This agreement applies to Investors. If a company wishes to register with Equitise as an Issuer, the company will need to complete an application and enter into an Issuer Agreement with us.
Investor Agreement
Warning Statement - Australia
- Crowd-sourced funding is risky. Issuers using this facility include new or rapidly growing ventures. Investment in these types of ventures is speculative and carries high risks.
- You may lose your entire investment, and you should be in a position to bear this risk without undue hardship.
- Even if the company is successful, the value of your investment and any return on the investment could be reduced if the company issues more shares.
- Your investment is unlikely to be liquid. This means you are unlikely to be able to sell your shares quickly or at all if you need the money or decide that this investment is not right for you.
- Even though you have remedies for misleading statements in the offer document or misconduct by the company, you may have difficulty recovering your money.
- There are rules for handling your money. However, if your money is handled inappropriately or the person operating this platform becomes insolvent, you may have difficulty recovering your money.
- Ask questions, read all information given carefully, and seek independent financial advice before committing yourself to any investment.
Warning Statement - Rest of The World
- If you reside - or access, receive or accept an Offer through the Platform - outside of Australia, you represent and warrant that you are able to do so without contravening any applicable legal restriction in that other jurisdiction. If this applies to you, we or the Issuer may require further information from you and/or may refuse your investment.
1. Incorporation of other terms
By agreeing to this Investor Agreement you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to:
- If you are applying to register as an Investor from Australia or if you are a citizen or resident of Australia (for individuals) or a company incorporated in Australia (for companies):
- the Equitise Privacy Policy, accessible here.
2. Registration
2.1 You will be able to access the Platform, view Offers and use our services once you have signed up with us by:
- providing us with your name and email address; and
- we have notified you of your successful sign up.
If you are an Overseas Investor (see clause 2.6 below), by signing up with us you are representing and warranting that you are able to access, receive and/or accept an Offer through the Platform without contravening any applicable legal restriction in the jurisdiction in which you reside, conduct business or receive this Offer.
2.2 Once you have signed up with us, you will be entitled to:
- view Offers and Offer documents on the Platform;
- subject to satisfying the relevant requirements to make an application, access a facility to make an application pursuant to each Offer;
- access a facility in which you will be able to make posts relating to each Offer, see posts relating to each Offer made by others and submit questions to the Q&A section in each Offer,
but you will not be able to subscribe for any shares in an Issuer under an Offer until you have registered with us as an Investor and entered into this Investor Agreement.
2.3 After you have signed up with us, you must provide the following information to register with us as an Investor:
- your full legal name and, in the case of a company, your company number or business number;
- your residential address (for individuals) or your registered office and address for service (for companies);
- if you are registering with us to use our services as a trustee of a trust, the full legal name, residential address and email address of each trustee of that trust; and
- any other information requested by us.
2.5 If you are applying to register as an Investor from Australia or if you are a citizen or resident of Australia (for individuals) or a company incorporated in Australia (for companies) and:
- a you are a retail client for the purposes of section 738D of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act) in relation to an Offer (Australian Retail Investor), you agree that the total sum of your Investments will not exceed $10,000 through Offers by the same Issuer on the Platform in any 12-month period and, in addition to the information specified in clause 2.3, to provide an acknowledgement (in the form required under the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth)) that you have read and understood the risk warning statement before applying for shares under each Offer. You acknowledge that your application will be rejected where it will result in you breaching this cap or where you have not provided this acknowledgement, respectively; or
- b you are a person who meets the requirements of section 708(8) or section 708(11) and section 761G of the Corporations Act as either a sophisticated investor or a professional investor and a wholesale client, in addition to the information specified in clause 2.3, you must also provide to us your completed Excluded Party Declaration Form (and Accountant's Certificate, if applicable) providing details of your exclusion from the requirement for disclosure in accordance with Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act.
2.6 If you are applying to register as an Investor from outside of Australia, or if you are not a citizen or resident of Australia (for individuals) or a company incorporated in Australia (for companies),(Overseas Investor), you are solely responsible for ensuring that it is lawful for you to access and receive Offers and to make Investments. Each Investor who is, or becomes, an Overseas Investor indemnifies Equitise and its employees, officers, agents and contractors from and against (without limitation) any losses, expenses, claims or costs (including out of pocket expenses and charges for our time) incurred as a result of the Overseas Investor’s failure to comply with this clause 2.6.
