By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please exit this website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this Policy will mean that you accept those changes.

Introduction

Protecting users’ privacy is of utmost importance to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy to safeguard users’ personal information, and to protect your confidential personal information. This privacy policy applies to all the web pages related to this website.

Unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary, any term in this Privacy Policy will bear the same meaning as defined in any of our Terms and Conditions, Terms of Registration, or Conditions of Use, as applicable and appearing on this site.

Personal Information

For purpose of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means the user’s name, identifying number/s (eg. social security number, identity number, passport number, registration number), billing and shipping details, physical and postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone number/s, financial details, profiling information, and any other personal or sensitive information disclosed to us or acquired by us through this website. We may also collect certain information following your visit to this website, such as: the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time that you access the site; the pages that you access while on the site; the Internet address of the website from which you link directly to this site; your location information; information specific to the device you use to access this website. We may also store information when you interact with adverts on our site. Personal information gathered by us, including through our online contact us, subscribe and order forms, and comment boxes may be used to personally identify users that subscribe to our service or purchase from this website.

We will not ask you to disclose personal information relating to your religious or philosophical beliefs, race or ethnic origin, trade union membership, political persuasion, health or sex life except where such information is relevant and necessarily required for us to deliver our services, or otherwise required by law.
We may use personal information to help improve this website and our service offerings, analyse trends, and administer this website. We may also use your email address, telephone number and other contact details to inform you about our products and services, let you know about changes and improvements to this website, and generally communicate with you. Personal information will not be used for any purpose other than that which is stated in this Policy or in any Terms & Conditions of using our service, Terms of Sale, Terms of Registration or Conditions of Use.

By registering, accepting our terms or conditions, purchasing products and services, or submitting any personal information, and by browsing and interacting on this website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information, subject to the limitations set out in this Privacy Policy.
Personal information may be collected when a user registers on this website, submits an application form, subscribes, requests a quote, submits a message via our “Contact Us” facility, places an order, responds to a survey, or in any other manner or form submits personal information via this site. Personal information may also be collected through this website for the purpose of improving our service offering and increasing service efficiency. Personal information may be collected, processed and retained on servers located outside of the country in which you live.

We will use our best endeavours to keep the personal information collected through this website as accurate, complete and up to date as is necessary for the purposes mentioned herein. We may, from time to time, request you to update your personal information on the website. On request, you are able to review or update any personally identifiable information belonging to you that we have recorded and retained. In order to better protect and safeguard personal information, you may be required to verify your identity before being granted access to any personal information or being permitted to make any corrections to the information. This website may use encryption, firewalls and other security technology and procedures to help protect the confidentiality of personal information and prevent unauthorised access or improper use thereof. All personal information is stored in the website’s database, and secured in accordance with industry standards. Notwithstanding, we do not guarantee the protection of personal information from hacking, theft or unauthorised access, and we will not be responsible for any damages that may be suffered as a result of hacking, theft or unauthorised access. In the unlikely event that your personal information is compromised, including through hacking, theft or unauthorised access, we will notify you so that you can take any precautionary measures that you feel may be required.

Personal information will be retained for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned herein. We may also be required by law to retain personal information for prescribed periods of time or in prescribed formats. We will delete your personal information from our records upon your request. Deletion of personal information, whether at our instance or at your request, is not necessarily absolute, despite our best endeavours, as there may be residual copies of the information in our back-up systems that we cannot delete as this could affect the security and integrity of our systems.

Disclosure

We may disclose personal information to other persons for certain specified purposes, including for credit information sharing, debtor tracing, marketing and contract administration. We will also provide personal information to law enforcement and other competent authorities in response to lawful requests and including where we believe that the disclosure of the information is necessary: for any criminal or civil legal investigation; to detect or prevent fraud or other criminal activities; to protect any person or the general public from harm or suffering loss or damages.
Where we use domain administrators and outsourced IT suppliers, these administrators and suppliers may need to or may be able to access personal information in order to perform their services optimally. We may also appoint consultants to help us collect, interpret and use personal information in line with this Policy. Any third party administrators and suppliers appointed by us will be required to adhere to this Policy.
We may from time to time share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated information, statistics and trends, with other companies, organisations and persons, including our publishers, marketers and social media consultants.
If ownership of this website is transferred to someone else, all personal information in our possession may be transferred to the new owner.
If we disclose personal information to third parties, we will limit the disclosure to the information necessarily required by the third party to fulfill the purpose for the disclosure.
Other than in accordance with this Policy or necessary to deliver goods or services, we will not sell, share, or rent personal information to any companies, organisations or persons outside of our group structure without obtaining your consent, and any information that is disclosed will be on a need-to-know basis. We will ask you for consent before we use your personal information for any purpose not set out in this Policy.

