Submissions

Christchurch City Libraries provide online and interactive services through other websites which are owned and hosted by third parties.  We provide these online and interactive services for you to exchange ideas and information. Any material you transmit or post to Christchurch City Libraries’ websites, or through online and interactive services provided by Christchurch City Libraries through third party websites, including any RSS or Atom feeds and email notifications produced by or via or displayed on them, is known as your “Submissions”.

Use of your submissions

Other than personal information not visible on Christchurch City Libraries’ websites (which is covered under the Privacy Statement) or on third party websites though which online and interactive services are provided (which are covered under each website’s privacy statement), your Submissions will be considered non-confidential. You grant the Christchurch City Council a non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable licence to publish your Submissions in any media and in any format, including on any Christchurch City Libraries’ website or any other website, in hard copy publications, in email notifications and alerts and in RSS, Atom or other feeds.

Your responsibilities

If your Submissions include material in which copyright or other intellectual property is owned by a third party, you warrant that you have the right to use that material.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from Christchurch City Libraries’ websites, or through online and interactive services provided by Christchurch City Libraries through third party websites, any material that is illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable. We will co-operate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of this clause.

Moderation

Submissions may be moderated by Christchurch City Libraries before being published. We may decline to publish Submissions or may modify Submissions if they are considered to be either contrary to the clause above or irrelevant to the subject-matter of the Christchurch City Libraries’ websites or of the online or interactive services provided by Christchurch City Libraries though third party websites.

Termination of access

Christchurch City Libraries reserve the right to terminate a user’s access or ability to post to the comments or submissions areas of Christchurch City Libraries’ websites, or through the online or interactive services provided by Christchurch City Libraries through third party websites, if we believe the commenting facility is being abused.

Views expressed

Views expressed on Christchurch City Libraries’ websites, or through the online or interactive services provided by Christchurch City Libraries through third party websites, by contributors are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council or official policy.

Christchurch City Libraries’ websites, including these terms of use, are changed and updated from time to time.