Terms of Use

Last update: 01 March 2022

Welcome to the platform of Real Tenure Pty Ltd (ABN 81 644 230 320) (“we”, “us”, “VALTER” or the “Company”), a digital lease and real estate management platform with portfolio management tools, a fast-track leasing platform and property directory functions (the “Application”).

  1. Agreement to these Terms of Use

    By accessing the Application, you agree to be bound by these terms of use (“Terms of Use”). These Terms of Use constitute a binding agreement between you and the Company and govern your use of the Application. If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at info@valte.com.au.

    Privacy Policy

    As part of these Terms of Use, your use of the Application is also subject to our Privacy Policy (located at valte.com.au/privacy policy), which is incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.

    Subscriptions and Services Agreement

    As part of these Terms of Use, your use of the Application is also subject to any written Subscriptions and Services Agreement entered into by you and the Company at the time of signing up to use the Application, and which is incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.

  2. Definitions

    In these Terms of Use, these terms have the following meanings:

    Subscriptions and Services Agreement” means the written agreement entered into by you and the Company at the time of signing up to use the Application.

    Website” means the Application as provided via the domain valte.com.au (or as may be updated by the Company from time to time) and includes all of the files located in that domain.

  3. Restrictions on use

    Prohibited conduct

    Your use of the Application is subject to the rules set out in Schedule 1 below.

    Violations of these Terms of Use

    Without limiting any other remedies available to the Company at law or in equity, the Company reserves the right to, without notice:

    1. temporarily or indefinitely suspend, or terminate, your access to the Application or refuse to provide services to you if:
      1. you breach any provision of these Terms of Use;
      2. the Company is unable to verify or authenticate any information that you provide to us; or
      3. the Company believes that your actions may cause damage and/or legal liability to the Company, any of its customers or suppliers or any other person; and
    2. remove or block access to any information and/or materials (in whole or in part) that the Company, at its sole and absolute discretion, regards in any way to be objectionable or in violation of any applicable law, any person’s intellectual property rights or these Terms of Use.

    Indemnity

    You indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates from and against any losses, liabilities, costs, expenses or damages (including actual, special, indirect and consequential losses or damages of every kind and nature, including all legal fees on a solicitor-client basis) suffered or incurred by any of them due to, arising out of, or in any way related to (directly or indirectly):

    1. any material or information that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Application;
    2. your use of, or connection to, the Application; or
    3. your negligence or misconduct, breach of these Terms of Use or violation of any law or the rights of any person.
  4. Registration and account security

    Requirement for registration

    The Company reserves the right to make any parts of the Application, including but not limited to property management dashboard etc., accessible only to users who have registered.

    Username and password

    User accounts must be created in the name of an organisation (by an individual user called a ‘Super Administrator’). Upon registration for the Application, you will be contacted by VALTE to verify your role and setup for a VALTE account. Following this, you will be issued a link to register a password and complete your login to VALTE. Any account creation will be finalised via an email sent to your nominated email address to verify details prior to accessing the platform.

    The Application is intended to operate on the basis that there is one Super Administrator per organisation. If there are any issues regarding the Super Administrator account e.g. the individual operating the Super Administrator account is no longer a part of the organisation, please contact the Company for assistance.

    Individual users over the age of 18 years may create user accounts under their organisation’s profile by requesting access from on the Super Administrator of their organisation’s profile. A Super Administrator must not invite or grant access to its profile to any unauthorised users, including any users who are not staff members of, or otherwise authorised by, the organisation.

    Where your organisation does not already have a profile, you may need to create one. Only authorised staff members of an organisation may create an account. The Company reserves the right to request proof of such employment and/or authorisation as necessary.

    You are responsible for maintaining the security of your password for the Application. The Company will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from or in connection with your failure to comply with this security obligation. You agree that the Company will be entitled to assume that any person using the Application with your username and password is you or your authorised representative.

    You must notify the Company immediately of any known or suspected unauthorised use of any password or any other breach of security.

    User information

    In order to register an account with the Application, you must agree to these Terms of Use and provide the Company with:

    1. a valid email address;
    2. accurate billing and contact information (including your street address and the name and telephone number of your authorised billing contact and administrator); and
    3. any other information that may be required by the Company during the registration process.

    You must promptly update this information to maintain its accuracy at all times. You represent and warrant to the Company that all information provided to the Company by you, including the information provided by you through our account registration module or entered into your account profile, is true and not misleading and does not violate any applicable law or regulation or any person’s intellectual property or other rights.

