Terms and conditions
By accessing or using the website or the platform you agree to be bound by Plenti's Terms and Conditions.
Introduction
Plenti Pty Limited ABN 29 161 376 638 (Plenti, we, us, our) provides the Plenti information technology platform (Platform) via plenti.com.au and its subdomains (Website), through which its related entities including Plenti RE Limited ABN 57 166 646 635 (Plenti RE) undertake certain services, including (amongst other things) in relation to:
- loan products facilitated via the platform; and
- investments by members of the Plenti Lending Platform ARSN 169 500 449 (Investors) or of the Plenti Wholesale Lending Platform (each, a Scheme)
Plenti Services Pty Limited ABN 55 672 878 018 provides services to Plenti and you, and may, with your consent, act on your behalf for the purpose of seeking an estimate or quote for the cost of credit from the Credit Provider.
The facilitation of the above services, the Platform, the Website and the Schemes together comprise the Plenti Services.
These Terms and Conditions constitute an agreement between us and the person who accesses or has accessed our Website (you, your). By accessing or using the Plenti Services, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you should not use this Website or the Plenti Services.
We may make changes to these Terms and Conditions from time to time and will take steps to bring any such changes to your attention (such as by placing a notice of the change on a prominent position on the Website, together with the changed Terms and Conditions). It is your responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions from time to time to ensure that you agree with them, and your continued use of the Platform after any change to these Terms and Conditions will be deemed to be your acceptance of the change.
If we make a change to these Terms and Conditions between the time you make an Investment Order or Borrowing Order (together referred to as Orders) through the Platform and the time that Order is accepted or processed, the Order and any loan made further to it will be subject to these Terms and Conditions as they were before we made that change.
1. Use of Website
- You agree that you will not (either yourself or through a third party):
- use any robot, spider, screen scraper, data aggregation tool or other automatic device or process (Automated Process) to process, monitor, copy or extract any web pages on the Website, or any of the information, content or data contained within or accessible through the Website or Platform, without our prior written permission;
- use any Automated Process to aggregate or combine information, content or data contained within or accessible through the Website or Platform with information, content or data accessible via or sourced from any third party;
- use any device, software (including but not limited to introducing a virus, a worm or other malicious code), process or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or Platform or any transaction or process being conducted on or through it;
- take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of or bandwidth connecting to the Website or Platform;
- reverse engineer, reverse assemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover source code or other arithmetical formulae or processes in respect of the software underlying the infrastructure and processes associated with the Website or Platform;
- copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works of, or publicly display, any part of any content from the Website or Platform without our prior written permission;
- post or otherwise distribute information on or through the Website or Platform that would be in breach of another person’s intellectual property rights;
- post or otherwise distribute on or through the Website or Platform any of the following forms of content the nature of which may be determined by us in our sole discretion:
- defamatory, obscene, harassing, threatening or other unlawful material or information; or
- photographs containing obscene images,
- post or otherwise distribute on or through the Website or Platform any information that is confidential to a third party without their permission; or
- use the Website or Platform for any other unlawful purpose or activity.
- use any robot, spider, screen scraper, data aggregation tool or other automatic device or process (Automated Process) to process, monitor, copy or extract any web pages on the Website, or any of the information, content or data contained within or accessible through the Website or Platform, without our prior written permission;
- use any Automated Process to aggregate or combine information, content or data contained within or accessible through the Website or Platform with information, content or data accessible via or sourced from any third party;
- use any device, software (including but not limited to introducing a virus, a worm or other malicious code), process or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or Platform or any transaction or process being conducted on or through it;
- take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of or bandwidth connecting to the Website or Platform;
- reverse engineer, reverse assemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover source code or other arithmetical formulae or processes in respect of the software underlying the infrastructure and processes associated with the Website or Platform;
- copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works of, or publicly display, any part of any content from the Website or Platform without our prior written permission;
- post or otherwise distribute information on or through the Website or Platform that would be in breach of another person’s intellectual property rights;
- post or otherwise distribute on or through the Website or Platform any of the following forms of content the nature of which may be determined by us in our sole discretion:
- defamatory, obscene, harassing, threatening or other unlawful material or information; or
- photographs containing obscene images,
- post or otherwise distribute on or through the Website or Platform any information that is confidential to a third party without their permission; or
- use the Website or Platform for any other unlawful purpose or activity.
