Terms and Conditions
If you change your mind shortly after applying for membership, you may have an opportunity to cancel. You will need to let us know in writing within 48 hours of signing the agreement for it to be effective. We will charge the joining fee and fair amounts for fitness services we have already provided. If you wish to end your membership otherwise, different terms apply as set out in these Terms.
By signing on behalf of a child, the parent or guardian agrees to be responsible for ensuring the child exercises safely, pays their membership fees and otherwise follows these Terms.
The health and safety of members is important to us. This clause sets out some of the things we require of you to help achieve that objective.
A safe and effective exercise program is dependent upon accurate health and fitness profiling. It is therefore essential that you tell us in writing all relevant personal health and fitness information both before (through our pre-exercise questionnaire or otherwise) and during the course of any exercise program or other activity.
You promise that information you disclose to us will be true and accurate and not misleading in any way. You must not attend and use the facilities and services whilst you are suffering from any illness, disease, injury or other condition that could present a risk to the health or safety of other members and guests or yourself.
If you happen to use the facilities and services before disclosing relevant health information to us, you promise that you are in good physical condition and you do not know of any reason why you may not be able to exercise safely. If you feel unsure that you can make this promise, we ask that you do not use the facilities and services until we have completed your health and fitness profile.
We will provide you with an instructional consultation with a staff member before using the facilities and services which you must attend before use. In any case, you promise to take care when using the facilities and services and make sure that you use the facilities and services including equipment appropriately and safely. If you are ever not sure how to operate any equipment properly, please ask a staff member before you use it.
We display rules that apply to everyone using the facilities and services in order to promote health and safety and the protection of property (our Rules). A copy of our Rules are displayed on our website. Please make sure that you read our Rules carefully and ask us if there is anything you are not sure about.
We may occasionally update our Rules to further promote health and safety or to make other improvements. We will seek to tell you of any changes as set out below, though we expect you to keep familiar with the current version of our Rules by reading our website on a regular basis.
If you break our Rules, the response we take will be at our reasonable choosing and we will try to exercise this right fairly by giving you a warning if we consider the failure is less serious. In this regard however you acknowledge that health and safety of all users and protection of property is very important. Accordingly, if we reasonably consider the failure to follow our Rules is serious or persistent we may suspend or even cancel your membership with immediate effect.
We can refuse you entry to the facilities and services or cancel your membership immediately if you behave in a way that is seriously risky or inappropriate, such as if you threaten or harass others, deliberately or recklessly damage equipment or facilities or if you use or distribute illegal or performance enhancing drugs.
You agree to follow any reasonable direction of a member of our staff relating to health and safety or any other matter.
From when you apply for membership we will have access to personal information about you, such as information relating to your health. We will protect this information and only use, disclose or deal with this information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. The latest version of the Privacy Policy will be available on our website.
You promise to tell us promptly if you change your address, phone number, email, bank account, credit card information for payment or if there is a change to any other personal information relevant to your membership with us. This includes any matters that affect the health or safety of you or others.
You may temporarily suspend your membership for travel of more than two consecutive weeks or medical reasons if all amounts payable for your membership are paid up to date and, if your membership is for a Fixed Term, it has more than two weeks left to run. You will need to produce satisfactory supporting documentation when you apply for a suspension. You must apply for a suspension as soon as possible after you become aware of the relevant circumstances. We are entitled to charge you the suspension fee for processing your application. In any 12 month period, we are not obliged to suspend your membership on more than two occasions or for more than three months in total. While your membership is suspended, the term will be extended and we will freeze any direct debit payments that fall within the suspension period.
For the purposes of any requirements in this agreement to tell us in writing or give us written notice, we will accept notification by email.
Your membership is Ongoing, it will continue after the Minimum Term unless you tell us in writing within 21 days before the expiry of the Minimum Term that you do not wish your membership to continue. We will seek to remind you before this time.
