Website disclaimer

The City of Hobart acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia and the Tasmanian Aboriginal People as the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of Lutruwita, Tasmania including their continuing connection to land, water, culture and community. We pay our respects to the Elders both past, present and emerging.

The City will take reasonable measures to revise or remove content that may be offensive or upsetting to members of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community based on cultural practices, norms or protocols when requested to do so.

The City cannot guarantee that all such content will be removed in its entirety and the City retains the right to review, remove, moderate or maintain the content in its absolute discretion, particularly where the content is relevant to other members of the community.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons are also advised that content posted to the website by third parties may cause offence or include information that is inappropriate or insensitive to cultural practices, norms and protocols. The City of Hobart will use its best endeavours to ensure that offensive or culturally sensitive materials are removed or censored.

The City of Hobart retains copyright in all content that it produces and provides on its website including text, photographs, audio, video, file attachments and graphics or designs. Users are granted a non-exclusive licence to use the City's copyrights material for personal use.

The City of Hobart has the right to remove third party content including copyrighted work at its absolute discretion without the need to consult with the copyright owner.

The City of Hobart uses technology to enhance the website experience for people with disabilities. Whilst the City is unable to cater to all needs, it endeavours to try and make the experience more relatable, accessible and published using protocols such as plain English language. If you are experiencing trouble accessing information in an accessible form or in interpreting the information provided in a meaningful way, please contact us for further assistance.

The City of Hobart uses Google Translate as the translation tool on the website. Google Translate is an external service, therefore we can't control the quality or accuracy of translated content. If users are unsure of the meaning of translated content they should consult the original. Google Translate may cause unexpected changes to the appearance of translated pages.

Any user of the City of Hobart website acknowledges that some material may be generated by third parties or artificial intelligence and is outside of the City's control, particularly information posted by members of the public or generated by AI or based upon analytics. The content may have an exchange of ideas or views that are not necessarily reflective of the position of the City of Hobart, nor endorsed in any way by the City of Hobart. The City will use its best endeavours to regulate content that does not align with its culture and values, particularly on social media feeds but cannot guarantee to expressly review all content.

The listing of a person or entity on the City's website, including any position or sentiment they hold or disclose, is in no way to be treated as an endorsement by the City of that position or sentiment, or more broadly to be seen as a testament to that person or entity in any way whatsoever.

The City of Hobart uses linked sites that are not owned or operated by the City. Linked sites are not a demonstration of any endorsement of those sites in any way. Linked sites are operated for convenience only in circumstances where the City has no authority to regulate their content or the copyright associated with those sites.

Any content posted by third parties on the website does not bind the City to taking any particular course of action, to expend any funds, or to commit the City in any way whatsoever.

The City of Hobart recommends that users of its website use their own skill and diligence in interpreting and using any information obtained through the City's website. Users should make further inquiries prior to using or relying upon any content. The City may alter, amend, vary or otherwise change the content on the website at any time and without notice to you.

The City of Hobart accepts no legal liability whatsoever or howsoever, express or implied, arising from the use of its website or any content contained on it, connected to it or posted to it. The City provides the website without any express or implied warranty or representation. While the City will use its best endeavours to ensure the availability and integrity of its content and IT resources, it cannot guarantee that these will always be available and/or free of any defects, including viruses. All access and use of any content, resources or other material contained on the website is at the risk of the user.

The City of Hobart has adopted a privacy policy to enforce our intention to keeping personal information safeguarded and secure. The City acknowledges that it is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009(TAS). The City will follow all necessary consultation process prior to releasing any personal information. A copy of our privacy policy can be accessed on the privacy statement page.

The website uses Cookies to record information such as your preferences, your search history and information and content you have accessed. Cookies are a small set of letters and numbers that are downloaded onto your device when you access the website. Cookies contain no personal data.

The City's website also uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a tool that allows the behaviour of users on a website to be analysed, to help the City provide the best user experience. Google Analytics generates Cookies that identify whether you've visited the website before, which pages you visited, whether you have accessed any video or audio content and what general content you are interested in. These Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally and are a statistical form of information.

The statistical data itself is only visible to The City of Hobart and our website provider/host and the relevant Google Analytics team.

This website functionality allows the City of Hobart to interact with other platforms including social media which may also link to third party websites that are not in the City's care or control. Each linked entity is likely to have its own privacy policy rules. You should review third party rules to obtain information about their specific policy settings from them directly.

You can restrict or block Cookies through your browser settings, however this may impact on your user experience and accessibility. The 'Help' function contained on your browser will provide you with support on how to manage and/or block Cookies.

Any reference to legislation or public policy that appears on the City of Hobart website includes by reference any adopted amendments to that legislation or policy, regardless of whether or not those amendments have been expressly published to the website. Users should make their own independent inquiries to confirm the latest version of legislation or public policy relevant to the matter of interest.

Whilst the website does not automatically collect personal information about you, you may elect to provide personal information as part of your interaction with our website services. Any personal information obtained by the City of Hobart will be used for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Our privacy policy can be accessed on the privacy statement page. You are permitted to request details of personal information we hold about you and to correct, remove or stop our use of that information, unless the information is held for a necessary, regulatory or law enforcement purpose or in accordance with our lawful requirement to retain records or provide government services to you. If you have any concerns about how your personal information is held or used, please contact us.

The City of Hobart may amend or replace these terms at any time without notice to you and any new terms will take immediate effect.

If you believe that any information contained on the website is inaccurate, contains an error, is offensive or represents a departure from the City’s culture or values, then you should contact the City of Hobart directly by email on coh@hobartcity.com.au and specifically detail your concerns and how we might best contact you. Contacting the City about any concerns does not guarantee any particular outcome, or that we will respond to you expressly, however the City will consider your views in relation to the specific content and take whatever action we deem appropriate in the circumstances.

Any entity or individual who elects to use the City of Hobart website does so at their own risk and acknowledges that use of the website constitutes a deemed acceptance of all the terms and conditions contained in these disclaimers in full.