Legal

Terms and Conditions

Your use of the Website is subject to the following terms and conditions.

Ownership

This Website is owned and operated by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Inc., and any reference to “us”, “we” or “our” in these terms and conditions is a reference to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Inc.

Copyright

The materials displayed on this website, including without limitation all editorial materials, information, photographs, illustrations, artwork and other graphic materials, and names, logos and trademarks are copyrighted and owned by us or are licensed to us.  You are allowed, solely for your personal use, to download, save or print out content on this Website.  All other use of the content on this Website is prohibited, except with our express prior written consent.

Accordingly, apart from the use of such content within the Religious Society of Friends, you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the content on this Website to any third party without our express prior written consent. 

Content

This Website contains general information relating to Quakers Australia.

Links

We may from time to time include links to other Websites operated, controlled or produced by third parties.  Unless otherwise indicated, we do not endorse any third party Websites or the content of them and we are not responsible for any aspect of those Websites or their content.

Content Accuracy

While we endeavour to take reasonable care in preparing and maintaining the information on this Website, we do not warrant the accuracy, reliability, adequacy or completeness of any of the website content.  You acknowledge and accept that the Website content may be subject to these limitations.  As well, the Website content is subject to change and may not necessarily be up to date or accurate at the time you view it.  We are not liable to you for any consequences or loss directly or indirectly arising from your use of or reliance upon the Website and the Website content. 

Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy forms part of these terms and conditions.

Changes

We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time.

Limitation of Liability

Your use of the Website is at your own risk.  We are not liable for any loss or damage, either directly or indirectly arising out of or in connection with use of the Website and its content.  If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the Website or with these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy or any other policies of ours, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the Website.

Interference with Website

You must not attempt to change, add to, remove, deface, hack or otherwise interfere with this website or any material or content displayed on it without our agreement.

Use

Your use of this Website indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Australian Capital Territory.

Privacy Policy

Our full Privacy policy is available here.

Whilst we use ‘cookies’ for authentication purposes and to improve your user experience, we do not use 'cookies' for the purpose of behavioural advertising.

We do not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this website, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via the contact. In the latter instance, the personal information you give us is used exclusively by us to provide you with information about Quakers in Australia.

We do not pass any of your personal data to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent.

Contact information provided by Members and Attenders of the Quakers Australia may be used for the purpose of outreach and internal Meeting communications.

You have a right to know about the personal information we hold about you. You also have the right to have your data corrected or deleted.

Please address all your requests and/or queries about our data-protection policy to us at the contact form on our website.

Accessibility

Adjusting the text size

The text size used throughout the site is easily increased or decreased using your browser. A few examples of how to do this using three of the most popular browsers are listed below:

Adjusting your text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Select 'Text Size' from the 'View' menu. Select from the list of predefined text sizes ranging from 'Largest' to 'Smallest'.

Adjusting your text size in Mozilla Firefox:

Select 'Zoom' from the 'View' menu. Select from the 'Zoom in' or 'Zoom out' options to adjust the font size accordingly.

Adjusting your text size in Safari:

Select 'Make Text Bigger' from the 'View' menu. Select 'Make Text Bigger' or 'Make Text Smaller' to adjust the font size accordingly.

Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all modern websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Third Party Cookies

We use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Embedded Content

Some of the content on our site is provided by third parties. This includes but is not limited to: Google Maps for interactive mapping, YouTube for hosted video and Flickr for photographs. When you visit a page containing content from one of these sites a cookie may be set. We do not have any control over these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.