Utemaster Terms of Trade

Trading Terms and Conditions For Sale of Goods

These Trading Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) apply (unless otherwise previously agreed in writing) to the supply of Goods by the Utemaster to a Customer from time to time. Any supply of Goods by Utemaster to the Customer made after the date of acceptance of these Terms is a supply pursuant to the supply agreement constituted by these Terms and the relevant order accepted by Utemaster (‘Agreement’) and any such supply does not give rise to a new or separate agreement.

1) Interpretation

In these terms unless the contrary intention appears:

"Utemaster" means Utemaster Aus Pty Limited ABN 88 177 345 012.

“Additional Charges” includes all delivery, handling and storage charges, goods and services tax, stamp duty, interest, legal and other costs of recovery of unpaid money and all other government imposts and all money, other than the Purchase Price, payable by the Customer to Utemaster arising out of the sale of the Goods.

“Customer” means the person to or for whom the Goods are to be supplied by Utemaster.

“Goods” means the goods sold to the Customer by Utemaster and includes any services provided by Utemaster to Customer.

"Intellectual Property Right" means any patent, registered design, patent, trademark, copy-right, trade secret or any other proprietary right of a third party or parties, registered or unregistered, in any country.

"PPSA" means the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).

“Purchase Price” means the list price for the goods as charged by Utemaster at the date of delivery or such other price as may be agreed by Utemaster and the Customer prior to delivery of the Goods.

2) Order for Goods

2.1 An order given to Utemaster is binding on Utemaster and the Customer, if:

     2.1.1 a written acceptance is signed for or on behalf of Utemaster; or

     2.1.2 the Goods are supplied by Utemaster in accordance with the order.

2.2 An acceptance of the order by Utemaster is then to be an acceptance of these Terms by Utemaster and the Customer and these Terms will override any conditions contained in the Customer’s Utemaster reserves the right to accept a part only of any order by notifying the Customer in writing or by delivering the Goods to the Customer. No order is binding on Utemaster until accepted by it.

2.3 An order which has been accepted in whole or in part by Utemaster cannot be cancelled by the Customer without obtaining the prior written approval of Utemaster, which it may refuse in its absolute discretion.

3) Warranties

   3.1 Utemaster liability is limited to, to the extent permissible by law and at Utemaster’s option

3.1.1 in relation to the Goods:

     3.1.1.1 the replacement of the products or the supply of equivalent products

     3.1.1.2 the repair of the products

     3.1.1.3 the payment of the cost of replacing the products or of acquiring equivalent products; or

     3.1.1.4 The payment of the cost of having the products repaired

3.1.2 Where the Goods are services:

     3.1.2.1 the supply of service again; or

     3.1.2.2 the payment of the cost of having the services supplied

3.2 Any claims to be made against Utemaster for short delivery of Goods must be lodged with Utemaster in writing within 7 days of the delivery date.

3.3 To the extent permitted at law, all other warranties whether implied or otherwise, not set out in these Terms are excluded and Utemaster is not liable in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence or breach of statutory duty) or otherwise to compensate Customer for:

     3.3.1 any increased costs or expenses;

     3.3.2 any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts or anticipated savings;

     3.3.3 any loss or expense resulting from a claim by a third party; or

     3.3.4 any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any nature whatsoever caused by Utemaster’s failure to complete or delay in completing the order to deliver the Goods.

4) Delivery

4.1 The times quoted for delivery are estimates only and Utemaster accepts no liability for failure or delay in delivery of Goods. The Customer is not relieved of any obligation to accept or pay for Goods by reason of any delay in Goods may be delivered by instalments at the discretion of Utemaster.

4.2 Risk in accepting the Goods passes on delivery to the Customer.

4.3 All Additional Charges are payable by the Customer in addition to the Purchase Price of the Goods.

4.4 Return of Goods will not be accepted by Utemaster except by prior agreement in writing with Any Goods returned will be subject to a restocking charge of 10% of the Purchase Price of those Goods.

5) Price and Payment

5.1 The Customer must pay the Purchase Price and the Additional Charges to Utemaster.

5.2 If the Customer is in default, Utemaster may at its option withhold further deliveries or cancel a contract without prejudice to any of its existing rights.

