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Appropriate Use\n\n1.1 A User must not:\n\n- limit or constrict the availability or quality of Future Council platform website features. Future Council reserves the exclusive right to take any actions necessary to enforce this compliance requirement\n- use Future Council platform website to post, submit or otherwise distribute unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene or offensive materials nor post submit upload or distribute any confidential information, or, in relation to another individual, any personal information or personal identifiable information or sensitive information (as defined under applicable privacy laws)\n- use the Future Council platform website in any way that may violate third-party rights including (but not limited to) Intellectual Property Rights (such as copyright) or privacy rights\n- access or attempt to access the Future Council platform website using interfaces other than those made available by the Future Council platform website.\n\n1.2 Users must, where required to, register via a log in for access to features and content on the Future Council platform provide for this purpose lawfully required personal information accurately and up to-date. Future Council has the exclusive right to verify and deny access where such data is incomplete, inappropriate, misleading or missing.\n\n1.3 A User acknowledges that to the extent permitted by law Future Council is neither responsible nor liable for any damages or costs or harm resulting from:\n\n- use of the Future Council platform website by a User or any use of linked websites (per Section 6)\n- reliance and any actions based on information displayed on the Future Council platform website \n- downloading information or content posted by other Users on the Future Council platform website and any unauthorised disclosure of such information or content that result from its processing, display or storage on the Future Council platform website\n- temporary or permanent inability of a User to access or retrieve information or content from the Future Council platform website\n- viruses, worms, trojan horses, or any similar contamination or destructive programmes that affect the Future Council platform website including on computers or other terminal equipment in connection with visiting, using and/or downloading content data of any kind from the Future Council platform website. A User is responsible for protecting their own equipment from viruses and other risks.\n\nIn addition, Future Council:\n\n- does not take responsibility for any content on the Future Council platform website that is incomplete, inaccurate or not up to date.\n- reserves at its discretion (but is not obliged) to track and/or remove content from the Future Council platform website.\n\n2. Disclaimer\n\n2.1 The Future Council platform website is provided “as is” and “as available” with no express or implied warranties of any kind. This includes (but is not limited to) any implied warranties of:\n\n- fitness for a particular purpose;\n- merchantability;\n- non-infringement and;\n- title.\n \n3. Future Council platform website -Content and Intellectual Property Rights \n\n3.1 User content \n\n- A User who posts, submit, upload or distribute content (whether data or files), that it holds Intellectual Property Rights in, expressly authorises Future Council (and its supplier per Section 10) and other Users to access it and use it in furtherance of the Purpose and in the context of its processing and display on the Future Council platform website.\n- A User, who is an individual contributor of content in which it has IPR, agrees that that content maybe varied or enhanced by Future Council (and its supplier per Section 10) in relation to the Purpose and for its processing and display on the Future Council platform website and any resultant new IPR is deemed to be transferred to that individual contributor on creation\n- A User who is an individual contributor expressly permits Future Council (and its supplier Shapeable per Section 10) to blend its contributed content into any new material created in relation to the Purpose and for its processing and display on the Future Council platform website. Furthermore, such content will be subject to the CCPL as referred to in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved\n- A User acknowledges and agrees in summary that, whether in form original contribution content or subsequent enhanced or varied or blended new content, such content will be subject to the CCPL in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved.\n\n3.2 Future Council and supplier (per Section 10) Intellectual Property Rights \n\nFuture Council reserves its IPR in content that is its originating information and data, and, based on that, subsequently any newly created structured data, text, imagery, charts (image based), charting data, framework of topics and interactive visualization-all of which is displayed and accessible on the Future Council platform website.\n\nIn addition, in relation to Future Council’s supplier (per Section 10) its name and logo are its registered trademarks and Users are not authorized to use them. A User is also not authorised to use Future Council’s logo or trademarks.\n\nFuture Council and its supplier (per Section 10) otherwise reserve all IPR which has not been otherwise expressly granted.