About Us

1. Background

Alpine Body Corporate Management Pty Ltd (“Alpine BCM”) was established in 2005 to specialise in managing body corporate structures in the alpine areas. It managed seven properties in Mt Buller village as at July 2006 which has now increased to sixteen (excluding four in Mansfield and one at Lorne). These properties have an insured market value of in excess of $120 million and combined annual expenditures of approximately $3.0 million.
Alpine BCM is the only company based in the high country that specialises exclusively in body corporate management and the Principals own a property at Mt Buller.

2. The Alpine BCM business

The sixteen properties at Mt Buller range in size and complexity from apartment blocks containing 53 units to those with only three free standing houses
As the manager of multiple properties, ranging from large to small, Alpine BCM’s operation reflects professionalism, personalised service and importantly efficiencies and synergies. All transactions are processed, recorded and subsequently maintained by Alpine BCM in-house.
The maintenance of proper and accurate statutory and financial records is very important and accordingly owners are placing increasing emphasis on the quality of these services. Additionally the Mt Buller Resort Management Board, lawyers and finance providers place high demand for accuracy in statutory records management and property transfers. Alpine BCM is well qualified to meet the increasing statutory and regulatory requirements for property management.
Alpine BCM holds a current registration as an Owners Corporation Manager and carries Professional Indemnity cover of $2 million – comfortably in excess of that required by the new legislation.

3. Brief biographical details of the Principals

Iain Kirkwood
Iain is a Chartered Accountant and CPA with over 35 years’ experience in business management, administration and finance. Iain is a principal of Sandringham Corporate Advisory which incorporates Alpine BCM. His professional memberships include the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia, CPA Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lyn Kirkwood
Lyn is an experienced accountant and computer programmer. She has run her own successful private accounting practice in Adelaide and Melbourne providing clients with efficient back-office support. Lyn handles all the day to day office administration and accounting including dealing with creditors and owners required to ensure the smooth, seamless running of the body corporate.

Privacy Statement

Alpine Body Corporate Pty Ltd (Alpine) is committed to protecting your privacy online. In order to enhance your experience at our site we may gather certain information about you that helps us to customise our content to suit your tastes and preferences. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our web site.



What information do we collect?

We may ask you for personal information at times, including (but not limited to) when you subscribe to the site, purchase from the site when you enter promotions, or contests and when you respond to a survey. For example, when you make a purchase through our online store, we collect several items of personal information, including your billing and shipping address, telephone number, credit card information, and any other information necessary to complete the transaction.

Wherever Alpine collects personal information, we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Statement on that page.




What do we do with the information we collect?

Alpine's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customised experience on our Web site. The information we collect (including information contained in your cookie) may be used to provide such capabilities as personalisation services, interactive communications, online shopping, and personalised communication between you and the services you prefer. We may also use the information to estimate the size of our audience and measure certain traffic patterns, to track the progress and number of entries in our promotions and contests, to track visits to and business conducted at our online store, to notify our visitors about updates to our Web site, to contact you for marketing purposes, to contact you on behalf of certain third parties and deliver targeted advertisements that may be of interest to you. We may occasionally contact you with information regarding special events at Alpine, such communication will be opt in




"Cookies" and how we use them?
Alpine uses "Cookies" to track and record your preferences and activity on our Web site. Cookies are small bits of data that are sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Your cookie may be set at various times during your interaction with our Web site. It is updated from time to time as you access the many different portions of our Web site. Each time you access our site, our server may deliver certain customised information to you based on the data stored in your cookie. Some advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may also use their own cookies.
We also collect IP addresses for system administration.


With whom do we share your information and for what purpose?

Alpine does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with others. However, when one or more of our business partners co-sponsor a service, promotion and/or contest, we may share some or all of the information collected in connection with such service, promotion or contest with the co-sponsor(s). If we intend to share such information, you will be notified prior to the collection of that information. If you do not want your information to be shared, you will be able to choose not to allow the transfer by not using or signing up for that particular service, promotion or contest.

In addition, when you make a purchase through our online store, or sign up to receive promotional items from us, we may share some of your personal information with third parties helping us to complete your transaction or send you the items you signed up to receive. When we share your information with such third parties, we will work to ensure that only the information necessary to complete your transaction is disclosed. Finally, we reserve the right to share your information with any affiliated companies or subsidiaries owned or controlled by Alpine, if any, provided that they are also bound by the terms of this Privacy Statement.



Your Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Alpine as outlined in this Privacy Statement




Changes to our Privacy Statement
From time to time, we may change our Privacy Statement. We will post those changes on this page so that our customers will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we share the information with others.




Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy Statement shall be governed by the law of the State of Victoria Australia Any legal action in relation to this statement against any party or its property may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Victoria Australia. Each party to the Agreement irrevocably, generally and unconditionally submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any court specified in this provision in relation to both itself and its property.



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Terms and conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TRADING OF THE COMPANY

NOTE: These Terms and Conditions will form part of all trading arrangements between the Company and the Customer for the provision of Services by the Company to the Customer and can only be varied by written notice by the Company to the Customer

1.DEFINITIONS

In the following Terms and Conditions of Trading the "Company" shall mean Alpine Body Corporate Pty Ltd and any related body corporate of the Company within the meaning of Section 50 of the Corporations Law; "the Customer" shall mean the entity obtaining the Services as defined herein; and "the Services" means the services to be provided by the Company to the Customer as detailed in the Schedule provided and any other services agreed in writing between the Company and the Customer.

2.ACTING IN RELIANCE

The Customer warrants that the information provided by the Customer in this Application Form is true and correct. The Customer acknowledges that the Company in providing these services to the Customer will act in reliance on this information.

3. BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The only contractual terms, which are binding upon the Company, are those set forth herein or otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and those, if any, which are imposed by law and which cannot be excluded.

