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Privacy Policy

We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We will never pass on your personal details to anybody else. We believe your private details should be kept just that, and we guarantee that when you share confidential information with us it goes no further.

Newsletter

Underwater.com.au sends email newsletters to people who subscribe either by including their email address in the "underwater news" section or by registering for their Underwater Card. Your individual email address and other information collected will never be supplied to a third party. You can unsubscribe at any time. Advertisers on Underwater.com.au will not be able to contact you directly but will be able to pass on relevant information through our regular Underwater eNews.

Information Collected On The Site

When you look at our website, our Internet Service Provider makes a record of your visit and logs information for statistical purposes. This includes server address, date and time, pages accessed and browser type. This information is used only for statistic purposes and to continuously improve underwater.com.au.

Security

Underwater.com.au is taking measures to protect the security of your personal information and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honoured. We take strong precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, you should note there are inherent risks associated with transmission of information via the Internet. Therefore you should make your own assessment of the potential risks to the security of your information when making a decision as to whether or not to transmit information to underwater.com.au by electronic means.

Your Consent To This Agreement

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of information by underwater.com.au as specified above. Please note that our Legal Notice governs your use of the underwater.com.au web site.

Copyright and Trademark Notice

This web site is copyright and all rights are reserved. It contains copyrighted materials, trademarks and other proprietary information. Photographs, maps and archival imaging by underwater.com.au and Nextwave Media unless otherwise credited.

Do not frame this site so the content appears to be within another site. Content on this site cannot be copied, sampled or reproduced in part or whole, in any form, printed or electronic, without prior permission.

Other materials, content and company names mentioned on this web site may belong to third parties. Lack of a copyright or trademark notice does not imply permission for use. Prior to use, please contact the copyright or trademark owners in all instances.

Content submitted or made available for inclusion on the service

By uploading or submitting content for display or inclusion on underwater.com.au, including but not limited to comments, articles, photographs, news or product reviews, you represent and warrant that you are the author of the content and own all rights in the content. For all content submitted, you grant underwater.com.au the irrevocable right to use the content for any purpose, including but not limited to the right to reformat it, edit it, publish it, associate it with your account name, incorporate it into other works, create derivative works from it, distribute it, and promote it.

Photos: By uploading images to the underwater.com.au galleries or submitting in photo competitions or the Underwater Festival™ you grant underwater.com.au a non-exclusive, royalty-free, limited license to display and reproduce posted images on underwater.com.au, and on any websites where we distribute content through RSS feeds, widgets and applications. underwater.com.au may from time to time print screen shots of our galleries for the purposes of promoting the photo galleries at events.

Use of Other Member’s Photos: As a visitor of underwater.com.au you are permitted to view, bookmark and comment on photos. At no point may you download, save, copy or in any way distribute the photos contained in the underwater.com.au galleries. All photos contained in the gallery are copyrighted by their legal owner, should you wish to use a photo for any purpose not explicitly listed above you must seek direct written permission from its owner.

Disclaimer

Underwater.com.au is an internet content provider, dive community website and marketing tool, it is not a travel agent.

Whilst every care has been taken in compiling the information on this web site, underwater.com.au cannot guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information contained on these pages, and disclaims all liability for any damages or losses of any kind from anyone's reliance on the information. Please reconfirm all details with the relevant provider. Diving locations data and diving conditions should be confirmed with local dive operators.

This site contains links to external web sites or pages maintained by third parties. Underwater.com.au has no control over the information, products or services displayed on those sites, and disclaims all liability for any damages or losses of any kind from anyone's reliance on the information on those pages.

Discounts are offered at the discretion of the businesses. Most discounts are available only when you book directly with the business, not through a booking agent. Underwater.com.au takes no responsibility for changes or variations in discounts offered.

Use of the discussion board

Participation in the underwater discussion board is free. By using the discussion board you agree to abide by the rules and policies detailed below.

The administrators and moderators of the underwater discussion board will attempt to keep objectionable messages off the discussion board, however it might be impossible at times to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and the owners of underwater discussion board will not be held responsible for the content of any message.

Please keep the discussion board clean of sexual references, racial statements and personal abuse. Do not post any material for which you do not own the copyright. No commercial postings. Violation will result in termination of site membership.

The owners of the underwater discussion board have the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Any user who finds material posted by another user objectionable is encouraged to contact us. By using the discussion board you agree that we can remove or edit any data submitted by you to the discussion board for any reason.