2.7 If the application to register as an Investor is made for a company, the application must be made by a director of the company. By entering into this agreement, the person confirms that he or she is authorised to make the application and enter into this Investor Agreement on behalf of the company and that the company is bound by the terms of this Investor Agreement. The person must provide in relation to the person as well as in relation to the company the information in clause 2.3 and, if applicable, 2.5, and any other information requested by us to verify the person’s authority to make the application and enter into this Investor Agreement on behalf of the company.
2.8 If the application to register as an Investor is made by the trustees of a trust, each trustee who makes this application confirms that he or she is authorised to make the application and enter into this Investor Agreement in his or her capacity as a trustee of the trust under the terms of the trust. To avoid doubt, each such trustee must provide the information in clause 2.3 and, if applicable, 2.5 (as applicable), and any other information requested by us to verify the person’s authority to make the application and enter into this Investor Agreement.
2.9 In addition to the information required under clauses 2.3 to 2.8, you must provide us with any other identification and anti-money laundering information that we may request from you, including any information for the identification of the Investor and information about the sources of funds being provided by you in relation to any Investment.
2.10 While you are registered with us as an Investor, you must keep information provided to us under clauses 2.3 to 2.9 up to date and notify us of any changes.
2.11 By completing the process of registration as an Investor, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old (for individuals).
2.12 You may only sign up with us once. You must not create, or attempt to create, more than one sign up for yourself by using different email addresses or other identifying information.
2.13 You acknowledge that the Offers are not offers to the public in the United States, Canada or Japan, or any other jurisdiction where such an offer may be unlawful or require the Issuer or Equitise to be registered or take any other step under the securities laws or otherwise of such jurisdiction.
3. Checks on Issuers
3.1 We (or our third party service providers) will undertake limited preliminary checks on each Issuer and its directors and senior managers before we permit the Issuer to raise funds through our Platform. These checks (Checks) will be undertaken within 10 business days before the Issuer’s Offer goes live on the Platform and:
- where the Issuer is an Australian company, consist of (at a minimum):
- checks of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) website to confirm that the Issuer is registered, and the directors and shareholders are as we have been advised;
- checks to confirm the registered address and principal place of business of the Issuer;
- checks of the ASIC Personal Name Register for previous involvement of individuals with companies that have become insolvent;
- checks of the ASIC Enforceable Undertakings Register;
- checks of the ASIC Banned and Disqualified Register; and
- general internet searches for evidence of any director, officer or senior manager being bankrupt or involved with insolvent companies or the Issuer being involved in any litigation or dispute.
Where the Issuer is not an Australian company, we will use reasonable efforts to carry out equivalent checks in relation to the above in the home jurisdiction of the Issuer.
3.2 If we consider that our Checks have disclosed any fact that we consider raises areas of concern about the Issuer or its directors or senior managers, we reserve the right to refuse to permit that Issuer to raise funds through our Platform or to withdraw any Offer at any time.
3.3 In addition to our Checks, we may, in our sole discretion and at any time (including after an Offer has gone live on our Platform), consider that an Issuer is not suitable for raising funds through our Platform, and accordingly refuse to permit that Issuer to use our Platform and our services to raise funds or withdraw any Offer at any time. This may arise due to, for example, our view of the interests and appetite of our investors, or the relative attractiveness of the proposed fundraising of the Issuer in relation to other offers or potential offers at that point in time.
3.4 We will apply our Fair Dealing Policy (a copy of which is available at your request) when considering whether an Issuer is suitable for raising funds through our Platform.
3.5 We do not monitor the Issuers or their directors and senior managers after we have undertaken our Checks (including, without limitation, during the period the Offer is live on the Platform).
3.6 Our Checks, or the fact that any company is permitted to use our Platform and our services, will not provide any guidance as to the performance of any Issuer or the results of any Investment in that Issuer and you should not rely on them when making any decision to invest or taking any action of any kind. We do not verify the content of any Offer material and we make no warranties or representations (whether express or implied) related to the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the content of any Offer material.
4. Investment Process
4.1 The offer period (Offer Period) for each Offer will be the period starting on the date on which the Offer is open for Investment on the Platform and ending on the earlier of:
- the period of three months starting from when the Offer was made ends;
- the closing date specified in the Offer;
- the date and time the Issuer withdraws the Offer. The Issuer may withdraw the Offer on notification to us, if required by us or as a result of a material adverse change affecting the Offer;
- the date and time Equitise considers that the Issuer has met its maximum level of investment set out in its Offer; and
- where the Issuer is an Australian company, the date and time the continued publication of the Offer document on the Platform is prohibited by section 738Q of the Corporations Act.
