Website Terms of Use

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Aoetaroa New Zealand

This website (Site) is operated by The Religious Society of Friends Aotearoa New Zealand (we, our or us). It is available at: quakers.nz.

How you consent to these terms of use 

If you access and/or use our Site, you are taken to have agreed to these terms of use (Terms). Please read these Terms carefully – if you don’t agree to them, then you must cease using our Site immediately. 

When we make changes to these terms of use 

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied terms on our Site. We recommend you check our Site regularly to ensure you are aware of our current terms. Materials and information on this Site (Content) are subject to change without notice. We do not undertake to keep our Site up-to-date, and we are not liable if any Content is inaccurate or out-of-date.

Privacy

We respect your privacy and understand protecting your personal information is important. Our Privacy Policy (available on our Site) sets out how we will collect and handle your personal information.

Your licence to use our Site 

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 

That is, you can use the work at no cost, but you must attribute the original creator and you can only share the work but not change it in any way or ever use it commercially.

Conduct we don’t accept 

When you use our Site, we expect you to abide by a certain standard of behaviour. You must not do or attempt to do anything that is unlawful, which is prohibited by any laws applicable to our Site, which we would consider inappropriate, or which might bring us or our Site into disrepute. This includes:

  • anything that would constitute a breach of an individual’s privacy (including uploading private or personal information without an individual's consent) or any other legal rights;
  • using our Site to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person;
  • interfering with any user of our Site;
  • tampering with or modifying our Site, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our Site, including (without limitation) using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our Site;
  • using our Site to send unsolicited electronic messages; or
  • facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

 

Our Site is for your personal use only 

We’ve designed our Site for you to use it personally, and not on a commercial basis. You must not use our Site, or any of our Content, for your commercial purposes, including, for example, to advertise your own business or for any other revenue generation activity. 

Information

Please note that our Content is not comprehensive and is for general information purposes only. We use reasonable attempts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of our Content, we provide our Content in good faith, make no representation or warranty in relation to it, and are not liable for any loss arising from reliance on our Content. 

Third party sites

Our Site may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Unless we tell you otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites. We recommend that you make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those websites. 

Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our Site or our Content, including (without limitation) that:

  • they are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose
  • access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses

Terminating these terms

These Terms are effective until terminated by us, which we may do at any time and without notice to you. In the event of termination, all restrictions imposed on you by these Terms and limitations of liability set out in these Terms will survive.

Which laws govern these terms of use

Your use of our Site and these Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand. You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in New Zealand. 

Our Site may be accessed throughout New Zealand and overseas. We make no representation that our Site complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside New Zealand. If you access our Site from outside New Zealand, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our Site.

For any questions and notices, please contact us at:

Email: help@support.quakers.nz