2. Plenti Profiles
- In order to use the Platform you must have a user account established via the Website unless otherwise determined by us (Plenti Profile).
- As an Investor, you may register to establish your Plenti Profile by specifying a contact e-mail address and password (Log-in Details) on the registration form on the Website.
- As a Borrower, you may establish your Plenti Profile if and when prompted to do so, generally if your loan is approved.
- You may not have more than one Plenti Profile without our express agreement, except where you wish to act in different capacities (for example, in your personal capacity and in your capacity as a trustee in which case, you may have a Plenti Profile for each capacity).
- You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and update such information by your accessing of your Plenti Profile to keep your Plenti Profile accurate, current and complete.
- We may suspend or terminate one or more of your Plenti Profiles and your access to the Website, Platform and Plenti Services if you:
- are ineligible to become an Investor or a Borrower;
- your use of the Platform breaches any applicable law or regulation, or these terms and conditions;
- establish or seek to establish more than one Plenti Profile (except where permitted by clause 2.4); or
- if any information provided during the registration process or thereafter is inaccurate, incomplete or not current.
- are ineligible to become an Investor or a Borrower;
- your use of the Platform breaches any applicable law or regulation, or these terms and conditions;
- establish or seek to establish more than one Plenti Profile (except where permitted by clause 2.4); or
- if any information provided during the registration process or thereafter is inaccurate, incomplete or not current.
- You authorise us or the Credit Provider, at any time, to use any means that we or the Credit Provider consider necessary to verify your identity with any third party providers of information using the information about you that you have provided us from time to time including information set out in your Plenti Profile. Please refer to the Privacy Statement and Electronic Communication: Consent.
- The establishment of your Plenti Profile will be conducted using secure server encryption
- Upon completion of the Plenti Profile registration process, we may:
- confirm by e-mail, to the address you have supplied, that your Plenti Profile has been established; and
- inform you of the randomly generated unique ten digit account user code (Plenti Profile Number).
- confirm by e-mail, to the address you have supplied, that your Plenti Profile has been established; and
- inform you of the randomly generated unique ten digit account user code (Plenti Profile Number).
- You are responsible for safeguarding your Log-in Details. You agree that you will not disclose your Log-in Details to any third party and that you will take sole responsibility for any actions or inactions undertaken in respect of your Plenti Profile, whether or not you have authorised such actions or inactions. You will immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your Plenti Profile.
- We recommend that you change your password on a regular basis. Passwords should contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters and numbers and/or symbols. Passwords are case sensitive and we recommend the use of passwords that combine a combination of nonobvious letters and numbers in different cases. This will help to prevent the risk of unauthorised use of your Plenti Profile.
3. Use of Platform by Investors
- In order to be an Investor and invest via the Platform, you must first apply to be a member of the Plenti Lending Platform. To apply, you must download and read the Plenti Lending Platform Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and complete the application form on the Website that is attached to or accompanying the PDS.
- If you proceed to become an Investor, your investment will be governed by the constitution of the Plenti Lending Platform (Constitution) and if there is any inconsistency between the Constitution and any part of these Terms and Conditions, then the Constitution will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.
- An instruction made by an Investor to invest funds (Investment Order) will:
- only be valid and open for processing by the Platform if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- remain valid and open for processing until the earliest of the:
- termination of the Investment Order by us in accordance with clause 3.10;
- withdrawal, or deemed withdrawal, of the Investment Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 3.11 or clause 3.14; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Investment Order in accordance with these Terms and Conditions
- only be valid and open for processing by the Platform if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- remain valid and open for processing until the earliest of the:
- termination of the Investment Order by us in accordance with clause 3.10;
- withdrawal, or deemed withdrawal, of the Investment Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 3.11 or clause 3.14; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Investment Order in accordance with these Terms and Conditions
- termination of the Investment Order by us in accordance with clause 3.10;
- withdrawal, or deemed withdrawal, of the Investment Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 3.11 or clause 3.14; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Investment Order in accordance with these Terms and Conditions
- The interest rate at which an Investor makes an Investment Order is the Investor Rate and is expressed net of any applicable fees. The gross annualised interest rate at which an Investor's funds may be matched to a Borrowing Order is the Lending Market Order Rate.
- An Investment Order will be matched at the Investor Rate or a rate higher than the Lending Market Order Rate.
- You are responsible for the information that you provide to us regarding each Investment Order that you make. Neither we nor Plenti RE will:
- enquire into the reasonableness of any Investment Order that you may make; and
- be liable for incorrect entries made by you on the Website or the Platform, including data input errors with respect to the interest rate, amount or any other parameter of an Investment Order.
- enquire into the reasonableness of any Investment Order that you may make; and
- be liable for incorrect entries made by you on the Website or the Platform, including data input errors with respect to the interest rate, amount or any other parameter of an Investment Order.
- You may not nominate any Borrower(s) to which your Investment Order is matched.
- Neither we nor Plenti RE will identify you to any Borrower(s) unless required to do so by law.
- If you make an Investment Order and subsequently we or Plenti RE reasonably suspect that you are or were, at the time of making the Investment Order, in material breach of these Terms and Conditions, we or Plenti RE may, acting reasonably, terminate your Investment Order and any additional Investment Orders made by you on the Platform.
- Unmatched Investment Orders may be withdrawn at any time by you (unless and until they have been matched to any Borrowing Order) by cancelling the relevant Investment Order for a loan via the relevant investment market link from your Plenti Profile on the Website.
- The withdrawal of an outstanding Investment Order becomes effective when your instruction to withdraw is successfully received and processed. In the event that your withdrawal is not received and processed in sufficient time, you acknowledge that your Investment Order may be processed.
- If you attempt to withdraw an Investment Order that is outstanding, you may not be able to do so if that Investment Order has been fully or partially matched with a Borrowing Order. In this case, your original Investment Order will be validly accepted and settled.
- If you request a withdrawal of any funds that are currently the subject of an unmatched Investment Order from the Platform, that instruction to withdraw funds is also deemed to be a withdrawal of the relevant Investment Order in accordance with clause 3.11.Investor reinvestment option
- If you are an Investor, you may use the function which will automatically re-invest all Borrower payments that you receive (your Reinvestment Options). Your Reinvestment Options will operate by creating an Order to invest specified payment amounts when they are received on the basis of the parameters you have selected, including the Plenti lending market in which your money should be lent and an Investment Market Order Rate. You will be informed when the Order to invest is matched.
3. Use of Platform by Investors
- In order to be an Investor and invest via the Platform, you must first apply to be a member of the Plenti Lending Platform.
- To apply, you must download and read the Plenti Lending Platform Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and complete the application form on the Website that is attached to or accompanying the PDS.
- An Investment Order will:
- only be valid and open for processing by the Platform if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- remain valid and open for processing until the earliest of the:
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Lending Order in accordance with clause 5.
- only be valid and open for processing by the Platform if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- remain valid and open for processing until the earliest of the:
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Lending Order in accordance with clause 5.
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Lending Order in accordance with clause 5.
- The interest rate at which an Investor makes an Investment Order is the Investor Rate and is expressed net of any applicable fees. The gross annualised interest rate at which an Investor's funds may be matched to a Borrowing Order is the Lending Market Order Rate.
- An Investment Order will be matched at the Investor Rate or a rate higher than the Lending Market Order Rate.
- You are responsible for the information that you provide to us regarding each Investment Order that you make. We will not:
- enquire into the reasonableness of any Investment Order that you may make; and
- be liable for incorrect entries made by you on the Website or the Platform, including data input errors with respect to the interest rate, amount or any other parameter of an Investment Order.
- enquire into the reasonableness of any Investment Order that you may make; and
- be liable for incorrect entries made by you on the Website or the Platform, including data input errors with respect to the interest rate, amount or any other parameter of an Investment Order.
- You may not nominate any Borrower(s) to which your Lending Order is matched.
- We will not identify you to any Borrower(s) unless required to do so by law.
- If we allow you to make an Investment Order and subsequently suspect that you are or were, at the time of making the Lending Order, in breach of these Terms and Conditions, we may, at our absolute discretion, terminate your Lending Order and any additional Lending Orders made by you on the Platform.
