Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS carefully before using this website (‘the Site’). These Terms and Conditions apply to all visits and use of the Site, as well as to the Content (as defined hereafter), information, recommendations and/or services provided to you on or through the Site. By accessing and using the Site, you agree to be bound, without limitation, to these Terms and Conditions in addition to any other law or regulation that applies to the Site, the Internet, and/or the World Wide Web. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS - PLEASE IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THIS SITE

Ownership of content

The Site is owned and operated by adidas AG, a company registered in Germany at the Commercial Register of the Fürth District Court (Amtsgericht): HRB 3868.

The Site is owned and operated by adidas AG. All of the content featured or displayed on the Site, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and software ("Content"), is owned by adidas AG and its group companies (hereinafter in this document ‘adidas’), its licensors and/or its content providers. All elements of adidas' websites, including, but not limited to, the general design and the content, are protected by trade dress, copyright, moral rights, trademark and other laws relating to intellectual property rights. Except as explicitly permitted by applicable copyright laws or under this or another agreement with adidas, no portion or element of the Site or its Content may be copied, reproduced in any form or retransmitted via any means and the Site, its content and all related rights shall remain the exclusive property of adidas or its licensors unless otherwise expressly agreed.

Copyright and Trademarks

Copyright
All copyright featured or displayed on the Site is owned by adidas. Except as may be otherwise indicated in specific documents within the Site, you are authorized to view, play, print and download documents, audio and video found on the Site for personal, informational, and noncommercial purposes only. Except as permitted by applicable copyright laws, you may not modify any of the materials and you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information or work contained on the Site. Except as authorized under the copyright laws, you are responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is available on the Site. For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other website or networked computer environment is prohibited. You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from material found on the Site.

In the event you download software (including but not limited to screensavers, icons, videos and wallpapers) from the Site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by adidas. adidas does not transfer title to the Software to you. You own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but adidas retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. Except as permitted by applicable copyright laws, you may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-readable form.

Trademarks
All trademarks, service marks and trade names of adidas used herein (including but not limited to: the word mark "adidas", "the adidas logo", "the trefoil device", "the Globe", "the 3-Stripes device") are trademarks or registered trademarks of adidas or its affiliates, unless stated otherwise. Yohji Yamamoto is a registered trademark of Yohji Yamamoto. You may not use, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or modify adidas trademarks in any way, including in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of materials on the Site, without adidas' prior written consent. The use of adidas trademarks on any other website or network computer environment, for example the storage or reproduction of (a part of) the Site in any external internet site or the creation of links, hypertext, links or deeplinks between the Site and any other internet site, is prohibited without the express written consent of adidas.

Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY LAW, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ADVICE.

ADIDAS DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION AND/OR FACILITIES CONTAINED IN THE SITE ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT, OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY LAW, ADIDAS DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTEES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THE SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, IN EACH CASE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

ADIDAS RESERVICES THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THE SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE WITHOUT INCURRING ANY LIABILITY.

Limitation of liability

YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WHERE CONDITIONS AND WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY APPLICALBLE LAW CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, ADIDAS LIMITS ITS LIABILITY WHERE AND TO THE EXTENT IT IS ENTITLED TO DO SO. OTHERWISE, NEITHER ADIDAS, NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS NOR ANY OF ITS AGENTS OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THE SITE WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIALS ON THE SITE, INCLUDING DAMAGES CAUSED BY VIRUSES OR ANY INCORRECTNESS OR INCOMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE, OR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS, EVEN IF ADIDAS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES.

Links to third parties

For your convenience and to improve the usage of the Site links to third parties are inserted. These links take you outside adidas’ service and off the adidas Site and are beyond adidas’ control. This includes links to partners that may use adidas' logos as part of a co-branding agreement. The sites you can link to may have their own website terms and privacy policy and although adidas seeks to protect the integrity of its Site, adidas is not responsible and cannot be held liable for the content and activities of these sites. You therefore visit/access these sites entirely at your own risk. Please note that these other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.

Misuse of the Site

You are prohibited from using the Site to post or transmit, any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, inflammatory, libelous, invasive of privacy, obscene, pornographic, abusive, discriminating, illegal material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, violate the rights of any party or which may otherwise give rise to civil liability or violate any law. You are also prohibited from using the Site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation.

