that these risks exist and that confidentiality cannot always be assured.

Computershare does not accept any responsibility for any interception or tampering, loss of confidentiality or any errors which may take place either once an email message has been sent by you or for any losses, claims, damages or expenses which may be suffered or incurred by you as the result of any such interception, tampering or errors

Computershare reserves the right without notice to make any technical changes they consider necessary or desirable to either the Service or the eTree site where it considers that it is in your interests to do so.

Computershare aims to provide the Service and have the eTree site available in an uninterrupted manner. However, for reasons beyond the control of Computershare, the Service or the eTree site may be unavailable at any time without notice. Computershare will not be liable to you for any loss suffered by you in the event that the Service and/or the eTree site are not provided in a continuous and uninterrupted manner.

Privacy - Collection and Disclosure Statement

Computershare collects personal information through eTree. Such information may include your name, address, e-mail address and mobile telephone number.

The primary purpose of collection of personal information is to:

  • facilitate current and future use of eTree;
  • enable you to use this service to update your email details on securities registers of companies which participate in eTree;
  • enable us to contact you to provide information about issuers of securities you hold who have, subsequent to Computershare collecting your personal information, agreed to participate in eTree;
  • enable us to contact you to provide information concerning eTree;
  • enable us to contact you to inform you of new services offered by Computershare or any of its related bodies corporate.

The collection, maintenance, use and disclosure of certain personal information are governed by legislation including the Privacy Act 1988 and the Corporations Act 2001.

Personal information provided to Computershare will not be disclosed by us except to our related entities for provision of IT and other support, for the purpose of their being able to notify you of new services offered and to the issuers of securities that you may hold.

If you do not provide the personal information requested you will not be able to use eTree.

Your email address may be disclosed to issuers of securities held by you for use in relation to those securities of that issuer.

You can contact us by email at eTreehelp@computershare.com.au if you would like details of your personal information that we may hold about you or if you would like us to correct it.

To ensure the integrity and safety of your personal information, Computershare will only disclose that information if our internal procedures are satisfied. In certain cases we may charge you a fee for this service however we will inform you of any charge at the time.

Validity and Governing Law

In the event that any part of these terms and conditions is not legally enforceable, the remaining terms and conditions shall not be affected and shall remain valid and enforceable.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law applicable in Victoria. You agree that in the event of a dispute the courts of Victoria shall have jurisdiction.

Confirmations and Undertakings

In accepting these terms and conditions you will be deemed to have given the following confirmations and undertakings:

1. By registering your email address, you are requesting that the eTree Members you nominate notify you by email containing a URL, that the financial report or the notice of any general meeting of the eTree Member is available. You can then click on the URL to access the electronic version of the relevant document. This election applies only to your holding(s) in the eTree Members that you nominate and will not apply to other securities you may hold.

2. Where an eTree Member you have nominated has elected to send electronic statements, it is acknowledged and agreed that none of the following statements will be mailed (in paper form) to your registered address;

  • any statement that is required by the ASX Listing Rules or the ASTC Settlement Rules, to be given to provide details of movements in your security holding;
  • where you have already elected or where you elect in the future to have any dividend or distribution payment in respect of your security holding directly credited to a bank, credit union or building society account, the statement detailing the amount paid and any other information that may be required to be provided;
  • and where you have already elected or where you elect in the future to participate in any dividend or distribution reinvestment plan offered by the issuer, any statement to provide the information as required by the rules of the plan.

3. You are the securityholder in the eTree Member(s) you have nominated for the purposes of receiving securityholder communication electronically or you have been duly authorised to act on behalf of the securityholder;

4. Where the securityholding is in joint names, you have obtained the consent of all of the other joint holders to act on behalf of the shareholding;

5. Where your securityholding is held in the name of a company, you have been duly authorised by that company to act on behalf of the securityholder;

6. Where there are new eTree Members, you agree to Computershare notifying you in relation to these new eTree Members;

7. Where there are new services offered by Computershare or any of its related bodies corporate, you agree to Computershare notifying you in relation to these.

8. You have read and understood these terms and conditions and you agree to be bound by them.