Registration and Website: Terms and Conditions

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS POLICY

Cancellations must be notified in writing to the Conference Secretariat at: k.hodgson@ballarat.edu.au.

Cancellations before Friday 21 November 2008 will incur a AUD$100.00 cancellation fee. Cancellations after Friday 21 November 2007 cannot be accepted; however transfer of registration to another person will be accepted. All refunds will be paid at the conclusion of the conference.

An email message confirming receipt of payment will be sent to the address provided above. Please bring the confirmation message with you to the registration desk to facilitate the registration process. Places in the conference will not be held without payment of the registration fee.

REGISTRATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Your registration (if hard copy) and payment will be acknowledged in writing with confirmation of your requirements according to your registration form. Your registration will not be processed or confirmed if payment does not accompany your form. The registration form is an approved Tax Invoice by the Australian Tax Office

VISAS
International visitors to Australia require a visa or an electronic travel authority. It is the responsibility of individual delegates to ensure documentation is correct and complete before your journey is commenced. Information on obtaining visas or electronic travel authorities can be found on the website www.immi.gov.au/eta/index.htm

INSURANCE
Participants carry their own risk for personal injury or loss of property, including baggage, during the conference. We strongly recommend that, at the time of booking your travel and tours, you take out a travel insurance policy. This policy should take into account loss of deposit through cancellation, medical insurance, loss or damage to personal property, and financial loss incurred through disruption to accommodation or travel arrangements due to business failures, strikes or other industrial action. The organisers are in no way responsible for any claims concerning insurance.

DISCLAIMER
The conference organisers reserve the right to change activities, topics and presenters where necessary. Monash & Ballarat Universities shall not be liable for any loss caused by the cancellation of the conference where such cancellation is due to Force Majeure. The term “Force Majeure” means any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the universities including but not limited to War, hostilities (whether war be declared or not), terrorism, aircraft hijacking, military operation, riot, civil war, rebellion, civil commotion or unrest, Acts or Regulations of government, refusal to grant visas, explosions, transport delays, transport difficulties and the insolvency of airline carriers. The universities will use all reasonable efforts to conduct the conference despite the intervention or occurrence.

ONLINE REGISTRATION SECURITY

There are several entities involved in the online registration for the ACKMIDS Conference.

University of Ballarat
Your payment will be made to the University of Ballarat and this is the entity that will appear on your credit card statement.

SecurePay
A provider of secure, real-time payments that the University of Ballarat has an arrangement with. You will be transferred to SecurePay's webpage when you are asked for your credit card details. This webpage is highly secured using 128 bit SSL encryption and because the payment is verified with the bank in real-time your credit card details are not stored on the SecurePay system for longer than the time required to verify the payment.

Centre for eCommerce and Communications
CeCC is a business & research unit of the University of Ballarat and has been commissioned to develop the website for the ACKMIDS conference.

Ensuring that a website is secure.
Whenever you are asked to enter credit card details or information of a sensitive nature you should always ensure that the webpage you are using has been secured using SSL. SSL ensures that information you send over the internet is secured. It does this in a number of ways. Firstly the information you send is encrypted using a highly random method which can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. The integrity of the data is also verified ensuring that it has not been tampered with en-route.
 
How do I know that a website is secured using SSL?
There are two main ways to ensure this. The address bar of your browser which contains the address of the page should begin with https:// instead of the normal http://. There should also be a padlock located in the status bar at the bottom of your browser which you can double click to read more about the security of the page in question. This information should also include a certificate which verifies who the owner of the website is.

SSL Certificates
SSL certificates allow you to verify that the website you are using is actually who they claim to be. A valid certificate can only be gained through a complex process of verification by the organisation. Entities called Certificate Authorities manage the distribution of certificates and must be highly trusted. The two major certificate authorities are Verisign and Thawte. You can view the SSL certificate for a particular page by double clicking on the padlock in the bottom of your browser window or selecting page properties from the browser menu.