\n\nIn these Terms of Use, reference to ***Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)\\*** means any patent, rights in any patent, registered design, unregistered design right, industrial design, domain name rights, copyright (including any right in software), moral rights, database right or topography right, and any trade secret, trade mark or service mark, trade or business name, goodwill, or, rights in confidential information and knowhow, and any associated or similar rights (whether or not these have been registered) and in all cases including applications for registration of such items \n\n4. Publications\n\nThe content of any articles published on Future Council platform website expresses the opinion of the author of the respective content. Other than the content of articles created and published by Future Council, for other published content this is not done on the basis of Future Council’s endorsement of the views or content expressed within.\n\n5. CCPL use of Content \n\n5.1 Users may make use of Future Council platform website content (in this section referred to as “**material** \") under the terms of Creative Commons Public License being “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International” (the “**CCPL**”) as summarised below and also at [CCPL](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). \n\nFuture Council reserves the right to revoke the [CCPL](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) at its sole discretion.\n\nUnder this [CCPL](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), Users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format provided that:\n\n- The intent and integrity of the material is maintained.\n- Users attribute the material to both the respective author and to Future Council.\n- Attribution must not suggest that either Future Council or the respective author endorse the User or their use of the material \n- Where you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the [same license ](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)as the original.\n\n5.2 The Section 5.1  [CCPL](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) does not apply to Future Council’s nor its platform website supplier (see Section 10) name and logo nor to other third-party materials, trademarks, names and logos, website, interface elements or source code.\n\n6. Links to other websites\n\nWhere Future Council places other website links on the Future Council platform website these may connect Users to external or third-party websites that may or may not be related to the Future Council platform website and as such may not be under its control. \n\nFuture Council is not responsible for the content of external or third-party websites. The presence of these external links does not represent Future Council’s endorsement of the views or content on third-party websites but instead are done for the User’s convenience with respect to the Purpose.\n\nFuture Council disclaim any liability for any content that appears on any external site and so navigating to external websites through links on the Future Council platform website is done at the sole risk of a User.\n\n7. Amendments\n\nFuture Council may amend these Terms of Use at any time by notice on this Future Council platform website. Amendments will be effective immediately upon publication. After posting the notice, the User’s continued use of the Future Council platform website will be deemed as acceptance of the amended Terms of Use.\n\nA User may reasonably request by email to Future Council email address that factual inaccuracies or errors in content (including in relation to accreditations) on the Future Council platform website be amended by Future Council.\n\n8.Severability\n\nIf any part or provision of these Terms of Use is prohibited or void at law or otherwise illegal, unenforceable, or invalid, that part or provision is deemed to be modified to the extent required to remedy the illegality, unenforceability, or invalidity. If a modification is not possible, the part or provision must be treated for all purposes as severed from these Terms of Use. The remainder of these Terms of Use will be binding on a User\n\n9.Applicable Law\n\nThese Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted by the laws of Australia. \n\n10. 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A User is responsible for protecting their own equipment from viruses and other risks.\n\nIn addition, Future Council:\n\ndoes not take responsibility for any content on the Future Council platform website that is incomplete, inaccurate or not up to date.\nreserves at its discretion (but is not obliged) to track and/or remove content from the Future Council platform website.\n\n\nDisclaimer\n\n2.1 The Future Council platform website is provided “as is” and “as available” with no express or implied warranties of any kind. 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Furthermore, such content will be subject to the CCPL as referred to in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved\nA User acknowledges and agrees in summary that, whether in form original contribution content or subsequent enhanced or varied or blended new content, such content will be subject to the CCPL in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved.\n\n3.2 Future Council and supplier (per Section 10) Intellectual Property Rights \nFuture Council reserves its IPR in content that is its originating information and data, and, based on that, subsequently any newly created structured data, text, imagery, charts (image based), charting data, framework of topics and interactive visualization-all of which is displayed and accessible on the Future Council platform website.\nIn addition, in relation to Future Council’s supplier (per Section 10) its name and logo are its registered trademarks and Users are not authorized to use them. A User is also not authorised to use Future Council’s logo or trademarks.\nFuture Council and its supplier (per Section 10) otherwise reserve all IPR which has not been otherwise expressly granted.\nIn these Terms of Use, reference to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)\\ means any patent, rights in any patent, registered design, unregistered design right, industrial design, domain name rights, copyright (including any right in software), moral rights, database right or topography right, and any trade secret, trade mark or service mark, trade or business name, goodwill, or, rights in confidential information and knowhow, and any associated or similar rights (whether or not these have been registered) and in all cases including applications for registration of such items \n\nPublications\n\nThe content of any articles published on Future Council platform website expresses the opinion of the author of the respective content. 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Every young person requires guardian consent before becoming a Future Council member. \n\nWe follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988.\n\nWe aim to be open and transparent in how we manage personal information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or feedback on how we might improve it, please contact us at the email below. You can also request a hard copy of this policy using the details below. \n\nCONTACTING US\n\n**Future Council Ltd**\n\nMail: Level 3, 34 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC, AUSTRALIA 3000\n\nMail: [hello@futurecouncil.earth](mailto:hello@futurecouncil.earth)\n\nCOLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION \n\n**What is personal information?** \n\n‘Personal information’ means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.\n\n**What kinds of information do we collect and hold?** \n\nWe collect and hold a range of personal information necessary to carry out our activities and functions. The kinds of personal information that we collect and hold about you will depend upon the nature of your level of engagement as a member of the Future Council. \n\nWhen you become a member of the Future Council, you are required to create an account, and all the activities you engage in through the Future Council are linked to your account.  \n\nThe personal information we collect includes:\n\n\\- Personal details (such as your name, date of birth, county and city/town)\n\n\\- Contact details (such as your or your guardian’s email address)\n\n\\- Any other information you voluntarily share with us (such as subject matter that interests you, what you would like to see from us, how you would like to be involved in the Future Council etc.)\n\n \n\nFor employees and volunteers, we may collect additional relevant information including: \n\n\\- information contained in resumes\n\n\\- educational details, employment history, skills and background checks\n\n\\- references from past employers and referees\n\n\\- information collected during the interview or assessment process\n\n\\- personal information required to make payments, such as bank account details, tax file number and superannuation details.\n\n \n\nPersonal information will not be collected for any young person without guardian consent.  Every young person requires guardian consent before becoming a Future Council member. \n\n**What is sensitive information?**\n\nSome personal information, such as information relating to racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs or affiliations and health information (including information about a disability) is sensitive and requires a higher level of protection. \n\nWe will only collect your sensitive information if we have your consent and the collection is reasonably necessary for us to carry out one or more of our functions or activities. We may request your sensitive information if you are participating in a Future Council project, event or workshop.\n\nWe will only collect sensitive information directly form you and only if you consent to our collection.  \n\nHOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION\n\nWe usually collect personal information directly from you or your guardian.\n\nWe will usually collect personal information from you (or your parent, guardian or teacher) when you:\n\n• access and use any of our websites or social media platforms\n\n• communicate with us through correspondence, email, chat or other online forms\n\n• register for any of our projects, events or workshops\n\n• participate in research or evaluation discussions, interviews or focus groups that we run.\n\nSometimes we will collect personal information about you from a third party, these third parties may include:\n\n• your school or educational institution\n\n• your employer or another representative of your organisation\n\n• service providers\n\n• social media.\n\nHOW WE HOLD PERSONAL INFORMATION \n\nWe hold personal information in electronic form and occasionally in hardcopy files, and take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.\n\n \n\nWe may hold your information in either electronic or hard copy form. When we no longer need your personal information, we will either securely destroy it, or irreversibly anonymise the data (and we may further retain and use the anonymised information).\n\n \n\nWe store electronic records within our own secure network and through third party data storage providers. We don’t store any hardcopy files. Access to personal information within our network is password protected, and access is appropriately limited.\n\n \n\nOur third-party data storage providers are required to protect personal information in accordance with applicable laws and take appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful use of personal information or its accidental loss, destruction or damage.