Site Terms of Use
The Terms and Conditions govern your use of our website and your legal relationship with The Blue Whale Study. Our Privacy Policy, which forms part of the Terms and Conditions contains details about the use of information you provide us.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Agreement to terms and conditions
Any person using or viewing this website agrees to the terms and conditions listed below. These terms and conditions may be changed by The Blue Whale Study without prior notice and without notifying any members.
Using the The Blue Whale Study Website
You agree not to use The Blue Whale Study website to:
(a) store, send, or distribute material which is unsolicited, offensive, pornographic or menacing, including material which may cause annoyance or needless anxiety;
(b) breach any laws, codes, standards, and content requirements of any relevant authority;
(c) obtain unauthorised access to any information, network or systems;
(d) compromise the security or integrity of any network or system including any part of our network; and
(e) place any viruses or other similar programs onto the website.
Copyright
All images, graphics, content and the like is the intellectual property of The Blue Whale Study and subject to copyright. We grant all visitors to our website permission to reproduce this website for the purpose of communicating the website to your web browser. Any adaptation, deletion or any other form of alteration of manipulation of the any of the information is an unauthorised use of the information. If you have any queries as to your intended use of the information, please contact enquiries@bluewhalestudy.org.
You cannot copy, reproduce, broadcast, email, display on your website, use for commercial purposes, or the like any of these items subject to copyright, without the explicit permission of The Blue Whale Study or if allowed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth of Australia) or like legislation.
Limitation of liability
You expressly agree that use of the website including any content you may obtain through or on the website or any part of it is at your sole risk.
You agree that the website is provided without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, unless such warranties are legally incapable of exclusion.
You acknowledge that there has been no reliance on our skill, judgment or any representation by us whatsoever by you in deciding whether the website is fit for any particular purpose.
The Blue Whale Study does not warrant that the website or any part of it will be available continuously or free of fault.
To the extent permissible by law, The Blue Whale Study excludes all liability for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising out of: the use of the website; any inability to access the website; or any part of it or a linked website. Where such liability cannot be excluded, our liability to you is strictly limited, at our discretion, to the supplying of the relevant service again or the payment of the cost of having the relevant service supplied again.
Privacy Policy
The Blue Whale Study is committed to the protection of your privacy. Our aim is to provide an online environment which will ensure the information you provide to us will be handled in a secure, efficient and confidential manner as possible.
By accessing our website you accept the terms and conditions of its use, including consent to the collection and use of your personal information and our right to make amendments to this statement from time to time. We encourage you to regularly review this statement to inform yourself of any amendments.
What information do we collect and store?
As a visitor to our website you may be asked to submit personal details about yourself by email or online form. The information you submit or send electronically is received by our network and stored in our database.
In sending us the email or completing an online form, you accept that you have granted us consent to use any personal information within our organisation for the purposes we prescribe including responding to your queries, re-publishing information on our website, and compilation of our databases and research for marketing purposes.
How do we use the information we collect from you?
The information we collect is used to provide our services to you.
Our website does not have information recording software such as ‘Cookies’ nor do we monitor your activity on our website.
We may use the information you provide to send you newsletters outlining news, services or events. In our newsletters we have also instructions as to how you unsubscribe from our mailing list if you no longer wish to be on it.
If you do not wish to receive any marketing material from us or be entered on our mailing list, please contact enquiries@bluewhalestudy.org.
We will not sell, trade or disclose any of your personal information to any third party without your consent or unless we are required by law to do so.
We reserve the right to modify the information, collate, edit or track personal information in order to improve our services to you or if required by law.
Security, Quality and Accuracy of information
We endeavour to keep your personal information up to date and accurate, however you must let us know if there are any details which you may have accidentally recorded incorrectly in an email or online form. We will endeavour to correct your personal information within 3 business days of receiving a written request from you.
Whilst we will take all due care in protecting the security, confidentiality and privacy of the information submitted by you, we cannot guarantee that our systems will be completely free from third party interception or damage to information transmitted by email which is caused by viruses.
Some or all of the services provided to you may be provided through our appointed third parties. Your personal information may be securely stored by our third party IT provider, and accessed only for the purposes of IT administration and security.
Use of Your Information Outside Australia
As part of your contract with us, we may need to transfer some of your personal information to one of our international affiliates. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the recipient jurisdiction has in place a regime which complies with the legal requirements of that jurisdiction.
Links to other websites
We may provide relevant links to other websites of interest, however we make no warranties or representations as to the quality, currency and accuracy of information on any other website which we provide a link to. We encourage you however to view the terms and conditions of use, privacy policies and security statements on those websites.
Your right to Access and Amend Information about you
If you have submitted details about yourself to us, you are entitled to access the information which is subsequently handled by us within our organisation. There are exceptional circumstances where access to your personal information may be refused by us such as where access would be unlawful. We will advise you of such circumstances if they arise.
If you would like access your personal information, please submit your request to enquiries@bluewhalestudy.org outlining the documents or information you require. We will endeavour to respond to your query within 3 business days of receiving a written request.
We encourage you to contact us to update any of your details or to correct any inaccuracies which may have inadvertently been recorded by us.
Complaints and Queries
If you are unhappy with any aspect of the way your personal information has been collected or handled by us, please do not hesitate to contact us at enquiries@bluewhalestudy.org.
Please let us know if you have any queries in relation to any aspects of the above statement at enquiries@bluewhalestudy.org.