Participation Disclaimer
From time to time adidas makes it possible to view and distribute content generated by you, for instance through e-postings and sending postcards to others persons. If you make use of this you acknowledge that adidas only acts as a passive conduit for the distribution and is not responsible and liable for the content of the communications and materials generated by you or other users. adidas reserves the right at its sole discretion to block or remove any communications and materials it believes is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, or is otherwise unacceptable to adidas.

Miscellaneous

Unsolicited ideas
adidas maintains the policy of not reviewing or accepting any unsolicited submissions of ideas, inventions, designs and/or other materials whether consisting of texts, images, sounds, software, information or otherwise (the "Materials") from persons external to adidas. You should therefore not post any Materials on the Site or send these to adidas by e-mail or otherwise.

How you can contact us
If you have any questions or comments about the Site or any of our services, please write to us: adidas AG, Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany. You may also write to our subsidiary adidas Australia, 767 Springvale Rd. Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia 3170.

Changes to the terms
adidas reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms (including the Privacy Policy) will mean you accept those changes.

Purchases
When we make it possible to order products via the Site, please also read the terms and conditions that will apply to those purchases. You can find these terms and conditions on the page where you can place your order.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions shall be exclusively governed by the laws of Australia. If any portion of these Terms and Conditions become void, it will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. The void part will be replaced by provisions that are valid and have legal effect.

Last revised June 2004

Australian Website Privacy Policy

adidas Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 80 058 390 659) (adidas Australia) understands the importance of respecting and protecting the privacy of visitors to the adidas.com.au website. Using the internet should be a fun and non-threatening experience and we want to help make it so.This Website Privacy Policy explains how personal information may be collected through the adidas.com.au website, which company in the adidas Group ("adidas") is collecting that information, where the information is held and how it will be handled.


What is "personal information"?

“Personal information” means information or an opinion, in any form and whether true or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained from, that information or opinion. It includes information such as your name, address, date of birth and phone number.

Who collects personal information through the adidas.com.au website?
The adidas Australia website (adidas.com.au) is managed and controlled by adidas AG (in Germany) and is hosted on its behalf on servers located in the USA. adidas Australia provides some content for the website, but does not ultimately manage or control the website as a whole. Personal information collected through the adidas Australia website is collected by adidas AG, stored on the USA servers and handled in accordance with adidas' Global Privacy Policy. Personal information you submit through the adidas Australia website will be transferred to the USA and by submitting the information you authorise this transfer. After its initial collection by adidas AG, adidas Australia may collect personal information about Australian website users from adidas AG. adidas Australia is required to comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) when it collects and handles that personal information.

What personal information is collected through this website?

The type of personal information that adidas AG collects about you depends on how you use this website. For example, your personal information will be collected if you:
- register as a member of the adidas.com community;
- enter a competition or promotion offered through this website;
- complete and send an email query form; or
- register or subscribe for any other services available through the website from time to time.
If you would like to be on the adidas mailing list, adidas will ask you to actively opt-in. adidas AG may also collect personal information from you about a third party, for instance if the website allows you to send an e-postcard, in which case adidas AG needs to know the name and e-mail address of the recipient. That information will only be used for the specific purpose (delivering the e-postcard) and adidas will not further contact the third party unless the third party contacts adidas.

