Terms of Use

The website, www.ssfaustralia.org, is owned and operated by Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia. Your use of the website is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers contained in this document and elsewhere on the webiste, known collectively as ‘Terms of Use’. Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia reserves the right to amend the terms of use at any time, and such amendments will be effective immediately upon posting of the modified agreement.

1. Copyright

This website is owned and operated by Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia, and the content is protected by Australian and International copyright laws.

2. Information for personal, non-commercial use only

Information contained on this site is for personal use only and may not be sold or redistributed. You may, using an industry-standard Web browser, download material from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, strictly on the condition that you keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices and all advertisements. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in ay way any material from this site including code and software. You must not use this site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms of us.

While the administrators and moderators of this website will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every post. Therefore users agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any application laws. Doing so may lead to a user being immediately and permanently banned. The webmaster or administrator have the right to remove, edit, move, delete or close any information at any time should they see fit. Users agree to any information entered being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster or administrator cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

3. Data distribution and Statement of Liability

Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained within this website. These data and related graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and will change over time, Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within these limitations. Although these data have been processed successfully on a Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia computer system, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual uses or the data and aggregate use with other data.

4. Use with permission

To obtain permission to reproduce the information (text or graphics) contained on the webiste for any commercial purpose, email the specifics of your request to ssfaus@ssfaustralia.org

5. Linking to the Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia Website

The Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia website does not enter into reciprocal link agreements. We provide links to sites that are appropriate to our mission. Our creation of a link to your site does not obligate you to provide a link back to us. You do not need to get advance permission to link to the Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia web site if you are making a simple link to the homepage. Linking to the site is permitted under limited conditions. If you link to our site, you may not portray any person or subject in a false or misleading light.

We reserve the right to change page names/addresses at any time without notice, so it is up to you to continuously verify your links to our pages.

What you should not do:

• Please do not capture our pages within your frames, or use other visual altering tools, or otherwise present our content as your own. Any link to our site should be a full forward link that passes the client browser to our site unencumbered.

• The BACK button should return the visitor to your site if the visitor wishes to back out.

• You should not link to individual graphics or tables within our pages, especially in an effort to place the downloading burden on our servers. Such an action may be considered a misuse of state resources.

• You may not imply that Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia is endorsing your product or services.

• If you link to this site, you may not portray any person or subject in a false or misleading light.

6. Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia links to other sites

Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia provides links to the following organisations

• Links to governmental units and educational institutions – Scientifiques Sans Frontièrs Australia provides links to other federal, state and local governmental units that provide additional services and information that users of this website may find of interest. Links are also provided to educational institutions.

• Links to private organisations – Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia provides links to private organisations if these organisationas offer services that complement the information or services offered by Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia. The determination of whether to establish links to a private organisation’s website is made on a case-by-case basis.

• Links to non-profit organisations – Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia provides links to non-profit organisations that website users may find of interest. The determination of whether to establish links to a non-profit organisation’s website is made on a case-by-case basis.

7. No Guarantees as to the service

Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in the service will be corrected. You also understand that Scientifiques Sans Frontièrs Australia cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through the Site or delivered via electronic mail through the Site will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site for the reconstruction of any lost data.

8. Our rights to use information you send us

Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia welcomes ideas and feedback from you about all aspects of the Sit. You agree that Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia may reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, and publicly display any material and other information (including ideas for new or improved products and services) that you submit to any public areas of the Site or by email to Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia.

9. Third Party Providers

Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia has provided links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. Third party services and products advertised on this website are the responsibility of the third party and their inclusion of this website does not imply endorsement. Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia will not be liable for any damage or loss arising in any way out of or in connection with or incidental to any information or third party service provided.

10. Information collected from interactive forms

On some of our web pages, we offer interactive forms that let you voluntarily submit personal information (such as your e-mail address, name, or organisation). This occurs when you are registering for membership, conferences, or information offered by Scientifiques Sans Frontières Australia. In those cases, all submitted information is used only for the expressed purpose for which it is intended and is not made available to any third party.

11. Security

If you use this website, you should understand that all activities may be monitored and recorded. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring. WARNING – if such monitoring reveals possible evidence of criminal activity, monitoring records may be provided to law enforcement officials.

Except for authorised law enforcement investigations, we make no other attempts to identify individual users or their usage habits. We only use raw monitoring data logs for determining trends in usage patterns and in diagnosing system problems.