STATEMENT REGARDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Welcome to our Site. These are our Terms & Conditions for use of the Site which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the web, PDAs, mobile phones and RSS feeds. These Terms & Conditions apply whenever you access the Site, regardless of how you access the Site.

Use of this site

1. The Cairns Post Pty Limited (TCP) is the owner and operator of this Site.
2. Users of this Site (Users) agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions, which are subject to change at The Cairns Post Pty Limited (TCP)’s sole discretion. Your use of and access to this Site indicates your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions, as they exist at that time.

 

Intellectual Property

 

3. All intellectual property in relation to content on this Site belongs to TCP or its licensors, advertisers or affiliates. You obtain no interest in that intellectual property. All content on this Site is protected by Australian and international copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not do anything which interferes with or breaches those laws or the intellectual property rights in the content.
4. Except as permitted by The Copyright Act 1968 (CTH) you are not permitted to print or otherwise reproduce/publish/adapt any of the material on the website for whatever reason. Any infringement of our copyright will be pursued through the courts. You may however seek approval to reproduce particular parts of our website material by emailing any request to us at
5. The cairns.com.au logo, the logos of the News Limited sites and the newspaper mastheads on the News Limited sites are registered trademarks of News Limited or its related bodies corporate. Other trademarks may be displayed on the Site from time to time. These may belong to third parties. Nothing displayed on the Site should be construed as granting any license or right of use of any logo, trademark or masthead displayed on the Site, without the express written permission of the relevant owner.

 

Liability & Indemnity

 

6. TCP does not warrant the accuracy of the content on the Site. The content is provided to you “as is” and on an “as available” basis and on the condition that you undertake all responsibility for assessing the accuracy of the content and rely on it at your own risk. All content on the Site may be changed at TCP’s sole discretion and without notice.
7. TCP will have no responsibility or liability in relation to any loss or damage that you incur, including damage to your software or hardware, arising from your use of, or access to, this Site.
8. TCP does not warrant that functions contained in the Site content, such as hyperlinks, will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that TCP or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or bugs.
9. To the extent permitted by law, all other representations, conditions or warranties, whether based in statute, common law or otherwise are excluded. Liability of TCP, for any breach of a term or condition implied by law is limited at TCP’s discretion, to the supply of any service again or the payment for the cost of having any service supplied again.
10. You indemnify TCP and its affiliated companies, and each of their directors, officers, employees and agents against any action, claim, loss or expense which it incurs which arises from your use of the Site.

 

Third Party Content & Links

 

11. This site may include third party content which is subject to that third party’s terms and conditions of use. Nothing on this Site should be construed as granting any license or right for you to use that content.
12. This site may include links to third party sites which are not related to TCP and in relation to which TCP has no control or interest. The appearance of those links on this site does not indicate any relationship between TCP and that third party or any endorsement by TCP of that third party, its site or the products or services which it is advertising on this Site.

 

Contributing Content

 

13. When you submit content to TCP in any format, including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio, you grant TCP and News Limited a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to publish that content.
14. You agree that TCP can use that content in any way, now and in the future. TCP also reserves the right not to use the content you submit.
15. You warrant that you have all of the necessary rights, including copyright, in the content you contribute, that your content is not defamatory and that it does not infringe any law.
16. You indemnify TCP against any and all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by TCP as a result of a breach of the above warranty.
17. You waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Site.

 

General

 

18. These Terms & Condition shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Queensland.
19. Responsibility for all election comment is taken by the Editor, 22024 Abbott St, Cairns, QLD, 4870.
20. Users will not use this site for any purpose or in any way which is unlawful.