Cookies

We may from time to time make use of cookie technology, which comprises a small text file that is stored on your computer’s hard drive containing information about you, so that the next time you visit the website, the cookie is able to identify who you are. This enables us to achieve our goal of providing a valuable online experience to our users. You are, however, able to disable this cookie technology in your internet browser. Should you decide to do this, be aware that disabling cookies may result in services on this website not functioning correctly, optimally or as you would like.

Liability

While we will do all things reasonably necessary to protect our users’ rights of privacy whilst on the website, we cannot be held liable for any unauthorised or unlawful access to, or use, corruption or disclosure of any personal and confidential information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may need to change this policy from time to time to address new issues and reflect changes on our site. We will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this policy regularly.

Credit Card Acquiring and Security

Where credit card transactions are processed, we have implemented prudent security policies and procedures. No credit card details are stored on our website unless otherwise expressly advised, and in all instances customer details are stored separately from credit card details. All encryption complies with international standards. Encryption is used to protect the transmission of personal information when completing online transactions.
Credit card transactions are processed by Payfast, being an approved payment gateway. You may visit their website, www.payfast.co.za to view their security certificate and security policy.
We only process refunds to the credit card used at the time of purchase. Please allow 30 days for the refund to appear on your credit card statement. Any refunds granted are subject to our terms of purchase.

Complaint and Dispute Procedure

In the event of any complaints or disputes, please email us at info@africaskills.co.za with the full details of your complaint or dispute. We may require you to provide additional information and details before we are able to resolve the complaint or dispute. We endeavour to resolve complaints and disputes within 30 days after our receipt of all the relevant information.

Corporate Details

Registered name: Africa Skills
Registration number: 2007 / 011991 / 07
Place of registration: Western Cape, South Africa

Our directors / members / owners are: E.M Harmse / P.J Harmse / R. Meeske / N.C Tattersall
We choose the following address as our place of domicilium for all purposes related to this website, including in relation to any products, services or information supplied via this website under this agreement, and whether in respect of court process, notice, or other documents or communication of whatever nature.

Domicilium address:
133 Mitchel Street, Bodorp, George, 6530
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us on:
Email address: info@africaskills.co.za
Telephone number: 044 884 0791
We are an accredited member of: QCTO, TETA, CHIETA, LG SETA, ICB

By using this Website, you consent to the collection, processing and disclosure of personal information in accordance with this Policy. If you wish to withdraw your consent to this Policy at any time in the future, you may do so by requesting us, in writing, to archive or delete your personal information in our records. Deletion of your personal information may, however, be subject to any applicable requirements placed on us by law to retain the personal information.

The Terms and Conditions were last updated on 12 August 2024

1. Introduction

These Terms and conditions apply to this website and to the transactions related to our products and services. You may be bound by additional contracts related to your relationship with us or any products or services that you receive from us. If any provisions of the additional contracts conflict with any provisions of these Terms, the provisions of these additional contracts will control and prevail.

2. Binding

By registering with, accessing, or otherwise using this website, you hereby agree to be bound by these Terms and conditions set forth below. The mere use of this website implies the knowledge and acceptance of these Terms and conditions. In some particular cases, we can also ask you to explicitly agree.

3. Electronic communication

By using this website or communicating with us by electronic means, you agree and acknowledge that we may communicate with you electronically on our website or by sending an email to you, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement, including but not limited to the requirement that such communications should be in writing.

4. Intellectual property

We or our licensors own and control all of the copyright and other intellectual property rights in the website and the data, information, and other resources displayed by or accessible within the website.

4.1 All the rights are reserved

Unless specific content dictates otherwise, you are not granted a license or any other right under Copyright, Trademark, Patent, or other Intellectual Property Rights. This means that you will not use, copy, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, embed into any electronic medium, alter, reverse engineer, decompile, transfer, download, transmit, monetize, sell, market, or commercialize any resources on this website in any form, without our prior written permission, except and only insofar as otherwise stipulated in regulations of mandatory law (such as the right to quote).

5. Newsletter

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may forward our newsletter in the electronic form to others who may be interested in visiting our website.

6. Third-party property

Our website may include hyperlinks or other references to other party’s websites. We do not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked to from this website. Products or services offered by other websites shall be subject to the applicable Terms and Conditions of those third parties. Opinions expressed or material appearing on those websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us.

We will not be responsible for any privacy practices or content of these sites. You bear all risks associated with the use of these websites and any related third-party services. We will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, however caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.

