Terms of use for this website
1. GENERAL
1.1 User agrees to be bound by Terms Of Use
(a) www.hawthornchildcare.com.au is the internet site of Hathorn Child Care Centre Pty Ltd( "HCCC") an association incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 19.(SA) (ABN 43 096 563 795)
(b) By using the www.hawthornchildcare website (the Site), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use which constitute the agreement between you and HCCC.
(c) For the purposes of this agreement "HCCC" means and includes the director, staff, adherents, authorised agents, volunteers and the employees of Hawthorn Child Care Centre.

1.2 Variation of Terms of Use
HCCC reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove any part of these Terms of Use and to add to, change or discontinue any material or information contained in, or any other aspect of, the Site at any time and without notice or liability. Please check the Site regularly for changes in these Terms of Use.

1.3 Governing law
(a) The laws of South Australia govern the operation of this Site and the interpretation of these Terms of Use.
(b) You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of South Australia in the event of any claim or dispute arising between you and HCCC.

1.4 Validity
If any part of these Terms of Use is invalid or unenforceable, that invalidity does not affect the validity or enforceability of any other part.

2. APPROVAL TO LINK TO THIS SITE
(a) HCCC encourages linking to the HCCC home page by any person or organisation who has an interest in, or need for information on HCCC, written consent is not required, however HCCC require to be informed of such intentions.

3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND WARRANTIES BY YOU
3.1 Acknowledgments by you
You acknowledge that:
(a) information contained in or made accessible by this Site:
(i) represents the views, statements and opinions of the author of any article or other material contained in or made accessible by this Site and does not necessarily represent the views, statements, opinion, knowledge or of HCCC
(b) links to other websites on this Site:
(i) are not under the control of HCCC and may contain computer viruses;
(ii) are inserted for convenience and do not constitute HCCC’s endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service; and
(iii) it is your responsibility to make your own investigations, decisions and inquiries about the information retrieved from other websites;
(c) references to the products or services provided by a person or company on this Site do not imply any form of endorsement, non-endorsement, support or financial gain by HCCC of the products or services provided by that person or company; and
(d) transmission to or from this website may be intercepted, used and modified by third parties.

3.2 Warranties by you
You warrant to HCCC that you will not:
(a) use this Site for a purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use;
(b) impersonate any person, entity or corporation, or enter a fictitious name or entity name on any form on this Site;
(c) engage in any other conduct that inhibits any other person from using or enjoying this Site.

4. DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY
4.1 Disclaimer
(a) While the information contained in or made accessible by this Site, or in response to a request for information or advice, has been formulated in good faith and with all due care, HCCC does NOT warrant:
(i) its accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness;
(ii) that it is free from errors or omission, or that it is definitive; or
(iii) that it is free from computer viruses or other defects;
(b) Before relying on the information contained in or made accessible by this Site, you should independently verify its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance for your purposes.

4.2 Limitation of liability
(a) To the maximum extent permitted by law, the information stored in or made accessible by this Site, or in response to a request for information or advice, is made available to you on the understanding that HCCC is not liable to you for any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred or arising by reason of you using or relying on the information and whether caused by reason of any error, negligent act, omission or misrepresentation in the information or otherwise.
(b) HCCC does not attempt to exclude any rights or remedies which due to the operation of the Trade Practices Act 1974 or similar State and Territory legislation cannot be excluded. HCCC excludes all other conditions and warranties implied by custom, statute or the general law.

4.3 Indemnity by you
It is a condition of the use of this Site that you indemnify the authors and operators of this Site against all claims and actions however arising from the use of material, information, advice or links provided in the Site or otherwise provided by HCCC, including but not limited to, direct or consequential breaches of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights, or contravention of any local, national, or international restrictions on the publication or transmission of content.

5. PRIVACY POLICY
5.1 Operation of the Site
The Site is operated by HCCC . See ‘Contact Us’ for further details.

5.2 Collection of personal information
You may provide personal information to HCCC when you complete and send an online form to HCCC. The personal information required by each online form located on this Site is as follows:
(a) Contact Us e-mail : you are required to provide your email address. This information is collected for the purpose of contacting you re any query you have about the HCCC site or HCCC
(b) Application form: you are required to provide personal details. All information is collected for the purpose of child care application. We accept no liabilty for the safety of this information.

5.3 Use of personal information
Personal information collected from you under clause 5.2 will only be used by us for the purposes stated in clause 5.2 and when required by law (eg court order or warrant).

5.4 Cookies
(a) A cookie is a small data field that some websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user id. A website may use cookies to track the pages you have visited. A cookie file can only contain the personal information you supply yourself.
(b) HCCC does not use cookies.

5.5 Links on the HCCC Site
At the writing of this article the HCCC site contains links to other websites. You are responsible for information that you provide to these sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that requests personal information. This policy does not cover the privacy practices of these linked sites.

5.6 Clickstream data
(a) Clickstreams are the paths you take when navigating a website and the internet in general. When you visit our Site, our servers record the following information for statistical purposes:
(i) your server (IP) address and machine name;
(ii) the date and time of visit to this Site and time spent on particular pages;
(iii) pages accessed and documents downloaded;
(iv) the number of bytes transmitted and received for each request;
(v) the previous site or page visited;
(vi) the search engine and keywords used;
(vii) any linked referral; and
(viii) the type of browser used and its operating system.
(b) HCCC examines this information to determine the traffic through the server as well as access levels to specific pages. In order to deliver better services, we also perform statistical analysis to establish priorities and allocate resources.
(c) No attempt will be made to identify you or your browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect server logs.
(d) The statistics and log files may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the information supplied by HCCC.
(e) Access to and use of this information is restricted to the staff and authorised volunteers of HCCC, who are subject to an agreement to adhere to this privacy statement.
(f) HCCC will not disclose or publish information which identifies individual machines, or potentially identify sub-groupings of addresses without your consent.
(g) HCCC reserves the right to gather more extensive information than indicated above regarding any attempted access to this Site which raises security issues, or in circumstances where HCCC has reason to believe a breach of the law is being or has been committed, and where necessary to make disclosures to the relevant authorities.

5.7 Privacy acknowledgment by you
You acknowledge that HCCC may use information provided by you or through your use of this Site in accordance with this clause 5 (Privacy Statement).

6. COPYRIGHT
(a) This Site is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 all other rights are reserved by HCCC.
(b) This Site is protected by Australian and international copyrights in the graphics, design, layout, typography, and expression of information, whether as a compilation or otherwise. DreamBytes Pty Ltd, the designer of this site retains the rights to advertise this site as part of their portfolio and retains design copyright, flash element and copyright to some photos. Third parties also hold copyright to some photos. Reproduction of design, copying of photos or flash elements, or displaying this design as part of a portfolio other than DreamBytes Pty Ltd is considered a serious breach of copyright law and will be pursued to the fullest extent permitable by law.
(c) Information on this Site may not be reproduced in whole or in part for general publication or commercial purposes without the permission of HCCC AND DreamBytes Pty Ltd.
(d) The Site contains trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property rights of HCCC and/or other third parties, or references to such trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes or other intellectual property rights. No licence, interest or right to or in any such trademarks, patents, technologies, products, processes and other intellectual property rights of HCCC and/or other third parties is granted to or conferred upon you. Any reproduction or use of any of the content of this Site, without the express written consent of HCCC AND DreamBytes Pty Ltd or unless expressly authorised by law, is prohibited.