These two (User Content and Terms of Use) are related and should appear near or with the discussion board / posting section.

USER CONTENT

The user is responsible for all content you contribute to the cattleindustry.com.au website, including text, photos, videos, audio and links.

By contributing content to the cattleindustry.com.au website you give the administrators of the site royalty-free, non-exclusive licence and permission to use your content for their own purposes.

Cattleindustry.com.au does not endorse the views or material contained in the contributions of members of the public or third party sites. Cattleindustry.com.au is not responsible for the content, availability or performance of external sites linked to the site.

In no event will cattleindustry.com.au be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with any contributions made to this site or the use of external sites linked to the site.

DISCUSSION FORUM TERMS OF USE

While cattleindustry.com.au wants to promote debate, discussion and the sharing of opinions, online community members must treat each other with respect and courtesy. These standards apply to interactions within the website.

By submitting content to this forum you understand and agree the cattleindustry.com.au has ultimate editorial control over the content. The administrator may edit, remove or exercise its discretion not to publish your contribution for legal, editorial or operational reasons. This includes, but it not limited to, editing, removing or not publishing content that is:

  1. defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or that it violates laws regarding harassment, discrimination, racial vilification, privacy or contempt;
  2. intentionally false or misleading;
  3. an infringement of intellectual property rights including copyright;
  4. abusive, offensive or contains obscene language or content including footage or photographs;
  5. inappropriate, off topic, repetitive or vexatious;
  6. compromises the privacy of any person or contains inappropriate personal information; g. seeks to endorse commercial products or services;
  7. seeks to directly solicit donations;
  8. impersonates someone else and/or posts on behalf of a suspended member; or
  9. contains threats of any kind toward any individual or organisation.

Cattleindustry.com.au reserves the right to reject contributions from participants who seek to dominate the discussion, are deliberately provocative of other community members or show, in the opinion of the administrators, a lack of etiquette towards other members posting on the website or their content.

If you breach these Terms of Use, cattleindustry.com.au may block your use of or contributions to this site.

If you have concerns about inappropriate content on cattleindustry.com.au you can alert the site administrator using the contact form on the site.

When accessing or participating in cattleindustry.com.au on a third party platform, such as channels, pages or feeds hosted on an external site, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions specified by that third party platform.

This relates to your ownership of all original materials contributed to the site to be displayed on the ‘Your story’ segment of the website.

COPYRIGHT

Material on this site, including text and images, are protected by copyright and intellectual property laws and are the property of Kristy O’Brien and Andrew Hyde and cattleindustry.com.au. It may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Prior written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained for any other use.

This is the overriding disclaimer. It needs to be displayed “prominently”. Many websites have disclaimer and privacy statement links on the bottom of their home page.

DISCLAIMERS

About Using This Website

By using cattleindustry.com.au you are accepting all the terms of this disclaimer notice. If you do not agree with anything in this notice you should not use this website.

Warranties and Liability

While every effort is made to ensure that the content of this website is accurate, the website is provided “as is” and cattleindustry.com.au makes no representations or warranties in relation to the accuracy or completeness of the information found on it.

While the content of this site is provided in good faith, we do not warrant that the information will be kept up to date, be true and not misleading, or that this site will always (or ever) be available for use.

We do not warrant that the servers that make this website available will be error, virus or bug free and you accept that it is your responsibility to make adequate provision for protection against such threats.

In no event will cattleindustry.com.au be liable for any incidental, indirect, consequential or special damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of profit, loss of contracts, goodwill, data, information, income, anticipated savings or business relationships, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damage, arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or any linked websites.

Use of an automatic translation service in connection with this website is at your own risk. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the translation by independent verification.

Exceptions

Nothing in this disclaimer notice excludes or limits any warranty implied by law which it would not be lawful for cattleindustry.com.au to exclude. If any of the points in this disclaimer notice are found to be unenforceable under applicable law, that will have no bearing on the enforceability of the rest of the disclaimer notice. This disclaimer notice is based on examples provided by freenetlaw.com and www.lawtalk.com. Thanks also to the Arts Law Centre of Australia.