Terms & Conditions

AJN Website General Terms and Conditions of Use

1. Disclaimer

The information on this web site is provided in good faith and the AJN believes it to be accurate. Unless stated otherwise, all information on this web site is supplied without any warranty, express or implied, condition or other term as to the quality of any services or their suitability for any particular purpose.

The AJN is not liable for any loss of income, profit, business contracts or goodwill or any indirect or financial loss suffered whether arising in contract, negligence or otherwise arising in connection with use of this web site.

2. Copyright

This web site is the copyright property of the AJN. You may download, display, print and reproduce material from this web site in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, you may not, in any form or by any means adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, transmit, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of this web site without the written permission of the AJN.

3. Linked Web Sites

This web site may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained. Links to those web sites should not be construed as any endorsement, approval, recommendation or preference by us of the owners or operators of those web sites, or for any information, products or services referred to on those other web sites.

4. Chat Rooms

Any chat room, message board or means by which the AJN provides a means for users to post material will be subject to these terms and conditions.

By submitting material to the message boards and/or to reader’s, letters, reader’s comments, talkbacks, reader’s photos, and web content of the AJN website (collectively, the ‘Forums’), or to view material posted on the Forums, the individual submitting or viewing such material (the ‘Contributor’) hereby agrees and undertakes to accept and abide by all of the terms and conditions of this agreement between the Contributor and AJN. Your use of the Forums indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions as changed, amended or modified from time to time. The AJN may change, add or remove these terms and conditions from time to time, in its sole discretion and without notice.

a) The Contributor shall not upload to the Forums, or distribute or otherwise publish on the Forums, any libelous, racist, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material.

b) The Contributor agrees not to threaten or verbally abuse other Contributors, or deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages.

c) The Contributor undertakes not to use language that abuses or discriminates on any basis, including without limitation race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region and disability, and such language shall be grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Forums, without derogating from any other remedy of the AJN.

d) The Forums shall only be used for non-commercial purposes. The Contributor shall not, without the express approval of the Australian Jewish News, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any advertising or solicitation for funds, goods or services.

e) The Contributor is solely responsible for the content of its messages.

f) The AJN reserves the right to delete, move, or edit messages that it, at its sole discretion, deems defamatory, obscene, in violation or possibly in violation of copyright or trademark laws or any other law, at its sole discretion.

g) The Contributor acknowledges that any submissions made to the Forums may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by the AJN, at its sole discretion, and the Contributor waives any moral rights which it may have with regard to the alteration or change of the material.

h) All submissions to the Forums become the property of the AJN and the Contributor consents to the display of any personal details that are attached to the contribution. This may be on the AJN website, print publications and related online or offline promotional sites, without charge.

i) The Contributor hereby indemnifies, defends and holds harmless the AJN, and all officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, legal fees. The Contributor shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any such claim.

5. Privacy Policy

We understand that the privacy of your personal details, and the security of your transactions with us, is of paramount importance to you. The AJN has adopted privacy policies with respect to your privacy and security. The AJN sets out the rules we will abide by when dealing with personal information we collect from individuals in the course of our business. Our policy is based on the National Privacy Principles (NPP) of the Privacy Act, 1988 (Cth). We may make alterations or additions to this policy from time to time. Should we do so, we will update the policy on our web site. We require that all users of the AJN website abide by our Privacy policy as part of our terms of trade. Please note that we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the privacy or security practices of any other web sites which you may be able to access through our site.