Terms and Conditions of Participation in the Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety meetings and website

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Please read the following background, terms and conditions carefully. If you have any questions about the terms and conditions, please direct them to the Youth Advisory Group team at yag@dbcde.gov.au or to Ms Deb Masani at Deb.Masani@dbcde.gov.au. Please use the word 'QUERY' in the title of your email.

Background

The Commonwealth, through the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has invited you to participate in the Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety.

Your participation in the Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety (including at meetings and through the Online Site) is conditional on you accepting and abiding by the terms and conditions set out below.

If you accept the terms and conditions, you must sign in the space provided at the end of the document. Your primary carer must also give their consent and sign in the space provided at the end of the document.

You will not be able to participate in meetings and you will not be provided with log in details for accessing the Online Site, until you and your primary carer have signed the terms and conditions (this document) and you have returned them to your school. An envelope has been provided in your information pack for this purpose.

Terms and Conditions

Interpretation

  1. In this document:
    1. The term 'Commonwealth' includes the Commonwealth's officers, servants and agents.
    2. The term 'Online Site' means the Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety's website.

Operational Overview

  1. The Youth Advisory Group is made up of secondary school students from around Australia between the ages of 11-17 who have been selected from participating schools. The purpose of the Youth Advisory Group is to foster discussion of cyber-safety issues that may be used to advise Government on cyber-safety policies and effective education strategies. About 25 students from each of the 15 participating schools will become members of the Group.
  2. Discussion of cyber-safety issues by members of the Youth Advisory Group will take place mainly through the Online Site. The Online Site will be open from 4pm to 10pm AEST, Monday to Friday, and 9am to 12pm, then 4pm to 10pm AEST on weekends, although these times may change if alternative hours are found to be more appropriate.
  3. Once or twice a year the Youth Advisory Group team and others will visit each of the 15 participating schools to meet face-to-face with the members of the Youth Advisory Group. These meetings will provide a 'get to know you' opportunity and a chance for members to discuss issues directly with the Youth Advisory Group team, including what they like about the Youth Advisory Group and what they think might be improved.

Acceptable Use Policy

  1. You must comply with the Youth Advisory Group Acceptable Use Policy (see document included in the Information Pack) in relation to your participation in the Online Site.

Access to the Online Site

  1. Following the Commonwealth's processing of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, you will be given a username and password for the Online Site. You must use your username, rather than your personal information, for all contributions to the Online Site.
  2. The Commonwealth may at its discretion suspend or terminate your participation in the Youth Advisory Group and/or your access to the Online Site.
  3. Your obligations under these terms and conditions continue after you stop being a member of the Youth Advisory Group and/or your access to the Online Site ceases.
  4. You must inform the Commonwealth if you stop being a student at the school at which you were a student when you first became a member of the Youth Advisory Group

Privacy

  1. Your personal information—name, school, date of birth, contact details and the comments that you contribute to the Online Site and make at meetings—will be collected by the Commonwealth and used for the purposes of operating and delivering on the objectives of the Youth Advisory Group.
  2. Your logon and activity history may be collected by the use of internet browser cookies and used by the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Youth Advisory Group.
  3. Non-adherence to the Acceptable Use Policy by Youth Advisory Group members or their sharing of personal information that suggests they may be at risk, may give rise to the Commonwealth needing to bring personal information to the attention of primary carers and/or schools and/or appropriate authorities.
  4. The Department's retention of personal information will accord with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Information Privacy Principles.
  5. The Youth Advisory Group team will collate all contributions made in Youth Advisory Group meetings and contributed through the Online Site. Your contributions will then be considered by the Commonwealth to inform development of policies about the use of the internet, mobile phones and other devices by young people in Australia. Your contributions will help target delivery of effective cyber-safety education strategies.
  6. Your contributions may be made available to other Commonwealth departments, researchers, advisers and working groups (including the Consultative Working Group on Cyber-safety) involved in developing policy and strategies for internet and mobile phone use by young people. Your name will not be made available in such instances.

