laurenceshaw.au terms of use
laurenceshaw.au
terms of use
terms of use and privacy policy
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation – designed for the EU and anyone from EU using a website anywhere in the world.
Applies to PII – Personally Identifying Information: name, email, address, IP, information.
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation – designed for the EU and anyone from EU using a website anywhere in the world.
Applies to PII – Personally Identifying Information: e.g. name, email, address.
laurenceshaw.au Data Privacy Approach
The website (https://laurenceshaw.au) is considered in reasonable knowledge to be GDPR compliant.
The only method of providing information through the website is via the Contact page’s Contact Form.
The website has no user account creation/logins for clients or members of the public as it is an “information-only” personal website.
Emails are only used to make contact as per standard practice and are not used for marketing or forwarding to 3rd parties.
Hosting Infrastructure
This website is stored on a shared Amazon AWS infrastructure platform in Sydney, using an SSL certificate and other security constructs.
Cookies
This site uses Google Analytics for basic analytics.
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Website Terms of Use
Nothing shall be deemed to give any person or persons the right to modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative content from, transfer, or sell any content, unless otherwise expressly permitted by laurenceshaw.au. All original content on this website is Copyright to the original authors, All Rights Reserved. To make use of any content, permission must be granted.
This website is provided “AS-IS”. To the fullest extent allowable by law, laurenceshaw.au does not guarantee or warrant any features or qualities of any content. Materials, statements and explanations on the websites are INFORMATIONAL ONLY and are made for explanatory purposes. Please consult your sources and providers for discussions on any materials. Our website materials are not intended for personal decisions without the advice from your own professionals and sources, and therefore do not carry any liability or warranty in their use.
By use of this website, you agree to indemnify and hold laurenceshaw.au, and any affiliates, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your consent and usage of the website, both present and future.
You agree to use the website with proper and ethical practice as generally recognised by the Internet community.
Our Terms of Use may change at any time without notice.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact laurenceshaw.au.
If you view a photographic image that has been taken in the public realm that includes yourself and wish to have it removed, please do contact me. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact me.
Below is our general AI Usage & Data Policy aligned with:
- Our current robots.txt position (blocking AI/data bots where possible)
- The reality that not all automated access can be prevented
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage & Data Policy
Effective Date: [25th February 2026]
1. Purpose
This website and its contents are protected under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and applicable Australian and international intellectual property laws.
This AI Usage & Data Policy clarifies how automated systems, machine learning models, and artificial intelligence platforms may — and may not — use content published on this website.
2. No Consent for AI Training or Dataset Inclusion
Except where expressly authorised in writing:
- Content from this website may not be used to train, fine-tune, or improve machine learning or artificial intelligence systems.
- Content may not be included in datasets used for training foundation models, large language models (LLMs), embedding models, or similar systems.
- Content may not be ingested, scraped, or stored for the purpose of developing commercial AI systems.
- Content may not be reproduced, summarised, or reformulated by automated systems for commercial AI services.
This applies to both commercial and non-commercial AI systems unless explicit permission has been granted.
3. Automated Access & Crawling
This website publishes a robots.txt file expressing crawler preferences. While robots.txt is a voluntary technical standard, it reflects the website owner’s express position regarding automated access.
Where technical controls are implemented (including firewall and bot management services), circumvention of such controls may constitute unauthorised access under applicable law.
4. Search Engine Indexing
Standard search engine indexing for the purpose of displaying links and short snippets in search results is permitted, provided:
- It complies with robots.txt directives; and
- It does not involve content harvesting for AI model training.
5. No Implied License
Nothing on this website grants:
- An implied license for AI training or dataset inclusion
- A right to reproduce content in generative systems
- A right to create derivative works for automated commercial services
Silence or technical accessibility does not constitute consent.
6. Moral Rights
Where applicable, the author asserts moral rights under Australian law, including the right of attribution and the right not to have work subjected to derogatory treatment.
Automated modification, distortion, or unattributed reproduction of content may infringe these rights.
7. Permission Requests
Organisations seeking to:
- License content for AI training
- Use content in research datasets
- Develop derivative systems
- Republish or adapt material
Must obtain prior written consent.
Please contact us via our Contact Page
8. Updates
This policy may be updated from time to time without notice. Continued access to this website does not imply consent to AI-related uses beyond those expressly permitted.
