Terms of use

Privacy Notice

The Stroke Foundation (ABN 42 006 173 379) is collecting your personal information for the purpose of allowing you to access and use, and to personalise your user experience within, the  enableme website.  Some information that you upload to the website may be accessible to other users (including users outside of Australia) and you should use discretion in deciding what information to upload.  If you provide any health information or other sensitive information to us you consent to us collecting and using that information in connection with the operation of the enableme website.  You can adjust your privacy settings by modifying your enableme profile.  Your use of the website is subject to our Terms of Use.

If you have consented, or if otherwise permitted by law, we may also use your information to notify you about our other services and campaigns, including via direct marketing. 

We may disclose your personal information to third parties who provide us with, or assist us to provide, goods and services.  From time to time, your information may be provided to third parties in overseas locations, such as New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Our Privacy Policy is available at www.strokefoundation.org.au/privacy. It details how we collect and use your personal information, how you can access and correct this information, how you can lodge a complaint regarding the handling of your personal information and how any complaint will be handled by us. You can contact our Privacy Officer via mail at Level 7, 461 Bourke Street Melbourne, Vic, 3000 or via email at admin@strokefoundation.org.au.

Terms of Use

The website and services available at www.enableme.org.au (the Website) are governed by these terms of use. The Website is operated by the Stroke Foundation (ABN 42 006 173 379) (“we” “us” “our”).

By accessing, registering for or using the Website, you agree that these terms of use (as they exist at that time) will apply to your use. If you do not agree with these terms of use (including any amendments to the terms and conditions) you must immediately cease using the Website. 

We reserve the right to change these terms of use at any time and for any reason. Your continued use of the Website after any amendment constitutes an agreement by you to comply with, and be bound by, the amended terms of use. Accordingly, you should regularly review the terms of use for changes.

General disclaimer
To the extent permitted by law, the Stroke Foundation excludes all liability for any loss, injury or damage suffered by you or anyone else, however caused (and whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic and whether arising under contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) which may be directly or indirectly suffered in connection with your use of this Website, or as a consequence of any content or information obtained from or through the Website or the websites of other entities which are hyperlinked from this Website (Linked Websites).

This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any of the following specific warnings and disclaimers.

Specific warnings and disclaimers
The information contained on this Website which is provided by the Stroke Foundation is provided in good faith and on an 'as is' basis. The information uploaded by the Stroke Foundation is believed to be accurate and current as at the date the information was placed on this Website however the Stoke Foundation make no representation or warranty as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information that it uploads to this Website, or that your use of this Website will be uninterrupted or error free. 

Some features of the Website may allow you to upload content to the Website.  You warrant that you are the owner or authorised user of the materials you upload and you grant the Stroke Foundation an irrevocable, perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free licence to use, modify and display such content for any purpose.  

Information uploaded by users of the Website represents the views or opinions of the relevant individual uploading the information and not the views of the Stroke Foundation, and is not endorsed by the Stroke Foundation.  To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Stroke Foundation is not responsible for, and excludes all liability for, such user generated content.  

You should not act on the basis of anything contained on this Website without first obtaining professional advice specific to your circumstances. You must make your own assessment of the information contained on this Website and, if you choose to rely on it, it is wholly at your own risk.

The Stroke Foundation is not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with your use of this Website or a Linked Website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from this Website is free of viruses or anything else (such as worms or trojan horses) that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems. You are solely responsible for providing (at your cost) all equipment, software, and internet access necessary to use the Website. 

The Stroke Foundation may, from time to time, change or add to this Website without notice and reserves the right to review, edit, move or delete any content or materials displayed on or through the Website (including user generated content) at any time without notice and without liability. The Stroke Foundation does not undertake to keep this Website updated and we will not be liable to you or anyone else if errors occur in the information on this Website or if that information is not up-to-date.

The Stroke Foundation has the right to terminate or suspend the operation of the Website (including in part) for any reason without notice and without liability, including to conduct maintenance or implement updates. 

To the extent permitted by applicable law, all implied conditions, representations, warranties and other terms are excluded. You must ensure that your access to this Website is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you or in your location.  In respect of any conditions, warranties or guarantees which cannot be excluded under statue, to the extent permitted by law, the liability of the Stroke Foundation is limited (at its option) to the replacement, repair or resupply of the relevant goods or the resupply or refund of the cost of relevant services.

Your use of this Website
You must only use the Website in accordance with these terms of use and applicable law.  You may be held personally liable for any unlawful use of the Website. 

As a condition of your use of the Website, you warrant to us that you will not use this Website for any purpose that prohibited by these terms of use. In particular, you agree not to:

• use this Website to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise offend any person;
• use this Website to mislead or deceive others;
• publish, distribute, email, transmit or disseminate any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, indecent, offensive or inappropriate;
• use any automated scripting tools or software;
• engage in or promote any third party surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited emailing or spamming via the Website;
• impersonate any other person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your identity, credentials, profession or affiliation with any other person or entity;
• infringe the rights (including intellectual property rights) of any person;
• upload personal information about any other person (including health information) without that person’s express consent;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available using the Website any material that you do not have a right to make available or which contains viruses, or other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware or to utilise other computer systems for improper purposes or without authorisation; or
• breach any laws or regulations which are applicable to your use of this Website..