Use and disclosure of your personal information

Your personal information may be used by adidas AG (and adidas Australia if relevant):
- for the purposes explained at the time of collection;
- to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature and to provide the relevant products or services to you (for example, to deliver prizes you may have won in a competition);
- to send you information/materials via e-mail or sms-messages about products, offers and news adidas thinks could interest you. This information may relate to products, offers and news of adidas and/or its licensees. adidas only sends you this if you have opted-in to receive adidas e-mails and/or sms messages. In case you do not want to receive any e-mails and/or sms messages from adidas anymore, please refer to the ‘Opt-out’ section below;
- to analyse visits to the website and learn about the interests of visitors in aggregate and also on a personal level to better understand your interests and needs, so adidas AG can improve its products and services and deliver to you the type of content, features and promotions that you are most interested in; and
- for any other purposes required or authorised by or under applicable law (which, in the case of adidas Australia, includes without limitation the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)).
For any of the above purposes, adidas AG may disclose your personal information to adidas Australia and other companies belonging to the adidas Group. Your personal information may also be disclosed to web site hosting partners and other parties who assist us in designing and operating the website, executing services (for instance prize fulfillment) or help us analyse collected data. These parties will only use your data for the purpose of carrying out the work as indicated and will be required to keep the information confidential.
Otherwise, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties unless:
- you have consented to that disclosure (for example, at the time you provided us with your personal information);
- the disclosure is to organisations involved in a proposed or actual transfer or sale of all or part of the business or assets of adidas Australia or adidas AG; or
- the disclosure is otherwise required or authorised by or under applicable law (which, in the case of adidas Australia, includes without limitation the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)).

Other Information

Other information that does not identify you
Some of the information that is collected by adidas-Salomon AG during your visit to this website is not personal information, because it does not reveal your identity. For example:

Site visit information

When you visit the adidas Australia website, general information is collected about your visit, including your server address, domain name, the date and time of your visit, the pages you viewed and the type of browser you used. This information is used and disclosed by adidas-Salomon AG in anonymous, aggregated form only, for purposes including statistical and web site development. You are not individually identified.
adidas-Salomon AG and adidas Australia reserve their rights to use or disclose this information to try to locate an individual where they reasonably believe that the individual may have engaged in any unlawful or inappropriate activity in connection with this website.

Cookies

adidas uses cookies to gather information about your visits to the adidas Australia website and enhance your experience. A cookie is a small string of information that a website transfers to your browser for identification purposes. The cookies used by adidas-Salomon AG do not identify individual users, although they do identify the user's Internet browser.
adidas-Salomon AG uses cookies to follow your activity on the website and that information helps adidas to understand your preferences and improve your website experience. Cookies are also used to remember your user name and password (where applicable).
Most Internet browsers are set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive them, you can adjust your Internet browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when they are being used. There are also software products available that can manage cookies for you. Rejecting cookies can however limit the functionality of the site.

Website security

While adidas-Salomon AG strives to protect its user's personal information and privacy, it cannot guarantee the security of any information that you disclose online and you disclose that information at your own risk. If you are at all concerned about sending your information over the internet, you can contact adidas Australia by post, facsimile or over the telephone. Our details are set out below.
You can help to protect the privacy of your personal information by keeping your password secret (if applicable) and by ensuring that you log out of the website when you have finished using it. In addition, if you become aware of any security breach, please let us know as soon as possible.

Third parties

Collection of personal information from third party web pages

You should be aware that when you are on the adidas Australia website, you could be directed to other websites that are not operated or controlled by adidas Australia or adidas-Salomon AG.
Please note that neither adidas Australia nor adidas-Salomon AG are responsible for the privacy or security practices of third party websites and that these sites are not covered by this Website Privacy Policy. Third party websites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. Third party websites should have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read.
Always be aware of where you may end up! Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online - for example, via message boards or chat - that information can be collected and used by people you don't know.

Opt-out

At any time you can opt-out of receiving any e-mails and/or sms messages from adidas. If you want to opt-out, please visit the registration page.

Changes to policy-contact us

Queries, access and correction
If you have any queries about this privacy policy, or if you would like to access or correct the personal information that adidas Australia holds about you, please contact the Marketing Manager, adidas Australia, 767 Springvale Rd, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia, 3170, phone +61 3 9263 5299, facsimile +61 3 9545 3070. Subject to some exceptions permitted by law, adidas Australia will generally provide you with access to the personal information that it holds about you (although a fee may be imposed).

Amendments to this privacy policy
We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes.

WARNING: Fake adidas mails

Currently, fake adidas emails are in circulation: The adidas Group would like to warn consumers that emails from the following email address adidas@adidas.org claiming that the recipient has won US$ 800,000 are fake and do not originate from the adidas Group. The adidas Group is in no way affiliated with the sender of the email. Therefore we ask all recipients of these false emails to delete them immediately and not to provide the sender of these emails with the information asked for.