Terms of Use

Please read the following terms and conditions (Terms of Use) carefully as they govern your use of this Website. By accessing this website, you agree to these Terms of Use.

Purpose of this Website

This Website has been established to provide information about the programs, campaigns and activities of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (Australia) (CCL) to the public, and to give the Australian community easy access to information about climate change related news and events.

Privacy

By agreeing to these Terms of Use, you also agree you have read and understand our Privacy Policy.

General disclaimer

To the extent permitted by law, we will in no way be liable to you or anyone else for any loss or damage, however caused (and whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic) which may be directly or indirectly suffered in connection with use of this Website or websites of other entities which are hyperlinked from this Website (Linked Websites).

This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any of the following specific warnings and disclaimers.

Specific warnings and disclaimers

The information contained on this Website is provided by us in good faith and on an ‘as is’ basis. The information is believed to be accurate and current at the date the information was placed on this Website. We monitor the information available on this Website and update the information periodically. We may, from time to time, change or add to this Website without notice.

We make no representation or warranty as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information contained on this Website. This means that we do not guarantee that the information will be up-to-date or error-free, or that your use of this Website will be uninterrupted or error-free. We will not be liable to you or anyone else if errors occur in the information on this Website or if that information is not up-to-date.

We are not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with your use of this Website or a Linked Website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from this Website is free of viruses or anything else (such as worms or Trojan horses) that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems.

You must ensure that your access to this Website is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you or in your location.

Your use of this Website

As a condition of your use of this Website, you warrant to us that you will not use this Website for any purpose that is prohibited by these Terms of Use. In particular, you agree not to:

use this Website to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise offend any person;
publish, distribute, email, transmit or disseminate any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, indecent, offensive or inappropriate;
use any automated scripting tools or software;
engage in or promote any third party surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited emailing or spamming via this Website;
impersonate any other person or entity;
share information which reasonably identifies another person without their consent (if you do share personal information about another person, please let them know about our Privacy Collection Notice and Privacy Policy which sets out how we will handle their personal information);
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available using this Website any material that you do not have a right to make available or which contains viruses, or other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware or to utilise other computer systems for improper purposes or without authorisation; or
breach any laws or regulations which are applicable to your use of this Website in your jurisdiction.

If you have a complaint about any of the content that may be published on this Website, you should contact us.

Copyright

Unless otherwise indicated, all material on this Website, including (but not limited to) text, graphics, audio and video files, information architecture and coding, is CCL’s copyright property or is used under licence. All rights are reserved.

You are provided with access to this Website and may download, store in cache, display, print or make a single copy of the information or material stored on this Website (in its unaltered form) and for your personal and non-commercial use only.

Except for these purposes, and for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (or any similar statute that applies in your jurisdiction), 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 Website; or
commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this Website, without our written permission.

If you wish to make any other use of the material on this Website, you must obtain our permission before doing so. To ask for permission or for further information, please contact us.

Trademarks

All trade names, trademarks, service marks and other product and service names and logos (“Marks”) displayed on this Website are proprietary to their respective owners and are protected by applicable trade mark and copyright laws. These Marks may be our registered or unregistered Marks or may belong to others and are used on this Website with permission of the relevant owner.

Nothing contained on this Website should be construed as granting any licence or right of use of any Mark which is displayed on this Website without the express written permission of the relevant owner.

If you use any of our Marks to refer to our activities, products or services, you must include a statement attributing that Mark to us. You must not use any of our Marks:

in or as the whole or part of your own Marks;
in connection with activities, products or services which are not ours;
in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive; or
in a manner that disparages us or our information, products or services (including this Website).

User content

Users of our site may be permitted to submit content for publication in various areas of the CCL Site. Interactions with our site are governed by our Code of Conduct accessible here which are incorporated in these terms and conditions. You will be deemed to consent to this Code of Conduct, and these terms and conditions, if you contribute any content or comments to the CCL Site.
When you submit content to us, you agree and represent that you have created that content, or you have received permission from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the CCL Site.
You or the owner of the content still own the copyright in the content sent to us, but by submitting content to us, you are granting us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, publish and/or transmit, and to authorise third-parties to use, publish and/or transmit your content in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented.
You acknowledge and agree that when you post content on the CCL Site or view content provided by others, you are doing so at your own discretion and risk, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, of that content.
We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our or their sole discretion. We may remove your content from use at any time.
We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised third parties.
You warrant that the content you submit to us is not obscene, threatening, harassing, libellous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, offensive, defamatory of any person or illegal. You warrant that the content you submit to us does not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary or privacy right of any party or individual. You agree not to (i) post content which is deliberately intended to upset or harm other users; (ii) use the CCL Site to post or otherwise transmit content that victimises, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of any impermissible classification, including, without limitation, religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, creed, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, military status or disability; (iii) post or otherwise transmit any content that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of the CCL Site or any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; (iv) upload or otherwise transmit any content, or take any other actions with respect to your use of the CCL Site, that would constitute, or would otherwise encourage, criminal conduct or give rise to civil liability; or (v) use the CCL Site for commercial purposes, including, without limitation, submitting any material to solicit funds or to promote, advertise or solicit the sale of any goods or services.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the CCL Site may involve (i) transmissions over various networks; and (ii) changes to content to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. CCL assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store postings of content or other information submitted by you or other users to the CCL Site.
If you are under 16, you confirm that you have permission of your parent or guardian to submit content.

Linked Websites

This Website may contain links to Linked Websites. Those links are provided for convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained. We have no control over or rights in any Linked Website that is not our own.

The inclusion of a Linked Website should not be construed as any endorsement, approval, recommendation or preference by us of the owners or operators of the Linked Website, or for any information, product or service referred to on the Linked Website.

Your use of any Linked Website is entirely at your own risk and you will be bound by the terms and conditions (if any) posted on the Linked Website and not by these Terms of Use.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party social media or other service providers that you can access through this Website.

Social media

We have a number of social media accounts, which currently includes Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn (collectively known as our Pages). All content on our Pages is subject to individual terms of use as outlined by each social media provider.

By interacting with our Pages, you agree to be bound by the terms of use of the relevant social media provider.

General

In these Terms of Use, references to “Citizens’ Climate Lobby (Australia) Inc”, “CCL”, “we”, “us” and “our” are references to Citizens’ Climate Lobby (Australia) Inc, ARBN 624 438 482.

“Website” means the whole or any part of the web pages located at au.citizensclimatelobby.org.

and includes the layout, individual design elements, underlying code elements and any text, sounds, videos, graphics, animated elements or other content contained on this Website.

Changes to these Terms of Use

We may change these Terms of Use at any time without notice. Any updated versions will be posted on our websites and will be effective from the date of posting. Your continued use of this Website after any update constitutes an agreement by you to comply with, and be bound by, the updated Terms of Use. Accordingly, you should access and read the Terms of Use from time to time for changes.

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia and any courts which may hear appeals from those courts in respect of any proceedings in connection with these Terms of Use or this Website.

These Terms of Use were last updated in November 2021.