\n\nTHE PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE COLLECT, HOLD, USE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION \n\n**General purposes**\n\n \n\nWe collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, related purposes, and other purposes including:\n\n• organising, marketing and running our programs, workshops and events (which may include promotions and competitions run by us)\n\n• to enable you to use our websites and social media channels\n\n• assessing and considering applications from prospective employees, contractors, volunteers and service providers\n\n• developing and managing relationships with our employees, contractors, volunteers and service providers\n\n• contracting out some of our functions to external service providers and suppliers (such as IT, mailing and couriers, research, event management, travel, professional advisors and recruitment)\n\n• complying with our legal and regulatory obligations.\n\n \n\n**Marketing purposes**\n\nWe like to keep young people and our supporters informed about the work we do. If you provide your contact details to us we will add you to our mailing list and let you know about upcoming programs, events and workshops. These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, email and social media content. \n\n \n\nWe will only send you these communications if you would reasonably expect to receive them or you have consented. You may opt-out of receiving communications from us at any time by contacting us or by using the opt-out (unsubscribe) mechanism provided in the communication. \n\n \n\nACCESSING AND CORRECTING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HOLD\n\nYou can request to access the personal information we hold about you. We will take reasonable steps to provide you with access to your personal information. \n\n \n\nIf you think any personal information we hold about you is incorrect, you can request that we correct that information. We will take reasonable steps to correct your personal information if we are satisfied that it is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. \n\n \n\nRequests to access and correct your information should be made by email or post using the details provided under the ‘Contacting Us’ heading. Note that we will need to verify your identity before processing your request. We will endeavour to respond to your request within 30 days.\n\n \n\nYou can also request to have the personal information we hold about you deleted. We will take reasonable steps to do so.\n\n \n\nHOW TO MAKE A COMPLAINT\n\nIf you have a complaint about how Future Council has collected or handled your personal information, please contact us using the details provided under the heading ‘Contacting Us.’\n\nPlease include your name, an outline of your complaint and an email or postal address so that we can write back to you. We will treat your complaint confidentially and respond within a reasonable time.\n\n \n\nIf you are unhappy with our response, you can refer your complaint to the [Office of the Australian Information Commissioner](https://www.oaic.gov.au/) or, in some instances, other regulatory bodies, such as the [Victorian Privacy Commissioner](https://ovic.vic.gov.au/), the [New South Wales Privacy Commissioner](https://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/) or the [Victorian Health Services Commissioner](https://hcc.vic.gov.au/).\n\n \n\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION\n\nIf you are a resident of the European Union for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then in addition to what is set out above, the following applies to you.\n\nFuture Council is a data controller for the purposes of the GDPR and by your consenting to this Privacy Policy, Future Council is able to control your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our contact details are set out under the heading ‘Contacting Us’.\n\n \n\nIn addition to your rights set out above, you may:\n\n• withdraw your consent to Future Council’s use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy by getting in contact with us and by opting out of ourdirect marketing by using the opt-out mechanism. Future Council will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is deleted\n\n• request that Future Council provides you with a copy of the personal information Future Council holds about you in a portable and machine-readable form; or\n\n• share your personal information with a nominated third party.\n\n \n\nThese rights are subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g. the maintenance of legal privilege).\n\nShould you have any concerns in relation to Future Council’s collection and/or processing of your personal information, then in addition to the process set out under the heading “How to make a compliant” you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority (within the meaning of the GDPR).\n\n \n\nCHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY \n\nFrom time to time, it may be necessary for us to review and revise our Privacy Policy. We may notify you about changes to this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version on our website. We encourage you to check our website from time to time to ensure you are familiar with our latest Privacy Policy. \n\n**\n****\n**\n\n\n\nWEBSITE SECURITY\n\nWhile Future Council strives to protect the personal information and privacy of users of our website, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you disclose online and you disclose that information at your own risk. If you are concerned about sending your information over the internet, you can contact Future Council by email or post (details under ‘Contacting Us’).