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(Website) is owned and operated by My Animal Pty Ltd. Your use
of, and access to, the Website constitutes your agreement to the
Terms of Use set out below and any other terms set out elsewhere
on the Website. Bay Island Times may amend the Terms of Use at
any time.
Intellectual Property Rights in the Content on the Website
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its affiliates
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to copyright and trade marks.
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that is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of
Bay Island
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reproduce, transmit or otherwise distribute any of the Content
except for a
purpose which would reasonably have been intended by Bay Island
Times.
Each of the mastheads listed on the Website is a trademark of
Bay Island Times or one its affiliates. Nothing contained on
the Website
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displayed on the Website.
Affiliates
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this Website, Bay Island Times' affiliates are bayislandtimes.com.au
and bayislandtimes.com and the companies which publish each
of
the newspapers,
magazines, online properties and other media listed on the
Website.
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inclusive
of publishing costs associated with placement of advertising
material.
Publishing costs are also payable by the advertiser.
All planned editorial content, including features, sections
and special reports to be published in Bay Island Times' publications
is subject
to change or cancellation without notice.
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Bay Island Times, its affiliated companies, and each of their
directors, officers, employees and agents against any action,
claim, loss or
expense arising their use of the Website.
Liability
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damages (including for any indirect, special, economic or consequential
loss or damage) incurred by any person as a result of reliance
on the
Content or any other information incorporated into the Website
by reference. This limitation of liability applies regardless
of whether
the loss or damage was caused by negligence or otherwise and
whether or not Bay Island Times was aware or should have been
aware of the
possibility of such damage. The Content is provided on the
basis
that all persons accessing the Website undertake the responsibility
for assessing the accuracy of its Content and that they rely
on it entirely at their own risk.
To the extent permitted by law, all other representations,
conditions or warranties, whether based in statute, common
law or otherwise,
are excluded. Liability of Bay Island Times for any breach
of a term or condition implied by law is limited, at Bay Island
Times and its
affiliates option, to the supply of any service again or the
payment for the cost of having any service supplied again.
Privacy Policy
The website is operated in accordance with the Bay Island Times
Privacy Policy.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIVACY POLICY
Bay Island Times recognises the importance of protecting the
privacy of personally identifiable information collected
about our customers.
For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, the word customers
includes visitors to our web sites, subscribers to and users
of our services,
purchasers of our products and advertising customers.
We are bound by the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy
Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to the handling of personal information.
Where
appropriate we will handle personal information relying on
the media exemption (but complying with the Australian Press
Council
Privacy
Standards), related bodies corporate exemption and the employee
exemption in the Privacy Act.
Personal Information
We collect personal information when we provide our services
to you. Generally we will tell you why we are collecting
information when
we collect it and how we plan to use it or these things
will be obvious when we collect the information. We usually collect
personal information
directly from you although sometimes we may use agents
or
service providers to do this for us. We may also acquire
lists from
other sources, both from other companies and from other
public documents.
Use of Information
We usually collect personal information such as your name,
address, telephone number, and in some instances, your
financial details.
When you are online, we collect information regarding
the pages within our network which you visit and what you click
on. As
a general rule
we do not collect sensitive information. However, if
we
do, it will usually be for the purposes of providing
our goods
or services
and
if the law requires us to, we will seek your consent
to collect it.
We use your information to provide our services to you,
to fulfil administrative functions associated with these
services,
for
example billing, to enter into contracts with you or
third parties and for
marketing and client relationship purposes. Where your
personal information is contained within an advertisement
which we
publish for you, we
may also use your information for publication of that
same advertisement in other media, in accordance with
the terms
and conditions of
the initial publication. We may share your information
with other companies
which are related to Bay Island Times within Australia.
We or they may also use your personally identifiable
information to
assist us
in improving our products and services and any of us
might be in touch to let you know about goods, services,
or promotions
which
may interest you.
Use by Third Parties
Bay Island Times may disclose your information to its
service providers and contractors from time to time
to help us
to provide and market
our goods and services to you. We may also share your
information with third parties who provide prizes for
competitions
or reader offers. If we do this we generally require
these parties
to
protect your information in the same way we do.
Use of Aggregate Data
We may collect certain non-personal information to
optimise our goods and services including our Web
pages for your
computer (e.g., the
identity of your Internet browser, the type of operating
system you use, your IP address and the domain name
of your Internet
service
provider). We may use such non-personal information
for internal purposes, including but not limited
to improving
the content
of our sites. Bay Island Times may use personally
identifiable information
in aggregate form to improve our goods and services
including our Web sites and make them more responsive
to the needs
of our
customers.
This statistical compilation and analysis of information
may also be used by Bay Island Times or provided
to others as a
summary report
for marketing, advertising or research purposes.
Security
Bay Island Times strives to ensure the security,
integrity and privacy of personally identifiable
information
of our customers. We use a
variety of physical and electronic security measures
including restricting physical access to our offices
and firewalls
and secure databases
to keep personal information secure from misuse,
loss or unauthorised use or disclosure. Unfortunately,
no
data
transmission over
the
Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Access to Personal Information
You have a right to access most personal information
we hold about you and if we deny access in some
circumstances we
will tell you
why. To request access, please contact our privacy
officer as set out at the end of this document.
Public Information
Any information posted on bulletin boards and/or
communicated in chat areas becomes public information.
While Bay
Island Times strives
to protect and respect your privacy, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information you
disclose in a
chat room or
bulletin board.
Cookies
Cookies are data that a Web site transfers
to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping
purposes.
Cookies can
facilitate a user's
ongoing access to and use of a site. They
allow us to track usage patterns and to compile data
that
can help
us improve
our content
and target advertising. If you do not want
information
collected through the use of Cookies, there
is a simple procedure in
most browsers that allows you to deny or
accept the Cookie feature.
But you should
note that Cookies may be necessary to provide
you with features such as merchandise transactions
or registered
services.
Online Links to Third Party and Co-Branded
Sites
Bay Island Times may establish relationships
with business partners that allow visitors
to our Internet
sites
to link directly to
sites operated by these partners. Some
of these sites may be "co-branded" with
our logo; however, these sites may not be operated or maintained
by or on our behalf. These sites may collect personal information
from you that may be shared with us. This Privacy Statement
will apply to any personal information we obtain in this manner.
Bay Island Times is not responsible for
the content or practices of Web sites operated
by third parties
that
are linked to
our sites. These links are meant for the
user's convenience only.
Links to third
party sites do not constitute sponsorship,
endorsement or approval by Bay Island Times
of the content,
policies or
practices of
those third party sites. Once you have
left
our site via such a link, you
should check the applicable privacy policy
of the third party site.
What else you should know about privacy
on the internet
Remember to close your browser when you
have finished your user session. This
is to ensure
that others
cannot access
your personal
information
and correspondence if you share a computer
with someone else or are using a computer
in a public
place like
a library or Internet café.
You as an individual are responsible for the security of and
access to your own computer.
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal
information over the Internet that this
information can be
collected and used
by others.
In short,
if you post personal information in publicly
accessible online forums, you may receive
unsolicited messages
from other parties
in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible
for maintaining the secrecy of your username
and passwords and
any account information.
Please
be careful and responsible whenever you
are
using the internet.
For further information
Please contact our office to ask for
access to your information or if you
have a complaint
concerning
your information
privacy or if
you would like more information about
our approach to privacy.
07-3409-4882
PO Box 1124
Macleay Island, QLD 4184