    User access levels

    The Application provides multiple levels of user access. A Super Administrator will be responsible for setting the various levels of user access within their own organisation.

    Multiple accounts and automated account opening

    One person may not maintain more than one account with the Application. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted. You must not permit anyone else to access or use your account.

    Approval of registrations

    The Company reserves the right to accept or reject any application for registration of an account with the Application at its discretion.

  5. User fees and payment terms

    Currency and GST

    Unless otherwise expressly stated, all amounts payable through your use of the Application are in Australian dollars.

    Unless otherwise expressly stated, all amounts payable through your use of this Application are expressed to be inclusive of GST. For these purposes, the term “GST” has the meaning given to it in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).

    Registration

    There are no fees payable for registering with the Application and creating an account.

    However, the Company reserves the right to charge subscription fees to access certain parts of the Application, based on the number of leases, or properties a user manages through the Application, as outlined below.

    Application subscription packages

    1. There are several different levels of packages available to you when using the Application.
    2. Each package level will offer certain user features, add-on subscriptions and/or additional services provided by the Company.
    3. The details of each package level, including available features and pricing, will be made available to you via the relevant page within the Application and/or if you choose to upgrade your free account.
    4. The fees for each package level will be shown as a monthly fee per lease, and will be billed annually to you by the Company.
    5. Package level fees are not refundable.However, we may choose to provide a refund at our absolute discretion. If so, please note that transaction fees charged by our payment provider will be deducted from the amount refunded.
    6. Your chosen package level fee will automatically renew for a further 12 months unless you cancel your subscription in accordance with our cancellation policy.
    7. You can upgrade your package level any time by following the relevant steps shown within the Application and paying the relevant fees.
    8. If you are upgrading your package level, fees for the upgraded level will be calculated on a pro-rata basis. For example, if you have already been a user for 4 months and want to upgrade to the next package level, the difference of 8 months’ worth of fees will be payable, and your package level will automatically renew on the 12-month anniversary of your original signing up to be a user.
    9. The Company may, at its absolute discretion, amend any aspect of the package levels, including available features, pricing, billing and upgrade procedures, and cancellation and refund policies, at any time. Any such changes will be notified to you.

    Add-ons and other charges

    1. The Company reserves the right to charge additional fees for additional services, including but not limited to:
      1. Add-On Subscriptions which may be part of your chosen package level, including but not limited to:
        • Market data services;
        • Portfolio Planning tools;
        • Use of Property Database;
        • Use of the Fastrack Leasing Platform; and/or
      2. Other charges for the provision of further services which can be organised by the Company upon client request, including but not limited to:
        • Data input
        • Data retrieval; and/or
        • Onboarding for organisational clients.

    Security

    While website hosting providers employ secure technology for transactions with our customers, we will not be responsible for any damages, including consequential losses (whether direct or indirect), that may be suffered by a customer whose credit or debit card or bank account information is used in a fraudulent or unauthorised manner by any person other than the Company.

    The Company may request further information from you, such as a copy of your credit card and/or other identification documentation, as part of our internal validation procedures. These procedures help protect bank and credit card account holders from online fraud. Until your payment has passed our internal fraud prevention checks, your subscription will remain on pending status. If further information is requested and you do not provide the requested information within such time as the Company considers appropriate at its discretion, your subscription will be cancelled and, if your payment has been received, it will be refunded back to you.

    Cancellation policy

    Any cancellations must be notified to us by following the relevant steps and timeframes set out in your account on the Application on or before the last day before your Package subscription automatically renews.

    User Content and other data will be dealt with in accordance with our Privacy Policy upon cancellation of your subscription.

    Refunds and other remedies

    Except as expressly provided otherwise in these Terms of Use, all amounts paid through this Application are non-refundable. Further information on the steps that the Company will take to remedy any breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee is provided under the heading “Remedies limited” in these Terms of Use below.

    Non-payment

    If you do not pay any fees required from you to use the Application, the Company reserves the right to commence debt collection proceedings, or pursue any other remedies available to it including but not limited to legal action, to recover payment of fees. Any such proceedings may also include recovery for reasonable costs expended by the Company in recovering the late payments.

