Terms and conditions
Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of this website. By using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of Writing Academically Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
We also reserve our right to change these terms and conditions from time to time.
Licence to use the website
Unless otherwise stated, Writing Academically owns the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
- sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
- show any material from the website in public;
- reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
- edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
- redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Acceptable use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without the express written consent of the Director of Writing Academically.
You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without the express written consent of the Director of Writing Academically.
Restricted access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Writing Academically reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at the discretion of Writing Academically.
If Writing Academically provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
Writing Academically may disable your user ID and password at the sole discretion of Writing Academically without notice or explanation.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to Writing Academically a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Writing Academically the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Writing Academically or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
Writing Academically reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Writing Academically‘s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding Writing Academically’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Writing Academically does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Writing Academically makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Writing Academically does not warrant that:
- this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
- the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matters. For these you should consult an appropriate professional.
Limitations of liability
Writing Academically will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
- to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
- for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
- for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if Writing Academically has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Writing Academically’s liability in respect of any:
- death or personal injury caused by Writing Academically‘s negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Writing Academically; or
- matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Writing Academically to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Unenforceable provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Writing Academically has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Writing Academically’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.
Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Writing Academically’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Writing Academically.
Cookies policy
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to Writing Academically’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Cookies are small text files sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers on your hard drive to allow quicker access to the website. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.
There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.
Google cookies
Writing Academically uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Refusing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.
In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.
In Chrome, you can adjust your cookies settings by following these steps
- Click Chrome on the top menu bar.
- Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on a Chromebook).
- Click the Under the Bonnet tab.
- Click Content settings in the “Privacy” section.
- Click the Cookies tab in the Content Settings dialogue that appears: Delete cookies, Block cookies by default, Allow cookies by default, Make exceptions for cookies from specific websites or domains
Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.
Linking Policy
Writing Academically welcomes links to this website made in accordance with the terms of this linking policy. By using this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this linking policy.
Links to this website
Links pointing to this website should not be misleading. Appropriate link text should be always be used.
From time to time the URL structure of this website may be updated, and unless Writing Academically agrees in writing otherwise, all links should point to www.writingacademically.com.
You must not use the Writing Academically logo to link to this website (or otherwise) without Writing Academically’s express written permission.
You must not link to this website using any inline linking technique.
You must not frame the content of this website or use any similar technology in relation to the content of this website.
Links from this website
This website includes links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not endorsements or recommendations.
Writing Academically has no control over the contents of third party websites, and Writing Academically accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Removal of links
You agree that, should Writing Academically request the deletion of a link to our website that is within your control, you will delete the link promptly.
If you would like Writing Academically to remove a link to your website that is included on this website, please contact Writing Academically at info@writingacademically.com. Note that unless you have a legal right to demand removal, such removal will be at our discretion.
Changes to this linking policy
Writing Academically may amend this linking policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.
Contact us
Should you have any questions about this linking policy, please contact Writing Academically at info@writingacademically.com.
Anti-Spam Policy
In the context of electronic messaging, spam refers to unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, typically sent for a commercial purpose.
Writing Academically has a zero-tolerance spam policy.
Automated spam filtering
Writing Academically’s messaging systems automatically scan all incoming email and other messages, and filter-out messages that appear to be spam.
Problems with spam filtering
No message filtering system is 100% accurate, and from time to time legitimate messages will be filtered-out by Writing Academically’s systems.
If you believe this has happened to a message you have sent, please advise the message recipient by another means.
You can reduce the risk of a message being caught by the spam filters by sending the message in plain text (i.e. no HTML), removing any attachments, and ensuring that your messages are scanned for malware before dispatch.
Receipt of unwanted messages from Writing Academically
In the unlikely event that you receive any message from Writing Academically or sent using Writing Academically’s systems that may be considered to be spam, please contact Writing Academically at info@writingacademically.com and the matter will be investigated.
Changes to this anti-spam policy
Writing Academically may amend this anti-spam policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.
Contact us
Should you have any questions about this anti-spam policy, please contact Writing Academically at info@writingacademically.com.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify Writing Academically and undertake to keep Writing Academically indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Writing Academically to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Writing Academically’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Writing Academically arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to Writing Academically’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Writing Academically may take such action as Writing Academically deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
Writing Academically may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
Writing Academically may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Writing Academically’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Writing Academically in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the law in the State of Queensland and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Queensland, Australia.
These website terms and conditions
This website terms and conditions is based on a free Contractology template available at www.freenetlaw.com.
Writing Academically’s details
The full name of Writing Academically is Writing Academically, ABN 15 796 080 518.
You can contact Writing Academically by email to info@writingacademically.com or submit a query on our Contact page.