5.3 All payments are due within 30 days of the date of invoice. Interest is charged at the rate of 50% per month (30% per annum) from the expiry of that period until the date payment is received by Utemaster.

5.4 All amounts payable by the Customer under these Terms must be paid without set-off or counter claim of any kind.

6) Intellectual Property

6.1) All branding and artwork provided by the Customer is the intellectual property of the Customer. Artwork and branding supplied will only be used for the purposes of satisfying these Terms.

6.2) Customer warrant that the use by Utemaster of any intellectual property provided by Customer to Utemaster so that Utemaster may provide the Goods and/or services under these Terms does not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights.

6.3) Customer must indemnify and keep indemnified Utemaster against any and all liabilities, expenses, losses and/or damages including attorney’s fees whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising from a third party, alleging that the Goods infringe the Intellectual Property Right of the third part due to Utemaster’s use in the production of the Goods of any branding, artwork or other intellectual property provided to Utemaster by Customer.

7) Retention of Title

7.1 Ownership, title and property in the Goods and in the proceeds of sale of those Goods remains with Utemaster until payment in full for the Goods and all sums due and owing by the Customer to Utemaster on any account has been made. Until the date of payment:

     7.1.1 the Customer has the right to sell the Goods in the ordinary course of business;

     7.1.2 the Goods are always at the risk of the

7.2 The Customer is deemed to be in default immediately upon the happening of any of the following events:

     7.2.1 if any payment to Utemaster is not made promptly before the due date for payment;

     7.2.2 if the Customer ceases to carry on business or stops or suspends payment or states its intention of so doing or is unable to pay its debts as they fall due or if any cheque or bill of exchange drawn by the Customer payable to Utemaster is dishonoured;

7.3 In the event of a default by the Customer, then without prejudice to any other rights which Utemaster may have at law or under this Agreement:

     7.3.1 Utemaster or its agents may without notice to the Customer enter the Customer’s premises or any premises under the control of the Customer for the purposes of recovering the Goods.

     7.3.2 Utemaster may recover and resell the Goods;

     7.3.3 if the Goods cannot be distinguished from similar Goods which the Customer has or claims to have paid for in full, Utemaster may in its absolute discretion seize all goods matching the description of the Goods and hold same for a reasonable period so that the respective claims of Utemaster and the Customer may be ascertained. Utemaster must promptly return to the Customer any goods the property of the Customer and Utemaster is in no way liable or responsible for any loss or damage to the Goods or for any loss, damage or destruction to the Customer’s business howsoever arising from the seizure of the Goods.

     7.3.4 In the event that the Customer uses the Goods in some manufacturing or construction process of its own or some third party, then the Customer must hold such part of the proceeds of sale of such manufacturing or construction process as relates to the Goods in trust for Utemaster. Such part will be an amount equal in dollar terms to the amount owing by the Customer to the Utemaster at the time of the receipt of such proceeds. The Customer will pay Utemaster such funds held in trust upon the demand of Utemaster.

7.4 Separately, Customer hereby charges all its right, title and interest to and in the proceeds of sale of the Collateral (as defined in the PPSA) as original collateral, or any of it, in favour of the Utemaster.

8) PPSA

8.1 Defined terms in this clause have the same meaning as given to them in the PPSA.

8.2 Utemaster and the Customer acknowledge that these Terms constitute a Security Agreement and entitle the Utemaster to claim:

     8.2.1 a Purchase Money Security Interest (“PMSI”) in favour of Utemaster over the Collateral supplied or to be supplied to the Customer as Grantor pursuant to these Terms; and

     8.2.2 a security interest over the proceeds of sale of the Collateral referred to in (a) as original collateral.

8.3 The goods supplied or to be supplied under these Terms fall within the PPSA classification of ”Other Goods” acquired by the Customer pursuant to these Terms.

8.4 The Proceeds of sale of the Collateral referred to in clause 2.1 falls within the PPSA classification of “Account”.

8.5 Utemaster and the Customer acknowledge that Utemaster, as Secured Party, is entitled to register its Security Interest in the Collateral supplied or to be supplied to Customer pursuant to these Terms and in the relevant Proceeds.

