For the purpose of these rules:

'Database' means the AUQA Good Practice Database available on the AUQA web site;
'Contributor' means an institution or agency that has been audited by a Validating Body and that has subsequently been invited to submit a specific Good Practice for entry into the AUQA Good Practice Database.
‘Validating Body’ means AUQA or another party approved by AUQA, which has independently validated the Good Practices through national or state systems for audit or accreditation.

• Contributions to the AUQA Good Practices Database are solely on the specific invitation of AUQA to audited institutions and agencies.
  
• Participation by Contributors is entirely voluntary, and any refusal on their part to participate is fully without prejudice.
  
• All Good Practices must meet the template requirements specified by AUQA and must pass referee checks before being included in the AUQA Good Practice Database. AUQA reserves the right to make editorial amendments in terms of spelling, grammar, style, consistency and clarity at its complete discretion.
  
• Contributors have an obligation to disclose any information to AUQA that may affect the continued inclusion of the Good Practice into the AUQA Good Practice Database. In particular, they must attest to their ownership of the intellectual property and the accuracy of all representations they have made in respect of the Good Practice at the time of submission.
  
• The Contributor grants to AUQA ownership of the intellectual property of the submission for the sole purpose of its use within the AUQA Good Practice Database.
  
• Only AUQA will have write-access to the AUQA Good Practice Database (other than for the associated Discussion Lists).
  
• All entries into the Database are determined at AUQA’s complete discretion.
  
• A Good Practice may be cancelled (removed from the Database) at any time at AUQA’s complete discretion. Guidelines for deciding to cancel a Good Practice include, for example, new information becoming available that casts doubt as to its continued status as a Good Practice in accordance with AUQA’s criteria, or that casts doubt as to the provider’s intellectual property rights.
  
• Contributors may ask AUQA to withdraw their Good Practice/s from the Database at any time at the Contributor’s complete discretion and without prejudice.
  
• Each Good Practice will be reviewed after three years and will generally lapse (i.e. be removed from the Database) at that time unless compelling reasons are found for its continuance. This rule is to ensure that Good Practices are kept current and relevant in a fast-changing context.
  
• AUQA reserves the right to change these rules at any time by posting the changes to the Site. Contributors are responsible for regularly reviewing these rules to obtain notice of such changes.

Whilst AUQA and the Contributors make reasonable efforts to respectively select and prepare good practices for inclusion in the Database, AUQA and the Contributors, to the extent permissible by all applicable laws, absolve themselves and each other of any and all liabilities for:

• any errors or omissions in, or the availability of, the Database;
• any action or inaction that an individual or organisation may take on the basis of the content contained in the Database;
• any loss, injury or damage (including but not limited to direct, indirect or consequential loss) sustained as a result of any action or inaction by an individual or organisation based on the information contained in the Database.

Submission by the Contributors of a Good Practice for entry into the AUQA Good Practice Database will constitute agreement and consent on their part to these rules.