Standards Australia Applications Terms

• These Standards Australia Applications Terms govern the use of Standards Australia’s Applications and are to be read together with the General Term and Conditions (GTCs).  These are applications provided to contributors of Standards Australia and the public for the purpose of facilitating and enabling the standards development activities of Standards Australia.
  
• 1. Standards Australia Applications
  Standards Australia provides the following SA Applications to an SA Application User for Standardisation Activities as provided for in this Agreement:
• 1.1 Connect, a portal for members of the public, current Committee Members and Nominating Organisations;
• 1.2 Project Proposal Portal, a portal to submit and provide comments on standards development project proposals, provided via Salesforce.com;
• 1.3 Public Comment Management System, a portal to provide comments on draft standards and other publications;
• 1.4 SIM, a database for Committee Members to access Australian Standard^® standards and other publications for use in relation to committee processes;
• 1.5 Standards Australia Academy (or SA Academy), a knowledge-sharing portal for Committee Members, provided via Learning Seat Pty Ltd; and
• 1.6 International Participation Portal, a portal to enable Committee Members to coordinate meeting and travel schedules and itineraries for committee purposes, and any application that SA provides to an SA Application User from time-to-time.
• 2. Content
  
• 2.1 SA Application User content. The SA Application may allow the SA Application User to submit content, information or material (for example to provide comments on a project proposal or draft technical publication). The SA Application User acknowledges and agrees that any content they submit may be shared with, seen, or used by other users, subject to any confidentiality obligations that may apply (for example documents marked as Committee-In-Confidence uploaded to Connect).
• 2.2 Prohibited activities. The SA Application User must not submit any content to any SA Application that:
• (a) contains any virus or other damaging material;
• (b) infringes or breaches the right of a third-party (including intellectual property, copyright, confidentiality or privacy rights);
• (c) is inappropriate, defamatory, abusive, obscene, vulgar, offensive, discriminatory, or threatens, intimidates or harasses any person; or
• (d) is deceptive or misleading, primarily used to promote your or a third-party business or enterprise, involves or promotes any illegal activity, or is otherwise contrary to any applicable laws, codes or policies of Standards Australia as published on Standards Australia’s Website at https://www.standards.org.au, such as the Competition Law Guidelines, Technical Group and Committee Member Code of Conduct, Nominating Organisation Code of Conduct, Nominating Organisation Guide, Standardisation Guides, Patent Policy and Licensing Declaration and Standards Australia Privacy Policy or any other agreement with Standards Australia.
• 2.3 Licence to use content. The SA Application User grants Standards Australia a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable, perpetual and irrevocable licence to host, use, copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, modify, adapt, and create derivative works of the content submitted to an SA Application by the SA Application User, including  for the purpose of conducting Standards Australia’s Standardisation Activities.
• 2.4 Moral rights. The SA Application User grants Standards Australia consent to conduct or omit to conduct any act or omission which would otherwise infringe the SA Application User's moral rights in the content submitted to an SA Application, including without limitation failing to acknowledge or attribute the SA Application User as an author or modifying those materials.
• 2.5 Third-party content. If the SA Application User submits content which includes third-party content, the SA Application User must ensure that it has prior permission from the content owner for the SA Application User and Standards Australia to use and reproduce that content as contemplated under this Agreement.
• 2.6 Report violations. If the SA Application User become aware of any content published on an SA Application which it reasonably believes violates this Agreement or any applicable law, please report this to Standards Australia at mail@standards.org.au as soon as reasonably practical.
• 2.7 Disclaimer. Standards Australia does not accept liability or responsibility with respect to any content submitted by SA Application Users. Specifically, Standards Australia will not be taken to have submitted or endorsed the submission of any content by facilitating SA Application Users to submit content onto the SA Application. The SA Application User will not hold Standards Australia responsible or liable in any way for any user comments or posts.
• 3. Intellectual Property
  
