NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTION RESEARCH FACILITY–TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN ON-LINE FORUMS
Terms and Conditions of Use
From time to time, the website of the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility, or NCCARF,contains bulletin boards, chat rooms, access to mailing lists and other message and communication facilities (collectively termed 'forums'). These terms and conditions, together with the terms and conditions of use of the NCCARF website (available at # INSERT HYPERLINK TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS#) govern your participation in forums. A reference in these terms and conditions to the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility (or NCCARF) is a reference to Griffith University, which operates the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility.
Acceptance of Conditions of Use
By accessing, viewing, posting to or otherwise participating in our forums, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with any of these terms and conditions, do not participate in our forums.
You may be required to register with this website in order to submit content to a forum. You should be aware that posted comments or other submissions may remain on-line indefinitely and may be found through search engines or on-line archives.
In registering with this website or submitting content to a forum, you must not impersonate or otherwise assume the identity of another person, living or dead.
NCCARF reserves the right to alter these terms and conditions at any time with or without notice to you. The amended terms and conditions will be effective immediately upon them being published by NCCARF on this website. Any continued participation in our forums will constitute your acceptance of those changes. These terms and conditions were last amended on 1 November 2010.
Use of Forums
You will be held legally responsible for any material you submit to a forum. Children’s contributions should be supervised by an adult.
NCCARF reserves the right to terminate your access to any forum at its discretion and without giving notice or reasons.
You agree to use forums only to send and receive messages and materials that are strictly related to the particular forum. When using an NCCARF forum, you must not do any of the following:
· upload, distribute or otherwise publish through this website any content which is libellous, defamatory, offensive, obscene, pornographic, abusive, intentionally false or misleading or which in any way violates any laws or infringes third party intellectual property rights;
· upload, distribute or otherwise publish through this website any content which NCCARF deems inappropriate, off topic, repetitive, vexatious or deliberately provocative of other community members;
· upload, distribute or otherwise publish through this website any content which contains inappropriate personal information or otherwise compromises the privacy of any individual, including NCCARF staff;
· distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation for funding, advertising or solicitation for goods or services without requesting and receiving prior written approval from NCCARF. Forums are for non-commercial use only; or
· delete any author attributions, legal notices, proprietary designations or labels from any file that is downloaded nor falsify the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is downloaded.
NCCARF reserves the right to reject and remove material posted to a forum which it believes has been furnished in breach of these terms and conditions or which NCCARF believes has been posted by a participant who seeks to dominate a discussion or a forum.
NCCARF’s determination about whether or not material posted to a forum constitutes a breach of these terms and conditions is final and absolute.
Moderation
NCCARF does not and cannot review every message posted by users on forums and is not responsible for the content of any messages posted. NCCARF reserves the right to delete, move or edit, at its sole discretion, messages that it deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright laws or unacceptable. Users shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages.
You acknowledge that any submissions may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted and displayed by NCCARF in its discretion.
Users should be aware that all forums and discussion groups are public and not private communications. Further, users acknowledge that chats, postings, conferences and any other form of communication by other users are not endorsed by NCCARF, and that such communications shall not be considered as having been reviewed, screened or approved by NCCARF.
Please contact [INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS OF SITE ADMINISTRATOR] if you consider any material posted to this website breaches these terms and conditions or is otherwise inappropriate.
Copyrights
This website and its contents and the contents of publications made available through this website (including posts to forums) and their contents are subject to copyright through the laws of Australia and, through international treaties, other countries. The copyright in materials on this site and reproduced in forums may be owned by NCCARF or by third parties.
By submitting content to a forum, you acknowledge you have all necessary rights, including copyright, in the material you are contributing. You agree that NCCARF may use the copyright in your contributions online to communicate those contributions through this website and exploit that copyright in any other ways that NCCARF chooses, now or in the future. Such uses may include, but are not limited to:
· use for internal training, teaching or academic purposes;
· sub-licensing the copyright;
· using the copyright to contribute to public debate and awareness of climate change issues; and
· archiving and republishing on-line or in other formats and with or without extraneous material or comment.
WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
THIS WEBSITE
Terms and Conditions of Use
This is the website of and operated by the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility, or NCCARF. A reference in these terms and conditions to the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility, or NCCARF is a reference to Griffith University, which operates the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility.
Acceptance of Conditions of Use
By accessing, viewing or otherwise using this website, including by subscribing for information services or participating in on-line forums, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with any of these terms and conditions, do not use this website, subscribe for information services available through this website or participate in on-line forums hosted by this website.
Please note that your participation in on-line forums is also governed by the NCCARF Terms and Conditions of Participation in On-Line Forums (which can be viewed at INSERT HYPERLINK TO FORUMS CONDITIONS).