  6. Customer support services

    This application includes the following customer support services during reasonable business hours:

    1. In-country support via an FAQ page to be updated from time to time by the Company and an online ticketing system;
    2. Self-service online help and training; and/or
    3. Any other support services provided as deemed appropriate by the Company from time to time commensurate with your subscription level.
      However, although the Company will use all of its reasonable endeavours to assist users with their enquiries, please note that these services are subject to the disclaimer of warranties below.
  7. Dealings with other users and third parties

    Content supplied by other users

    This Application includes a platform that allows other users, such as occupiers/tenants and landlords, to upload information and other content directly to this Application for you to access. We do not act as agent for any such users and we take no responsibility, and assume no liability, for:

    1. any such content that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, abusive, harassing, harmful, obscene, indecent, inflammatory, violent, profane, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, libellous, defamatory, deceptive, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or plagiarised;
    2. any of the information supplied by such third parties (including opinions, ideas, suggestions, comments, observations, text, photographs, videos, data, music, sounds, chat messages, files or any other material); and/or
    3. any loss or damage that results from any dealings that you may have with such third parties.

    User and/or third-party goods/services and websites

    We do not recommend or endorse any third-party goods or services that are listed, advertised or referred to in this Application or the content of any third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content of linked third-party websites, websites framed within this Application or third-party advertisements and we do not make any representations, or provide any guarantees or warranties, regarding their content or accuracy. These links may unintentionally connect with websites containing information that some users may find
    inappropriate or offensive. Your use of any third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to their respective terms and conditions of use.

    User acknowledgements

    1. You acknowledge that the Company does not:
      1. check the truth or currency of any of the material or information that third parties provide or make available through this Application;
      2. control, endorse, approve or warrant to you the merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose of any of the goods or services of any third parties referred to in this Application or whose identities become known to you through this Application, including suppliers of content that is published or made available in or through this Application;
      3. offer professional advice on the quality or suitability of any goods, services or information supplied by any such third parties and you agree to seek the advice of appropriate professional advisers to evaluate any opinion, advice, product, service, information or other content that may be made available or otherwise included on the Application by the Company; or
      4. endorse or recommend any user and/or third-party goods or services, including where details of the relevant user and/or third party are provided by the Company to you or otherwise become known to you through this Application.

    Role of the Company

    The relevant user, and not the Company, is:

    1. the supplier of the goods and/or services that you offer to purchase; and
    2. solely responsible for supplying you with those goods and/or services and for those goods/services themselves.

    We do not act as agent for users, including but not limited to other occupiers/tenants and landlords you interact with on the Application, and we make no representation or warranty, and provide no guarantee, that these users will provide you with the goods and/or services that you offer to purchase through this Application, or that those goods/services will meet your expectations. You should satisfy yourself through your own enquiries as to the quality or suitability of any user and/or third party with whom you interact on this Application and any goods or services supplied, offered or recommended by or on behalf of another user and/or third party.

    Third party’s terms and conditions

    Acceptance of another user and/or third party’s terms of business creates a contract between you and the relevant user and/or third party in respect of the provision of the goods and/or services that are the subject of those terms. The Company is not a party to that contract. That contract will be subject to relevant user and/or third party’s own terms and conditions of supply. You will be responsible for investigating and reviewing the other user and/or third party’s terms and conditions prior to interacting with that user and/or third party further through this Application.

    Refunds from third party

    As between you and the Company, all amounts paid through this Application are non-refundable. If, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the contract that is formed between you and any other user and/or third party upon the acceptance of any offer that you make through this Application, you are entitled to any refund, the relevant user and/or third party is solely responsible for providing you with that refund. The Company does not guarantee the provision of that refund to you and you must take action against the other user and/or third party directly, and not against the Company, in order to enforce your entitlement to that refund.

    Disputes between users

    You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users (such as occupiers/tenants and landlords) listed on this Application and the Company is not a party to any transactions between you and such users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor and take action regarding any disputes between users.

    If you believe that any user from which you have purchased any goods or services through this Application has failed to provide those goods or services to you, or that those goods or services did not meet your expectations, please contact us to let us know so that we may take disciplinary action against that user if we consider it appropriate at our discretion to do so. The Company will not, however, act on your behalf, or on behalf of any user, in respect of any dispute between users.

  8. Intellectual property

    Copyright

    In these Terms of Use, the term “Proprietary Content” means:

    1. the Application;
    2. all of its content (including all of the text, graphics, designs, software, data, sound and
      video files and other information contained in the Application, and the selection and arrangement thereof); and
    3. all software, systems and other information owned or used by the Company in connection with the
      Application (whether hosted on the same server as the Application or otherwise).
    4. All Proprietary Content is the property of the Company or its licensors (as applicable) and is protected by Australian and international copyright laws. You must not reproduce, transmit, republish, frame, mirror, distribute or prepare derivative works from any of the Proprietary Content in a way which infringes the Company, or any third-party’s, intellectual property or other rights, except as expressly authorised by these Terms of Use or with the prior written consent of the Company or other copyright owner (as applicable).
    5. You may download and print out content from the Application only for your own personal and non-commercial use and provided that you do not remove or modify any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices.