If your membership is Ongoing and you have not told us that you wish your membership to end at the expiry of the Minimum Term, your membership will continually roll over in 12 week minimum terms and 21 days notice is required to cancel is required prior to the expiry of the most current minimum term.
Where neither you nor we terminate this agreement, any unpaid fees will need to be paid by you and in addition to our other rights we may have including our taking action to recover the outstanding payments.
You can cancel your membership by written notice to us if we breach any of our obligations under this agreement and we have not remedied that breach within a reasonable time after you have given us a written request that we do so.
No fees will be applicable for cancelling in accordance with this clause apart from, to the extent not impacted by our breach, the joining fee, membership fees for the time you have been a member calculated on a pro-rata basis and any outstanding fees for other services already supplied to you.
Please note that the programs supplied to our members are fully modifiable in the event that you have an injury or weakness we will work with you alongside your allied health professional (physiotherapist, osteopath etc) to help you regain strength and mobility back to your life. We successfully work at improving the lives of many clients with conditions such as Scoliosis, Endometriosis, Postpartum training along with rehab from injuries or surgery and many more.
You can end your membership by telling us in writing if you cannot exercise for the remainder of Minimum Term due to physical incapacity (i.e surgery) and you produce supporting documentation to our reasonable satisfaction.
In that event, you will only be charged the joining fee, membership fees for the time you have been a member calculated on a pro rata basis and any outstanding fees for other services already supplied to you.
In addition to our other rights under this agreement, we can terminate your membership by written notice to you if you fail to act in accordance with any obligation under this agreement and if capable of remedy you do not remedy the failure within a reasonable time of us giving you written notice requiring you do so. However, we will not seek to end your membership in this way if you have failed to make a payment and we are also in breach of a material condition of this agreement. If we cancel this agreement under this paragraph you will be liable for the joining fee, membership fees for the time you were a member, the cancellation fee and any other fees payable for further fitness services already supplied.
The fees you have to pay are specified in the details. This clause 8.3 sets out some further rights and obligations that apply in relation to particular fees.
If you fail to make any payment when due, we can suspend your membership and refuse you access to the facilities and services until all outstanding amounts have been paid in addition to our other rights under these Terms. Fees and charges continue to accrue during the suspension.
If your membership is for a Fixed Term you can pay your membership fees up front when you submit the membership form, or you can elect to pay by equal periodic instalments.
If your membership is Ongoing, membership fees must be paid periodically in advance until your membership ends.
The cancellation fee based on a payout figure equal to the membership fees that you would have paid for the remainder of the Minimum Term as at the cancellation date less 50%.
We will not increase the membership fees during the first Minimum Term. However, we may increase your membership fees or any other fees with effect any time after that. We will make a fair effort to tell you at least 60 days before by writing to you at the last address you gave us (which may be an email address). Where we have done so, you authorise us to increase any debits from your nominated account in line with this increase. We will not use this right to vary the terms of any special offer which applies to you.
We are entitled to deduct all fees and charges that you must pay under this agreement from any refund we give you. The National Credit Code does not apply to this agreement.
By nominating a credit or debit account, you are authorising us to deduct from that account all fees and other charges for which you may be responsible under this agreement. Accordingly, it is essential that you keep your account details up to date.
You are responsible for making sure that there is enough money in your nominated account on the usual payment day or the next working day if that falls on a day when banks do not process payments.
Any bank fees charged to us because of a rejection when we attempt to collect payments from you may be charged directly to you the Direct Debit Provider.
If a payment remains outstanding, you agree that, unless we are in breach of our obligations under these Terms, we (or the Direct Debit Provider) may continue to debit the nominated account for the total amount due without notice to you.
If you choose to pay fees by direct debit, then this will be through the Direct Debit Provider named in the details. The Direct Debit Provider may be us (if we are authorised) or a third party provider who is not a party to this agreement and whose only role is to provide direct debit services.