• 3.1 Standards Australia content. Standards Australia may provide the SA Application User with access to content and resources as part of the SA Application (such as standards, technical publications and public comment drafts).
• 3.2 Ownership. Copyright in content included in or made available via an SA Application (other than content submitted and owned by the SA Application User) remains vested in Standards Australia (or relevant third parties such as other standards development bodies who may have licensed such content to Standards Australia).
• 3.3 Protection. The SA Application User agrees to use all reasonable efforts to protect Standards Australia content in their possession or control from unauthorised use.
• 3.4 Permitted use. Standards Australia grants the SA Application User a non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, non-transferable, and revocable licence to use the content accessible via an SA Application:
• (a) strictly for the purpose for which the content is made available to SA Application Users (namely for Standardisation Activities or public commenting purposes as the case may be); and
• (b) in accordance with this Agreement and any applicable terms of use (for example, the Committee Member Deed or Agreement or other licence agreement).
• 3.5 Restrictions. Other than the permitted use in clause 16.4, the SA Application User must not:
• (a) use, reproduce, copy, merge, adapt, translate, embed, modify, rent, lease, sell, sublicense, send by email, share, distribute, upload to a website, assign or otherwise transfer any content obtained from an SA Application, unless with the prior written permission from Standards Australia or relevant third-party owner(s);
• (b) remove, alter or obscure any copyright or licence notices appearing on the content (including without limitation any watermark);
• (c) bypass, modify or circumvent any security-related features or content protection or features applicable to the content; or
• (d) disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the software or source code of any SA Application.
• 3.6 Infringement notice. If the SA Application User reasonably believes that its intellectual property rights have been infringed by another person, please notify Standards Australia  at mail@standards.org.au with the relevant details of the suspected infringement as soon as possible. Standards Australia will consider the matter and take any necessary actions as it thinks fit. However, please note that Standards Australia may not be able to share any details of the matter with the SA Application User.
• 4. SA Application Specific Terms
  
• 4.1 Project Proposal Portal
• (a) The Project Proposal Portal allows members of the public to submit, comment and vote on project proposals relevant to Standards Australia standards development projects.
• (b) The Project Proposal Portal is provided via a Salesforce.com company (Salesforce), a third-party cloud-based platform provider. By using the Project Proposal Portal, the SA Application User agrees to be bound by the Salesforce Master Subscription Agreement available at www.salesforce.com/company/msa.jsp (as updated from time to time).
• (c) Personal information (such as name, email address and other contact details) that the SA Application User submits when accessing the SSO will be provided to Salesforce for the purposes of maintaining the Account and facilitating access to the Project Proposal Portal. The SA Application User acknowledges and agrees that Salesforce may collect, use and disclose personal information in accordance with its Privacy Policy at www.salesforce.com/company/privacy. For any questions about Salesforce’s collection of data, please contact us at privacy.officer@standards.org.au or Salesforce at privacy@salesforce.com.
• (d) The SA Application User cannot edit or delete their name, proposal, comment or vote once it is submitted, and it will be viewable by other registered users. Personal information of the SA Application User may also be disclosed to relevant Committee Members.
• (e) Proposals and comments will be reviewed and assessed by Standards Australia. Votes and comments will be used to indicate support from interested stakeholders but are not determinative. Standards Australia will be responsible for deciding on projects approvals based on the criteria and process listed on Standards Australia’s Corporate Website.
• 4.2 Public Comment Management System
  As part of its Public Comment process, Standards Australia provides access to draft standards and other technical documents it develops to allow the public to provide comments on the text of the draft document. If the SA Application User provides comments in response to a draft document as part of Standards Australia’s Public Comment process, the following additional requirements apply:
• (a) Comments submitted towards Standards Australia’s Public Comment process should address the technical content, wording or arrangement of the draft, or editorial matters. Proposed technical changes should be accompanied with supporting reasons.
• (b) Personal information of the SA Application User may be disclosed to relevant Committee Members. In the case of joint Australian/New Zealand draft documents, personal information of the SA Application User may be disclosed to Committee Members of the joint Australian/New Zealand technical committee and employees and contractors of MBIE located in New Zealand. The SA Application User’s information may also be shared by Standards Australia with its third-party service providers.
• (c) Standards Australia does not endorse any content submitted by any SA Application Users (including any comments, opinions, feedbacks, recommendations or advices). Although Standards Australia will use reasonable endeavours to review all significant comments received, Standards Australia is under no obligation to consider, respond to, or action on any of the comments or posts submitted by the SA Application User.
• (d) Draft documents are provided solely for the purpose of Standards Australia’s Public Comment process and are subject to change. Draft documents may not be used or relied on for any other purpose. Standards Australia recommends that users refer to the final published version of any standard or other technical document.
• (e) The SA Application User acknowledges and agrees that Standards Australia has no obligation to notify the SA Application User of any amendments or changes to any draft document or to its withdrawal from development, irrespective of the reason for any such amendment, change or withdrawal.
• (f) Draft standards and other documents made available via Public Comment are subject to copyright. Any reproduction, copying or distribution of drafts (including by way of “Printscreen”, “Screen Snips”, “Print as PDF”) is prohibited. Other persons can access draft documents and provide comments by registering an Account.
• 4.3 SIM: documents for committee purposes
• (a) Certain Australian, Australian/New Zealand, International and/or other Standards Australia documents that are necessary for the SA Application User’s involvement as a Committee Member in national or international standardisation are available for the SA Application User to download via SIM.
• 4.4 Any bookmarks made by the Customer on or in relation to the Content within the Mobile App may be deleted upon the termination or expiry of the Subscription Term.  Uninstalling the Mobile App will also cause deletion of all bookmarks.
• (a) Through Connect, an Account User acting on behalf of a Nominating Organisation may access certain information relating to individuals that it has nominated to participate in Standards Australia’s technical committees, solely for the purpose of enabling the Nominating Organisation to review the participation of its nominees in Standards Australia’s technical committees and must not be used or distributed for any other purpose by the Nominating Organisation, its employees or its agents without the prior written consent of the individual to whom that information relates.
• (b) Through Connect, the Account User acting on behalf of the Nominating Organisation may also be permitted to access certain documents that have been prepared by or for the use of particular technical committees, solely for the purpose of enabling the Nominating Organisation to review the participation of its nominees in Standards Australia’s technical committees. Such information must not be used or distributed by the Nominating Organisation, its employees or its agents for any other purpose without Standards Australia’s prior written consent.
• (c) The Account User acting on behalf of the Nominating Organisation may access certain defined areas within Connect on a ‘read-only’ basis.
• (d) The Nominating Organisation, its employees and its agents may not upload any information to Connect and must not attempt to do so.
• 4.5 SA Academy
• (a) The SA Academy is a cloud-based platform access which may be provided to the SA Application User in its capacity as a Committee Member through Learning Seat, a third-party service provider.  
• (b) Personal information (such as name, email address and other contact details) that the SA Application User submits when accessing the SSO will be provided to Learning Seat for the purposes of maintaining the SA Academy account and facilitating access to the SA Academy.
• (c) Learning Seat collects information such as IP addresses, connection speed and internet service provider domain name. This information is typically anonymized but in some circumstances could be linked to an individual. This information may be collected through various means, including Cookies, IP address and Web beacons.
• (d) The SA Application User agrees that in using the SA Academy, Learning Seat (and its affiliates) may collect, use and disclose personal information of the SA Application User in accordance with its Privacy Policy at www.litmos.com/privacy-policy. For any questions about Learning Seat’s collection of information, please contact us at academy@standards.org.au or Learning Seat at support@learningseat.com.
• (e) The training materials available through the SA Academy are for information purposes only and Standards Australia makes no guarantee as to the quality, accuracy, currency or reliability of such materials. The SA Application User agrees that Standards Australia is not responsible for content or information available through the SA Academy, or for any damages as a result of the SA Application User’s use or reliance on it. The SA Application User also agrees not to copy, reproduce, modify or vary any training content available via the SA Academy.
• 5. Terminating access to SA Applications
  
