Copyright

Screen Australia materials, including pages and online images, are protected by the Copyright Laws of Australia and international conventions. All rights are reserved.

When you access the Screen Australia site, including the sites of the former Film Finance Corporation, Film Australia and Australian Film Commission, you agree that:

• You may retrieve materials for information only.
• You may save copies or print them for your own personal use or to inform others about Screen Australia free of charge. Commercial exploitation of Screen Australia materials is prohibited.
• Screen Australia’s copyright notice must be included in any copy that you make.
• Screen Australia’s permission must be sought to amend any information in the materials.
  
  

Disclaimer

The information on this site is intended as general reference. Material has been drawn from a variety of sources and is made available on the understanding that the Screen Australia is not thereby engaged in rendering professional advice.

Screen Australia makes every reasonable effort to maintain current and accurate information. However, Screen Australia accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any material contained in this website and specifically disclaims any liability, loss or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly of the use and application of any of the contents. Users should obtain any appropriate professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances.

Links to other websites are included for convenience and do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service.

The material on this site may include views or recommendations of third parties that do not necessarily reflect the views of Screen Australia or indicate its commitment to a particular course of action.

The listing of a person or organisation in any part of this website in no way implies any form of endorsement by Screen Australia of the products or services provided by that person or organisation.

There is no warranty that this website will be free of infections by viruses or any other manifesting, contaminating or destructive properties.

Privacy Policy

In accordance with the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government World Wide Websites issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Screen Australia provides the following privacy statements.

Site visit data
Screen Australia makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes: the user's server address, the user's top level domain name (eg. .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.), the date and time of the visit to the site, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser used.

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider's logs.

Collection of personal information
Screen Australia will only record your email address or other supplied details if you send us a message or complete a form online. Supplied information will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to a mailing list unless you have requested this. Unless required by law, we will not use your email or other addresses for any other purpose, and will not disclose them, without your consent.

Access to information collected
Whenever possible, Screen Australia will provide you with access to your personal information to ensure that it is accurate, complete and up-to-date (see Editing and deleting your membership information below).

Editing and deleting your membership information
Subscribers to Screen Australia e-newsletters can unsubscribe via the link at the bottom of every newsletter or change their details by contacting web@screenaustralia.gov.au

Cookies
We use web browser cookies on this website. Cookies are small pieces of information we store on your computer however, these cookies do not contain information by which Screen Australia can identify you. If you would like to disable or control cookies then you can do so through a preference on your web browser.

Cookies are sent back to the originating server. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses or capture your email address. Session cookies are used only during a browsing session at the site and expire when you quit your browser. Our Internet Service Provider informs us that they do not use cookies to generate website statistics for individual users.

Please note that most browsers can be configured to notify the user when a cookie is received, allowing you to either accept or reject it. If you do not accept cookies, then some of the features on our site will not work as they are intended to.

User feedback
We appreciate feedback from our users relating to the services offered by the Screen Australia website. Please let us know if you have any suggestions.

Screen Australia email addresses
To assist communication with Screen Australia, contact names and email addresses are published on this website. These are provided only for bona fide enquiries relating directly to the organisation’s business. In accordance with the Spam Act 2003, Screen Australia does NOT give consent to the sending of spam to these email addresses, including unsolicited commercial electronic messages, direct internet marketing communications, the offer of products and services over the internet or the issuing of prospectus or other financial offerings by email.

Security

Users should be aware that there are inherent risks in transmitting information across the Internet and via email. While no transmission to and from websites can ever be totally secure, Screen Australia will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information you provide us when visiting this site is kept secure. Our security measures aim to protect user information transmitted via our site from loss, misuse or alteration. Access to this information is restricted to our website hosting companies and a small number of Screen Australia employees via secured web-based administration pages.

Accessibility

Screen Australia endeavours to make information easily accessible for its stakeholders. The Screen Australia website was built to comply with the Priority One checkpoints and the majority of Priority Two checkpoints (ie Conformance Level A) of the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Further development will also aim to comply to at least this level.

This Screen Australia site has been developed to display adequately on all commonly used browsers. For best results you need to be using Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and above; Google Chrome 8 and above; Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and above; or Safari 4.0 and above.

The site is designed to appear at its best on a screen configured for 1024 x 768 display using 24 bit (000,000s) or more colours.

We hope that this site is accessible to you. If you have problems or suggestions on how we can improve accessibility for this site please fill out our feedback form.