For the avoidance of doubt, where the Issuer is an Australian company, the Offer Period does not include any part of that period while the Offer is suspended under section 738X of the Corporations Act.
4.2 An Issuer may, in its sole discretion, refuse to permit any Overseas Investor from accepting its Offer, or restrict or place conditions on Overseas Investors wishing to accept its Offer.
4.3 An Offer will be accompanied by an investment agreement between the Issuer and each Investor (Investment Agreement). You will be able to accept an Offer by entering into the Investment Agreement (which you can do by signing the Investment Agreement electronically by typing in your name in the signature field provided (electronic signature) during the Offer Period.
4.4 If you are accepting an Offer as a trustee of a trust, by signing the Investment Agreement by electronic signature you represent and warrant to us that all the trustees of that trust have approved the Investment and that you are duly authorised to take any step to effect the Investment under the terms of the trust.
4.5 The Investment Agreement will set out the terms and conditions of your Investment, including the issue of shares to you or, if applicable, the Nominee by the Issuer in accordance with the Investment Agreement. By entering into the Investment Agreement (via electronic signature), you agree to its terms, including the obligation to pay the relevant subscription price for the shares in the Issuer(Subscription Amount).
4.6 When you accept an Offer, you must pay the Subscription Amount by direct debit. You will be directed to a payment page which will authorise us to debit the Subscription Amount from your nominated Australian bank account (Nominated Bank Account). Unless otherwise stipulated, the Subscription Amount will be debited from your Nominated Bank Account within three days from the date you enter into the Investment Agreement. You must ensure that you have sufficient funds in your Nominated Bank Account to pay the Subscription Amount from the date you enter into the Investment Agreement to the date we debit the Subscription Amount from your Nominated Bank Account.
4.7 Payment of the Subscription Amount to our trust account in accordance with this Investor Agreement and the Investment Agreement will be a full discharge of your obligation to the Issuer to pay that amount.
4.8 You irrevocably authorise us to:
- hold the Subscription Amount in our trust account, in accordance with clause 7; and
- pay the total Subscription Amount to the Issuer (without interest, and less any fees owing by the Issuer to us on completion of the Investment (Completion).
To avoid doubt, the irrevocable authority given in this clause 4.8 survives termination or suspension of your registration with us.
4.9 Completion will take place within 14 days after the end of the Offer Period and/or otherwise in accordance with the Investment Agreement.
4.10 If you are an Australian Retail Investor, you have an unconditional right to withdraw an application made pursuant to an Offer within five business days of making the application in accordance with the method specified here (cooling off right). If you decide to exercise your cooling off right, we will return the relevant Subscription Amount to you to your Nominated Bank Account (without interest) as soon as practicable.
4.11 Equitise works on an all or nothing basis. This means that if an Issuer does not meet the target level of investment sought by the Issuer, specified in the Offer, (target level of investment) by the closing date specified in the Offer, or the Offer is withdrawn or terminated before the closing date specified in the Offer:
- Completion will not take place;
- the Investment Agreement entered into between the Issuer and the Investor will be cancelled and be of no effect; and
- we will return the relevant Subscription Amount to you to your Nominated Bank Account (without interest) within 14 business days of us notifying you that the Offer was not successful.
4.12 If an Issuer meets or exceeds its target level of investment but the total aggregate subscription amount actually received by Equitise by all investors under the Offer (Total Amount Paid) is less than the target level of investment (which may happen if any investor withdraws or fails to pay its subscription amount):
- you will still be required to invest if the Total Amount Paid is at least 90% of the Issuer’s target level of investment, and clause 4.6 will apply; or
- if the Total Amount Paid is less than 90% of the Issuer’s target level of investment, the Issuer may cancel the Investment Agreement, and we will return the Subscription Amount to you (without interest).
4.13 You may only invest in an Investment for yourself in your own name and must ensure that all Investments made through the Platform are made on your own behalf. If you are investing in an Investment as a trustee of a trust, you must ensure that all Investments made through the Platform are made in your capacity as a trustee of that trust.
4.14 We will hold the Subscription Amounts in a trust account with a registered bank or a bank which is an authorised deposit-taking institution in Australia (as we determine considering the origin of the funds) (in either case, Bank). You waive any liability the Bank may have to you arising out of a breach of trust by us (or any of our employees, agents or representatives). You acknowledge that the Bank is entitled to rely and act on any instruction from us relating to any amounts held in our trust account (including any Subscription Amount) without any further enquiry or liability.