- Unmatched Investment Orders may be withdrawn at any time by you (unless and until they have been matched to any Borrowing Order) by cancelling the relevant Lending Order for a loan via the relevant investment market link from your Plenti Profile on the Website.
- The withdrawal of an outstanding Lending Order becomes effective when your instruction to withdraw is successfully received and processed by us. In the event that we do not receive and process the withdrawal in sufficient time, you acknowledge that your Lending Order may be processed.
- If you attempt to withdraw a Investment Order that is outstanding, you may not be able to do so if that Lending Order has been fully or partially matched with a Borrowing Order. In this case, your original Lending Order will be validly accepted and settled.
- If you request a withdrawal of any funds that are currently the subject of an unmatched Lending Order from the Platform, we will be deem that instruction to withdraw funds to also be a withdrawal of the relevant Lending Order in accordance with clause 3.10.
4. Use of Platform by Borrowers
- Before you are able to borrow on the Platform Plenti RE will undertake a credit underwriting process which may include a review of your credit information held with credit bureaus, analysis of your provided income and expense information and verification of your information with third parties which may include employers or other credit providers.
- If you proceed to become a Borrower, your loan will be governed by an agreement between yourself and the Credit Provider (Loan Contract). If there is any inconsistency between the Loan Contract and these Terms and Conditions, then the Loan Contract will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.
- The credit provider for your loan (Credit Provider) will be set out in your Loan Contract
- To apply for a loan:
- you must answer any additional questions that Plenti RE reasonably asks you and agree to undergo any reasonably required identity verification and credit underwriting processes;
- you must read and agree to the Privacy Statement and Electronic Communications Consent;
- we may use the information that we have collected and a credit scoring system when assessing your loan application; and
- after we have determined your loan application, we will inform you whether you are eligible to borrow through the Platform.
- you must answer any additional questions that Plenti RE reasonably asks you and agree to undergo any reasonably required identity verification and credit underwriting processes;
- you must read and agree to the Privacy Statement and Electronic Communications Consent;
- we may use the information that we have collected and a credit scoring system when assessing your loan application; and
- after we have determined your loan application, we will inform you whether you are eligible to borrow through the Platform.
- In obtaining a loan using the Platform, you may be required to pay a risk assurance charge (RAC) for your loan. The RAC may be required to be paid at the establishment of the loan or over the life of the loan or a combination of both. The RAC, if payable, will be specified in the Schedule of your Loan Contract (Loan Contract Schedule) and will be retained and paid as set out in your Loan Contract. The RAC is a non-refundable fee, and will not be refunded, rebated or returned to you in any form, even where you repay a loan early.
- The Loan Contract includes details of other fees and charges which may be payable.
- An offer made by a Borrower to borrow funds (Borrowing Order) will:
- only be valid and open for acceptance if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- be open for acceptance on the Platform by or on behalf of the Credit Provider; and
- remain valid and open for acceptance by or on behalf of the Credit Provider until the earliest of:
- i. termination of the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 4.12;
- withdrawal of the Borrowing Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 4.12 and 4.13; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 5.
- only be valid and open for acceptance if it is made in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
- be open for acceptance on the Platform by or on behalf of the Credit Provider; and
- remain valid and open for acceptance by or on behalf of the Credit Provider until the earliest of:
- i. termination of the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 4.12;
- withdrawal of the Borrowing Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 4.12 and 4.13; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 5.
- i. termination of the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 4.12;
- withdrawal of the Borrowing Order from the Platform by you in accordance with clauses 4.12 and 4.13; and
- removal or suspension of, or refusal to post, the Borrowing Order in accordance with clause 5.
- In the making of a Borrowing Order, the Borrower represents and agrees that, once the Borrowing Order is received by us or Plenti RE:
- the Borrower makes the acknowledgements and declarations set out in the Loan Contract;
- the Borrower offers to be bound, and if a Borrowing Order is matched with one or more Investment Orders or is otherwise accepted by the Credit Provider will be bound, by the Loan Contract; and
- the Borrower offers to have its direct debit payments (established separately via the Website) processed in relation to the payment of amounts under each Loan Contract.
