Terms and conditions

The following texts set forth the terms and condition for the use of the aSMILE website, www.asmile.org.au

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.  If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

aSMILE may revise these terms and conditions and the contents of this web site at any time without reference to you. Elements of this web site are protected by, trademarks and copyright, and may not be copied, imitated or emulated without approval. Your use of this site is governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Australia. aSMILE makes no claim this site complies with the laws, including intellectual property laws, of any country outside Australia. If you access this site from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk. Visitors are responsible for complying with the laws pertaining to the location of where they access the site.

This web site is provided by aSMILE on an “as is” basis so you use it entirely at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law aSMILE disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied as to your access to or use of this web site or as to the content of this web site, although we try to ensure that all information contained on this site is correct at the time of inclusion. aSMILE will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from your use of this site. aSMILE is not responsible for the content of any other web site linked to or from this site or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. ALSO: aSMILE is not responsible for any content submitted to the discussion groups of forums via their website visitors.

Use of the aSmile website:

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You may not: use any material from the website for commercial purpose nor exploit, republish, sell or rent material from this website.  aSMILE’s expressed permission is required in order to display material from this website in public and to edit any of the information contained in the website. Unsolicited data collection, including but not limited to data mining, scraping extraction and harvesting is not allowed in or on this website. The website cannot be used to send unsolicited communications or for marketing purposes.

Groups/ forums user accounts:

Obtaining a user account at aSMILE is optional and note that you do so at your own risk. Any personal information you provide is voluntary.  To access our user groups and discussion forums you will be obligated to provide a valid email address in order to register for access. The onus is on you to keep your the username and password you create, via our website, private within your own environment.

Although aSMILE takes reasonable steps to ensure your privacy on the website it is recommended that if you use the discussion groups and forums that you do not use your real name, address, personal photographs or other identifying information, only do so if you are aware of the dangers involved and prepared to take the associated risks.

Online harassment, bullying and any other disrespectful behaviour will not be tolerated and the associated user account/s will be removed from the system. Users are encourage to report any offensive user behaviour.

Any content you submit to the website, including but not limited to, text, audio, video, images, audio-visual, photographs; is done so at your own risk. Any submitted material must not be illegal, offensive or infringe upon other entities or individual’s privacy, copyright or intellectual property rights. aSMILE reserves the right to remove any user content submitted to the website and does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content.