Website Terms of Use & Service Framework

Last Updated: September 2026

Website Terms of Use & Service Framework establishes the operational conditions, legal notices, and compliance boundaries governing your access to the Invictus Strategies digital domain. These terms are established by the Corporate Trustee for The Invictus Strategies Trust ("we", "us", or "our") to outline access conditions, operational standards, and legal parameters. By using this platform, reading published analyses, or submitting consultation requests, you agree to comply with these terms alongside our Website Privacy Policy and our Cookie Tracking Disclosures. If you do not agree to these terms, you must cease using this platform immediately.

I. Definitions and Scope of Application

In this document, defined terms establish operational parameters across our communications:

1.1 "Platform" denotes the digital website, directories, stylesheets, and code hosted at invictusstrategies.co.nz.

1.2 "Trustee" denotes the corporate entity acting solely in its capacity as corporate trustee for The Invictus Strategies Trust.

1.3 "User" or "You" denotes any visitor, representative, or automated user-agent accessing materials through this domain.

1.4 "Content" denotes all text, methodology explanations, graphics, structural code, and editorial materials published herein.

II. Distinction from Advisory Retainers & Onboarding Firewall

This website functions strictly as an Invitation to Treat and constitutes Phase 1 of our onboarding architecture. Browsing published materials or submitting information via web forms establishes no commercial contract, legal obligation, or fiduciary duty on the operator. In accordance with Section 25(2) of the Companies Act 1993, no document creating a legal obligation is executed at this layer.

Commercial assignments proceed through a segmented architecture: Phase 1 (public informational layer), Phase 2 (preliminary vetting under a strictly unilateral Deed of Confidentiality imposing obligations solely on the recipient), and Phase 3 (formal corporate disclosure and bilateral contract execution). The Corporate Trustee executes all commercial agreements in its full legal capacity prior to the exchange of any financial consideration, ensuring the limited liability shield governs all service delivery. This platform contains no transactional checkout mechanisms; all commercial settlements occur off-site through verified banking channels.

III. Statutory Consumer Protections & Contracting Out

Nothing in these Terms of Use limits, excludes, or modifies any non-excludable statutory rights guaranteed under New Zealand law, including protections under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (CGA) and the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FTA).

General browsing on this platform does not constitute an agreement to contract out of any statutory provisions. Where a client acquires services for the purposes of a business ("in trade"), the parties may agree to contract out of the provisions of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and sections 9, 12A, 13, and 14(1) of the Fair Trading Act 1986. Under New Zealand law, contracting out of these statutory protections is legally valid only where both parties are in trade and have executed an explicit, signed bilateral written agreement to that effect. If you are an individual evaluating information for personal or household purposes, all statutory consumer protections remain fully enforceable.

IV. Intellectual Property & Permitted Use

All materials presented on this site - including brand marks, logos, methodology breakdowns, visual styling, and minified code implementations - remain the exclusive intellectual property of The Invictus Strategies Trust. These works are protected under New Zealand copyright law, trademark principles, and international intellectual property conventions.

Visitors receive a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to view published content for personal evaluation. You may not copy, reproduce, scrape, mirror, reverse-engineer, or commercially exploit any text, imagery, or code without prior written permission from the Trustee. To evaluate practice methodologies, review our practice capability overview or examine our practice methodology outline.

V. Cultural Heritage & Automated Harvesting

The Invictus Strategies Trust respects indigenous cultural heritage and the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. All cultural concepts, linguistic references, and visual emblems displayed across this domain are protected against unauthorised automated exploitation.

Automated scrapers, commercial language models, and machine learning systems are prohibited from harvesting, ingesting, or processing cultural expressions or traditional symbols displayed on this domain. We require automated user-agents to respect site directives and refrain from extracting published content for synthetic reproduction or commercial algorithmic training without explicit permission.

VI. Strategic Communications & Absence of Legal Advocacy

Invictus Strategies is a specialised strategic communications, media relations, and crisis management practice. We are not a law firm, and our consultants are not practising barristers or solicitors under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.

Any individual or organisation holds the lawful right to prepare and issue factual corrections, dispute notices, and cease-and-desist communications to protect their interests. Our consultancy assists clients by drafting strategic correction notices, factual statements, and reputation management communications designed to halt inaccurate reporting. This work constitutes strategic reputation management, not statutory legal advocacy or legal counsel. Where formal court proceedings or statutory actions under the Defamation Act 1992 are necessary, we coordinate our communications strategy alongside your instructed legal counsel.

VII. Infrastructure Security & Acceptable Use

When interacting with this platform, users agree not to compromise platform stability or target our infrastructure. Specifically, users must not:

(a) Deploy automated vulnerability scanners, flood scripts, or denial-of-service traffic against our edge network.

(b) Attempt unauthorised access to restricted directories, source code repositories, or mail relays.

(d) Deploy address-harvesting scrapers or automated scripts against our published email endpoints.

Our infrastructure uses non-intrusive edge security checks to protect intake routes against automated spam and unauthorised traffic without tracking individual visitor identities.

VIII. Limitation of Liability on Contractual Claims

This website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis for general informational purposes. To the maximum extent permitted by New Zealand law, the Trustee's financial liability arising from contractual claims under formal advisory agreements shall be limited strictly to the value of the assets held in The Invictus Strategies Trust.

The Trustee shall not be liable for incidental, indirect, or consequential losses resulting from temporary website downtime, server latency, or general reliance placed upon informational marketing materials. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee, its officers, employees, and authorised agents from third-party liabilities or reasonable costs arising from your breach of these terms or misuse of platform resources.

IX. External Platforms & Third-Party Services

Our advisory services frequently analyse search engine indexes, social publishing networks, and digital news platforms. Commentary regarding third-party platforms does not imply endorsement, formal affiliation, or operational control over third-party actions. We make no representations regarding third-party platform availability, index algorithms, or editorial decisions.

X. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use are governed exclusively by the laws of New Zealand. Any disputes relating to this platform or these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand. If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions will continue in full legal effect.

For enquiries regarding these terms, send written correspondence to: [email protected], or initiate a consultation through our secure priority enquiry portal. You may also return to the Invictus home index.