- the Borrower makes the acknowledgements and declarations set out in the Loan Contract;
- the Borrower offers to be bound, and if a Borrowing Order is matched with one or more Investment Orders or is otherwise accepted by the Credit Provider will be bound, by the Loan Contract; and
- the Borrower offers to have its direct debit payments (established separately via the Website) processed in relation to the payment of amounts under each Loan Contract.
- Once a Borrowing Order has been matched with one or more Investment Orders, the Borrower’s offer to enter into a loan with the Credit Provider on the terms of the standard form Loan Contract will be deemed to have been accepted by the Credit Provider.
- You may not nominate any Investor(s) to be matched to any of your Borrowing Orders.
- Neither we nor Plenti RE will identify you to any Investor unless required to do so by law.
- If you make a Borrowing Order and we or Plenti RE subsequently reasonably suspect that you are or were, at the time of making the Borrowing Order, in breach of these Terms and Conditions, we or Plenti RE may, acting reasonably, terminate your Borrowing Order and any additional Borrowing Orders made by you on the Platform. We reserve the right in these circumstances to require you to immediately repay any outstanding loans that you have entered into on the Platform.
- Unmatched Borrowing Orders may be withdrawn at any time by you (unless and until they have been matched to any Investment Order) by contacting us.
- The withdrawal of an outstanding Borrowing Order becomes effective when your instruction to withdraw is successfully received and processed by us. In the event that we do not receive and process the withdrawal in sufficient time, you acknowledge that your Borrowing Order may be accepted.
- If you attempt to withdraw a Borrowing Order that is outstanding, you may not be able to do so if that Borrowing Order has been fully or partially matched with Investment Orders. In this case, your original Borrowing Order will be validly accepted.
- If you are a Borrower, you must repay the loan by making the repayments set out in the Loan Contract Schedule and may make early repayments under the Loan Contract. Refer to your Loan Contract for further details.
- If you are a Borrower and you miss a repayment or anticipate that you might be in a position that will lead to your missing a repayment you should contact us as soon as possible at contact@plenti.com.au or on 1300 768 710. We will inform you of the procedures that will apply and your options.
5. Processing of Orders
- Once an Order is matched, you will not be able to change the terms of your Order even if you had intended to withdraw your Order but failed to do so or the message to us to withdraw your Order was not received and processed by us before the Order was matched on the Platform.
- You must inform us as soon as you become aware of any errors with respect to your Plenti Profile or any calculations with respect to any Orders you have placed. We reserve the right to remove from the Platform or otherwise remedy any Orders which are the subject of any error.
- We reserve the right to refuse to post your Order on the Platform without giving prior notice to you.
- We may determine, at our absolute discretion, when the Platform is available for the posting of Orders and may suspend the Platform at any time in our absolute discretion.
- Orders may only be created using our Platform in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Any purported acceptance or confirmation made by means other than by completing the 'Confirm Order' or ‘Pre-contractual disclosure and loan contract’ screen for the relevant Order on the Website will be ineffective, unless otherwise specified by us.
6. Use of the Plenti Services
- If you need assistance with your access to and use of the Plenti Services, you may e-mail us at contact@plenti.com.au or telephone us on 1300 768 710.
- We may record telephone calls and reserve the right to monitor all information relating to your use of the Plenti Services.
- You must not:
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age, your financial employment or personal circumstances or your affiliation with any person or entity;
- use or attempt to use another person's Plenti Profile, service or system without authorisation;
- create a false identity on the Website or Platform; or
- solicit personal information from anyone or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes.
- You must not:
- You must not:
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age, your financial employment or personal circumstances or your affiliation with any person or entity;
- use or attempt to use another person's Plenti Profile, service or system without authorisation;
- create a false identity on the Website or Platform; or
- solicit personal information from anyone or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes.
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age, your financial employment or personal circumstances or your affiliation with any person or entity;
- use or attempt to use another person's Plenti Profile, service or system without authorisation;
- create a false identity on the Website or Platform; or
- solicit personal information from anyone or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes.
