Legal

By using this Mahara service, you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions given below.

Our obligations

The Mahara site's administrators will undertake all reasonable steps to provide all users with a safe, secure and operational electronic portfolio system. If at any time you feel your rights as a user have not been upheld or you have any questions regarding the below, please Contact Us immediately.

Mahara will occasionally be unavailable for short periods of time as we release new system features. We will endeavour to provide at least 3 working days notice of any scheduled outage.

You are encouraged to report objectionable material or inappropriate behaviour to the Site Administrator immediately. We will ensure the matter is investigated in a timely manner.

Site Administrators may access your portfolio and its contents at anytime, however they will avoid doing so unless specifically required to support your use of Mahara or as per these Terms and Conditions.

Your obligations

The Privacy Statement should be considered an extension of these Terms and Conditions and be read by all users.

All files and content you upload to Mahara are subject to European Copyright legislation. You are responsible for ensuring you have appropriate permission to reproduce and publish any work that is not your own.

You must not use your portfolio to store or display offensive material. If the Site Administrator receives report of any objectionable material within your portfolio, your account will be suspended.

If the Site Administrator receives report of any inappropriate behaviour on your part, where it relates to Mahara, your account will be suspended and your access to Mahara frozen.

Inappropriate behaviour includes misuse of the objectionable material reporting system, intentionally attempting to load files with virus content, placing objectionable or excessive feedback or comments on any other users portfolio and any other behaviour deemed to be nuisance or offensive by the Site Administrator.

Any unsolicited contact you receive as a result of personal information you have publicly released via your portfolio is your responsibility, however any misconduct in behaviour from users of the system should be reported to the Site Administrator immediately. We may occasionally make minor adjustments to our Terms and Condition to reflect changes to the system and in response to user feedback. As such we suggest you check the Terms and Conditions each time you visit this site.

Privacy statement

Introduction

We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing users with a safe and functional environment. This Statement of Privacy applies to this Mahara site and governs data collection and usage.

Collection of personal information

By registering on Mahara, you will be required to provide us with a certain amount of personal information – name, ID and email address. We will not disclose any of your personal information to any other person or organisation without your written consent unless authorised or required by law.

Cookies

In order to use this site, you must have cookies enabled within your browser. Please note that no personal information is stored within the cookies used in Mahara.

How we use your personal information

We will only use your personal information for the purpose for which you provided it to us.

As Mahara users you are able to determine what personal information you make available to others. This is under your control.

We may also collect system usage for statistical purposes however this data will not identify any individual.

Storage and security of your personal information

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information we hold is not subject to loss or misuse or unauthorised access, disclosure or alteration.

In order to help protect your personal information, please do not disclose your password to anybody.

Changes to this privacy statement

We may occasionally make adjustments to our privacy statement to reflect changes to the system and in response to customer feedback. As such we suggest you check the Privacy Statement each time you visit this site.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this statement, please contact us.