Privacy, Security, Copyright & Disclaimer - Australia Defence Association

Other than for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth of Australia) or other applicable laws, no information on this website may be reproduced, adapted, uploaded to a third party, linked to, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by any process without the written permission of the Australia Defence Association.

Our terms and conditions for the supply of content to the ADA are detailed below.

Privacy and Security

The Australia Defence Association is a national-level, independent, non-partisan, community-based, public-interest guardian organisation and think-tank.

The role, operations and activities of the Association necessarily require and involve widespread interaction with the people of Australia. We take our part of such interaction very seriously and expect such responsibility to be reciprocated by interlocutors. Our policy governing the different aspects of commonplace community interaction is detailed at enquiries, feedback and media liaison.

The Australia Defence Association respects your right to privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth of Australia). We are required to comply with the National Privacy Principles in respect to the collection of personal information from individuals. Such information is kept securely and is not disclosed to others.

Personal information. Please be assured that we only collect personal information to serve our members, subscribers or interlocutors efficiently and to further the public-interest guardianship work of the Association in an effective manner. We keep all personal information provided to us in the strictest confidence. We do not rent, sell or commercially use your personal information with any third party under any circumstances. We do not otherwise share your personal information with any third party without your prior express permission. Please note, however, that we must fully co-operate should a situation arise where we are required by law to provide information to a duly authorised Australian government law enforcement agency.

Email address protection. The Australia Defence Association will record your email address(es) if you become a member of the Association, a subscriber to ADA publications and, in some cases, where you initiate correspondence or contact with the Association. Due to the geographic spread of members and subscribers across Australia and overseas the main method of contact used by the Association is email. This especially includes electronic distribution of our bulletin Defence Brief or other updates. It is your responsibility to ensure the Association has your current email address in order to receive Defence Brief or other updates. We do not use your email address(es) for any other purpose and we will not disclose your email address(es) to a third party without your express consent. We do not send unsolicited emails. Recipients of email messages from the Association may choose to unsubscribe from our distribution list by advising us by email, telephone or hard-copy correspondence.

Cookies. This website does not use 'cookies'.

Payment information. This website does not contain an on-line credit card facility so there is no prospect of your credit card payment details being compromised by using this website. You can only use a credit card to pay your ADA subscription by advising us of your card details by telephone, or by completing the credit card authorisation form sent to you and returning it by post, facsimile or email direct to our national office.

More information. More information about Privacy law and the National Privacy Principles is available from the Australian Federal Government Privacy Commissioner at http://www.privacy.gov.au.

Verification. If at any time you wish to know what information the Australia Defence Association holds about you, then please email us at subscriptions and we will advise you of such detail.

Links to External Web Sites

This website contains links to external websites. Reasonable care is taken in selecting linked websites, however it is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites.

Links to external websites should not be taken to be an endorsement or a recommendation of any third-party products or services offered by virtue of any information, material or content linked from or to this site. Users of links provided by this site should be aware of which organisation is hosting the site they visit.

Views or recommendations provided in linked sites do not necessarily reflect those of the Australia Defence Association.

The privacy, security and copyright policies outlined here apply only to the Australia Defence Association website. We recommend that you read the policies of any site that you link to from the Australia Defence Association website.

Electoral Act Authorisation

Responsibility for election comment on this website and in Defender and Defence Brief is taken by Neil James, of the above address, acting as executive director of the Australia Defence Association. Unless otherwise authorised by the ADA Board of Directors as per the Association's constitution, the executive director is the only person authorised to represent the Association in any form of public debate or discourse.

Disclaimers

General Disclaimer. The Australia Defence Association is an independent, non-partisan, community-based, public-interest guardian organisation and think-tank and seeks to further informed public debate on defence and wider national security issues. In furtherance of effective debate the views of individual authors who post articles, reviews, letters or other comment on this site, or publish them in any ADA publication, are not necessarily the views of the Australia Defence Association. The Association will not be legally responsible in contract, tort or otherwise for any statement made by authors of any item published on this website or in any ADA publication.

Quality of information. Every effort is made to ensure the quality of the information available on this website. However, we cannot guarantee and we assume no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information.

Advertising.

The ADA does not accept advertisements for products or services it considers are unethical or where such advertising would not be in the public interest.
The advertising of a product on this website or in any ADA publication does not mean or imply that the ADA necessarily endorses that product or its manufacturer or provider.
The acceptance of advertising for ADA publications is kept strictly segregated from the formulation or execution of ADA policy or comment. To ensure independence and transparency the costs of production of all ADA publications are fully covered by subscriptions and sales and do not rely on advertising for their funding.
No advertorial-type articles or commentary are accepted or included in ADA publications.

Terms and Conditions for the Supply of Your Content

The Australia Defence Association (ABN 16 083 007 390), hereafter referred to as the ADA, invites people to provide us with various types of content for use within the ADA website or our hard-copy and electronic publications. We can only accept your content if you comply with the terms and conditions set out below.

1. If you send content to the ADA, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

2. These terms and conditions are subject to change at the sole discretion of the ADA.

3. You should only provide your content to the ADA if you are over 18 years of age.

4. The ADA will determine, at its discretion, whether to publish (or remove from a site or a hard-copy publication) any of your content.

5. The ADA may edit your content in or at its discretion.

6. You warrant that:

a. you own your content and all rights in relation to your content;

b. you obtained your content in a manner which does not breach any laws or the rights of any person;

c. your content is accurate and reflects actual people and events and you did not digitally alter images or footage in any way to create your content or impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

d. your content, your provision of your content to the ADA and the use by the ADA of your content, in each case as contemplated in these terms and conditions, does not breach any law (including laws relating to privacy, intellectual property and defamation) or the rights of any person;

e.       your content, at the time you send it to the ADA, contains no virus or other code or material embedded in it which will have a negative impact on the ADA’s services, infrastructure or public interfaces;

f.        your content is not being provided for a commercial purpose (including that you are not soliciting funds or promoting particular goods or services); and

g.       you did not forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email, SMS or other electronic means of communication.

7. You acknowledge that the ADA, after consultation with you, may use all intellectual property rights in your content throughout the world, in perpetuity, without restriction and without making payment to you, including publication of that material in hard-copy publications or in electronic media, using your content in advertising and promotional material for the ADA and permitting others to do any of these, including when the ADA and others might receive payment for this.

8. You waive all moral rights in your content and consent to anything which the ADA (or any person permitted to do so by the ADA) may do in relation to your content which would otherwise be in breach of your moral rights. This includes the unlikely event that the ADA may be required to use your content without attributing you as the source of your content.

9. The ADA will be under no liability to you in respect of any loss or damage (including consequential loss or damage) which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly or indirectly in respect of your supply of your content to the ADA, or the subsequent use of your content within goods or services supplied by the ADA.

10. On providing your content to the ADA for publication in any media, you indemnify the ADA and its officers, employees and agents against any damage or loss made against or suffered by any of those indemnified arising, in whole or in part, as a result of:

a. the publication by the ADA or a person permitted by the ADA of your content; or

b. a breach by you of these terms and conditions.

11. When you provide us with your content the ADA will collect and retain certain personal information about you. For details of the information we collect and its uses, please see our privacy policy (above). We may also contact you for reasons relating to your use of our website(s) or publications or the content you have submitted

12. These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of the Australian Capital Territory. The parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts exercising jurisdiction there.

13. Nothing in these terms and conditions has any impact on the terms and conditions of use which apply to the relevant ADA sites or other services.

To preserve its independence and ensure transparency the corporate administrative structure of the
Australia Defence Association is organised as a not-for-profit public company (ABN 16 083 007 390)
limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001