1. Introduction

Welcome to my website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern our relationship with you in relation to this website.

2. Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise stated, I own the intellectual property rights for all material on the website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. No content can be reproduced without explicit permission. All commentary is my personal opinion and not that of any employer.

3. Restrictions

You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

• Crawling: The use of bots, spiders, or other automated methods to access, scrape, or crawl the website’s content is strictly prohibited, except as expressly allowed in these terms.
• Data Mining: You may not use data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on the website or its services.
• Artificial Intelligence Training: You may not use any content, including text and images, from the website for the purpose of training artificial intelligence systems, machine learning systems, etc.

4. Permitted Use

Notwithstanding the restrictions set out in these terms, search engine providers may use spiders to copy materials from the website for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. All bots and search engine providers must comply with our robots.txt file.

5. Breach of Terms

Any breach of these terms and conditions may result in immediate termination of your access to the website. In the event of such a breach, the party in breach will be liable for a remediation amount of $500,000 AUD (June 2024), subject to compound indexation as per the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Furthermore, any breach will necessitate the removal of all content from your cache, repository, storage, etc. This is in addition to any legal action that we may be entitled to take.

6. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time. Changes will be posted on this page.