Terms and Conditions ("Terms")

Last updated: 29 July 2019

Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms", "Terms and Conditions") carefully before using the www.platformc.org website operated by Collaboration for Impact ("us", "we", or "our"). This page contains our Terms and Conditions relating to our:

• Privacy Policy

• Content Policy

• Purchasing Policy

• Limited Liability Policy

• Breach Policy 

• Law and Jurisdiction Policy 

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms and Conditions. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices described in our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to our Terms and Conditions, please do not use our website.

 

Privacy policy

 

Information We Collect

 

Personal Information

You can browse platformc.org without submitting your personal information to us. However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information.

Here are the most common ways in which we collect your personal information:

• to enable you to access and use our website and services;

• to perform and tailor our services to you 

• When you sign up to receive e-mail newsletters from us;

• When you download publications and articles from us;

• When you register for and participate in our programs, activities, initiatives, and events;

• When you request information or assistance;

• When you participate with social media accounts involving Platform C;

• When you participate in communities and other interactive services;

• In conjunction with any verification of your account information;

• In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law or the website’s terms and conditions;

• When you communicate with us through the website;

• In conjunction with any other place on the website where you knowingly volunteer personal information.

 

Non-Personal Information

When you interact with the website, our servers may keep an activity log that does not identify you individually (“Non-Personal Information”). We may collect the following categories of Non-Personal Information:

• We may collect certain demographic data such as age, gender, and post code as part of collecting personal information;

• We collect and store certain device information about your computer, mobile device, or other device that you use to access the website. This information may include IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information;

• We automatically log certain usage information about your use of the website, including a history of the pages you view. We use this information to provide you with a more customized experience on the website;

• We collect and store additional “traffic data” such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, access times, and referring website addresses; and

• We collect and store your search terms and search results.

We also collect and store certain other Non-Personal Information regarding our users’ use of the website so that third parties may provide us with reports and analysis regarding usage and browsing patterns of the website.

We may combine Personal Information and Non-Personal Information gathered from the website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by Platform C and information received from third parties—including information that currently exists in our files—into a single customer record. We also use and/or combine information that we collect offline to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your customer record.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we learn from you to help us personalise and continually improve your experience on the website. We use your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the following ways:

• For editorial purposes;

• Responding to your inquiries;

• Communicating with you about your transactions with us and sending you information about features on our website or about Platform C and Collaboration for Impact;

• Communicating with you about changes to our policies;

• Personalizing content and experiences on our website, including providing you with recommendations based on your preferences;

• Sending you newsletters, mailings, and information about programs, initiatives, activities, and events by e-mail or another medium;

• Event or program registration;

• Optimizing or improving our programs, services, and operations;

• Research and development;

• Verifying your account and account activities;

• Detecting, investigating, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;

• Performing statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the website and their usage patterns; and

• Managing our organization.

 

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy to:

• our employees and related bodies corporate;

• third party suppliers and service providers (including providers for the operation of our websites, computer cloud software and/or our business or in connection with providing our products and services to you);

• our professional advisers, dealers and agents;

• our existing or potential agents or business partners and clients;

• payment system operators (such as merchants receiving card payments);

• specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us; and/or

• government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

 

Offshore recipients

We may disclose personal information outside of Australia to our third party suppliers, website and cloud operators located in the United States and Ireland.

When you provide your personal information to us, you consent to the disclosure of your information outside of Australia and acknowledge that we are not required to ensure that overseas recipients handle that personal information in compliance with Australian Privacy Law. We will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient will deal with such personal information in a way that is consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles.

 

We Are Committed to Protecting Your Personal Information

We do not sell or rent personal information to others, unless we are required to do so to conform to an applicable law or to protect the safety of Collaboration for Impact, our affiliates, the users of our website, or the public. We use your information only for the limited purposes of sending you updates and useful information about our services, programs, resources for the field, enhancing the site operation, for statistical purposes, and for overall systems administration.

 

Using this website and Cookies 

Like many websites, we use “cookies,” which are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track use of our Websites and online services. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.

Like some websites, we may also use web beacons or flash cookies. A web beacon or flash cookie (also known as an “action tag” “tracer tag,” or “single-pixel GIF”) is an invisible graphic on a web page or e-mail newsletter that is programmed to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of a given website or newsletter, e.g., whether you opened the e-mail. Like cookies, web beacons allow Platform C and Collaboration for Impact and its technology providers to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis and provide personalized services to you. We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we may collect through such web beacons, such as names or e-mail addresses, without your permission.