5. The Equitise nominee arrangement
5.1 This clause 5 applies where, as part of an Offer, your shares are required to be held by the Nominee.
5.2 The Nominee acknowledges that it will hold legal title to your shares as bare trustee for you in accordance with this Investor Agreement and the relevant Investment Agreement. You will enjoy full beneficial ownership of the shares. This will be a separate bare trust from any other trust of shares or other property for any other investors in that Offer or any other offer. In this clause 5, “shares” includes any bonus or additional shares or financial products issued in relation to your original shares by the Issuer.
5.3 As a bare trustee, the Nominee will act in relation to the shares in accordance with your instructions, including as to transfer of the shares. The ability to transfer shares (or an interest in the shares) may, however, be restricted by your agreements with the Issuer under the Investment Agreement or by the constitutional documents of the Issuer.
5.4 If your arrangements with the Issuer permit a transfer of the beneficial interest in your shares, prior to any such transfer (direct or indirect), you must give us notice in writing, provide us any information we require in relation to the transferee and obtain and deliver to us a binding agreement on the part of any transferee to comply with the terms of this Investor Agreement (in relation to the shares and the trust), the Investment Agreement and any other binding arrangements with the Issuer, in a form acceptable to us and to the Issuer.
5.5 All instructions or directions given by you to the Nominee must be consistent with the terms of this Investor Agreement and the Investment Agreement and you must not instruct or direct the Nominee to act in a manner that is inconsistent with those terms or may cause the Nominee to breach any law. Instructions to the Nominee must be in a form acceptable to us. Neither we nor the Nominee will have any liability for following any instruction we believe to be genuine.
5.6 We may act as agent for you in respect of the Nominee holding your shares including in relation to giving any notice or taking any step in relation to your shares. You appoint us generally to administer the trusts to which the Nominee is subject.
5.7 You authorise us, as agent, without any need for further instructions, to direct the Nominee to attend to all non discretionary details in connection with the sale, exchange, substitution, purchase, transfer and other dealings with the shares of any kind.
5.8 In relation to discretionary corporate actions (such as voting the shares), we will use reasonable efforts to keep you informed and to obtain your instructions and will instruct the Nominee to act in accordance with such instructions where practicable and where legally able to do so. If you do not give instructions in the time requested, you authorise Equitise to give any instruction to the Nominee on your behalf without liability for Equitise or the Nominee of any kind, including where they take no action. You acknowledge that as shares may be held together with shares held for other investors, you may not benefit from certain corporate actions to the same extent you might have benefited if your shares were registered in a separate parcel.
5.9 Any income or payment received by the Nominee in relation to the shares will be held on the same trust and paid to you as soon as reasonable practicable, subject to any withholding required by law in any jurisdiction.
5.10 The Nominee will maintain records showing ownership of your shares and we will direct it to comply with all laws in relation to assurance audit and provision of the nominee service. You agree to the Nominee providing all information in relation to its holding of your shares through an electronic facility available on a substantially continuous basis, or otherwise in accordance with applicable law.
5.11 You must indemnify us and the Nominee and our employees, officers, agents and contractors from and against any losses, expenses, claims or costs (including, without limitation, out of pocket expenses, legal expenses on a solicitor and own client basis, and charges for our time) incurred in relation to the holding of your shares, other than the ordinary day-to-day administrative costs of administering the Nominee arrangement.
5.12 In addition to any other requirement under this Investor Agreement, you must provide us with any other identification that we may request from you at any time for the purposes of instructing the Nominee in relation to your shares.
5.13 We have no responsibility or liability with regard to your tax status or position in any jurisdiction.
5.14 Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to Equitise in clauses 10, 11, 13 and 15 of this Investor Agreement (or ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’) includes the Nominee.
5.15 In addition to any other limitation under this Investor Agreement, the liability of the Nominee is not an unlimited or personal liability and instead is limited to the property from time to time belonging to the specific bare trust for which it is party to this Agreement.
5.16 The Nominee can terminate the nominee arrangement by giving three months’ written notice to you and to the Issuer, or shorter notice where any change of law or circumstances make it illegal or unduly onerous (in the opinion of Equitise) to continue to hold the shares. Following termination, the Nominee must transfer the shares to you or your nominee (if legally able to do so).
6. Syndicates
6.1 A group of Investors (such as an angel group) may register with us as a Syndicate.
6.2 If you register as an Investor linked to a Syndicate, the arrangements for each investment you make will be subject to the structure of the Syndicate and the specific agreements between that Syndicate and us.
