Terms and Conditions

1.About These Terms

These website terms and conditions (Terms) govern your access to and use of this website (Website) and its content, including the Festival Blueprint published by the Australian Festival Association (AFA) (collectively, Website Content).

By accessing or using the Website Content, you agree to comply with these Terms, current at your time of use of the Website.

2.Use of Website Content

You may access, view, download and use the Website Content for:

• personal use
• educational purposes
• research
• festival planning and operational development

You must not, without prior written approval from the AFA:

• reproduce, distribute or communicate the Website Content in any material form
• upload or repost the Website Content on another website or platform
• sell, license or commercialise the Website Content
• modify Website Content and present it as official AFA material
• use the Website Content in paid training, consulting or commercial products
• remove copyright and trade mark notices, disclaimers or attributions

3.Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, all intellectual property rights in all Website Content, including text, graphics, templates, logos, layouts, resources and associated materials, are owned by or licensed to the AFA.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of or grants any intellectual property rights to you.

You may reference the Festival Blueprint with appropriate attribution (as set out in section 5), provided you do so in a way that is fair, accurate and legal and does not damage AFA's reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not reference the Festival Blueprint in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on AFA's part unless prior written approval has been provided by AFA.

4.Attribution

Where you quote or reference on the Festival Blueprint, attribution should be provided as follows:

Festival Blueprint, Australian Festival Association, [year of access].

5.Not Professional Advice

The AFA is making the Website Content available to you without assuming a duty of care to you.

The Website Content does not constitute legal, medical, engineering, financial, insurance, planning, workplace health and safety, security or other professional advice. Subject to any non-excludable consumer guarantees and other consumer protection provisions set out in the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), the Website Content is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. reliability or timeliness.You should seek independent professional advice appropriate to your circumstances before making decisions or taking action based on any Website Content.

6.Compliance Responsibility

The Website Content is intended to provide guidance regarding applicable legislation, regulations, approvals, licences, permits, codes, standards, policies or regulatory requirements (Compliance Obligations). Compliance with the Website Content does not guarantee compliance with the Compliance Obligations.

You remain solely responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable Compliance Obligations, whether specifically identified in these Terms or not.

Where there is any inconsistency between any Website Content and any applicable Compliance Obligations, you must comply with the applicable Compliance Obligations.

7.Accuracy and Currency

The AFA will make reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy and currency of the Website Content.

However, Compliance Obligations, agency guidance and industry standards may change over time.

The AFA does not guarantee that all Website Content will remain current, complete or accurate at all times.

You should independently verify requirements with relevant authorities before relying on any information.

8.External Links and Third-Party Resources

The Website Content may include links to third-party websites, legislation, government guidance, templates, standards or external resources (Linked Sites).

Linked Sites are provided for convenience only and do not constitute endorsement, recommendation or approval by the AFA unless expressly stated.

The AFA does not control and is not responsible for the content, accuracy or availability of any Linked Sites, or any loss or damage that may arise from the use of any Linked Sites.

Use of Linked Sites will be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies contained within such Linked Sites, if any.

9.User Conduct

You must not use the Website Content in a way that:

• breaches or encourages the breach of any law
• transmits or distributes a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or any other material which is malicious, technologically harmful, in breach of confidence or in any way offensive or obscene
• infringes intellectual property rights
• misrepresents AFA content
• damages or disrupts Website functionality
• attempts to gain unauthorised access to Website systems
• uses content in a misleading, unsafe or inappropriate way
• sends any unsolicited advertising or promotional material (spam)

10.Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits, excludes or modifies (or purports to limit, exclude or modify) any statutory consumer guarantees or any implied condition or warranty the exclusion of which from these Terms would contravene any statute or cause any part of these Terms to be void. Subject to the limitations in the preceding sentence, the AFA expressly excludes all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity and must not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including but without limitation to any direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services, arising out of or related to the use, inability to use, reliance on, performance or failures of the Website or the Linked Sites and any materials posted on those sites, including the Website Content, irrespective of whether such damages were foreseeable or arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise.

11.Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the AFA, its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents and affiliates, against any and all third party claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees) or expenses arising from your use of the Website Content or your breach of these Terms.

12.Website Availability

The AFA does not guarantee uninterrupted access to the Website.

The Website Content may be updated, amended, suspended or removed at any time without notice at AFA's sole discretion.

AFA will not be liable if for any reason the Website or the Website Content, is unavailable at any time or for any period.

13.Privacy

Where AFA collects personal information via the Website, including through contact forms, newsletter subscriptions or feedback forms, that information will be handled in accordance with the AFA Privacy Policy, which can be found here - View.

You should review the Privacy Policy before providing personal information. By providing AFA with your personal information, you consent to the AFA handling your personal information in accordance with the AFA Privacy Policy.

14.Feedback and Contributions

The AFA may invite feedback, suggestions or contributions regarding the Website Content.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, by submitting feedback, you represent and warrant that:

• you are authorised to provide the material or information
• the material or information does not infringe any intellectual property rights

By providing any material or information which is protected by intellectual property rights, you grant the AFA a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence throughout the world to reproduce, use, adapt and exploit that material or information for the ongoing development of the Website Content without compensation.

The AFA is not obliged to accept, publish or respond to any feedback or contribution.

15.Changes to These Terms

The AFA may update these Terms from time to time at its sole discretion.

Updated Terms will be published on the Website.

Continued use of the Website or the Website Content after changes are published constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

AFA suggests you check these Terms regularly to ensure they are aware of the current Terms.

16.Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and are to be construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales, Australia.

You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia and any courts which have jurisdiction to hear appeals from any of those courts and waives any right to object to any proceedings being brought in those courts.

If a provision of these Terms is found to be void, unlawful, or unenforceable then that part will be deemed to be severable from the balance of these Terms and the severed part will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Dated: 16 June 2026