Terms of use – PRReSTo application

By using the PRReSTo App, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Use and CSIRO's Privacy Policy

By using the App and the Content available on and through it, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

The Terms of Use form the legally binding agreement between you and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ABN 41 687 119 230 (CSIRO). We may amend these Terms of Use at any time. Amendments to these Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon notification on this App. Your continued use of the App following such notification will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Terms of Use as amended.

Important message: The results and analyses contained in this App are based on a number of technical, circumstantial or otherwise specified assumptions and parameters. The user must make its own assessment of the suitability for its use of the information or material contained in or generated from the App.  No reliance or actions must be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO (including its employees and consultants) excludes all liability to any person for any consequences, including but not limited to all losses, damages, costs, expenses and any other compensation, arising directly or indirectly from using this App (in part or in whole) and any information or material contained in it.

Terminology

  • Application or App – means the CSIRO Pest Risk Reduction Scenario Tool (PRReSTo) application.
  • App Content – means Content you access via the App.
  • Content – means content or material, and includes, but is not limited to: photos, graphs, other images, music; textual material such as reviews, annotations, comments, forum and blog postings, information; geospatial/location data, records, metadata; databases, datasets and models.
  • You/user – means you as a user of the Application or App Content.

Acknowledgements

This website is owned and operated by CSIRO.  The App (including any images and text incorporated therein) contains proprietary information and copyright owned by CSIRO and Hort Innovation Australia Ltd (Hort Innovation), with the following acknowledgements:

The App was developed in a project entitled “Developing a national systems approach for meeting biosecurity requirements to access key Asian markets”. This project was funded by the Hort Frontiers Asian Markets Fund, as part of the Hort Frontiers strategic partnership initiative developed by Hort Innovation, with contributions from CSIRO, Western Australian Department of Primary Industries Resources and Development, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Agriculture Victoria, and the Australian Government.

Personal Information

This website may require cookies to be enable it to function. Consequently, if you do not allow CSIRO to use cookies, you may not be able to use the website or the App.

A cookie is a text string that is included with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. Cookies are used to maintain certain information as you navigate different pages on a website or return to the website at a later time.

If used, the function of cookies in the website would be to enable a seamless process for you. CSIRO does not use cookies to track your use of the website.

Any personal information collected by CSIRO during your visit to the website and this App will be dealt with in accordance with CSIRO’s Privacy Statement, which can be found here: Privacy Policy which also forms part of the Terms of Use.

Using the App and App Content

You may use the App and App Content only for lawful purposes, in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, the App by any third party.

When you use the App or App Content, you must not post or transmit material which:

  • is obscene, offensive, unlawful, defamatory, malicious, threatening, abusive, or scandalous;
  • violates any law, including laws regarding harassment, discrimination, racial vilification, privacy or contempt;
  • encourages conduct that would contravene any law;
  • is intentionally false or misleading; or
  • is an infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights.

If you use or download Content from the App, you:

  • recognise that it may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights (including moral rights) and will respect those rights;
  • agree to acknowledge, reference or attribute CSIRO and the original authors of the Content (if specified) in any derived information product, work or publication that is based on the relevant Content;
  • will not remove any identifier of ownership, disclaimer or terms of use that are associated with the Content;
  • may distribute Content to third parties under the terms of these Terms of Use. You must not impose any additional restrictions on the use of original, unaltered Content by third parties; and
  • recognise that the Content is provided without any warranty regarding its quality, accuracy, completeness, currency, relevance or suitability for any particular purpose and that you use the Content at your own risk (see ‘Disclaimer’ below).

Intellectual Property

All intellectual property rights in this App, including design, text, graphics, video, logos, icons, sound recordings and all software relating to this App, belong to or are licensed by CSIRO. These intellectual property rights are protected by Australian and international laws.

You may not in any form or by any means copy, adapt, reproduce (other than for the purpose of viewing the App in your browser), store, modify, distribute, print, upload, display, perform, remove any credits, publish, post, frame within another website or application, or create derivative works from any part of this App or commercialise any Content obtained from any part of this App without our prior written permission or, in the case of third party material, from the owner of the intellectual property rights in that material.

Many of the trademarks or logos displayed on the App such as the CSIRO logo or name are trademarks of CSIRO and cannot be used in a manner that suggests CSIRO endorses or is associated with your business, products or services without the express written permission of CSIRO.

Disclaimer

The App, linked websites and App Content are intended to provide information for general and scientific use, to assist research and public knowledge, discussion and policy development.

CSIRO makes the App and App Content available on the understanding that you use them at your own risk – they are provided ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ and you exercise your own skill, judgement and care with respect to their use or your reliance on them (including anything you access through links to external third-party websites). You acknowledge that Content on or made available via the App:

  • may contain statements based on scientific research and comprise data collected by CSIRO and third parties;
  • is not professional, scientific, medical, technical or expert advice and may be subject to the usual uncertainties of advanced scientific and technical research; and
  • should not be relied upon as specific to you and therefore as the basis for doing or failing to do something.

CSIRO gives no warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, completeness, currency, relevance or suitability for any particular purpose of the App Content or the App. No reliance or actions must be made on the App Content or the App without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, CSIRO (including its employees and contractors) excludes all liability to any person for any consequences, including but not limited to all losses, damages (including indirect, special or consequential damages, loss of business, revenue/profit, loss of time etc.), costs, expenses and any other compensation, arising directly or indirectly from your use of the App or App Content (including through links to external third party websites) or inability to access the App.

Links to External Websites

The App may include links to external websites; however, we do not have direct control over the Content of the linked websites, nor the changes that may occur to Content on those websites. We are not responsible for the Content or privacy practices associated with linked websites and applications.

When you click the link to an external website, you will be redirected to a third party site.

You should consult the legal and copyright notices on the third party website to determine the extent to which you may (or may not) be able to use Content on that website for your intended purpose. We make no representation that the material on any linked websites does not infringe the intellectual property rights or any other rights of any person. Nor do we authorise the reproduction of such material.

Links to external websites do not constitute an endorsement by CSIRO or a recommendation by CSIRO of those host organisations or websites, including any information, material or third party products or services available from or through those websites.

Linking to the App

If you choose to link the App to your own external website, such links should not suggest that your website, organisation or services/products are endorsed by CSIRO. CSIRO reserves the right to prevent linking or framing if these conditions are not met.

Security

The internet exists across insecure, public networks and there is a risk of unauthorised access to the Content; that transmissions to or from this App may be intercepted and modified by third parties; or that files obtained from or through this App may contain computer viruses, disabling codes, worms or other defects.

CSIRO accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to your computer system, software, or data occurring in connection with or relating to the App or its use including the tools provided. You are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is obtained from this App is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage your computer system, software or data. We recommend that you use appropriate and up-to-date firewall and anti-virus software to protect your computer systems.

You must not try to circumvent the security features of the App, or tamper with, hack into, or in some other way disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or other device used to host this App or make it available.

Email Addresses on the App

The presence of email addresses on the App does not infer consent to send unsolicited commercial electronic messages (email) to those addresses.

General

These Terms of Use are governed by the law applicable to the State of New South Wales and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.

No delay, neglect or forbearance on the part of CSIRO in enforcing these Terms of Use will be, or deemed to be, a waiver. Nor will it prejudice any rights of CSIRO.