8.6 To the extent permissible at law, the Customer:

     8.8.1 waives its right to receive notification of or a copy of any Verification Statement confirming registration of a Financing Statement or a Financing Change Statement relating to a Security Interest granted by the Customer to

     8.6.2 agrees to indemnify Utemaster on demand for all costs and expenses, including legal costs and expenses on a solicitor / client basis, associated with the;

     8.6.2.1 registration or amendment or discharge of any Financing Statement registered by or on behalf of Utemaster; and

     8.6.2.2 enforcement or attempted enforcement of any Security Interest granted to Utemaster by the Customer;

     8.6.3 agrees that nothing in sections 130 and 143 of the PPSA will apply to these Terms or the Security under these Terms;.

     8.6.4 agrees to waive its right to do any of the following under the PPSA:

     8.6.4.1 receive notice of removal of an Accession under section 95;

     8.6.4.2 receive notice of an intention to seize Collateral under section 123;

     8.6.4.3 object to the purchase of the Collateral by the Secured Party under section 129;

     8.6.4.4 receive notice of disposal of Collateral under section 130;

     8.6.4.5 receive a Statement of Account if there is no disposal under section 132(4);

     8.6.4.6 receive a Statement of Account under section 132(3)(d) following a disposal showing the amounts paid to other Secured Parties and whether Security Interests held by other Secured Parties have been discharged.

     8.6.4.7 receive notice of retention of Collateral under section 135;

     8.6.4.8 redeem the Collateral under section 142; and

     8.6.4.9 reinstate the Security Agreement under section

     8.6.5 All payments received from the Customer must be applied in accordance with section 14(6)(c) of the

9) On-Sale

The Customer agrees that upon the on-sale of any Goods to third parties, it will:

9.1 inform any third party involved of these Terms;

9.2 inform any third party of Utemaster’s product warranties if any; and

9.3 not make any misrepresentations to third parties about the Goods.

10) Trustee Capacity

If Customer is the trustee of a trust (whether disclosed to Utemaster or not), Customer warrants to Utemaster that:

10.1 Customer enters into this Agreement in both its capacity as trustee and in its personal capacity;

10.2 Customer has the right to be indemnified out of trust assets;

10.3 Customer has the power under the trust deed to enter into this Agreement; and

10.4 Customer will not retire as trustee of the trust or appoint any new or additional trustee without first advising the Utemaster.

11) Indemnity

To the full extent permitted by law, Customer will indemnify Utemaster and keep Utemaster indemnified from and against any liability and any loss or damage Utemaster may sustain, as a result of any breach, act or omission, arising directly or indirectly from or in connection with any breach of any of these Terms by Customer or its representatives.

12) General

12.1 These Terms are to be construed in accordance with the laws from time to time in the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia. The parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New South Wales, Australia and any courts which may hear appeals from those courts in respect to any proceedings in connection with these Terms.

12.2 These Terms contain all of the terms and conditions of the contract between the parties and may only be varied by agreement in writing between the parties.

12.3 Any conditions found to be void, unenforceable or illegal may, to that extent be severed from the Agreement.

12.4 No waiver of any of these Terms or failure to exercise a right or remedy by Utemaster will be considered to imply or constitute a further waiver by Utemaster of the same or any other term, condition, right or remedy. 

13) Refunds

13.1 Made-to-order or custom-produced items are made under contract, as such we do not accept cancellations or change of mind decisions, on made-to-order product/s and/or custom-produced items. Please check specifications (colour, configuration, specifications, vehicle model, dimensions etc.) carefully prior to purchase.

     13.1.1 If the product/s has a manufacturing defect the product will be reviewed as a warranty matter.

13.2 If the product/s is not a made-to-order or custom-produced item then the item can be returned. However, a return authorisation must be arranged directly with the Utemaster customer service team. A 15% restocking fee will apply.

14) Privacy Policy

Utemaster is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.

     14.1 What is Personal Information and why do we collect it?

Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include: names, addresses, email addresses, phone and facsimile numbers.

This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including the Ute Builder, correspondence, telephone, email, via our website www.utemaster.com.au.

We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you, providing information to our clients and marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing.

When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

     14.2 Security of Personal Information

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years. 

     14.3 Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information

It is important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.

     14.4 Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

     14.5 Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us using via the details on this page:

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