Terms of use
About this site
The Cybersmart website was developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, (the ACMA) as a part of the Australian Government’s cybersafety program.
Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world.
Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff.
As part of the Cybersmart program, the ACMA will post articles relating to cybersafety issues on its Cybersmart blog, inviting comment from those who register on the site.
From time to time it will also conduct Cybersmart forums, enabling further discussion about cybersafety-related issues. The blogs and forums are an opportunity for people to discuss and comment on cybersafety issues in a safe and moderated online environment.
The comments and discussions may be used by the ACMA for different purposes including the following:
- to determine topics for future articles or
- conduct research into cybersafety and community attitudes to issues related to cybersafety.
The articles posted on the Cybersmart blog and the topics of the Cybersmart forums, are general in nature and do not reflect the views, opinions or regulatory policies of the ACMA, or the Commonwealth Government. Nor do they constitute legal or technical advice from the ACMA or the Commonwealth.
Definitions
You and Your means the user of www.cybersmart.gov.au, including any Cybersmart account.
Site means the Cybersmart website, the Cybersmart blogs and the Cybersmart forum.
Our, Us and We means the ACMA.
The ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority including its employees, contractors and associates.
The Commonwealth means the Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Chief Executive of the ACMA.
Terms of use
The Terms of use include this page as well as the following notices on the Cybersmart website:
This site is managed by the ACMA. We consider the Terms of use to be important because they protect Your rights.
The online forums and the Cybersmart blog on the Cybersmart website are moderated in accordance with the Moderation Policy below. Participation in and contribution to the Cybersmart blogs or forums on this Site includes viewing comments, as well as making Your own comments.
We will review your comments and make sure that they comply with the Acceptable use policy before they are published.
We will remove contributions if they do not comply with the Terms of use.
In entering and using this Site, You are taken to have accepted Our Terms of use on and from the date on which you first use this Site.
Please read them carefully. If you do not want to agree to comply with the Terms of use, please do not contribute to this Site.
On this page we outline the following:
- registration
- Moderation policy
- Acceptable use policy
- contributions in languages other than English
- restriction or termination of access.
- In order to post comments to this site you will need to register, by creating a user (or screen) name and password. Users will be required to provide a valid email address, which is used to confirm the validity of the registration, as well as to enable the provision of new passwords where necessary. No other personal information is collected by the Commonwealth during this process.
- It is strongly recommended that you do not use your real name as your user name. This will help protect your personal privacy.
- By registering and contributing to this site you give warrant that all comments you contribute are your own and you give permission for your comments to be posted on the site.
- We welcome your participation in this site. To ensure that your contribution meets legal requirements and the discussion stays on track, all comments posted to this site will be moderated according to the Acceptable use policy set out below before they are published on This Site.
- If We decide that your contribution does not comply with the Acceptable use policy, it will not be published.
- We will not edit comments that do not meet the Acceptable use policy.
- Moderation and publication of comments will take place during business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm AEST. We endeavour to moderate all posts within one working day of receipt. You may submit comments at any time, but your comments will only be processed and published during these hours.
Acceptable use policy
When contributing your views to this Site, please ensure that you:
- tell us your views and opinions openly and honestly—we want to know what you think
- respect other peoples’ views, rights and opinions
- use appropriate language
- be polite, and courteous
- protect your privacy
- make comments that are relevant (or ‘on topic’) to the issues being discussed. If you want to make comments/submissions on other topics, please contact us by email at cybersafety@acma.gov.au or using the contact form.
Please do not:
- include any personal information about yourself or other people which someone can use to identify you or someone else. This includes names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers
- include any photos, drawings, pictures, videos, website addresses, or links to other websites, in your submissions
- pretend to be someone else or pass off material that other people have written as your own
- misrepresent your relationship with another person or organisation
- use language, make comments or engage in conduct that is illegal or violates the legal rights of others. This means that you must not do, say or post material that:
- is abusive, harassing, insulting, threatening, offensive, obscene or hateful
- is misleading, deceptive, false, or defamatory
- discriminates against people (treats someone unfairly) on the basis of age, sex, race or religion
- infringes the intellectual property rights of others. This means that you must not include words, sentences, phrases (including parts of written material) that other people have written
- distribute any comments posted on this Site by other people without the consent of the person who wrote the comments. This includes cutting and pasting comments and sending it to other people
- make the same comments repeatedly
- promote any commercial interests in your posts.
Submissions in languages other than English
Posts submitted in languages other than English will be held by Us until translated. All posts published to the Site will be in English.
Restriction or termination of access
The ACMA reserves the right to:
- restrict, suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of this Site and
- refuse, move or remove any of your contributions
if you do not comply with the Terms of use.
Variation of Terms of use
The ACMA may change the Terms of use from time to time without notice. By entering and using this Site, you are agreeing to comply with the Terms of use (as amended from time to time) on and from the date on which you first use this Site.
The current version of the Terms of use will always be freely accessible on the Cybersmart website at www.cybersmart.gov.au.