Terms and Conditions
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.
[You must be at least [18] years of age to use this website. By
using this website [and by agreeing to these terms and conditions]
you warrant and represent that you are at least [18] years of age.]
[This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to
these terms and conditions, you consent to our AF Van Wyk
Attorneysuse of cookies in accordance with the terms of AF Van Wyk
Attorneys[privacy policy / cookies policy].]
License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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 [OTHER CONTENT]] 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;]
• [edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or]
• [redistribute material from this website [except for content
specifically and expressly made available for redistribution].]
[Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it
may only be redistributed [within your organisation].]
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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys express written consent.]
Restricted access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.] AF Van Wyk
Attorneys reserves the right to restrict access to [other] areas of
this website, or indeed this entire website, at AF Van Wyk
Attorneys’ discretion.
If AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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.
[AF Van Wyk Attorneys may disable your user ID and password in AF
Van Wyk Attorneys 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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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.
AF Van Wyk Attorneys reserves the right to edit or remove any
material submitted to this website, or stored on Van Wyk Attorneys’
servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding AF Van Wyk Attorneys rights under these terms and
conditions in relation to user content, AF Van Wyk Attorneys does
not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the
publication of such content on, this website.]
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or
warranties, express or implied. AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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, AF
Van Wyk Attorneys 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.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute,
advice of any kind. [If you require advice in relation to any
[legal, financial or medical] matter you should consult an
appropriate professional.]
Limitations of liability
AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys
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
Van Wyk Attorneys liability in respect of any:
- death or personal injury caused by [NAME'S] negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of AF Van Wyk
Attorneys; or
- matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for AF Van Wyk
Attorneys 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, AF Van Wyk
Attorneys has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its
officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim
personally against Van Wyk Attorneys 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 Van Wyk Attorneys officers, employees,
agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as
well as AF Van Wyk Attorneys.
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 AF Van Wyk Attorneys and undertake to keep AF
Van Wyk Attorneys indemnified against any losses, damages, costs,
liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal
expenses and any amounts paid by AF Van Wyk Attorneys to a third
party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Van Wyk
Attorneys legal advisers) incurred or suffered by AF Van Wyk
Attorneys arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these
terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have
breached any provision of these terms and conditions].
Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to Van Wyk Attorneys other rights under these
terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in
any way, AF Van Wyk Attorneys may take such action as AF Van Wyk
Attorneys 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
AF Van Wyk Attorneys 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
AF Van Wyk Attorneys may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal
with Van Wyk Attorneys 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 [, together with [DOCUMENTS],] constitute
the entire agreement between you and AF Van Wyk Attorneys in
relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous
agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in
accordance with South African Governing Law, and any disputes
relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the
[non-]exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.
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