    Trademarks

    The phrases “VALTE” and “Property Knowledge At Your Fingertips, Like Never Before” are trademarks of the Company. The look and feel of the Application (including all button icons, scripts, custom graphics and headers) are the trademarks, service marks and/or trade dress of the Company. These trademarks, service marks and trade dress may not be used, copied or imitated, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the Company.

    User Content

    In these Terms of Use, the term “User Content” means any and all (if any) content that is submitted, posted or otherwise added to the Application by any user, such as comments, forum posts, chat room messages, reviews, ratings, feedback and/or real estate and other documents uploaded by you when using the Application.

    The Application contains some features that enable you and other users to upload User Content. The Company reserves the right to display, refuse to display, remove and/or amend all or any part of any User Content at its absolute discretion. In respect of any User Content that you upload, you:

    1. represent and warranty to the Company that your sharing of that User Content does not
      infringe any copyright or other legal right of any other person; and
    2. retain all right, title and interest. However, you agree to grant to the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable and transferable license to host, store, use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform and otherwise exploit all or any part of that User Content to the extent necessary to provide the Application.

    Copyright claims

    If you believe that our site contains any material that infringes upon any copyright that you hold or control, or that users are directed through a link on the Application to a third-party website that you believe is infringing upon any copyright that you hold or control, you may send a notification of such alleged infringement to us in writing. Such notification should identify the works that are allegedly being infringed upon and the allegedly infringing material and give particulars of the alleged infringement. In response to such a notification, we will give a written notice of a claim of copyright infringement to the provider of the allegedly infringing material. If the provider of that material does not respond to us in writing denying the alleged infringement within 14 days after receipt of that notice, we will remove or block the allegedly infringing material as soon as is reasonably practicable. If the provider of that material responds to us in writing denying the alleged infringement, we will, as soon as is reasonably practicable, send a copy of that response to the original notifying party. If the original notifying party does not, within a further 14 days, file an action seeking a court order against the provider of the
    allegedly infringing material, we may restore any removed or blocked material at our discretion. If the original notifying party files such a legal action, we will remove or block the allegedly infringing material pending resolution of that legal action.

    Disclaimer of warranties

    TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONSULTANTS, LICENSORS, PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE) IN RELATION TO THE APPLICATION, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY/GUARANTEE OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

    The Application is provided strictly on an “as is” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates make no representation, warranty or guarantee as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy or completeness of the Application or any of its content, and in particular do not represent, warrant or guarantee that:

    1. the use of the Application will be secure, timely, uninterrupted or error-free or operate in combination with any other hardware, software, system or data;
    2. the Application will meet your requirements or expectations;
    3. anything on the Application, or on any third-party website or information provided by a third-party provider (including but not limited to market data feeds etc.) referred or linked to in the Application, is reliable, accurate, complete or up-to-date, and you agree that the Company provides links to third-party websites solely as a convenience to you;
    4. the quality of any information or other material purchased or obtained through the Application will meet any particular requirements or expectations;
    5. errors or defects will be corrected; or
    6. the Application or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
  9. Limitation of liability

    Exclusion of liability

    To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates exclude all liability to you or any other person for any loss, cost, expense, claim or damage (whether arising in contract, negligence, tort, equity, statute or otherwise, and for any loss, whether it be consequential, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary or otherwise, including any loss of profits, loss or corruption of data or loss of goodwill) arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection with, these Terms of Use or the use of the Application by you or any other person.

    Remedies limited

    To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates expressly limit their liability for breach of any non-excludable condition or warranty/guarantee implied by virtue of any legislation to the following remedies (the choice of which is to be at the Company’s sole discretion):

    1. in the case of goods, to any of the following:
    2. the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods;
      1. the repair of the goods;
      2. the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
      3. the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and
    3. in the case of services:
      1. the supply of the services again; or
      2. the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
      3. Release

    You agree that your use of the Application is at your own discretion and risk. You agree to release the Company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates from any claim, demand or cause of action that you may have against any of them arising from these Terms of Use or the use of the Application by you or any other person. The Company may plead this release as a bar and complete defence to any claims or proceedings.

    Force majeure

    To the maximum extent permitted by law, and without limiting any other provision of these Terms of Use, the Company excludes liability for any delay in performing any of its obligations under these Terms of Use where such delay is caused by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company, and the Company shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of time for the performance of such obligations.

