Website Terms and Conditions

Young People Creating Queensland is a project initiated by Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ), a not-for-profit incorporated organisation. YAQ has a number of paid employees and volunteers and a Management Committee. Individually and collectively, for the purposes of this web site, ÔweÕ includes all of these parties.

By accessing the Young People Creating Queensland site you agree to the following terms:

Material on the site

1. We do not necessarily endorse or approve any of the content on the site.

2. Some of the content on the site may be unsuitable for people younger than 18. If this is the case, unsuitable content may be so labelled. We take no responsibility for any content that has not been appropriately labelled.

3. The site has mechanisms allowing the moderation of content by paid employees of the organisation. We agree to appropriately and reasonably use the mechanisms provided on the site.

If you become view content and discover any offensive material, you are asked to alert the organisation by contacting them on the details provided on the site.

4. The content (including images) on the site are protected by intellectual property laws. A licence for the content may be indicated by the author.

If you wish to use content downloaded from the site otherwise than in accordance with the authorÕs licence, you will need the approval of the author of the content.

This is a matter between you and the author of the content: we are not obliged to assist you in contacting, or negotiating with, the author of content on the site.

5. We do not guarantee that the content available on the site does not infringe any other personÕs intellectual property rights.

Communication services:

6. You agree that you will not send abusive, threatening, defamatory, vilifying, harassing, obscene, offensive, or otherwise wrongful or illegal material using the comment and message services provided on the site.

Uploading material to the site

7. We have the right to remove content you submit or upload to the site at any time. We do not guarantee that the content you submit or upload will be available for downloading by any person, or at any time. In particular, we do not guarantee that your content will remain stored or accessible on the site.

We may delete, or make (temporarily or permanently) inaccessible, content uploaded and submitted by you at any time and for any reason.

8. We do not warrant that we will archive, back up, or continue to store content uploaded or submitted by you to the site. You should keep a copy of any content uploaded or submitted by you.

9. All copyright for content which you give permission to be published on the Young People Creating Queensland web site shall remain the property of you. At the time of adding your content to the Young People Creating Queensland Web site, you will nominate the type of licence that will apply to your content. However, notwithstanding the type and terms of licence you choose, you agree to the following:

a) You warrant that you are the sole author of your content or have received permission from all authors to upload the content to be used in accordance with these terms of use, that the content is original and its creator/s do not breach any copyright legislation or requirements;

b) From the date of adding your content to the Young People Creating Queensland website, you will allow collaboration, in association with key partners, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable rights (including the rights to assign and sublicense) to use your content for the purpose of this site, including promotional, research and evaluation purposes, as stated in 9c;

c) You agree to permit reproduction, communication, and publication of the content for the purposes of operating, maintaining and preserving the Young People Creating Queensland site. You also agree to permit the reproduction, communication and publication of the content for non-commercial purposes as part of promotional, research and evaluation material for this project including brochures, flyers, posters, articles, press releases, reports etc;

d) You agree to allow the Young Arts Queensland and/or key partners to select whole or part of the content to be reproduced, including but not limited to, reproduction digitally for inclusion on the Youth Arts Queensland website and key partnerÕs websites;

e) We will ensure that your name is credited and suitably recognised with any reproduction;

f) We will not reproduce your content for the purpose of making profit or commercial sales; and

g) Should we want to use the content for any other purpose than those purposes outlined in this Term 9, we will first obtain your consent.

10. You acknowledge that Young People Creating Queensland web site participants, present and future, may be commercial organisations. You also acknowledge that, in the future, the Young People Creating Queensland project may change its geographical scope and may incorporate commercial aspects (eg. advertising, membership fees, etc).

11. As any content that you upload to the site may be seen by people younger than 18, you warrant that you will appropriately label any content that may be unsuitable for viewing by people younger than 18.

12. You warrant that the content you upload or submit to the site does not infringe any other personÕs intellectual property rights including, in particular, copyright and trade marks.

13. You warrant that the content you upload or submit to the site is not illegal including, in particular, that it is not defamatory, harassing, obscene, or vilifying of any race, religion, or ethnicity.

Membership

14. If you join the site by applying for an account and obtaining a password or submitting a profile, the following terms also apply:

(a) you warrant that the information you supply in applying for an account/profile (eg, your name, your age, your email address) are accurate;

(b) you must keep the information associated with your account/profile accurate;

(c) you must keep your password secret;

(d) you agree that we may send you emails from time to time, including emails with commercial content.

Indemnity and disclaimer

15. If you breach the warranties in terms 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, or 14 you indemnify us against any loss that we may suffer, or any expense we may incur, in connection with your breach of warranty.

16. To the extent permitted by law, we do not accept any liability (including liability due to negligence) to you or any person for any loss or damage incurred as a result of accessing the site, any of the content on the site, or uploading/submitting content to the site. Any liability that cannot be legally excluded is limited to the maximum extent possible.

Termination of access

17. We can terminate your access to the site at any time, for any reason (including breach of these terms). Your continued access to the site is in our absolute discretion.

Application of Queensland law

18. You agree that any legal issues in connection with your access to the site will be considered under the law in effect in Queensland, Australia, and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of courts in Queensland.

Use of personal information

19. Any personally identifiable information collected about you will be held in accordance with the Youth Arts Queensland privacy policy (see below).

Amendment of terms

20. We may amend these terms from time to time. We may not give any notice to you when we amend these terms. Your continued use of the site after the terms have been amended indicates your acceptance of the amendments. You must frequently check these terms to see whether they have been amended.