By visiting, registering, donating or submitting information via our website, the Service User (“Service User”, “User”, “You”) engage in our “Service” and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”, “Terms”), including any additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available via hyperlinks throughout.

This website is owned and operated by Youth Projects Ltd (“Youth Projects”, “We”, “Our”, “Us”). By using our website, you accept these terms of use in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our website.

We reserve the right to update, edit, change or replace any of these Terms by posting updates and/or changes to our website at any time by Youth Projects Ltd. It is your responsibility to check this page for periodic changes and to acknowledge and adhere to accordingly. We are not responsible if content on this website is inaccurate, complete or current and information should not be used or relied upon as the sole basis of decisions without consultation with primary, more complete or more timely sources of information. All reliance on content and information is at your own risk.

You agree to not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any section, information, content or creative and/or intellectual property; use of Service; or access to the Service; without express written consent or permission by Youth Projects Ltd. You may not use our website or any Youth Projects Ltd owned, operated, endorsed or affiliated services, events, programs, activities or content and information for any illegal or unauthorised purposes nor violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to privacy and copyright laws).

Any new features, tools or plugins added to the current website shall also be subject to these Terms.

Our website is hosted on the Joyful platform and Joyful provide us with the online fundraising platform that allows us to share content, stories, collect information, fundraise and deliver effective services and programs to you.

A breach or violation of any of these Terms of Use will result in an immediate termination of your services and/or access.

 

Personal, Privacy & Cookies

We only use personal information for the purpose(s) to which the information was requested and has been consented to, or for the purposes directly connected to one of our services, programs, events, activities or marketing. We do not provide or share your personal information with or to any other bodies, parties, individuals or entities not directly linked to or part of Youth Projects Ltd unless otherwise required or authorised by law, or reasonably necessary for the enforcement of a criminal law or imposing pecuniary penalty, or for the protection of an individual within the rights of the law.

 Visiting our website to access, browse, view, read or download information, we may collect information by using Cookies. Cookies are messages that web servers send to your web browser whenever you visit (most) websites. This helps us maintain the continuity of your browsing session and improve the overall experience for our visitors. It also enables us to keep track of products or services you view so that, if you consent, we can send you news about those products or services. We also use third party services (like Google Analytics) and APIs that may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies in connection to online services like analytics, surveys, forms and advertising.

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does not accept them. We may log IP addresses (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the internet) to analyse trends, administer the website, track Users’ movements and gather broad data. Please note that some parts of our website may not respond to full function for users that block cookies.

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third-party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third-party website. Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.

 

Social Networks & Third Parties

If you follow or interact with Youth Projects Ltd on any social forums on any other platform (like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, et. al) the information and content you share and provide will be subject to the respective terms and policies specific to that platform.

By sharing any user generated content visible and accessible to Youth Projects Ltd on this website or any of our social media platforms, you give permissions to re-purpose and share that content if it is relevant to Youth Projects Ltd. We may contact you for permission to re-purpose this content, but if we cannot reach you or gain consent in a reasonable time period, we may proceed to share content and credit the source (where appropriate).

Certain areas of our website may contain content from and/or links to external and/or third-party websites and platforms. These external and third-party websites and platforms do not form part of our website and are not within our control. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for any activity, personal or transaction information you share with any external and/or third-party website or platform outside of our website. 

 

Account & Billing Info

We reserve the right to refuse any payment you submit to Youth Projects Ltd via this website using our sole discretion. In the event that we make any changes to, refund or cancel a payment made through this website we may attempt to notify you by contacting you via any or all of the details you provided as part of the payment process. 

You agree to provide accurate, true and non-fraudulent payment and account information for all donations and payments made through our website. You agree to update your account information, including personal and contact details and any billing information (i.e. credit card number, expiration date, et. al) so that we can complete transactions and contact you wherever appropriate and/or necessary.

Any information shared and/or submitted during a financial transaction on our website will be securely managed by the respective payment gateway provider (PayPal & Stripe). Those payment gateway providers are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.

At times, we may need to alter, change or re-direct funds donated to Youth Projects Ltd to respond to any unforeseeable crisis or financial priority. We reserve the right to make that change at our sole discretion. In the event of this occurring, Youth Projects Ltd will endeavour to contact you to notify of the change and offer a refund of your payment. In the event where no refund is issued, you agree to Youth Projects Ltd re-directing your donation accordingly. You can view publicly available financial information by reading our Financial Reports available on this website.

Any information you provide is strictly for internal purposes only and your information will not be sold to any third party.

 

Opt ins and Opt outs

We love connecting with people to ensure you have full access to opportunities or information that may be relevant to you or a social cause. By signing up to our e-newsletter to receive updates, news and information, you are giving your consent for Youth Projects Ltd (and any other official partners or sponsors) to contact you with anything specifically related to or endorsed by Youth Projects Ltd.

You have the right to opt out/unsubscribe from this activity at any time by following the unsubscribe option at the bottom of all of our electronic communications or by contacting us directly. Please note that you may also be able to manage your preferences to pick and choose what you want to hear from us about in some instances.

 

Complaints & Feedback

Your feedback is valuable to us. It informs business improvement opportunities and further enhances the quality of our services. Youth Project’s Quality department is the central point for receiving, tracking and facilitating a response to client feedback.

Complaints and suggestions help us to refine and improve our policies, processes and systems. Similarly, compliments help us recognise when we are meeting or exceeding community standards for service and performance.

Feedback can be compliments, complaints and suggestions:

• Compliments are praise or congratulations about Youth Projects program delivery, services or performance
• Complaints are an expression of dissatisfaction about Youth Projects policies, service delivery or how we conduct our business
• Suggestions are ideas on how we could improve our services or do our business differently.

You can provide feedback to us in a number of ways.

 

Online: Give feedback online by clicking the next button at the bottom of this page.

By post: Send us your feedback by post to attn: Quality Department, PO Box 112 Glenroy VIC 3046

Call: contact us on 03 9304 9100 inside Australia between 9 am and 5 pm AEST (except National and Victorian public holidays).

Note: Feedback received through Social media is not treated as formal feedback for response and reporting purposes.

Your data

Your data may also be available to our website provider to enable us and them to deliver their service to us, carry out analysis and research on demographics, interests and behavior of our users and supporters to help us gain a better understanding of them to enable us to improve our services. This may include connecting data we receive from you on the website to data available from other sources. Your personally identifiable data will only be used where it is necessary for the analysis required, and where your interests for privacy are not deemed to outweigh their legitimate interests in developing new services for us. In the case of this activity the following will apply:

1. Your data will be made available to our website provider
2. The data that may be available to them include any of the data we collect as described in this privacy policy.
3. Our website provider will not transfer your data to any other third party, or transfer your data outside of the EEA.
4. They will store your data for a maximum of 7 years.
5. This processing does not affect your rights as detailed in this privacy policy.

For more information, please read our full Privacy Policy.