Terms and Conditions

1. Who you are contracting with

This website and the services offered through it are owned and operated by Biz Buy International (ABN 51 631 274 747) ("Biz Buy", "we", "us", "our"), of PO Box 6901, Cairns QLD 4870, Australia.

These terms form a binding agreement between you and us. They take effect the moment you access the site or use any service, whether or not you create an account.

If you do not agree to them, do not use the services.

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2. What Biz Buy is

Biz Buy operates an online marketplace where people selling businesses can advertise, and where buyers, investors, partners and mentors can list their interest and make contact.

What we do: publish listings and profiles, provide search and matching tools, deliver messages between users, and offer optional paid promotion and preparation services.

What we do not do:

• We are not a business broker, real estate agent, financial adviser, accountant or lawyer
• We do not act as agent for any buyer, seller, investor or partner
• We do not participate in negotiations, contracts, settlement or completion of any transaction
• We do not conduct due diligence, verify financial claims, or assess anyone's capacity to buy
• We charge no commission, success fee or percentage of any sale — our income is advertising and service fees only

Nothing on this site is professional advice. Information published here is provided by users and is general in nature. You must obtain your own legal, accounting and financial advice before entering any transaction.

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3. Eligibility and your account

You must be at least 18 and legally capable of entering contracts. If you use the services on behalf of a company or trust, you warrant that you are authorised to bind it, and "you" includes that entity.

You must give accurate registration information and keep it current. One person may not hold multiple accounts to circumvent restrictions.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for everything done under your login. Tell us immediately at support@bizbuyint.com if you suspect unauthorised access.

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4. Listings — your obligations as a seller

When you publish a listing you warrant that:

• You own the business or are authorised by the owner to advertise it
• The business genuinely exists and is genuinely available on the terms advertised
• Every material statement — financial figures, turnover, profit, staff numbers, years established, reason for sale — is accurate and not misleading
• You hold reasonable grounds for any forward-looking statement
• You have the right to use all images and documents you upload

You must not advertise a business that is not genuinely for sale, use a listing to gather market intelligence or build a mailing list, misstate financial performance, or conceal information that would mislead a reasonable buyer.

You must deactivate your listing within 48 hours of the business being sold, withdrawn, or otherwise no longer available. If you cannot, contact us and we will do it.

Australian Consumer Law applies to you as well as to us. Misleading or deceptive conduct in the sale of a business is unlawful regardless of anything in these terms.

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5. Buyer and partner profiles

When you publish a profile you warrant that the information is accurate and that any figure you state as available funds is a genuine estimate held on reasonable grounds.

Funds you declare are not verified by us. We do not request evidence, we do not check it, and we never represent a declared figure as verified. Sellers rely on it at their own risk.

You may publish under an alias and redact sections of your profile. When you contact a seller, or accept contact from one, your real name and contact details are disclosed to them and theirs to you.

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6. Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements

Business sales involve genuinely confidential information. The following obligations are central to this agreement.

If you receive confidential information about a business — whether through an accepted enquiry, a signed NDA, or a confidential listing being released to you — you must use it only to evaluate that opportunity. You must not disclose it, copy it, use it to compete, approach the business's staff, customers or suppliers, or retain it after you cease considering the opportunity.

Non-disclosure agreements are between users. Where an NDA is entered into through our platform, it is an agreement between the seller and the recipient. Biz Buy is not a party to it. We provide a template as a convenience only.

We give no assurance about the template. We do not warrant that it is suitable for your circumstances, legally sufficient in your jurisdiction, or enforceable. We do not provide legal advice. Use of the template creates no liability for Biz Buy International or any related entity. You should have your own lawyer prepare or review any NDA you intend to rely on.

We do not verify identity. Signing an NDA through the platform does not mean we have confirmed who the signer is. Satisfying yourself as to the identity and bona fides of anyone you deal with is your responsibility.

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7. How you may use other users' information

This clause protects every user, including you.

Contact details and profile information obtained through the services may be used only to communicate with that person about the specific opportunity that brought you into contact.

You must not:

• Add anyone to a mailing list, newsletter or marketing database without their express consent
• Send unsolicited commercial messages, including SMS, in breach of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth)
• Collect, scrape, copy, export or compile user information, whether manually or by automated means
• Sell, licence or disclose another user's information to anyone
• Approach users to promote unrelated products or services
• Use the buyer directory to build a prospect list for any other purpose

Breach of this clause is a serious breach of these terms and may also breach the Privacy Act and the Spam Act.

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8. Fees, GST and payment

Currency and GST. All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST unless stated otherwise. Tax invoices are issued through our payment processor.

Listing. Publishing a listing is currently free. We may introduce listing fees in future, with notice, and no charge will ever apply to a listing already published under free terms during its current term.

VIP Spotlight is available on two bases:

• Pay in full — $1,797 including GST for twelve months, renewing automatically
• Payment plan — $997 including GST today, then two payments of $490 charged automatically to the same card 30 and 60 days later. Total $1,977. The plan costs $180 more than paying in full. Full access begins immediately on the first payment

Authorising the payment plan. By choosing the plan you authorise us to charge the two later instalments to your card on the dates shown at checkout. You must keep a valid payment method available. If an instalment fails we will retry and contact you; if it remains unpaid after 21 days we may pause your promotional placement until it is settled. Access already granted is not withdrawn and work already delivered is not reversed.

Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price. We will email you at least 14 days before each renewal. You may cancel at any time before the renewal date through your account or the payment portal.

Price changes take effect from your next renewal, never mid-term, and we will tell you before they apply.

Failure to pay. If a payment fails we may suspend paid features until it is resolved. We will always tell you first.

