Corporate information

The Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan 2021-2024 (PDF) outlines activities to:

• reduce the amount and impact of departmental waste generated
• improve the way in which the department manages unavoidable waste.

The  Asbestos Management Policy (PDF) outlines underlying principles and obligations concerning the management of asbestos containing material in Arts Queensland facilities.

The Asbestos Register (PDF) identifies the location of materials known or likely to contain asbestos.

Email notification subscription

1. You may subscribe via the Arts Queensland Website at www.arts.qld.gov.au (‘Website’) to receive Email Notifications^[1] on the following topics:

   (a) Arts sector news, updates and information;

   (b) Funding program information;

   (c) Arts infrastructure updates;

   (d) Surveys and requests for feedback; and

   (e) Website updates.

2. You may choose to unsubscribe and stop receiving Email Notifications at any time by:

   (a) clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ link that appears at the bottom of all Email Notifications; or

   (b) emailing communications@arts.qld.gov.au requesting to unsubscribe and stop receiving Email Notifications.

   Subscriber services provided by Vision6

3. Arts Queensland uses Vision6 Pty Ltd ABN 23 099 766 499^[2] (‘Vision6’) subscriber services to provide Email Notifications. Vision6 provides online platforms that can be used to create, send and manage emails.
4. Upon subscribing, Arts Queensland may provide Vision6 with your Personal Information^[3] to generate Email Notifications to the email address you provide. Your Personal Information will be disclosed by Arts Queensland to Vision6 only for communicating to you via email for the purposes of and in relation to the topics outlined in 1(a)-(e) above.

Email feedback to Arts Queensland and analytics

5. Arts Queensland can access the Vision6 platform to review Email Notifications sent to you, emails you may send in response to Email Notifications and associated analytics. Email Notifications sent to you, emails you may send in response to Email Notifications will be treated as a public record and retained in accordance with the Public Records Act 2002 (Qld) and any other relevant legislation.
6. Where possible, Arts Queensland will make every effort to respond to your email correspondence sent in response to Email Notifications. Where appropriate, emails sent by you may be forwarded to various Arts Queensland staff members for direct response.

Privacy statement

7. Personal Information collected by Arts Queensland is handled in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld). For further information about how Arts Queensland protects your Personal Information or to learn more about your rights to access your Personal Information, please consider Arts Queensland’s Privacy Policy at the Website at www.arts.qld.gov.au/privacy.
8. By agreement with Arts Queensland, Vision6 is required to handle Personal Information collected by it in accordance with Chapter 2 of the Information Privacy Act 2009 as applicable.
9. Vision6 has its own Privacy Policy and Vision6 may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in accordance with their Privacy Policy. For further information about how Vision6 protects your Personal Information or to learn more about your rights to access your Personal Information, please consider Vision6’s Privacy Policy available at https://www.vision6.com.au/about-us/privacy-policy.

Subscription Acknowledgement and Consent

10. By subscribing to Email Notifications, you acknowledge and consent to these Terms and Conditions and to:

    (a) Receipt of Email Notifications;

    (b) Arts Queensland providing your Personal Information to Vision6 in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2019 and Arts Queensland’s Privacy policy; and

    (c) Vision6 providing your Personal Information to third parties in accordance with Vision6’s Privacy policy.

    Disclaimer

11. Email Notifications contain general information only and individuals should obtain their own advice in relation to matters referred to in Email Notifications. Arts Queensland can be contacted on for further information via the Website or by emailing communications@arts.qld.gov.au. Email Notifications, including subscribing to Email Notifications via the Website or seeking further advice from Arts Queensland, should not be construed as and is in no way intended to be a substitute for independent and/or professional advice in relation to matters subject of Email Notifications.
12. Arts Queensland reserves its right to minimise, alter or adapt^[4], recall, pause or cease Email Notifications without notice, including the information contained therein. Subscribing to Email Notifications should not be construed as and is no way intended to guarantee the receipt of Email Notifications or the currency or accuracy of information contained in Email Notifications.
13. The Email Notifications and the Website may contain links to websites and mobile applications owned and operated by third parties, who are not under the control or direction of Arts Queensland and/or the Queensland Government. (‘Third party websites and applications’)

Unless expressly stated, Arts Queensland and the Queensland Government does not endorse, approve of, recommend or sponsor:

(a) any Third party websites and applications linked on the Website;

(b) nor the owners, operators or affiliates of Third party websites and applications;

(c) nor any information, graphic, material, products or services referred to or contained in Third party websites and applications; and

(d) nor any privacy policy or terms and conditions of use which may apply to Third party websites and applications.

