Terms of Use
These terms explain how you may use dalitproject.org and what we expect of people who write to us. They sit alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information.
What this site is
The Dalit Project is an independent publication of analysis, opinion, explainers and data journalism on caste, published by [legal entity name to be added] (ABN [ABN to be added]), registered and operating in Australia. What we publish is journalism and commentary. It is not a substitute for advice from a qualified lawyer, doctor, financial adviser or other professional.
Using our work
You're welcome to link to and share our pieces, and to quote short passages, with clear credit to The Dalit Project (and the author, if the piece is bylined) and a link to the original. When you quote, keep the context: don't strip out who an allegation is attributed to, a response we published, or a correction.
Beyond that, and beyond what copyright law already allows (such as fair dealing for criticism, review or news reporting), republishing a whole piece or a substantial part of one needs permission first: ask through our contact form. Unless a piece says otherwise, its text and charts are © The Dalit Project or the author named on it.
Photos and other material from outside sources are shown with a credit line. Where that line names a public licence (such as a Creative Commons licence), you can reuse the item on that licence's conditions, including its credit requirements. Other credited material is used with its owner's permission, which doesn't pass to you.
Images labelled "DalPro Frames (AI-generated)" or "AI-generated illustration" are illustrations made for us, not pictures of any real person or event (see why we use them). If you share one, keep the label with it. Never use one to depict a real, named person or to suggest it shows something that happened.
Our data downloads
Our trackers let you download the data behind them. The figures come from public sources, named in each file; check each source's own terms before reusing its figures. Our own work on top of them (how we've selected, arranged and annotated the figures) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): you may reuse it freely, including commercially, if you credit "The Dalit Project" and link to the tracker page. Please don't suggest we endorse your use.
What you send us
When you send a pitch, a correction, a response or a message, you keep the rights to your own words, and you're telling us you have the right to send it. If you're passing on something you haven't been able to check, say so; that's fine. You let us use what you send to consider and answer it. For a response you want published, we may quote or summarise it fairly in the piece concerned. We won't publish anything you asked us to keep private, and we'll agree anything more, such as commissioning a pitch, with you separately.
Legal notices about a piece
If you believe something we published is defamatory or otherwise unlawful, you can tell us in writing, through the form on our Right of Reply page or by email to hello@dalitproject.org. To help us understand your concern, please include:
- a link to the piece, or enough detail for us to find it;
- the words or parts you object to;
- what you say they suggest about you, and why you say that is wrong;
- if the piece doesn't name you, why you say it is about you;
- the harm you say the piece has caused, or is likely to cause, including any serious harm to your reputation;
- your name and a way to contact you.
We may ask you for more details. Receiving or reviewing a message doesn't mean we accept what it says. Whether a message counts as a formal legal notice depends on the law and on what the message says, not on how you send it or what you call it. This page isn't legal advice. If you simply want to respond to a piece, see Right of Reply.
Things you mustn't do
- Use our forms or our social media accounts to harass, threaten or abuse anyone, or to send spam.
- Post identifying details about survivors, witnesses or sources in public, for example in comments on our posts.
- Try to break, overload or get around the site's security, or scrape the site to republish its content. Using our data downloads, as above, is fine.
- Present our work as someone else's, or edit it in a way that misrepresents what it says.
We may hide, remove or report content sent to us that breaks these rules, and block people who keep doing it.
Links to other sites
We link to primary sources, government data and other outlets throughout our pieces. We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices.
Accuracy and liability
We work to get things right, and to correct mistakes as our corrections policy describes. Even so, we can't promise that the site, or anything on it, is always complete, current or free of errors, or that the site will always be available. Please check anything important before you rely on it. Our corrections policy describes how we usually handle errors; it isn't a promise in these terms that we will find or fix every one.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or any other right the law says can't be excluded or limited. Subject to that, and as far as the law allows, we aren't liable for loss caused by an error or omission on the site, or by the site being unavailable.
Editorial independence
Nothing on this site is paid placement or undisclosed sponsored content. Any financial, organisational or political tie we know of between a contributor and the subject of their piece is disclosed in the piece itself. See Governance for our funding and editorial-independence policy.
Changes to these terms
If we change these terms, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Changes apply from that date, not to anything that happened before it.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales can hear disputes about them. That doesn't stop you using another court where the law gives you that right.
Contact
Questions about these terms: our contact form.