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9. Refunds and cancellation

Nothing in these terms excludes the Australian Consumer Law. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded. If a service is not supplied with due care and skill, is not fit for its stated purpose, or fails to match its description, you are entitled to a remedy — which may include a refund — regardless of anything else in this clause.

Beyond those rights:

• If you cancel before any part of a paid service has been delivered, you receive a full refund
• Once delivery has begun, fees are refundable only to the extent of undelivered components, assessed reasonably
• Cancelling a subscription stops future renewals; it does not refund the current term
• Deactivating a listing early does not entitle you to a refund of promotion already run

To request a refund, email support@bizbuyint.com setting out what you purchased and what went wrong. We respond within 10 business days.

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10. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you upload — listings, images, documents, profile text and messages.

You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for formatting, publish and display your content, and to include listing extracts and images in marketing and promotion of the marketplace.

This licence exists so we can operate and promote the service. It ends when you remove the content or close your account, except that:

• We may retain copies in backups and archives for a reasonable period
• Material already published in marketing that cannot reasonably be recalled may remain
• We may retain content where required by law or to resolve a dispute

You warrant that you hold the rights to everything you upload and that it infringes nobody's copyright, trade mark, confidentiality or privacy.

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11. Acceptable use

You must not:

• Break any law, or infringe anyone's rights
• Post anything false, misleading, defamatory, obscene, discriminatory or offensive
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your association with any person or business
• Use robots, scrapers, crawlers or any automated means to access, copy or index the services without our written permission
• Place unreasonable load on our infrastructure, or attempt to disrupt or interfere with the services
• Circumvent security, access controls, rate limits or any paywall
• Reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source code of the services
• Introduce malware or any harmful code
• Use the services to promote unrelated goods or services
• Attempt to arrange a transaction off-platform for the purpose of avoiding fees, where fees would otherwise apply

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12. Moderation, refusal and removal

We may, at our discretion and without notice:

• Refuse, edit, reclassify or remove any listing, profile, message or content
• Decline to publish a business that is not bona fide, is associated with unlawful activity, or contains offensive material
• Require substantiation of any claim made in a listing
• Restrict features, suspend or terminate an account

We will normally warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem, unless the breach is serious, unlawful, or presents a risk to other users.

We are not obliged to monitor content, and we do not endorse or verify anything users publish.

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13. Suspension and termination

You may close your account at any time. Closing it does not refund fees already paid or release you from obligations already incurred, including confidentiality obligations under clause 6 and outstanding instalments under clause 8.

We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your conduct presents a risk to other users or to us. Where we terminate for a breach that is not your fault, we will refund any unused portion of fees paid.

Clauses 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 20 survive termination.

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14. Disputes between users

Any transaction, negotiation or dispute between users is entirely between them. We are not a party to it.

We are not liable for any loss arising from another user's conduct, misrepresentation, breach of contract or failure to complete a transaction. We have no obligation to intervene, mediate or provide evidence, although we may assist where we reasonably can.

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15. No warranty as to content

We do not verify listings, profiles, financial figures or any other user-supplied information.

To the extent permitted by law, we give no warranty that content on the services is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose. Every buyer must independently verify every material claim and obtain professional advice before committing to a transaction. Any reliance you place on user content is at your own risk.

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16. Availability

We aim to keep the services available and reliable but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. Maintenance, upgrades, third-party failures and events beyond our control may cause interruption.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss arising from unavailability, delay, data loss or interruption.

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17. Consumer guarantees and liability

Australian Consumer Law. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies those guarantees. Where our liability under them may be limited, our liability is limited to resupplying the services or paying the cost of resupply.

Otherwise, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for indirect, consequential, special or punitive loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, business opportunity, goodwill or anticipated savings
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these terms and the services is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or $100 if you have paid us nothing

These limits apply regardless of the basis of the claim, including negligence.

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18. Indemnity

You indemnify us against loss, damage, cost and expense (including reasonable legal costs) that we suffer arising from your breach of these terms, your content, your unlawful conduct, or any claim by another user or third party in connection with your use of the services.

This indemnity does not apply to loss caused by our own negligence or breach, and it is reduced to the extent our acts contributed to it.

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19. Intellectual property

We own or licence all intellectual property in the services — including the Biz Buy International name, logo, site design, software, database structure, templates and written content — other than content supplied by users.

You may view and print pages for your own use in evaluating opportunities. You may not otherwise copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, adapt or create derivative works from any part of the services without our written permission.

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20. Resolving a dispute with us

Before starting proceedings, please email support@bizbuyint.com with details of the problem and the outcome you want. We will respond within 10 business days and will try in good faith to resolve it with you.

If it remains unresolved after 30 days, either of us may refer it to mediation by the Queensland Law Society, or commence proceedings.

This clause does not prevent either of us seeking urgent injunctive relief.

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21. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. The revision date appears at the top.

• Changes that do not materially affect your rights take effect when published
• Material changes take effect 30 days after we notify account holders by email or by prominent notice on the site
• Material changes do not apply retrospectively. If you hold a paid subscription, changes apply from your next renewal, not during the term you have paid for
• If you do not accept a material change, you may close your account before it takes effect and receive a pro-rata refund of any unused prepaid period

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22. General

Privacy. We handle personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

Other policies. Policies published on the site form part of this agreement.

No partnership. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship.

Assignment. You may not assign your rights without our consent. We may assign ours on notice, including on a sale of the business.

Severance. If any provision is unenforceable, it is severed and the rest continues.

Waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

Entire agreement. These terms, the Privacy Policy and our published policies are the whole agreement between us about the services.

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23. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. Both parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland.

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24. Contact

Biz Buy International PO Box 6901 Cairns QLD 4870 Australia

Email: support@bizbuyint.com