Information appearing on Hardie Grant Egmont websites is the copyright of Hardie Grant Egmont and must not be reproduced in any medium without approval. Hardie Grant Egmont always tries to ensure that the information published on its websites is correct but does not accept any liability for error or omission.

Hardie Grant Egmont is committed to safeguarding privacy online. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions below to see what measures are in place to ensure you are able to use and enjoy the Hardie Grant Egmont sites without having to worry about your privacy.

Terms & Conditions

Hardie Grant Egmont encourages contributions from young readers, parents, educators and colleagues within the childrens' publishing industry at all of their websites. While we welcome interaction between visitors to our sites, we expect all participants to treat each other with respect and courtesy.

You may contribute to Hardie Grant Egmont’s online community (www.mygogirl.com.au; www.zacpower.com; www.powerofreading.com.au; www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au) and interactive features subject to the following terms and conditions. These conditions apply to any content contributed in any format to any platforms hosted or facilitated by Hardie Grant Egmont.

General

1. Children’s contributions should be supervised by an adult.
2. All material published on Hardie Grant Egmont’s websites is at Hardie Grant Egmont’s sole discretion.
3. Contributions may be edited, removed or not published if Hardie Grant Egmont considers them to be:
   
   1. Abusive, obscene or offensive, including obscenity, blasphemy and racial vilification
   2. Defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or that it violates laws regarding harassment, discrimination, privacy or contempt;
   3. Intentionally false or misleading;
   4. An infringement of intellectual property rights or copyright;
   5. Compromising the privacy of yourself, other contributors to Hardie Grant Egmont’s sites, or Hardie Grant Egmont staff;
   6. Seeking to endorse commercial products or activities to solicit business;
   7. Material containing detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use;
   8. Child pornography;
   9. Excessively violent or sexually violent material;
   10. Real depictions of actual sexual activity;
   11. Seeking to conduct surveys, contests, chain letters, junk email, spamming;
   12. Seeking to collect information about others including email addresses without their consent;
   13. Transmit or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombes, cancelbots , or any other harmful or deletrious computer programs
4. Hardie Grant Egmont reserves the right to archive and republish all contributions to its interactive features across all platforms.
5. Hardie Grant Egmont reserves the right to use contributions for internal training purposes.
6. Participation conditions may vary across Hardie Grant Egmont interactive features:
   
   1. Parental consent will be requested when children submit personal address details to enter competitions;
   2. Parental consent will be requested when children sign up for membership that includes possible email/postal marketing;
7. Repeated breaches of these Conditions of Use may cause Hardie Grant Egmont to complain to the Internet Service Provider of the person(s) responsible, and in very serious cases, initiate legal action.

Copyright

1. Material published on the internet is protected by the same laws of copyright which apply to books, videos and music.
2. The right to “copy” always remains with the owner of the material. Unless expressly stated otherwise, you are not permitted to copy or republish anything you find on the internet without the copyright owner’s permission.

Comments and Complaints

To contact Hardie Grant Egmont with a comment or complaint, please do not use the interactive features on Hardie Grant Egmont sites. Email the info@ address listed at the bottom of each site.