Privacy Policy and PAIA Manual

Your use of this Site is subject to these terms and by accessing the Site you agree to be bound by them. Our products and services, including our online services, might be subjects to separate terms and conditions which govern their provision and use.

We may change these terms at any time without notice by updating this posting and by continuing to access this Site you accept such changes.

The information held on this Site is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not transmit, modify, copy, or make commercial use of the Site or any part of it without our prior permission.

You may download and/or print out all or part of the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use.

While we try to ensure that access to the Site is always available, from time to time. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site or any part of it, without notice. You acknowledge and accept that the Site or any part of it may not be always available.

Unless otherwise provided, we are the owner or licensee of all copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in and to the Site. We do not grant you any licence or right to use any of our trademarks or other intellectual property on this Site by virtue of your use of or access to the Site.

Where we provide hypertext links to third-party internet websites, such links are not an endorsement by us of any products or services in such websites and we have not verified the truth or accuracy of any content of such websites. You use such links entirely at your own risk and we accept no responsibility or liability for the content, use or availability of such websites.

This Site may also contain material provided by third parties and we accept no responsibility or liability for the accuracy of such material.

You are not permitted to link any other website to this Site without obtaining our prior written consent and where we do provide consent, subject to any conditions that we may impose.

• Certain pages on the Site allow you to share content via your profile on various social networks and other shared content platforms. When you share content in this manner you also become subject to terms, conditions, and policies of those third parties.

You may access most areas of the Site without registering your details with us and without us recording any of your personal information; however certain areas of the Site may require you to register. If you apply to have access to these areas, you are indicating that you have read our privacy statement and are willing for us to deal with your data as set out in that policy.

We reserve the right to monitor all internet communications, including web and email traffic into and out of our domains for the purposes of security, ensuring compliance with these Terms and detecting fraud and other crimes.

Although we have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the information provided on this Site is accurate, we give no warranties about the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any information.

We accept no liability arising out of, or in connection with your use or inability to use the Site, or in connection with any error, omission, defect, computer virus or system failure, or in connection with the access of, use of, performance of, browsing in or linking to other websites from this Site.

A certificate provided by the administrator maintaining our digital content is sufficient evidence of the version of the content as at a stated date and time.

The laws of South Africa govern these Terms and you agree that the South African courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any matter or dispute in connection with or arising out of this Site.

If we do not always exercise all our rights it does not mean that we have given them up and we reserve the right to exercise our rights when and if we decide to do so.

You accept that we use cookies (text files containing small amounts of information which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website) on this Site. For further information about cookies please see our Cookies policy.

We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device. These files serve several useful purposes for you, including: 

• granting you access to age restricted content;

• tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences;

• improving how our website performs;

• allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and

• helping us deliver targeted advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary. Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Third party cookies

Some of our business partners or advertisers use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.

Web beacons

Our website may contain electronic image requests (called a single-pixel gif or web beacon request) that allow us to count page views and to access cookies. Any electronic image viewed as part of a web page (including an ad banner) can act as a web beacon. Our web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor, or share any of your personal information. We merely use them to compile anonymous information about our website.

Optional details

You may also provide additional information to us on a voluntary basis (optional information).

This includes content or products that you decide to upload or download from our website or when you enter competitions, take advantage of promotions, respond to surveys, order certain additional goods or services, or otherwise use the optional features and functionality of our website.