Those terms and conditions are entirely separate to this agreement and you may have rights and obligations under those terms and conditions. As such, the Direct Debit Provider acting in its capacity as such has no liability to you in connection with your involvement in exercise activities under this agreement.
There may be other services offered at the facilities that do not form part of your Membership Type but are available for you to purchase separately. These are not part of the services provided under your membership and you will be advised at the time if any additional terms apply to these services.
We may need to make changes to this agreement including our Rules during your membership. However, we will always try to do this in a way that is fair by giving you an opportunity to cancel your membership if you do not agree to the change as described in this clause below.
We will tell you in writing of the proposed change in advance and tell you the date that it will come into effect. This effective date will be at least 30 days from the date of our notification unless it is impractical for us to do so. Your membership will be amended with effect from the effective date. If however, you are adversely affected by the change, you may cancel your membership without payment of a cancellation fee by telling us in writing before that date. Please note you cannot cancel under this clause if we are required to make the change in order to comply with a law or any direction of a competent authority.
ACL: The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) contained in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA) provides certain guarantees in sections 60 to 62 (statutory guarantees) which generally require that services supplied to you:
Permitted exclusion: However, the CCA permits a supplier of recreational services to ask you to accept some limitations on those statutory guarantees. Accordingly, to the extent permitted by section 139A of the CCA, you acknowledge and agree that we exclude all liability to you for death or injury resulting from a failure by us to comply with any statutory guarantee.
In the previous sentence, “injury” means:
Reckless conduct: This exclusion of liability does not apply if you have suffered any significant personal injury that is caused by our reckless conduct (within the meaning given to those terms by the CCA).
Please note that nothing in this agreement excludes, restricts or modifies any term, condition, warranty, guarantee, right or remedy (including under a statutory guarantee) which cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified.
Otherwise, and except as expressly included in this agreement, all implied terms, conditions, warranties, rights or other additional obligations that can be lawfully excluded are excluded from this agreement. In particular, but subject to the preceding paragraph, we are not liable for:
at common law that in either case results in your death or injury (as defined in paragraph (a) above) in connection with or under this agreement, but to avoid doubt we do not exclude liability for our reckless conduct.
You promise that you will not unnecessarily bring valuables in to the facilities. Maintaining the security of unattended property in the facility is not part of the service we provide under this agreement. Accordingly, if you choose to store your property and leave it unattended in the facilities, we will not be responsible for any loss or damage to your property that occurs.
You agree to pay for any damage to the facilities caused by you or your guests through a wilful act or negligence.
We are not liable if you cannot use your membership due to anything beyond our reasonable control. We are entitled to make part or all of the facilities unavailable for up to two weeks during each calendar year to undertake maintenance, repairs or improvements, in which case we will extend your membership by the time you are unable to use the facilities.
No rights in relation to our logo, trademarks or any other intellectual property rights associated with our business, techniques, exercise programs or classes are granted to you under this agreement, except that any exercise program created for you may be used while you are a member for the purpose of your exercise activities.
ACL Exclusion Notice
WARNING UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW AND FAIR TRADING ACT 2012
Under the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria), several statutory guarantees apply to the supply of certain goods and services. These guarantees mean that the supplier named on this form is required to ensure that recreational services it supplies to you –
Under section 22 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (ACL), the supplier is entitled to ask you to agree that these statutory guarantees do not apply to you. If you sign this form, you will be agreeing that your rights to sue the supplier under the ACL if you are killed or injured because the services provided were not in accordance with these guarantees, are excluded, restricted or modified in the way set out in this form.
NOTE: The change to your rights as set out in this form, does not apply if your death or injury is due to gross negligence on the supplier’s part. Gross negligence, in relation to an act or omission, means doing the act or omitting to do an act with reckless disregard, with or without consciousness, for the consequences of the act or omission. See regulation 5 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Regulations 2012 and section 22(3)(b) of the ACL.