Terms of Use
Welcome to The Parenting Buzz website (collectively ‘we’ or ‘us’). This site is owned and operated by Felicity Banning. These Terms of Use (Terms), along with policies and guidelines located throughout The Parenting Buzz website describe what Users (‘you’) of this site and The Parenting Buzz podcast can expect from us, as well as what we expect from you. By accessing this website and any areas of The Parenting Buzz website or podcast you are deemed to have accepted these Terms of Use and any other policies and guidelines located on this site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. If this occurs, we will post the changes on this page. Your continued use of the website after such changes occur constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms of Use, do not use or access the website. It is your responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes.
In order to use The Parenting Buzz website and / or services, you need to be at least 18 years of age, or of the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, and possess the legal authority, right and freedom to enter into these Terms as a binding agreement. You are not allowed to use this website and / or receive services if doing so is prohibited in your country or under any applicable law or regulation applicable to you.
Disclaimer
This website and the information it contains is not intended as a substitute for professional consultation with a qualified practitioner. If you are concerned about either yourself or your child, it is important that you consult with an appropriate health professional to seek support.
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While we endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. You need to make your own enquiries to determine if the information or products are appropriate for your intended use.
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Neither The Parenting Buzz or Felicity Banning accepts any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any material contained in this site.
Third Party Links
This website may contain links to other websites that are not owned, operated, or controlled by The Parenting Buzz or Felicity Banning
The Parenting Buzz website contains links to other websites that are provided to help you find more information. The linked websites do not necessarily reflect the views of Felicity Banning or The Parenting Buzz. We are careful in selecting the websites we link to, but we are not responsible for and do not necessarily endorse their information. You need to make your own decisions about the accuracy, currency, and reliability of information in linked websites.
Liability
This website may contain links to other websites that are not owned, operated, or controlled by The Parenting Buzz or Felicity Banning
The Parenting Buzz website contains links to other websites that are provided to help you find more information. The linked websites do not necessarily reflect the views of Felicity Banning or The Parenting Buzz. We are careful in selecting the websites we link to, but we are not responsible for and do not necessarily endorse their information. You need to make your own decisions about the accuracy, currency, and reliability of information in linked websites.
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To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, The Parenting Buzz and Felicity Banning assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of our service; and (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein.
We are not liable for any interference with or damage to your computer system, software or data occurring in connection with, or relating to, this website or its use.
The Parenting Buzz Chat Forums and Social Media Platforms
These standards apply to interaction on all The Parenting Buzz accounts on The Parenting Buzz website and on third-party social media sites.
These community platforms are for parents, carers and professionals who work with parents and children. We welcome polite and respectful feedback but we reserve the right to delete comments that:
- are irrelevant or off topic
- seek to intimidate, harass, degrade, exclude or silence others
- are abusive or seek to damage the reputation of The Parenting Buzz or Felicity Banning
- are threatening or use profanity
- contain misinformation or disinformation
- are advertising or spam
We reserve the right to ban any user who is in breach of these guidelines. We reserve the right to turn off comments at any time to ensure that we meet these standards.
The Parenting Buzz and Felicity Banning endeavours to prevent improper use of the discussion forum, comment and chat areas but will not be under any liability for any consequential damage however caused. Any communication between users is done at the users own risk.
All users that join The Parenting Buzz forum (community) have a public profile that is publicly visible (to other visitors to the website). All public activity (such as posts and comments) will be visible to other visitors of the website. Users are able to opt-out and exit the community, and in doing so the user’s profile will not be publicly visible and the user will not be able to use the community features (e.g. liking, commenting or writing posts). All contributions (posts, comments, likes, etc.) made by that user during their time as a member will remain public even after they have exited the community.
Right to Suspend or Cancel User Account
The Parenting Buzz may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the service without notice and liability for any reason, including if in our sole determination you violate any provision of these Terms or any applicable law or regulations.
