Legal statements

Disclaimer

This information should not guide you along a preconceived path, but simply help you make your own choices with more information. This website is intended for Australian residents and is not a substitute for independent professional advice from your own healthcare professionals.

Please discuss the information you find here with your loved ones, health care and service providers. None of the information here constitutes an endorsement or recommendation from the ATSN network.

Please don't rely on any statement contained in this website to made decisions about your health. Information contained in this website are for information purposes only and are not intended to be used to diagnose, treat or cure any physical condition. Furthermore, the accuracy, currency and completeness of the information on this website is not guaranteed.

While all care has been taken in the preparation of the information on this website, no responsibility is accepted by the Australian Transsexual Support Network, its members, or volunteers for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies. Additionally, the Australian Transsexual Support Network does not accept any liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred by use of or reliance on information contained in this website.

Views expressed in publications are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Transsexual Support Network.

Your privacy

This Privacy statement applies to all the publicly accessible pages on the Australian Transsexual Support Network website located at www.atsnaustralia.org and to all the publicly accessible pages listed in the search results web pages. We have no responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites linked to this website.

We respects your right to privacy, dignity and confidentiality in all aspects of your life. We are bound by National and State Privacy Laws, which impose specific obligations when it comes to handling information. In broad terms this means that we:

Collect only information which the network requires for its primary function;
Use and disclose personal information only for our primary functions or a directly related purpose, or for another purpose with the person's consent;
Store personal information securely, protecting it from unauthorised access; and
Provide stakeholders with access to their own information, and the right to seek its correction.

What exceptions are there to this rule?

We will collect and disclose nformation in the following circumstances:

unauthorised tampering or interference with files or attempts to access files on our website;
unauthorised attempts to index the contents of our website by other sites;
attempts to intercept messages of users of of our website;
communications which are defamatory, abusive, vilify individuals or groups or which give rise to a suspicion that an offence is being committed; and
attempts to otherwise compromise the security of the web server, breach the laws of the State of New South Wales or Commonwealth of Australia, or interfere with the enjoyment of this website by other users.

We reserve the right to make disclosures to relevant authorities where the use of our website and/or network raises a suspicion that an offence is being, or has been, committed.

In the event of an investigation, we will provide access to data to any law enforcement agency that may exercise a warrant to inspect our logs.

Copyright

Copyright in the material which appears on our website <www.atsnaustralia.org> is, subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968, Australia.

Permission is not required to link the Australian Transsexual Support Network website.

Our publications are in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without our permission, for personal, in-house or non-commercial use, without formal permission or charge.

We encourage you to reproduce them and use them in your efforts to inform others about the physical condition of transsexualism. Citation of the Australian Transsexual Support Network as a source is appreciated. We request you do not take our resources and publications and pass them off as your own.

In the event that you wish to reproduce, alter, store or transmit the material which appears on our website for a purpose other than personal, in-house or non-commercial use, please contact us for permission.

We ask you not to alter our publications in a way that will change the integrity and quality of our resources or publications when using them.

We do not endorse or recommend any commercial products, processes, or services, and our publications may not be used for advertising or endorsement purposes.

We do not provide specific medical advice or treatment recommendations or referrals; our materials may not be used in a manner that has the appearance of such information.

Copyright of individual stories and articles on our website remains with the author. Please do not alter individual stories and articles without the consent of the original author.

If you have questions regarding the use of our resources and publications, please contact the Australian Transsexual Support Network at mail@atsnaustralia.org or PO Box 488, Glebe NSW 2037, NSW.

| page updated 17 March 08 |