This page (together with the documents referred to) tells you the terms of use of our website http://www.mpowered.co.za (hereafter our site). Please read these terms of use carefully before utilising the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
Our site is operated by Mpowered Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd (hereafter Mpowered). Mpowered is registered in South Africa with company registration number 2000/029482/07 and have our registered office at 1st floor, ICH House, 57 Eastwood Road, C/O Oxford and Eastwood Road, Dunkeld, Johannesburg. Our VAT number is 4560197958.
Mpowered are a proprietary limited company.
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and Mpowered reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service Mpowered provide on our site without notice (see below). Mpowered will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period of time.
From time to time, Mpowered may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site.
When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
Mpowered is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status, and that of any identified contributors, as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. Mpowered therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Mpowered aims to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, Mpowered may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and Mpowered is under no obligation to update such material.
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, both Mpowered and third parties connected to Mpowered, hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any Mpowered websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
This does neither affect our liability for death nor personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
From time to time Mpowered may add features to our site which allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site.
Whenever you make use of these features you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and Mpowered has the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. Mpowered also has the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
Mpowered will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.
Mpowered has the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence.. Mpowered will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and Mpowered will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.
Mpowered will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. Mpowered reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please visit the following website: http://support.mpowered.co.za.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Mpowered has no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
The South African courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Africa.
Mpowered may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes Mpowered made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please visit the following website: http://support.mpowered.co.za.
Mpowered is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data Mpowered collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how Mpowered will treat it.
Mpowered may collect and process the following data about you:
Mpowered may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
The data that Mpowered collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside South Africa. It may also be processed by staff operating outside South Africa who works for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Mpowered will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where Mpowered have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Mpowered ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Mpowered will do our best to protect your personal data, Mpowered cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once Mpowered have received your information, Mpowered will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Mpowered use information held about you in the following ways:
Mpowered may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and Mpowered.
Mpowered may disclose your personal information to third parties:
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. Mpowered will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we or a third party intends to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by visiting the following website: http://support.mpowered.co.za.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that Mpowered does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with South African laws. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information Mpowered holds about you.
Any changes Mpowered may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, you will be notified by e-mail.
Visit http://support.mpowered.co.za for any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy.
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website. This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplements our terms of website use.
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use;
Mpowered may from time to time provide interactive services on our site (interactive services).
Where Mpowered do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
Mpowered will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and Mpowered will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, Mpowered are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service Mpowered provide on our site, and Mpowered expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. Mpowered advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
Where Mpowered do moderate an interactive service, Mpowered will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
Contributions must not:
Mpowered will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, Mpowered may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
Mpowered excludes liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and Mpowered may take any other action Mpowered reasonably deem appropriate.
Mpowered may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending these pages. You are expected to check these pages from time to time to take notice of any changes Mpowered makes, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
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