This event management agreement details what is included and what are the terms for our event management services.

Terminology
Consultant - Emma Hall from The Ginkgo Tree Creative Studio
You - You, the contractee
The Parties - The Consultant and Yourself/Your organization

Agreement

The parties agree that the Consultant will be responsible for the payment of her own taxes and superannuation Nothing whatsoever contained in this Agreement shall constitute either party is having authority to bind the other in any manner and nothing whatsoever contained herein shall give or is intended to give any rights of any kind to any third party. We are an independent contractor and not your employee and thus, any laws by which ownership copyright in works created by an employee is automatically transferred to the employer do not apply. This contract and all matters arising from it are governed by Australian law.

Payment & Invoices

You agree to stick to the payment schedule outlined in the quote and to pay our invoices in accordance with the terms stated on the invoice.

You can cancel this contract at any time, by informing us in writing at least 2 weeks in advance.

Likewise, we can cancel this contract any time, by informing you in writing at least 2 weeks in advance.

Cancellation does not affect any benefit or right that you or us become entitled to beforehand. So regardless of cancellation, you will pay us for any outstanding invoices and for work already done but not yet invoiced

Project Scope

We recognise that you may have new ideas which you may want to include later on, and we'll be able to accommodate you. Inform us of the changes or additions, and if they are not already provided for in the existing quotation given, we will provide a separate quotation to cover them.

We understand that there may be urgent changes to the project scope that need to be carried out right away. You can request and approve an oral quote in order for us to start work on urgently needed changes, and we will follow up with an invoice later on. Additional work is generally worked out at approximately $75 per hour + GST.

Confidential Information

"Confidential Information" means information that is marked as secret or confidential, or which, based on the circumstances in which it was disclosed, ought to be treated as confidential.

In the course of this project we may receive from you (and you from us) Confidential Information. If either you or us receive from the other Confidential Information, the receiving party agrees to keep the Confidential Information secret, ensure that its agents and employees keep it secret, and not disclose it to any other person, organisation or entity unless deemed absolutely necessary.

However, the receiving party may use or disclose Confidential Information received from the other in order to comply with a court order, law or regulation direction of a governmental or statutory authority. The receiving party may also use or disclose Confidential Information that entered the public domain due to no fault of that party. or that was disclosed to the receiving party by another source lawfully and without any obligation of confidentiality.

Portfolio

We, and our staff, reserve the right to display designs or work completed for you in our respective portfolios. If you do not wish this to occur, we can include a privacy fee in the project.

While our aim is to deliver top quality and client satisfaction, there are some things we are unable to accept responsibility for.

We provide the deliverables to you on an as-is basis, and we make no promise or guarantee that they will be fit for, or achieve, any particular purpose.

Guarantee of Services

We cannot and do not promise or guarantee services or products purchased or licensed from third party

We will not be liable to you for lost profits or other special or consequential damages of any kind, nor will we be liable to you for direct damages unless caused by our gross negligence or fraud. The maximum damages payable to you in any event will not exceed the amount of fees actually invoiced and paid to us in connection with the project in question.

Neither you nor us shall be liable for failure to perform our part of the contract, if the failure is due to force majeure events (including fire, flood, earthquake, storm, epidemic, hurricane, natural disaster, war, civil war, invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities, rebellion, terrorist activity, government sanction, change of law, strike, lockout, industrial action, embargo, sabotage, interruption or failure of electricity service, interruption or failure of transport networks or other public utilities, interruption or failure of Internet or other communication service. In this case the final payment will only cover the work that has been completed so far, and services that have been booked and paid for.

If for some reason part of this contract becomes unenforceable or invalid, the remaining parts will be unaffected. A failure or delay by either party in exercising any right or benefit under this contract does not amount to a waiver of that right or benefit. This contract will bind the parties respective legal personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns. By signing this contract or by expressing your confirmation in writing on paper or in electronic form, you agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement.