Terms of Use

The website www.smhow.org.au is an information service offered by St Mary’s House of Welcome for the benefit of the community.

By using this website, you are agreeing to all of the following terms and conditions:

  • Acknowledge that the information on this website is provided "as is" for general information only.

  • Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the information on this site is accurate, timely, complete and factually correct, St Mary’s House of Welcome cannot guarantee this is the case. Therefore, St Mary’s House of Welcome accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any content or information appearing on this website. Further to this, St Mary’s House of Welcome disclaims all liability to any person in respect of anything, and of the consequences of anything, done or omitted to be done by any such person in reliance, whether wholly or partially, upon any information presented on this website.

  • St Mary’s House of Welcome is a service based in Victoria, Australia. The information and material contained on this site may not apply to all jurisdictions. We advise all website users to independently confirm the currency, accuracy and completeness of any information contained on this website before relying on that information in any way.

Links to other websites

St Mary’s House of Welcome may provide links to other websites which meet agreed criteria. However, these websites are not under control of St Mary’s House of Welcome.  These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by St Mary’s House of Welcome of the organisation or individual operating the website, or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on it.

The opinions and recommendations contained in linked websites are not necessarily those of St Mary’s House of Welcome or endorsed by St Mary’s House of Welcome, its staff or volunteers.

Links to this website

You may provide a hypertext link to this website on another website, provided:

  • the link must "point" to the URL https://www.smhow.org.au and not to other pages within the website

  • the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with St Mary’s House of Welcome’s name and trademarks

  • the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than St Mary’s House of Welcome is associated with or sponsored by St Mary’s House of Welcome and,

  • the link, when activated by a user, must display the website full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked website.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, the works of authorship contained in this website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by St Mary’s House of Welcome , and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sub-licensed, altered, stored by subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without the prior written consent of the CEO of St Mary’s House of Welcome, except by educational institutions for educational purposes.

Respecting privacy

The privacy and identity of visitors to this website will be respected and any information provided to St Mary’s House of Welcome via this website will be kept confidential.

In some instances, stock images have been used, and names have been changed, on this site in order to protect the privacy of some of our service users and other individuals