Content Policy

Content & Copyright Policy

Effective Date: 31 July 2026

1. Purpose

This Content & Copyright Policy explains the ownership, use, protection, and reporting procedures relating to content published on Discover Adelaide Korea ("DAK").

It applies to all users, businesses, contributors, and visitors using DAK.

2. Types of Content

Content on DAK may include:

Community posts
Comments
Reviews
Business listings
Business photos
Local guides
Australia Updates
AI-generated summaries
Images
Videos
Logos
Graphics
Website design
Software
Documentation

3. Ownership of DAK Content

Unless otherwise stated, all original DAK content, including:

Website design
Branding
Logos
Icons
Graphics
Software
AI-generated platform content created by DAK
Original guides written by DAK

is owned by DAK or its licensors.

Ownership of third-party content remains with its respective owner unless otherwise stated.

Unauthorised copying, reproduction, redistribution, or commercial use is prohibited.

4. User Content

Users retain ownership of the content they submit.

By submitting content to DAK, you grant DAK a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to:

Host
Store
Display
Reproduce
Format
Translate
Distribute
Promote

your content solely for operating, improving, and promoting the DAK platform.

This licence ends when the content is deleted, except where retention is required by law or for legitimate operational purposes.

Users represent and warrant that they have the necessary rights and permissions to submit the content they upload.

5. Business Content

Business owners are responsible for ensuring they have the legal right to upload:

Logos
Business names
Photos
Menus
Promotional images
Marketing materials

Businesses remain responsible for any copyright infringement arising from content they submit.

6. Australia Updates

DAK may publish summaries of publicly available information.

DAK's policy is to:

Create original summaries in our own words.
Credit the original source where reasonably possible.
Link users to the original publication where available.
Avoid reproducing copyrighted material beyond what is permitted by applicable law.

Whenever practical, users should consult the original source for complete information.

DAK does not claim ownership of the original source materials referenced in Australia Updates.

7. AI-Generated Content

AI-generated summaries and recommendations are created to improve accessibility and understanding.

They are not intended to replace the original source.

Users should not reproduce AI-generated content from DAK for commercial purposes without permission.

AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies and should be independently verified where accuracy is important.

8. Copyright Infringement

If you believe content published on DAK infringes your copyright, you may submit a copyright complaint.

Please include:

Your name
Contact information
Identification of the copyrighted work
Identification of the allegedly infringing content
Evidence of ownership
A statement made in good faith that you believe the use is unauthorised

DAK may request additional information where necessary.

Knowingly submitting false or fraudulent copyright complaints may result in action under DAK's policies.

9. Removal of Content

DAK may remove content where it reasonably believes that:

Copyright has been infringed.
The content violates applicable laws.
The content breaches DAK policies.
The content presents a significant legal risk.

Where appropriate, DAK may temporarily disable access while a complaint is reviewed.

DAK may remove or disable access to content without prior notice where reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations or protect the platform.

10. Repeat Infringers

Users or businesses who repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights may have:

Content removed.
Upload privileges restricted.
Accounts suspended.
Accounts permanently terminated.

11. Third-Party Content

DAK may include links, embeds, or references to third-party content.

Ownership of third-party content remains with its respective owner.

Inclusion on DAK does not transfer ownership or imply endorsement.

Users should comply with the applicable terms and conditions of third-party services when accessing external content.

12. Fair Use and Legal Exceptions

Nothing in this Policy limits any rights or exceptions available under applicable copyright laws, including any permitted uses recognised by Australian law.

13. Reporting Procedure

DAK will review reports within a reasonable time and may contact the reporting party or the content uploader for additional information before making a decision.

Submission of a report does not guarantee that content will be removed.

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Content & Copyright Policy from time to time.

Material changes will be published on the DAK website.

Continued use of DAK after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.

15. Events

DAK lists events organised by others, transcribed from posts published on social media, community boards and organisers' own pages.

DAK's policy is to:

State the facts of an event — what, when, where, how much — in DAK's own words rather than reproducing an organiser's description.
Name the organiser and link to the original announcement where available.
Publish an organiser's contact details only where they have been published publicly by the organiser for that purpose.
Use a poster or other artwork only where the organiser has given permission, and remove it on request. The facts of an event are not subject to copyright and may be restated without permission; the artwork is, and may not.
Not publish photographs in which attendees are identifiable. An organiser's permission covers their own material; it does not extend to the likeness of people who attended an event and did not agree to appear here. Where an organiser supplies such a photograph, it is not used.
Remove or amend a listing at the organiser's request.

DAK is not the organiser of any event listed and does not verify that an event will take place as described. Details change after they are transcribed, and users should confirm them with the organiser or the linked original before attending.

Organisers who wish to have an event listed, corrected or removed may contact admin@discoveradelaidekorea.au. Removal requests relating to an organiser's own details will be actioned without requiring a reason.

16. Guides and Practical Information

DAK's guides, practical information, checklists, and explanatory articles are provided for general informational purposes only.

They do not constitute legal, immigration, taxation, financial, employment, or medical advice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional advice.

Where official guidance is available, the information published by the relevant Australian Government, South Australian Government, or other competent authority takes precedence over any information published on DAK.

Information such as eligibility requirements, fees, deadlines, processing times, benefits, and administrative procedures may change without notice. Unless otherwise stated, DAK content reflects information available at the time of publication.

