Web Site Terms & Conditions

GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd

It is important to note that the use of this web site is subject to the terms and conditions of use set out below. These terms and conditions are binding and enforceable against all persons (users) that access the web site or any part thereof in terms of section 11 of the electronic communications and transactions (ECT) act 25 of 2002. A copy of the ECT act may be downloaded from:

If you do not agree to these terms and conditions you must leave the web site now, as further use will automatically bound you to these terms and conditions.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

a. References herein to the web site or content shall include any part thereof;

b. References herein to user(s) means any person who access any part of the web site, notwithstanding the fact that such a person only visited the home page of the web site;

c. References herein to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

d. Notwithstanding the fact that hyperlinks in these terms and conditions to copyright notices and legislation should be deemed part of these terms and conditions in terms of section 11 of the ECT Act, the fact that some or all of the hyperlinks may be non-operational, shall not play a role in the validity and interpretation of these terms and conditions.

e. References herein to consumer(s) mean any natural person who enters or intends entering into a transaction with this web site as the end-user of the goods or services offered by this web site.

1. OWNER INFORMATION / CONTACT INFORMATION / DOMCILIUM CITANDI ET EXECUTANDI

1.1 Website:

1.2 Owner:GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd (company web site:

If you have any questions, queries or wish to request permission to use any part of this website, including, linking, framing, or searching, please contact us at:

Street address: Main Road 22, Sabie, 1260

Postal address: PO Box 385, Sabie, 1260

1.3 Physical address for receipt of legal service: GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd, Main Road 22, Sabie, 1260

1.4 Main business: The main business of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd is the provision of news, education and entertainment content and advertising services, as well as printing of stationery, e-commerce and forums (moderated and unmoderated), provided by GPS News and third parties;

1.5Membership of self-regulatory or accreditation bodies: GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd subscribes to the standards as set out by Advertising Standards Authority;

1.6 Codes of conduct to which the GPS News and Printing web site subscribes: GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd editorial policy is aligned to practices of the constitution of the Republic of South Africa;

1.7 The Manual published in terms of section 51 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 of the owner of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site may be downloaded from:

1.8 Management information of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd is available from:

1.9 Costs: Access to content on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site is free to any person who subscribes to these terms and conditions. Access to some pages on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site may be restricted to persons who registered. Notwithstanding the a foregoing, GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd may, in future, charge fees for access to the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site. Paid subscriptions and other transactional services and products are indicated as such and must be accepted separately and all payments must be confirmed by the user.

1.9 Alternative dispute resolution: Subject to urgent and/or interim relief, all disputes regarding:

1.9.1 Access to the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site;

1.9.2 The inability to access the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site;

1.9.3 The services and content available from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site; or

1.9.4 These terms and conditionsshall be referred to arbitration in terms of the expedited rules of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa and such arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Nelspruit in English. The arbitration ruling shall be final and the unsuccessful party shall pay the costs of the successful party on a scale as between attorney and own client. The expedited rules of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa may be downloaded from the following web site:

1.10 Cooling-off period: As far as practically possible, Users have the right to return services provided from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) web site within 7 (seven) days if such goods or services are not listed in section 42 of the ECT Act; and

1.11 User may lodge complaints concerning the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltdweb site with GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd, the Advertising Standards Authority or the Consumer Affairs Committee.

2. ALLOWED USE AND LICENSE

2.1. People’s Post licenses, without assumption of any liability, the User to view, copy, download and print the content of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site, provided that:

2.1.1 Such content is used for personal, educational and/or non-commercial purposes only; and

2.2 Content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site shall not be used or exploited for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd.

2.3 Users may only access and use the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site for legal purposes.

2.4 Use of content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site in electronic clipping services or personalized news services shall only be allowed if such electronic clipping service or personalized news service:

2.4.1 does not copy or provide the whole article, as it appears on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site, but only provide a short summary of the contents of the article;

2.4.2 Acknowledges GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd as the source of the content;

2.4.3 Provides a correct and working hyperlink to the source of the content or article on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site;

2.4.4 acknowledges writers, journalists, photographers and third party agencies as they are acknowledged on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site; and

2.4.5 Includes the date upon which the content was sourced from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site in the summary of the content.

2.4.6 Hyperlinks and/or advertisements contained on this website and directed towards other web sites of users are provided without any warranties or endorsements as to the content, suitability, accuracy or security of the site linked to. This website in no manner controls or edits the content of sites or pages it link toand disclaims all liability, direct or indirect, which may arise from the use or inability to use a link or a linked-to website. Use of sites or pages linked to is accordingly exclusively at the risk of the user.

2.5 The caching of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site shall only be allowed if:

2.5.1 The purpose of the caching is to make the onward transmission of the content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site more efficient;

2.5.2 The cached content is not modified in any manner whatsoever;

2.5.3 The cached content is updated at least every 24 (twenty-four) hours; and

2.5.4 The cached content is removed or updated when so required by People’s Post.

2.6 If any person uses content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site in breach of the provisions detailed herein:

2.6.1 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd reserves the right to claim damages from such person; and

2.6.2 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for any damage, loss or liability that resulted from the use of such content by such person or any third party.

