When you make a submission to the Neighbour Stories website, you agree that:

Your comments or contributed content, will not:

  • use obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit text or images;
  • discriminate against, vilify, harass, insult, impersonate or attack others or demean any person;
  • be defamatory, fraudulent or illegal in any way;
  • infringe the intellectual property rights of others;
  • be false or misleading;
  • compromise the privacy of yourself or others;

When you refer to another person’s material, (for example, material contained on another website) you must include an appropriate attribution in your post/message.

You indemnify the Artists (Alyson Evans and Tahni Froudist) against any and all liability arising from claims by third parties in relation to:

Your use of the Neighbour Stories website;

  • any content that you have contributed to the Neighbour Stories website; or
  • any breach by you of these Terms.

In relation to intellectual property, you:

  • warrant that you have all necessary intellectual property rights in relation to the content that you contribute to the Neighbour Stories website and/or The Neighbourhood project and that your contribution does not infringe the rights of any others;
  • agree that you will not contribute content that you don’t own or content for which you haven’t acquired the necessary rights;
  • retain any intellectual property rights that exist in any content that you contribute to the Neighbour Stories website, subject to any third party terms and conditions which may apply; and
  • give the Artists an indefinite, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferrable, sub-licensable licence to use any of your content that you contribute, for any purposes of the Artists in relation to Neighbour Stories projects, subject to any third party terms and conditions. This means that the Artists may use your content online and/or in whatever other ways the Artists chooses including licencing under CCBY4.0, now and in the future, without acknowledging or making any payments to you. If you are not willing to grant the Artists these rights, please do not contribute content to the Neighbour Stories website.

You should be aware that your posted comments or other submissions can remain online indefinitely and may be found through search engines or online archives.

The Artists recommend that contributions by children be supervised by an adult at all times.

If the Artists consider that you have breached these terms in any way, we may:

  • remove the relevant content; or
  • follow the takedown request position statement in relation to alleged copyright infringements; and/or
  • report your actions to the relevant authority.

Removal of any content on the Neighbour Stories website is at all times within the discretion of the Artists. 

Updated on 7 July 2020