• 5.1 Key term summary: This clause sets out circumstances where Standards Australia may terminate or disable an SA Application User’s Account access to any SA Applications, or any licence granted to the SA Application User.  In particular, Standards Australia may terminate or disable an SA Application User’s Account access to any SA Applications, or any licence granted to the SA Application User if, the SA Application User has breached this Agreement or at any time with 30 days notice, including if the SA Application User is no longer an active user. The SA Application User may terminate or request disablement of access to SA Applications if, Standards Australia has breached this Agreement or at any time with 30 days written notice, to Standards Australia. Upon termination or disabled access to an SA Application User’s Account, the SA Applications User will no longer have access to any SA Applications or User data and must remove, destroy or delete all printed, saved or downloaded electronic copies of any documents accessed through SA Applications.
• 5.2 Standards Australia may terminate or disable an SA Application User’s Account access to any SA Applications, or any licence granted to the SA Application User:
• (a) immediately if the SA Application User has breached this Agreement and fails to rectify the breach within 14 days of written notice from Standards Australia requiring the breach to be rectified or if the breach is incapable of being rectified;
• (b) at any time with 30 days notice, including if the SA Application User is no longer an active user.
• 5.3 The SA Application User may terminate or request disablement of access to SA Applications:
• (a) immediately if Standards Australia has breached this Agreement and fails to rectify the breach within 14 days of written notice from the SA Application User requiring the breach to be rectified or if the breach is incapable of being rectified;
• (b) at any time with 30 days written notice, to Standards Australia.
• 5.4 Termination of this Agreement will not automatically terminate SA Application User’s agreement with Standards Australia under other agreements including the Committee Member Deed or Committee Member Agreement.
• 5.5 Upon termination or disabled access to an SA Application User’s Account the SA Applications User:
• (a) will no longer have access to SA Applications;
• (b) will no longer have access to any SA Applications User data, including notes, comments, made by SA Applications User;
• (c) Must immediately cease, any and all use of the SA Applications including documents accessed through SA Applications;
• (d) Must remove, destroy or delete all printed, saved or downloaded electronic copies of any documents accessed through SA Applications by SA Applications User and, upon request by Standards Australia, provide an undertaking to Standards Australia that they have done so.
• 6. Disclaimer
  Key term summary: This clause sets out important terms that may limit Standards Australia’s liability under this Agreement. Except as required of Standards Australia under the consumer guarantees in the Australian Consumer Law:
  
• SA Applications are provided “as is” and “as available”. Standards Australia disclaims all all conditions and warranties, guarantees, rights and remedies, liabilities.  The entire risk arising out of SA Application User’s use of the SA Applications remains solely with the SA Application User.
• Standards Australia excludes liability for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, liability arising out of the SA Application User’s use of or reliance on the SA Applications or inability to access or use the SA Applications, delay or failure in performance resulting from causes beyond Standards Australia’s reasonable control.
• 6.1 Except as required of Standards Australia under the consumer guarantees in the Australian Consumer Law :
• 6.2 SA Applications may contain links to third party sites, which are provided solely for the convenience of the SA Application User and do not constitute an endorsement by Standards Australia of any company, person, material, information, products, or services provided at or via those sites. The SA Application User agrees that the use of these sites will be governed by the applicable third party’s terms and conditions (including without limitation those relating to confidentiality, data privacy and security). The SA Application User acknowledges and agrees that access to or use of these sites is at their own risk.
• 7. Definitions
  Capitalised terms have the meaning as set out in the Definitions document, available at https://standards.org.au/legal/definitions, unless specifically defined in this document.

Last Updated: 14 May 2026