Vamp Collective Terms and Conditions
These are the Terms and Conditions referred to in the Vamp Platform.
You agree that by using the Vamp Platform and/or by pressing ‘Yes’/’I accept/Submit‘, these Terms and Conditions (and any Brief, where you have accepted a Brief on the Vamp Platform) will be the Agreement governing the relationship between you and Vamp and you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
To the extent of any inconsistency between the Brief and these Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions prevail.
1. Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
The following terms in these Terms and Conditions have the meanings set out below, unless otherwise indicated:
(1) Agreement means the agreement comprising:
a. these Terms and Conditions; and
b. the Brief;
(2) Brand has the meaning given to that term in clause
(3) Brief means a brief under the Vamp Platform for the provision of Services;
(4) Confidential Information means all information disclosed (including inadvertently) by a party (Discloser) in connection with the Agreement, all information disclosed by a third party that the Discloser is required to keep confidential, including (without limitation):
a. information which, either orally or in writing, is designated or indicated as being the proprietary or confidential information of the Discloser or a third party to whom the Discloser owes an obligation of confidentiality;
b. Information derived partly or wholly from the information, including (without limitation) any calculation, conclusion, summary, computer modelling; and
c. trade secrets or information that is capable of protection at law or equity as confidential information,
and the parties agree that the terms of the Agreement are jointly owned Confidential Information;
(5) Force Majeure Event means means any of the following causes provided that they are outside the reasonable control of the affected party and could not have been prevented or avoided by that party taking all reasonable steps:
a. act of God, earthquake, cyclone, fire, explosion, flood, landslide, lightning, storm, tempest, drought or meteor;
b. war (declared or undeclared), invasion, act of a foreign enemy, hostilities between nations, civil insurrection or militarily usurped power;
c. act of public enemy, sabotage or malicious damage, terrorism or civil unrest;
d. ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste or from combustion of nuclear fuel;
e. confiscation, nationalisation, requisition, expropriation, prohibition, embargo, restraint or damage to property by or under the order of any government or government authority (except where such arises out of a failure by a party to comply with any Law); or
f. strikes, blockades, lock out or other industrial disputes other than an industrial dispute that only involves the party’s personnel.
(6) GST means Goods and Services Tax as defined in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth);
(7) Information has the meaning given to that term in cl 7.1;
(8) Instagram means the Instagram application;
(9) IPR or Intellectual Property Rights means all patents, rights to inventions, utility models, copyright and related rights, trade marks, service marks, trade, business and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, design rights, rights in computer software, database rights, topography rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights of any kind whether registrable or not in any country, including any renewals or extensions thereof;
(10) Jurisdiction means any of the following:
a.the United Kingdom – if your residential address is in the United Kingdom or any other part of Europe;
b. Singapore – if your residential address is in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia;
c. Hong Kong – if your residential address is in the People’s Republic of China, Chinese Taipei or Hong Kong;
d.the state of New York – if your residential address is anywhere in the United States of America;
e. the United Arab Emirates – if your residential address is in the United Arab Emirates; and
f.the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia – if your residential address is anywhere else in the world.
(11) Law means means any applicable statute, regulation, by-law, ordinance or subordinate legislation in force from time to time in the Jurisdiction applicable to the Agreement and the Services;
(12) Materials means material in any form, including drawings, reports, specifications, images, photos, videos and media in Graphics Interchange Format and other proprietary media types (howsoever constituted) and other documents provided by you in connection with the Agreement and the Services, including any Post made in connection with the Services;
(13) Payment has the meaning given to that term in clause 4.1;
(14) Post has the meaning given to that term in clause 3.1(1);
(15) Services means the services defined in clause 3.1;
(16) Schedule means the Schedule to this document;
(17) Taxes means GST, VAT or any sales tax that may apply in the Jurisdiction to the provision of the Services under the Agreement;
(18) Terms and Conditions means this document;
(19) Vamp means each of the following:
a. Vamp UK, being Visual Amplifiers Limited (UK Company No. 10754848 of 41 Corsham Street, London, N1 6DR, United Kingdom;
b. Vamp SG, being Visual Amplifiers Pte. Ltd (201628016K) of 100 Beach Road, #30-00, Shaw Towers, Singapore 189702;
c. Vamp HK, being Visual Amplifiers (Hong Kong) Limited (Company No. 2410206) of Level 4, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong;
d. Vamp DMCC, being Visual Amplifiers DMCC or Motivate, being Motivate Publishing, each of c/- Motivate Publishing, Level 34, Media One Tower Dubai Media City, PO Box 2331, Dubai, UAE;
e. Vamp NY, being Visual Amplifiers, Inc of 54 W. 40th St. New York, NY, 10018; and
f. Vamp Australia.
(20) Vamp Australia means Visual Amplifiers Limited ABN 13 601 198 850 of Level 6, 50 King Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; and
(21) Vamp Platform means the Vamp Phone Application as available on iOS and Android or any other platform, from time to time.
