Terms & Conditions of Use of this site

1. Conditions Of Use Of This website
Your access to and use of this website and its contents (the "Site") is subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms & Conditions, and all applicable laws. By accessing and using this Site, you (the "User" or "you" or "Subscriber") accept and agree to these without any limitation or qualification.

2. Privacy Policy
We respect concerns about the privacy of your personal information. Please read the following section for details about how we manage your personal information.

2.1 General
We will request your name, email address, postcode and other information at various points on the Site including on "Expedition Sites" which we manage and host on behalf of third parties.
We use these details to enable us to contact you with relevant information about Expedition Australia including, but not limited to, our newsletter, new additions to the site, interesting developments in any of our hosted Expedition Sites, general news items and details of any special offers that we have been able to negotiate for our subscribers from our suppliers, sponsors and supporters.
At no time, for any reason, will we sell, rent, give away or make your personal details available to any other party for any reason. All correspondence sent to you will be sent directly from Expedition Australia or from one of the Expedition Sites hosted by Expedition Australia where you have specifically requested to receive email updates. We will not forward any correspondence to you on behalf of an external party.

2.2 Expedition Sites Privacy Policy
When you "Subscribe" to receive email updates to any expedition on the Expedition Australia website (an "Expedition Site") or send a "Message Only" to any Expedition Site, your name and email details are forwarded to the Expedition Leader owner of the Expedition Site to enable them to respond to you directly.
Expedition Leaders must keep confidential and not sell, rent, give away or share details received from subscribers to their expedition.

2.3 Expedition Sites Subscriber Policy
When you subscribe to receive updates from any Expedition Site, we will automatically add you to our main Expedition Australia subscriber list (if you are not already subscribed) so you will receive our Newsletter and other updates. You can unsubscribe at any time.

2.4 Newsletter Subscriber Privacy
When you subscribe to receive our ExpeditionOz newsletter we will send you our newsletter each time it is published as well as any other updates that we feel will be of interest to our subscribers. We will not share your personal information with anyone for any reason and we will not contact you on behalf of any other party. You are free to cancel your subscription at any time by sending an email to subscribe@expeditionaustralia.com.au with just the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject.

 3. Ownership and Use of Submissions To The Site
At various points on the site, you have the opportunity to submit content. This includes, but is not limited to, submitting articles for publication, sending emails to Steves Blog, sending emails to Expedition Australia on the Contact Us page, all pages & content within Expedition Sites and emails sent to individual expeditions. These submissions are made to Expedition Australia with the express understanding that the following conditions apply:
Expedition Australia reserves the right to use any or all of any submissions to the site for any purpose, without compensation to you, including for reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting.
Expedition Australia reserves the right to edit or reject submissions prior to publication.
Where possible, submissions will be credited to the author wherever they are used in total but not necessarily where extracts are used.
By submitting any material to the Expedition Australia website you undertake that you are the legal owner of the material and it has not been copied from any other source and you take responsibility for the accuracy of this material. You must credit any and all other contributors to the material you submit.
Any material you send to this Site will be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. This includes any data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or other information, material or property.

 4. Advertising
Expedition Australia aims to make as many of the services as possible provided by the site free. One of the ways of achieving this is to generate revenue through placement of advertising on the site. This advertising may take the form or Google AdSense ads and other types of advertising that are deemed to be worthwhile and appropriate. Where possible advertising may be targeted to the content on an individual page.

5. Expedition Sites - Fees & Use of Third Party Services
Expedition Sites have a once off setup fee of AUD$97 including GST. This fee covers the labour involved with the actual setup of the site only. Expedition Sites make use of some free services from other providers like Google, Blogger and Flickr in order to be able to provide the Expedition Site package. Expedition Australia is not charging any fees for use of these services and is in fact accessing them on your behalf as part of its service offering. You will have access to all login information for these services as part of the information provided to you at the time of creating your Expedition Site and you are free to access and modify these services as you see fit.
The fee for establishing your Expedition Site covers the following:
* Creation of a Home Page which you are able to edit using Google Docs (www.google.com). Page can be edited and updated by you as often as you like (subject to ongoing access being provided by Google.com.au).
* Creation of a Blog page which you are able to edit using Blogger.com. You can submit as many Blog entries as you like subject to any restrictions imposed by www.blogger.com (none at time of writing).
* Creation of a Photo album which you are able to edit using www.flickr.com. Current restrictions for a free Flickr account are 100mb of uploads per month. Expedition Australia imposes a restriction of the latest 150 photos being shown in thumbnail form on your photo album page. Excess photos will remain stored on www.flickr.com but just not show up on your Expedition Site Photo Album page.
* Creation of an email subscriber list which will be managed by Expedition Australia. No restrictions as to the number of subscribers. Based on our privacy policy, the subscriber list will not be made available to Expedition Site owners at any time.
Any services requested beyond those detailed above may incur additional fees which can be quoted in advance on request.
In the event that the setup of your Expedition Site is offered for free or at a discount from the usual fee then it is on the basis of the above package being what is being offered. Additional fees will still be applicable to any additional services even if the original setup is provided for free.

6. Expedition Sites - Time Limits
Expedition Australia undertakes to host your Expedition Site at no cost for at least the period until the end of your expedition or 3 years from the date of application, whichever comes first. However, there is a benefit for Expedition Australia visitors to be able to refer to your site after your expedition is completed and for that reason Expedition Australia intends, but does not guarantee, to leave your site available indefinitely.

 7. Profanity
Expedition Australia is a community focused site and content must always be appropriate for a wide audience including children. Differences of opinion and debate are welcome and indeed encouraged for the benefit of the readers. However, profanity, racial slurs, pornography, trade secrets, unlawful, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, indecent or any other material deemed inappropriate will be removed or censored. Expedition Australia reserves the right to limit access to any individual or remove any Expedition Site that we feel is in breach of this policy.

8. Commercial Use
Any person or organisation intending to make use of the site for their own commercial gain must make their intentions clear and have written permission from Expedition Australia prior to undertaking any such action. Fees may be applicable.

 9. Limitation of liability
The services provided by Expedition Australia are at the mercy of computers, technology and third parties beyond the control of Expedition Australia. Accordingly while every effort is made to maintain a consistent service, Expedition Australia cannot be liable for any downtime or break in service or any consequences to any persons or organisations that may result from such an event. Use of this site is on the express understanding that no guarantees are provided as to its performance or uptime.

10. Variation of these Terms & Conditions
Due to the evolutionary nature of this site, Expedition Australia reserves the right to amend these Terms & Conditions at any time and the most recent amendment will be that which is applicable at any time.

Expedition Australia is a business of N7 Technology Pty Ltd ACN 096 209 111
Updated 25/9/2007