WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY AS USE OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE:
1. Quantum Catalytic (Proprietary) Limited (“QC”) reserves the right to periodically change these terms and conditions without notice. Please ensure that you regularly check the terms and conditions as you will be responsible for reviewing such changes each time you access the website. Your continued use of the website after changes have been posted online, constitutes your acceptance of the new terms, as modified by the posted changes.
2. You acknowledge that the use of this website is at your sole risk. This website and its contents are provided on an “as-is” basis and have not been developed or compiled or supplied to meet your individual requirements. QC hereby disclaims any liability for, and you indemnify QC against, any harm, loss, damage and/or liability to you and/or any other person resulting directly or indirectly from the publication or use of any information, content, advice, products or services which may be promoted, displayed on, or associated with, our website or any other website which can be accessed from this website, howsoever such harm, loss, damage and/or liability may occur and whether such harm, loss, damage or liability is financial, personal, consequential, incidental or otherwise.
3. The information and content contained on, or accessible from, this website and the downloads, are intended and produced for general information purposes only and should not be relied upon as specific information of any kind, whether professional, technical or otherwise. Furthermore, the information may contain errors or inaccuracies, may be incomplete and/or out of date, and you should make your own independent investigations as to the accuracy of such information. QC shall not be liable to any person or company for use or reliance on any inaccurate information or opinions contained herein. QC does not warrant the completeness of the information published on our website, that it is up to date, or that the website and any information in it will remain available.
4. QC reserves the right to discontinue, alter or add to any of our website services at any time, and with our sole discretion.
5.Neither QC, nor any of its agents or representatives shall be liable for any claim, damage, harm, loss, injury, damages or liability of whatsoever nature, howsoever arising from the use or inability to use this site and/or from the services or content available through and from this site. “Damages” shall include direct, indirect, general, special, incidental, punitive and consequential.
6. QC does not warrant or represent that the functions contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free or that defects will be corrected. Furthermore, QC does not warrant or represent that this site and/or its server will be free of viruses or other harmful components. You are encouraged to report any malfunctions and errors to QC.
7. The links in this website may let you leave QC’s domain. Linked websites are not under QC’s control and QC is not responsible for the contents of any third party web pages or any links contained on those pages. The inclusion of any link on this site does not imply endorsement by QC of any other websites or their products or services.
8. Where this website makes reference to any third party commercial products, processes or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise, it does not necessarily constitute or imply QC’s endorsement or recommendation.
9. You hereby acknowledge that it is impossible for QC to maintain complete security in respect of any content displayed on, or accessible from this website, and you hereby waive any claims which you may have against QC arising out of any breach of security.
10. Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in these terms and conditions, QC may, at its discretion, from time to time and without notice to you, be entitled to suspend your access to this website for any reason whatsoever. Other reasons may include, but not limited to, technical failure, modification or maintenance of the software, hardware, equipment or infrastructure by means of which this website are made available to you. In this regard you acknowledge that interruptions or suspensions may occur which prevent or otherwise interfere with your access to or use of this website, for which QC will not be liable for any damages of any kind.
11. This website includes the ability for you to add comments, ideas, suggestions and feedback. We value such comments, ideas, suggestions and feedback disclosed, submitted or offered by you on, by, or in connection with, your use of our site (“comments”). QC shall not be obliged to respond to, maintain or compensate you in any way whatsoever for your comments. Once disclosed, submitted or offered, with regard to your comments, ideas, suggestions and feedback, You grant QC a world-wide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content. You warrant that the comments disclosed, submitted or offered by you to the site do not and will not violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trade mark, privacy or any other personal or proprietary right, and that you will not disclose, submit or offer any comments that will or may contain any defamatory, unlawful, abusive or obscene material. QC disclaims any liability towards any third party regarding your comments and you hereby indemnify QC against, and shall be liable for, any claim by any third party in regard to or arising from your comments.
