Acceptable Use Policy
Webo Pty Limited (ABN 79 114 628 938)
Effective 1 January 2006
This is Webo's Acceptable Use Policy. It applies to you if you are a Webo
Customer or User ("you"). It is intended to ensure that your use of Webo's
service is trouble free and that you have due regard to the law and the needs
of other users.
Please look out for any amendments to the Policy that Webo ("we") might make in
the future.
In this policy we use the following definitions:
Potentially Prohibited Content
means that content so defined by the Broadcasting Services Act, 1992 (as
amended).
Prohibited Content
means that content so defined by the Broadcasting Services Act, 1992 (as
amended).
Restricted Content
means content that:
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is classified by the Classification Board R or R18+; or
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that has not been classified but if it were to be classified by the
Classification Board there is a substantial likelihood that it would be
classified, R or R18+;
in accordance with the Classification Act, the National Classification Code and
relevant Classification Guidelines.
Spam
means:
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commercial messages (including any offers, advertisements, promotions to supply
goods, services, business or investment opportunities, or if purpose of the
message is to assist or enable a person to dishonestly obtain a gain from
another person);
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sent to recipients who are not known to you, who have not requested the
material, or who have not granted permission for the mail to be sent to them;
and
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delivered via electronic means including email, discussion groups, fax, SMS,
MMS and ICQ messages.
Users
means users of the Service who have not obtained it as a Customer, but via a
Customer who is authorised to resell the Services such as a Webo's Partner.
1. Some General Principles
1.1 You should familiarise yourself with your legal responsibilities. You can
view your legal responsibilities in relation to:
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supervising and controlling children's access to internet content;
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procedures which parents can implement to control children's access to internet
content, including availability, use and appropriate application of internet
content filtering software; and
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obligations which may exist in relation to your content under the Broadcasting
Services Act 1992 (as amended) or other applicable state legislation, at either
of the following web sites: http://www.iia.net.au; or http://www.aba.gov.au
1.2 You are responsible for complying with conditions of use of other networks.
If we provide you with access to a network outside our Service you must comply
with any acceptable use conditions which apply to that network.
2. Unacceptable Uses
2.1 You must not use our Services, attempt to use our Services or allow the
Services to be used in any way:
Breach of Law
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Which results in you or Webo breaching, or being involved in a breach of a law
(including the Broadcasting Services Act), order or regulation (including a
foreign law, order or regulation), a mandatory code of conduct, or a voluntary
code of conduct that you have agreed to comply with.
Damage to property or people
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Which results, or could result, in damage to property or injury to any person;
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To harass, menace or stalk people.
Prohibited Content or Potentially Prohibited Content
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To place on the internet, obtain through the internet or transmit using the
internet any of the following:
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Content which is (or would be) classified RC or X by the Classification Board.
Such content includes:
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material containing detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use;
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child pornography;
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bestiality;
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excessively violent or sexually violent material;
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'real depictions of actual sexual activity; or
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Content hosted in Australia which is classified R and not subject to a
restricted access system which complies with criteria determined by the ABA.
Content classified R is not considered suitable for minors and includes:
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material containing excessive and/or strong violence or sexual violence;
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material containing implied or simulated sexual activity;
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material which deals with issues or contains depictions which require an adult
perspective;
Restricted Content
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To provide content that is likely to be considered unsuitable for minors (even
though the content may not be Prohibited Content or Potentially Prohibited
Content) without using appropriate warnings and/or labelling systems for that
content;
Protection of minors
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Which enables a minor to access material inappropriate for a minor or to
establish (or try to establish) contact with a minor not otherwise known to
you;
Discrimination
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Which incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or group
because of their race, religion, gender or nationality;
Obscene, defamatory, offensive, abusive
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To send, display or be otherwise involved in material which is obscene or
defamatory;
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Which is, or which would be considered by a reasonable person to be, offensive
or abusive;
Illegal business practices and gambling
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To engage in any misleading or deceptive business or marketing practice;
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That involves providing or promoting illegal pyramid selling schemes or
unlawful gambling or gaming activities;
The rights of others
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Which infringes Webo's or any other person's rights (including intellectual
property rights and moral rights);
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Which constitutes a misuse of Webo's or any other person's confidential
information; or
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Which results in a breach by you of any obligation that you owe to any person.
Webo's Service
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undertake any activity which impedes Webo's ability to provide its Service;
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make or receive transmissions of any type or quantity which adversely affect
our operation or jeopardise the use of our service, or its performance for
other subscribers;
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undertake acts that waste resources or prevent other users from receiving the
full benefit of our services;
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to solicit subscribers to become subscribers of other competitive services.
