This sets out the legal basis on which:
* you can access and use the National Border Collie Council.org website, and
* a response to a request for information or advice is provided.
If you don't agree with these terms, please do not use this website.
1. GENERAL
1.1 User agrees to be bound by Terms Of Use
(a) National Border Collie Council.org is the internet legal website of the National Border Collie Council Inc (NBCC).
(b) By using the National Border Collie Council.org website (the Site ), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use which constitute the agreement between you and the NBCC.
(c) To complete and send a request for information or advice using a legal query form you must agree to these Terms of Use by clicking on the "I agree" button at the end of these Terms of Use, but only after having read them.
1.2 Variation of Terms of Use
National Border Collie Council.org reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove any part of these Terms of Use and to add to, change or discontinue any material or information contained in, or any other aspect of, the Site at any time and without notice or liability. Please check the Site regularly for changes in these Terms of Use.
1.3 Governing law
(a) The laws of Queensland govern the operation of this Site and the interpretation of these Terms of Use.
(b) You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the event of any claim or dispute arising between you and National Border Collie Council.org.
1.4 Validity
If any part of these Terms of Use is invalid or unenforceable, that invalidity does not affect the validity or enforceability of any other part of these Terms of Use.
2. APPROVAL TO LINK TO THIS SITE
(a) NBCC encourages linking to the NBCC home page by any person or organisation who has an interest in, or need for information regarding Border Collie organisations.
(b) Should a person, corporation or other entity seek to link to this Site either directly or from within a frameset, the form "Link Request" (hypertext link) must be completed and submitted to National Border Collie Council.org for approval.
(c) National Border Collie Council.org may in its absolute discretion approve or reject a request to link made in accordance with paragraph (b).
(d) A link from a website to this Site must not be established unless National Border Collie Council.org has approved a request under paragraph (c).
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND WARRANTIES BY YOU
3.1 Acknowledgments by you
You acknowledge that:
(a) information contained in or made accessible by this Site:
(i) is general in nature and cannot take into account your particular circumstances;
(ii) is NOT made available to you or the Public as professionally binding legal advice and National Border Collie Council.org has no intention to create a solicitor client relationship with you; and
(iii) represents the views, statements and opinions of the author of any conference paper, article, research paper or other material contained in or made accessible by this Site and does not necessarily represent the views, statements, opinion, knowledge or commitment to a particular course of action of National Border Collie Council.org,
(b) National Border Collie Council.org's response to a request for information or advice:
(i) is based on, relies on and is limited by the instructions and information provided by you; and
(ii) is NOT made available to you as professionally binding legal advice and National Border Collie Council.org has no intention to create a solicitor client relationship with you UNLESS National Border Collie Council.org specifically advises you otherwise in their response;
(c) links to other websites on this Site:
(i) are not under the control of National Border Collie Council.org and may contain computer viruses;
(ii) are inserted for convenience and do not constitute National Border Collie Council.org’s endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service; and
(iii) it is your responsibility to make your own investigations, decisions and inquiries about the information retrieved from other websites;
(d) references to the products or services provided by a person or company on this Site do not imply any form of endorsement, non-endorsement, support or commercial gain by National Border Collie Council.org of the products or services provided by that person or company;
(e) transmission to or from this website may be intercepted, used and modified by third parties; and
(f) you are solely responsible for any content submitted by you to this Site and any instructions or information provided by you in a request for information or advice. National Border Collie Council.org is not responsible for any incomplete or incorrect information provided by you.
3.2 Warranties by you
You warrant to National Border Collie Council.org that you will not:
(a) use this Site for a purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use;
(b) impersonate any person, entity or corporation, or enter a fictitious name or entity name on any form on this Site;
(c) collect or store personal data about other users of this Site for any purpose;
(d) submit any content that:
(i) infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party;
(ii) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, harassing, defamatory, slanderous, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racist, embarrassing or otherwise objectionable to any other person or entity;
(iii) contains any unsanctioned advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of unsanctioned solicitation, including without limitation junk mail, spam, chain letters, or any unsolicited mass distribution of e-mail;
(iv) contains a survey, contest, or pyramid scheme; or
(v) contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of this Site or another computer, or
(e) engage in any other conduct that inhibits any other person from using or enjoying this Site.
4. DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY
4.1 Disclaimer
(a) While the information contained in or made accessible by this Site, or in response to a request for information or advice, has been formulated in good faith and with all due care, due to the fast changing nature of the law relating to the internet and internet content generally, National Border Collie Council.org does NOT warrant:
(i) its accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness;
(ii) that it is free from errors or omission, or that it is definitive;
(iii) that it is free from computer viruses or other defects; or
(iv) its fitness of purpose for any use, including but not limited to use in legal proceedings or for the giving or interpretation of legal advice.
(b) Before relying on the information contained in or made accessible by this Site, you should independently verify its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance for your purposes, and you should obtain any appropriate professional advice.
4.2 Limitation of liability
(a) To the maximum extent permitted by law, the information stored in or made accessible by this Site, or in response to a request for information or advice, is made available to you on the understanding that National Border Collie Council.org and its employees and agents are not liable to you for any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred or arising by reason of you using or relying on the information and whether caused by reason of any error, negligent act, omission or misrepresentation in the information or otherwise.
