Website Use Policy

Use of The Town of Gawler Web site Constitutes Acceptance of these Terms.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Material (including, but not limited to, all text, photographs, images, video and audio) on The Town of Gawler's Web site is the property of The Town of Gawler ("The Council") and is protected by intellectual property laws in Australia and elsewhere and all rights are reserved. Other trademarks and service marks appearing in this site are the property of their respective owners.

Permitted Uses

You may download, display, print and reproduce Material in unaltered form (attaching a copy of this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use. The Council reserves the right to revoke such permissions at any time. Apart from this permission and uses permitted under Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are reserved.

Requests for further authorisations to use Material on this website for commercial purposes, should be directed to the Chief Executive Officer, Town of Gawler.

Disclaimer

The Material has been made available for general personal use only and is provided without any express or implied warranty as to its accuracy or currency.

All access to, and use of, the Material is at the users risk.

The Council accepts no responsibility for the results of any actions taken on the basis of information on this website, nor for the accuracy or completeness of the Material. The Council expressly disclaims all and any liability and responsibility to any person in respect of the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done by such person in reliance, whether wholly or partially, upon this website or the Material.

No warranties or representations are made by the Council about this website, or the Material. We exclude, to the full extent permitted by law, any liability arising as a result of the use of this website or the Material. Where liability cannot be excluded our liability is limited to the resupply of the Material, or the reasonable cost of having the Material resupplied.

The Council will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss, including loss of profits arising out of the use of this website or the Material.

Links

This website may contain links to other websites ("linked websites"). Those links are provided for the convenience only and may not remain current or be maintained.

The Council is not responsible for the availability of external sites or resources linked to this site and does not endorse and is not responsible or reliable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices associated with linked websites.

Our links with linked websites should not be construed as an endorsement, approval or recommendation by us of the owners or operators of those linked websites, or of any information, graphics, materials, products or services referred to or contained on those linked websites, unless and to the extent stipulated to the contrary.

The Council shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damages or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such site or resource.

Privacy Policy

It is the Council's policy that personal information, such as your name and contact details are private and confidential. Any personal information you provide is stored in a secure location, is accessible only by designated staff, and is used only for the purposes for which you provide the information (such as a reply to a request).

No Release of Information to Third Parties

Personal information will not be released to third parties except to further the purpose for which you provide the information, or if release is required by law. There are no other circumstances under which we provide, sell or exchange data or personal information to third parties.

No Computer Tracking of Identifiable Information

Our Web servers are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information about the sites' visitors. It may recognise the server of visitors but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet service provider our visitors use, but not names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify particular visitors to our sites. The information that is collected by our Web servers is used only for internal purposes by our technical support staff.

In addition, our Web site tracks information about the visitor's to our Web sites so that we can compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors to our sites and the daily requests we receive for particular files on our Web sites. These aggregated statistics are used internally to better provide our services to you.

Social Media Screen Capture

Council reserves the right to record any comments, images or otherwise posted to its social media pages (see more on our Social Media House Rules here). The recent High Court ruling in Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Voller; Nationwide News Pty Limited v Voller; Australian News Channel Pty Ltd v Voller (2021) means publishers, more than ever, need to protect themselves against any defamatory third-party material posted on its social media pages. For this reason, Council may, at any time, capture and keep on record any comments made by third parties to its pages as a protection against any commentary that may later be deemed a litigious matter.