14. Arts Queensland to the maximum extent possible excludes liability for any loss, damage, cost or detriment (whether caused or incurred directly or indirectly) by subscribing or unsubscribing to Email Notifications and including due to:

(a) any use of or reliance by you or others on any Email Notification or the Website, including any information contained therein;

(b) the limited, disrupted, erroneous or non-receipt of Email Notifications or the information contained therein, including  as provided for at 11 and 12 above;

(c) any use of or reliance by you or others on Vision6, its privacy policy or other Vision6 terms of use, including use of or reliance by you or others including on any of the matters referred to in 8 and 9 above

(d) any use of or reliance by you or others on Third party websites and applications, including use of or reliance by you or others on any of the matters referred to in 13 above; and

(e) you or others not receiving any, all, complete or accurate Email Notifications, including due to:

(i) any failure by Vision6 or its third parties or affiliates;

(ii) the insufficient operation of your web access, internet service provider or the email account you provided to Arts Queensland;

(iii) your failure to have any or proper regard to Email Notifications; and

(iv) your failure in regards to the matters referred to in 11 and 12 above.

Email notification subscription footnotes

1. Email Notification includes enews, a newsletter, alert, update, circular and other information prepared by Arts Queensland which is delivered via email generated by Vision6
2. https://www.vision6.com.au/
3. Personal Information for these Terms and Conditions includes your name, email address, sector identifier, notification preferences and postcode.
4. Subject to Email Notification topics set out 1(a)-(e).

Arts Queensland has an active social media community of users on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We encourage you to follow our channels to stay up to date with news, resources, funding information and professional development opportunities within Queensland's arts and culture sector. Join the conversation using #ArtsQld.

Please note that messages sent through social media are not considered official correspondence. To contact Arts Queensland please visit our contact page.

House rules
We welcome feedback and ideas from our online community and join the conversation where possible. We try to read all comments and messages and aim to respond to queries in a timely manner.

When contributing your views please ensure that you:

• protect your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information about yourself or others in your comments (such as email addresses, private addresses or phone numbers).
• represent your own views and do not impersonate or falsely represent any other person.
• do not abuse, harass or threaten others or make personal attack.
• do not add any content that racially or religiously vilifies others; incites, induces or aids violence, discrimination, harassment, victimisation or hatred towards others; is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others, particularly on the basis of their race, colour, descent, national origin, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any disability; or that infringes the intellectual property rights of other.
• do not make defamatory or libelous comment.
• do not use insulting, provocative or hateful language.
• do not use obscene or offensive language.

Disclaimer
Participants on our social media channels are expected to treat each other, as well as Arts Queensland and our employees, with respect.

We reserve the right to:

• remove content that breaches any of the house rules outlined above
• remove content that promotes services or product
• close comments on a topic if the discussion is deemed to have become irrelevant or out-of-date by the page administrators
  
• remove content that is spam or unsolicited bulk messaging. Occurrences of this may result in a user being blocked.
  

If you see content that you deem inappropriate, please let us know and we will investigate the matter. The views expressed and published on Arts Queensland's social media channels by a participant, invitee, expert, guest or other person are not necessarily the views of Arts Queensland. We accept no responsibility arising from reliance by any person or party on any comment or information published on any of our social media channels. We also do not guarantee the accuracy or currency of any comment published on our social media channels.

Links to external websites and users’ social media accounts are provided as a convenience to users and such sites and associated content are not under the control of Arts Queensland. When links have been included, the content of these links does not and should not imply endorsement of that website, service or person by Arts Queensland.

For enquiries or further information about Arts Queensland's social media channels please email communications@arts.qld.gov.au or phone +61 7 3034 4086. Read more about the Department of Education social media policy.