4. SERVICES AND PRICES

The Price of the Services shall be as detailed in writing by the Company to the Customer in the attached Schedule or in any written notice by the Company to the Customer from time to time.

4.1 PAYMENT TERMS

Payment for Services provided by the Company to the Customer shall be made by credit card and/or are payable in advance for the service period in which they are to be provided. The Customer authorises the Company to charge the credit card specified herein for payment of any charges. If the card issuer or it's agent decline to pay any such charges then the Customer shall pay them on demand.

5.SANCTIONS FOR LATE PAYMENT

If the Customer defaults in making payment to the Company in accordance with these terms and conditions the Company may in its absolute discretion:-

(a) charge the Customer interest calculated on the portion of the Customer's account overdue from time to time at the rate of 2% per month from the date on which such default arose; and

(b)require the Customer to reimburse the Company for all collections costs including legal costs incurred by the Company calculated on a solicitor and own client basis as a consequence of the Company instructing its solicitor to provide advice to it in connection with each default and/or to institute such recovery process as shall in the absolute discretion of the Company be appropriate in the circumstances.

6.APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS

Any payments tendered by the Customer to the Company shall be applied as follows:-

(a) firstly as reimbursement for any collection costs incurred by the Company in accordance with Clause 5(b) hereof; (b) secondly in payment of any interest charged to the Customer in accordance with Clause 5(a) hereof, and(c)thirdly in satisfaction of part satisfaction of the oldest portion of the Customer's account.

7. EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED CONDITIONS AND WARRANTIES

The only conditions and warranties which are binding on the Company in respect of the state, quality or condition of the goods and Services supplied by it to the Customer and/or in respect of advice, recommendation(s), information or services supplied by it, its employees, servants or agents to the Customer regarding the goods and Services, their use and application are those imposed and required to be binding by statute (including the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)) and to the fullest extent permitted thereby the liability if any of the Company arising from the breach of such conditions or warranties shall, at the Company's option, be limited to and completely discharged in the case of the goods by either the Supply by the Company of equivalent goods or the replacement by the Company of the goods supplied to the Customer and in the case of advice, recommendation(s), information or services by the supplying of the advice, recommendation(s), information or services again and otherwise all other conditions and warranties whether express or implied by law in respect of the state, quality or condition of the said goods which may apart from this clause by binding on the Company are hereby expressly excluded and negatived.Except to the extent provided immediately above the Company shall have no liability (including liability in negligence) to any person for any loss or damage consequential or otherwise howsoever suffered or incurred by any such person in relation to the goods and/or advice, recommendation (s), information or services and without limiting the generality thereof in particular any loss or damage consequential or otherwise howsoever suffered or incurred by any such person caused by or resulting directly or indirectly from any failure, defect or deficiency of whatsoever nature or kind of or in the goods and/or advice, recommendation(s), information or services and without limiting the generality thereof in particular any loss or damage consequential or otherwise howsoever suffered or incurred by any such person caused by or resulting directly or indirectly from any failure, defect or deficiency of whatsoever nature or kind of or in the goods and/or advice, recommendation(s), information or services.

8. INTERNET

Where the Services involve connection to the internet (world wide web), the Customer agrees to abide by Internet Protocol and any Rules imposed by the Company (which shall be set out on the Company's web site) and acknowledges that the Company is not and shall not be responsible for the content of any material obtained and/or used by the Customer in connecting to the Intemet. The Company shall not be responsible for any loss and damage, which the Customer may suffer or allegedly suffer as a consequence of using the Company's Services or being unable to use the Company’s Services.

THE COMPANY CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS SUPPLY OF ITS SERVICES USING AN INTERNET CONNECTION THROUGH TO, OR PROVIDED BY, THE COMPANY.

10. TERMINATION

The arrangements between the Company and the Customer may be terminated by one month's written notice to the other PROVIDED THAT the Company may immediately terminate the arrangements (including the Customer's Intemet connection) for any breach by the Customer of these terms and conditions including if any monies due to the Company by the Customer are not paid within fourteen days of the due date or the Customer becomes bankrupt of (being a company) has a receiver and manager, liquidator or administrator appointed over it.

11. PRIVACY AUTHORITY

Where Services are supplied to the Customer on credit the Customer irrevocably authorises the Company, its employees and agents to make such enquiries as it deems necessary to investigate the credit worthiness of the Customer from time to time including (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the making of enquiries of persons nominated as trade referees, the bankers of the Customer or any other credit providers (the information sources) and the Customer hereby authorises the information sources to disclose to the Company such information concerning the Customer which is within their possession and which is requested by the Company.

12. RELEVANT LAW

These terms and conditions of and any contract including them shall be governed by the law of the State of Victoria Australia and the parties submit to the Exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of that State.

13. GENERAL

In respect of the Customer's obligation to make payment for Services supplied by the Company to the Customer, time shall be of the essence.All communications shall be by notice in writing and sent to the Company and the Customer at their addresses facsimile numbers and email addresses detailed herein. A notice shall be deemed received when the sender hand delivers it or (if by fax or email) receives confirmation of receipt and in any event with 24 hours of sending the notice.Neither party can assign its rights under these terms and conditions nor may the Customer resell any Services provided by the Company without the Company's written consent.These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between the Company and the Customer relating to the Services and there are no agreements, understandings, warranties or representations between the parties other than those contained herein.It is the Customer's responsibility to obtain any approvals licences or permits necessary for the performance of these terms and conditions. No waiver by the Company of any default on the part of the Customer in the performance these terms and conditions.The singular shall include the plural and vice versa, words importing any gender shall include every other gender and where there is more than one party comprising the Customer, they shall be bound jointly and severally.