Treasured Finds submissions Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your submission of content in relation to Treasured Finds (“the Event”) an onsite public program forming part of the Australian Museum’s 200th anniversary celebrations, in which members of the public are invited to submit an object for possible assessment by Australian Museum experts. By submitting your images, captions/comments and any accompanying questions (“Content”) through the Treasured Finds digital submission form (“Submission Form”) you accept these Terms.

"You" and "your" means the person submitting the Content and "we", "us" or "our" means the Australian Museum Trust trading as Australian Museum (ABN 85 407 224 698) of 1 William St, Sydney, NSW 2010 Australia (“AM”), as the originator of the Event and operator of the Submission Form.

The following Terms set out:

1. Content Guidelines, Eligibility and Moderation Policy for Treasured Finds
2. Ownership, Copyright and Licence Grant
3. Selection for Event – Further Consents
4. Use of your Content
5. Privacy and Data Protection
6. Disclaimer
7. General

1.1 Submission of text, images and/or audio recordings must follow Content Guidelines and Moderation Policy for Treasured Finds set out in this clause 1. The AM will moderate all Content received through the Submission Form to the best of its ability. This means that your Content is subject to review for compliance with these Terms and relevance to the Event before any further steps (including contact, selection or publication) are taken.

1.2 Submitting Content through the Submission Form means that you consent to these Terms. If you are under 18 years of age, then your parent or guardian must accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy on your behalf.

1.3 You understand that this is not a valuation service. Submitting an object, or having it assessed, does not constitute and must not be relied upon as a valuation, authentication, or appraisal of monetary worth. The Event is intended to give participants an opportunity to have a question about their object considered and, where possible, answered by AM’s experts.

1.4 You understand that there is no guarantee that: (a) your object or Content will be selected for inclusion in, or discussion at, the Event; (b) you will be invited to attend the Event; or (c) you will receive a response to any question submitted, whether or not your Content is otherwise eligible under these Terms.

1.5 Submissions by AM staff are submitted in a personal capacity as a recollection or memory, and do not represent an official AM statement. Staff submissions must not disclose confidential AM information.

1.6 We reserve the right to remove, edit, or decline to act on your Content without further reference or notification to you.

1.7 Your Content must not: (a) be defamatory, malicious, threatening, offensive, abusive, obscene, lewd, in bad taste or otherwise unlawful or violate any laws; (b) be deemed sensitive or highly political; (c) be insulting, hateful or intimidating towards any person, including through profanity or explicit material; (d) be misleading, deceptive or intentionally false, including as to the AM’s activities or history; (e) contain spam, advertising or promote commercial products or services; (f) disclose personal information about, or identify, any other individual without their consent (please refer to others by first name only or a pseudonym unless you have their express permission to name them); (g) compromise your own privacy or safety, or that of any child; or (h) infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.

1.8 First Nations and Pasifika Cultural Material is not eligible for submission or inclusion in the Event, and any Content depicting such material will not be assessed or published.

1.9 We reserve the right in our absolute discretion to determine whether your Content will be used or published, or modified, including format, length and any editing for clarity, length or display purposes.

1.10 If you become aware of Content that may breach these Terms, you can report it to feedback@australian.museum

2.1 You represent that you are the copyright owner of the Content you submit, or that you otherwise have all necessary rights and permissions (including the express permission of any identifiable person appearing in your Content, or their parent/guardian if that person is a minor) to submit it and to grant the licence below, and you are not infringing any person’s rights by submitting the Content to us. You indemnify the AM in the event a third party claims that your Content infringes their rights.

2.2 You retain copyright and all other rights in your Content. You are free to continue to use and share and commercialise your Content elsewhere as you wish.

2.3 By submitting Content, regardless of whether your submission is selected for inclusion in the Event, you grant the AM a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and irrevocable licence in perpetuity, to use and reproduce, perform, communicate, publish and adapt the Content submitted throughout the world, in any media and any format in relation to the Event and to promote the AM and its objectives more generally (such as reproduction in AM’s annual report or on its website to illustrate its history).

2.4 In the event the AM wishes to use your Content for commercial purposes, the AM will contact you to negotiate a separate commercial licensing agreement.

2.5 We will endeavour to provide you with appropriate credit when using your Content, though you understand and agree this may not always be possible due to considerations of space, format or type of use.

2.6 All intellectual property rights in the content, software and systems owned by or licensed to the AM, including logos, images, names, designs, trademarks and copyright (“AM Content”) are reserved to the AM and our licensees. (a) AM Content is provided for your personal, non-commercial use only. Unless you have our written permission, you may not otherwise reproduce, republish, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, reverse engineer or disassemble AM Content. (b) You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice or trademark on any AM Content you access and use. You also agree not to use AM Content in a way that implies endorsement by the AM or any person included in the materials. (c) If you are interested in using AM Content other than for personal, non-commercial use, please contact: imagerequest@australian.museum with details of your proposal.

