The Great Book Swap 2025

1. Name:Great Book Swap Fundraiser (Fundraiser)
2. RMIT:RMIT University (ABN 49 781 030 034)
3. Gift:
   • Financial donations (Financial Gift)
   • New or lightly used books, records, puzzles and board games in excellent condition (Non-financial Gift)
4. Purpose:
   • The purpose of the Fundraiser is to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF).
   • ILF is a national charity of the Australian Book Industry, working with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities across Australia.
   • ILF are a community-led foundation, responding to requests from remote Communities for culturally relevant books, including early learning board books, resources, and programs to support Communities to create and publish their stories in languages of their choice.
5. Gift Details:
   • Non-Financial Gifts
     • Non-financial Gifts provided to RMIT during the Fundraiser will be sold by RMIT at several sale stalls across campuses during the week of 8–12 September 2025.
     • Non-Financial Gifts in the form of books donated by authors will be signed and will be available via a silent auction in September 2025.
     • The profits generated from the sale of Non-Financial Gifts will be provided for the sole benefit of the ILF.
     • At the conclusion of the Fundraiser, RMIT reserves the right to deal with any unsold Non-Financial Gifts in its sole discretion.
   • Financial Gifts
     • All Financial Donations will be provided by RMIT to ILF at the conclusion of the Fundraiser Donation Period or directly transferred from the online auction platform to ILF.
6. Donation Methods
   • Non-Financial Gifts
     • Donate items at any RMIT University Library or at various sign-posted Great Book Swap donation receptacles throughout the University.
   • Financial Gifts Via the following methods:
     • Online donation to RMIT University’s Great Book Swap fundraiser on the Indigenous Literacy Foundation website.
     • Payment collected as cash when purchasing a Non-Financial Gift.
7. Auction Eligibility
   • If a person with a winning bid at the silent auction is under the age of 18, that person will require someone over the age of 18 to complete the purchase.
8. Fundraiser Donation Period: 
   • Open: 4 August 2025
   • Close: 17 September 2025

Legal terms

1. Non-Financial Gift
   1. You make the Non-Financial Gift as set out in the Details, by transferring the Non-Financial Gift to RMIT during the Donation Fundraiser Period.
   2. Upon receipt of the Non-Financial Gift, RMIT will become the absolute owner of the Non-Financial Gift.
   3. You warrant and represent that you are entitled to make the Non-Financial Gift under these Terms.
   4. RMIT is not obliged to make any payment to you in respect of the Non-Financial Gift.
   5. Subject to these Terms, the Non-Financial Gift must be used by RMIT for the Purpose.
   6. RMIT will not financially benefit from the sale of the Non-Financial Gift.
   7. If for any reason the Purpose cannot effectively be fulfilled through the use of the Non-Financial Gift, or the Purpose otherwise becomes impractical or impossible to carry out, or the Non-Financial Gift reaches the end of its useful life, having regard to its nature and the Purpose, RMIT may use or otherwise responsibly dispose of the Non-Financial Gift in such a manner as it sees fit.   
2. Financial Gift
   1. You make the Financial Gift as set out in the Details, by transferring the Financial Gift to RMIT (via cash donation) or to RMIT’s fundraiser page on the Indigenous Literacy Foundation website during the Fundraiser Donation Period. You warrant and represent that you are entitled to make the Financial Gift under these Terms.
   2. At the end of the Fundraiser Donation Period, RMIT will transfer all Financial Gifts for the sole benefit of ILF.
   3. Upon receipt of the Financial Gift, ILF will become the absolute owner of the Financial Gift.
   4. Donations of $2 or more to ILF are tax deductible, depending on your personal tax position. Receipts are available for each online donation over $2 (unless donations are anonymous in which case a receipt is unfortunately unable to be provided). You may request a receipt from RMIT for a cash donation.
3. Privacy
   1. RMIT will deal with all personally identifying information you provide to us in accordance with our Privacy Statement in addition to collecting, storing and using your personal information regarding the donation of the Gift.
   2. By making the Non-Financial or Financial Gift, you consent to RMIT using and publishing (and authorising others to use and publish) your name, character, likeness, image, voice or anything else that identifies you for the purposes of marketing or promoting RMIT, including for future similar fundraisers.
4. Acceptable behaviour
   1. RMIT does not tolerate behaviour which is: hurtful, offensive, discriminatory, obscene, derogatory, sexually explicit or pornographic, defamatory, bullying, trolling, illegal or violent. This includes harassment of any kind, displaying sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, photographing or audio/video recording without reasonable consent, sustained disruption of talks or other activities, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
   2. You must not use the Fundraiser to publish or send malicious content (e.g. phishing, viruses) or spam (unsolicited commercial electronic communications). You may not use any sites related to the Fundraiser for any unlawful purposes, fraud, or to conduct or promote illegal activities.
   3. Your Non-Financial Gift must not contain inappropriate, offensive or malicious material. RMIT reserves the right to refuse a Non-Financial Gift if it considers the Non-Financial Gift to contain inappropriate, offensive or malicious material.
5. General
   1. If you don’t comply with these Terms, RMIT may not accept your Non-Financial or Financial Gift.
   2. RMIT may cancel, stop, postpone or suspend the Fundraiser at any time if an unforeseen incident occurs, which affects, or has the potential to affect, the safety, integrity the Fundraiser, or if the Fundraiser is otherwise not able to be run as planned. If the Fundraiser is cancelled, suspended or stopped partway through, RMIT may, but is not obliged to, return the Non-Financial or Financial Gift. We reserve the right to change these Terms, or otherwise modify the Fundraiser, at any time without prior notice in our sole discretion.
   3. These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria. If any of these Terms are or become invalid, at RMIT’s option, the relevant part is severed, and doesn’t affect the validity of the remaining parts. Neither RMIT nor you, is (nor can you represent yourself to be) an employee, partner, agent or other representative of the other. A waiver must be in writing and signed. RMIT does not waive a right if we fail to or delay exercising it. References to time are to the time in Melbourne. References to the singular include the plural and vice versa.