Copyright and Disclaimer
> Use of Materials and Information
> Commercial and Other Use
> Website Contact Officer
> Disclaimer
> Provision of Reference Information Only
> Quality of Information – Always Check the Information
> Links to External Websites
> Security
Copyright Notice
All materials on this web site, including data, pages, documents, graphics, images, audio and video are protected by copyright, unless specifically notified to the contrary.
Use of Materials and Information
You may download, store in computer memory or on removable media and/or print a single copy of any information or material from this site only for your personal, non-commercial use and only in an unaltered form.
Information or material from this site may be used for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 and may only be reproduced as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (a copy of the Act is available at SCALEplus the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney General's Department).
Any permitted reproduction made must acknowledge this website as the source of any selected passage, extract, diagram or other information or material reproduced. Any reproduction made of the information or material must include a copy of the original copyright and disclaimer notices as set out here.
Commercial and Other Use
You are not permitted to re-transmit, distribute or commercialise the information or material without seeking prior written approval from the Department of Health and Ageing. You may not use this website to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your website for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales.
Website Contact Officer
The Contact Officer can be contacted the following ways:
By mail:
MDP 32
GPO Box 9848
CANBERRA ACT 2601
By email: commcarelink@health.gov.au
Disclaimer
Provision of Reference Information Only
This web site is presented by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing for the purpose of disseminating aged and community care information free of charge for the benefit of the public. This web site is not a substitute for independent professional advice.
Nothing contained in this site is intended to endorse a service provider or to be used as medical advice, nor should it be used for therapeutic purposes or as a substitute for your own health professional's advice. The Department of Health and Ageing does not accept any liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred by use of or reliance on the information contained on this web site.
Quality of Information - Always Check the Information
The information relating to service providers contained within this website is collected and maintained by Commonwealth Carelink Centres. Each service provider record should appear with details of the Commonwealth Carelink Centre that maintains it. The Department of Health and Ageing cannot guarantee and assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information.
Links to External Web Sites
This web site contains links to other web sites that are external to the Department of Health and Ageing. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external web sites. The Department of Health and Ageing does not accept responsibility for information on any external web site.
Linkage to external web sites should not be taken to be an endorsement or a recommendation of any third party products or services offered by virtue of any information, material or content linked from or to this site. Users of links provided by this site are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the site they visit. Views or recommendations provided in linked external web sites do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.
Security
Every endeavour is made to ensure that this site is secure. However, users should be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to a potential risk that a user's transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that files which the user downloads may contain computer viruses or other defects.
The Australian Government accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to a user's computer system, software or data occurring in connection with this web site. Users are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is selected from this site is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage the user's computer system, software or data.
You should make your own assessment of the potential risks to the security of the information you send when deciding whether or not to communicate by the Internet. There are alternative ways to obtain Government information and transact business with Government for those individuals who do not wish to use public networks such as the Internet.