Terms and Privacy

General Website Terms

01 Agreement

By browsing, opening, accessing, or otherwise using this site (www.funny-english-errors.com), you agree to our privacy policy, our competitions terms, and the following general website terms. These  terms are legally enforceable agreements. If you don't agree with any of the terms, then please leave this site.

02 Change

We may change these terms to keep current with laws and policies. Please read these terms periodically to make sure you agree to and understand the latest terms. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the latest terms.

03 Not legal advice

Everything on this site is for INFORMATION ONLY. You must ALWAYS get professional legal advice rather than relying on information that we, or anyone else, provide on this site.

04 Intellectual property

We can use material you post on this site. You give us a perpetual, non-exclusive, and irrevocable licence to use, publish, translate, distribute, reproduce, and publicly communicate anything you submit to or through this site (including emails and posts to our forums), in any form, and by any current or future media or technology. This licence is royalty-free, unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing.

We own the improvements to this site and to future products and services that your ideas and comments might inspire. We encourage you to email us and to use our forums to suggest improvements to this site, and to share ideas for future products and services. Ownership of such suggestions and improvements vests in us on creation. If needed, you must perfect our title in the suggestions and improvements, for example by executing relevant documents.

05 No spam

We've put our contact details on this site to help our visitors contact us. We DO NOT consent to receiving spam.

06 Linking to this site

If your site is legal and has no pornographic or other offensive material, and isn't an online gambling site, then we encourage you to link to this site, and you don't need our permission. But you must remove the link if we ask you to.

If your site is illegal, contains pornographic or other offensive material, or is an online gambling site, then you MUST NOT link to this site and MUST NOT link to the sites that monitor our web statistics.

07 Forums code of conduct

What you MUST NOT do

Without limiting your legal obligations, you MUST NOT do any of the following on our forums:

• swear;
• impersonate anyone;
• violate others’ rights;
• stalk, flame, harass, defame, or threaten anyone;
• post or send spam, junk mail, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
• use our forums for illegal purposes or for purposes that these terms forbid;
• advertise, solicit business, or offer to sell goods or services, without our permission;
• use a false header or other identifiers to disguise the origin of a posting or uploaded content;
• deliberately post the same message or material more than once on the same forum;
• run a game, raffle, or contest (regardless of whether participants pay a fee), without our permission;
• recruit people to join another website or website forum, whether personal or otherwise, without our permission;
• publish or distribute unlawful or objectionable material, including material that is obscene, indecent, pornographic, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable;
• post material or upload or attach files that are protected by intellectual property laws, unless you own or have got all the required consents and licences to use such material; or
• attach or upload harmful files, such as files that contain viruses, corrupted files, and programs designed to limit, impair, destroy, or interrupt the functionality or operability of any software, hardware, computer systems, or telecommunications equipment.

What we CAN do

We own the forums. Your contributions are not private communications between you and someone else. That means we can edit, filter, review, remove, and moderate your posts without notice for any reason. We can also cancel your access to our forums without notice for any reason. We may also keep, disclose, and monitor information to satisfy applicable laws.

08 No warranties

We provide this site "as is" without express or implied warranties. While we take all due care and precautions, we make no warranty or representation that the content on this site, and content accessible through this site, is free from viruses or other defects and harmful components. We don't warrant that access to, or use of, this site will be uninterrupted or error-free. We don't warrant the quality, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, suitability, physical state, reliability, or a particular purpose of the content on this site or content accessible through this site.

09 Capacity

You promise us that you are 18 or older, or your parent or guardian has consented to your using this site and they agree to these terms for you.

10 Competitions

If you enter our competitions, you must read, understand, and accept the competition's terms. Our competitions are games of skill and chance plays no part in the outcome.

11 Links to other sites

This site links to third-party websites. We don't control those sites and we're not responsible for them. We don't endorse the content of those sites. You use third-party websites at your risk. We can't promise that third-party websites do not infringe someone else’s intellectual property rights. So you mustn't take us to be authorising infringement of the intellectual property rights by our linking to those sites. We're also not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party sites and we don't know if those third-party sites use cookies or other tracking devices. If your privacy worries you, you should find out the privacy policies of those third-party sites.

