VisaChoices is a website offering free information and resources about travelling to or migrating to Australia. This website does not offer legal advice or migration advice. Any posts are the views of the respective authors only and not of VisaChoices.
We invite you as a registered user to access and contribute to the content on various parts of this website known as VisaChoices (visachoices.com.au or visachoices.com), including but not limited to the blogs, forum and classifieds. When contributing to the website, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions:
Our rights
1. We retain the right and discretion (but not the obligation) to edit, delete, reject or remove any comment which you post or seek to post in the comments areas. However, we indicate that the intention is to encourage and maintain the originality of comments posted to the website as much as is reasonably possible.
2. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence to reproduce and deal with any material you submit to us by all means whatsoever (including, without limitation, in print and electronic format).
3. We retain the right and discretion to terminate your access to the comments areas and remove you as a registered user if we believe you are abusing the services in any way, or have breached these terms and conditions.
4. You consent to our collecting and storing your IP address for security purposes.
Your obligations
5. You will not post any material in the comments areas:
(a) which is not original work in which you own the copyright, or which in any way violates or infringes (or could reasonably be expected to violate or infringe) the copyright, registered trademark or intellectual property rights of another person;
(b) which is (or could reasonably be expected to be) obscene, offensive, pornographic, vulgar, profane, indecent or otherwise illegal;
(c) which is (or could reasonably be expected to be) defamatory of any person;
(d) which racially or religiously vilifies, incites violence or hatred, or is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability; or
(e) which you know or suspect (or ought reasonably to have known or suspected) to be false, misleading or deceptive.
6. You will not use the comments areas for the purpose of advertising, promoting or soliciting any illegal goods or services.
The websites known as visachoices.com.au and visachoices.com are domain names registered to Phang Legal Pty Limited ABN 90 102 682 217 ('Phang Legal'), an incorporated legal practice (www.phanglegal.com.au). Phang Legal and its officiers and employees are related entities of VisaChoices for the purposes of these terms and conditions.
Disclaimer
7. The views which are expressed in the website are the views of their respective authors and not the views of VisaChoices or its related entities, unless otherwise stated, and we accept no liability in respect of any material posted on the website, nor are we responsible for its content, currency or accuracy.
8. Any reliance that you place on material posted on the website is done so at your own risk.
Indemnities
9. You agree to fully indemnify and hold harmless VisaChoices and its related entities against any liabilities, claims, costs, loss (including consequential loss) or damage suffered or caused by reason of your reliance on any material posted on the website.
10. You agree to fully indemnify and hold harmless VisaChoices and its related entities against any liabilities, claims, costs, loss (including consequential loss) or damage incurred as a result of any material you posted on the website, or as a result of any breach by you of these terms and conditions.
11. Notwithstanding any indemnity provided by you under these terms and conditions, VisaChoices and/or its related entities retain the right to assume the conduct of any defence to a claim brought against them, and of any proceeding or appeal issued by them, and you agree to provide all reasonable cooperation (including by making available relevant documents) that VisaChoices and/or its related entities may require from you in relation to any such claim, proceeding or appeal.
Governing law
12. These terms and conditions shall be construed and applied in accordance with the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New South Wales Courts to determine any matter or dispute which arises under these terms and conditions in accordance with the laws of New South Wales, Australia.