The Stroke Foundation reserves the right to suspend or remove your account or any of your content on the Website without notice and without liability should you breach these terms of use.

If you think that any content on the Website is inappropriate, inaccurate, out of date, unlawful or infringes your rights, please let us know. 

Copyright
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all material on this Website (other than user generated content), including (but not limited to) text, graphics, logos, video and audio clips, information, architecture and coding, is owned by or licensed to the Stroke Foundation. All copyright is reserved.

You are provided with access to this Website and may download, store in cache, display, print or make a single copy of the information or material stored on this Website (in its unaltered form) and for your personal and non-commercial use only. Except for these purposes, and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (or any similar statute that applies in your jurisdiction), you may not, in any form or by any means:

• adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, transmit, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of this Website; or
• commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this Website, without our prior written permission.

If you wish to make any other use of the material on this Website, you must obtain our prior written permission before doing so. To ask for permission or for further information, please contact us.

All trade names, trade marks, service marks and other product and service names and logos (Marks) displayed on this Website are proprietary to their respective owners and are protected by applicable trade mark and copyright laws. These Marks may be our registered or unregistered Marks or may belong to others and are used on this Website with permission from the relevant owner.

Nothing contained on this Website should be construed as granting any licence or right of use of any Mark which is displayed on this Website without the express written permission of the relevant owner.
If you use any of our Marks to refer to our activities, products or services, you must include a statement attributing that Mark to us. You must not use any of our Marks:

• in or as the whole or part of your own Marks;
• in connection with activities, products or services which are not ours;
• in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive; or
• in a manner that  damages, or has the potential to damage, us or our information, products or services (including this Website).

Privacy
Any personal information collected by us through your use of the Website will be dealt with in accordance with our Privacy Policy (available at www.strokefoundation.org.au/privacy). Some information that you upload to the website may be accessible to other users (including users outside of Australia) and you should use discretion in deciding what information to upload.  You can adjust your privacy settings by logging in to your account. 

You acknowledge that any content that you upload to the Website may still be accessible to the public, even if you delete your account.  If you have permanently deleted your account, you can contact us and request that we change your user name to “anonymous” so that content is no longer attributable to you. 

Linked Websites
This Website contains links to external websites and may on occasion, display content or information from other websites within frames on this Website, however the Stroke Foundation is not responsible or liable for third party content or information, does not endorse material on any linked web site and does not provide any warranty as to the quality, accuracy, source, merchantability, fitness for purpose or any other aspect of the content of those third party websites.
If you have found anything on linked websites that you believe to be inappropriate or incorrect, please contact the web administrator enableme@strokefoundation.org.au quoting the URL of the site/page and the link will be reviewed.

Your use of any Linked Website is entirely at your own risk and you will be bound by the terms and conditions (if any) posted on the Linked Website and not by these Terms of Use. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party, social media provider or other service providers that you can access through this Website.

Individuals and organisations are welcome to link this site to their own provided this is done in a manner which indicates that the link is to a Stroke Foundation page and is not misleading, however we do not automatically add a reciprocal link. As a courtesy and for our own records, please notify the web administrator enableme@strokefoundation.org.au if you link to this Website. If you would like to submit a site for consideration to our Web Links page, email enableme@strokefoundation.org.au.

We do not enter into reciprocal linking arrangements:

• solely for the purpose of improving search engine optimisation;
• with web sites whose primary purpose is the advertising of a commercial product or service:,
• with web sites that are not specifically related to stroke: or
• with web sites where we consider that  the content is not applicable to Australian users.

Website membership
Website membership enables you to contribute to the interactive elements on this Website.  If you register, you must maintain the confidentiality of your password and are responsible for all activities conducted through your account, whether or not you have authorised such use.  Your account is personal to you and you must not authorise others to use your account.  You must contact us immediately if you believe someone has gained unauthorised access to your account. 

Regardless of whether you register, your use of this Website constitutes acknowledgement that the views of members posting queries, comments or statements on this Website are the view or opinions of the relevant individuals and not  the views of the Stroke Foundation, and are not endorsed by the Stroke Foundation.

If you have a complaint about any of the content that may be published on this Website, you should contact us.

Research requests

Users seeking research participants should refer to our approval policy. Any posts about projects that have not been approved will be removed. 

General terms
Any failure by the Stroke Foundation to enforce strict performance of any of these terms of use will not be construed as a waiver of any right or remedy of Stroke Foundation in respect of any existing or subsequent breach of these terms of use. 

If any provision of these terms of use is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the provision will be deemed severed from the terms of use and the remainder of the terms will continue in full force and effect.

Applicable laws 
These terms of use are governed by the laws in force in Victoria, Australia and you unconditionally submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia and any courts which may hear appeals from those courts in respect of any proceedings in connection with these terms of use or this Website.  


Last updated: May 2015.