Use of this Website
The information on this website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and NCCARF does not warrant the completeness, timeliness, suitability or accuracy of any material on this website, nor does it warrant that access to this website will be uninterrupted, timely or secure. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will NCCARF be liable for any damage caused to you of any kind resulting from your use of this website and its content, which use is entirely at your own risk.
From time to time, this website may contain links to web sites operated by third parties. NCCARF does not approve, endorse or sponsor any content or material on these third party websites. You access these third party websites at your own risk and on the basis of the exercise of your own judgement.
Opinions expressed on this website and in other publications available from or through this website are not necessarily the opinions of NCCARF.
NCCARF does not represent or warrant that any files or material obtained from or through this website will be free from computer viruses and these files or materials are provided on the basis that you assume all responsibility for any loss, damage or consequences resulting directly or indirectly from use of these files and material. No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure and any information which you transmit to NCCARF is transmitted at your own risk.
NCCARF reserves the right to remove or change, at any time without notice, any material on the website.
NCCARF reserves the right to terminate your access to this website at its discretion. NCCARF also reserves the right to alter these terms and conditions at any time with or without notice to you. The amended terms and conditions will be effective immediately upon them being published by NCCARF on this website. Your continued use of this website will constitute acceptance of those changes. These terms and conditions were last amended on 1 November 2010.
Restrictions of Use
You must not use this website in any manner or for any purpose which is:
(a) unlawful in the Commonwealth of Australia or in any jurisdiction from which you access this website;
(b) a violation of any rights of NCCARF or any third party; or
(c) prohibited by these terms and conditions.
You may not copy, modify, transmit or distribute any material from this website and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading material from this website.
LIABILITY
To the maximum extent permitted by law, NCCARF does not accept any liability to you whatsoever and, in particular, for damages for loss of earnings or loss of profits, or for any indirect, special or consequential loss or damage which may be suffered or incurred by you or which may arise directly or indirectly in respect of your use of this website or any information or publications available through this website.
NCCARF warrants the material published by it through this websiteis fit for publication in the Commonwealth of Australia. It provides no warranty:
· in relation to material published by others through this website, including any material that is posted to on-line forums hosted by this website (which forums may or may not be moderated from time to time at the discretion of NCCARF); and
· that the material published through this websitewill not contravene the laws of any jurisdiction except the Commonwealth of Australia.
PRIVACY
Privacy Plan
Details of NCCARF’s privacy plan, which explains how NCCARF protects your privacy and handles your personal information, may be obtained from http://www.griffith.edu.au/about-griffith/plans-publications/griffith-university-privacy-plan/.
If you subscribe to receive materials through this website, NCCARF will use your email address and other personal information only for the purpose for which you have provided it, including responding to requests, filling subscriptions and otherwise communicating with you.
If you have subscribed to receive materials through this website, you will receive regular emails from us. You can unsubscribe to these at any time by notifying NCCARF of your election to do so.
If you believe that your personal information has been dealt with otherwise than in accordance with NCCARF’s privacy plan, you may make a complaint to the Griffith University Privacy Contact Officer, Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor (Administration), Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111. Requests must be made in writing and must be made within six months from the date when the breach was suspected to have occurred. Requests will be accepted via e-mail or by letter.
Use of cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Passwords are not saved in cookies. Cookies help NCCARF to know which pages are visited most often and also help NCCARF to ensure that this website responds to users' needs.
If you do not wish to receive a cookie, or if you wish your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, you may use the option on your web browser to disable cookies. Click on the 'help' section of your browser to learn how to change cookie preferences. However, please note that if you disable all cookies you may not be able to take advantage of all the features available on this website.
NCCARF does not use personal identification details transferred through cookies either for promotion or marketing purposes, nor will such information be shared with any third parties.
COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS REQUESTS
This website and its contents and the contents of publications made available through this website and their contents are subject to copyright through the laws of Australia and, through international treaties, other countries. The copyright in materials on this site and reproduced in publications made available through this website may be owned by NCCARF or by third parties.
If you wish to reproduce material from this site, please contact us to clarify its copyright status.
Any person, organisation, company or institution wishing to reproduce any publications made available through this website or any portion of a publications made available through this website is required to obtain permission in advance.
Requests for permission to reprint such material or extracts from such material or to photocopy or to reproduce or communicate any component of that material in any form, including through online databases and networks should be forwarded to web.services@lists.localgov.nccarf.edu.au.
GOVERNING LAW
These terms and conditions and the supply of publications through this website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Queensland Australia and you irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of the terms and conditions which will continue in full force and effect.
OTHER INQUIRIES
For any other inquiries, NCCARF can be contacted via web.services@lists.localgov.nccarf.edu.au.