2.7 Hyperlinks to the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site from any other source shall be directed at the home page of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site. GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for any damage, loss or liability that resulted from the use of content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site, if such content was accessed through a hyperlink not directed at the home page of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site. Persons that wish to link to content beyond the home page of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site shall do so at their own risk and undertake to indemnify GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd against any loss, liability or damage that may result from content on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site, if such content was accessed through a hyperlink not directed at the home page of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site.

GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd non-liability for deep linking is based on the fact that deep links bypass these terms and conditions.

2.8 Users may quote small and reasonable amounts of content available from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site only if such quote is placed in inverted commas, the author is acknowledged and a hyperlink to the quoted content is provided as a footnote to such quote.

2.9 The GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site may not be framed, in any manner, without the prior written consent of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd.

2.10 Apart from bona-fide search engine operators and use of the search facility provided on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site by Users, no person may use or attempt to use any technology or applications (including web crawlers or web spiders) to search or copy content from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site for any purposes, without the prior written consent of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd.

2.11 All licenses and/or permissions granted in terms of this clause 2 are provided on a non-exclusive and non-transferable basis and may be terminated or cancelled by People’s Post at any time without giving reasons therefore.

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DOMAIN NAME USE

3.1 All intellectual property on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltdweb site, including but not limited to content, design elements, software, databases, text, graphics, icons and hyperlinks are the property of or licensed to GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltdand as such, are protected from infringement by domestic and international legislation and treaties. Subject to the rights licensed in clause 2, all other rights to intellectual property on the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site are expressly reserved.

3.2 “GPS News and Printing” is a registered trademark and Users agree not to use the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd trademark as an element of a domain name or sub domain name, notwithstanding the fact that such domain name use or registration may be allowed in terms of trademark and/or constitutional law. Upon request to do so a User shall immediately cease to use such domain name and transfer it to GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd at the cost of the User.

4. SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT

It is the responsibility of the User to acquire and maintain, at his/her own expense, the computer hardware, software, lines and account to access the Internet and the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site.

5. CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS

GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd expressly reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to do any of the following, at any time without prior notice:

5.1 change these terms and conditions, at which time the new terms and conditions will immediately come into effect in respect of further usage;

5.2 change the content and/or services available from the People’s Post web site;

5.3 discontinue any aspect of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site or service(s) available from the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site; and/or

5.4 change the software and hardware required to access and use the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site.

6. PRIVACY

6.1 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of Users. For the purpose of this clause, “personal information” shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) and the Consumer Protection Act of 2008. The PAIA may be downloaded from:

6.2 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd may electronically collect, store and use the following personal information of Users:

6.2.1 name and surname;

6.2.2 birth date;

6.2.3 gender;

6.2.4 demographic information such as lifestyle, preferences, household, living standard ;

6.2.5 suburb, city/town, province;

6.2.6 non-personal browsing habits and click patterns and equipment information;

6.2.7 e-mail address and cell phone number; and

6.2.8 IP address.

6.2.9 username and password

6.3 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd collects, stores and uses the abovementioned information for the following purposes:

6.3.1 to grant access and greet the User when he/she accesses the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site;

6.3.2 subject to the User’s consent, inform the User of facts relating to his/her access and use of the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site;

6.3.3 subject to the User’s consent, inform the User about competitions and special offers from GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd and/or its partners / affiliates / third parties;

6.3.4 to provide the User with targeted advertising when he/she accesses the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site or the web sites of GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd partners / affiliates / third parties; and

6.3.5 to compile non-personal statistical information about habits, preferences, click-patterns and access to the GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd web site.

6.4 Information detailed above is collected either electronically by using cookies or is provided voluntarily by the User. Users may determine cookie use independently through their browser settings.

6.5 The User may elect not to receive or stop any communications from GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd and/or its partners / affiliates / third parties.

6.6 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd may collect, maintain, save, compile, share, disclose and sell any information collected from users, subject to the following provisions:

6.6.1 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd shall not disclose personal information from Users unless the User consents thereto;

6.6.2 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd shall disclose information without the User’s consent only through due legal process; and

6.6.3 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd may compile, use and share any information that does not relate to any specific individual.

6.7 GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd owns and retains all rights to non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by GPS News and Printing (Pty) Ltd.

7. Subscriptions

When making application to become a subscriber, users agree that:

7.1 they will be irrevocably bound by the terms and conditions applicable to the use of this web site

7.2 they will provide full and accurate information

7.3it is the user's responsibility to check and update information pertaining to their user account

7.4On registration they will provide a username and password

7.5 Registration is for a single user and a subscriber's username and password cannot be shared with any other person

7.6 A single username and password cannot be used to allow multiple access to other users over a network

Subscribers and users further undertake not to

7.7Impersonate any other person or use a false or unauthorised name so as to create a false identity and/or e-mail address or to misrepresent the origin or identity of any communications

7.8Modify, access or make available any data stored on a computer device which has been accessed through the web site owner's network

7.9Make available or upload files that contain software or any other material not owned or licensed to the subscriber

7.10 Make use of the web site to collect, harvest or otherwise obtain personal information relating to other users or subscribers.

8. Advertising and sponsorship

8.1This web site may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion in this web site complies with all applicable laws and regulations.