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Terms & Conditions

By registering for the Weed Risk Australia web application, you acknowledge and agree to the following terms and conditions of use:

1.0 Handling information:
1.1 Weed Risk Australia includes weed risk methodologies and associated weed risk assessments created under a weed risk methodology.
1.2 Weed risk methodology types include user-specific access and public access. You will treat weed risk methodologies as in-confidence, unless they are available for public access within Weed Risk Australia.
1.3 Weed risk assessment statuses include Draft, Finalised, Published and Archived. You will treat weed risk assessment data as in-confidence, unless the assessment is Published, at which time the weed risk assessment data becomes publicly available on Weed Risk Australia and is no longer in-confidence.

2.0 Ownership:
2.1 For state and territory methodologies contained in Weed Risk Australia, the methodology is owned by the agency who developed or commissioned the methodology. For assessments completed with these methodologies, the weed risk assessment data is owned by the agency or organisation contracting the assessment (e.g. employing the author or engaging a contractor for a service).
2.2 For project-based methodologies contained in Weed Risk Australia, ownership of the methodology and weed risk assessment data is defined separately in project agreements.
2.3 If the author of an assessment for any methodology is independent of an agency, organisation or contract, then ownership of weed risk assessment data resides with that author.

3.0 Coordinators and Collaborators:
3.1 Each methodology has designated Coordinators who manage access to the methodology and its associated weed risk assessments. Coordinators are nominated by the relevant methodology owner.
3.2 Coordinators can publish assessments if desired and if publishing is enabled. Published assessments become publicly visible, so must only be marked as Published if approved for release via appropriate internal processes.
3.3 Coordinators can set Collaborator users for that methodology. Collaborators are specific to a methodology and can create assessments and view Finalised assessments but cannot publish them.

4.0 Manual copying of data:
4.1 In manually copying data from Finalised and Published assessments into a Draft assessment, you agree to acknowledge the source (author and assessment ID) and handle information as in-confidence, unless already published.

5.0 Internal use of Finalised assessments:
5.1 Data within Finalised assessments may be confidential and privileged and therefore must be handled as ‘in-confidence’.
5.2 Data can only be shared and used for internal purposes, unless written permission is provided by the methodology Coordinator(s) or their delegate.

6.0 Publishing assessments:
6.1 A risk assessment may remain in the Finalised assessment status and not be published.
6.2 Publishing may be disabled for a methodology.
6.3 A Coordinator for a methodology with publishing enabled may choose to publish a risk assessment, following appropriate internal approvals.
6.4 Internal approval steps must include checking if unpublished data has been copied from another assessment, in which case the data will be redacted unless otherwise agreed with the author.

Definitions


Weed risk methodology – a series of standardised quantitative or semi-quantitative questions, often with accompanying instructional material, that are answered to generate a score and/or recommendations for weed prioritisation.
Weed risk assessment – an assessment for a species using a weed risk methodology. Contains weed risk data once populated.
Weed risk data – answers, justifications, scores and outcomes within a weed risk assessment.
Weed Risk Australia – a web application and database developed to centrally record, view and manage weed risk methodologies and associated assessments.
Coordinator user – a user in Weed Risk Australia granted with additional functionality to manage access to a weed risk methodology and its associated assessments. Coordinators can publish assessments, set Collaborator users and set additional Coordinator users. Each methodology has its own Coordinator users.
Collaborator user – a user in Weed Risk Australia granted with additional functionality to create assessments with a user-specific access weed risk methodology and view Finalised assessments associated with this methodology.
Assessment owner – the user who is the current owner of the assessment. This user is either the creator of the assessment, the last user to update the assessment, or the user who the assessment has been assigned to.
Assessment status – indicates what stage of completion an assessment is at and controls the visibility of the assessment.
Draft assessment – only visible to the assessment owner, methodology Coordinator(s) and Administrator.
Finalised assessment – only visible to the assessment owner, methodology Coordinator(s), Administrator and any Collaborator(s) for that methodology.
Published assessment – visible to all users (i.e. publicly visible). Only Coordinator(s) and Administrator can publish assessments.
Archived assessment – only visible to the assessment owner, methodology Coordinator(s) and Administrator.
State and territory methodology – routinely used by government staff for business-as-usual processes, and often used exclusively within an organisation or jurisdiction.
Project-based methodology – developed and/or used for specific projects. Assessments are often completed by users across multiple organisations or jurisdictions. Methodology and data ownership is defined separately in project agreements.