Use of The Global Mail website (the TGM Website) is subject to the terms of use set out in this document. All users of the TGM Website must agree to these terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of use, you are not permitted to use the TGM Website.
The TGM Website is operated by Digital Global Mail Limited (DGM). DGM reserves the right to change these terms of use at any time. If DGM makes any change to these terms of use, any use of the TGM website from the time at which the change was made is subject to the new terms of use.
DGM owns the intellectual property in The Global Mail name and logo, and owns or licences the copyright in material published on the TGM Website. DGM owns the copyright in most material published on the TGM Website, although copyright in some material may be owned by third parties (for example, where that material is published under licence).
Unless expressly stated otherwise on the TGM Website, or you obtain express permission from DGM, you are not permitted to copy, republish, distribute or otherwise use material from the TGM Website.
You must not provide a link to any material on the TGM Website if the presentation or operation of that link might mislead or confuse others to believe that DGM has any affiliation or connection with you or your activities, or endorses or approves of you or your activities.
You must not copy, republish, distribute or otherwise use the TGM logo, except with DGM's written permission.
The TGM Website may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience only, and may become out of date. DGM has no control over, and accepts no liability for, any material on any third party website or for the activities (including privacy practices) of any the owners and/or operators of any third party website.
Unless expressly stated to the contrary on the TGM Website, a link on the TGM Website to another website must not be understood as indicating that DGM endorses, approves or recommends the owner and/or operator of the website to which the link leads, or that DGM endorses, approves or recommends the goods or services made available via that website.
DGM endeavours to ensure that all material on the TGM Website is accurate and complete. However, DGM does not warrant that all material is accurate, complete or adequate for any particular purpose. Further, material on the TGM Website naturally does not take into account your specific circumstances. Any use of, or reliance on, material on the TGM Website is entirely at your risk.
As with any internet communication, use of the TGM Website carries with it a risk of exposure to viruses and other malicious computer code and other forms of interference which may effect or damage your computer system. Please take your own precautions.
DGM does not accept any responsibility for any action, claim, demand, loss (including consequential loss) and/or cost (including legal cost) however caused (including through negligence and/or wilful misconduct) which you may directly and/or indirectly suffer and/or incur in connection with your use of and/or reliance on:
To the extent permitted by law, any condition and/or warranty which would otherwise be included or implied into these terms of use is excluded. If legislation provides for the application of any condition or warranty which cannot be excluded, to the extent permitted by law DGM has no liability for breach of that condition and/or warranty.
If legislation provides for the application of any condition or warranty which cannot be excluded or modified and provides that DGM may not exclude all liability for breach of it, to the extent permitted by law DGM's liability for breach of it will be limited to:
To the extent permitted by law, you release DGM and its related bodies corporate, officers, employees, agents and contractors, from all actions, claims, demands, losses (including direct, indirect and consequential losses) and/or costs (including legal costs) directly and/or indirectly suffered by you and/or incurred by you as a result of:
When you access the TGM Website, DGM may collect personal information about you in the form of:
DGM uses that information to assist in developing and operating the TGM Website.
Also, the TGM Website may at times use "cookies". A cookie is created when a message is given by a web server to a web browser and the web browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the web server each time the web browser requests a page from the web server. Cookies usually do not identify you personally, but they may link back to a database record about you. DGM may use cookies to monitor usage of the TGM Website and/or to create a record of visits to the TGM Website and what pages are viewed. DGM uses that information to assist in developing and operating the TGM Website. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to adjust the settings of your web browser to refuse them.
Generally, DGM uses and/or discloses personal information about you only for the purposes for which it was collected (as set out above). However, DGM may disclose personal information about you to a third party:
If you have any complaint about the editorial standard of any material on the TGM Website, you may submit details of your complaint by email to enquiries@theglobalmail.org. DGM welcomes all feedback and we will endeavour to investigate your complaint and respond to you as soon as reasonably possible.
These terms of use are governed by, and must be construed according to, the laws of the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth of Australia. You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia.