The Australian Wine Research Institute’s website disclaimer

1. Definitions

a. References to "the AWRI" in this disclaimer mean The Australian Wine Research Institute Limited (ABN 83 007 558 296).

b. Reference to "information" in this disclaimer mean: information provided on this website (including information provided during an interactive question and answer session)

2. Copyright

All elements of this website are Copyright © 2007 the AWRI. All rights reserved.

3. Purpose of Information

a. This website presents wine and health information for the benefit of the public and the wine industry.

b. The information on this website is available to be used for educational purposes only. This information is not to be used for any advertising or marketing purposes.

4. Disclaimers

a. "As is"

The information is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, to the extent permitted by law, including but not limited to any implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Institute will not be liable for any consequential, incidental or special damages resulting from the copying and use of the information.

b. "Not professional advice"

This website is not a substitute for independent professional advice from your medical practitioner or specialist.

No information provided by way of this website is intended to be used as medical advice and it is not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition, nor should it be used for therapeutic purposes.

Before relying on the information on the website, users should carefully evaluate the accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance of the information for their purposes, and should obtain appropriate professional advice pertaining to their particular circumstances.

Please consult your medical practitioner or specialist if you have any questions concerning your medical condition and your ability to consume wine safely.

c. "Accuracy of information"

The Institute takes reasonable care to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on the site and updates the information regularly, but the Institute can not guarantee and does not accept legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information.

The information represents the state of our knowledge as at the date of publication on the website and may not be the most current knowledge on the subject.

d. "No endorsement"

On this site we have links to websites of other businesses and organisations. These links do not imply any endorsement or approval of those websites or the business or activities of those businesses or organisations.

5. Privacy

We respect your privacy. We collect some information about you via the website. We do this to ensure this website remains relevant to you. If any part of the website involves recorded information about you, we will specify the purpose/s for which we record the information before doing so.

a. Subscriptions

If you provide to us any information about yourself (for example, your email address) for the purposes of a newsletter subscription service (or similar), we promise to use this information solely for the purposes of:

• providing that subscription service; and
  
• maintaining a database of subscribers to the subscription service; and

we will not use this information for any marketing to you, nor will we provide your information to another person for any reason (for example, we will not give your email address to another person so they can send marketing information to you).

We will only provide this information to a third party if we are compelled by law to do so.

We will ensure, so far as is reasonable in the circumstances, that security precautions are in place at the information systems of the Institute to ensure this information is not misused.

b. Interactive features

This site may contain interactive features. In this event, the questions you ask and the answers we give will be confidential between you and the AWRI. We will not provide any information related to the interactive session to any other person outside of the Institute.

c. Privacy complaints

The Institute desires that all complaints about privacy matters are dealt with in the following way.

If you have a complaint about how your private information has been handled by the Institute (Complaint), the following will occur:

• the Complaint is free of charge to you;
• the Complaint must be in writing (i.e. not in electronic form), marked and posted as follows:

AWRI Website Privacy Complaint
C/- The Australian Wine Research Institute
PO Box 197
Glen Osmond SA 5064

• Complaints are to be sent by post and must include your return postal address;
• upon receiving a Complaint, the Institute will appoint an officer (Officer) to hear the Complaint;
• the Officer will have or will be given sufficient power to deal with the Complaint;
• the Officer will determine a resolution of the Complaint within ten (10) business days of receiving the Complaint;
• the Officer will communicate his/her decision by post to you;
• the Officer will give general reasons for the decision; and
• the Officer will provide, with the notice of his/her decision, information on further action you can take if you are dissatisfied with the decision.