Terms of Use

1. Access

By accessing this IRSEA website, you accept and agree that you are bound by the Terms of Use that are set out below and on IRSEA’s Privacy Policy page. Do not use the IRSEA website or upload or download content or information from our website if you do not agree to these Terms.

IRSEA may change our Terms without notice. By continuing to access our website, you are agreeing to these Terms as they apply at the time of your access. Please check this page whenever you visit our website to ensure that you are aware of the Terms that apply at the time.

Our website contains some website pages and services that IRSEA has designed and intended only for IRSEA members who have logged into the website to access them. You must not access these website pages and services unless you are an appropriately logged in IRSEA member.

2. Links

For your convenience, our website displays links to other third party websites. IRSEA does not control the content of these third party websites and does not endorse their content, policies or procedures. Your access to and use of the information provided on third party sites are your own responsibility and IRSEA accepts no liability. Similarly, by providing links to other websites, IRSEA does not claim any endorsement by third party organisations.

3. Intellectual property

When accessing, browsing or viewing the IRSEA website you accept and acknowledge that the site contains material or information that are the subject of Australian copyright or other legal rights. You may not do anything that interferes with or breaches those laws or the intellectual property rights in the content.

The intellectual property rights to content on this site belong to IRSEA, except where material belonging to third parties is included with permission or under fair dealing provisions.

For content that you are eligible to access, you may download, view or print a copy of material on this site for educational and/or personal, non-commercial use provided you do not significantly modify the content and adequately attribute the material. IRSEA reserves all rights not expressly granted under these Terms of Use.

If you contribute material to the IRSEA website or participate in forums, discussions or surveys you must hold the copyright for or permission to use the material. You grant IRSEA a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide license to use and publish in any format and media, in full or in part, the content that you submit.

If you believe that you are the copyright owner of any material on IRSEA’s website and object to its inclusion on the site, please contact IRSEA by email or via the contact form on this site. IRSEA undertakes, on request, to remove any content for which we do not have permission to place on the website.

4. Disclaimer

IRSEA offers the information on the website to you in good faith. However, the opinions and interpretations expressed on the website or in IRSEA Newsletters by any individuals or representatives of organisations reflect the views of those contributors and are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of IRSEA.

While we take care, IRSEA cannot guarantee:

the website or the host server are free of software bugs or viruses
software used on the website is error free or will operate uninterrupted
any service offered on the website or any linked sites will meet your particular needs
the accuracy, currency or completeness of any information or material on or referred to on the IRSEA website or any linked sites.

IRSEA does not accept any liability for any direct or indirect loss or damage arising from:

your use of this website, its content or any material accessed through this website
you acting or failing to act on any information contained in or referred to on the website and/or any of the linked websites
the transmission of any computer viruses, malware or defects from using this website or any linked sites
your using or your inability to use any service contained or referred to on this website and/or any linked site.

IRSEA does not accept responsibility for the use by others of any personally identifiable information you choose to submit as a consequence of your contributing to and/or participating in activities promoted on the website.

5. Your responsibilities

5.1 In using, accessing or contributing to the IRSEA website, you undertake to IRSEA that you will not:

use the website or content on it for unlawful, illegal or immoral purposes
engage in any deceptive or misleading practices
defame any other person or violate any obligations of confidence owed to any person or organisation
interfere with any content related to any person other than you, or tamper with any area of the website, other than as expressly permitted in these Terms;
use the website to market or advertise to other users, other than as expressly agreed by IRSEA
link any other website to the IRSEA website without the knowledge and consent of IRSEA
harvest other user’s personal information available as part of this website for any commercial or business purpose or to send unsolicited messages or other communications without IRSEA’s knowledge and approval
knowingly infringe the intellectual property rights of any person or organisation
represent or suggest that you have any relationship with or responsibility within IRSEA that you do not have
post, upload or contribute, in any format, images of school students or anyone under the age of 18, without written parental consent.
email, post or otherwise transmit any content that contains any virus or electronic defect
reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any software, device or other processes forming part of or used in connection with the website

5.2 In using, browsing, accessing or contributing to the IRSEA website, you accept that:

you are solely responsible for all content that you contribute to the IRSEA website
in order to access or to contribute to ‘members only’ pages, you must be logged in as an approved member of IRSEA
notwithstanding the above, IRSEA cannot necessarily confirm the identity, background or expertise of a person who contributes content
when you contribute any content to the website, an IRSEA moderator will review the content and determine whether to accept or reject the content, at the absolute discretion of IRSEA and in a timely manner determined by IRSEA
IRSEA does not guarantee that your contributed content will be published on the website or appear in the form uploaded by you
IRSEA may approach selected contributors to expand on their contributions in longer articles to be published on the website or in the IRSEA Newsletter
you should retain a backup copy of material you have contributed and cannot rely on IRSEA keeping a copy of contributed content
you do not acquire any ownership right, title, or other interest in content on the website by downloading, copying, or otherwise using any content
the website contains material or information that is the subject of copyright or other legal rights
IRSEA reserves the right to revoke access to the website of any person who deliberately or repeatedly breaches these Terms, and to remove any content for any reason.