7. Responsible use

By visiting our website, you agree to use it only for the purposes intended and as permitted by these Terms, any additional contracts with us, and applicable laws, regulations, and generally accepted online practices and industry guidelines. You must not use our website or services to use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) malicious computer software; use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity, or conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities on or in relation to our website.

Engaging in any activity that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or that interferes with the performance, availability, or accessibility of the website is strictly prohibited.

8. Idea submission

Do not submit any ideas, inventions, works of authorship, or other information that can be considered your own intellectual property that you would like to present to us unless we have first signed an agreement regarding the intellectual property or a non-disclosure agreement. If you disclose it to us absent such written agreement, you grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

9. Termination of use

We may, in our sole discretion, at any time modify or discontinue access to, temporarily or permanently, the website or any Service thereon. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuance of your access to, or use of, the website or any content that you may have shared on the website. You will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment, even if certain features, settings, and/or any Content you have contributed or have come to rely on, are permanently lost. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

10. Warranties and liability

Nothing in this section will limit or exclude any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to limit or to exclude. This website and all content on the website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. We expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, as to the availability, accuracy, or completeness of the Content. We make no warranty that:

  • this website or our content will meet your requirements;
  • this website will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free basis.

Nothing on this website constitutes or is meant to constitute, legal, financial or medical advice of any kind. If you require advice you should consult an appropriate professional.

The following provisions of this section will apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and will not limit or exclude our liability in respect of any matter which it would be unlawful or illegal for us to limit or to exclude our liability. In no event will we be liable for any direct or indirect damages (including any damages for loss of profits or revenue, loss or corruption of data, software or database, or loss of or harm to property or data) incurred by you or any third party, arising from your access to, or use of, our website.

Except to the extent any additional contract expressly states otherwise, our maximum liability to you for all damages arising out of or related to the website or any products and services marketed or sold through the website, regardless of the form of legal action that imposes liability (whether in contract, equity, negligence, intended conduct, tort or otherwise) will be limited to the total price that you paid to us to purchase such products or services or use the website. Such limit will apply in the aggregate to all of your claims, actions and causes of action of every kind and nature.

11. Privacy

To access our website and/or services, you may be required to provide certain information about yourself as part of the registration process. You agree that any information you provide will always be accurate, correct, and up to date.

We have developed a policy to address any privacy concerns you may have. For more information, please see our Privacy Statement and our Cookie Policy.

12. Export restrictions / Legal compliance

Access to the website from territories or countries where the Content or purchase of the products or Services sold on the website is illegal is prohibited. You may not use this website in violation of export laws and regulations of South Africa.

13. Assignment

You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms and conditions, in whole or in part, to any third party without our prior written consent. Any purported assignment in violation of this Section will be null and void.

14. Breaches of these Terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights under these Terms and Conditions, if you breach these Terms and Conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including temporarily or permanently suspending your access to the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website, and/or commence legal action against you.

15. Force majeure

Except for obligations to pay money hereunder, no delay, failure or omission by either party to carry out or observe any of its obligations hereunder will be deemed to be a breach of these Terms and conditions if and for as long as such delay, failure or omission arises from any cause beyond the reasonable control of that party.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses, relating to your violation of these Terms and conditions, and applicable laws, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights. You will promptly reimburse us for our damages, losses, costs and expenses relating to or arising out of such claims.

17. Waiver

Failure to enforce any of the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions and any Agreement, or failure to exercise any option to terminate, shall not be construed as waiver of such provisions and shall not affect the validity of these Terms and Conditions or of any Agreement or any part thereof, or the right thereafter to enforce each and every provision.

18. Language

These Terms and Conditions will be interpreted and construed exclusively in English. All notices and correspondence will be written exclusively in that language.

19. Entire agreement

These Terms and Conditions, together with our privacy statement and cookie policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and UXI Artisan Development in relation to your use of this website.

20. Updating of these Terms and conditions

We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. It is your obligation to periodically check these Terms and Conditions for changes or updates. The date provided at the beginning of these Terms and Conditions is the latest revision date. Changes to these Terms and Conditions will become effective upon such changes being posted to this website. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes or updates will be considered notice of your acceptance to abide by and be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

21. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of South Africa. Any disputes relating to these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa. If any part or provision of these Terms and Conditions is found by a court or other authority to be invalid and/or unenforceable under applicable law, such part or provision will be modified, deleted and/or enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to give effect to the intent of these Terms and Conditions. The other provisions will not be affected.

22. Contact information

This website is owned and operated by UXI Artisan Development.

You may contact us regarding these Terms and Conditions by writing or emailing us at the following address: info@uxi-ad.co.za
133 Mitchell St, Bodorp, George, 6530

23. Download

You can also download our Terms and Conditions as a PDF.