3.1 If your submission is selected for inclusion in the Event, we will contact you to invite you to attend the Event in person and bring your object with you.

3.2 By attending the Event with your object, you acknowledge and agree that you and/or your object may be filmed, photographed, interviewed, and/or recorded by AM (or persons authorised by AM, including media personnel) at the Event.

3.3 A separate release and consent form will be provided to you if you are invited to attend the Event, and your attendance and the further use of any such recordings, photographs or interviews will be subject to your completion of that separate form. However, by submitting your Content under these Terms, you acknowledge that if selected, you will be asked to provide that further consent as a condition of participating in the on-site Event.

3.4 If you (or, where you are a minor, your parent or guardian) do not wish to provide the further consent described in clause 3.3, you may decline the invitation to attend the Event. This will not affect the validity of the licence already granted under clause 2 in respect of Content already submitted.

4.1 If published or used, your Content (and, where applicable, information from your Submission Form) may be used by the AM:

(a) on the AM website;
(b) on screens or displays within the AM premises, including during the Event;
(c) on AM’s social media channels, as a promotion or share of the Event;
(d) on third-party platforms, including as part of media placements or promotional stories about the Event or the AM’s 200th anniversary; and
(e) in AM publications and reporting relating to the Event or the AM’s 200th anniversary.

4.2 AM will determine, in its discretion, whether, when, and in what form your Content is published or displayed under this clause 4.

4.3 By submitting Content, you acknowledge and understand that if your Content is selected for publication to the internet in connection with Treasured Finds, it may be publicly accessible worldwide, indexed by search engines, and copied and used by any web user, and that once published, the Australian Museum has no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.

5.1 Any personal information AM collects from your submission to or participation in the Event, including your contact details, will be used and stored in accordance with AM’s Privacy Policy.

5.2 Our Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and it describes how we use your personal information when you submit Content for the Event. Whenever you give us personal information you are expressly consenting to its collection and use in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please refer to the AM’s Privacy statement here.

5.3 By submitting Content and providing your contact details, you consent to:

(a) your details, Content and Submission Form entries being held by the AM for the purposes of contacting you about your submission, assessing your eligibility, inviting you to the Event if selected, and storing a record of your submission; and
(b) receiving email communications from the AM relating to your submission, including a confirmation email that your submission has been received and, where applicable, further communications regarding whether your Content has been selected or published.

Your personal information will be handled in accordance with the AM’s privacy statement which can be viewed at australian.museum/privacy/ and may be updated from time to time.

6.1 The Event and any Content submitted are intended primarily to provide information for general and educational use, to assist public knowledge and discussion about the natural and cultural world and AM’s history, and support AM’s 200th anniversary celebrations. Any responses provided by AM’s experts are general in nature and do not constitute professional valuation, authentication, or other advice, and must not be relied upon as such.

6.2 We do not endorse the views or material contained in the contributions of members of the public. We are not responsible for the content, availability or performance of any external or third-party site or platform on which Content is displayed.

6.3 The Event may be terminated, suspended, limited or modified at any time without notice to you. The AM does not warrant that the Submission Form or Event will be available, uninterrupted, secure or error-free.

6.4 The Submission Form and Event are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. You understand and agree that you submit Content (and, if invited, attend the Event) at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such submission or attendance. AM disclaims, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all guarantees, warranties or representations of merchantability, acceptable quality and fitness for any purpose, security, reliability, accuracy, timeliness, and performance of the Submission Form, Event and any content contained therein.

6.5 Under no circumstances will AM accept any liability to you or any other person for any loss, damage, costs and expenses that you or anyone else may suffer or incur from reliance on, or use of, the Event and/or Submission Form. This disclaimer is subject to any statutory guarantee AM may be subject to at law which in the case of services provided to consumers cannot be excluded or modified.

7.1 These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New South Wales, Australia, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of these Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms will continue in full force and effect.

7.2 Any presence of email addresses within the content collected for the Event does not infer consent to send unsolicited commercial electronic messages (“spam”) to those addresses.

7.3 You must not try to circumvent the security features of the AM website or social media accounts, or tamper with, hack into, or in some other way disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or other device used to host or make the Submission Form or Event available.

7.4 We may change these Terms at any time by updating this page and by notifying you when you next access the Submission Form. By continuing to participate, you indicate your acceptance of these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, please do not submit Content through the Submission Form.

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