7. Acknowledgements, representations and warranties
- You acknowledge and agree that you:
- are solely responsible for all results of your actions and inactions from your use of the Website;
- will not allow any other person to use your Plenti Profile; and
- will not disguise or interfere in any way with the IP address of the computer you are using to access the Website or otherwise take steps to prevent us from correctly identifying the Plenti IP address of the computer you are using whilst accessing the Website.
- are solely responsible for all results of your actions and inactions from your use of the Website;
- will not allow any other person to use your Plenti Profile; and
- will not disguise or interfere in any way with the IP address of the computer you are using to access the Website or otherwise take steps to prevent us from correctly identifying the Plenti IP address of the computer you are using whilst accessing the Website.
- You represent and warrant that the information you provide as part of any registration or application process using the Website or Platform is true and correct and that you are the person whose details you have provided in connection with your Plenti Profile.
- If you represent a company or other legal entity (Entity) or are acting on behalf of persons acting jointly (Joint Account Holders), you represent and warrant that:
- you are authorised to provide information relating to those Joint Account Holder or that Entity to third parties for the purpose of identity verification (including to electronic identity verification service providers) in accordance with Plenti's Privacy Policy; and
- you are authorised to bind, and acknowledge that your access to or use of this Website, the Platform and the Plenti Services binds, those Joint Account Holders or that Entity to these Terms and Conditions.
- you are authorised to provide information relating to those Joint Account Holder or that Entity to third parties for the purpose of identity verification (including to electronic identity verification service providers) in accordance with Plenti's Privacy Policy; and
- you are authorised to bind, and acknowledge that your access to or use of this Website, the Platform and the Plenti Services binds, those Joint Account Holders or that Entity to these Terms and Conditions.
- If you are a company, you warrant that we are able to rely on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission company search of you as being up to date and correct at all times.
- If you are a trustee, you warrant that you have full power and authority to enter into these arrangements and to exercise the rights and perform the obligations under these arrangements.
8. Communications and notices
- Communications and notices to be given by you under these Terms and Conditions (other than those exchanges of information occurring in the normal operation of the Website) should be sent to us in the manner prescribed in the 'Contact' page on the Website.
9. Indemnity and limitation of liability
- You agree to indemnify and hold each other Plenti Profile holder, us and our associated companies, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees harmless from any liabilities, claims, losses or demands arising out of your fraud.
- Without prejudice to clause 9.1, you also agree to indemnify and hold each other Plenti Profile holder, us and our associated companies, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees harmless from any liabilities, claims, losses or demands arising out of:
- any falsehood or inaccuracy contained in any information you provide us; or
- another person using or trading on your Plenti Profile (whether or not authorised by you), except where it is our fault that they have done so.
- any falsehood or inaccuracy contained in any information you provide us; or
- another person using or trading on your Plenti Profile (whether or not authorised by you), except where it is our fault that they have done so.
- To the extent permitted by law:
- we do not accept liability for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of the Plenti Services except to the extent such loss or damage is caused by our fraud, negligence or misconduct. In particular, we are not liable if interference with or damage to your computer or other technological systems occurs in connection with your use of the Website;
- any condition, warranty or guarantee which would otherwise be implied by these Terms and Conditions is hereby excluded; and
- our liability to you for breach of a condition, warranty or guarantee implied by such legislation shall be limited, at our sole discretion, to the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
- we do not accept liability for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of the Plenti Services except to the extent such loss or damage is caused by our fraud, negligence or misconduct. In particular, we are not liable if interference with or damage to your computer or other technological systems occurs in connection with your use of the Website;
- any condition, warranty or guarantee which would otherwise be implied by these Terms and Conditions is hereby excluded; and
- our liability to you for breach of a condition, warranty or guarantee implied by such legislation shall be limited, at our sole discretion, to the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
- To the extent permitted by law, we will have no liability for:
- not confirming that your Plenti Profile is open or providing you with an identifier when you open your account;
- if you are a Borrower, not exercising reasonable skill and care in determining your eligibility to borrow on the Platform;
- not displaying on the Website, for withdrawing or for not matching with any prospective Investor or Borrower, any Order to invest or borrow which you submit to us; or
- any loss or damage that you may suffer because of any matter beyond our reasonable control including any: act of God; power cut; trade or labour dispute; act, failure or omission of any government or authority; obstruction or failure of telecommunication services; or any other delay or failure caused by a third party. In such an event, we reserve the right to cancel or suspend the Plenti Services without incurring any liability.