\n\nYou can also help to protect the privacy of your personal information by letting us know as soon as possible if you become aware of any security breach.\n\nTHIRD PARTY WEBSITES\n\nOur websites and social media profiles may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. These links are provided for interest only. We have no control over these linked websites and are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those websites. The privacy practices of these third parties may differ substantially from our own, we encourage you to read their privacy policy and website terms before using these linked third-partywebsites.\n\nCOOKIES AND USAGE DATA\n\nWe may record certain information about your use of our websites and social media profiles to help us analyse trends and improve functionality. This information includes pages visited, time and date of the visit, IP address (that is, the electronic addresses assigned to your device) and general demographic information. \n\nWe may send a ‘cookie’ (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your device. This enables us to recognise your device and greet you each time you visit our website. It also enables us to keep track of the programs, initiates, events and challenges you view to help us determine other initiatives, programs, events and challenges you may be interested in.\n\nWe may also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, to determine which areas of our websites and social media profiles are most popular and to measure activity patterns in the aggregate. We use this to research our users’ habits so that we can improve our online platforms. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your device does not accept them."},"welcomeUrl":"https://futurecouncil.global/app/welcome","welcomeTitle":null,"invitationAction":"Future Council","setupCompletionMessage":"Thanks for completing the setup process. 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Future Council reserves the exclusive right to take any actions necessary to enforce this compliance requirement\nuse Future Council platform website to post, submit or otherwise distribute unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene or offensive materials nor post submit upload or distribute any confidential information, or, in relation to another individual, any personal information or personal identifiable information or sensitive information (as defined under applicable privacy laws)\nuse the Future Council platform website in any way that may violate third-party rights including (but not limited to) Intellectual Property Rights (such as copyright) or privacy rights\naccess or attempt to access the Future Council platform website using interfaces other than those made available by the Future Council platform website.\n\n1.2 Users must, where required to, register via a log in for access to features and content on the Future Council platform provide for this purpose lawfully required personal information accurately and up to-date. Future Council has the exclusive right to verify and deny access where such data is incomplete, inappropriate, misleading or missing.\n1.3 A User acknowledges that to the extent permitted by law Future Council is neither responsible nor liable for any damages or costs or harm resulting from:\n\nuse of the Future Council platform website by a User or any use of linked websites (per Section 6)\nreliance and any actions based on information displayed on the Future Council platform website \ndownloading information or content posted by other Users on the Future Council platform website and any unauthorised disclosure of such information or content that result from its processing, display or storage on the Future Council platform website\ntemporary or permanent inability of a User to access or retrieve information or content from the Future Council platform website\nviruses, worms, trojan horses, or any similar contamination or destructive programmes that affect the Future Council platform website including on computers or other terminal equipment in connection with visiting, using and/or downloading content data of any kind from the Future Council platform website. A User is responsible for protecting their own equipment from viruses and other risks.\n\nIn addition, Future Council:\n\ndoes not take responsibility for any content on the Future Council platform website that is incomplete, inaccurate or not up to date.\nreserves at its discretion (but is not obliged) to track and/or remove content from the Future Council platform website.\n\n\nDisclaimer\n\n2.1 The Future Council platform website is provided “as is” and “as available” with no express or implied warranties of any kind. This includes (but is not limited to) any implied warranties of:\n\nfitness for a particular purpose;\nmerchantability;\nnon-infringement and;\ntitle.\n\n\nFuture Council platform website -Content and Intellectual Property Rights \n\n3.1 User content \n\nA User who posts, submit, upload or distribute content (whether data or files), that it holds Intellectual Property Rights in, expressly authorises Future Council (and its supplier per Section 10) and other Users to access it and use it in furtherance of the Purpose and in the context of its processing and display on the Future Council platform website.