(b) National Border Collie Council.org does not attempt to exclude any rights or remedies which due to the operation of the Trade Practices Act 1974 or similar State and Territory legislation cannot be excluded. NBCC excludes all other conditions and warranties implied by custom, statute or the general law.
(c) To the extent permitted by law, National Border Collie Council.org’s liability for breach of any implied warranty or condition which cannot be excluded is limited at the option of National Border Collie Council.org to the supply of the legal information services again.
4.3 Indemnity by you
It is a condition of the use of this Site that you indemnify the authors and operators of this Site against all claims and actions however arising from the use of material, information, advice or links provided in the Site or otherwise provided by National Border Collie Council.org, including but not limited to, direct or consequential breaches of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights, or contravention of any local, national, or international restrictions on the publication or transmission of content.
5. PRIVACY POLICY
5.1 Operation of the Site
The National Border Collie Council.org Site is operated by the National Border Collie Council Inc (NBCC). See ‘Contact Us’ for further details. The principal solicitor of the NBCC is responsible for the administration of this privacy policy.
5.2 Collection of personal information
You may provide personal information to National Border Collie Council.org when you complete and send an online form to National Border Collie Council.org. The personal information required by each online form located on this Site is as follows:
(a) Link Request Form : you are required to provide a name and e-mail address. This information is collected for the purpose of advising you whether your application to link to the National Border Collie Council.org site has been granted or refused. We can improve our service by knowing the nature of sites that are linked to National Border Collie Council.org.
(b) Feedback form : this information is collected for the purpose of receiving feedback from users of the National Border Collie Council.org site to improve our service. This information will be deleted once the feedback is obtained.
5.3 Use of personal information
Personal information collected from you under clause 5.2 will only be used by us for the purposes stated in clause 5.2 and when required by law (eg court order or warrant).
5.4 Access to personal information
(a) You may access personal information that NBCC holds about you by telephone or e-mail request.
(b) You must provide your year and country of birth when making a request so that we can verify your identity. Access will be provided free of charge. NBCC will endeavour to provide access in a way that is convenient to you.
(c) Any proposed correction to the personal information held by the NBCC will be kept attached to the relevant NBCC record.
5.5 Security
(a) National Border Collie Council.org takes all reasonable steps to ensure personal information we have collected from you is held securely in an electronic database and in hard copy files.
(b) Client information must be kept for six (6) years from the closure of a file under the professional indemnity insurance policy of the NBCC. National Border Collie Council.org will delete or destroy this information as soon as practicable after this period elapses.
(c) Information is not transmitted to National Border Collie Council.org under clause 5.2 using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
5.6 Cookies
(a) A cookie is a small data field that some websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user id. A website may use cookies to track the pages you have visited. A cookie file can only contain the personal information you supply yourself.
(b) National Border Collie Council.org uses cookies.
5.7 Links on the National Border Collie Council.org Site
The National Border Collie Council.org site contains links to other websites. You are responsible for information that you provide to these sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that requests personal information. This policy does not cover the privacy practices of these linked sites.
5.8 Clickstream data
(a) Clickstreams are the paths you take when navigating a website and the internet in general. When you visit our Site, our servers record the following information for statistical purposes:
(i) your server (IP) address and machine name;
(ii) the date and time of visit to this Site and time spent on particular pages;
(iii) pages accessed and documents downloaded;
(iv) the number of bytes transmitted and received for each request;
(v) the previous site or page visited;
(vi) the search engine and keywords used;
(vii) any linked referral; and
(viii) the type of browser used and its operating system.
(b) National Border Collie Council.org examines this information to determine the traffic through the server as well as access levels to specific pages. In order to deliver better services, we also perform statistical analysis to establish priorities and allocate resources.
(c) No attempt will be made to identify you or your browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect server logs.
(d) The statistics and log files may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the information supplied by National Border Collie Council.org.
(e) Access to and use of this information is restricted to the management and staff of National Border Collie Council.org, who are subject to an agreement to adhere to this privacy policy.
(f) National Border Collie Council.org will not disclose or publish information which identifies individual machines, or potentially identify sub-groupings of addresses without your consent.
(g) National Border Collie Council.org reserves the right to gather more extensive information than indicated above regarding any attempted access to this Site which raises security issues, or in circumstances where National Border Collie Council.org has reason to believe a breach of the law is being or has been committed, and where necessary to make disclosures to the relevant authorities.
5.9 Privacy acknowledgment by you
You acknowledge that National Border Collie Council.org may use information provided by you or through your use of this Site in accordance with this clause 5 (Privacy Policy).
6. COPYRIGHT
(a) This Site is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 all other rights are reserved by National Border Collie Council.org.
(b) This Site is protected by Australian and international copyrights in the graphics, design, layout, typography, and expression of information, whether as a compilation or otherwise.
(c) Information on this Site may not be reproduced in whole or in part for general publication or commercial purposes without the permission of National Border Collie Council.org. All information on the NBCC website has been specifically obtained for use on this site only. Therefore, anyone who wishes to use articles written herein, must seek permission from the individual authors and not NBCC.
(d) The Site may contain trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property rights of National Border Collie Council.org and/or other third parties, or references to such trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property rights. No licence, interest or right to or in any such trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes and other intellectual property rights of National Border Collie Council.org and/or other third parties is granted to or conferred upon you. Any reproduction or use of any of the content of this Site, without the express written consent of National Border Collie Council.org or unless expressly authorised by law, is prohibited. |
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