  10. General

    Interpretation

    In these Terms of Use, the following rules of interpretation apply:

    1. headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit or describe the scope or extent of any provision in these Terms of Use;
    2. these Terms of Use may not be construed adversely against the Company solely because the Company prepared them;
    3. the singular includes the plural and vice-versa;
    4. a reference to a “person” includes an individual, a firm, a corporation, a body corporate, a partnership, an unincorporated body, an association, a government body or any other entity; and
    5. the meaning of general words is not limited by specific examples introduced by “including”, “for example”, “in particular” or similar expressions.
    6. Notifications

    The Company may provide any notification for the purposes of these Terms of Use by email and/or in the Application itself.

    Costs

    Except as specifically provided in these Terms of Use, each party must bear its own legal, accounting and other costs associated with these Terms of Use.

    Assignment

    You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without the Company’s prior written consent. Your registration with the Application is personal to you and may not be sold or otherwise transferred to any other person.

    The Company may assign, transfer or sub-contract any of its rights or obligations under these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you.

    No waiver

    Waiver of any power or right under these Terms of Use must be in writing signed by the party entitled to the benefit of that power or right and is effective only to the extent set out in that written waiver. Any failure by the Company to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive the Company’s right to act with respect to that breach or any subsequent or similar breaches.

    Severability

    The provisions of these Terms of Use are severable and, if any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future law, such provision may be removed and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

    Variation

    The Company reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use and any other policy on the Application at any time in its sole discretion and any such changes will, unless otherwise noted, be effective immediately. Your continued usage of the Application will mean you accept those amendments. We reserve the right, without notice and at our sole discretion, to change, suspend, discontinue or impose limits on any aspect or content of the Application.

    You may only vary or amend these Terms of Use by written agreement with the Company.

    Governing law and jurisdiction

    These Terms of Use will be governed in all respects by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts of appeal from them.

 

Schedule 1 – Prohibited conduct

YOU MUST NOT:

  1. use your account or the Application for any activity that is fraudulent, improper or illegal;
  2. use the Application in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, compromise or impair the Company’s systems or security, or interfere with other users’ usage of the Application;
  3. use any device, routine or software that interferes, or attempt to interfere, with the proper working of the Application;
  4. engage in any action that requires, or may require, an unreasonable or excessively large load on our infrastructure;
  5. use the Application to decipher passwords or security encryption codes, transmit any worms, viruses or Trojan horses, transfer or store illegal, threatening or obscene material or otherwise violate the security of any computer network;
  6. use the Application to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, to engage in any misleading or deceptive online marketing practices or for any fraudulent or malicious purposes;
  7. use any spider, robot or search/retrieval application or any screen scraping, data mining or similar data gathering device, process, program or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of the Application;
  8. use the Application by any automated means;
  9. use the Application to transmit junk mail, spam or chain letters or pyramid schemes or engage in other flooding techniques or mass distribution of unsolicited email;
  10. access, retrieve or index any portion of the Application for use in constructing or populating any database that is searchable online or for the purpose of soliciting or sharing reviews;
  11. interfere with the display of any advertisements appearing on or in connection with the Application;
  12. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, adapt, modify, translate, frame or reformat any of the
    material contained on the Application;
  13. reproduce, duplicate, copy or store any of the material appearing on the Application other than for your own personal and non-commercial use;
  14. falsely imply that any other website is associated with the Application;
  15. do anything that leads, or may lead, to a decrease in the value of the Company’s intellectual property rights in the Application;
  16. use or exploit any of the material appearing on the Application for, or in connection with, any business or enterprise (whether for profit or otherwise), including any business or enterprise that is in competition with the Application;
  17. release to the public any news release, advertising material, promotional material or any other
    form of publicity or information relating to the Company without the Company’s prior written consent; or
  18. use the Application to transmit any information or material that is, or may reasonably be
    considered to be:
    1. abusive, threatening, harassing, harmful, obscene, indecent, lewd, inflammatory, violent, vulgar, profane, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or offensive in any way;
    2. libellous, defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or plagiarised;
    3. infringing upon or violating any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary right;
    4. in breach of any duty of confidentiality by which you are bound, whether by way of a fiduciary or contractual relationship;
    5. in breach of any person’s privacy or publicity rights;
    6. a misrepresentation of facts, including the impersonation of any person or entity or a misrepresentation of an affiliation with any person or entity (including any sponsorship or endorsement);
    7. in violation of any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encouraging of others to do so;
    8. containing any political campaigning material, advertisements or solicitations; or
    9. likely to bring the Company or any of its staff into disrepute.