- not confirming that your Plenti Profile is open or providing you with an identifier when you open your account;
- if you are a Borrower, not exercising reasonable skill and care in determining your eligibility to borrow on the Platform;
- not displaying on the Website, for withdrawing or for not matching with any prospective Investor or Borrower, any Order to invest or borrow which you submit to us; or
- any loss or damage that you may suffer because of any matter beyond our reasonable control including any: act of God; power cut; trade or labour dispute; act, failure or omission of any government or authority; obstruction or failure of telecommunication services; or any other delay or failure caused by a third party. In such an event, we reserve the right to cancel or suspend the Plenti Services without incurring any liability.
- Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, condition, warranty, right or remedy which applies to these Terms and Conditions under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or any similar State legislation and which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified.
10. Intellectual Property
- The trade marks, service marks and logos (Trade Marks) used in this Website are our or our licensor's registered or unregistered Trade Marks. You may not copy, reproduce, adapt or transmit any Trade Mark in any form without our prior written consent and/or the consent of our licensors.
- Our Website address www.plenti.com.au is our uniform resource locator (URL). You must not make any use of this URL (or any other URL owned by us) on another website or digital platform without our prior written consent.
- The Website, its associated layout and design, are our property. No part of the Website may be copied, reproduced, adapted or transmitted in any form by any process without our prior written consent.
- You agree to assign to us any intellectual property rights (including copyright) relating to any Orders made by you on the Platform. As between us and you, we own all rights in any price data and related content on the Platform. Your registration and use of our Platform confers no rights whatsoever to the content and related intellectual property rights contained in our Platform. You agree not to copy our web pages or any content on the Platform (other than documents or notices we provide to you specifically, such as loan statements). Any unauthorised use or reproduction may be prosecuted
11. Assignment
- You may not assign any part of these Terms and Conditions without our written consent but we may assign these Terms and Conditions to any associated companies or affiliates without notice to you, as long as the assignment does not have a material adverse impact on you.
12. Platform Access
- These Terms and Conditions apply to you, through whatever means you access the Website or Platform.
- You agree to accept any other of our terms and conditions (which we will publish on our Website from time to time) giving you access to the Platform, including those relating to any Plenti mobile telephone application or for a licence to a Plenti Application Programming Interface (API). Any such terms and conditions are incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions.
13. Links to Third Party Websites
- The Website may provide links to access various other websites on the internet (Third Party Websites). We do not endorse or warrant or guarantee the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of any Third Party Websites. The inclusion of Third Party Websites does not imply any association with the Third Party Websites’ operators.
14. Severability
- In the event that any provision of these Terms and Conditions are deemed by any competent authority to be unenforceable or invalid, the relevant provision shall be modified to allow it to be enforced in line with the intention of the original text to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. The validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall not be affected.
15. Dispute Resolution
- If you want to make a complaint about Plenti you can e-mail complaints@plenti.com.au or telephone us on 1300 768 710, with brief details of your complaint and your Plenti Profile number. We will acknowledge your complaint by e-mail as soon as is practicable, generally within 1 business day. We will then investigate and send you an initial response, having had access to an officer with the authority to settle the complaint. Where appropriate, the member of staff investigating the complaint will not be any staff member who was directly involved in the subject matter of the complaint.
- We will let you know within 7 days of receiving a complaint if we need further information from you to consider your complaint. If we request further information, you will have 14 days to provide that information unless we agree to an extension of time.
- We aim to resolve all complaints within 30 days after receiving notice of a complaint.
- If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the complaint, you can contact the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) by calling 1800 931 678. AFCA operations are governed by published terms of reference, which are available at https://www.afca.org.au
16. General
- The Terms and Conditions are governed by the law in force in New South Wales, Australia. Each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts exercising jurisdiction in New South Wales, and any court that may hear appeals from any of those courts, for any proceedings in connection with these Terms and Conditions.
- In the event that any provision of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be unenforceable or invalid to any extent by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed to be modified as needed to ensure its enforceability to the maximum extent permitted under the law and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.
June 2024