12. Please be aware that the content of this site is the property of QC and is protected by South African International copyright laws. You may use the content of this site only for your personal non-commercial use, subject to the following conditions:
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You may not use the for personal or commercial gain without QC’s express written permission
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You may not use the website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful
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You may not republish, redistribute, sell, rent or sub-licence any material from our website without QC’s express written permission
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You may not use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity
13. You hereby undertake to conform to generally acceptable Internet and website etiquette and to abide by QC’s operating policies. QC, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to amend such polices from time to time and you hereby indemnify QC and hold QC free from liability, in respect of any claim made against QC or loss or damage of whatever nature caused as a result of any breach of such undertaking, which policies include, but are not limited to the conditions and guidelines set out below:
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You may not post or transmit any message, data, image or programme which is defamatory, or violates any other personality rights;
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You may not use the website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use or publish any material which consists of or links to any malicious software including but not limited to spyware, trojan horses, worms, computer viruses, keystroke loggers and root kits
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You may not to post or transmit any message, data, image or programme which violates the intellectual property rights of others;
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You may not take any action, directly or indirectly, that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impair its performance, availability or accessibility
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You may not interfere with use of the Internet by any other users of this website;
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You may not violate the privacy of any person or to violate the security of any system or network, which shall include but shall not be limited to:
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unauthorised access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without express written authorisation of the owner of such system or network;
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unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorisation of the owner of such system or network;
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not to do anything which tends, has the effect of, or is likely to have the effect of, damaging the name or reputation of QC, QC’s partners and principals and their directors, employees, sub-contractors, agents, representatives, consultants, licencees, licensors and/or suppliers;
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not to perform any act or omission which is generally unacceptable or offensive to Internet users in general, to the public at large or as may be determined by QC from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to, the hosting or transmitting of pornographic material;
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not to use your log-in ID for any simultaneous log-in, nor to permit any other person access to, or use of, such log-in ID;
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not to contravene any QC policy as may be updated and amended by QC and published or accessible from QC’s website from time to time;
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not to give or make available in any way any log-in codes, passwords or the like which may be furnished to you by QC and/or its business partners from time to time in regard to your access to this website (“log-in ID”) to any other person for any person’s use, and you hereby undertake to take whatever steps may be necessary to ensure the safe-keeping and confidentiality of such log-in ID and that you shall specifically not disclose same to any third party without QC’s prior written consent;
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not to contravene or violate in any way the policy rules and guidelines which may be posted from time to time to or be accessible from this website;
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not to use this website for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner which infringes the rights of, or restricts or inhibits the use and enjoyment of this website by any person, including without limiting, conduct which is unlawful, which may harass, defame or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the display, posting or transmission of obscene or offensive content or information, or the disruption of any normal flow of dialogue on this website;
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not engage hacking or related activities;
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not to frame this site or any of the pages on this site in any way whatsoever;
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not to link to any page on this website, without the prior and express written permission of QC.
14. QC has no obligation to monitor postings on this site. QC reserves the right to review content posted by you and may at its sole discretion remove or edit such content. QC shall have no liability to you or any other party for doing so.
15. Where you have given an indemnity or have agreed that you have no claim against QC in these terms of use, any reference to QC shall include QC, QC’s partners and principals and their directors, employees, sub-contractors, agents, representatives, consultants, licencees, licensors and/or suppliers.
16. In the event that any provision of these terms and conditions is unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining terms and conditions.
17. This agreement sets out the whole of the agreement between you and QC. This applies in regard to the subject matter thereof and there are no other agreements, guarantees or representations, either verbal or in writing, in regard thereto, upon which you are relying in concluding this agreement and QC shall not be bound by any express or implied term, representation, warranty, promise or the like not recorded herein.
18. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the Republic of South Africa and, in the event of any conflict between or inconsistency in the laws applicable in the various provinces in the Republic of South Africa, the law as applied and interpreted in the Province of the Gauteng shall prevail.
19. QC chooses as its domicilium citandi et executandi for all purposes under these terms and conditions, whether in respect of court process, notice, or other documents or communication of whatsoever nature, 22 Jan Meyer Street, Southcrest, Alberton, Gauteng, South Africa.
20. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
21. These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website. We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. You are responsible for checking for any updates.
22. You may download a copy of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act from: http://www.polity.org.za/pdf/ElectronicCommunications.pdf