Accessing Content

The Business Plans and Checklists site is a user generated online library which brings together online content on business planning and marketing plans and checklists.

These resources, generated from both within government and private sectors, are provided to facilitate access to the widest possible range of business development resources. To assist you in choosing resources for your business an independent expert acts as the resources editor. The editor rates the usefulness of selected resources.  Users are also able to rate content and provide comments.

Where the online content on this site is drawn from private sector resources, its content is not endorsed by nor does it represent current policies or practices of the Victorian Government.  As a consequence, the editorial comments, online content as well as user rating and comments on this site may not reflect the views or policies of the Victorian Government.

In using Business Plans and Checklists you are deemed to have accepted these Terms of Use, our General Terms and Conditions, Copyright and Disclaimers apply.

Submitting Links to Resources

You can submit a link to be included in Business Plans and Checklists. Content can only be submitted by completing and submitting the submission form, including necessary contact details.

All submitted content will be pre-moderated. Material will not be published unless it meets the following published guidelines and is deemed suitable.

Library content must:

• be relevent to the topic;
• provided a direct link to the webpage where resources are housed or which provide contextual information about the resource; and
• include a description that accurately reflects the item that is linked.
  

Content links will not be included within the library if they:

• are inconsistent with the purpose of the library;
• are false or misleading;
• are an infringement of violation of intellectual property rights, or copyright (see below for more on copyright) contract rights or any other rights or any third party;
• are a violation of any applicable laws (including harassment, discrimination, defamation or privacy); or
• link directly to advertising or product/service promotion.
• links to resources that require payment or registration to access will not be reviewed by the site editor
  

All content is published at the discretion of the Victorian Government and is subject to regular review. Links may be removed without notice and without providing a reason for removal.

Should the owner of the link destination request in writing the removal of the link, Business Victoria will endeavour to remove the link within 2 working days.

When submitting a comment or description and link of a resource, you give us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to reproduce, communicate, re-publish, edit, adapt or otherwise use your contributions as we see fit, including the right to sublicense the same rights to others at our discretion.

You also give us a licence to deal with the postings as necessary to perform technical and administrative functions in running the forums.

All rights in linked materials remain unaffected by being linked to from this site.

Editor's picks

The site editor regularly rates the usefulness of selected resources to assist you in choosing for your business. The views of the editor are not the views of  the Victorian Government.

Editors will use the following criteria to select Editor's picks:

• practical rather than academically focused;
• easy to use and understand;
• developed by people with a successful background in business; and
• proven use of the content by operational businesses.

User ratings and comments

You can submit user ratings and comments by completing the online form. 

The guidelines for user ratings are as follows:

• Public users can star rate resources without registering their contact details. However, comments must include an email address. The email address will not be published but you must accept the terms and conditions, including but not limited to the copyright and indemnity terms. (See Privacy)

• All comments will be moderated before they are published. Material will not be published unless it meets the published guidelines and is deemed suitable.
• The Victorian Government has the right to publish, remove, or edit any submission at any time
• You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, discriminatory or any other material that may violate any applicable laws.
• Only one comment or rating may be submitted per item per day.
• The IP address of all submissions is recoreded to aid in enforcing these conditions
  

User rating system

Policy for removal of content

Links may be removed without notice.

Links will be removed if:

• they are found to be in breach of any of the guidelines in these terms and conditions;
• the link is found to be broken;
• the content found at the destination of the link does not match the description; or
• The owner of the content requests its removal

In instances where a complaint has been lodged against the inclusion of the link, the complaint will be investigated. We will endeavour to consult with both the owner of the link destination and the submitter of the link.

Complaints should be made separately via the site feedback link. The Victorian Government reserves the right not to reply to all feedback

The Victorian Government may at its discretion remove a link during the investigation of a complaint; if the link is deemed appropriate following the investigation it will be reinstated on the site

Copyright

Check the Business Victoria website for full information about Copyright (including Business Plans and Checklists).

Disclaimer

Check the Business Victoria website for full Disclaimer (including Business Plans and Checklists).