12 Advertisements

We don't necessarily endorse or recommend third-party goods or services advertised on this site.

13 Waiver

If we don't strictly enforce these terms, then it won't be a waiver of our right to strictly enforce these terms later.

14 Limit of liability

You accept all risks and responsibility for all loss, costs, damage, and other consequences of using this site or the content or material on or accessible through this site.

We will not be liable for any loss at all (including, without limitation, special, indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or loss of profits), damage, expense, or injury that is suffered (however so caused) in connection with your using this site or the content or material of this site (including linked websites), except for liability that we cannot legally exclude. Where we cannot legally exclude liability, our liability is limited to our minimum obligations required by law, which may include, at our election, our replacement of the goods, supply of equivalent goods, re-supply of the services, payment of the cost of having the goods or services replaced or re-supplied, the repair of goods, or the cost of having the goods repaired.

15 Indemnity

By using this site, including entering our competitions and contributing to our forums, you indemnify us against all costs (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, awards, demands, judgments, damages, proceedings, and any other liability whatsoever, wholly or partly arising from your using or accessing this site and its content, breaching these terms, or participating in our forums and competitions.

16 Severability

If a term is invalid or unenforceable, then that term will be "read down" (if it can) so that it will be valid and enforceable. If that isn't possible, then the term will, so much that it is capable, be severed from the rest of the terms to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability, without affecting the remaining terms.

17 Governing law

These terms will be subject to and interpreted according to the laws of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). If a dispute arises between you and us, then you will submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the ACT’s courts.

Privacy policy

01 Collection

We collect personal information only when we need that information to do our job. We collect personal information only through fair, lawful, and non-intrusive ways. You can get a copy of the information we have about you by emailing us. We collect the following information for the following purposes:

When you visit this site

When you visit this site, our service provider records your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes: your server address, your top level domain name (for example, .com, .gov, .au, .uk), the date and time of your visit to this site, the pages you accessed, the link and search terms you used to find this site, and your browser. We use “cookies” to help you login the site without having to re-enter your details every time. We won't try to identify you except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency exercises a warrant to look at our service provider's logs.

If you win a competition

If you win a competition, we will ask you for your full name, address, and phone numbers. We will use these details to send you your prize.

When you join this site

When you join this site, we collect your username and email address. We collect this information so you can post to our forums, enter our competitions, and agree to our terms. We need you to agree to our terms so that we can protect our members, consumers, and ourselves. We might also use your email address to let you know about products or services with think might interest you. You can opt out any time. We do NOT sell or pass on your email address to anyone else.

When you post to our forums and blog

If you post to our forums, others will see your username. They will not see your email address unless you volunteer your email address in a post. They will not see your name unless you volunteer it or you let your name be seen at the bottom of the forum page to show you are online.

02 Use and disclosure

We would use your personal information for a secondary purpose only if you consented to such use, or where you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information, or where we are required or authorised by law.

03 Data quality

The currency, accuracy, and completeness of the personal information we collect about you is limited only by the currency, accuracy, and completeness of the personal information you give us.

04 Data security

Access to your personal information is restricted to a handful of people who need access to the information to do their jobs. They, too, are committed to our privacy and security policies, and sign confidentiality agreements. We protect your personal information by firewall, encryption, antivirus, and other security software. We back-up electronically stored information on removable media. We keep hard copies in secure premises. If we no longer need your personal information, or if you withdraw your consent to our using your personal information, we will destroy or de-identify the personal information.

05 Openness

We explain our policies on managing personal information in documents such as this one, which we update on this site. If you have questions about the personal information we hold, the purposes for which we hold the information, and how we use, collect, and disclose that information, just email us.

06 Access and correction

If you ask us, we will show you the information we have about you (we may ask you to supply reasonable proof of identity so that we know it is really you who is accessing the information). You can correct that information any time. The only exceptions are those exceptions under the privacy principles. In such exceptional cases, we will tell you why we have denied access or refused to correct the personal information, as the privacy principles require.

07 Further information

If you have questions about this policy, or suggestions for improving it, please email us.