1.2 Interpretation
In the Agreement:
(1) reference to:
a. one gender includes the others;
b. the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular;
c. a person includes a body corporate;
d. a party includes the party’s executors, administrators, successors and permitted assigns;
e. a thing includes the whole and each part of it separately;
f. a statute, regulation, code or other law or a provision of any of them includes:
(i) any amendment or replacement of it; and
(ii) another regulation or other statutory instrument made under it, or made under it as amended or replaced; and
g. dollars means Australian dollars unless otherwise stated in the Quote.
(2) “Including” and similar expressions are not words of limitation.
(3) Where a word or expression is given a particular meaning, other parts of speech and grammatical forms of that word or expression have a corresponding meaning.
(4) Headings and any table of contents or index are for convenience only and do not form part of this Agreement or affect its interpretation.
(5) A provision of this Agreement must not be construed to the disadvantage of a party merely because that party was responsible for the preparation of the Agreement or the inclusion of the provision in the Agreement.
2. Application of these Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions apply to any Brief for the provision of Services offered by Vamp to you through the Vamp Platform.
3. Services
3.1 The Services
The Services may include, without limitation, the following tasks to be completed by you in connection with a Brief:
(1) posting of images, videos, “Boomerangs”, gifs or other media (including “Instagram TV” and “Instagram Stories”) on Instagram or other social media channels in respect of a nominated brand, product or other matter (Post);
(2) in connection with the Post referred to in paragraph (1):
a. using #tags, @mentions as required in the Brief;
b. not posting content which relates to certain matters, brands or topics during a designated date range or not using any #tags, @mentions etc; and
c. posting with the frequency required during a designated date range.
(the Services).
3.2 Post content
Any Posts you make must not contain anything that:
(1) is illegal or contrary to any Law or anything having the force of Law in a Jurisdiction or infringes the rights of any other person;
(2) is indecent, obscene, discriminatory or promotes, unruly, offensive or illegal behaviour;
(3) defames or disparages Vamp or a Brand; or
(4) involves the transmission of junk mail or spam.
4. Payment
4.1 Payment for Services
You will be paid a fixed amount for each Brief, regardless of the number of Posts made for a Brief. The amount to be paid will be set out on the Vamp Platform (Payment).
4.2 Payment Method
All payments made by Vamp to you will be through Paypal using the details provided by you when registering for the Vamp Platform. It is your responsibility to ensure that these details have been provided and are correct. Vamp does not bear any responsibility for payments made to an incorrect Paypal address.
4.3 Taxes
Vamp will pay an additional amount for Taxes if this is applicable to you and/or the Services in the relevant Jurisdiction. Vamp may also, from time to time, deduct withholding tax or any similar type of tax from amounts payable under cl 4.1 if required by any Law.
4.4 Application of Payments
Any payment made by the Client to Vamp may be applied by Vamp in any manner it sees fit.
4.5 Time for Payment
You will be paid upon completion of the relevant Services, subject to you not being in breach of the Agreement. If a Law requires that you provide a valid tax invoice to Vamp, you will only be paid once that tax invoice has been rendered and provided to Vamp.
5. Materials and IPR
5.1 Property in Posts
All Materials produced by you in connection with a Brief and all IPR in those Materials becomes the property of Vamp Australia immediately upon production of those Materials. Vamp will pay you for the Services in accordance with cl 4 in consideration for performance of the Services and those Materials becoming the property of Vamp Australia.
5.2 Irrevocable Assignment
You agree that you assign all of your right, title and interest in any Materials and IPR in those Materials to Vamp Australia without limitation, effective immediately upon creation.
6. Confidential Information
You acknowledge that:
(1) you may be provided with Client Materials by Vamp to assist you in providing the Services; and
(2) if you are provided with Client Materials, you agree that those Client Materials are provided to you on the basis that:
a. the Client Materials are only to be used for the provision of the Services in connection with a Brief and for no other purpose;
b. you will keep the Client Materials strictly confidential and only disclose Client Materials: when compelled by any Law, at which point you will advise Vamp of this;
c. you will take all reasonable steps to keep the Client Materials secure; and
d. you will destroy or return all Client Materials relevant to a Brief when the Services in relation to that Brief have been completed.
7. Information
7.1 Agreement to provide Information
You agree to provide certain personal information to Vamp as a condition of use of the Vamp Platform, such as your:
(1) name;
(2) address;
(3) email address;
(4) phone number;
(5) Paypal account details; and
(6) other information as might be required by Vamp from time to time, including tax status.
(together, the Information)
7.2 Representations and warranties as to Information
You represent and warrant to Vamp that the Information provided by you is, and will be at all times, true and accurate in all respects. You must notify Vamp of any change in circumstances that may cause the Information you have provided to become misleading, inaccurate or untrue. You acknowledge that Vamp will rely on the Information in performing its obligations under the Agreement and in complying with Laws (including without limitation, any taxation laws) and you hereby indemnify Vamp for any special incidental, indirect, statutory, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, including loss of profits, arising out of, or in any way related to the inaccuracy of the Information.
