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1. Acceptance of Terms

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2. Intellectual Property, Copyright & Scraping Restrictions

All original journalism, photography, illustrations, headlines, code, typography styling, and brand monograms appearing on The Sydney Times are protected under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and international intellectual property treaties.

• Personal Readership: Readers are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view, read, and share links to articles for non-commercial, personal use.
• Automated Scraping & AI Training Prohibited: No individual or commercial entity may use automated devices, scrapers, crawlers, or data extraction scripts to harvest headlines, excerpts, or full-text articles from this domain for the purpose of training machine learning models or compiling derivative news feeds without an express, written commercial licensing agreement.
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3. Nature of Journalistic Content & Public Information

The Sydney Times publishes investigative reporting, cultural critiques, infrastructure dispatches, and metropolitan guides for general public information and civic awareness.

• Not Financial or Legal Advice: Reporting on the ASX, Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate announcements, corporate finance, or property market metrics does not constitute personal financial, investment, tax, or legal advice under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Readers should seek independent professional advice before making financial commitments.
• Public Transit & Municipal Schedules: While every reasonable effort is made to ensure timeliness and accuracy, transit timetables, government funding envelopes, planning filings, and venue operating hours are subject to independent change by relevant authorities.

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• You represent that the submission is your original work and does not breach any confidentiality agreement, copyright, or defamation law.
• You grant The Sydney Times a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual right to edit, excerpt, and publish your submission across our digital dispatches.
• We reserve complete editorial discretion regarding whether submissions are selected for publication, condensation, or archiving.

5. External Links & Statutory Authorities

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6. Limitation of Liability & Australian Consumer Law

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To the maximum extent permitted by law, The Sydney Times and its contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential loss resulting from your reliance upon information published on the site.

7. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

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