WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

 

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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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY]'s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of [THE PLANT LIBRARY]'s [privacy policy/cookies policy].]

 

License to use website

 

Unless otherwise stated, [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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) without the consent of the editor, unless material is made shareable.

• 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 on the various sharing sites indicated. 

 

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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY'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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] express written consent.] 

 

[Restricted access

 

[Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.]  [THE PLANT LIBRARY] reserves the right to restrict access to [other] areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] discretion.

 

If [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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. 

 

[[THE PLANT LIBRARY] may disable your user ID and password in [THE PLANT LIBRARY'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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 complaints.

 

[THE PLANT LIBRARY] reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

 

[Notwithstanding [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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.  [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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, [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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

 

[THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] liability in respect of any:

 

• death or personal injury caused by [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] negligence;

• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of [THE PLANT LIBRARY]; or

• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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, [THE PLANT LIBRARY] has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against [THE PLANT LIBRARY'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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as [THE PLANT LIBRARY].

 

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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY] and undertake to keep [THE PLANT LIBRARY] indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by [THE PLANT LIBRARY] to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] legal advisers) incurred or suffered by [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, [THE PLANT LIBRARY] may take such action as [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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

 

[THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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

 

[THE PLANT LIBRARY] may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with [THE PLANT LIBRARY'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, together with our Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Copyright Notice, Linking Policy, Website, Disclaimer, Anti-spam Policy, and Legal Disclaimer,  constitute the entire agreement between you and [THE PLANT LIBRARY] 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 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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Contact [THE PLANT LIBRARY]

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or [THE PLANT LIBRARY'S] treatment of your personal information, please write:

 

• By email to anno@theindigenousgardener.co.za