8. Indemnity and Limitation of Liability
8.1 No liability for Vamp
Vamp shall not be liable to you for any damages of any kind arising out of your use of the Vamp Platform or performance of Services by you, whether such damage arises directly or indirectly. You agree and understand that the use of the Vamp Platform and accepting and providing Services under a Brief is undertaken at your own risk.
8.2 Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless, Vamp, its employees, personnel and agents from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses arising out of or in any way connected with any of the following matters:
(1) the content of any Posts you may make or Services you may provide;
(2) your breach of the parameters of any Brief or the Terms and Conditions;
(3) your breach of any IPR;
(4) any misrepresentation made by you; and
(5) your violation of any Laws,
whether such matters are alleged or otherwise.
9. Other matters
9.1 Exclusivity
You agree:
(1) to provide the Services and services similar to the Services, exclusively to Vamp; and
(2) not establish a business in competition with Vamp or compete (directly or indirectly) with Vamp in providing services similar to the Services,
so long as you are signed up for the Vamp Platform and for a period of 3 months following you removing yourself from the Vamp Platform. For the avoidance of doubt, you must not engage with any Brand directly during the period noted in this clause 9.1.
9.2 Restriction on action
So long as you are signed up for the Vamp Platform:
(1) you agree to not publish any material, whether in print or electronically, make any statement or do any other thing which may tend to defame or bring into disrepute, Vamp or any brand, product or person referred to in a Brief or in respect of which you have provided Services (Brand), or otherwise say or do anything that is adverse or prejudicial to Vamp or a Brand, or permit any such thing to be done on your behalf; and
(2) you agree to indemnify Vamp for any costs, losses or liabilities arising out of a breach of paragraph (1) by you.
9.3 No relationship
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in a Brief of these Terms and Conditions or performance of obligations in relation to same constitute any relationship of employer and employee, principal and agent or partnership between you and Vamp. You must not represent yourself as being an employee, agent or partner of Vamp.
9.4 Monitoring, suspension and termination of access
Vamp reserves the right to generally monitor the Vamp Platform and all activity through the Vamp Platform. If Vamp suspects that you are engaged in suspicious, fraudulent, abusive or other activity which Vamp (in its absolute and exclusive discretion) determines is not in accordance with its values or may be detrimental to its or a Brand’s interests) it may choose to suspend or terminate your access to the Vamp Platform.
10. General
10.1 Force Majeure
Despite any other provision of this agreement, if a party is unable to perform or is delayed in performing an obligation under this agreement by reason of a Force Majeure Event:
(1) that obligation is suspended but only so far and for so long as it is affected by the Force Majeure Event; and
(2) the affected party will not be responsible for any loss or expense suffered or incurred by any other party as a result of, and to the extent that, the affected party is unable to perform or is delayed in performing its obligations because of the Force Majeure Event.
10.2 No waiver
No forbearance or delay by Vamp in exercising or enforcing its rights under the Agreement shall prejudice or restrict the rights of Vamp to exercise or enforce its rights at a later time and no waiver of any such rights or of any breach of any contractual terms shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other right or of any later breach. Vamp may only waive a right under the Agreement by doing so in writing.
10.3 Assignment
Vamp may assign its rights under the Agreement by notice to you.
10.4 No derogation
The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement will not affect any other rights or remedies available to either party.
10.5 Severability
If any provision of the Agreement is unenforceable, illegal or void, that provision is severed and the other provisions of this Agreement remain in force.
10.6 Jurisdiction
The Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance the laws of the relevant Jurisdiction. Each party irrevocably agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Jurisdiction over any claim or matter arising under or in connection with the Agreement (whether in contract or in tort).
Schedule – Additional Provisions
S 1 – Additional Provisions for Australia
11. Australia – Application
Clauses 11, 12 and 13 apply where the Jurisdiction applicable to the Agreement is Australia.
12. Australia – Privacy
12.1 Definitions
The following words have the meanings set out below, when used in this clause 14, unless context requires otherwise:
(1) Privacy Law means the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth);
(2) Privacy Policy means Vamp’s privacy policy found at http:// http://visualamplifiers.com/talent/privacy/; and
(3) Personal Information has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Law.
12.2 Personal Information
Where you provide Information to Vamp, and such Information constitutes Personal Information, Vamp does not usually, but may disclose that Personal Information to certain third parties in accordance with the Privacy Law. Otherwise, Vamp will abide by its Privacy Policy.
13. Australia – Tax
For the avoidance of doubt, in relation to cl 4.3 of the Terms and Conditions, Vamp will pay you an additional amount as required by Law on top of the Payment on account of GST.
S 2 – Additional Provisions for UAE
14. UAE – Application
Clauses 14 and 15 apply where the Jurisdiction applicable to the Agreement is the UAE.
15. UAE – Information
For the avoidance of doubt, Information supplied under clause 7 of the Terms and Conditions will be used to fulfil the obligations of Vamp and Motivate under the applicable National Media Council Media Licence.
S 3 – Additional Provisions for United Kingdom
S4 – Additional Provisions for New York
S5 – Additional Provisions for Singapore
S6 – Additional Provisions for Hong Kong