Retention of Right to Change Offering
The Parenting Buzz or Felicity Banning may, without prior notice, change the services; stop providing the services or any features of the services we offer; or create limits for the services. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend access to the services without notice and liability for any reason, or for no reason.
Right to Change and Modify Terms
We reserve the right to modify these terms from time-to-time at our sole discretion. Therefore, you should review these pages periodically. When we change the Terms in a material manner, we will notify you that material changes have been made to the Terms. Your continued use of the Website or our service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future version of the Terms, do not use or access (or continue to access) the website or the service.
Use of Information
Any information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques provided by or obtained from you or your use of The Parenting Buzz website and / or social media platforms shall be deemed to be non-confidential and The Parenting Buzz shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation.
Ownership of Intellectual Property, Copyrights and Logos
By visiting and using The Parenting Buzz website and listening to The Parenting Buzz podcast, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
The Parenting Buzz reserves all intellectual property rights, including copyright and trademarks in The Parenting Buzz website, social media sites and podcast.
The Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of The Parenting Buzz and Felicity Banning. Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works thereof.
You may print single copies of the information sheets provided in this website for your own personal and non-commercial use but must not otherwise reproduce or redistribute any material on this website in any form without permission.
Disclaimer - Downloadable Documents
The Parenting Buzz makes available to you the provision to download particular documents, on the conditions set out below. If you do not agree with these conditions, then you should not download the material.
Conditions
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The information is provided on the basis that upon downloading you will conduct such virus scanning and other checks as may be necessary to ensure that the downloaded material will not corrupt in any way your data, software or systems or those of any other person.
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You acknowledge and agree that The Parenting Buzz will not be under any liability to you for any loss or damage including consequential loss or damage however caused, whether by negligence or otherwise, that arises in any way from the use of the downloaded material.
Subscriptions and Contributions
When paying for a subscription or contribution, you agree that: (i) you are responsible for reading the full item listing before making a commitment to purchase it: (ii) you enter into a legally binding contract to purchase an item when you commit to buy an item and you complete the check-out payment process. You are able to cancel your subscription at any time.
The prices we charge for using our services are listed on the website. We reserve the right to change our prices at any time, and to correct pricing errors that may inadvertently occur.
The fee for the services (subscriptions) will be charged on a monthly basis to your payment method.
Personal Information and your Privacy
Privacy Policy
The Parenting Buzz is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.
We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (the Privacy Act). The APPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/ .
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What is Personal Information and why do we collect it?
Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.
This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including interviews, correspondence, by email, via our website www.theparentingbuzz.com.au, social media accounts, from cookies and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties. If you want to join our social media communities, we have access to your public profile, which may include your name and photo.
We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you, providing information to our clients and marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our membership lists at any time by contacting us in writing.
We collect some information automatically when you visit The Parenting Buzz website via third-party vendors such as Google Analytics. This is aggregated, information collected in an anonymous form and includes information such as the number, date and timing of visits to the website and the pages of the website visited frequently. This information is not personal information and collected for statistical purposes only.
When we collect Personal Information, we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
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Sensitive Information
Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual's racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.
Sensitive information will be used by us only:
• For the primary purpose for which it was obtained
• For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
• With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
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Third Parties
Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.
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Disclosure of Personal Information
Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:
• Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
• Where required or authorised by law.
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Security of Personal Information
Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.
When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
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Access to your Personal Information
You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing.
The Parenting Buzz will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.
In order to protect your Personal Information, we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
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Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information
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It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
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Policy Updates
This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
Preference of Law and Dispute Resolution
​These Terms, the rights and remedies provided hereunder, and any and all claims and disputes related hereto and/or to the services, shall be governed by, construed under and enforced in all respects solely and exclusively in accordance with the internal substantive laws of Australia, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Any and all such claims and disputes shall be brought in, and you hereby consent to them being decided exclusively by, a court of competent jurisdiction located in Australia. The application of the United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is hereby expressly excluded.
Last Updated: 13 January 2024