 

Third party links

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy, so you should read them before using those websites.

 

Access and correction

You can generally access the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the information below. Sometimes, we may not be able to provide you with access to all of your personal information and, where this is the case, we will tell you why. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your personal information.

If you think that any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to correct it.

 

Privacy concerns

If you believe your privacy rights have been breached in any way, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information, you can contact us using the details set out below. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your concerns. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond to you regarding your complaint within a reasonable period of time. If you do not think your concerns have been satisfactorily resolved, you can contact us to discuss your concerns or lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by visiting www.oaic.gov.au or calling 1300 363 992. 

 

How to contact us

For further information about our Privacy Policy or practices, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:

Collaboration for Impact
37 Roscoe Street
Bondi Beach
NSW 2026

To unsubscribe from e-mail updates from Platform C or to delete your contact record, email Fiona McKenzie at fiona@collaborationforimpact.com

Content Policy

 

Licence to use website

This website is provided to you free of charge and open-source.  You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages and materials from our website 

(c) print pages from our website; and

(d) stream audio and video files from our website

(e) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(f) show material from our website in public;

(g) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(g) redistribute material from our website.

 

Acceptable use

You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or

(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

 

Your content: licence

In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media in relation to this website, Collaboration for Impact and any successor website.

You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

 

Your content: rules

You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

 

Purchasing Policy

The coaching sessions and learning events offered for purchase on this website are subject to the following terms and conditions.

 

Purchasing terms and conditions

• Coaching sessions or learning event places will be secured upon full payment by the participant through the booking system or by invoice that will be issued by Collaboration for Impact.

• All costs are in Australian dollars and include GST

• Credit Card payments incur a 3% surcharge

 

Coaching session are subject to the following cancellation and refund policy:

• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing 5 days to the course date, they will receive a refund of the total course fee minus a AU$20.00 administrative fee;

• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing less than 2 days prior to the course date, a 50% cancellation fee is incurred and the balance will be refunded. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed.

• If the participant fails to attend on the day, they will receive no refund of the course fee. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed. 

• Collaboration for Impact will refund all payments made if the coaching session is cancelled by Collaboration for Impact. 

 

Learning events are subject to the following cancellation and refund policy:

• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing 14 days prior to the course date, they will receive a refund of the total course fee minus a AU$20.00 administrative fee;

• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing less than 14 days prior to the course date, a 50% cancellation fee is incurred and the balance will be refunded. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed.

• If the participant fails to attend on the day, they will receive no refund of the course fee. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed. 

Note: The participant/organisation may nominate a replacement at any time before the first day of the course.

In event of rescheduling or cancellation of a learning event:

• Collaboration for Impact reserve the right to cancel a course if a minimum of 12 participants has not been achieved 2 weeks prior to course commencement.

• Collaboration for Impact will refund all payments made if the course is cancelled or postponed. The participant may also choose to transfer his/her registration (of equal value) to any other Collaboration for Impact course or to any other person attending a Collaboration for Impact course without incurring any additional cost (subject to the availability of places). Collaboration for Impact will also try to accommodate alternative arrangements acceptable to the client.

 

Breach Policy 

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.

Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.

 

Limited Liability Policy

 This website and its contents have been developed by Collaboration for Impact in partnership with funders, communities and other capacity building organisations.  It has been prepared for specific use by systems change leaders and initiatives. It is not intended to be used or relied upon by anyone else and is published for general information only. While all efforts have been taken to ensure accuracy, Collaboration for Impact does not accept any duty, liability or responsibility to any person in relation to this website.

 

Limited warranties

We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

 

Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

Law and jurisdiction Policy 

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian law.

Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia

 

How to contact us

For further information about our Terms and Conditions or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:

Collaboration for Impact
37 Roscoe Street
Bondi Beach
NSW 2026

 

Changes to Terms and Conditions

Collaboration for Impact reserves the right to amend the Terms and Conditions at any time, without any reason, without notice to you. Any changes will be published here, and you should check this website to access our most current Terms of Use. We will publish a “last updated” date at the bottom of this page.