• SUITABILITY. As far as is possible with a site that deals with that horror we call war this site is suitable for children. Questionable language is used but very sparingly and only in context. 

  • There is no attempt to glorify the war or the killing. It is a site that records history as it happened. These men did these things and had these things done to them. Their service is to be honoured..

• ADVERTISING. This is a non-commercial site. No money changes hands at any level. There is no advertising on the site with these exceptions;
  • The yearly cost of registering the domain name and keeping the web server fees paid are borne by our sponsor.
    • That is the extent of their involvement. 
    • They are not responsible for content. 
    • Views expressed on this site are not necessarily the views of the sponsor or any of it's component organisations.
  • On the links page there is advertising for 2 no charge Web Rings of other sites that may be of interest to surfers on our site. These are both non commercial operations.
  • The Site Search and Digger Forum facilities are provided to me free of charge but come with some advertising on the results page. Nothing else. There is no commercial aspect involving me in any way.
  • On the Links page there are some commercial sites. They are linked, not advertised. They do not pay to be there and are chosen because I believe they have some content of interest to military history web surfers.
  • I have been given the right to reproduce the front covers of some books from some publishers. The reason that they are there is for the value of the images, not as advertising.

• SPAM. While I have anything to do with this site it will not be used as a vehicle for Spam or unwanted emails of any sort. I run the most up to date protection available against virus attack and email address theft. I do not sell, trade, loan, swap or deal in any way in email address information. On the very odd occasion that I send out some sort of update or news bulletin about the  site it will be short, advertising free and sent to  "Undisclosed Recipients" to protect the email address of any person who has communicated with me. (See Your Choice, below) 
  • The tactic of forging return addresses, making an uninvolved third party appear to be the sender of junk e-mail, is a common one. Such practices prompted several online services, including CompuServe and Prodigy, to get American Federal courts to help them bar junk e-mailers from their services. Digger History has been used in the past as a "fake" sender. I have received Spam sent to Digger History supposedly from Digger History.

• YOUR CHOICE. If you freely place your details on the Guest-book page then you are responsible for any repercussions. It is a PUBLIC forum.

• TRUTH. I believe that the material used on this site is true and correct. If you disagree say so. I will investigate your concern. I can accept NO RESPONSIBILITY for any decision that you might make if you rely on anything on this site.

• COPYRIGHT. I do not claim to have written much of what is here. Most of it is reproduced and I believe that I have stayed within the bounds of the Copyright laws as I understand them and the laws of decency as I know them.
  • Note. Some of the material on this site is subject to Australian Federal Government (Crown) Copyright. That includes but is not limited to any badge, in particular the Rising Sun Badge. I use the images with limited and conditional approval. I STRONGLY suggest that before you copy and use any image you seek approval. Contact me for details if you are unsure.
  • Crown Copyright also extends to most photos of military uniforms.
  • Any copyrighted material on these pages is used in a "fair use" manner, for the purpose of study, education, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner/s if there is any breach of law. 
  • If the use is legal the Copyright material will stay.

Many images (particularly badges) fall into this category
	This logo indicates that an image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship. Although unofficial it's use is growing.

Please read this before you send me any emails about Copyright.      Please read this before you send me any emails about Copyright.      Please read this before you send me any emails about Copyright.

If you believe that you have a Copyright difficulty with something I have done, please do us both a favour. 

• Before you blast me  and make all sorts of threats, please go to http://www.copyright.org.au/. Check what the Australian legal situation is for yourself and then contact me. It will save us both some time and might save you some heartache. Just because you own Copyright of some intellectual property does not mean that small parts of it cannot be legally reproduced. As for photographs, if you are not the photographer or the subject you probably do not own the copyright. Anyway, go to the site and see what you think.

• Marches

• COPIES. I freely admit that some of what is reproduced is here without the knowledge of the webmaster of the web I pinched them from. What can I say? I am an Aussie, we make a 'thing' about our convict past, I am ex-Army so scrounging is second nature, this is not a commercial site so I get no gain, I have moved nothing off the web just DOUBLED it's exposure and if you need any more excuses give me about 20 minutes and I will have 100 (and by the way, where did he pinch it from in the first place?).

  • If you intend to copy something of mine from here and use it in an appropriate non commercial manner on the WWW, feel free to do so, with the appropriate credit

    • ( material where Copyright held by others not included).

  • If your site is worthwhile maybe we  can swap links. Contact me. If I have added an acknowledgement that same acknowledgement must accompany any copy that you use.

• PLAGIARISM. Occasionally some people throw this word around as an insult and a charge. Let's stay with reality. Plagiarism is when a person reproduces some one else's work and claims it as their own. I may have copied the work of other people BUT I have never claimed it as my work and unless it is insignificantly small, obviously not their original work or I boo-booed, the author or web site source has been credited.

• COPIES or BANDWIDTH THEFT. When you place an image on the WWW there are two possibilities, should someone want to use or reproduce it. Both are potentially cause for concern.

  • The first used method and one that contains absolutely NO COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS at all is what is called hot-linking. Because every image has to have its own URL it is possible to link to someone else's image and have it reproduced on your own site. That way you are not reproducing someone else's work, so there is no possibility of breach of Copyright...........BUT what you are doing is STEALING the bandwidth of the original webmaster. He has to pay for the cost of displaying his image on your site. That is not nice.

  • The other alternative is that the image is copied and reproduced in a new storage area and the webmaster of the reproduced image pays for his own bandwidth use. Unfortunately some people consider that this is a breach of Copyright.

    • Neither possibility is perfect but the second is preferable in my opinion. And the moral of the story is that if you don't want your image reproduced or hot-linked, don't put it on the WWW.

• USE OF INFORMATION (PRIVACY STATEMENT) This site does not collect information about you so I could not misuse it, sell it, trade it or post it to Outer Mongolia, even if I wanted to. I don't. I won't. I can't.

• COOKIES. This site does NOT install cookies on your machine. It is my opinion that cookies are good and necessary in some cases. Stupid in others. 

  • If YOU are not in full knowledge of the cookies on your computer you are not in control.

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