The applicability of any information depends on individual circumstances. Users are responsible for confirming current requirements with the relevant authority or seeking independent professional advice where appropriate.

17. Rental Listings

DAK lists rental accommodation advertised by others, recorded from advertisements published on classified sites, social media groups and agents' own pages, or supplied directly by the advertiser.

DAK's policy is to:

State the facts of a listing — location, rent, room type, bond, availability, conditions — in DAK's own words rather than reproducing an advertiser's description.
Link to the original advertisement where one is available.
Publish an advertiser's contact details only where the advertiser has given DAK permission to do so. Where permission has not been given, no contact details are published and the listing carries a link to the original advertisement instead. This is a stricter rule than the one applied to events, because a rental advertiser's contact is usually a private individual's own number rather than a published business line.
Use photographs only where the advertiser has supplied them to DAK or has given permission for their use, and remove them on request. The facts of a listing are not subject to copyright and may be restated without permission; photographs are, and may not.
Not publish photographs in which any person is identifiable, or which show the personal belongings or private living space of an existing occupant who has not agreed to appear here. An advertiser's permission covers their own material; it does not extend to people who live in the property.
Record conditions set by an advertiser — such as a preference as to gender, or a restriction on couples, pets or smoking — as stated, without endorsing them. Publication of a condition is not an assessment of its lawfulness.
State which language an advertiser can be contacted in only where the advertiser has told DAK, or where the original advertisement makes it plain. Where neither applies, nothing is shown rather than a guess. Most of DAK's readers write in Korean, and a message sent to an advertiser who does not read it produces silence rather than a refusal — which is why this is stated at all. It is a fact about how to make contact and nothing else: DAK does not record or infer an advertiser's nationality, ethnicity or origin, and the field carries a language rather than a person.
Remove or amend a listing at the advertiser's request, without requiring a reason.
Remove listings that are no longer current. Rental listings expire automatically after a set period, because a listing for a property already let misleads a reader at their own cost.

Advertisers who let rooms on an ongoing basis

Some advertisers manage several rooms across one or more properties and let them continuously, placing an enquirer in whichever room is free rather than in the particular room advertised. A listing naming one room would then be inaccurate in the ordinary case rather than the exceptional one.

For these advertisers DAK's policy is to:

List room types rather than individual rooms, where the rooms of a type are materially the same. What differs between them — a colour scheme, a position in the house — is not what a reader is deciding on; the rent, the size, the inclusions and the conditions are, and those are stated.
Mark the listing as ongoing availability rather than as a room that is free on the date shown, and state that current availability is confirmed with the advertiser directly.
Describe photographs as representative of the room type, not of the room a reader would be given.
Require the advertiser to tell DAK when the rent, the inclusions or the conditions change, and when rooms of a type stop being available at all. A listing that quietly stops being true is the failure this section exists to prevent, and an advertiser letting continuously is the only person who knows.
Apply the same expiry as any other listing. Expiry here asks whether the advertisement is still current rather than whether one room is still free.

Where an advertiser manages a property they do not own, DAK asks them to confirm in writing that they have the owner's authority to advertise it, and records that confirmation as it records any other permission.

DAK does not verify listings and is not a party to any tenancy. See section 20 of the Terms of Service.

Advertisers and any person whose information appears in a listing may contact admin@discoveradelaidekorea.au to have it corrected or removed.

18. External Rental Listings

DAK records some rental listings from advertisements published elsewhere — public social media groups and pages, classified sites, and marketplaces — where the advertiser has not been asked and has not agreed. These are marked as external and are treated differently from listings supplied to DAK directly.

DAK's policy for external listings is to:

Record only the objective facts of a listing — suburb, weekly rent, room type, availability, stated conditions — in DAK's own words. The advertisement's wording is not reproduced.
Not publish contact details. Enquiries go to the original advertisement, which is linked from every external listing.
Not publish photographs. No image from an external advertisement is used.
Not publish the advertiser's name, exact street address, or any other detail that identifies them, beyond the suburb.
Name the source platform and link to the original, so a reader can see where the information came from and check whether it is current.
Not state which language the advertiser can be contacted in, unless the original advertisement itself makes it plain. DAK has not spoken to an external advertiser and cannot ask. Inferring the answer from a name, a photograph or the language an advertisement happens to be written in would be a guess about a person, and a listing wrongly marked as English-only stops a Korean speaker writing to someone who would have replied.
Record and display the date DAK last checked the listing, and remove it automatically after fourteen days whether or not it has been re-checked. A listing for a property already let misleads a reader at their own cost, and DAK cannot verify the status of an advertisement it did not receive.
Distinguish external listings from consented ones in the interface, so a reader is never left to assume DAK has spoken to the advertiser.

DAK does not verify external listings and is not a party to any tenancy. Readers must confirm every detail with the original advertiser before acting on it.

Removal. Anyone who placed an advertisement that DAK has recorded may have it removed by contacting admin@discoveradelaidekorea.au. No reason is required and none will be asked for. DAK aims to action such requests within 24 hours. The same applies to any person whose information appears in an external listing, whether or not they placed the advertisement.

DAK does not record listings from private or members-only groups, or from any source a reader cannot open without an account.

19. Contact

Questions regarding this Policy or copyright concerns may be submitted through DAK's official support channels or by contacting admin@discoveradelaidekorea.au.

Last Updated: 11 August 2026