6.3 If your Syndicate invests through a vehicle (whether a nominee company, limited partnership or otherwise), you are still bound by this Investor Agreement and the terms of your Investment Agreement in your own right. However, you may nominate your Syndicate vehicle to take title to your (or your interest in the) shares issued by the Nominee.
6.4 Where, as part of an Offer, your shares are required to be held by the Nominee, you may still nominate your Syndicate vehicle to hold your interest in the shares under the bare trust arrangement with the Nominee.
7. Subscription amount
7.1 When you enter into the Investment Agreement (via electronic signature) and pay the Subscription Amount, we will hold the Subscription Amount in our trust account on trust for your benefit until the Subscription Amount is paid in accordance with clause
7.2 Subscription Amount's in respect of Australian Retail Investors will be held in accordance with the requirements set out in Part 6D.3A of the Corporations Act.
7.3 We will hold all funds in our trust account separately from any of our operating accounts and will only use those funds to:
- pay the Subscription Amount on your behalf to the Issuer (without interest, and less any fees owing by the Issuer to us) on Completion; or
- return to you the Subscription Amount (without interest) if Completion does not take place or if you exercise your cooling off right in clause 4.10.
8. Fees
8.1 Except as provided in this clause 8, we will not charge you any fees for the services provided to you in accordance with this Investor Agreement. We will notify you in advance if we propose to charge you any other fee for our services.
8.2 We will retain, as an administration fee, all interest that is earned on the Subscription Amount in relation to any Investment made by you for the period that it is held in our trust account.
8.3 If, as part of an Offer, your shares are required to be held by the Nominee, you must pay a Success Fee to Equitise on a successful Exit Event (unless payment of such Success Fee is waived by Equitise). For the purposes of this clause 8.3:
Exit Event means:
- a sale of shares in the Issuer (in one transaction or a series of transactions) under which the purchaser and its "associates" (as defined in the Corporations Act) together acquire an interest in the Issuer giving (directly or indirectly) the ability to control 50% or more of the voting rights of the Issuer;
- a sale or other disposal of assets of the Issuer; or
- any other event which in our reasonable opinion is equivalent to the above or otherwise provides for a return of your investment.
Success Fee means a fee equal to 7.5% (or such other percentage specified in the Offer materials) of the difference between the Investor’s investment in the Issuer under the Offer and the gross consideration or payment received by the Investor as a result of the Exit Event (provided this figure is positive). You authorise us to deduct and retain any Success Fee payable from any amount received by the Nominee on an Exit Event.
8.4 We will disclose the details of the fees that we charge the Issuer in respect of each Offer, including the quantum of any percentage based success or monitoring fees and any fixed fees and the circumstances in which it will be received. Such fees will be disclosed in the Offer Materials.
9. Equitise and its associated persons
9.1 You acknowledge that Equitise, or any person associated with us (including our directors, employees or any other person we have a business relationship with) (associated person) may invest in any Issuer, or raise funds on the Platform. If Equitise, or its associated person invests in an Issuer, or raises funds on the Platform, and you become aware of this, you may not rely on this fact when making a decision whether to invest. You confirm that any decision made by you to invest is not based on any representation, information, action, omission or otherwise of Equitise or its associated persons.
9.2 If Equitise, or any associated persons of Equitise raises funds through the Equitise Platform, we will comply with the following process (subject to any applicable laws):
- an independent third party, who is acceptable to the relevant regulatory body, will be appointed by Equitise to review the information provided as part of the Offer and to monitor the Offer process to ensure that this is carried out in the same manner as other Offers through the Equitise platform; and
- the fact that the offer is of shares in Equitise or a person associated with Equitise will be specified on the relevant Offer page.
10. Our liability to you
10.1 We do not give you any investment, legal, tax, financial or other advice or recommendation in connection with your registration or any Investments conducted through the Platform.
10.2 You are responsible for any decision you make to Invest, or to not Invest, in any Issuer and you acknowledge that you do so, having independently made all such investigations and taken all such professional advice as may be necessary to enable you to make an informed and independent decision. We have no liability to you under or in connection with that decision (whether in contract, tort including negligence, or otherwise) unless such liability primarily arises out of the fraudulent actions of Equitise or wilful breach by Equitise of its obligations expressly provided for in this Investor Agreement.
10.3 We are not responsible for any content or material that is provided or which may be provided at any time to you in connection with any Offer. We make no representation or warranty in relation to the completeness or accuracy of any information contained in the Offer materials on the Platform.