Posting material and making submissions

  1. You are entitled to make contributions to the Online Site and to make submissions at meetings. However:
    1. The material you contribute, including your submissions at meetings, must be courteous and respectful and must not be illegal or offensive to a reasonable person.
    2. Your contributions must not infringe the rights of other persons, including copyright or the right to be identified as the artist or author of a work.
  1. You acknowledge that all contributions made by you to the Online Site and at meetings express your own views and opinions and that you are responsible for their content.
  2. You acknowledge that the views and opinions expressed in the Online Site and meetings by other Youth Advisory Group members are the views and opinions of those Youth Advisory Group members only, and do not reflect the views and opinions of the Commonwealth, including its Ministers, employees, agents and contractors.
  3. The Commonwealth reserves full editorial control over discussion threads and all content on the Online Site.
  4. The Commonwealth is not under a duty to remove or edit website content, other than duties imposed by law.
  5. The right to remove or edit content may be exercised by Commonwealth employees.

Service exclusions

  1. The Commonwealth does not provide any promises in relation to:
    1. Meeting your costs of accessing the Online Site.
    2. Uninterrupted or error-free access to, and use of, the Online Site.
    3. The Online Site or any files available for downloading being error free or free from viruses, faults or defects.
    4. The content of the Online Site being accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular purpose.
  1. You must not alter the Online Site in any way (other than by making contributions).
  2. You must not do anything that alters the Online Site, or interferes with or affects its working. This includes removing anything from it, adding anything to it (other than permitted contributions) and distributing any part of it to anyone else.

Copyright

  1. The Commonwealth owns some copyright in the Online Site. Apart from uses permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or in accordance with the licence set out in the following paragraph, you may not—without the Commonwealth's written permission—reproduce or provide to the public, in any form and by any means, any material in which the Commonwealth owns copyright.
  2. The Commonwealth gives you permission to use its copyright material for the purposes of your participation in the Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety in accordance with these terms and conditions.
  3. You grant the Commonwealth a perpetual royalty-free non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce (in whole or in part and in any format), transmit, distribute and sub-license any information or material you supply or communicate at Youth Advisory Group meetings or to the Online Site.
  4. You consent to the Commonwealth (including any individual or organisation engaged by the Commonwealth) exercising full editorial control over any of the material or information you have made available to the Commonwealth via Youth Advisory Group meetings and the Online Site. You also acknowledge that it may not always be practical or appropriate for the Commonwealth to attribute you as the author of your work and you consent to this.

Warranty

  1. As part of your participation in the Youth Advisory Group, you may be using or accessing Commonwealth property or services. The Commonwealth makes no representations or assurances as to the quality of its property or services.

Exclusion of liability

  1. In the unlikely event that you suffer any loss or expense in connection with your participation in the Youth Advisory Group, you agree that to the extent permitted by law the Commonwealth is not liable for that loss or expense.
  2. You agree to indemnify the Commonwealth against any loss, expense or liability reasonably incurred by the Commonwealth in relation to the Youth Advisory Group, where that loss, expense or liability results from your wilful misconduct or negligence.

Dispute Resolution

  1. Disputes between members of the Youth Advisory Group, or members of the Youth Advisory Group and the Youth Advisory Group team will be referred to the Manager of the Youth Advisory Group team in the first instance.

Remedies cumulative

  1. The rights, powers and remedies set out in these terms and conditions are cumulative with and not exclusive of the rights, powers, or remedies provided by law.

Variation of terms and conditions

  1. The Commonwealth may vary these terms and conditions from time to time. The latest version of these terms and conditions will always be made freely available to you on the Department's website at www.dbcde.gov.au

Informed Consent

  1. Please note that while the terms and conditions listed above are designed to minimise the risk of inappropriate material appearing on the Online Site, the Commonwealth cannot guarantee that such material will not appear on the Site. While the Commonwealth will take reasonable steps to remove such material in as timely a manner as possible, in all the circumstances, there is a risk that Youth Advisory Group members may be exposed to inappropriate material as a result of postings by other Youth Advisory Group members or persons with unauthorised access to the site.
 
 
 
 
Document ID: 108995 | Last modified: 30 May 2011, 1:55pm