\nA User, who is an individual contributor of content in which it has IPR, agrees that that content maybe varied or enhanced by Future Council (and its supplier per Section 10) in relation to the Purpose and for its processing and display on the Future Council platform website and any resultant new IPR is deemed to be transferred to that individual contributor on creation\nA User who is an individual contributor expressly permits Future Council (and its supplier Shapeable per Section 10) to blend its contributed content into any new material created in relation to the Purpose and for its processing and display on the Future Council platform website. Furthermore, such content will be subject to the CCPL as referred to in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved\nA User acknowledges and agrees in summary that, whether in form original contribution content or subsequent enhanced or varied or blended new content, such content will be subject to the CCPL in Section 5 provided existing IPR is reserved.\n\n3.2 Future Council and supplier (per Section 10) Intellectual Property Rights \nFuture Council reserves its IPR in content that is its originating information and data, and, based on that, subsequently any newly created structured data, text, imagery, charts (image based), charting data, framework of topics and interactive visualization-all of which is displayed and accessible on the Future Council platform website.\nIn addition, in relation to Future Council’s supplier (per Section 10) its name and logo are its registered trademarks and Users are not authorized to use them. A User is also not authorised to use Future Council’s logo or trademarks.\nFuture Council and its supplier (per Section 10) otherwise reserve all IPR which has not been otherwise expressly granted.\nIn these Terms of Use, reference to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)\\ means any patent, rights in any patent, registered design, unregistered design right, industrial design, domain name rights, copyright (including any right in software), moral rights, database right or topography right, and any trade secret, trade mark or service mark, trade or business name, goodwill, or, rights in confidential information and knowhow, and any associated or similar rights (whether or not these have been registered) and in all cases including applications for registration of such items \n\nPublications\n\nThe content of any articles published on Future Council platform website expresses the opinion of the author of the respective content. Other than the content of articles created and published by Future Council, for other published content this is not done on the basis of Future Council’s endorsement of the views or content expressed within.\n\nCCPL use of Content \n\n5.1 Users may make use of Future Council platform website content (in this section referred to as “material \") under the terms of Creative Commons Public License being “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International” (the “CCPL”) as summarised below and also at CCPL. \nFuture Council reserves the right to revoke the CCPL at its sole discretion.\nUnder this CCPL, Users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format provided that:\n\nThe intent and integrity of the material is maintained.\nUsers attribute the material to both the respective author and to Future Council.\nAttribution must not suggest that either Future Council or the respective author endorse the User or their use of the material \nWhere you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.\n\n5.2 The Section 5.1  CCPL does not apply to Future Council’s nor its platform website supplier (see Section 10) name and logo nor to other third-party materials, trademarks, names and logos, website, interface elements or source code.\n\nLinks to other websites\n\nWhere Future Council places other website links on the Future Council platform website these may connect Users to external or third-party websites that may or may not be related to the Future Council platform website and as such may not be under its control. \nFuture Council is not responsible for the content of external or third-party websites. The presence of these external links does not represent Future Council’s endorsement of the views or content on third-party websites but instead are done for the User’s convenience with respect to the Purpose.\nFuture Council disclaim any liability for any content that appears on any external site and so navigating to external websites through links on the Future Council platform website is done at the sole risk of a User.\n\nAmendments\n\nFuture Council may amend these Terms of Use at any time by notice on this Future Council platform website. Amendments will be effective immediately upon publication. After posting the notice, the User’s continued use of the Future Council platform website will be deemed as acceptance of the amended Terms of Use.\nA User may reasonably request by email to Future Council email address that factual inaccuracies or errors in content (including in relation to accreditations) on the Future Council platform website be amended by Future Council.\n8.Severability\nIf any part or provision of these Terms of Use is prohibited or void at law or otherwise illegal, unenforceable, or invalid, that part or provision is deemed to be modified to the extent required to remedy the illegality, unenforceability, or invalidity. If a modification is not possible, the part or provision must be treated for all purposes as severed from these Terms of Use. The remainder of these Terms of Use will be binding on a User\n9.Applicable Law\nThese Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted by the laws of Australia. \n\nFuture Council’s supplier - Shapeable Pty Limited \n\nShapeable Pty Limited is an Australian incorporated supplier to Future Council and an innovation consultancy and SaaS provider of a proprietary online software platform instance to Future Council that forms the basis of the Future Council platform website.\n"},"image":null},"entityTypeName":"Page","__type":"Page"}},
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