Terms & Conditions

Disclaimer

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by SME Toolkit South Africa and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

 

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of SME Toolkit South Africa. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

 

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, SME Toolkit South Africa takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

License To Use Website

Unless otherwise stated, SME Toolkit South Africa and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or images from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • Republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

  • Show any material from the website in public;

  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;

  • Redistribute material from this website [except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without SME Toolkit South Africa’s express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without SME Toolkit South Africa’s express written consent.

Restricted Access

SME Toolkit South Africa reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or this entire website, at SME Toolkit South Africa’s discretion.

If SME Toolkit South Africa provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

SME Toolkit South Africa may disable your user ID and password in the website at SME Toolkit South Africa’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User Content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to SME Toolkit South Africa a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to SME Toolkit South Africa the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or SME Toolkit South Africa or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

SME Toolkit South Africa reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on SME Toolkit South Africa’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

No Warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. SME Toolkit South Africa makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, SME Toolkit South Africa does not warrant that:

  • This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or

  • The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Limitations Of Liability

SME Toolkit South Africa will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;

  • For any indirect, special or consequential loss; or

  • For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if SME Toolkit South Africa has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit SME Toolkit South Africa’s liability in respect of any:

  • Death or personal injury caused by SME Toolkit South Africa’s negligence;

  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of SME Toolkit South Africa; or

  • Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for SME Toolkit South Africa to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other Parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, SME Toolkit South Africa has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against SME Toolkit South Africa’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect SME Toolkit South Africa’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as SME Toolkit South Africa.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify SME Toolkit South Africa and undertake to keep SME Toolkit South Africa indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by SME Toolkit South Africa to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of SME Toolkit South Africa’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by SME Toolkit South Africa arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches Of These Terms And Conditions

Without prejudice to SME Toolkit South Africa’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, SME Toolkit South Africa may take such action as SME Toolkit South Africa deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

SME Toolkit South Africa may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

SME Toolkit South Africa may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with SME Toolkit South Africa’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and SME Toolkit South Africa in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

These Website Terms And Conditions

This document is based on a free Contractology form available at www.freenetlaw.com. Contractology specialise in the supply of professional legal templates, such as precedent consulting terms and conditions, to businesses around the world.

SME Toolkit South Africa’s Details

SME Toolkit South Africa’s address is 37 West Street, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

You can contact SME Toolkit South Africa by email to webmaster@businesspartners.co.za.