Terms and conditions

Introduction

Welcome to adelemahuma.com. By accessing and using this website, you agree to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions. Please read them carefully. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using adelemahuma.com (hereafter referred to as "the Website"), you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, and our Privacy Policy. These terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Website.

Changes to Terms

Adele Mahuma (hereafter referred to as "we", "us", or "our") reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to the Terms constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Use of the Website

You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict, or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Website. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content, or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the Website.

Intellectual Property

All content on the Website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images, and software, is the property of Adele Mahuma or its content suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws. Unauthorized use of the content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.

User Content

You retain ownership of any content you post on the Website, but by posting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display such content in connection with the Website. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to use and authorize us to use all intellectual property rights in and to any content that you post.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Adele Mahuma. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such websites or services.

Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

By using this Website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which complies with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) of South Africa. We are committed to protecting your personal information and ensuring that it is used only for lawful purposes.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Adele Mahuma, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your use or inability to use the Website; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any personal information stored therein; (iii) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Website; (iv) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like that may be transmitted to or through the Website by any third party; (v) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the Website; and/or (vi) any user content or defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Adele Mahuma and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees), resulting from or arising out of (a) your use and access of the Website, or (b) a breach of these Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Website.

Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECTA)

In accordance with the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECTA) of South Africa, we provide the following information:

Full name and legal status: Adele Mahuma
Physical address: Pretoria East, Gauteng, 1020
Email address: adele@adelemahuma.com
Cookies

The website uses cookies to help personalize your online experience. By accessing adelemahuma.com, you agreed to use the required cookies.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical or marketing purposes to operate our website. You have the ability to accept or decline optional Cookies. There are some required Cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website. These cookies do not require your consent as they always work. Please keep in mind that by accepting required Cookies, you also accept third-party Cookies, which might be used via third-party provided services if you use such services on our website, for example, a video display window provided by third parties and integrated into our website.

License

Unless otherwise stated, Adelemahuma.com and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on adelemahuma.com. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from adelemahuma.com for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

Copy or republish material from adelemahuma.com
Sell, rent, or sub-license material from adelemahuma.com
Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from adelemahuma.com
Redistribute content from adelemahuma.com

This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof.

Parts of this website offer users an opportunity to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. Adelemahuma.com does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments before their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of Adelemahuma.com, its agents, and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who posts their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Adelemahuma.com shall not be liable for the Comments or any liability, damages, or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.

Adelemahuma.com reserves the right to monitor all Comments and remove any Comments that can be considered inappropriate, offensive, or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent, or trademark of any third party;
The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise unlawful material, which is an invasion of privacy.
The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant Adelemahuma.com a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats, or media.

Hyperlinking to our Content

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:

Government agencies;
Search engines;
News organizations;
Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and
System-wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications, or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

Commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
Dot.com community sites;
Associations or other groups representing charities;
Online directory distributors;
Internet portals;
Accounting, law, and consulting firms; and
Educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Adelemahuma.com; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to Adelemahuma.com. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:

By use of our corporate name; or
By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
Using any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party's site.

No use of Adelemahuma.com's logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

Content Liability

We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that are raised on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene, or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Reservation of Rights

We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website

If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us at any moment. We will consider requests to remove links, but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct. We do not warrant its completeness or accuracy, nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties, and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

Limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
Limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
Limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
Exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort, and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.