2.2 Resale of our Services to others is strictly forbidden under all
circumstances unless expressly approved by Webo in writing.
3. Spamming
3.1 You must not use our Services, attempt to use our Services or allow our
Services to be used:
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To send, cause the sending of or otherwise be involved in the sending of Spam;
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provide a capability on a Webo-hosted site which permits third parties to send
Spam from a Webo's server;
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In connection with any program (including a virus, Trojan horse, worm,
cancelbot, timebomb) or activity (including a denial of service attack), that
is designed to provide or allow any form of unauthorised control of, or result
in an adverse effect on, a computer, a network or data (whether the computer,
network or data belongs to Webo or anyone else);
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To access or use Webo's or any one else's systems, networks or data (including
through open relay, port probing and the use of packet sniffers) without
consent, regardless of whether or not such access or use has any adverse effect
on the system, network or data;
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To create, send or alter in any way and by any means (including spoofing and
use of third party mail servers), the contents of an electronic message for the
purpose of hiding, obscuring or deleting the source of the message or making
the message appear to come from someone other than you;
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send electronic chain letters;
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to manipulate or bypass Webo's content usage limits;
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send email to a recipient after the recipient has unsubscribed from your
mailing list or has advised you by other means that they do not wish to be on
the mailing list;
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undertake activities which cause or may cause third party service providers to
place Webo's internet protocol (IP) addresses on a blacklist and/or block those
IP addresses;
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distribute messages to inappropriate or unrelated forums, newsgroups or mailing
lists.
3.2 We support increasing awareness of our Customers about Spam and how it can
be managed. Webo uses spam and virus filters and encourages our customers to
use spam and virus filters. You agree to Webo's use of spam and virus filters
which may require us to use third party equipment or services to monitor and
filter email traffic between our equipment and the Internet. You agree that you
will not take any steps to disable those filters and that we will not be liable
for any loss or damage resulting from the use of spam or virus filters. Further
information about these products can be found at the web site of the Internet
Industry Association at http://www.iia.net.au/nospam/.
4. Third Party Complaint Process
4.1 From time to time, Webo receives complaints from third parties
("Complaints") regarding unacceptable uses, allegedly being conducted by
Customers or their Users. Webo will make reasonable endeavours to resolve such
complaints by working with Customers. The complaint process set out here does
not apply to complaints the subject of court order or proceedings, or where
Webo reasonably believes that it must take urgent action without reference to
the Customer.
4.2 If Webo is unable to resolve the complaint by working with Customers, Webo's
policy is to put the complaining party in direct contact with the party best
able to answer the complaint. Accordingly, Webo's Customers authorise and
direct Webo to provide to third party complainants the relevant Customer's
email contact details.
4.3 You have a right to complain to the ABA about content. If you become aware
that a web site hosted by Webo contains Prohibited Content or Potentially
Prohibited Content, you can make a formal complaint to the Australian
Broadcasting Authority by contacting them at: ABA, Head Office, Level 15
Darling Park, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney NSW 2000, or through their web site at
http://www.aba.gov.au.
5. What We May Do to Ensure That This Policy is Being Followed
5.1 We may monitor your account but will respect your privacy. We may monitor
the conduct of your account to determine whether this policy is being followed.
5.2 If we monitor the conduct of your account we will safeguard your privacy
subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy.
5.3 We may suspend or terminate your account and/or notify the authorities. If
we believe that your use of the Service may break the law or that you have not
complied with this policy we may:
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warn you by email (but we are not obliged to do so);
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suspend your access to the Service;
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terminate your account without notice; and/or
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notify and provide relevant information to the authorities, as appears
appropriate in the circumstances.
5.4 In the event of taking action under 5.3 we reserve the right to delete any
or all of your information, material, software or other content stored on our
system at our sole discretion.
5.5 We may, at our absolute discretion and without notice to you, suspend or
terminate your access to the Service:
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where we are made aware that a court order, judgment, decree, determination or
otherwise has been made to the effect that the Customer data is illegal,
offensive, objectionable or in breach of a third party's rights;
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if we are directed to do so by the ABA under a takedown notice in accordance
with its obligations under the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online
Services) Act 1999 (as amended); and
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if we are served with a takedown notice in accordance with part 3A of the
Copyright Regulations 1969 (as amended).
5.6 You agree that you will have no claim against Webo in respect of any action
reasonably taken by Webo in its implementation of the terms of this Acceptable
Use Policy, and you indemnify Webo against any claim by a User arising out of
the same.
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