10.4 You are responsible for any content you post on the Platform.
10.5 The Platform includes a Q&A section in relation to each Offer, which enables you to submit questions to the Issuer. You may only use the Q&A section in relation to any Offer for lawful and legitimate purposes, and you must not post, transmit or share information on the Platform that is unrelated to the Offer, or that you do not own or have permission to display, publish or post, or any content or material that may be in violation of any law. We make no warranties or representations and assume no liability in respect of the content of any of the Issuer’s responses under the Q&A section in relation to the Offer.
10.6 Equitise and its employees, officers, agents and contractors are, to the extent permitted by law, not liable in respect of any failure or delay in providing any of our services (including Syndicate Services) or our Platform unless such liability primarily arises out of the fraudulent actions of Equitise or wilful breach by Equitise of its obligations expressly provided for in this Investor Agreement.
11. Indemnity
You indemnify Equitise and its employees, officers, agents and contractors from and against (without limitation) any losses, expenses, claims or costs (including out of pocket expenses and charges for our time) incurred as a result of your failure to comply with this Investor Agreement or any of your obligations in relation to an Offer or Investment.
12. Independent trustee
The liability of any independent trustee under this Investor Agreement is not an unlimited or personal liability and instead is limited to the funds from time to time belonging to the trust on behalf of which he or she has entered into this Agreement, in the proper course of the administration of that trust. In this clause 12, an independent trustee is an Investor who has signed this agreement in his or her capacity as the trustee of a trust and who is not a beneficiary of the trust nor has any right to, or interest in, any of the assets of the trust except in his or her capacity as trustee of that trust.
13. Information
You authorise us to provide your information to the relevant Issuer when you make an Investment through the Platform. You also authorise us to provide information that we hold about you, or this Investor Agreement, to Westpac and to any government, statutory or regulatory authority at the reasonable request of Westpac or that authority or for the purposes of complying with any applicable law or regulation. You acknowledge that Westpac or the relevant authority may disclose that information to third parties, where required by law to do so
14. Termination
14.1 You may terminate your registration at any time by notifying us by email at [email protected]
14.2 If your registration is terminated, or suspended, you will not be entitled to:
- view any detailed information of the Offers;
- submit any questions to the Q&A section in an Offer; or
- subscribe for any shares in an Issuer under an Offer.
14.3 We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to refuse registration, terminate or suspend your registration, or refuse to permit you to invest in any Issuer. If your registration has been terminated or suspended after you have signed an Investment Agreement, you will continue to be bound by the Investment Agreement and required to invest.
15. Dispute resolution
15.1 You may refer any complaint in relation to Equitise or the services we provide to us directly or to:
- in Australia, Financial Ombudsman Service Limited, an external dispute resolution scheme approved by ASIC, at [email protected], by telephone at 1800 367 287, or by post to GPO Box 3, Melbourne VIC 3001.
16. General
16.1 We may amend this Investor Agreement from time to time. We will notify you of any amendments that substantively affect any of your rights at the email address you provide to us, on our Platform, or by other means. If you do not accept any such amendment, you must cease using the Platform and our services.
16.2 We are not liable to you for any delay in performing, or failure to perform, any of our obligations under this Investor Agreement to the extent caused by an event that is beyond our reasonable control.
16.3 We may assign, subcontract or transfer any right or obligation under the Investor Agreement to any person. Your registration is personal to you, and none of your rights or obligations under this Investor Agreement, in connection with your registration, or your activities on our Platform may be assigned, subcontracted or transferred to any other person.
16.4 This Investor Agreement is effective once you have confirmed your agreement to it (via electronic signature in the form provided below). You agree for the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth), as applicable, to be bound by any agreement reached through electronic means.
16.5 Any notice from us to you in respect to this Investor Agreement, your registration or your activities on the Platform may be given by email to the address you provide to us, or through the Platform.
16.6 Any notice from you to us or to the Nominee may be given by email to [email protected].
16.7 The Investor Agreement is:
- if the Issuer is a company incorporated in Australia, governed by the laws of New South Wales and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
16.8 Any illegality, unenforceability or invalidity of a provision of the Investor Agreement does not affect the legality, enforceability or validity of the remaining provisions of the Investor Agreement.
16.9 The rights and obligations of the parties under this Investor Agreement do not merge on completion of any transaction contemplated by this Investor Agreement.
16.10 Payment Information is transmitted securely using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology and processed through a secure third party payment gateway (PCI DSS Compliant). The platform does not store your payment information (such as debit card information) on the Platform servers or databases.