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1 By using ChristianToday.com.au you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of ChristianToday.com.au. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use ChristianToday.com.au.

2 Christian Today may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by Christian Today. Your continued use of christiantoday.com.au after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of ChristianToday.com.au

3 You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use christiantoday.com.au content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any christiantoday.com.au content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of christiantoday.com.au content requires the prior written permission of Christian Today.

4 You agree to use christiantoday.com.au only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of christiantoday.com.au. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within ChristianToday.com.au.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

5 ChristianToday.com.au content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Christian Today, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

6 Under no circumstances will the Christian Today be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of ChristianToday.com.au regardless of the form of action.

7 The Christian Today does not warrant that functions contained in christiantoday.com.au content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that christiantoday.com.au or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

8 The names, images and logos identifying Christian Today or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of Christian Today and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of Christian Today, or any other third party.

Contributions to ChristianToday.com.au

9 Where you are invited to submit any contribution to ChristianToday.com.au (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Christian Today a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution. If you do not want to grant to Christian Today the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to ChristianToday.com.au

10 Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to ChristianToday.com.au, you:

1. -10.1 warrant that your contribution;
2. -10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Christian Today for all the purposes specified above;
3. -10.1.2 is not defamatory; and
4. -10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and
5. -10.2 indemnify Christian Today against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Christian Today as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
6. -10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on christiantoday.com.au and the purposes specified above.

ChristianToday.com.au Community Rules

11 You agree to use ChristianToday.com.au Communities (including Message Boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all ChristianToday.com.au community sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you’re using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

ABOUT YOUR POSTS:

• - Contributions must be civil and tasteful
• - No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
• - No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
• - If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.
• - Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant christiantoday.com.au Community.
• - No spamming or off-topic material: we don’t allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• - No advertising
• - No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which haven't been transmitted on UK analogue or digital television will be deleted unless submitted in a designated ‘spoilers’ area.
• - Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
• - No impersonation
• - No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
• - You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the Community area.
• - Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this action may be taken against your account.

SAFETY:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind.

ABOUT THE LAW:

-You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in ChristianToday.com.au Communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.

-Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

-You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

-The views expressed in christiantoday.com.au Community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of the Christian Today.

IF YOU'RE UNDER 16:

-Please get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in any christiantoday.com.au discussion.

-Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

IF YOU BREACH THESE TERMS OF USE:

If you fail to abide by these Community Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a christiantoday.com.au Community service, you may be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail may also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of christiantoday.com.au Community areas.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to christiantoday.com.au Communities or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on christiantoday.com.au, and Christian Today considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Christian Today may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement/s.

Christian Today reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

Web Site Users

12 ChristianToday.com.au generally collects personally identifiable information such as a name, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, or credit card information with your specific knowledge and consent.

HOW DOES THE WEB SITE USE INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY ME?

Occasionally, visitors to our Web site may be asked to supply certain personally identifying information, which is then retained by ChristianToday.com.au. For example, we ask you for certain information if you choose to subscribe to our E-mail newsletters, register with our online discussion forums, or purchase either articles from our archives or our premium online content. If you choose to give us personally identifying information at such time, such information will be retained by us and used only to provide you with products or services you have requested, or with additional information from ChristianToday.com.au about ChristianToday.com.au, its affiliates, or selected outside companies whose products or services we feel may be of use to you. Any information from selected outside companies will be transmitted by ChristianToday.com.au so that such companies will not have access either to your E-mail address or to your other personally identifying information. Moreover, we will not sell or rent any personally identifying information obtained through the Web site to any other company or organization.

If, at some point after giving ChristianToday.com.au your personally identifying information, you do not wish to continue to receive additional information from ChristianToday.com.au about ChristianToday.com.au, its affiliates, or selected outside companies, in general, you may opt out by E-mailing info@christiantoday.com.au and put the words "remove my name" in the subject line of your E-mail; in the case of our E-mail newsletters, you also may follow the procedures at our E-mail newsletter registration page.

From time to time, the personally identifying information that you provide to us may be shared with our suppliers or service providers who assist us in maintaining and managing our newsletters, our archives, our premium online content, our online discussion forums, and other activities on the Web site. Such suppliers or service providers may use your personally identifying information only in the course of providing services to ChristianToday.com.au, but they may not use such information for other purposes.

While your individual information is protected as discussed above, ChristianToday.com.au reserves the right to use such individual information to create aggregated, anonymous data about users in order to develop statistics about activity on and visitors to the Web site. In addition, Christiantoday.com.au may disclose personal information if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Web site; or (4) protect the personal safety, property, or rights of our users or the public.

General

13 If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on christiantoday.com.au (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

14 If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

15 These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Australia.