Terms of use (draft)

Draft of 11 November 2026 (AEST). For review before publication. These terms would apply to the website and the paid or free email alert service provided by JALS Pty Ltd ATF Castano-Andersen Family Trust (ABN 60 560 698 208). They are not legal advice.

The service

JALS Ventures Tender Alerts emails summaries of selected Queensland civil and transport procurement notices, with indicative TMR CFEP category tags and region tags. It is an information filter. It is not a tender portal, a bid-writing service, or a substitute for your own registrations on AusTender, QTenders, VendorPanel, council sites or any other official source.

No affiliation or endorsement

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an agent of the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads or any other government agency. TMR CFEP codes such as HE2, GE1, CE2, HD1, ITS2 and TE3 are used descriptively, without a leading zero, as TMR writes them. CE means Cost Estimating, not civil engineering.

Accuracy and tags

Notices are summarised or excerpted from public sources. Tags and levels are assigned automatically from titles and summaries and are indicative only. We may miss notices, mistag them, or show a close time that the issuer later changes. You must confirm scope, eligibility, prequalification and closing times on the issuing portal before acting. We are not liable for a missed, late, incomplete or incorrect notice, or for a bid you do or do not submit.

Sources and licences

We only use sources we believe we can use within their terms. Brisbane City Council material is used under CC BY 4.0, with attribution. AusTender RSS metadata is used under CC BY 3.0 AU, with a link back to the official notice; we do not reproduce ATM documents. VendorPanel fields come from supplier alert emails we already receive; we do not use automated tools against VendorPanel, QTenders or Tenderlink. Coverage of state agency and council consultancy work is therefore incomplete. Where a VendorPanel item has no public URL we will say it is listed on VendorPanel (QLD Supplier Portal).

You may not republish our digests, or any official tender documents, as your own product.

Accounts, plans and payment

The Free Weekly Brief is provided at no charge and may be capped (currently proposed at 10 items). Paid plans (Pro, Team and Founding) and prices are shown on the website. Prices are in Australian dollars and are incl. GST. Paid plans are billed through Stripe, and a tax invoice will show our ABN, the words “Tax invoice”, and the GST amount (or a statement that the price includes GST).

Paid subscriptions are billed through Stripe. A 14-day trial may be offered when payments are live. You can cancel in the Stripe customer portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period unless that portal is set otherwise. The founding rate (A$39 a month) is limited to the first 20 subscribers and is intended to apply for 12 months.

Refunds are considered case by case if we have billed you in error. Otherwise, fees for a period already started are not refundable, subject to any non-excludable right under the Australian Consumer Law.

Acceptable use

You may share a Team plan inside your firm, up to the user limit. You may not resell, scrape, or systematically republish the alerts, or use them to build a competing aggregation service.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided as-is, and our aggregate liability for a paid subscription is limited to the fees you paid us in the three months before the claim. Nothing in these terms excludes any consumer guarantee that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Where we are allowed to limit our liability for a failure of such a guarantee, we limit it to resupplying the service or paying the cost of resupply.

Privacy and email

Personal information is handled as described in our privacy policy. Commercial emails comply with the Spam Act 2003: they identify JALS Pty Ltd as the sender and include a working unsubscribe.

Changes and law

We may change these terms or the service by posting an update and, for material changes to a paid plan, emailing subscribers. The laws of Queensland, Australia, apply, and the courts of Queensland have jurisdiction, subject to any non-excludable rights you have.

Contact

JALS Pty Ltd ATF Castano-Andersen Family Trust, ABN 60 560 698 208 · jals.ventures.au@gmail.com